Oh SHIT!!! Jared Moskowitz ends a speech laying out Noem's corruption with Corey (just after she basically could not deny fucking him) by saying, "I got you the Coast Guard blanket you lost."

Kamlager-Dove: During you tenure at DHS, have you had sexual relations with Corey Lewandowski? Noem: I am shocked we are peddling tabloid garbage.

Preliminary Pentagon cost estimate of the war in Iran is $1 BILLION a day. So far.

Sydney Kamlager Dove asked Noem if she fucked Corey. 🤣 Noem ... did not deny it.

👀 Israni, a first-time political candidate w/ a history of "Hindu nationalism advocacy" gave "cash" to "MAGA candidates, the Republican head of the evangelical Zionist group Christians United for Israel, anti-abortion candidates, and even far-right pundit Laura Loomer." @jsweetli.bsky.social #CA14

New: The Trump admin confirmed in a court filing it will pay interest on any refunds it ultimately must make after SCOTUS struck the president’s contested tariffs. This hasn't been a central issue, but underscores the financial stakes. Interest could total $700M/month, per Cato buff.ly/i4ybtNW

Here's the @balint.house.gov exchange I wrote up earlier. Thanks to @atrupar.com for clipping it.

How you know something stupid will shortly happen.

To clarify from earlier. On the left is Kristi Noem and her husband, just as Jamie Raskin brought up blankie-gate. Her spouse sniffs and snorts. A lot. One the right is the dude who got Noem's husband's seat when the hubby didn't return after the break.

Chuy Garcia: You celebrate deaths of Americans with same enthusiasm when you killed your dog. Then he calls her goons dogs. All a prepared speech, not great oversight. But a good line.

Rebecca Balant starts by getting Noem to agree that US is a nation of laws. Asks how many times DHS fails to follow court orders. Noem: We've never violated court order. Balant cites Schiltz on 200 violations.

Isn't Maersk one of the only approved shippers for NATO?

Deborah Ross, laying into Noem for stalling on NC reimbursement from FEMA funds: You heard from my Republican Senate colleague yesterday. I'm sure you remember Tillis lambasting you, for which we magically got reimbursed today. BREAKING: Tillis got results!! Now Ross shifts to the fuck bunny jet.

Lucy McBath telling story of GA man, present in GA since he was 2. He is a double amputee, who can't use a wheelchair. He is not permitted a shower chair. He is required to crawl thru feces to shower. These are his wife & daughters, all citizens. Noem is trying to filibuster describing med care.

Neguse is walking Noem through her false testimony yesterday that her $220M propaganda campaign was competitively bid. He's reading right from no-bid justification. 4 companies were given the bid. Neguse: Where is it HQed? Noem: I don't know. Neguse: We don't know either. We tried to find it.

HAHAHA. Mary Gay Scanlon asked Noem about the administrative subpoenas she's using. Noem claims not to know. But Noem tries to claim that DHS is not spying; Biden did that.

Incidentally, Noem's sniffy husband got tired of hearing about Corey Lewandowski after the break.

Lou Correa raises a report of a bunch of Orange County cases where ICE did not show up to pick up actual criminals. Then he asks Noem if she snatches US citizens. Literally MINUTES after Jayapal raised the four people who were detained, she says she does not. Correa now listing more examples.

In response to a Q by Yassamin Ansari, Keith Ellison says there was a third shooting in MN (probably that of Julio Sosa-Celis) where ICE refuses to share evidence.

Jayapal is now introducing 4 US citizens who were detained for at least 6 hours merely for observing ICE. Kristi Noem sent a much-delayed list of USCit detained by ICE yesterday. None of these four were on the list.

One weird dynamic of this Oversight hearing where Tim Walz and Keith Ellison are testifying together is that some people are warm to them bc they're former colleagues. But a number (like Pete Sessions) treats Walz, a white Christian, pretty differently than they treat Ellison, a Black Muslim.

1/3: Here's what wild about gas prices right now. The past two days have seen the largest increase in gas prices ($0.22/gallon) since 2005, making it one of the fastest increases ever. What's suprising about this is not only the magnitude, but the speed of the passthrough.

When we talk about Baby Boomers not getting off the stage: In 1997, the US president was born in 1946. In 2007, the US president was born in 1946. In 2017, the US president was born in 1946. And next year in 2027? The US president will have been born in 1946.

