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Noem Ad Blitz Benefits Media Firms Linked to Trump Campaigns Records show DHS spent millions through subcontractors that had worked with her top aide, Corey Lewandowski. Trump fired Noem on Thursday.

Records show Kristi Noem approved millions for DHS ads placed by companies tied to Trump campaigns.

Our New Iran Correspondent | The New York Times Company

This is the kind of journalist an editor yearns for at a time like this: A Persian-fluent reporter w/ deep experience covering Iranian politics and policies.

She used to work at the Washpost.

Then Bezos dismantled the international coverage.

Now she’s at the NYT

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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."

Iranian Barrage Sweeps Mideast as Trump Weighs In on Next Leader A barrage of Iranian missiles and drones targeted at least five countries across the Middle East, prompting several governments to urge their citizens to take shelter, while Israel carried out a 12th wave of airstrikes on Tehran and the US suspended operations at its embassy in Kuwait.

A barrage of Iranian missiles and drones targeted at least five countries across the Middle East, while Israel carried out a 12th wave of airstrikes on Tehran and the US suspended operations at its embassy in Kuwait

States Sue to Stop Trump From Reviving Steep Tariffs The lawsuit filed by two dozen states seeks to invalidate the president’s new, 10 percent global tax on imports.

Breaking News: Two dozen states sued President Trump to stop his 10% tariffs on most imports.

NBC's top climate reporter quits In an exclusive interview, veteran NBC meteorologist Chase Cain opens up about burnout, suppression, and why he's going independent.

Corporate broadcast coverage of climate change fell 35% in the last year, even as Trump systemically dismantled climate policy and billion-dollar disasters rose

The gradual deprioritization led NBC climate reporter Chase Cain to hit a breaking point, and he quit last week

Here's our interview:

Don't even have all that many people on my timeline and so, trust me, the guy's arm getting broken has been more than fully shared, it has achieved shared-ness and then some, zero need to keep re-sharing

OK, i have turned off autoplay, and i'm about to mute the senator's name. but, seriously, people.

good lord, can we stop reposting that video of the Marine vet's bones crunching? as somebody who has broken her left arm twice and right arm once, and dislocated her knee three times, i cannot take it autoplaying in my TL anymore.

Florence ICE detainee dead after untreated tooth infection, official says An ICE detainee, who had been at a Florence detention center for four months, died Monday following an untreated tooth infection.

An ICE detainee in Arizona has died of a TOOTH INFECTION after it went untreated for weeks, a local official says. He was a Haitian asylum seeker imprisoned in Florence, Arizona. @emilybregel.bsky.social reports.
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Eliminating Iran’s Ballistic Missiles Could Be Difficult

"Airstrikes alone cannot destroy the plans and know-how for building" missiles.

@johnismay.bsky.social sets the record straight about the difficulties of eradicating Iran's missile arsenal:

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

'It Was Very Creepy': These People Say They Lost Global Entry Just For Watching ICE Agents Two people claim they were punished for acts of protest, and an internal government memo suggests they may not be the last.

I spoke with two ICE watchers who lost their Global Entry after brushes with federal agents. Now an internal memo shows Customs and Border Protection is evaluating cases where people's Global Entry could be revoked based on "encounters" with its officers.
www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-wa...

“Will power is trying hard not to do something you really want to do,” said Frog.

“You mean like trying hard not to eat all these cookies?” asked Toad.

“Right,” said Frog.

Texas is first big primary of the midterms. Here’s when election results will come in The road to the Senate majority runs through the Rio Grande — with a detour through late-night TV. Eric Garcia breaks down the good, the bad and the ugly in the Lone Star State

You asked for it. You got it! A Texas-sized explainer for tonight's INSIDE WASHINGTON about the #TXSen primary. via @the-independent.com
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The U.S. shuts some Gulf embassies and warns of a prolonged war with Iran The United States evacuated diplomats across the Middle East and shut down some embassies as war with Iran intensified Tuesday while President Trump signaled the conflict could turn into extended war.

The United States evacuated diplomats across the Middle East and shut down some embassies as war with Iran intensified Tuesday while President Trump signaled the conflict could turn into extended war.

Senator Merkley to me on Trump’s war in Iran:
“This president has chosen to steal the power of the purse, breaking the Constitution; steal the power of taxation, breaking the Constitution; and now, stealing the power of War, breaking the Constitution.
I’m not sure, are we still a republic?”

Kash Patel’s latest firings ousted agents with expertise in Iran The FBI director gutted a specialized, global espionage unit of counterintelligence agents, just days before Operation Epic Fury.

Kash Patel’s latest firings ousted agents with expertise in Iran

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National Park Service database flags hundreds of items that might ‘disparage’ America An internal government database reviewed by The Washington Post demonstrates the vast scope of the Trump administration’s ongoing effort to revise or remove information on African American history, cl...

Exclusive: An internal government database reviewed by The Post demonstrates the vast scope of the Trump administration’s effort to revise or remove information on African American history, climate change and other topics at hundreds of national parks.

Frog and Toad were sad for a while.

Prof. Pape studied air campaigns including while at the US Air Force's School of Advanced Airpower Studies in the 1990s ->

NEW: A judge has restored lawmakers' unfettered access to ICE detention facilities, her third ruling to block Secretary Noem's policy attempting to limit unannounced visits from members of Congress.

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Trump may have ordered a deadly military strike on a girls’ elementary school in Iran because the Pentagon was using an out-of-date map.

At least 175 people, including dozens of young girls between seven and 12, were killed Saturday in an attack on a southern town miles from Tehran. trib.al/1BhX9NO

Iran Live Updates: Israel Strikes Hezbollah in Lebanon as Trump Says He's Prepared to Fight for Weeks The explosions outside Beirut ended a yearlong cease-fire and threatened to expand the conflict. In an interview with The New York Times, President Trump said the U.S. plans to keep up the assault on Iran for “four or five weeks.”

Israel began attacking Hezbollah in Lebanon, shattering a fragile truce that had been in place for about a year and threatening to destabilize the region as both the United States and Israel ramped up strikes on Iran.

Today should be your 38th birthday.. When you lose your son you lose more than a child you lose a piece of your heart and your joy. Life is forever altered, and nothing can ever fill that space. Yet in my soul, he remains, my precious boy, forever loved. His laughter, his smile, and his love are woven into who I am. My love for him will never fade. Yor are my pride and my joy - you've made a change that cannot be broken..

Alex's mom on his 38th birthday.

This is a bombshell: "the Pentagon wanted the company to allow for the collection and analysis of unclassified, commercial bulk data on Americans, such as geolocation and web browsing data"

This kind of agenda echoes the defunded Total Information Awareness effort, post-9/11

This is a distressing story about Trump’s attempts to impede Thomas Massie’s efforts to release the Epstein files. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

A goodbye note to co-workers from veteran CBS News producer Mary Walsh:

"We've been told to aim our reporting at a particular part of the political spectrum. Honestly, I don't know how to do that."

(via @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social)

$PSKY $WBD

Sue Craig byline siren =>

“All right,” said Toad. “Let me think of a story to tell you.”

Something that's being overlooked: The Saudi government—yes, the same gov't that butchered a Washington Post journalist a few years ago—is set to be a part owner of CNN.

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