This is an ASTONISHING level of corruption.

DHS handed a $143 MILLION no-bid contract to a company that was 8 days old, with no headquarters, no website, no prior federal work, and an address linked to a residence of a political operative.

RUBIO: “Pete Hegseth just flew a plane into Mar-A-Lago…”

Republicans think this is a joke they think everything horrible in the world is a joke.

President Trump's Pardons: An Embarrassment of Riches At least the specter of corruption in previous presidential administrations (Clinton’s pardon of Marc Rich or Biden’s pardon of his son) appeared to be an exception to the rule. Today, however, the ev...

That is insane: "Biden’s pardons eliminated roughly $680,000 in financial penalties owed to victims or the government. In contrast, Trump’s second-term pardons have forgiven criminal debts of more than $1.5 billion." www.cato.org/blog/embarra...

Wooooboyyyyyy!!!!

Former VP Kamala Harris at the memorial service for Rev. Jesse Jackson:

"So let me just say, I predicted a lot about what's happening right now. I'm not into saying 'I told you so' but we did see it coming."

Yes. She. Did.

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The 75 Elections to Watch This March - Bolts The 2026 midterms really are starting. Five states hold all of their primaries for federal and state offices in March, and voters there face high-profile choices. They’ll decide which Democrat... Read...

Still coming up this month?

—this Tuesday: Mississippi primary, and specials in Arizona, Georgia, and New Hampshire.
—on March 14: a special in Louisiana
—on March 17: Illinois primaries!
—on March 24: intriguing local races in California & Florida

your guide: boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...

Eyeing Voting Rights, Liberals Aim to Secure Wisconsin’s Supreme Court through 2030 - Bolts After flipping the court in 2023, Wisconsin liberals now hope to expand their majority on a body that could be a critical backstop for voting rights during the next presidential election.

Wisconsin liberals have a chance next month to go up 5-2 on the state supreme court for the first time in modern history. If they succeed, they'll also block conservatives from earning a court majority through the next presidential election and until at least 2030.

New preview in @boltsmag.org:

ICE detains reporter Estefany Rodríguez in Nashville - Nashville Banner Reporter Estefany Rodríguez, detained by ICE with no arrest warrant, may face deportation. Her attorneys seek immediate review of the legality of her case.

ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.

They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.

ell oh ell

This.


The image is of graves being dug for the girls killed when the U.S. bombed their school.

Tesla sued after Austin shooting suspect allegedly assaulted co-worker A 65-year-old woman says the automaker ignored warning signs before Ndiaga Diagne, the suspect in Sunday’s mass shooting, assaulted her. She sued Thursday.

the Austin mass shooter was a Tesla employee who assaulted a coworker during a company-allowed prayer break late last year

the company refused to give the victim her assailant's name so she could press charges, and he went on to become a mass shooter

www.statesman.com/business/art...

CBP puts the blame on legacy IT systems. To be blunt, while these problems may be completely valid, this is entirely the fault of the government.

Sen. Whitehouse to uncover connections between Trump, Russia, and Epstein. YouTube video by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse

@whitehouse.senate.gov did a VERY long speech of Trump and Epstein's ties w/Russia yesterday.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylvT...

I should have checked @gbrockell.bsky.social to address this question.

But this would suggest State got evacuees from ... somewhere to Djibouti to fly out? Or Dylan Johnson is lying?

bsky.app/profile/gbro...

A tweet: Dylan Johnson @ASDylanJohnson 👀 Americans boarding one of the many State Department charter flights leaving the Middle East to the U.S. This plane landed safely this morning in Washington. It has a picture of people getting on the Patriots plane.

Q: IS this the same Patriots plane that also moonlights as a deportation wagon?

Thank you, @emptywheel.bsky.social for flagging this post to me. I took a close look at another data source, and this plane appears to have made a stop in Dubai. Probably didn't show up on ADSBx bc some of their feeders are down and there is a lot of signal jamming in the region rn.

HOWEVER, 1/

ICE arrested an Oregon shop owner who had her green card in her pocket: ‘They didn’t care’ Juanita Avila later helped expose ICE’s ‘arrest first, justify later’ tactics in a lawsuit that won a major victory for immigrants’ rights

NEW: ICE tackled + arrested Juanita Avila, an Oregon shop owner who is a legal permanent resident and had her green card in her pocket.

