Iran now shipping more of its own oil at higher price than before war - and is establishing control of Straits of Hormuz with proposed $2 million per vessel fee that would produce up to $100 billion per year in revenue Trump stupidest war leader in history. www.thestandard.com.hk/world/articl...

The pure documented racism and sexism of this administration is beyond measure.

To sum up- * Result of Fall government shutdown was not a dime restored in health care benefits * Result of recent DHS shutdown is not a single reform of ICE implemented Schumer & Jeffries managed to get NOTHING out of either shutdown. Most incompetent Dem leadership of my lifetime.

As graph shows, FEMA has always been a bipartisan process by every President. But Trump has weaponized disasters to punish people in blue states for the audacity not to vote for him. Truly the most disgusting human being ever to hold the office.

Practically the death rattle for AIPAC in Democratic politics as Jeffries puts his name on this bill. He knows it won't go anywhere but no doubt is feeling uncertain of holding majority of Dems to be elected Speaker if he remains uniformly supporting Israeli mass murder & oppression.

This is important analysis- that Trump is not an individual psychopath but reflecting a broader breakdown in the whole global order, where the postWWII period, despite the individual smaller wars, contained broader conflict. Now all those guardrails are gone.

In a hundred years, this vote will likely be symbol of how debased the Trump regime was, that is left the US nearly alone in refusing to acknowledge the world historical evil of the slave trade. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/w...

No real evidence of noncitizens trying to vote in US elections- but clear evidence from Kansas that the SAFE Act will take the vote away from tens of thousands of legal voters. Just clear Jim Crow disenfranchisement that racists have promoted throughout US history www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/u...

“We need to make this a city where it's affordable enough to yell at your politicians.” This man is a political god at keeping on message and making it hilarious.

In another administration...yada yada...nationwide uproar "Ryan wanted to be more aggressive in pursuing charges for fraud and other misconduct including in cases that touched the president’s circle, but faced resistance from...Republican political appointees." www.cnbc.com/2026/03/23/s...

The systematic failure to investigate Epstein's crimes is the deepest story, an encapsulation of the systematic crimes by the corporate elite that are never prosecuted - or pardoned or pled away even when they are caught.

If winning a war is defining as ability to destroy the infrastructure of a nation through bombing, then the US has won every war - since we have nuclear weapons and can destroy the world. The ability to commit mass war crimes is not victory.

"Even adjusted for inflation, the wealth of the top 0.1% of households has grown more than 13-fold over the past 50 years" Note key clause - adjusted for inflation. This is an insane gain in wealth for the urber wealthy www.wsj.com/economy/weal...

Trump has just become a war crime machine, murdering civilians and destroying peoples lives on multiple continents. All in the name of complete lies told to the American people www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/w...

Good people don't vote to throw children in detention, murder their parents and deport them overseas. They don't vote to cut off health care to millions in the US and cut food and medicine for billions around the world. This statement why Booker, while a nice guy, should never ever be President.

Support for INTERRACIAL MARRIAGE only reached majority support in 1997 The folks who support tossing transgender people and immigrants under the bus are the same Democrats who supported Jim Crow racism in the name of "pragmatic" politics

Budgetary craziness and environmental madness to pay a foreign company nearly a $1 billion to abandon sunk investments in wind farms - and instead use taxpayer money to expand fossil fuel production www.nytimes.com/2026/03/23/c...

Sad thing is Democratic leadership offered to give in on every point - and Trump saved Dem leaders from their own spinelessness by not agreeing to their surrender.

This is fun. Can't let people run around airports with masks so all the ICE agents at airports can now be filmed and recorded for posterity - and future prosecution.

Iran doesn't actually need nuclear weapons to practice mutually assurred destruction. Dense urban environments can be indirectly wiped out through targeting power plants and civilian infrastructure. That's a war crime of course, but Trump opened the door to it through his public threats.

Legacy news like CBS are going to be nonfactors in news coverage pretty soon - as the most interesting correspondents depart for non-oligarch run online news outlets.

Why would anyone in the world travel to the US knowing there are untrained ICE agents at arrival gates looking to arrest random people to meet deportation quotas?

Strong evidence that AA - promoted repeatedly in popular culture and by court mandated programs - is not just a failure but actively harmful to many participants. www.npr.org/2014/03/23/2...

So if TSA remains defunded, ICE agents will be pulled from blue cities to man airports? Seems like a plan until ICE can be completely abolished.

Just pure terrorism. Al Qaeda has nothing on Donald Trump. A country of over 90 people without power to run water systems, food refrigeration, hospitals, and other vital urban infrastructure is a promise of one of the largest mass murders in history.

