Last year, Virginia Dems and Dem candidates vowed to make progress on affordability if they won a majority in the state House. After winning a trifecta in the state, they’re making it happen. When Dems are in power in the states, they deliver on their promises.

“This is not a war that has been thought through at all.” — Bernard Haykel, professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton This interview is very much worth your time. (And that’s a gift link ⤵️) www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

A report by the National Intelligence Council completed before the US and Israel launched attacks on Iran assessed that even a large-scale military assault on the country would be unlikely to topple its theocratic government. @julianbarnes.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/w...

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...

The 17-page executive order Peter Ticktin is lobbying Trump to sign would completely upend how Americans vote and have their ballots counted in an unprecedented attempt to usurp powers that the Constitution gives to states and Congress.

Big Moose Walker with a little help from Freddie Roulette on the steel guitar. (Note to self: it is time to bulk up your Freddie Roulette collection) One of several ultra-obscure singles by Moose and Lefty Dizz collected on their Bad Avenue album along with live sets. youtube.com/watch?v=Q7Jj...

White House: the witness’s allegations are “completely baseless” and “backed by zero credible evidence.” Fact: FBI found her credible enough to interview repeatedly, and she received a financial settlement from the Epstein estate.

License plate readers. Cellphone location data. Social media monitoring. Now, real-time facial recognition on the street. DHS is building a surveillance apparatus—and you're probably already in it. Our latest with @france24.com:

Trump: "I guess it would be illegal. Could you imagine? They spend millions and millions on a campaign. They're losing and they beg me for an endorsement. I give it, they win by 30 points. And I get nothing. If I could sell that -- is there a way? Is there a way I can get paid for that, Marco?"

Trump's psychotic, murderous post: "Iran is being beat to HELL … They said, 'Thank you President Trump.' I said, 'You’re welcome!' ... Today Iran will be hit very hard! Under serious consideration for destruction & certain death are groups of people not considered for targeting until this moment"

What in the world...? nypost.com/2026/03/07/u...

Years after Congress ordered a plaque to honor the police defending the Capitol on Jan. 6, it was finally installed — at 4 am this morning. @oliviacgeorge.bsky.social was there. Read her eloquent, somber scoop. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Long past time. Long-delayed Jan. 6 plaque honoring police quietly erected overnight at Capitol

Impossible to watch without tears❤️‍🩹. ‘I’ve been through so much. I .. endured ‘ this Ukrainian defender says with voice breaking . ‘ ‘how are my little ones?’ He asks with tenderness , and then, talking to his kids . ‘I missed you so much . I prayed for you everyday that you would be okay ‘.

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TODAY. Take Back our Science Rally. Don't take this administration's assault on science sitting down. Get to a rally: fight2win.standupforscience.... #StandUpForScience #March7 #Rally #science #savescience

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A classified U.S. report doubts that Iran’s opposition would take power following either a short or extended U.S. military campaign

“The White House did not deny blocking the terror bulletin”: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Imagine being a US service member - or a member of a military family - in harm’s way right now thanks to Trump, and watching him refuse to answer a reporter's question about Russia helping Iran kill Americans because they dared to ask during a college sports roundtable on the sixth day of the war.

Trump gets mad when asked Russia and Iran working together to kill US troops because he wants to talk about college sports instead

DOOCY: It sounds like the Russians are helping Iran target and attack Americans-- TRUMP: That's an easy problem compared to what we're doing here. What a stupid question that is to be asking at this time. We're talking about something else.

Today’s weak jobs report raises new questions about Biden’s economic policies

So let me get this straight ... 1. US bombs Iran 2. Oil price goes up a bit, benefitting Russia's petrostate 3. Russia gives Iran targeting info 4. Oil price shoots WAY up 5. US unsanctions Russian oil

So in the same day we got negative data points/price action on: -jobs -oil -private credit -AI capex intentions

I am not trying to do the whole "everything's a distraction" thing, but the DOJ holding onto specific allegations about Trump assaulting a minor and releasing them after a war against Iran has taken center stage is, uh... noteworthy timing.

