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07.03.2026 15:10
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Today in Trump foreign policy:
Fox: Can you comment on Russians helping Iran target our troops?
Trump: That’s a stupid question. I’m only talking about college football before I fly to Palm Beach for a weekend of golf.
Bessent: We are now lifting sanctions on Russian oil.
My Washington State tax is going to go up and that's a good thing. We had the most regressive tax structure in the country for DECADES.
the Austin mass shooter was a Tesla employee who assaulted a coworker during a company-allowed prayer break late last year
the company refused to give the victim her assailant's name so she could press charges, and he went on to become a mass shooter
www.statesman.com/business/art...
Last 14 months of Biden's term:
+1.74m jobs
First 14 months of Trump's term:
150,000 jobs
(total! for the whole 14 months!)
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
Obama has the crowd at Jesse Jackson's eulogy hanging on his every word
ICE arrested an Oregon shop owner who had her green card in her pocket: ‘They didn’t care’
From @theathletic.com: Hikaro Kudo came to the Tokyo Dome with his mother and brought his glove, hoping to catch a home run ball.
He ended up retrieving Shohei Ohtani’s historic grand slam on Friday at the World Baseball Classic.
🗞️The state of Trump’s disastrous presidency on one front page this morning.
He has done nothing but bring misery to the United States and the entire world.
> @schatz.bsky.social
Collecting your money illegally was so much easier.
So immigrants were “taking our jobs”…
but now fewer immigrants means fewer jobs?
The math on their propaganda never works.
Dismantling USAID has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths with estimated 160 thousand children dying already. It’s hard to match that one besides the Covid disinformation needlessly killing hundreds of thousands of Americans.
What's worse than a senseless war? A senseless holy war.
At least 13 hospitals and health facilities hit during attacks on Iran, WHO says.
Global health body investigating reports that four medics are among the 1,230 people killed in Iran since start of war. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
The decision capped a rapid downfall for the three-term lawmaker and former Navy cryptologist. bit.ly/4scTze5
Remember when Trump blamed Biden and Zelensky when he realized how fast he was burning through interceptor missiles? Brace yourselves: He was lying to hide his own failure.
An airstrike which struck a school in Iran, killing 175 people, was likely carried out by the U.S., according to Reuters and NYT.
If confirmed, it would be one of the worst cases of civilian casualties in a U.S. airstrike in decades. The school was next to an IRGC base.
MarkWayne Mullin "is the only U.S. senator without at least a bachelor’s degree."
Markwayne Mullin is a senator from Oklahoma, which ranked 50th in education.
Markwayne Mullin is prone to a "misspoke"
Because Markwayne Mullin is the dumbest person from the least educated state.
@atrupar.com
They funneled $200M into eye candy for Donald. It's his DHS porn budget, essentially.
Fight the establishment!
Of course, as The Washington Post's great tech reporter
@drewharwell.com said in a TikTok last night, "this has been a meme presidency." And sometimes the trolling is the point. The outrage is the goal. Because it all translates to attention.
The secretary of Miami-Dade County’s GOP started a group chat for conservative students — and within 3 weeks, it was filled with over 400 instances of the N-word, Nazi rhetoric and writings of "dozens of ways of violently killing Black people"
The didn’t care.
Trump administration under fire as thousands of Americans are stranded in war zone
www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
The arsenal has “maximum ranges of about 75 miles. .. That doesn’t allow them to hit US Navy ships .. But it does provide thorough coverage of the strait, which is less than 25 miles wide at its narrowest point ..”
@bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
And yet so many Venezuelan-Americans, especially in South FL, vote Republican because they believed Trump was going to topple the Maduro regime. Like so many other groups, they’ve been scammed by the ultimate con man.
Documents Reveal a Web of Financial Ties Between Trump Officials and the Industries They Help Regulate
ProPublica is releasing a trove of disclosure records that detail the finances of more than 1,500 Trump appointees
They are stealing our tax dollars!
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
“.. as Iranian missiles deplete stocks of Patriot interceptors that Ukraine needs for its defense.”
@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/world/europe...
