Waiting for the administration to say the spike in gas prices isn't actually a big deal because so many Americans are losing their jobs and won't have to drive to work anymore.

Oil up by $12 a barrel in less than 12 hours. Gas prices skyrocketing. Almost 100,000 jobs lost last month. Another war in the Middle East. Are we great again yet?

Saudi led OPEC oil output jump ahead of Iran strikes, Reuters survey finds reut.rs/4li1DYb

Breaking News: The executive director of the National Symphony Orchestra is stepping down, the latest blow to the Kennedy Center as it struggles in the wake of President Trump’s effort to put his imprint on it.

I'm starting to get a sense this part of the equation wasn't planned out or workshopped in advance. "under every rock" lol.

Ukraine has received an official request from the US government to provide such support in the Middle East. The United States and Gulf states are negotiating the purchase of Ukrainian interceptor drones.

Wow. The corruption and self-dealing is boundless — in the billions.

In other words, they’re not going to surrender, much less unconditionally. Trump will just announced that they have, when the mood strikes him.

With Healthcare Fueling U.S. Jobs, More Trouble Ahead Due To Trump Cuts www.forbes.com/sites/brucej...

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RIP to Jesse Jackson. His funeral is today. I wanted to share this clip from his appearance on Sesame Street in 1971. His important words ring just as true today as they did back then.

Senator Markey 🎯

US immigration authorities arrest Spanish-language news reporter in Tennessee apnews.com/article/repo...

Evidence suggests the deadly blast at an Iranian school was likely a US airstrike apnews.com/article/iran...

By kidnapping bank employees and seizing a shipment of gold and cash, Viktor Orbán has resorted to acts of piracy against another European nation. www.wsj.com/world/europe...

No surprises. And remember, this is based on pre-Iran War data.

Seems less than ideal.

I am frankly more concerned about the apathy of the American public and even more importantly the lack of leadership in the Democratic Party. This is not a dress rehearsal. Every single American must speak out against this Facist administration.

Massie on Newsmax: "We're not getting the answers we need from Pam Bondi. I just spent 3 hours at the DOJ this week looking at the unredacted files. And I'm finding evidence of files they haven't released yet." (Note that the Newsmax anchor agrees with him!)

This is a chilling crime. A shame on our country. The Iranian ship was unarmed. The US knew this. The sailors were murdered by our navy, and the survivors were left to die at sea. newrepublic.com/post/207429/...

Wow did something happen in the US in January 2025?

The ridiculous, buffoonish misbehavior of Trump ambassadors across Europe, notably in Iceland, France, Belgium, Denmark and Poland, gets no mention in US media. Max Boot is trying to cure this failing. bsky.app/profile/maxb...

Trump’s Iran War is not going to be ending anytime soon. And calling for a country to surrender unconditionally means it is unarguably a war that requires a declaration of war.

During his second contempt hearing this week, Minnesota’s top federal prosecutor acknowledged “mistakes that have been made.” Federal judges have demanded an explanation for numerous failures by the U.S. government to return property, including IDs and passports, to detainees upon their release.

Someone should create a parody account that just tweets out what Trump would be tweeting if Harris had won and was presiding over this economy and this war.

Kevin Hassett is just trying to gaslight his way through it: "With 4 percent growth this year, which is about what I expect we're gonna see, then there will be so much activity that everybody is gonna be able to find a job that wants one."

CNN's Dana Bash reports on a convo she just had with Trump: "He said there are now five things in this SAVE America Act that he wants the House and Senate to pass. He said, 'No mail in ballots, no men in women's sports, and no transgender operations for youth.' He added those two."

We will bomb and tariff our way to prosperity! bsky.app/profile/atru...

The cover of this week's Economist: War Without Strategy

Trump’s War now providing a massive influx of cash for Iran’s ally Russia so they can continue to bomb civilians in Ukraine while we ask Ukraine for help against Iranian drones. Trump’s foreign policy in a nutshell.

G Elliott Morris: "The takeaway from these numbers is that the new war in Iran is very unpopular...Worst-ever-support-for-war-when-it-started unpopular. With just 38% of Americans in favor, support for bombing Iran is lower than retrospective support for the war in Iraq was in 2014."

All the polls on the U.S. war in Iran so far www.gelliottmorris.com/p/polls-us-i... If you ignore people who say they “don’t know” how they feel about the war, disapproval of Trump’s actions is already at 56%. That is higher than the resistance to Vietnam in 1971.

DoD won't say how much Operation Epic Fury might cost, but one bipartisan think tank is putting the price tag at some $891M a day for the first four days of the attack—or $3.7B total. abcnews.com/Politics/war...

This passage of Cosmos came to mind while I was watching Pete Hegseth strut across the stage at the Pentagon yesterday.

Welcome to Season 1 of "The Ayatollah Apprentice"

Trump is burning through taxpayer dollars on wars just like he burned through his father’s money in the 80s.

Killing people is entertainment to the sociopaths in the White House. Decency demands that we resist this.

“.. National average gasoline price is now up by 10.8% over the past 4 days ... the only other time we've seen a larger increase was in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.” - Schwab ⛽️

The AP says Republicans knew Noem was on her way out and told Democrats that her exit was a concession in negotiations to reopen the DHS. Dems said nah. She’s your problem. They were right. DHS is still shut. www.courant.com/2026/03/05/t...

But hey, Vlad and his consiglieri say we’re gonna make $16 trillion with them in Russia

Oof. Multiple THAAD radar systems have reportedly been destroyed by Iran. That’s bad. I’ve also seen some surprise that Russia is providing Iran with targeting data for US forces, but that was expected. We’ve been providing Ukraine with targeting data for 4 years. www.cnn.com/2026/03/05/m...

As Viktor Orbán heads into the toughest election of his 16-year rule, MAGA heavyweights have moved to bolster the man they regard as their most dependable ideological ally in Europe. 🔗 www.politico.eu/article/can-...

The Trump regime is still hiding Epstein records detailing an allegation that Trump sexually assaulted a girl who was age 13-15. We know these records existed at some point. The law requires their release.

On Tuesday "for the first time since 2002 Democrats outvoted Republicans in Texas." Sharing a new discussion TX Dem Chair @kendallscudder.bsky.social who talks about their big night, @jamestalarico.bsky.social, and what comes next in battleground Texas 👇 www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/for-the-fi...

🔴 Investigation by VSquare reveals Putin's plan to rig Hungarian elections for Orbán.

NEW: Believe it or not, it’s that time of year: the Wisconsin Supreme Court election is next month. Liberals have a huge opportunity: if they win, they can lock down the majority of this court thru 2030. That means they’d have it in the next presidential race, a big democracy guardrail. Share:

A DOJ source says FBI agents found the woman who accused Trump of sexually assaulting her as a child to be credible: "They would not have interviewed her four times if they thought she was lying."

there's a thing I like to call "load-bearing assumptions", that you don't notice until they're suddenly gone (e.g the air you breath has oxygen in it). the post-ww2 order is a load-bearing assumption for basically the entirety of american life. trump took a sledgehammer to it in the last 90 days.