"Never before have we seen so little effort to hide so much corruption."

The nonstop grift the Trump family is running on taxpayers is just extraordinary.

You’ve heard of Stockholm Syndrome.

Welcome to Budapest Envy.

The amazing, letter-perfect performance of NASA this week is a ferocious rebuke to the right-wing fools who constantly tell us that for-profit businesses always do a job better than the government.

Why do we live in such a childish, stupid country? A country that wastes its money on useless billion dollar aircraft carriers, when it could be spending those tax dollars to actually help its citizens like sane countries.

“new data shows that fewer than a quarter of those arrested in Minnesota had a criminal conviction on their record”

So, Trump is bombing Iran in order to force them to open the strait of Hormuz, which was closed after Trump began bombing Iran?

Walz signs executive order creating council to document impact of Operation Metro Surge The council will gather testimony, data and firsthand accounts to document what Minnesotans experienced during the largest immigration enforcement operation in U.S. history.

This is just one step in our ongoing effort to demand transparency, accountability, and justice for Minnesotans impacted by Operation Metro Surge.

We will ensure that Minnesotans’ stories are heard and preserved.

www.startribune.com/walz-signs-e...

This war is more likely to end up doing regime change in America than in Iran

For months, families lived in fear, children were separated from parents, and two of our neighbors were killed by federal agents.

I’m establishing a council to document the impact of Metro Surge and create a public record of the harm Minnesotans endured. We will not forget.

again I point out how strange it is that high-level diplomatic negotiations of war and peace are being conducted by freelancers Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, both of whom have egregious conflicts of interest, and not the actual secretary of state

A wooden box at the start of a hiking trail labeled "Dog Stick Library, Take a stick leave a stick!" filled with tree branches.

Is it too late for a career change? I want to be a librarian at the dog stick library... 🐶📖

The US is spending more than $1 trillion on the military for the first time in history.

That apparently isn't enough. Now, the Pentagon wants $200 billion more for an illegal war in Iran.

The answer is NO.

We need to invest in the American people, not endless war.

We call ourselves "intelligent," yet the humblest fungus can decompose waste and build soil, a tree can harness solar energy, and a wetland can purify water—all without toxic byproducts. True intelligence is learning from these systems, not bulldozing them.

We are spending an estimated $1B per day on the war on Iran.

Now Trump and Co want an extra $200B from Congress to fund the war.

But healthcare? Cut.

Food stamps? Cut.

Education? Cut.

Cancer research? Cut.

Environmental protections? Cut.

And of course, taxes on the rich? Cut.

It's obscene.

Washington just passed a “millionaire tax,” after Massachusetts passed its own in 2022.

New Mexico enacted universal childcare last year.

And organizers in Montana and California are advancing a ballot measure that would get corporate money out of politics.

We still have power to fix the system.

Rep. Ted W. Lieu (D-CA), speaks during a press conference at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC. (Photo by Nathan Howard/Getty Images)

Ted Lieu: “Undocumented immigrants voting in elections is an infinitesimal problem — to vote, you have to first register — how many undocumented are going to go, ‘yes, I'm going to give all my info to the govt that's trying to maybe deport me.’ No way — so this is a problem that doesn't even exist”

Afghan asylum-seeker dies in ICE custody, US advocacy group says Mohommad Nazeer Paktyawal is at least the 12th person to die ​in ICE detention this year.

This man did far more fighting for the US than anyone in the cabinet or the White House. And he died one day after being taken to an American concentration camp. One day.
www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

„The USA loses its long-term status as a liberal democracy – for the first time in over 50 years. […] The speed with which American democracy is currently dismantled is unprecedented in modern history“ (V-Dem 2026)

Ukraine is holding back Russia and thus fulfilling the entire traditional mission of NATO without any soldiers or sailors from other countries. Trump is meanwhile demanding NATO allies leave the continent they are supposed to be defending to join him in a doomed adventure he chose in the Middle East

Reminder: DHS nominee Markwayne Mullin is one of the most active stock-traders in the Senate — and violated the STOCK Act against insider trading as recently as last August.

He currently holds stock in L3Harris, which has millions in contracts with ICE and FEMA.

The grift continues.

The United States is contemplating threatening to kill people with HIV in another country as leverage to get that country's minerals.

We have become a sick nation, just as depraved and disgusting as its leader.

If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.

it took just over a year to get from "I'll lower costs on day one" to "I'm raising prices and it's good, actually"

CNN Headline: US strike likely hit a school in Iran due to outdated intelligence, sources briefed on initial findings say

Article text: "Satellite imagery from 2013 showed that the school and the IRGC base were once part of the same compound. But images from 2016 revealed that a fence had been erected to separate the school from the rest of the base, and that a separate entrance to the school had been built. In December 2025, imagery showed dozens of people in the school's courtyard apparently playing."

"outdated intelligence" makes it sound like the military forgot to read the latest briefing, when in reality, this information was already outdated a decade ago in *2016*

Irene Montero (right), speaking to reporters in Madrid, Spain. (Photo By Diego Radames/Europa Press via Getty Images)

Spain MEP Irene Montero: “Send your son, Donald Trump — If you want war, send your own people to the front line. We in Spain want our children, our daughters, & our loved ones at home, safe. We don’t want war — those who want war should send their own children”

First 6 Days of Iran War Cost U.S. $11.3 Billion, Pentagon Says

That's about half of what it cost for USAID for a whole year www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...

You can have the best armed forces in the history of the world, but if you are an incompetent criminal without a plan, you can still lose a war, and rather quickly.

Chris Murphy: "I Just came from a two hour, closed door classified briefing on the war. It just confirmed to me it's totally incoherent. We are not gonna be able to achieve any of our stated objectives ... this is a disaster of epic proportions, a 10 day debacle"