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Trump DOJ offers a deferred prosecution agreement to Halkbank, the Turkish state-run bank charged with laundering billions in Iranian oil money.
Trump repeatedly tried to end this case in his first term—per John Bolton, as a favor to one of the "dictators he liked" (i.e. Erdogan).
"Once you start trolling, you can’t take anything seriously, even yourself. Otherwise, you’ll be the one who’s owned."
OMG they released the deposition videos where they revealed that these two DOGE bros were just feeding grants into ChatGPT and saying "tell me if this is DEI in less than 120 characters."
www.techdirt.com/2026/02/19/d...
“Making Polis accountable for his actions—for bending to extortion, and creating insurrection moral hazard—would hearten base voters, and put party leaders across the country on notice that their careers will end in disgrace if they continue to place MAGA criminals above the law.”
I'm going to assume this is a preemptive playoff conditioning break, for my own sanity.
We can't have nice things
we have saved daylight
but at what cost
Sweet Jesus. “The administration is scrambling to improvise a sensible domestic response to its own foreign policy. There are definite signs of a potential policy spiral.” www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
More water today in Denver than the previous 55 days combined. Wettest day in 6+ months. And we're not done yet.
Let's go.
#COwx
Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs
Harper to the judge: "Your driver's license doesn't list your height and weight at birth. It doesn't list where you used to live. It identifies who you are now."
Ayyyy
The Iran War ends when Trump gets bored
Now that they're trying to pretend their war is not a war, they've gone back to calling it the Defense Department.
NEW: Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser (D) says Gov Jared Polis (D) offering clemency to Tina Peters "would be a grave miscarriage of justice and dangerous for free and fair elections."
Don’t fucking do it @colorado.gov
The Supreme Court in 2022: Women do not have a right to make important decisions about their health
The Supreme Court in 2026: Parents obviously have a right to make important decisions about their children’s health
Fighting back works. Please take notes university leaders.
how are poll respondents supposed to say whether they approve or disapprove of a war that was never given any publicly-discernible justification
"Tell me how this ends...."
—What Ike asked about Laos, Suez
—What JFK was reportedly ready to ask about US troops in Indochina
—What GWHBush asked, in deciding to limit Gulf War to Kuwait
—What GWBush did *not* ask, when going into Iraq
—What seems not to have occurred to Trump, Hegseth et al
Extreme "We Won't Need Winter Uniforms Because The USSR Will Surrender Before It Gets Cold" vibes.
Josef MAGALA
When gas hits $4/gallon, Trump will be calling Epstein news conferences to distract from his Iran adventure.
There's a non-zero chance we bombed Iran so someone could make some bank on Polymarket/Kalshi.
things every single republican president of your lifetime has done
- started a war in the middle east
- completely destroyed the economy
The government illegally took your money.
They won’t give it back.
Most Americans manage to go their entire lives without worrying what's inside the pants of Boy Scouts and I'm simply asking Pete Hegseth to do the same
New — I spoke to eight trans people in Kansas about the new state law that invalidated their driver’s licenses overnight, what’s it’s like to live there right now, plus details of two DMV emails exclusively obtained by The Handbasket that shed light on the law’s chaotic and cruel rollout:
People keep comparing MAGA/ICE/CBP/MAHA to 1930s Germany.
It's also more and more like late 1960s China, during Cultural Revolution. Or mid 1970s Cambodia, during "Year Zero."
A war against knowledge itself.
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