More on how even mainstream Dems have turned on AIPAC - and Favreau emphasizes core deceit of AIPAC that they don't run ads supporting Israel now, but instead promote bullshit divisive lying attacks around other issues against anti-Israel candidates. It's power via money & deception.

So Palantir was heavily funded by a pedophile, whose top funder was a key associate of Epstein. That Palantir hasn't been nuked from every federal contract just shows core evil of MAGA - compared to the left that nuked every statue and honor for Cesar Chavez within a day of his evelations.

Trump is probably doing more any person in history to ramp up investments in solar power - since he's made clear in multiple ways that depending on fossil fuels is basically turning your sovereignty over to the whims of insane US Presidents.

So let me get this straight. The big outcomes of US interventions in Venezuela and Iran is both countries - previously blocked by the US from oil sales - have now had oil sales green-lit at newly skyhigh prices www.cnbc.com/2026/03/20/u...

Absolutely no rule of law in this country at the moment. Corporate mergers approved based purely on political connections to Trump- and anyone disobeying getting fired “If you don’t approve this settlement, I will destroy you,” Mike Davis told DOJ head of antitrust www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

Yeah- left folks find out a hero was a degenerate and the statues come down immediately. But MAGA clings to statues of slaveholders because that's when they think American was Great.

This is the party of state terrorism, threatening women with the death penalty for terminating a pregancy.

Terrifying but encouraging that line soldiers at least recognize they are working in a corrupt cesspool of corruption and lies. But fact that almost 90% of army think Trump DoD leaders lack integrity should be headlines everywhere

History is not black & white, it's multi-colored and dynamic. But since Trump admin will be celebrating a whites-only celebration of the US's 250th b-day, this thread will be year long discussion of its genocidal, racist & anti-labor history. nathannewman.substack.com/p/the-case-f...

Strange form of war by Iran which has killed ZERO Americans on US soil. When US leaders talk about Iran's attacks on Americans, they refer to US troops engaged in aggressive wars overseas - and blaming Iran for allied groups fighting back.

Bewilders me that both France and the UK - which have strong multi-party systems yet don't have proportional representation, have not adopted ranked voting systems to avoid this kind of idiocy.

Trump- Hey I kidnapped the thug who even his top lieutenants in Venezuela thought was an idiot - and they were happy to cut a deal. Trump- Let's do the same thing in Iran, except this time let's kill the revered head of govt and replace him with his son, now hellbent on revenge.

Lots more of this. Love to see Dems campaigning explicitly against defense spending- and comparing it to what we could be spending money on instead of bombs.

A jungle primary without ranked voting is the stupidest system possible. California needs to implement ranked voting by the next election season to stop this stupidity. www.cbsnews.com/video/republ...

This is what is in store for HBOMax if taken over by Ellison Whole channels terminated without notice, decades of experience lost amidst mass firings. Billionaires should not have the power to play with employees' lives like toys.

Found this on Reddit. Essentially no democracy has ever put their elected leader on currency, so Trump joins this august body

Trump has now pardoned a woman FOR THE SECOND TIME. After pardoning her in 2021 for one fraud, he pardoned her again for another crime "Soft on crime" does not begin to describe Trump's pardoning of people commiting billions of dollars in fraud against the public. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/19/u...

Hundreds of billions of dollars are stolen through criminal tax evasion each year. And in first year, Trump's IRS referred two cases for possible criminal indictment Two 2 That's it. Nationwide Dems should make defunding of white collar crime police a top message www.icij.org/news/2026/03...

Warren understands we need to take on corporate power - and that means ending the filibuster and changing the Supreme Court. Notably, Platner's opponent Gov Mills supports the filibuster and letting the GOP block all labor law, civil rights & public financing laws..

Having destroyed much of its exisiing international support by genocidal murder of Palestinians in Gaza, blowing up the global economy with its war on Iran is likely to crater Israel's last shreds of global support.

"The attack meant a loss of around 17% of Qatar's liquefied natural gas exports for between THREE AND FIVE YEARS." The Gulf States allying with Trump will become a case study in list of most idiotic political moves in international relations history. www.reuters.com/business/ene...

The fact that he can spend $45 million on lobbying would seem to demonstrate why he can pay more in taxes. (He is worth $247 billion after all.) www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

GOP and Trump said we didn't have the money to extend ACA health care subsidies- and now millions have no health care coverage and many more are facing crushing costs. So hundreds of billions of dollars to bomb Iran but nothing to help Americans pay for health care. www.wsj.com/health/healt...

Insanity of US drug patent giveaways to Big Pharma "[Generic Wegovy] could eventually drop to about $15 a month. By comparison [it] can be bought in the US without insurance for $349 a month." And US patents won't lapse until the 2030s www.nytimes.com/2026/03/19/h...