✋ Former USG war crimes lawyer here. Apropos of SecDef's remarks this morning: Denial of quarter—even the declaration of no quarter—is a war crime. And recognized as such by the US Government. From DoD's Manual for Military Commissions.

Hegseth: "We will keep pushing, keep advancing. No quarter, no mercy for our enemies." No quarter is the refusal to take prisoners and instead just execute everyone. It's been considered a war crime for over a century.

This is a good lesson for journalists: Use plain language to state true things clearly.

Let there be as much outrage from politicians in Washington when kids go hungry as there is when I break bread with New Yorkers.

Putin is already supplying intelligence to Iran to help them target US bases and service members in the Gulf region. Now that Trump has announced that the US will suspend sanctions on Russian oil for as long as the Strait of Hormuz is closed, look for Putin to help Iran keep it blocked. Idiocy.

When a federal judge (finally) put ICE officers under oath, they admitted that they are given daily detention quotas and rely heavily on a Palantir-supplied AI tool to select targets, without warrants and without enough evidence to obtain one. They simply go into neighborhoods and round people up.

Search-and-rescue crews were “flying blind” trying to rescue survivors from deadly tornadoes that hit the Midwest last week. Why? Because Kristi Noem hadn't approved FEMA’s $200,000 contract with a tornado-tracking tool. But she had time to spend $220 million on anti-immigrant ads. Priorities.

The government can legally scoop up and read Americans' emails and texts, track everywhere they go, and feed huge amounts of data into AI without court oversight. Next month, Congress will have a chance to rein it all in. I'm leading a bipartisan bill to restore real privacy.

“Fire sale” of the govt’s best institutions. Unfortunately, willful ignorance isn’t a strategy to face the climate crisis nor figure out how to face the next wildfire, the next storm. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/c...

So if anybody -- state attorneys general, Democratic politicians, sentient beings -- doesn't understand why Paramount Skydance's takeover of Warner Bros./CNN is a huge problem, Pete Hegseth is here to explain it to you. Stop the propaganda. Block this merger.

EXCLUSIVE: Military leaders warned Hegseth not to gut the offices that limit risk to civilians. He ignored them. The decision faces renewed attention as the Pentagon investigates a strike on an Iranian girls’ school that killed hundreds of children.

People: We want savings, clean energy, and some control over our lives in a society pushed to chaos by federal cruelty and ineptitude. For-profit, monopoly utilities: No... because... reasons!

This just in: Sun agrees to release infinity million barrels of sunshine every morning

Once again, the question is raised: How can democracy function if public officials can’t distinguish between genuine input from human constituents vs fakes by AI astroturf bots? Sample of 10 people contacted who -supposedly- submitted emails. All of them denied having anything to do with it.

Gas prices could keep rising. Flights could get pricier. And inflation could tick up. Here are the first economic effects American consumers are likely to feel from the war in Iran.

Trump has raked in at least $30 million…from his own cabinet. 20 members have funneled millions right into Trump’s pockets through political donations, visits to his properties, stock holdings in his companies, and other donations. The grift never ends.

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we remain firmly on track for 'republican president leaves the country an omnishambles, next democratic president is punished for not cleaning it up fast enough'

In Oregon, utility rates for more than 1.4M customers have jumped about 50% since 2020. Our updated building code responds by encouraging more efficient heating & cooling systems in new homes, lowering long-term energy use and beginning with lower bills on day one. @CanaryMediaInc

The official NOAA stats out this week confirm that winter 2025-26 was the warmest on record across a huge portion of the western and central U.S., which has contributed to extremely low mountain snowpack & worsened the CO River crisis. Meanwhile, record March heat is in forecast.

MAGA Voter Claims She Loves High Gas Prices https://theonion.com/maga-voter-claims-she-loves-high-gas-prices/

I just left another briefing on Iran. Here's the only part of Trump's plan that is clear to me: He won't spare a cent for the 15 million Americans who will lose their health care, but he'll spend a billion dollars a day bombing Iran.

The "price of gas."

When this North Carolina food bank installed rooftop solar, its neighbors noticed. Now, a nearby Goodwill headquarters is building its own array.

During his confirmation hearing, I pressed Rudd on the NSA's sprawling surveillance powers and whether he would spy on Americans. During that questioning, he showed no understanding of the Fourth Amendment and the basic constitutional right to privacy of every American.

