"Xi sees Trump as unwilling to come to Taiwan’s defense... especially if America’s involvement in the Middle East, which has led the U.S. to redirect major military assets away from Asia, continues to distract Washington"

Trump on Iran: "We had an attack. 100 missiles were shot by Iran at a very important thing that we had. I won't tell you what it was for certain reasons. We shot down all missiles."

NASA might have been the coolest organization on planet earth — a real life/larger than life organization that the smartest people in the world respected, kids dreamed their whole life of working for, & even Hollywood couldn’t make larger than it already was. So of course Trump ruined it in a year.

Dreams DO come true: my photo of the ICE teens spread so far divorced of context or credit that Snopes dot com had to write a whole story confirming that I didn't make it with AI. 🥲

The Jetsons lied to us

80% of billionaire political spending goes to one party. Guess which one.

Trump: The Supreme Court cost our country hundreds of billions of dollars. Two of the people that voted for that, I appointed. And they sicken me. They sicken me because they are bad for our country.

Mike Johnson: Tonight we have created a new award. We are going to do something we've never done before. We will honor him with a new award. He is the first ever recipient of the America first award. That is this beautiful golden statue here, appropriate for the golden era.

If you were born in the same year as the film Ghostbusters and Madonna's Like a Virgin, the Army wants you!

NEW: WebinarTV, a company that bills itself as “a search engine for the best webinars,” is secretly scanning the internet for Zoom meeting links, recording the calls, and turning them into AI-generated podcasts for profit. @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social reports:

Trump casts a mail ballot again in Florida even as he calls the method 'cheating'

Just going to re-up this as we see SCOTUS about to mess with mail voting & ICE/no budget causing massive delays at major airports around the country.

Trump: "Look at the way Iran attacked unexpectedly all of those countries surrounding them. That was not supposed to-- nobody was even thinking about it."

It wasn't that long ago this kind of overt endorsement in another country's elections, even if favoring the incumbents, would have been a major diplomatic incident and political scandal. A norm now demolished by the supposed defenders of national sovereignty.

Whee! A crow riding a plastic lid like it’s a snowboard.

Absolutely INSANE twilight aurora just now from my driveway in North Pole, Alaska. Incredible motion and color, one of the best of the season. Watch until the end, wow!

The Superman: The Animated Series pilot's account of Krypton's destruction being attributable to a society offloading all their critical thinking to an artificial intelligence program has aged like wine

“A former Google executive and Great Britain rower has been confirmed as the BBC’s new director-general, The Times can reveal. … The decision to appoint a tech executive with no direct experience of television journalism marks a significant shift for the BBC.”

BASH: Are ICE agents going to move into American airports starting tomorrow? HOMAN: Yes. I'm currently working on the plan. We'll execute tomorrow. BASH: Are ICE agents even remotely trained to handle security at airports? HOMAN: ICE agents receive high-level training.

“The Phoenix Police Department will not discipline any officers for their roles in a massive city scandal where officials invented a fake gang and then falsely charged protesters as members back in 2020”

Evergreen

Bessent on Kharg Island: "We'll see if that eventually becomes a US asset"

Just days ago, Witkoff told us on @cnbc.com that Putin said he WASN'T sharing intel and that we had to "take him at his word."

About 70% of the U.S. economy runs on consumer spending. But as wealth concentrates at the top, the richest 10% can’t spend enough to sustain it — while everyone else can’t afford to. Reminder that trickle-down economics simply doesn’t make sense. It’s a hoax.

That's called a casino.

Japanese PM Sanae Takaichi's reaction as Trump says "Who knows better about surprise than Japan? Why didn't you tell me about Pearl Habour?" Undoubtedly the worst American diplomatic gaffe in post-war US-Japan history.

This just needs the Curb Your Enthusiasm music over it

3/ • Nearly three quarters of the world population (74%, or 6 billion) live in autocracies. • There are now more people living in closed autocracies (28%, or 2.3 billion) than in electoral & liberal democracies combined (26%, or 2.2 billion). • Only 7% (0.6 billion) live in liberal democracies.

A federal arts commission will weigh whether to approve a commemorative 24-karat gold coin featuring Donald Trump today. Democrats and members of another federal committee say the idea is deeply inappropriate and potentially illegal.

Senate committee advances Markwayne Mullin's nomination to lead DHS. 8-7 vote. Rand Paul votes no. John Fetterman votes yes. www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...

Plaintiff's lawyer: Mr. Foreman doesn’t get to wrap himself in the American flag and say [whatever]. He can’t do that. Afroman's lawyer quickly fired back that he can, in fact, do that. His closing statement cited NWA’s “F–k Tha Police” and Richard Pryor’s comedy acts. Osborne earned his pay.

Big iced tea matchup on Friday

According to Senator Wyden, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche is interfering in the Finance Committee’s investigation and appears to be covering-up for this administration. Senator Wyden posted the following yesterday on social media (as reported by Heather Cox Richardson):

Parable about the US relationship to the world outside. For most Americans the threat didn’t rise above the level of a meme, displaced by the next outrage. Danes were preparing to fight and die.

wow! Rand Paul begins Markwayne Mullin's hearing by confronting him about comments he made describing Paul as a "freakin' snake" & "celebrating" Paul getting assaulted "I wonder if someone who applauds political violence is right to lead an agency that has struggled to accept proper use of force"

Sorry what? They won’t deport US citizens is a concession? What the actual F

Hassett: "If the war were to be extended, it wouldn't really disrupt the US economy very much at all. It would hurt consumers, and we'd have to think about what we'd have to do about that, but that's really the last of our concerns right now."

Rep. Pete Sessions: "I believe that what these 2,500 Marines would be is to secure the island. The island is not, in my opinion, boots on the ground in combat circumstances. It's not like inside Iran in the cities."

It had never occurred to me that when the news becomes the sport that people bet on it’s the journalists who take the abuse that players have been getting for years, but it looks like that’s the case

An internal DHS document obtained by 404 Media shows for the first time CBP used location data sourced from the online advertising industry to track phone locations. ICE has bought access to similar tools. www.404media.co/cbp-tapped-i...

DOGE in its entirety was grossly negligent A former DOGE lead, Nathan Cavanaugh, said how he emailed documents to his personal device to then send with Signal during a lawsuit deposition

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Now that he has nearly destroyed the Kennedy Center, doing damage to other DC institutions along the way - the National Symphony, the Washington Opera - Ric Grenell is leaving, perhaps to ruin something else www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/a...

“But, as you see, it's a beautiful day, the Strait of Hormuz is open and people are having a wonderful time!” (Credit to @ScarletCinema on X)

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