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Darrell Issa announces he will not run for reelection, the 34th Republican to do so.

A stand of birch trees at Olympia National Park for #ForestFriday

Bodycam video contradicts ICE claims in fatal shooting of U.S. citizen Ruben Ray Martinez in Texas Video of last year's fatal shooting of Ruben Ray Martinez obtained by CBS News appears to contradict claims that Martinez was shot by an ICE agent because he "accelerated" and "intentionally ran over"...

DHS claimed "an ICE agent had fired 'defensive shots' into Martinez's vehicle after Martinez 'intentionally ran over' another agent."

But body cam video now "shows that Martinez's vehicle, a blue Ford Fusion, was stationary or going at a very low rate of speed when he was fatally shot."

the price of oil surging means you can burn your shein clothes, extract the oil, and make more money than you paid

Shameful.

This guy is TOAST.

‘It’s all different without her’: Albany teens grapple with mom’s immigration detainment The January arrest of Maria Trinidad Loya Medina has left her teenage children largely on their own as their dad recovers from a stroke and surgery.

This is a typical detainee. Not a criminal, a mom, wife, hard working person now held in prison-like conditions for months while her family struggles.

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The Treasury may need to borrow an extra $1.6 trillion to cover the hole left by tariff ruling and pay a further $400 billion in debt interest In total, deficits post-ruling will be $2 trillion larger than they were before the Supreme Court decision.

More genius economics.
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Crude oil, three months ago: $61 a barrel

Crude oil today: $92 a barrel

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Trump Says He Wants Iran’s ‘Unconditional Surrender,’ Rules Out Deal

"Oil surged past $90 a barrel, yet markets may still be underestimating Iran war risk.

"Traffic in the Strait of Hormuz remains paralyzed, Saudi Arabia’s largest refinery is offline, Qatar shut off the world’s biggest LNG facility and Iraq is cutting crude output."
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Walking it back pretty quick!

Israel Gives 'Mass Expulsion Order' to Civilians as It Invades Southern Lebanon | Common Dreams As it pushes further into Lebanon, Israel ordered around 200,000 people living south of the Litani River to "immediately" flee.

This is more of our new age of “might makes right” expelling the population from 9% of Lebanon.

Will this strengthen or weaken Hezbollah?

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I have a lot of spare snow if you need some!

Map centered on Alaska showing site-specific high temperatures (ºF) on Thursday, March 5, 2026. Plotted temperature range from -20F at Toolik Lake, Alaska to 50F at Sandspit, BC.

High temperatures (ºF) in and around Alaska on Thursday. Some moderation in temperatures in many areas but still much below normal except for the North Slope, Southeast Alaska and northwest British Columbia. #akwx #weather @climatologist49.bsky.social

This is not good.

Oh hush.

US lost 92,000 jobs in February just before Trump joined Iran conflict The unemployment rate was 4.4% in February, with 130,000 jobs added in January

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

You know you've lived in Alaska too long when you watch a taut thriller called "Dead of Winter" and all you can do is analyze the snow conditions and second guess the main character's driving techniques

Oklahoma senator challenges union head to fight during hearing "Stand your butt up."

Mullin is the guy who tried to fight a witness at a Senate hearing. www.axios.com/2023/11/14/m...

Funny what we have no problem affording

Putting Markwayne Mullin in charge of anything is an incredibly, unfathomably bad idea. This isn't scraping the bottom of the barrel, this is picking up the barrel to see what horrid things might be found underneath it.

C’mon, people. Look at your Kremlin style guide. The phrase is “special military operation.” Not all of you are getting this right.

The wife of the Iraqi President (both her and the President being Kurdish politicians with the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan party), releases a statement saying "leave the Kurds alone" citing various historical events, including "we saw what happened . . . in Rojava"

I’m just not sharing food with a guy who snorted cocaine off a toilet seat.

Hegseth is the leg who got a “Death from Above” tattoo because be went TDY to Bragg once. He’s the guy at the end of the bar with all the stories that don’t add up.

OCS responds to audit that found Alaska failed to fully implement foster care reforms The director of the state’s Office of Children’s Services told lawmakers this week that the agency is having trouble filling crucial frontline case worker positions.

Alaska's Office of Children’s Services is struggling to hire and retain qualified workers, its director told lawmakers this week in response to an audit that found the agency failed to fully implement foster care reforms.

“We were made to understand” is certainly an interesting choice of words.

Montana Republican US Sen. Steve Daines has dropped his bid for reelection to a third term Republican U.S. Sen. Steve Daines of Montana has dropped his bid for reelection to a third term. Daines withdrew his name Wednesday just minutes before the deadline for candidates to file for the November election.

Republican U.S. Sen. Steve Daines of Montana dropped his bid for reelection to a third term Wednesday.

Idaho is latest red state to reject DOJ voter roll grab The refusal places Idaho alongside a growing number of red states pushing back against the department’s campaign.

Idaho — a deeply Republican state — has become the latest to refuse the Trump Justice Department’s demand for unredacted statewide voter rolls. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...