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the price of oil surging means you can burn your shein clothes, extract the oil, and make more money than you paid

This answers my question about why voters weren’t prepared.

You deserve a break (from current events) today:

Eisenhower

Those three downed jets run around $90 million each.

It cost $20 million a year to operate the food kitchens serving 816,000 people in Sudan.

Bookmarking:

Let me guess, wealthy people who moved to Dubai to avoid paying taxes now want the countries they moved from to protect them?

On the to-read:

NEW: Four federal judges have formed a firewall against ICE in West Virginia — and say they’ll punish state and federal officials of they continue detaining people in ways they have ruled illegal and unconstitutional.

www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

TwinSpires Turns Off Online Wagers for Texas Bettors TwinSpires notified customers Feb. 27 that it has suspended online horse race wagers originating from Texas after opening its operations there less than three weeks ago.

TwinSpires notified customers Feb. 27 that it has suspended online horse race wagers originating from Texas after opening its operations there less than three weeks ago.

We've reached the point on Fountain of Youth Day (home to all my favorite race names) where I start Beavis-voicing "Mac Diarmida." Repeatedly.

I’m not sure how long my nervous system can keep going with this sh*t.

And my question has been, logistically, how TF do the poll workers manage checking everyone’s ID?

Erhmagawd! Minis!

If you’re wondering why the Trump Administration is cutting off health care for people across our state - look no further than the President’s own words:

“retribution is coming”

I THOUGHT so!

Volunteer — Stand With Minnesota

No matter where you live, if you have any capacity to volunteer, we have a lot of unpaid folks helping administer rent and skymiles donations, and we need more support.

You know who's violent deaths WON'T be mentioned in Trump's long, rambling SoTU speech?

Keith Porter, Ruben Ray Martinez, Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti.

Eye-popping margins in the Pennsylvania special elections today:

—Democrats won HD94 by 63 points.
(Harris won it by 30 in 2024.)

—Democrats won HD42 by 35 points.
(Harris won it by 17 in 2024.)

[The 2024 numbers are via the essential @the-downballot.com].

I'm also wondering if part of it is to screw over the rebuttal because everyone is just.so.fcking.exhausted.by.now.

Just watching GOP response to Green's anti-racism (physical aggressions), Warren's decision to applaud that mfer, and Tlaib/Omar angrily rejecting decorum... I've learned a whole lot about each of these people.

Incredible shot of Rep. Al Green holding up a "BLACK PEOPLE AREN'T APES!" sign with Trump in the foreground from photographer Kenny Holston (Getty)

We now know what Trump's "locker room banter" looks like The locker room, in the mind of the president, is where misogyny is not only permitted but protected.

Trump just brought out the US Olympic men’s hockey team during the State of the Union.

Earlier this week, he told the team he'd “probably be impeached,” if he didn’t extend an invitation to the US Olympics women’s hockey team, which, as it happened, also won gold at the Milan Cortina Olympics.

Justice Department withheld and removed some Epstein files related to Trump An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump.

The US Justice Department withheld testimony that Donald Trump sexually abused a girl when she was 13 or 14 - according to a source who viewed unredacted Epstein files.

This is the worst scandal in US history and should be the biggest news story on the planet right now.

www.npr.org/2026/02/24/n...

On the to-read:

Super disappointed in the C-J:

Thank you AOC

HellyeahTHIS!

Worth the read:

the local historical society in my hometown started making tiktoks and i was a huge booster and then they made one with ai generated images (instead of archival pictures or screenshots of old newspapers etc) and i and others gently pushed back in the comments and i haven't seen ai-gen content since