FCC Chair Brendan Carr threatens broadcast licenses over Iran War coverage

BREAKING: Court orders Trump admin to provide Kennedy Center closure & renovation docs to trustee & our client @repbeatty.bsky.social bef. Mon. Board meeting--& allow her participation Big win for @democracydefendersaction.org & WLG. PI briefing to follow to STOP shut down & demolition!

Judge Boasberg's opinion quashing subpoenas to Fed Reserve chair Jerome Powell: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

It will take at least a decade if not more to recover from the degradation of core state governance functions by this administration.

I love the idea that *this* US government, which has been nabbing landscapers and five year olds knows where Iranian sleeper cells are but just hasn’t gotten around to doing anything about it yet.

4th qtr GDP revised down to 0.7 % growth, Jan inflation 3.1% www.cnbc.com/2026/03/13/f...

"Economic growth was slower at the end of 2025 than data first showed and inflationary pressures persisted at the start of this year, a troubling snapshot of an economy on unsteady footing before war with Iran upended oil and financial markets." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/b...

Here's a new one: ICE detained a man in Utah who had been arrested for a suspected drug sale ... that turned out to be dried pinto beans. Utah case was dropped but the man, who arrived in US as a minor and has deferred action, was transfered to ICE. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The House of Commons tried to exclude the children of aliens born in the realm from being counted as English, about three decades before Calvin's Case, in 1580. The bill failed in the Lords.

US media sources are not fully covering or capturing the full scale of the global crisis we are facing, and social media silos have tens of millions sitting at home thinking everything is fine while the world is on fire.

NEW: A bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced a bill requiring warrants for FBI searches of Americans' communications under FISA, aligning federal law w/ a 2025 ruling that found the practice unconstitutional. It would also ban the government from buying Americans' private data from data brokers.

Senator John Cornyn, Groveling for Trump’s Endorsement in His Texas Runoff Against Ken Paxton, Flips Positions on Blowing Up the Filibuster to Pass the SAVE Act electionlawblog.org?p=154798

The New York Times published an extraordinary study of the role of billionaires in politics earlier this week, that naturally got lost in everything that is going on, including in Iran. Here is a gift link to the article, and a few select quotes: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/u...

Corporate Contributions to Super PACs Have Exploded, with Top Ten Contributions Reaching $178 Million in 2024 (Most from Crypto-Related Companies) electionlawblog.org?p=154802

The FIFA Peace Prize will now be renamed the FIFA War Prize.

This is the third government shutdown since Trump took office. TSA agents are unpaid, some sleeping in their cars, while his war is torching about $1 billion a day. ICE detention is still draining around $10 million a day to run centers where people are disappearing into a broken system.

This is arguably the most catastrophic first year of a presidential term in memory and still have 3 years left.

the way it seems right now, irans goal is to destroy our economy and our goal is to provide footage for dank memes the administration can post so edgelords will think theyre cool

Texas excluded about two dozen Islamic schools from its $1 billion voucher program for being linked to the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a Muslim civil rights group. The group does not appear on federal lists of foreign terrorist organizations. https://wapo.st/40m11qX

"The war... has caused the “the largest supply disruption in the history of the global oil market,” the International Energy Agency said on Thursday... www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/w... (Gift link)

This administration has plunged the world into war and a global economic catastrophe.

"Iraq and Oman closed oil terminals..Thursday after two tankers were attacked and left burning off Iraq’s coast, as the International Energy Agency warned.. the war in the Middle East had caused “the largest supply disruption in the history of the global oil market.” www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...

Ladies and gentlemen, the unitary executive

The second Trump administration looked at the massive global economic disruptions caused by the pandemic, and then proceeded to needlessly wreak havoc with a war of choice that threatens new catastrophic economic disruption.

Instead of spending trillions on defense and wars over the past 25 years, we could have had universal health care, improved education and child care, and food and housing subsidies to address precarity for millions.

Imagine a world where we were not totally dependent on oil.

Somehow this administration found a way to top the first adminisitration's disastrous response to the pandemic.

Federal appeals court sides with Trump admin - orders end to SAVE plan used by millions of student loan borrowers. www.cnbc.com/2026/03/10/s...

Breaking: Ohio State president resigns. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/u...

We now have to provide evidence during our yearly reviews both that we (a) do not "indoctrinate" students with our lefty ideology, and (b) that we have presented them with sufficiently diverse (read: conservative) viewpoints (even if you're teaching like logic or cell biology)

With Texas and Florida taking up the lion's share of attention, I think people might be sleeping on just how oppressive the situation for public higher education is in Indiana right now

“We probably have some skills that we now need to hire back, quite frankly,” Scott Kupor, the head of the OPM said... “There’s no question anytime you do restructurings … sometimes you over-restructure, sometimes you under-restructure.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

The U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office. A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies. Read more: https://scim.ag/4boPkq8

Update: Sarah Afzul, the woman's sister, told me that Naqvi has been released from a detention facility in Wisconsin, where she was transferred overnight and they've been reunited with her

"The video...shows a Tomahawk cruise missile striking a naval base beside the school in the town of Minab on Feb. 28. The U.S. military is the only force involved in the conflict that uses Tomahawk missiles." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/w...

Dow Jones Futures down almost 1000 points, NASDAQ futures down almost 600. www.cnbc.com/2026/03/08/s...

BREAKING: the 52.0c/gal weekly rise in the national average price of gasoline is now the fifth largest ever recorded by GasBuddy data going back to 2000.

This video shows real smoke over Tehran from Israeli strikes on oil depots & fuel facilities last night—confirmed by NYT, AP, Al Jazeera, Times of Israel. Black clouds from burning hydrocarbons—not normal sunrise.

WASHINGTON (AP) - Employers unexpectedly cut 92,000 jobs last month and unemployment edges up to 4.4% with labor market under pressure.

Dear Russia, Iran's fire is making oil prices spike. Spiking oil prices makes economic problems for us, so we're making it easier for you to sell more oil. In sum, Iranian military success against us reduces economic pressure on you. Just, you know, FYI. Sincerely, The geniuses leading America

The war is going to plunge us into a global recession/depression.

LA Times - As the deadline approaches to file to run for office, veteran Republican Rep. Darrell Issa has decided not to run for reelection in his newly-configured congressional district in San Diego and Riverside counties. www.latimes.com/california/st...

There have been some very bad developments today.

Virginia moves to forbid schools from teaching that Jan. 6 was peaceful www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

BREAKING NYT: Lindsey Halligan, the ex-U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia who brought criminal cases against Trump's enemies over the objections of career prosecutors, is under investigation by Florida's bar association, according to a letter the organization sent last month.

Noem is out www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...

And just like that, Kristi is Noem more. Trump just fired her!😂

So far the war in Iran has cost an estimated $5.5 billion. That's roughly $1 billion per day. $41,666,667 per hour. $11,574 per second. People do not want this. They want a living wage. They want healthcare. They want to be able to afford a home. They want their basic needs met.

Susan Collins voted to continue the war in Iran. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/u...

An ICE detainee in Arizona has died of a TOOTH INFECTION after it went untreated for weeks, a local official says. He was a Haitian asylum seeker imprisoned in Florence, Arizona. @emilybregel.bsky.social reports. tucson.com/news/local/b...