This confirms what we already knew, but what is not talked about enough. russia, a terrorist state, is directly targeting Europe with acts intended to kill. It is at war with us. This will only intensify, maybe dramatically, until Moscow is completely defeated in Ukraine. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Job growth over 14 months of Trump’s second term: 150,000 jobs The previous 14 months: 1.74 million jobs Under Biden: 0 months of job losses Trump’s second term: losses in two of the last three months, three of the last five months, and five of the last nine months. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

thoughts on stephen miller’s rant about “human rights” youtu.be/3RJ_TWtFcMk?...

Donald Trump is insisting that the United States is secretly evacuating citizens stranded in the Middle East—but multiple reports indicate they have been left on their own. trib.al/IVHRVem

Turns out lawlessness is not a winning strategy. See you at Nuremberg 2.0

FACT: Since 1989, the U.S. economy has added about 51 million jobs. Roughly 50 million of those new jobs were under Democratic presidents. Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The American political class is utterly delusional, adrift in a dream of normality, unable to process the actual reality of events on the ground, where the US just launched a completely unprovoked war against a massive country, murdered its leadership, and demanded its conversion to a vassal state.

In just six days we’ve gone from “Iranians take over your country” to “we’re open to talking with the new leadership of the regime” to “I want to pick the new leader” to now “unconditional surrender”. A “concept of a plan”, indeed. www.bbc.com/news/live/ce...

NEW from me: Ketamine, Prostitution and Money: Here Are The Details of a Secret DEA Probe of Jeffrey Epstein 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Trump: "There will be no deal with Iran except UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER! After that, and the selection of a GREAT & ACCEPTABLE Leader(s), we will work tirelessly to bring Iran back from the brink, making it economically bigger, better, and stronger than ever before. 'MAKE IRAN GREAT AGAIN (MIGA!).'"

DOJ has posted some pages of the missing Epstein files related to the FBI’s belated investigation of Trump’s participation in Epstein crimes after Epstein’s arrest and death in custody in 2019, and they are as bleak as you might expect. www.documentcloud.org/documents/27...

From my essay, "The plan is to have no plan." May 2020. pressthink.org/2020/05/the-...

House Republicans green light Trump Iran war. Via Reuters

Trump to Rubio: "Your next one is gonna be Cuba. He's waiting but he says, 'Let's get this one finished first.' We could do them all at the same time, but bad things happen."

“Forget about next” sayeth the wise man launching a war on a pivotal Middle East country

Trump posts renderings of his White House ballroom. This is his #1 priority.

trump: whoever buys enough of my shit coin is the next leader of Iran.

PAT RYAN: 'Does the US want to be the policeman of the Middle East getting nothing but spending precious lives & trillions.' Rng a bell? COLBY: Defer to you R: That was Trump. How about this - 'we simply cannot afford to get enmeshed in a Middle East war' C: Defer to you R: That was actually you

By the way, this is about as regime change-y as regime change—which we’re totally not doing—gets.

Trying to make sense of an aircraft’s movements during a conflict? Context is everything. That’s why we built Turnstone, an open source tool that searches historical flight data to allow researchers to explore flight patterns over time and in specific locations. www.bellingcat.com/resources/20...

The key question for markets is whether that means the Straits of Hormuz and energy infrastructure in the Gulf will continue to be under threat through September. Because that is NOT priced in right now.

Since receiving presidential pardons, dozens of former Capitol rioters have gotten into more legal trouble. In Florida, Andrew Paul Johnson was sentenced to life in prison for child sex abuse. n.pr/4rUa1zD

By attacking Iran, Trump has degraded Ukraine’s ability to defend itself AND jacked up the price of oil that Putin can sell. Gift link www.wsj.com/world/europe...

war mongering mad libs