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Justin Wolfers
about 5 hours ago
Begin your weekend by joining me for a long chat with Molly Jong-Fast about *all this*.
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Trump’s Dumb Ideas To Save The Economy w/ Justin Wolfers
Molly Jong-Fast welcomes economist Justin Wolfers for a wide-ranging, banter-filled conversation that starts with a sobering update on the U.S. economy: revised data and a sharply negative jobs…
https://youtu.be/oLQ3iVHADpE?si=zscA6h0IRMaTqMwC
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The Bulwark
about 4 hours ago
You might think that one silver lining of the Iran war and the oil market disruption would be greater investment in renewable energy. Turns out you might be wrong. ICYMI @crampell.bsky.social:
lnk.thebulwark.com/4lsgyPC
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How Trump’s Iran War Could Actually Worsen Climate Change
Oh, you thought high oil prices would help the climate fight? Think again.
https://lnk.thebulwark.com/4lsgyPC
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Democracy Docket
about 3 hours ago
NEW: Trump has waged a multipronged attack on democracy, turning the DOJ into a weapon that targets voting rights. But have the courtroom battles kept democracy defenders too busy to launch their own legal counter offensives? Jim Saksa dives into the numbers👇
https://bit.ly/40uONfI
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Spoonamore
about 3 hours ago
WSJ: Gen. Caine, Chair - Joint Chiefs, warned Trump striking Iran could prompt it to close the Strait of Hormuz with mines, drones & missiles. Trump acknowledged the risk but assumed Tehran would capitulate and the military could handle it if it didn’t. TIMLI:
#Krasnov
was told, and ignored it.
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Spoonamore
about 3 hours ago
If true, team
#krasnov
are now far and away the most inept, naked fools ever to be leading a war. Every
#WarGame
of any type with
#Iran
STARTS with them closing/restricting shipping in strait. It is their stated strategy. Core doctrine. It is what all of their assets are built around. WTAF.
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Marc Elias
about 3 hours ago
The fight for democracy is the fight of our generation. I started Democracy Docket in 2020 to help you navigate and understand it. Sign up now.
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The New Yorker
about 2 hours ago
The Trump Administration was apparently surprised by, and unprepared for, Iran’s capability to inflict economic pain on the U.S. and its allies,
@johncassidysays.bsky.social
writes. ttps://
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Trump’s Inexcusable Unpreparedness for the Iranian Oil Crisis
Donald Trump plunged the U.S. into a potentially disastrous war with Iran with no clear rationale or exit plan. He’s now flailing for ways to mitigate its economic consequences, John Cassidy writes.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-financial-page/trumps-inexcusable-unpreparedness-for-the-iranian-oil-crisis
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The Bulwark
about 2 hours ago
"If you’re president of the United States and you start a war, you should have enough of a sense of decency and dignity to treat it as a serious matter. To make this obvious point isn’t to be woke or even antiwar. It’s to be adult and civilized."
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Trump to America: Thank Me for Your Gas Bill
Higher prices = more money, according to the president.
https://lnk.thebulwark.com/4unGcsV
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Politico
about 2 hours ago
Polling finds U.S. is its own biggest fan
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Polling finds U.S. is its own biggest fan
Many Americans think their country protects democracy and is dependable. Allies don't agree.
http://dlvr.it/TRV0N1
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat
about 4 hours ago
Americans are dying so that Kushner can make money
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Dmitry Grozoubinski
about 7 hours ago
Inside the Department of War are two wolves: "We've shut down the Colleges of War because book learnings are woke, gay, and irrelevant to war fighting." "How come no one told us the Strait is important, there are different kinds of Kurds, Iran is big, and air power historically doesn't win wars?"
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Spoonamore
about 2 hours ago
F. Folks unpacking the
#EpsteinFiles
found a trove of @FBI recordings incl: Erika Kirk telling an underage girl, and her younger sister how to get more money "working" for
#Epstein
. You can also hear the FBI wire-tap team in the background. We live among monsters.
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
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John Sipher
about 3 hours ago
“So damaged is the department’s reputation for truth telling at this point, one judge noted despairingly, that ‘the court is left with little confidence’ that government lawyers ‘can be trusted to tell the truth about anything.”’
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/o...
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Opinion | The Trump Administration Floats a New Way to Humiliate the Legal Profession
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/opinion/justice-department-lawyers-ethics.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Greg Sargent
about 5 hours ago
Pete Hegseth is openly calling on Trump-friendly oligarchs to take over the media while unshackling the military from the "rules of engagement" he hates so much. What he really wants is a world in which horrors like the school bombing don't ever fully come to light.
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The New Yorker
about 1 hour ago
In the months since a Border Patrol agent shot Marimar Martinez five times, she has watched the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. “I was there in their shoes, and I have a voice,” she said. “Something that they don’t have.”
newyorkermag.visitlink.me/d-q77m
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The Preschool Teaching Assistant Shot by Border Patrol, Then Called a “Domestic Terrorist”
When Marimar Martinez was shot five times by a Border Patrol agent, the D.H.S. justified it by calling her a “domestic terrorist.” In the aftermath, she’s been trying to recover her reputation and, with it, a sense of reality.