When she asked through sobs why they didn't believe her, one masked agent replied: “Because they lie all the time.”

Video + interview with her and her daughter:

Coffee, straight out of my nose.

The Alleged Trump Victim's Claims about Blackmail Are as Important as Her Claims about Rape - emptywheel One day before Jeffrey Epstein suicided, the woman who claimed Donald Trump had abused her told the FBI that Epstein and Trump had spoken about blackmail in front of her.

On the missing Epstein files: It's not JUST that DOJ is still withholding a bunch of pages re allegation he raped a teenager. It's that they only released duplicates (those sent to Ghislaine in discovery), raising questions if the originals still exist.

emptywheel.net/the-alleged-...

ALERT: Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-OH) files motion asking court to block Trump's closure and demolition of the Kennedy Center

Beatty is ex-officio member of Kennedy Center Board of Trustees

Beatty: "Emergency relief is necessary to prevent irreparable harm"

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Russia is aiding Iran’s war effort by providing intel on US military targets, sources say | CNN Politics Russia is providing Iran with intelligence about the locations and movements of American troops, ships and aircraft, according to multiple people familiar with US intelligence reporting on the issue, ...

Super shocking. Given that Russia helped our enemies during Vietnam, Korea, and both gulf wars, who could have guessed this would happen. www.cnn.com/2026/03/06/p...

Himes: I have a theory on how this ends…

You’re going to see oil go across $100… Projections for economic growth are going to go down.

And at some point in 3-5 weeks, the president is going to say this is really not tenable. And he’s going to declare victory and walk away.

"Wow. A big drop" -- CNBC highlights that labor force participation is now the lowest it has been since in late 2021, before the covid vaccine was widely available

Kristi Noem Didn’t Give a Sh*t About ‘the Details’ Such as a woman who was here legally and helped the homeless—but was then deported anyway.

NEW: Here's the story of a woman deported by Kristi Noem. Legally in the United States (as a DACA recipient), she is the mother of a U.S. citizen and was working to help the homeless—but when she went for an appointment to get a green card, she was deported.
www.thebulwark.com/p/kristi-noe...

INTRODUCTION Nearly three months ago, the district court stayed a Department of Homeland Security policy that imposed waiting periods before members of Congress could conduct oversight visits at immigration detention facilities, notwithstanding an appropriations rider prohibiting precisely such a policy. Rather than heed the court's order or seek appellate review, DHS waited three weeks and then secretly reissued a substantively identical policy, which has now also been stayed pursuant to 5 U.S.C. § 705. Defendants-appellants the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and their respective heads (collectively DHS) now seek emergency relief from this Court, but there is quite transparently no emergency for DHS.

DHS has made no showing that it will experience irreparable injury warranting this Court's emergency intervention while the appeal is pending. The entirety of DHS's irreparable-harm argument is contained in a single sentence and includes only a speculative fear of unexplained "safety" concerns. Mot. 26. As the district court found, "during the pendency of this litigation, Defendants have not cited any concrete examples of safety issues posed by congressional visits without advanced notice, let alone the significant harm necessary to justify a stay of the [district court's order." Add.286. DHS cannot overcome the high bar to obtain the stay it seeks, "a rare form of emergency relief reserved for true emergencies," Fed. Educ. Ass'n v. Trump, No. 25-5303, 2025 WL 2738626, at *3 (D.C. Cir. Sep. 25, 2025), and this Court should not credit DHS's attempt to do so by issuing an immediate administrative stay.

Here is the plaintiff members of Congress's opposition to DOJ's request for an immediate administrative stay — which was filed just before 5p Thursday, after DOJ's request came in after 9p Wednesday: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

UPDATE: Here are the five DOJ lawyers who went to the D.C. Circuit to back Noem's effort to keep members of Congress from conducting oversight at immigration detention facilities. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

America just lost 92,000 jobs as gas prices rise because of Trump’s war in Iran. He promised lower costs and no new wars — but Americans are losing jobs and footing the bill for his illegal war instead.

Politico has confirmed two things from CENTCOM.

1. Trump has no plan for how to end this war (that actually might be the plan).

2. Even if we started scaling back today, the military won't be able to withdraw from Iran until September 2026.

Note: No clear objective has been declared.