Sam Litzinger

There’s video of this, right? It’s gonna be the perfect midterm attack ad.

🧵Feels like shouting into the void, but it is essential to note that the Trump/Rubio gutting of the State Department and blowtorching of US diplomatic capacity and credibility is an accelerant to this spiraling war and will seriously undercut US/allied efforts to pick up the pieces after. 1/

Rep. Carlos Gimenez on 6 Americans troops killed: "Outside of that, those are pretty light casualties"

nyt website currently resembles one of those mock covers people made before 2016 election: economy floundering, war in the middle east, scandal-plagued cabinet sec, brazen corruption....

This is a real video from the official White House account on a war that is currently killing people. I don’t know how the US is going to come back from this.
The post was “JUSTICE THE AMERICAN WAY. 🇺🇸 🔥”

Live updates: Trump calls for Iran’s ‘unconditional surrender’ as Israel strikes Lebanon U.S. President Donald Trump called for Iran's 'unconditional surrender' Friday as Israeli warplanes pounded Lebanon and the Islamic Republic, and oil prices rise.

Idiot thinks he’s General Grant now…

“Trump calls for Iran’s ‘unconditional surrender’ as Israel strikes Lebanon”

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The United States government is illegally committing tax theft

What’s Trump focused on during his war?

CNN:

“This morning, Trump has "posted 8 times in the last 5 minutes about his feud with Bill Maher from last month," VF's Aidan McLaughlin observes.”

lmao Maria & co are coping HARD about a terrible report: "If you bought stocks on April 2 of last year on so-called 'Liberation Day' you are up huuuuge ... for January, I think this is important -- the revision is only 4,000 down. Overall you have a stable jobs market. There's a silver lining here"

Man, the new @washingtonpost.com homepage is a cluttered mess…

The White House is treating war like a video game YouTube video by Drew Harwell

Comes two days after the White House's Call of Duty airstrike video: www.youtube.com/shorts/jaejS...

A few hours after NYT reported that the U.S. bombed an elementary school in Iran, killing many children, the White House last night posted this video mixing airstrike footage with Top Gun, Iron Man, Gladiator, Halo, Breaking Bad, Star Wars, John Wick, Superman, Transformers and Dragon Ball Z

“Just when it looked like the labor market was stabilizing, this report delivers a knock-down blow to that view,’' said Olu Sonola, head of U.S. economics at Fitch Ratings. It’s bad news whichever way you look at it.’'

The cover of this week's Economist: War Without Strategy

US employers cut a surprising 92,000 jobs last month as unemployment rate rises to 4.4% American employers unexpectedly cut 92,000 jobs last month, a sign that the labor market remains under strain. The unemployment rate blipped up to 4.4%.

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Quite an opening paragraph.

“Ellison said, “Editorial independence will absolutely be maintained. It’s maintained at CBS. It’ll be maintained at CNN.”

Nonsense. Bari Weiss was hired by Ellison to make CBS News more Trump-friendly.

She’ll do the same at CNN.

www.poynter.org/commentary/2...

This is the regime Trump has been coddling in its efforts to take over another country.

Psaki: "While Kristi Noem certainly deserved to lose her job, the man Trump has tapped to replace her hardly seems, in my view, up to a wartime appointment. In fact, he seems pretty confused about whether or not this is a war."

Virginia moves to forbid schools from teaching that Jan. 6 was peaceful In what appears to be a first in the country, legislation headed to the desk of Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D) would prohibit public schools from teaching that the Jan. 6 riots at the U.S. Capit...

“Virginia moves to forbid schools from teaching that Jan. 6 was peaceful
The measure appears to be the first of its kind but raises… questions about how far government should go in dictating how certain events are taught.”

Maybe teach things that are true?

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Gulf allies complain US didn't notify them of Iran attacks and ignored their warnings, sources say Officials say Iran’s retaliatory attacks in the Middle East over strikes from Israel and the U.S. have left some of America’s partners in the Gulf frustrated over a lack of notice or adequate defense.

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GOP Rep. Tony Gonzales of Texas ends reelection bid after admitting to affair with aide Republican Rep. Tony Gonzales of Texas is withdrawing from his reelection race, after having admitted an affair with a former staff member who later died by suicide.

“Gonzales went on to say he had reconciled with his wife, Angel, and has asked God to forgive him. “

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Nancy Youssef, ..guil @ X.com @nancyayoussef The preliminary Pentagon cost estimate of the war in Iran is $1 billion a day, a congressional official told me. 12:20 PM • 3/4/26 • 44K Views

Preliminary Pentagon cost estimate of the war in Iran is $1 BILLION a day. So far.

In Memoriam: John Hammond Jr., 1942–2026 John P. Hammond (aka John Hammond Jr.), a blues guitarist and singer who was one of the first white American interpreters of traditional blues, died Feb. 28. He was 83. His death was announced by sing...

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What scares me most about Paramount buying Warner Bros Discovery From enshrining political favoritism in the process of approving big media deals to the death of incisive journalism at CNN, there's lots to worry about in this $110 billion deal.

Took a minute. But here's my column on Substack on what I fear most about Paramount's successful purchase of Warner Bros Discovery, including enshrining political favoritism in media deals, a repeat of past, failed deals and the domination of media by favor-currying oligarchs. READ: loom.ly/-ACuGpw

Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say Military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday, two U.S. officials told Reu...

"No stupid rules of engagement." — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, March 2, 2026

"The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the Middle East." — Reuters, March 5, 2026

Remember when Rep. Greg Gianforte, now the GOP governor of the state, body slammed a reporter into a table?

We probably need to shut down the Montana Republican Party entirely until we can figure out where all this violent rage is coming from.

Lou Holtz’s Catholic faith is bigger than football Remembering Lou Holtz’s Catholic faith and impact on the Notre Dame community.

This is from The Observer at Notre Dame. Holtz was one of the biggest supporters of Donald Trump, who acts in opposition to Catholic teaching on a daily basis.
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“I guess,” Trump, 79, responded. “But I think they’re worried about that all the time. We think about it all the time. We plan for it. But yeah, you know, we expect some things." "Like I said, some people will die," the president added. "When you go to war, some people will die."

It’s unimaginable that any other president in U.S. history would have such callous disregard for Americans.

Never forget that this what The Washington Post said when Noem was nominated.