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Dystopian account (from the Russian side) of how drone technology has transformed the war: "Drones have completely taken over the battlefield...the front is practically deserted."

"When you consider all the things that Trump rejects or the Republicans reject as too costly, the fact that they have now spent $30 billion in effectively the span of a month ... is really somewhat staggering.” talkingpointsmemo.com/news/joe-mor...

NEW: House Appropriations vice ranking member @morelle.house.gov opened up about how the Iran funding fight has become a potentially $1 trillion "mess" talkingpointsmemo.com/news/joe-mor...

Rep. Joe Morelle (D-NY), the vice ranking member on House Appropriations and a member of its Defense subcommittee, goes into great detail this morning with @hunterw.bsky.social and @joshkovensky.bsky.social about the administration's ham-fisted attempts to force Congress to fund the Iran war.

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Aid to Ukraine from 2022-2026 was a rounding error. We used more in the first two weeks of the Iran war than we provided in the 4 years of aid to Ukraine.

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Over the past 12 months, how many times has the admin announced/leaked that they're going to do this? I have lost count www.cbsnews.com/news/fbi-irs...

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I have had COUNTLESS convos where reporters ask me “okay but Trump hasn’t actually deported as many people as Biden (or Obama), right?” and what I try to stress in response is “the real story is how hard it is, and getting harder, for us even to know.” Must-read. apnews.com/article/trum...

As Republicans and some Democrats prepare to vote for weapons funding that could be viewed by Trump as a kind of backdoor war authorization, documents prepared by the Pentagon, sent to Congress and reviewed by TPM suggest the DoD already has the money it needs.

I hope you get a chance to read the installments so far in our on-going Creating The Enemy Within series. talkingpointsmemo.com/creating-the...

Very interesting stuff here. A new supplemental funding bill, notionally to pay for the Iran War, will be a back door way for the White House to claim Congress retroactively authorized the war itself talkingpointsmemo.com/news/for-tru...

The DOJ won the first terrorism case that it brought as part of its crackdown against anti-Trump activists talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-c...

Pleased to speak to @joshkovensky.bsky.social for this piece. “Congress can simply not appropriate money. The White House can’t force Congress to appropriate money, if Congress really wants to dig its heels in.”

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#BREAKING Federal prosecutors in Chicago drop charges against Catherine Sharp and Joselyn Walsh, two of the so-called "Broadview Six" ICE protesters who were indicted for conspiracy.

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The Defense Minister of Israel says it was "blood libel" to go after Israeli soldiers caught on camera raping a Palestinian.

Kash Patel confirms UFC fighters will train FBI agents this week, calling it a "historic opportunity'

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This was clear from the jump, but the Venezuela invasion going as smoothly as it did, from a pure operational perspective, is going to prove catastrophic in the long run.

Pleased to speak with @joshkovensky.bsky.social for @talkingpointsmemo.com about Iran and war powers. "The ultimate war power is the power of the purse." talkingpointsmemo.com/news/iran-wa...

My latest at @talkingpointsmemo.com: War With Iran? A Blood Moon on Purim? For Some Christian Influencers, That Can Mean Only One Thing: The End Times talkingpointsmemo.com/news/iran-bl...

The admin started off by saying the war would last a few days, then a few weeks, then four weeks. Now, Hegseth is saying eight weeks apnews.com/live/iran-wa...

"There is scarcely even the pretence that it was compelled by evidence of an Iranian dash for a bomb or an imminent attack. Such claims do not survive scrutiny; they barely withstand repetition." www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ma...

Not enough being said about how little preemptive work the Trump admin put into getting Americans evacuated from countries near Iran. Only telling people on a long list of nearby countries to leave yesterday "via commercial means" when it was already too late to fly out?

Congressional candidate Brandon Herrera — also known as "the AK guy" — thanked Trump in an interview with TPM for clearing a path for him to make offensive jokes