tRump seeks a tougher version of Bondi but the fault lies not in the weakness of those he’s called upon to execute his will, rather in the impossibility of his demand, to bring criminal charges against political targets w/ no evidence or legal justification.
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Bondi was awful, but no worse than Patel.
Noem was terrible, but no worse than Hegseth.
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The significance of 07.04.26 is not that it’ll be the semi-quincentennial of the Declaration of Independence.
Instead, it’s the anniversary of the pathocracy. In both 1776 & 2026, madmen, King George III & tRump, each recklessly plunged their nations into war.
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Industry money has been pouring into the congressional campaign of Michael Alfonso.
The contributions are among dozens to Alfonso’s campaign from lobbyists, business executives & PACs tied to industries that Sean Duffy’s department funds & regulates.
www.propublica.org/article/sean...
The US spent an estimated $28.7 billion in the first 2 weeks of the Iran war, or $2.1 billion a day on average.
This estimate refers only to direct war costs & not indirect costs, which include broader & longer-term factors like economic impact & veterans’ care.
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Markets now understand... If the US were in control of things, tRump wouldn’t threaten to bomb civilian targets. At best, it means he’s degraded Iran’s military targets & doesn’t know what else to do. At worst, it means he hasn’t figured out how to take them out.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
What does it say about us if we have to have our eyes on millions of documents in order to believe what women have been saying decades?
Insofar as we continue to demand documents rather than believe what more than 1,000 women, apparently we have not.
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There aren’t good options for the US & Israel. They can keep bombing, but they’ll continue to see Iranian escalation inflicting harm on Israel & US interests. The US & Israel have to face the world as gas & food prices skyrocket.
A miscalculation by US & Israel.
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tRump’s self-defense is feigned indifference to his fiasco.
His denial is too vehement to be remotely convincing.
He calls out to Nato countries to rescue him while he insults them as “cowards” & says that he “no longer needs” their help.
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The rarely used “God squad” provision in the Endangered Species Act (ESA) allows a president to convene a committee of agency heads empowered to effectively veto protections for species on the brink of extinction.
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Americans are turning to rationing medicine & delaying retirement to cover healthcare costs.
Nearly 30 percent of Americans w/ health insurance have made at least one financial trade-off to afford healthcare.
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Hegseth is setting the U.S. up for heavy legal damage & violations of the law.
If advising on operational law, your goal as a lawyer is not to increase lethality.
That would be a blatantly unethical goal for a lawyer.
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We see a future where intelligence is a utility like electricity or water & people buy it from us on a meter & use it for whatever they want to use it for.
- sam altman
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The results highlight major disillusionment surrounding AI, an indictment underlining a growing schism between the excitement felt by company leaders & the quickly waning enthusiasm of their employees, who are being told to use the tech often against their will.
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Palantir CEO Alex Karp says AI will upend society & that even people in tech underestimate how disruptive these technologies are.
AI could wipe out up to half of all white-collar, entry-level jobs over the next 1 to 5 years.
www.businessinsider.com/alex-karp-ai...
For markets, oil crossing triple digits isn't just a headline; it's a direct tax on every business & household simultaneously.
US economy shed 92,000 payrolls in February.
Unemployment rose to 4.4%
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As CONS were standing to honor tRump, his DoJ was busy suing Oklahoma’s election chief to force the release of private voter data.
That’s data that Oklahomans have made crystal clear that they don’t want in anybody’s hands except state election officials.
oklahomavoice.com/2026/03/09/h...
Impossible to ignore are fears & uncertainty over enormous investments in AI.
Companies are spending hundreds of billions on enormous data centers across the country, unprecedented capital expenditures that are seemingly propping up a waning US economy.
futurism.com/science-ener...
The recycling of petrodollars has been the basis of America’s financialization & weaponization of the world’s oil trade & its imperial strategy of isolating countries that resist adherence to the U.S. ruler-based order.
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In 2014, Epstein contacted Thiel to request that “one of your people” meet w/ the individuals behind a start-up that involved Guardicore, whose founders came out of Israeli military intelligence, including its infamous Unit 8200 cyberwarfare division.
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Some evangelicals interpret passages from the Bible to mean the Messiah will reappear only when Jews return to Israel. Once Jesus comes back, those who accept him will be saved & everyone else, including recalcitrant Jews, will perish & be damned to hell.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
I love this! I too have human neurons! Will this help me play better?
The meeting shows that the same people who tried to overturn the 2020 election have only grown better organized & are embedded in the machinery of government.
www.propublica.org/article/elec...
Consider 3 of the biggest developments in US politics right now:
- the economy lost 92,000 jobs
- tRump fired despised Krusti Noem
- the killing of Iranian schoolchildren, the handiwork of the US military.
www.alternet.org/trump-s-trif...
We’re just following orders.
The evidence of who set the clock of this war is unmistakable. The admission came from the U.S. State Dept. In an unguarded moment, the U.S.admitted that the timing of this war was not an American choice.
The made-for-Israel wars will not end with Iran.
www.counterpunch.org/2026/03/09/w...
What we’re seeing with tRump is the favoring of some places & viewpoints over others & an increase in prosecutions to blur the line between speech & intimidation & protests.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
