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TV Producer. Washingtonian in exile.

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"The only ones who need to be worried right now is the Iranians who think they're gonna live"

-Pete Hegseth, Very Normal Guy

07.03.2026 00:58 πŸ‘ 524 πŸ” 150 πŸ’¬ 116 πŸ“Œ 174
a graph of seattle link light rail ridership, shown as a rolling 12M average

a graph of seattle link light rail ridership, shown as a rolling 12M average

US transit data is out today, and Seattle's Link remains one of the fastest-growing rail systems in the nation, with ridership up 9% in the wake of the extension to Federal Way

Ridership should increase even further at the end of this month when the 1 & 2 lines are connected🧡

07.03.2026 02:03 πŸ‘ 155 πŸ” 33 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 3
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Nintendo suing US government over tariffs
aftermath.site/nintendo-tarif...

06.03.2026 18:25 πŸ‘ 1980 πŸ” 482 πŸ’¬ 53 πŸ“Œ 426
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Shoutout to this lady selling banana puddings on Facebook marketplace

06.03.2026 19:22 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Leavitt: "The overall mission in this operation is to ensure that Iran can never again possess a nuclear weapon. That was the real imminent threat that was posed by Iran." (Iran never had a nuclear weapon!)

06.03.2026 18:10 πŸ‘ 2702 πŸ” 741 πŸ’¬ 371 πŸ“Œ 104
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Pentagon taps former DOGE official to lead its AI efforts The Pentagon on Friday named as Chief Data Officer a computer ​scientist who aided billionaire Elon Musk's β€Œefforts to overhaul the government last year and who has boosted white supremacists and miso...

Former top DOGE official in his mid-twenties named head of Pentagon AI efforts.

"Kliger, in β€Œsocial ⁠media posts between October 2024 and January 2025, has voiced controversial views and reposted content from white supremacist Nick Fuentes ​and self-described ​misogynist ⁠Andrew Tate."

06.03.2026 17:41 πŸ‘ 300 πŸ” 183 πŸ’¬ 22 πŸ“Œ 33
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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!)

06.03.2026 15:08 πŸ‘ 10552 πŸ” 3221 πŸ’¬ 292 πŸ“Œ 129

it's insane that my country's current position is that, if we don't like the leader of a sovereign nation, not only do we get to kill them we get to pick their successor

06.03.2026 16:49 πŸ‘ 2606 πŸ” 425 πŸ’¬ 122 πŸ“Œ 40
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The Most Chilling Detail in the U.S. Attack on an Iranian Naval Ship The Iranian warship was taking part in an international exercise with many other countriesβ€”including the United States.

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.
newrepublic.com/post/207429/...

06.03.2026 12:29 πŸ‘ 8797 πŸ” 4237 πŸ’¬ 515 πŸ“Œ 603
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Ketamine, Prostitution and Money: Details of a Secret DEA Probe of Jeffrey Epstein A Department of Justice document combined with interviews reveal that a long-running investigation into organized crime led law enforcement to suspect the serial sex abuser of money laundering, distri...

The DEA opened an investigation intoΒ Jeffrey EpsteinΒ and a dozen other individuals in 2015 that centered on allegations of money laundering, drug trafficking, and the procurement of Eastern European prostitutes for high-profile clients.

06.03.2026 16:30 πŸ‘ 954 πŸ” 517 πŸ’¬ 57 πŸ“Œ 23
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nyt website currently resembles one of those mock covers people made before 2016 election: economy floundering, war in the middle east, scandal-plagued cabinet sec, brazen corruption....

06.03.2026 16:25 πŸ‘ 2181 πŸ” 467 πŸ’¬ 38 πŸ“Œ 17
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"As last month's jobs report was just released moments ago, with the economy adding 92,000 jobs in February"

"Actually, we lost 92,000 jobs"

"OK, so that was wrong in the script"

06.03.2026 13:50 πŸ‘ 1017 πŸ” 210 πŸ’¬ 60 πŸ“Œ 63

Trump thinks this will be Venezuela, over in a week, then onto Cuba

06.03.2026 14:10 πŸ‘ 311 πŸ” 67 πŸ’¬ 40 πŸ“Œ 1

In every Republican presidency of my lifetime there's been a recession and a new war in the Middle East.

06.03.2026 13:53 πŸ‘ 5569 πŸ” 1651 πŸ’¬ 29 πŸ“Œ 72

It's really unfair to compare this to Iraq in 2003, at least then they had the decency to put some effort into their lies and deception.

