Here's my full wide-ranging One on One interview with @dawneuer.bsky.social, covering war in Iran, energy policy, RI Senate politics and much more. Watch here or at 7:30 pm Friday/10:30 am Sunday on @oceanstatemedia.bsky.social TV www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcqU...
Crude oil has topped $86/barrel and is continuing to rise amid the U.S./Iran war in the Middle East that has seen traffic in the Strait of Hormuz drop from 125+ vessels/day to less than 5 amid attacks on ships by Iran. The price per barrel on February 27th was $64.
Source: US CENTCOM
#RFA
Obama would've been impeached, convicted, arrested and disappeared within hours of saying something like this
The reason we have “stupid rules of engagement” is to make sure we don’t bomb elementary schools.
‘It makes you angry’: R.I. attorney general @peterneronha.bsky.social details accusations of abuse by clergy — and how church leaders responded
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CNN: Three US fighter jets accidentally shot down by Kuwaiti air defenses, military says By Haley Britzky , Helen Regan Helen Regan , Eyad Kourdi , Isaac Yee , Teele Rebane , Lucas Lilieholm Updated 13 hr ago
Reuters: Fire at US embassy complex in Riyadh after blast heard, sources say By Reuters March 2, 20266:23 PM CSTUpdated 13 mins ago
New York Times: U.S. military death toll rises to 6
CNN: State Dept urges US citizens to "DEPART NOW" from countries throughout Middle East
Two days into the war:
- three F-15s shot down
- U.S. embassy in Saudi Arabia in flames
- six U.S. service members confirmed dead; more wounded
- State Department tells Americans to flee the entire Middle East
washington post push alert saying "Trump's attack on Iran risks alienating war-weary supporters", I crossed out alienating war weary supporters and wrote "killing people"
not everything needs to be viewed as a meta political story on polling. humans are dying.
“It’s a choice to ensure zero abortions."
Since July, more than a dozen pregnant children have been moved to a single facility in the small town of San Benito, along the south Texas border. The children kept in Texas are as young as 13, and about half are pregnant because of rape.
The next Big Lie is to taking shape right in front of us. Donald Trump will try to use this to assert illegal and unconstitutional powers over the 2026 elections.
Five corporations control 90% of the US media market.
Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today.
Four giants control 80% of meat processing.
The evidence of corporate consolidation is everywhere.
It means more power for them and less freedom for you.
This is not a fake narrative being peddled by leftists in the media. It is exactly what Anthropic is saying. They aren’t prepared to give up on these 2 conditions and are willing to put their $200 million contract at risk over it. All Hegseth can say is, ‘Trust me, bro.’
On This Day In History – February 25, 1842: Ida Lewis born in Newport
My latest on how @govdanmckee.bsky.social's plan to gut #RhodeIsland 's #renewableenergy programs won't deliver the lower rates that he (& our utility) claim it will.
Tl;dr: high wholesale power prices are mostly driven by gas prices. Don't ax the solution. /1
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It’s time to turn the Epstein files into the Epstein trials. - Rep. Andrea Romero, Chair of the NM Epstein Truth Commission
NEW: Trump’s DoJ ordered New York SVU and New Mexico to stop investigating Epstein in 2019. www.justsecurity.org/132230/fbi-s...
The ICE surge in Minnesota cost $280M to detain 4k people. Of those- only 30 were accused of violent crimes.
$9 million per capture of the "worst of the worst".
Renee Good and Alex Pretti were unavailable for comment….
BREAKING
Former ICE agent:
On my first day training new cadets, I received secretive orders to teach them to violate the Constitution by entering homes without a judicial warrant.
“I heard the officer say ‘that ain’t shit’.”
NASHVILLE — ICE shatter a car window in front of a newborn, refuse to look at man’s license & work visa… drag him out of his car, hit him, mock him for being Guatemalan (he’s from Mexico), laugh when he begs to say goodbye.
Prior to 2015, if any candidate for elected office had begun a public statement or tweet with this sentence, he or she would have been laughed out of public life.
Now, Americans re-elect them as commander-in-chief. I will never allow myself to become numb to his insanity.
Stop saying Trump wants to "nationalize elections."
What he said was: "We should take over the voting, the voting in at least many—15 places. The Republicans ought to nationalize the voting.”
"Take over the voting" and "nationalizing voting" is very different from the more sanitized language.
A tariff “refund” mostly goes to whoever wrote the tariff check: the importer of record. That’s not the same person who paid more at the register. So refunds -- if they're offered -- might sound like consumer relief, but in reality, they're corporate windfalls.
Kurt Vonnegut stop being so applicable to all time periods of American life, you can’t do that Kurt Vonnegut, your insights are too evergreen Kurt Vonnegut
Incredible opinion. It holds that the common ICE tactic of jumping out of an unidentified rental vehicle and seizing suspected noncitizens while masked violates the Fourth Amendment because the *manner* of the seizure is incompatible with a free society governed by the rule of law.
"The architect of the current Court — the Federalist Society’s Leonard Leo — was behind the litigation that undid the tariffs. That tells you all you need to know."
👀The federal judges in West Virginia, where ICE has been pulling over and detaining people on the freeway, are literally screaming about ICE's tactics.
"It is an assault on the constitutional order," Judge Goodwin says. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
84 years ago #todayinhistory, an executive order mandated sending Japanese Americans to "relocation centers." Descendants of the prisoners have restored a baseball field on the Manzanar site as a way to both celebrate the resiliency of so many of their ancestors.
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More of this please
This is heartbreaking. It’s a moral failure to imprison children and then have the agency quote be about how the kids are being fed. 🤬 This article is additional evidence that we need to abolish DHS.
Also, the Epstein class is running this administration, they need to stay far away from kids.
Mia Valentina Paz Faria A 7-year-old from Venezuela who was living in Austin, Texas Detained for 70 days “I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”
UPDATE: Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children. This is in response to the ace reporting by @micarosenberg et al for ProPublica:
“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”
- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.
Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
How is it possible that Kristi Noem still has this job. Imagine if you’re a family member or a shipmate of this guardsman.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...
