Trump: "The United States is the largest Oil Producer in the World, by far, so when oil prices go up, we make a lot of money."

DHS employees, including TSA, will miss their first full paycheck this week as Republicans in Congress refuse a funding bill that covers everyone in DHS other than ICE and border patrol.

US, Russian teams met in Florida and discussed 'variety of topics,' Witkoff says reut.rs/4rplG8o

Scoop: Here’s the bonkers story of how a foreign hacker inadvertently (?) broke into an evidence server holding FBI Epstein material in 2023 and then threatened to call in law enforcement when they found it was full of CSAM. www.reuters.com/world/us/for...

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Result! Just received from Grammarly: "Hi, Thank you for reaching out. After careful consideration, we have decided to deactivate Expert Review while we reimagine how to make it more useful for customers and more respectful of the experts whose work it surfaces." 1/ 🧪💙📚 🗃 #academicsky

An Oklahoma fire department turned down $250,000 from Google because they didn't want to betray public trust as Google tries to build a data center in their community. The Rock Volunteer Fire Department chief got a standing ovation for speaking out against the data center. ktul.com/news/local/r...

Ashley Kittelson's petition for court protection alleged years of abuse, including her ex-husband’s threats to kill the mother of three. Her ex-husband killed her four days days after he was released from jail without having to post bond for violating the protective order, court records show.

Almost 200 children killed and he forgot about it??

Bellingcat has geolocated eight videos showing US Tomahawks cruise missiles in Iraq heading towards Iran. The missiles appear to be flying low across valleys and were most likely fired from the Mediterranean sea, an expert told us. www.bellingcat.com/news/middle-...

* IRANIAN OFFICIAL TELLS REUTERS: SUPREME LEADER MOJTABA KHAMENEI WAS LIGHTLY INJURED BUT STILL CONTINUING TO OPERATE @reuters.com

Eyewitness video released on social media on March 10 showed smoke rising after an explosion in the northwestern Iranian city of Tabriz. Reuters was able to confirm the location of footage from surrounding buildings, trees, road layout and bridge, which matched satellite and file imagery

CNN and CCDH investigation: 80% of major AI chatbots gave guidance on weapons or targets to "teen" personas 50% of the time; only Claude consistently refused (CNN) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

There’s a lot of incompetence on full display in this story but one guy who surely would be fired yesterday if this was earth 1, is the chucklehead energy secretary.

Mike Johnson blatantly makes stuff up: "We had information that they might well fire on us and it was imminent, and that it would hit our personnel. We could not wait for mass casualties on the American side."

Chris Murphy: "I Just came from a two hour, closed door classified briefing on the war. It just confirmed to me it's totally incoherent. We are not gonna be able to achieve any of our stated objectives ... this is a disaster of epic proportions, a 10 day debacle"

Murphy: "Literally in my other ear I'm listening to Ted Cruz on another network explain why this mission is so essential to destroy the nuclear program. I may have to walk over there and tell him the admin is now briefing that getting rid of the nuclear program has nothing to do with this mission."

WALLACE: Why are we at war with Iran? CHRIS MURPHY: Great question. The simplest explanation might be the one they gave 24 hours in that they've kind of tried to backtrack from since -- that Israel made us do it.

Witkoff says that he and Jared Kusher yesterday had a call with Putin adviser Yuri Ushakov "independently" of Trump

Bier: "Over the last 30 years, we looked at all the government budgets -- federal, state, and local combined. Immigrants reduce deficits by $14.5 trillion."

Musical instruments cost the Pentagon "$1.8 million. That included a $98,329 Steinway & Sons grand piano for the Air Force chief of staff’s home, a $26,000 violin, and a $21,750 custom handmade flute from the luxury Japanese brand Muramatsu."

In a preliminary ruling, a US judge orders Perplexity to stop using Comet browser to make purchases on behalf of users from password-protected Amazon accounts (Bloomberg) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Breaking News: The three Alexander brothers were found guilty of engaging in a yearslong sex trafficking conspiracy of women and girls, some of whom were drugged before they were raped or sexually assaulted.

