Joe Kernen comes close to having a coronary on air as Pete Buttigieg dogwalks him all over the Squawk Box studio about Trump's economic mismanagement and inflation

when you've lost Alex Jones...

US is not a kingdom or a one-ruler regime. If you have been elected, you have a duty.
Where are you.

Calling my reps seems woefully insufficient but gotta at least do that 🤷🏻‍♂️

AP says it will offer buyouts as part of pivot away from newspaper-focused history The Associated Press says it will offer buyouts to an unspecified number of its U.S.-based journalists as part of an acceleration away from the focus on newspapers and their print journalism that sust...

People should actually be very alarmed that while AP's business model is shot to bits, Americans are still very much reliant on the news it delivers. The alternatives in some cases are inferior or non-existent.
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Trump's VA killed a home loan program. Vets are now losing their homes because of it Foreclosures on VA loans are at their highest level in a decade. VA has a fix but it is months away and could still leave vets worse off than most other homeowners.

NPR: Trump's VA killed a home loan program. Vets are now losing their homes because of it

www.npr.org/2026/04/02/n...

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC

Errors present in 45% of AI generated reports of news stories 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

Hegseth ousts US Army chief of staff and two other generals amid Iran war | CNN Politics Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Thursday fired the US Army chief of staff and two other generals as the Iran war continues.

CNN: Hegseth ousts US Army chief of staff and two other generals amid Iran war

www.cnn.com/2026/04/02/p...

Is this part of the funding structure for Paramount to buy WB?

JUST IN: FBI agents who worked on Trump probes have filed a class action lawsuit, saying their abrupt firings violated due process and civil service laws. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

US Defense Secretary Hegseth's broker looked to buy defense fund before Iran attack, FT reports A broker for U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth attempted to make a ​big investment in major defense companies in the weeks ‌leading up to the U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran, the Financial Times reporte...

FT (via Reuters): US Defense Secretary Hegseth's broker looked to buy defense fund before Iran attack, FT reports

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friend found a little man in his garage

Daily Beast: "Bari Weiss, the editor-in-chief at the now Trump-friendly CBS News, has killed the network’s storied radio division."

www.thedailybeast.com/maga-coded-c...

Bear wanders into KTLA reporter’s live shot while covering violent encounter YouTube video by KTLA 5

When the live shot gets interrupted by a bear:

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"As recently as December 2024, Mr. Kushner suggested that he would not seek more money for Affinity during Mr. Trump’s second term. That month, he told the podcaster Patrick O’Shaughnessy that he would “pre-emptively try to avoid any conflicts.”

Jared Kushner Solicits Funds for His Firm While Working as Mideast Envoy

NYT: Jared Kushner Solicits Funds for His Firm While Working as Mideast Envoy

President Trump’s son-in-law is trying to raise $5 billion or more from foreign governments and others for his private equity firm.

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/b...

Three cargo ships struck off Iran's coast, UK says, including one in Strait of Hormuz The incidents mark the latest in a string of reported attacks in or near to the Strait of Hormuz, where shipping traffic has virtually ground to a halt.

CNBC: Three cargo ships struck off Iran’s coast, UK says, including one in Strait of Hormuz

www.cnbc.com/2026/03/11/c...

CNN: Russia is helping Iran with advanced drone tactics from its war in Ukraine to hit US and Gulf nation targets in the Middle East, according to a Western intelligence official.

www.cnn.com/2026/03/11/m...

News Why Ohio gave $4.5M to a data center project that will create just 10 jobs Updated: Mar. 09, 2026, 1:54 p.m.|Published: Mar. 09, 2026, 8:30 a.m.

"State officials’ approval of a $4.5 million tax break for a Northeast Ohio data‑center expansion was met with a chorus of online criticism, given that the project will only create 10 new full-time jobs." www.cleveland.com/news/2026/03...

Fuzzy memories and hard facts: An SC accuser's claims against Epstein, Trump examined An alleged victim of Jeffrey Epstein gave FBI agents true accounts of her time growing up in SC. Claims she made about Donald Trump remain unsubstantiated.

Breaking: SC newspaper verifies portions of Trump accuser's story. Textbook journalism. Local journalism. Support your local news outlets. www.postandcourier.com/news/epstein...

U.S. soldiers killed in Iran war remembered for their service and devotion to their families A drone strike at a command center in Kuwait killed 20-year-old Sgt. Declan Coady of West Des Moines, Iowa, and five other members of the U.S. Army Reserve who worked in logistics and kept troops supp...

Sgt. Declan Coady checked in with his family every hour or two after the U.S. and Israel launched their military campaign against Iran.

When he didn't respond to messages Sunday, "most of us started to wonder," his father told the AP. "Your gut starts to get a feeling." https://to.pbs.org/46EGVvs

DOJ to Review Whether Epstein Files About Trump Were Improperly Withheld The Justice Department didn’t release notes from several interviews a woman gave to FBI agents in 2019.

WSJ: "The Justice Department said it is reviewing whether it improperly withheld some Epstein files, including Federal Bureau of Investigation notes that detail unverified allegations made by a woman against President Trump."

www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

WSJ: There Are 47,635 Epstein Files Offline for Review, DOJ Says

"Among the unreleased documents are a woman’s unverified allegations against President Trump."

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The ouster of at least a dozen staffers from a counterintelligence unit, known as CI-12, which operates out of the Washington Field Office, was ordered by FBI Director Kash Patel, according to four former officials familiar with the dismissals. The dismissals came just days before the start of Operation Epic Fury and, separately, a deadly mass shooting at a bar in Austin, Texas, by a man reportedly wearing a sweatshirt that said, “Property of Allah,” beneath which was a T-shirt that was “emblazoned with a design similar to the Iranian flag,” CBS News reported Monday. CI-12 focuses on media leaks, global espionage, and international threats against America emanating from countries such as Cuba and Iran, former FBI officials tell the Sun. More broadly, CI squads are the lead domestic teams for investigating insider threats and foreign intelligence activity on American soil. In 2020, CI-12 assisted in monitoring potential retaliatory actions by Iranian-backed actors on American soil following a U.S. drone strike near Baghdad International Airport that killed Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps major general Qasem Soleimani, an operation ordered by Mr. Trump, former FBI officials tell the Sun.

Kash just fired some counter Iranian espionage agents.

www.nysun.com/article/excl...

Feds asked New Mexico to halt Jeffrey Epstein Zorro Ranch sex trafficking probe, records show Former AG says feds halted New Mexico’s Epstein inquiry without sharing promised evidence as state reopens Zorro Ranch i

New reporting finds that Trump's DOJ took over and quashed a state investigation into Epstein's New Mexico ranch in 2019.

As the walls close in on Trump, he'll do anything — including launch full-scale wars — to distract the public.

ProPublica Sues Education Department for Withholding Records About Discrimination in Schools Under Secretary Linda McMahon, the work of the Office for Civil Rights, which aims to protect students from discrimination, is cloaked in secrecy.

So glad to work in a newsroom that's willing to fight against disappearing data. ProPublica Sues Education Department for Withholding Records About Discrimination in Schools, by @jsmithrichards.bsky.social @jodiscohen.bsky.social

Strike on Girls’ School Kills at Least 175, Iranian State Media Says

NYT update: Strike on Girls’ School Kills at Least 175, Iranian State Media Says

Videos and images verified by The New York Times showed that at least half of the school was destroyed.

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/w...

When you mix up your endless wars.

Trump is talking about the gold drapes at the White House after making remarks for a few minutes about the war he just started in Iran.