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/d-q77m
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Governor Gavin Newsom
30 minutes ago
No amount of spin from Trump and his lackeys can cover up the fact that Americans shelled out an extra $1.5 BILLION for gas this past week because of his disastrous war with Iran.
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The Bulwark
29 minutes ago
It's kind of "It is a huge, complete, very strong victory, we plebes just can't see it in its full majesty."
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Trump’s Huge, Complete, Very Strong Victory Over Iran Is Getting Costly
If this is #winning, what would losing look like?
https://lnk.thebulwark.com/3P3KZiY
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Spoonamore
1 day ago
We are now in a world where John Bolton is right about everything.
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Matthew Gertz
1 day ago
Defense secretary openly states that a pro-Trump billionaire taking over a news network (following regulatory help from the administration) will result in coverage more favorable for the administration.
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Mike Hixenbaugh
1 day ago
ICE detained a 9-year-old with severe autism and his mom for more than 80 days. The boy depends on daily therapy, but at Dilley, those supports vanished. Unable to understand why they couldn’t go home, he would cry through the night and hit himself, his mother told me. My latest for
@nbcnews.com
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'This place broke something in us': Kids languish in ICE detention long past 20-day court limit
The Trump administration has detained more than 900 children — including a boy with severe autism — for longer than allowed under a decades-old legal settlement.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/children-languish-ice-detention-long-20-day-court-limit-rcna262525
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The Editorial Board
1 day ago
It’s just a video game to them so they burn through real world supply like it’s replenished after earning enough game stats.
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Tom Nichols
1 day ago
I hope the first thing this task force does is inform Pete Hegseth about what happens in the war colleges he's never attended - or apparently, even visited - because all this stuff isn't it. He has no idea what he's talking about here, but that's no surprise.
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Philip Bump
2 days ago
I feel like there’s an important word being ignored here.
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Eliot Higgins
1 day ago
Those little girls didn't stand a chance!
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Deborah Pearlstein
1 day ago
Too much to keep track of, but don't sleep on AG Bondi's new proposed rule that would let DOJ lawyers avoid key ethics checks that prohibit lying to court. Ratcheting up the assault on courts & the reality-based world at the same time. Mine in today's NYT. (Gift Link)
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Opinion | The Justice Department Wants to Make It Safe for Government Lawyers to Lie
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/opinion/justice-department-lawyers-ethics.html?unlocked_article_code=1.S1A.gX0w.kp9g54DwtR8Z&smid=bs-share
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Politico
1 day ago
Gavin Newsom wants to hand Donald Trump his gasoline price problem
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Gavin Newsom wants to hand Donald Trump his gasoline price problem
The war in Iran has given the governor an opportunity to shift focus away from refineries idling. He’s taking it.
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The Bulwark
1 day ago
Iran may not be our Iraq war, so much as Russia's Ukraine war
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Trump Is Repeating Putin’s Blunder
Both men thought they could start easy, quick regime-change wars at minimal cost.
https://lnk.thebulwark.com/4s2dLin
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The Bulwark
1 day ago
What Trump should have called the Iran war is Operation Just 'Cause
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The Bulwark
1 day ago
Hegseth: “Today will be yet again the highest volume of strikes that America has put over the skies of Iran and Tehran. The number of sorties, the number of bomber pulses, the highest yet, ramping up and only up.”
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The Bulwark
1 day ago
Hegseth: “War is hell. War is chaos. And as we saw yesterday with the tragic crash of our KC-135 tanker, um, bad things can happen.”
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The Bulwark
1 day ago
Reporter: "Can you please provide some guidance about the strike on the girls' school?" Hegseth: "We're not going to let reporting lead us or force our hand into indicating what happened in a particular situation because the truth matters…The command investigation will take as long as necessary.”
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The Bulwark
1 day ago
Q: “Does an investigation mean the United States did carry out that strike?” Hegseth: “An investigation is an investigation. It doesn't mean anything other than that.”
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The New Yorker
1 day ago
Marimar Martinez was shot five times by a Border Patrol agent. Her lawyer believes that her case should be studied as a “playbook” for D.H.S. violence. “She’s one of the few people who has survived the bullets and can speak out,” he said.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me/j0manC
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The Preschool Teaching Assistant Shot by Border Patrol, Then Called a “Domestic Terrorist”
When Marimar Martinez was shot five times by a Border Patrol agent, the D.H.S. justified it by calling her a “domestic terrorist.” In the aftermath, she’s been trying to recover her reputation and, with it, a sense of reality.
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/j0manC
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The Bulwark
1 day ago
So will the disruption of global oil markets at least push us towards finally investing in green energy? Yeah, probably not. The latest edition of Receipts from @crampell.bsky.social:
lnk.thebulwark.com/4lsgyPC
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How Trump’s Iran War Could Actually Worsen Climate Change
Oh, you thought high oil prices would help the climate fight? Think again.
https://lnk.thebulwark.com/4lsgyPC
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Politico
1 day ago
Hegseth, attacking press, declares victory is near amid ongoing Iran conflict
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Hegseth, attacking press, declares victory is near amid ongoing Iran conflict
The Defense secretary gave little indication on how or when the war would end.
http://dlvr.it/TRT3sS
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Marc Elias
1 day ago
This morning Pete Hegseth said "The sooner David Ellison takes over CNN, the better." Ellison may be able to buy CBS News and CNN. Jeff Bezos can buy the Washington Post. But Democracy Docket is not for sale. Support pro-democracy independent media by signing up now.