NEW: A couple of 20-year-old developers make $500,000 a month promising to help men, including minors, to stop watching porn, but exposed their private porn watching habits. When we asked them about it in January, they lied about the huge security flaw. Here's why we're naming them now:

Australian police extracted five Iranian women soccer players from the team's hotel before they were granted asylum, the interior minister said, as details of their escape from Iranian government minders emerged reut.rs/4czjbwD

We need your drone interceptors for our war, but we won’t thank you and our propaganda will claim that we made them.

BREAKING: Anthropic is suing the Trump administration over being blacklisted by the Pentagon and being designated a supply chain risk that threatens national security.

"A woman who claims she was abused as a minor by both Epstein and Trump has given the FBI vivid accounts that include aspects of her life corroborated by the The Post and Courier through public records ... she claimed Trump forced her to commit a sex act on him sometime around 1984."

Planet Labs satellite imagery shows only two structures within this red cone were damaged, including a clinic. The other structure appears to be an earth covered magazine or bunker.

Remarkable how shook Fox is by the footage of Trump wearing a tacky campaign hat to a dignified transfer

The footage appears to contradict President Donald Trump’s claim it was an Iranian missile that hit the school on Feb. 28. www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

Two of the world's most wanted men, Daniel and Christy Kinahan, were photographed at an MMA event, Bellingcat and @thetimes.com found — their most recent sighting since the US issued multi-million dollar bounties. www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03...

A review by @ntabrizy.bsky.social and myself of post-strike videos, images, satellite imagery and mapping data shows that a civilian park hosting an EMS base in Shiraz was directly hit, killing at least 20 and raising questions about mistaken targeting.

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Inspired by ProPublica’s new database, I created a visualization of the nearly 400 LLCs that make up Trump’s business empire. That and more in this week’s newsletter. Read! Free! www.howtoreadthisch.art/where-trumps...

This is a real video from the official White House account on a war that is currently killing people. I don’t know how the US is going to come back from this. The post was “JUSTICE THE AMERICAN WAY. 🇺🇸 🔥”

Tate was trying to get to Dubai on a bus. When they got to the Saudi border everyone was told to get off for passport and baggage checks and Tate decided to stay on - presumably because the bus was air conditioned and he didn't want to stand in a queue. He then got detained by Saudi guards.

Satellite images from NASA Worldview on March 5 reveal the extent of the blackout in Cuba. A failure at the most important power plant, combined with the US blockade on fuel shipments in the country has left nearly 70% of the island's inhabitants without power.

A huge tip of the hat to the NYTimes, the CBC, the BBC, Reuters and others for being absolutely all over this school bombing and piecing together the truth of what happened -- www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Minnesota Timberwolves co-owner Alex Rodriguez is at the White House today and chatting with Pam Bondi, Scott Bessent, and other Trump officials

The battle between the Pentagon and Anthropic couldn't have come at a worse time. AI safety is no longer a hypothetical problem; it's a real concern for the world we live in today. And the US Government's demand? Move faster and break more things. My cover story: www.economist.com/briefing/202...

A court record reviewed by 404 Media shows privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail handed over payment data related to a Stop Cop City email account to the Swiss government, which handed it to the FBI.

NEW: A conservative attorney said to be coordinating with the White House to push Donald Trump to take control of elections via executive order cited a bizarre 2020 conspiracy theory involving Michigan voting machines as the emergency that justifies the scheme.

UPDATE: Another $5.6 million from ICE to Palantir, in part for its continued work on ELITE (Enhanced Leads Identification & Targeting for Enforcement), which we revealed in January to be the Palantir tool ICE uses to find neighborhoods to raid. Read about it:

This war against Iran is costing US taxpayers approximately $11,500 per second. According to iran-cost-ticker.com the total cost has already reached $5.5 billion.

Quietly, calmly and forensically, BBC just dismantled the Trump communications shitshow on Iran. No hyperbole, just laying out an unprecedented military, diplomatic and reputational shambles. Worth a watch. (🎥 BBC News/BBC Verify)

Polymarket's CEO Shayne Coplan has repeatedly called his betting site "the future of news." Why did they pull a wager on nuclear war by 2026? @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Full story by @mjgault.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/polymarket-p...