06.03.2026 14:13 πŸ‘ 562 πŸ” 110 πŸ’¬ 20 πŸ“Œ 8
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The U.S. labor market lost 92,000 jobs in February In February the labor market lost 92,000 jobs, and economists are monitoring for signs that the labor market could be on the rebound.

Breaking news: The U.S. labor market lost 92,000 jobs in February, a striking loss signaling a warning flag for the economy.

06.03.2026 13:48 πŸ‘ 471 πŸ” 168 πŸ’¬ 35 πŸ“Œ 39
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All the polls on the U.S. war in Iran so far According to a simple average of new high-quality surveys, 38% of Americans approve and 49% disapprove of U.S. military action. When ignoring "don't know" respondents, 56% disapprove

All the polls on the U.S. war in Iran so far

www.gelliottmorris.com/p/polls-us-i...

If you ignore people who say they β€œdon’t know” how they feel about the war, disapproval of Trump’s actions is already at 56%. That is higher than the resistance to Vietnam in 1971.

06.03.2026 13:01 πŸ‘ 362 πŸ” 101 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 11

I’m sure if Biden posted late one Sat night that he wanted the governor of Louisiana to rush a hospital ship to Greenland for a serious medical emergency in their populace at a time when we had no hospital ships available and there was no emergency the media would also ignore it.

06.03.2026 01:11 πŸ‘ 3578 πŸ” 723 πŸ’¬ 61 πŸ“Œ 21
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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...

Reuters Exclusive

"U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school."

"The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the ​Middle East."

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Iranian Ship Was Leaving Indian Naval Exercise When Sunk, Raising Concerns in New Delhi The Iranian frigate sunk by a U.S. submarine last week had just left an Indian naval exercise. Now India's political opposition is demanding answers.

My lord! The frigate the US submarine torpedoed, the one the White House has been bragging about, was unarmed and headed home from an international naval exercise, hosted by India, that the US pulled out of at the last minute! www.military.com/daily-news/i...

06.03.2026 00:08 πŸ‘ 253 πŸ” 138 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 10
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Palantir and other tech companies are stocking offices with tobacco products to increase worker productivity | Fortune Health experts offer a blunt warning on using tobacco products to increase productivity, saying the adverse health effects have been well documented.

lol at least coke is glamorous fortune.com/2026/03/04/p...

05.03.2026 23:23 πŸ‘ 117 πŸ” 17 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 4
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The House just defeated the Massie-Khanna War Powers Resolution on Iran.

Crosses, reportedly, were-
R's voting yes: Massie, Davidson (R-OH)
D's voting no: Golden, Landsman, Cuellar, Vargas

05.03.2026 21:43 πŸ‘ 512 πŸ” 227 πŸ’¬ 83 πŸ“Œ 178
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Analysis Suggests School Was Hit Amid U.S. Strikes on Iranian Naval Base

New NY Times ’visual investigation’ strongly suggests that the US fired the missile that hit the Minab school Saturday. (Though is very careful with its language to not say it conclusively.)

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/w...

05.03.2026 21:12 πŸ‘ 317 πŸ” 114 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 13

If you're at the airport and Kristi Noem is doing the ominous little message from the TSA screens, you no longer have to do anything she says. Leave your laptop in the case, whatever.

05.03.2026 19:22 πŸ‘ 29512 πŸ” 3999 πŸ’¬ 367 πŸ“Œ 161
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Trump Is Preparing to Fire Kristi Noem The president has already been asking aides and congressional Republicans for names of potential replacements.

President Trump is preparing to fire Kristi Noem, advisers say.

05.03.2026 18:01 πŸ‘ 78 πŸ” 21 πŸ’¬ 27 πŸ“Œ 52
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Trump is preparing to fire Kristi Noem,
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WSJ Breaking News Trump is preparing to fire Kristi Noem, advisers say now

BREAKING NEWS: We have employed the f-word.

05.03.2026 18:02 πŸ‘ 505 πŸ” 75 πŸ’¬ 27 πŸ“Œ 23

NEW: Per statement, US House Republican leadership has asked Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-TX) to withdraw from his race for re-election

05.03.2026 17:52 πŸ‘ 1289 πŸ” 312 πŸ’¬ 84 πŸ“Œ 52

"We're going to stop the reckless and costly policy of regime change overseas." - Donald Trump, 2016

05.03.2026 16:58 πŸ‘ 236 πŸ” 80 πŸ’¬ 13 πŸ“Œ 5

Three days ago, the SecDef said: "This is not a so-called regime change war,"

www.pbs.org/newshour/wor...

05.03.2026 16:27 πŸ‘ 26 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

If the government gets to decide if you have them, they're not human rights.

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