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The Bulwark
1 day ago
"The people responsible for planning a war were so out of their depth that they just cold-called Lloyd’s and were like, Uh, hey bro. Could you tell us how to do this? Like, just let us look at your books, okay? OMG." It gets worse:
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Trump’s Huge, Complete, Very Strong Victory Over Iran Is Getting Costly
If this is #winning, what would losing look like?
https://lnk.thebulwark.com/3P3KZiY
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The Bulwark
1 day ago
This week, we’ve got a wild one. It’s a story that involves a fake 15-year-old, some age-inappropriately steamy text messages, and one of the right’s most hateful figures. You can only read it here. The latest edition of False Flag from @willsommer.bsky.social:
lnk.thebulwark.com/4sj5eYD
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How a Catch-a-Predator Sting Nabbed a Right-Wing Hatemonger
Was Jake Lang evaluating a teenage girl for a bikinis-and-burkas protest? Or was something more lecherous at play?
https://lnk.thebulwark.com/4sj5eYD
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reposted by
Chris Hayes
2 days ago
Omg they’re going w “high oil prices are good, actually.” God bless ‘em.
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Seth D. Michaels
2 days ago
"This seems to have been the modal view of the American political, financial, and media establishments: When Trump took over, 'smart' money was on him being something like ‘a good president who writes mean tweets.'"
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Politico
2 days ago
Iran war is the largest oil supply disruption in history, report finds
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Iran war is the largest oil supply disruption in history, report finds
President Donald Trump on Thursday seemingly dismissed the market disruptions having a dramatic impact on the U.S. economy.
http://dlvr.it/TRS0D6
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Marc Elias
2 days ago
Here is what the Democracy Docket team is tracking today: Active Voting Rights Cases: 167 Active Redistricting Cases: 50 Active Anti-Voting Cases: 91 Active Pro-Voting Cases: 73 Active DOJ Lawsuits: 32 Support their work by subscribing today.
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Chris Murphy
2 days ago
They either didn't know Iran would shut down the Strait of Hormuz or they knew and didn't have a plan. Either way - just totally clear they don't give a damn about what this war means for hardworking Americans.
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The Bulwark
2 days ago
Markwayne Mullin might want you to forget some of the stuff he's said, but he isn't recanting them, either. ICYMI, @adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social with @jaredpoland.bsky.social in the latest edition of Huddled Masses:
lnk.thebulwark.com/40qzg0o
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Markwayne Mullin: Meet the New Boss, Same as the Noem Boss
The Oklahoma senator tapped to be the new DHS chief is more of the same.
https://lnk.thebulwark.com/40qzg0o
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The New Yorker
2 days ago
The Trump Administration is waging war on universities by suspending their funds. N.I.H. grants to universities are down by more than 90 per cent in the current fiscal year; so far in 2026, the National Cancer Institute hasn’t made a single grant.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me/oxA7Ey
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The Unmaking of the American University
For decades, research universities have relied on federal funding, with no guarantee that it will last. Now their survival may depend on compliance with the government.
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/oxA7Ey
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Marc Elias
2 days ago
NEW EPISODE: I sit down with Tim Miller of The Bulwark. We discussed defending democracy against Trump's authoritarian project. Tim pulls no punches on what he's witnessed from inside the Republican Party — and why so many elites are choosing to stay silent
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHcA...
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Republicans Know Trump Will Destroy Democracy — And Don't Care | Tim Miller
YouTube video by Democracy Docket
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHcATotdM-U
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The Bulwark
2 days ago
"We have seen industrial-scale government corruption unlike anything in our nation’s history. And here’s the thing: The public has basically accepted it. So why would any future administration act differently?"
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Dire Straits: The Iran War Is Run by Idiots
Also: Americans don't care about process. So they will get corruption.
https://lnk.thebulwark.com/4dg8Ju8
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The Bulwark
2 days ago
Sen. Slotkin: “There's press reports that the Russians are helping target US ships and aircraft…If Russia is helping kill U.S. forces, we have crossed a Rubicon…We have to take decisive action on that, and instead, we're giving them breaks on oil.”
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Democracy Docket
2 days ago
What do Fulton and Maricopa County have in common? They’re both facing FBI probes based on conspiracies that could open a Pandora's box of litigation challenging the results of the 2020 election What’s worse? These investigations could empower the GOP to challenge the 2026 midterm results.
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Behind the FBI’s Maricopa County probe: A debunked ‘audit’ funded by election deniers
The chaotic audit reaffirmed former President Joe Biden's victory in Arizona.
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/fbi-maricopa-county-audit-trump-election-conspiracies/
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