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⚡️ NATO defense forces just intercepted a second Iranian ballistic missile over Turkish airspace.
House Republicans are not working again this week because they are down at Trump’s golf club in Miami.
At least some Americans are benefiting from Trump’s Iran War.
Trump is in serious trouble. His war is deeply unpopular. He's now in the toilet on the economy, immigration, and national security. His public standing is getting close to being broken in an irreparable way, akin to Bush after Iraq and Katrina:
newrepublic.com/article/2074...
"The Ukrainians have become the world’s experts in counter-drone warfare. After withstanding more than a year of American pressure to accede to Russia’s demands and essentially surrender, it’s not obvious Ukraine would still want to help us. We’re grateful they do." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
After campaigning to shrink the size of the government, Trump's administration fired more than 387,000 employees and now needs to hire back to cover significant operational blind spots.
If an official commits an impeachable offense and nobody acts to impeach, it is no longer an impeachable offense.
People who oppose impeachment as “pointless” because it seems unlikely to result in removal do not understand this very simple point and seem unwilling to even try to understand it.
WSJ: “.. U.S. military investigators think American forces likely were responsible for the strike, according to a U.S. official ..”
@wsj.com
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Every time Trump gets on the phone with a new reporter we’re hearing the weirdest mix of a misremembered classified briefing video the CIA makes for him, part of a text he just got from Lindsey Graham, and the last three nouns he heard on Fox News.
Anthony Blinken says Israel tried to pressure Obama to bomb Iran, warning they’d do it with or without the U.S. Obama refused. Trump caved to the same tactic. Also worth noting: Obama’s name doesn’t appear in the Epstein tapes.
So far the war on Iran has cost $9.4 billion.
That's $1 billion per day.
$41,666,667 per hour.
$11,574 per second.
Thousands of lives lost.
People don't want this. They want a living wage. They want healthcare. They want to be able to afford a home. They want their basic needs met.
DHS made a massive purchase of 2,500 new custom marked ICE vehicles that are now sitting in parking garages because nobody wants to use them: “ICE has never had marked vehicles. We don’t want to use these - we can’t.” www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immig...
For some reason unknown to me, Meta just authorized me to participate in their "community notes" program. I just gave it a test run and the first 10 stories it flagged as needing "community note" fact checking were stories that coded as leftist or anti-Trump. Very fair and balanced Zuck!
Trump’s decision to go to war in Iran was powerfully influenced by his military success in Venezuela in early January. A US president who came to office promising to end wars was clearly intoxicated by what he called a “stunning, effective and powerful display” of military might. He was also openly
Between oil prices and the markets, POTUS is getting a major dose of reality today—potentially prompting greater urgency in finding an off ramp.
"Operation Epic Fury and Operation Roaring Lion are manifestly illegal, constituting both a violation of the UN Charter and the international crime of aggression."
With #Trump's unauthorized war in #Iran costing around $2 billion per day, Congress will soon face a choice, writes @bfinucane.bsky.social (@crisisgroup.org). Use its leverage to force an exit, or vote to legalize it by funding it?
www.justsecurity.org/133361/iran-...
#IranWar
There Have Been No Approvals for New Transit Projects in the First Year of the Current Trump Administration
For the 1st time in the 1st year of a presidential administration since at least 1993, under Trump 2, the Federal Transit Administration signed 0 new contracts for major transit projects, like subways or light rail.
The US is facing a crisis of rail transit investment: www.urban.org/urban-wire/r...
US military kills six in strike on alleged drug boat in the Eastern Pacific
US military kills six in strike on alleged drug boat in the Eastern Pacific https://aje.news/obdl02
the Trump administration's affordability message could use some work
(the woman speaking here is State Department official Monica Crowley)
Just a reminder that Muslims have been on this continent since the first arrival of non-Indigenous people. They were among the first generation of Americans, and have been here ever since.
Meanwhile Texas is denying Muslim schools the ability to participate in the state’s new school voucher scheme.
In case anyone’s wondering how “education freedom” is going down there or what it’s really about
“This is another instance of Trump lying and just talking out of his ass,” said a U.S. government official who reviewed satellite images of the Shajarah Tayyebeh school. “This clearly was not a failed rocket from the IRGC base.”
theintercept.com/2026/03/09/i...
Governor Pritzker sits behind the podium.
Governor Pritzker poses for a photo.
For the first time, CSL's full manufacturing process will be entirely in the US — with Illinois set to supply 100% of its immunoglobulin therapies demand.
Their new manufacturing facility in Kankakee County will create 300 new jobs and retain more than 1,200 existing positions.
"Maria was working with a shelter program to house fifty unhoused families at one of the Motel 6 properties she managed, she told me." Now that she's been deported, they might be out of a home.
Seems troubling.
More troubling would be the idea that the Administration might have bombed Iran without expecting this.
It’s tough competition but I do think Miller is more evil than Trump. Trumpnis ideologically agnostic: He will be just as happy making money with people not suffering as suffering. For Miller, the suffering is the endgame.
