Entire Team of Oil and Gas Experts Got DOGE’d Before Iran War. A total of 1,300 were laid off from DOS. The people fired were responsible for planning scenarios if the strait was ever closed, and others had professional relationships with oil and gas companies in the Middle East.

The SAVE Act does one thing: make voting harder. More paperwork, more costs, and more people wrongly kicked off the rolls. This is not election integrity — it's voter suppression. That's why I'm a NO.

US foreign policy for sale? 🧐 www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/b...

"We kept our main counterterrorism guy out of the loop when starting a war with Iran, an adversary known for compensating for its lack of conventional military power with militia proxies and terrorist cells." Brilliant.

The White House’s defense is they left in a position of senior authority someone they now claim was a “known leaker”, who had been cut off from various accesses, and who they had ordered to be fired? And they left him in place with all kinds of access to sensitive classified information?

Everyone stfu the Sixth Circuit issued *gigantic* AI sanctions storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The USS Gerald R Ford is heading to Crete for repairs after a large fire on board last week.

Court: "Are you here for moral support? Because you're not going to speak." Off to a great start!

ok so they're gonna siege kharg and iran responds by flattening abqaiq and wti hits $200/bbl, then what is plan

OMG - this thread is incredible 👀

The buried lede here is that the Times got the transcript 😈 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Ope well the judge sure remembers! I wonder if an AUSA has ever been thrown out of court before.

My scream into the void about US mine countermeasures capability is out. www.fpri.org/article/2026...

Hey Navy friends; is 30 hours a significant time to get a fire extinguished in a dryer vent on an aircraft carrier? I know fires aboard ship are something extensively trained for. www.wtkr.com/news/in-the-...

RAPIDAN still sees 70% odds the Houthis get involved — and disrupt Red Sea bypass routes. 👀

For the Baltimore people familiar with Kim Klacik...her and Candace Owens are Going At It online right now.

“I always thought my counterterrorism guy was weak on security, which is why I appointed him and left him in office until he resigned.”

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

💢 NEW: Iran has allowed at least 4 vessels to transit the Strait of Hormuz in the past 24 hours but routed them through the Larak–Qeshm channel inside Iranian territorial waters, rather than the usual internat'l shipping lanes, according to MarineTraffic. The ships included 3 bulk carriers (two...

the emerging, precarious equilibrium in the Straight of Hormuz is pretty much precisely the single outcome that decades of US military and foreign policy in the Middle East sought to prevent sherwood.news/markets/iran...

The Strait of Hormuz is open for transit.

God the name of this "gut all subsidies and tax breaks for alternative energy" EO gets funnier by the minute

So the quarterly "unity day" at my son's school, where they encourage everyone to wear orange, coincides with St. Patrick's Day today. So it should be an interesting mix of orange and green today. 🤔

The Trump Administration has lost Joe Kent? 👀

National Counterterrorism Center Director Joe Kent resigned effective 15 minutes ago, citing the decision to attack Iran as the reason.

NEWS: Six months before the Trump admin began bombing Iran, the Department of State fired its oil and gas experts. State’s energy division got completely DOGE’d. And with it went the people who knew how to plan for a global energy crisis.

Welp

its so funny that trump is just a nimby for hardcore offshore wind for literally no reason. he just wakes up every morning in a fit of rage about wind turbines.

Trump wants to pay a foreign company a billion dollars to NOT bring us green energy.

This better be in quick 10 second TikTok ads by the end of the day.

I somehow had until now overlooked this confluence of events 👀

march 17 chicago election day is coming; march 17 chicago ginormous drinking day is coming; this is fine

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NEW: A federal judge in Colorado has ruled the Trump administration's threat to SNAP (food stamps) benefits in Colorado is illegal and rooted in retribution for keeping Tina Peters in prison.

What a paragraph. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Happy St. Patrick's day! youtu.be/WSYdLnc4p_c?...

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Our government is run by extremely serious and sober people.

Ilan Goldenberg's analysis posted on Twitter strikes me as correct on every point, particularly point 12: namely, Russia is the only clear-cut beneficiary of nearly every tactical choice that Trump has made. That cannot be seen as coincidental at this point.

Gunboat imperialism? Mercantilist coercion? Not sure what the best description is, but it's clearly a diminution of America's role in the world. We're being led by an administration that fundamentally doesn't appear to believe we're supposed to be the good guys. 👀

NEW: The Trump administration is seeking to oust the president of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, in its talks with Cuban political leaders. It plans to allow the Castro family to keep power if they agree to economic changes, creating a client state for the US. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/w...

Multiple Iranian sources including their Foreign Minster stating that the Trump admin is planting false stories to Axios reporters Barak Ravid and Marc Caputo about peace talks in order to manipulate oil and financial markets.

This is a performative war of macho posturing by third rate figures who mistake the audience of social media and right wing cable TV for the gravitas (?) of diplomacy and foreign policy. It would be comic if it was not so painfully tragic.

For comparison, the Bush administration assembled a coalition of nearly 50 countries to liberate Iraq. After receiving explicit Congressional authorization to do so.

It’s too bad we gutted the State Department and the National Security Council is just Marco Rubio running from one seat to another around an empty Situation Room conference table, talking to himself

Here’s my plea to the national security press: don’t report what he announces at face value. You’ve been suckered over and over to cover his fake trade deals and ceasefire “announcements” like they are real. He’s desperate to look like he’s got a plan. Make sure it’s not fake.

Why Trump has his sights on Iran's Kharg Island — and what it means for the oil market www.cnbc.com/2026/03/16/t...

The President's party controls both chambers of Congress. If he wants tariff authority he should ask them to pass legislation providing it. Constitutionally, it's Congress's authority not the President's.

“The court knew how badly I wanted this” is insane