A Noem aide spent $3 million on pickup trucks emblazoned with the ICE name and logo, which ICE agents—notoriously averse to advertising their presence—will not drive, so they're just sitting in a lot, useless. The contract went to a Trump donor who owns a regional Chevy dealership.

The polling for Israel is Jewish Israelis only, apparently because non-Jewish Israelis just don't count.

Trump's decision to bomb Iran is now the greatest windfall to the Russian war effort on record. If it continues, it might save the Russian war economy.

Top Trump officials rush to purchase nuclear war-proof bunkers after Iran attack: report

The Discourse has become sort of numb to the fact that the richest guy on earth and owner of a major social media platform just routinely spits out the kind of nakedly white supremacist shit that until a decade ago you rarely saw outside of places like Stormfront.

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FEDWATCH: “.. energy, food, airlines, and transport, and related insurance components in CPI and PPI (.. around 25% to 30% of the entire index) are going to get ‘hit hard’ .. potentially pushing headline CPI above 4 percent by April and May. .. a serious complication for Fed policy.”

Life imitates art today. @newyorker.com

#Iran Red Crescent: US and #Israel airstrikes have damaged 6,600+ civilian structures Destruction includes 5,535 residential units; 1,041 commercial buildings; 65 schools; 14 medical centers; and 13 Red Crescent facilities #IranWar

The death of late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein must be re-investigated in the wake of a "troubling" new report, according to a congressman over the weekend.

A WSJ investigation tracked the US citizens caught in the crosshairs of an aggressive government campaign to detain and demonize dissenters, with claims that are invariably false but have reached 380 million views. www.wsj.com/us-news/immi...

Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.

Important piece of history to the modern redistricting wars: Democrats spent a decade trying to ban partisan gerrymandering and were told each time to pound sand. This language in a 2021-2022 bill had the support of 50 out of 50 Senate Democrats — and 0 Republicans. Rs killed it.

A Saturday scoop from @schuylermitchell.bsky.social: Previously unreported documents show that DHS wants to build a tool that would track personal travel data, including passenger names and their itineraries. Last year, a similar program was shuttered over public outcry.

President Trump is dangerously close to sending troops to Iran than people realize, sources tell Zeteo. @swin24.bsky.social and @premthakker.bsky.social report how US officials are urging the president ‘to go bigger,’ rather than ending this dangerous and illegal war. 🔗: zeteo.com/p/trump-send...

Thinking back: zeteo.com/p/trump-ice-...

Trump now blocking terror threat warnings because it makes him look bad. “They don’t want anything getting out that says what they’re doing in Iran is raising the threat level at home.” www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

So according to the WSJ a US Senator conspired with another country to manipulate the US into starting a war, am I getting this right

Wrote with @swin24.bsky.social about how the White House is posting fascist memes about GTA and Call of Duty to make themselves laugh about their war as it threatens to blow up the global economy zeteo.com/p/trump-iran...

"I didn't see a single building standing the entire time I was in Gaza. I didn't see one building intact or standing. Everything was flattened. And when I mean flattened, it was hard to even tell that they were buildings there before." www.instagram.com/reels/DVMK-u...

It’s about time someone said it out loud on a national news show. Major Gen. Paul Eaton (ret.) — on Trump’s interest in putting boots on the ground: “We have a situation where someone called a malignant narcissist is unfortunately drifting into a state of dementia that is difficult to manage.”

Hegseth keeps saying we are untouchable and invincible and we have total dominance so I don’t know how this could happen.

Barry Blitt, War-a-Lago

What MAGA sees vs. what the rest of the world sees

Florida Legislature is enabling the governor to label certain groups as terrorists, so college students who "promote" those organizations could be expelled. Investigators' determinations could be kept secret if they are “critical to state or national security.” www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

So Iran now has, perhaps for the first time, information about the location of our most sensitive covert sites in the region. A completely foreseeable, unnecessary consequence of unnecessary war with Iran.

"This isn't a border checkpoint. This is your neighborhood. ICE is now running facial recognition on phones — stopping people on the street, scanning faces in real time. What happens when the algorithm is wrong?"

She has a point. But the fact that the Secretary of War has a Crusader cross tattooed on his chest does lend a certain credibility to the story . . . bsky.app/profile/sara...

GOLDMAN: “.. Based on these new data, developments and the size of the shock, we now think that oil prices would likely exceed $100 next week if no signs of solutions [for the Strait of Hormuz] emerge by then ..” ⛽️ Via @javierblas.bsky.social

So much winning . . . bsky.app/profile/barc... bsky.app/profile/jaso... bsky.app/profile/fina...

@jeva.bsky.social reports that, amid the DHS shutdown, "the Federal Emergency Management Agency has suspended all of its training and education programs for emergency managers across the country — except for those 'directly supporting the 2026 FIFA World Cup.'"

ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there. They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.

NYT analysis “suggests” an 🇺🇸 strike hit the school and killed the kids. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/w...

Republicans used to say "judeo-christian" in situations like this, to try to soften the antisemitism. they don't bother any more.

US crude prices soared above $80 per barrel on Thursday as the US-Israeli war with Iran continued to disrupt shipping and supplies from the Middle East. ft.trib.al/52ChZYN

GOLDMAN: “.. The broader concern is that rising energy prices could deanchor inflation expectations and, in turn, put upward pressure on inflation beyond the direct energy price impacts.” (via Schwab)

Remind me: when you bomb an elementary school, lure the survivors into a false sense of safety, and then bomb the survivors, leaving behind dozens and dozens of dead school children... are you the good guys?

AIPAC has poured $15M in the past month into primaries in four deep-blue Illinois House districts (IL-09, IL-08, IL-07, IL-02)—not counting its spending in the Senate race to boost Raja Krishnamoorthi. Election Day is still 2 weeks away. This level of outside money is warping our democracy.

It’ll still be the Stephen miller DHS, who cares who the sock puppet is

The Pentagon is spending $1,000,000,000/day to distract you from Donald Trump's alleged pedophilia.

The meat industry is one of many sectors across our economy where extreme, unchecked consolidation has concentrated power, made a few actors a lot of money, and driven up prices for the rest of us. Breaking up Big Ag is a step toward more competition, fairer markets, and lower costs for families.

More lies on ICE. They did not do the promised draw down from Minnesota, but they have a reputation for constant lying that they have to maintain www.startribune.com/close-to-650...

PAULSEN: ".. 90% of private sector real GDP is only growing at 1% while U.S. job creation has flatlined. Technology may be the tail wagging the dog, but the rest is a recession by any other name!"

Trump is totally irresponsible and reckless with lives and taxpayer dollars. If that wasn't clear before, Trump's war removes any doubt cepr.net/publications...

I oversaw counterterrorism at DHS for two years in the first Trump administration. I’ve never seen DHS less prepared to defend the U.S. against a terrorist attack. And Trump took us to war five days ago — with a country that is hellbent on retaliating.

At least 1,097 civilians had been killed in Iran so far, including 181 children.

This was about 7 hours of speakers saying we need to be nicer to billionaires