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Buttigieg: You’ve got money from the Middle East going into the Trump family crypto fund while you have Americans going to the Middle East for Donald Trump’s war.

Why Trump Is Partnering With Christian Nationalists | Robert Reich Donald Trump keeps comparing himself to Jesus.Whether he actually has a messiah complex or is just conning his supporter

Top U.S. military commanders have reportedly told their troops that Trump's War on Iran will "cause Armageddon and mark Jesus' return to earth."

It's yet another example of the dangerous relationship Trump has cultivated with Christian nationalists.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XsORP-VuRI

So Iran now has, perhaps for the first time, information about the location of our most sensitive covert sites in the region.

A completely foreseeable, unnecessary consequence of unnecessary war with Iran.

DHS nominee Markwayne Mullin is one of the most active stock-traders in the Senate — and violated the STOCK Act against insider trading as recently as last August.

He currently holds stock in L3Harris, which has millions in contracts with ICE and FEMA.

The grift continues.

This amount is double what anon MoC were saying 2 days ago. And Trump is escalating.

A story that is not being told enough about the Iran War is that the U.S. and Israel have totally different, incompatible goals. The U.S. says it’s targeting weapons systems. Israel wants regime change and a failed state. This conflict leads to total incoherence.

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!)

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The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-lo...

Read @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social on the "intellectually insecure reactionaries" around Epstein. Much here that I did not know

www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...

M MacroEdge @ @MacroEdgeRes X.com "We are experiencing the largest loss of oil supply in history (3X bigger than the 1973 Arab oil embargo)" - @ericnuttall #MacroEdge 11:09 AM • 3/5/26 • 137K Views

There is a saying that when plans for war are made, the enemy has a say. Well, in this case, so do allies who are disproportionately affected.

Energy market analysts say the impact of the Iran War on supply could be bigger than the 1973 oil embargo.

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

Free and fair elections are the cornerstone of our democracy. But right now, they’re under attack.

Several Republican-controlled states have redrawn their congressional maps to give themselves an unfair advantage in the midterm elections.

I’m a hell no on funding for Trump’s illegal, disastrous Iran War.

How do bolts of lightening not rain down from the heavens at this?

States Move to Limit Access to H.I.V. Treatment

Tens of thousands of Americans are losing access to treatment for H.I.V. as nearly 20 states impose restrictions on assistance programs and several others weigh such changes.

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/h...

I'm demanding to know just how much money Trump's war in Iran will cost Americans.

Working families don't want to spend billions on an unnecessary war — they want lower costs and health care.

Markwayne Mullin is a knuckleheaded plumber and the only Senator not to have a bachelors degree. Republicans in the Senate confirming the Mullin appointment to run Homeland Security will show their usual disregard for the well-being of the citizens of this country while blindly pleasing Trump.

State Senate majority leader bought Tesla stock as Boring deal materialized Franklin's Jack Johnson made investment in Musk company three months before Music City Loop tunnel announcement

State Senate Majority Leader Jack Johnson (R-Franklin) made a substantial investment in Elon Musk’s Tesla as the state coordinated The Boring Company's Music City Loop deal last year.
https://bit.ly/4r59N7n

The White House wants an extra $50 billion to fund Trump’s illegal war.

That’s on top of the Pentagon’s $1T budget — which Trump is trying to boost to $1.5T.

Remember that over half of defense spending flows to private corporations and the Pentagon has failed eight financial audits in a row.

Markwayne might not be so bad. It could have been Ogles. Burchett. Tuberville. Blackburn. Kid Rock. Jeannine Pirro. Brian Kilmeade.

Or a character from WWE.

Or one of the Trumpettes from his tacky club.

Does Corey come with the job?

ICO writes to Meta over 'concerning' AI smart glasses report Videos, including of glasses-wearers using the toilet or having sex, are sometimes reviewed by a Kenya-based subcontractor.

Last year when I was checking into a hotel, the desk person was wearing Meta glasses. I kindly asked them to take them off. They were annoyed. I said, “I do not consent to you looking at my credit card and ID with Meta glasses on.” My instincts were correct: www.bbc.com/news/article...

Alternate headline: Jared Polis announces his retirement from politics. bsky.app/profile/kyle...

He’ll never appoint someone smarter than himself.

Jared Polis and the Slippery Slope of Election Denial Mercy Clemency exists for mercy, not for softening the consequences of undermining elections, or placating Donald

Mercy has a place in justice.

But clemency for someone convicted of undermining election systems sends the wrong message at the worst possible time.
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A white guy with an associates degree in construction technology who inherited a plumbing business falling up into homeland security secretary totally tracks in this “meritocracy” we’re all living in.

Bill to rename West Bank to 'Judea and Samaria' gets tense hearing Lawmakers debated a bill to refer to the Israeli-occupied West Bank as Judea and Samaria, reflecting a broader movement to legitimize settlements.

The TN GOP has now decided they have the power, authority and standing to rename the West Bank.

They’ve actually spent legislative time on this. If passed, will cost taxpayers millions.

How does this help Tennesseans? How does this benefit the state?

Dolts.

www.tennessean.com/story/news/p...

Here we go again, America. We have to give a President another blank check and give him as much as he wants to shoot unlimited $20 million interceptors at $20,000 drones and if we don’t we are unpatriotic so pay up.

Huge slap in the face to democracy. Democratic Colorado governor, @colorado.gov, just publicly signaled clemency to Tina peters, convicted of election interference. If election crimes have no consequences, why would the next denier stop?

Full breakdown: youtube.com/watch?v=lTSCC_9-FpY