Trump’s DOJ waved through the Redfin-Rocket and Compass-Anywhere real estate mergers.
Now Redfin and Compass are squeezing the housing market.
That’s how big mergers hurt consumers:
gatekeeping listings, driving out smaller brokers, and increasing housing costs.
The radar installation in Qatar that was destroyed by Iran was a strategic level asset.
You're probably picturing a big radar dish. The AN/FPS-132 is more of a massive, multistory concrete building that looks like a cut pyramid. A major civil engineering project. There was ONE in the Middle East.
About Jim Clyburn deciding to run again…
What has the war in Iran achieved? The regime is still in power, gas prices are up, and our service members have died.
It's time for Trump to end this war.
What a joke. FBI agents are not street brawlers. They interview witnesses, uncover documents, analyze intelligence, and testify in court, usually while wearing a suit and tie. Just one more frolic for Kash at taxpayer expense.
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Trump laser-focused on affordability as always -->
Bahrain, a key American ally that hosts one of the most important U.S. naval bases in the Middle East, is so concerned about domestic unrest that it is bringing in foreign security forces as protests erupt against the kingdom’s role as a launchpad for Washington’s expanding war with Iran. Bahrain has brought in anti-riot troops from Jordan to help suppress protests, national security sources tell me, confirming rumors that began circulating last week. The deployment marks the first time since the Arab Spring that Bahrain has called in foreign forces to quell domestic unrest – a sign of how seriously the monarchy is taking the threat of protests from the country’s Shia-majority population. Mass protests have broken out against the Bahraini ruling class and the U.S.’s involvement in the country, especially with the recent assassination of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, one of the most prominent Shia religious leaders in the world. Bahrain’s authorities have responded violently to protesters, firing tear gas directly into crowds. The demonstrations, one U.S. official told me, speak to how “deeply unpopular” the U.S.-backed regional order is in Bahrain and “the broader Muslim world.”
Bahrain bringing in Jordanian troops to stave off Shia unrest.
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NEW: Hundreds of mental health professionals have left the Department of Veterans Affairs since President Donald Trump took office, leaving staff “at a breaking point” and some veterans waiting as long as six months for help.
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Sen. Murray: "I'm just sickened by this. To go into this war unprepared, to use outdated data, and to have this horrific thing happen where children were killed in a school sends a horrible message to those that are in a war with us and to our own constituents about what America's values are."
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The breast cancer center appealed thousands of Blue Cross reimbursements for being too low.
At trial, the insurer revealed that it had never considered any of the appeals — and that they were pointless:
“An appeal is not available to review an underpayment.”
(Published April 2025)
The US was isolated in its opposition to the adoption of agreed conclusions at the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, recording the only “no” vote at the UN on Monday.
When he returned to the White House in January 2025, he brought this tic with him. The plan to fire federal employees was ahead of schedule in March 2025, and bringing gas prices down was ahead of schedule a month later. Passage of the “One Big Beautiful Bill” was ahead of schedule in May and then again in July. In October, the country learned that Trump had authorized the destruction of the East Wing of the White House, the first step in a massive project aimed at building a ballroom for official events. This would be a $200 million project, the White House website assured Americans, and — sure enough! — would be completed ahead of schedule. “It’ll be under budget, ahead of schedule,” Trump said in March. “It’ll be $400 million or less.” The project was delayed after preservationists sued to keep it from moving forward. But when a “schedule” exists solely as a rhetorical device, an abstraction that the president can be ahead of, such delays get shrugged aside as easily as a doubling of the budget.
For Trump, everything is always "ahead of schedule" for the same reason that everything is the "greatest" and has "never been seen before": it's a boastful superlative he has internalized regardless of whether there's any connection to reality.
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Hegseth should spend a little less time worrying about how he looks in photos and a little more time fixing the fucking disaster he has created in Iran and the Strait of Hormuz.
FAFO.
When will these guys admit they fell for a con to own the libs? Good job, Joe.
Statement from National Press Club President Mark Schoeff Jr. on the Pentagon barring news photographers after images of Defense Secretary Hegseth were deemed unflattering.
James Talarico: They’re scared of the movement we are building. They’re gonna throw everything they have at us.
They’re gonna call me a ‘radical leftist.’
They’re going to call me a ‘fake Christian.’
They’ll call us a threat.
The only truth is — we are a threat to their corrupt system.
Instead of spending $1 billion a day on the War in Iran, we could use that to invest in the American people, not more endless wars.
The Trump administration just announced that gas prices will not return to pre-war levels until at least mid-2027 at the earliest.
DOJ dropping the Ticketmaster/LN suit in the middle of the trial reeks to high heaven
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You’re friends with Trump?
Last year: e-cigarette makers donate to Trump's bangin' ballroom.
This year: Trump admin says it'll allow e-cigarette makers to offer more, delicious flavors.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/h...
Sun Tzu (D-NY) - “When your enemy is making a mistake, fix it for him at great cost to yourself.”
A scandalous read from @noahshachtman.bsky.social in @vanityfair.com.
Rubio's BFF is an accused foreign agent and money launderer. His trial is about to start — and yes, Rubio is on the witness list.
www.vanityfair.com/news/story/m...
I have never met anyone who is more adept at tracking every last cent they have than people who live or have lived in poverty
it is a skill developed out of necessity and it never leaves you
I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public.
I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are.
1/ Here's what I can share:
2/ Maybe the lead is that the war goals DO NOT involve destroying Iran's nuclear weapons program. This is, uh...surprising...since Trump says over and over this is a key goal.
But then of course we already know air strikes can't wipe out their nuclear material.
3/ Second, they confirmed "regime change" is also NOT on the list. So, they are going to spend hundreds of billions of your taxpayer dollars, get a whole bunch of Americans killed, and a hardline regime - probably a MORE anti-American hardline regime - will still be in charge.
4/ Ok, so what ARE the goals? It seems, primarily, destroying lots of missiles and boats and drone factories.
But the question that stumped them: what happens when you stop bombing and they restart production?
They hinted at more bombing. Which is, of course, endless war.
