Rep. Mark Alford on spiking gas prices: "I think we all know that when you have a kinetic conflict like this -- whether you want to call it a war or not -- it is going to take a little bit of sacrifice on the part of Americans"
Today, Virginia is the only U.S. state where someone convicted of any felony loses their right to vote for life, unless it is personally restored by the governor.
Lawmakers this year advanced a constitutional amendment to repeal that rule.
Definitely worth a watch—Objection: The FBI Interviews the DOJ Hid @elizaorlins.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/objectio...
Massie on Newsmax: "We're not getting the answers we need from Pam Bondi. I just spent 3 hours at the DOJ this week looking at the unredacted files. And I'm finding evidence of files they haven't released yet." (Note that the Newsmax anchor agrees with him!)
"So, we have a negative number for February non-farm payroll. A loss. We're also seeing the unemployment rate tick up" -- DUN DUN DUN: Maria Bartiromo and company cope with a dire jobs report
(Note that Bartiromo immediately blames "AI efficiencies")
I don't really know how to describe this, but it was great fun as.ft.com/r/8f9937cc-9...
Slurs Filled a Chat Created by a Republican Party Official in Florida After the secretary of the Miami-Dade County Republican Party created the chat for college students, it devolved into slurs against Black and Jewish people.
damn it’s crazy how the slurs filled the chat all by themselves. couldn’t be helped i’m sure. chats are always devolving of their own accord
I am fascinated by the *furious* reaction to FT writing – amid dozens of pieces about the war – an article highlighting Dubai residents scrambling to get back to UAE. To avoid big tax bill.
I'm sure the fact Dubai incentives influencers to provide good online coverage has absolutely no bearing on the online reaction to this FT article.
Cool then we don’t need to pass a $50 billion emergency supplemental to enrich these guys to feed Trump’s insatiable war machine since he already has everything he needs.
New in PN: "At a time when it’s tempting to believe nothing matters, Noem's ouster provides reassurance there still can be consequences for abusing power, harming people, and corrupt self-dealing."
This is a chilling crime. A shame on our country. The Iranian ship was unarmed. The US knew this. The sailors were murdered by our navy, and the survivors were left to die at sea.
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Suspiciously, JD Vance’s CBS News town hall scheduled for March 14 has been postponed indefinitely.
Pretty difficult to refute a single thing in this perfect assessment of where the f**k we are, from @iandunt.bsky.social:
This is a life and death story for the UK – so why is it being brushed under the carpet? | Aditya Chakrabortty www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Israel is bombarding, literally bombarding, two Middle East capitals, Beirut and Tehran, killing 100s of civilians, and yet the US and UK media continue to portray Iran as the threat to the region.
Israel has nukes, but Iran is the nuclear threat.
We live in Orwellian times.
I’m here to buy a Range Rover – no one mentioned a passenger: the Stephen Collins cartoon www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
‘You unbelievable coward’: conservative US media in open warfare over Iran www.theguardian.com/media/2026/m...
Here’s the clip, just an asinine operator
quite apart from Kemi Badenoch's dismal performance on BBC Breakfast, minimising the work of the RAF, she spoke of Labour 'not being built' for conflict because they came into power to do things like 'breakfast clubs' in such a disparaging way, like feeding kids is a joke ambition
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. 🇺🇸 🔥”
NEW: U.S. officials say Russia is providing Iran with intelligence to target American forces in the Middle East, including the locations of U.S. warships and aircraft, WaPo reports. Pete Hegseth recently said Russia is “not really a factor here.”
The White House just posted a video mixing real footage from the Iran strikes with a killstreak animation from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
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The mess is his legacy. Four decades ago, Robert Fulghum, the American author and pastor, published a bestselling book entitled All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten arguing that the most potent life lessons could and should be learnt in pre-school, including the all-important dictum
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i’m not surprised that the daily mail gave up on buying the telegraph in the light of axel springer’s bid; the rothermeres have a long family tradition of not wanting to fight the germans
Absolutely right
Again, as with Guardian article, Mahmood's reliance on false/deliberately misleading claims about her "earned settlement" proposals suggests that she knows she can't defend them on the merits, in principle or in practice.
Right now govt is making up an obviously false “saving” to justify its imm, while ignoring the obviously true cost of that policy (treasury projections assume a level of net migration Home Sec opposes and which is unlikely to happen). And these ppl wonder why trust in politics is declining.
Trump’s War now providing a massive influx of cash for Iran’s ally Russia so they can continue to bomb civilians in Ukraine while we ask Ukraine for help against Iranian drones. Trump’s foreign policy in a nutshell.