Ted Lieu showed Noem the video of Joseph Zobel crying about ICE chasing kids.

In Oversight hearing, Walkinshaw is going thru Trump's fraud pardonees. He mentions a pardoned GOP politician who was convicted of bribery, and mentions Tom Homan along the way. "Where is the hearing on the $1.3B that Trump has relieved his pardon fraudsters of paying their victims?"

Swalwell: Have you fired military pilot? Noem: No. Swalwell: That WSJ article is wrong? Noem: Do you know how long it takes to fire a military pilot?

In Oversight hearing on MN, @congressmin.bsky.social says he's going to introduce a Recoup Act, to pay back money that local police have to expend because of ICE goon behavior.

Kristi Noem claims they've only used administrative warrants to invade homes 28 times. We'll see how long that claim survives.

Tim Walz: There are no Somalis in the Epstein files.

Remember when Trump promised that India would stop buying Russian oil? Well it turns out that Trump's decision to bomb Iran has had the exact opposite effect, leading to a surge of Russian oil being sent to India. www.indiatoday.in/india/story/...

Kristi Noem was asked during Senate testimony yesterday whether Corey Lewandowski had any role in approving DHS contracts. "No," Noem said. That's.....BS. And my colleagues have the goods. www.propublica.org/article/kris...

Maxwell Frost, after describing that he used to wear a WWJD bracelet to remind himself not to swear, asks Rev Tollgaard what would HAPPEN to Jesus, as a refugee, in this world.

Tired: Misperceiving the shadows in Plato's cave as reality. Wired: Betting on the shadows in Plato's cave.

Meanwhile, in the Kristi Noem hearing, Jamie Raskin got blankie-gate into his opening statement. Kristi brought her sniffy husband again. Doesn't look like he liked that story.

Al Jazeera has a useful tracker of who is getting killed and injured. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/...

JUST IN: Trump DOJ proposes surprise rule aiming to let Attorney General Pam Bondi suspend state bar investigations into alleged misconduct by DOJ lawyers. Very unclear if there'd be legal authority for the AG to intervene in this manner. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Tim Walz, purportedly brought to Oversight to address questions about fraud, is instead using it as a chance to air grievance abt the invasion. www.c-span.org/event/house-...

This at the UN, not NATO. Iran is not in NATO. Mike Waltz is the US Ambassador to the UN, and he's threatening Iran's UN Ambassador, who is explicitly not on US soil when he's at the United Nations. Mike Waltz knows that and is behaving like a lawless thug anyway.

Again, one of just two claimed successes that had any basis in reality (albeit exaggerated), the other being the border.

CNN: The CIA has a Top Secret plan to fund the Kurds. Iran: Okay, we'll launch missiles into Turkey then.

The UK should impose an entry tax for any British tax exiles fleeing home.

Sgt. 1st Class Nicole Amor was just days away from returning home to her husband and two children when a drone strike in Kuwait killed her and five others.

Of the 42 countries in the World Cup: Trump is invading 2 (Iran and, as of yesterday, Ecuador) Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and to a lesser extent, Jordan are caught in the crossfire Trump is threatening another, likely favorite Spain, bc it refuses to join Trump's illegal war www.fifa.com/en/tournamen...

Well, the US probably only has one kind of ammunition in surplus: torpedoes. So why not expand the war? Um, plenty of reasons.

As many people have correctly pointed out: the worst outcome of this war is nuclear annihilation.

I made this point earlier: Trump's Iran invasion is completely inconsistent with both his National Defense Strategy (discussed here) and his National Security Strategy, both of which effectively say, "We've solved the Middle East!!!"

Which will add to insecurities on global shipping.

NYT had Shawn McCreesh, who's objectively an idiot but who also happens to be the protégé of the "Donald the Dove Hillary the Hawk" lady, do a purportedly Real News piece on Donny's war plans. But this is The Wrong Answer. Trump is NOT here saying what will the worst outcome.

I’m struck by how every day the admin is like “whoever could have foreseen these consequences?!” when the consequences thus far — evacuations, the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, rise in gas prices, etc. — are all the literal most obvious consequences.

Interesting detail from NYT's story on how Iran has, at least thus far, closed Hormuz, a totally predictable attack that Trump was apparently too incompetent to prevent. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...