This week the Senate is going to vote on Joshua Rudd to be Director of the NSA. He's a dangerous nominee to lead an agency with a history of abusing domestic surveillance capabilities. Here's why:

don't think you have to Nostradamus to figure that bombing Iran might raise oil prices. And it seems pretty obvious that buying oil in advance of causing an oil price spike might just save Americans a lot of money. But... ...maybe there wasn't much planning? -Justin Wolfers Economist

❄️“Sub-zero temperatures don’t pose a problem for heat pumps.” ⛄ Modern, all-electric systems are already operating in colder climates, including regions where winter temperatures regularly drop below -22°F.

Best piece I’ve seen yet on the FBI targeting activists with Extinction Rebellion and Climate Defiance insideclimatenews.org/news/0803202... @insideclimatenews.org by Nicholas Kusnetz

Documents reveal a web of financial ties between Trump officials and the industries they help regulate: ProPublica is releasing a trove of disclosure records that detail the finances of more than 1,500 Trump appointees who declined to identify former clients.

“Montana Republican Tim Sheehy voted to scrap solar tax credits after installing panels and battery storage at his Bozeman home.” www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

CNN’s Frederik Pleitgen says black, oil-contaminated rain is falling over Tehran after strikes on oil facilities by U.S./Israeli airstrikes.

Fun (???????) thought experiment: What if the federal government made gas really expensive while also doing everything possible to stop renewable energy projects?

Newly released footage shows an ICE agent killing Rubin Ray Martinez, 23, in his car in Texas. "He was shot at point-blank range through his side window by an ICE agent who was in no danger." www.bbc.com/news/article...

Geopolitical turmoil in the Middle East once again shows that reliance on volatile oil and gas exposes economies to price shocks. Renewables, electrification and storage offer more stable long term energy costs and stronger energy security.

It's hard times for the digital media-sphere.

BREAKING: Judge bars feds from using tear gas that could seep into nearby Gray’s Landing apartments in Portland unless there’s an imminent threat to life @oregonian.com www.oregonlive.com/crime/2026/0...

I've been waiting for this take... the US auto industry is once again a wobbly domino, just waiting for the emerging energy shock to send it into yet another terminal tailspin

Bernard LaFayette, the advance man who did the risky groundwork for the voter registration campaign in Selma, Alabama, that culminated in the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, has died.

BREAKING: The Justice Department just posted online three FBI interviews that had been missing from the massive trove of Epstein files initially released. They're related to unsubstantiated sexual assault allegations against Donald Trump. DOC 1: www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

We're delivering affordability and resilience one step at a time.

The California Heat Pump Partnership launched Wall Whisperer, a groundbreaking, statewide marketing campaign designed to rapidly accelerate heat pump adoption across California and help advance the goal of 6 million installations by 2030. bit.ly/4blAmAC #EnergySky #WallWhispererCA #HeatPumpHype

The senior clerics responsible for selecting Iran’s next supreme leader met on Tuesday to deliberate, and the son of the slain former leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, emerged as the clear front-runner, according to Iranian officials familiar with the deliberations.

President Trump’s whipsawing trade policy last year destabilized many American businesses. His new push to replace the system with a different batch of duties has bewildered companies all over again.

Our nation is again at war, not because we had to but because the president recklessly chose to. Now we must recognize who pays the price: not the president and his wealthy allies, but service members and ordinary Americans.

Today the paperback of THERE IS NO PLACE FOR US is out. It's arriving in a country once again waging war—a country that can spend tens of billions on bombs without blinking, while millions of Americans are one missed paycheck, one rent hike away from homelessness. Let's take stock of where we are.

"EV batteries are holding up phenomenally well." The haters lose another false talking point. And don't forget: no transmission service, no oil changes, no timing belt, no fuel pump ... and no spike in fuel prices when tiny presidents decide to bomb oil rich nations.

The Republicans seem to be prepping an argument that any domestic terror attacks in the aftermath of their Iran attacks will be the fault of Democrats for shutting down DHS funding, so I'd like to remind everyone of this appointment:

Remember that Donald Trump, Jr. is involved with both Polymarket & Kalshi — and the Trumps’ social media company is launching its own prediction market. Meanwhile, Trump’s regulators have announced they will fight any state that attempts to regulate prediction markets. Always follow the money.

NEWS: I secured $3,000,000 in federal funding for Cherriots to make public transportation in #Salem even more safe, accessible, and dependable.