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Was browsing the Eisenhower Library site this morning trying to find a quote I remembered. President Eisenhower, WW2 military hero: “In my opinion, there is no such thing as a preventive war… none has yet explained how war prevents war.”

These talking points ⤵️ are a trap As soon as you start to argue, you are operating within their narrative frame - you cannot win The correct response "Even the Heritage Foundation admits that voter fraud is virtually non-existent The system we have now works Voter registration works"

The surgeon general nominee can’t get people to stop asking her about vaccines Because she is an anti-vaxxer www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

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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...

Of course they are

Last year when I was checking into a hotel, the desk person was wearing Meta glasses. I kindly asked them to take them off. They were annoyed. I said, “I do not consent to you looking at my credit card and ID with Meta glasses on.” My instincts were correct: www.bbc.com/news/article...

Sgt. 1st Class Nicole Amor was just days away from returning home to her husband and two children when a drone strike in Kuwait killed her and five others.

Sounds expensive

I'm sorry, if you're going to make a big show about how you've got a Department of WAR helmed by a Secretary of WAR and staffed by WARfighters, it's totally inane to then claim that your massive bombing of a foreign country constitutes something other than a war.

Our true and final enemy is finally revealed

When FBI Director Kash Patel fired a dozen FBI agents and staff last week for their role in the classified documents investigation of Donald Trump, he targeted an elite counter espionage unit that investigates threats from foreign adversaries and specializes in Iran www.ms.now/news/kash-pa...

“.. Depart now via commercial means ..” (via State Dept)

Optics. @thedailybeast.bsky.social www.thedailybeast.com/trump-hosts-...

🧵 Providing some context on the current situation: This past Friday, February 27, 2026, Oman’s Foreign Minister joined Face the Nation to share a critical update on the ongoing negotiations at that time. ⬇️

Just want to note that 3am in Washington is like 11:30am in Tehran. The American people are the ones he snuck up on in the dead of night to conduct this illegal attack, not the purported enemy.

Still up on the official White House website: www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...

This guy (a Pentagon official) has tweeted about Anthropic no less than 7 times over the past 2 hours.

The Conference of Catholic Bishops is... not playing around in this brief. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

She's concluding by apologizing to her customers for having to cancel scheduled work—"because I'm going to parliament," by promising to stand for them, and by giving a shout-out to a little girl she met on the campaign trail. She's wonderful, and she's barely keeping it together. Pure joy.

Well this seems bad! If only someone had thought to make a movie warning about this very thing. You know, in the 80's. Starring Ferris Bueller.

A whistleblower just disclosed that FBI experts were delayed by AT LEAST A DAY in deploying to investigate Charlie Kirk’s assassination. Why? There was an FBI plane and pilot shortage… because Kash Patel was using them for personal flights.

Leonnig: "The whistleblower says in Dec. 2025, when there was a mass shooting at Brown U, Kash was on his FBI director jet in FL & there was only one other available jet, but Patel ordered it to be put on standby for another team. That meant an evidence review team had to drive through the night..."

Checkmate, libs

A MOTHER JONES SCOOP! New details from Epstein files reveal Lutnick had a years-long business tie with the sex offender. This challenges his claim he had minimal contact with Epstein. The two were involved in a deal for six years, and an email shows they discussed it. @nlanard.bsky.social

About $1.7 billion flowed from two accounts at Binance, whose founder was pardoned by Trump, to Iranian entities with links to terrorist groups, a possible violation of global sanctions, investigators discovered. David Yaffe-Bellany @pekingmikenyt.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/t...

Well at least the Dow is above 50,000 as Bondi and rump have been bragging … oh wait, scratch that.

Trump, July 19: "All three nuclear sites in Iran were completely destroyed and/or OBLITERATED. It would take years to bring them back into service." Witkoff, Sunday: "They're probably a week away from having industrial-grade bomb-making material."

Trump spent the last 8 months saying that "the nuclear threat of Iran was totally obliterated" by Operation Midnight Hammer which "set back Iran's ability to develop nuclear weapons for many years to come." Were they lying then or are they lying now?

Bunch:”It’s our challenge as the neighbors and allies of our nation’s immigrant communities to make sure those black marks on a page are never turned into the suffering of actual humans.”

“.. Brazil will enjoy the biggest reduction in average tariff rates — falling by 13.6 percentage points — followed by China .. “.. Long-standing US allies including the UK, the EU and Japan will suffer the largest hit ..” @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/a126...

NEW: Tom Homan declared last week the ICE surge in Minnesota was over + the drawdown of federal agents would carry on through this week. But ICE is still all over. “It certainly hasn’t stopped,” Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey told me. "People are very much on edge." www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-mi...

Trump on the arrest of Prince Andrew: “I think it's a shame. I think it's very sad. I think it's so bad for the royal family. It’s very, very sad. To me, it’s a very sad thing.”

So SCOTUS, with its fabricated-out-of-thin-air immunity doctrine, has actually made American presidents less accountable than LITERAL royalty.

The WSJ reports that the Trump administration has massed "significant" air power in striking distance of Iran, but hasn't yet decided what the purpose of an attack would be. www.wsj.com/world/middle...

A terrific event here in Minneapolis last night. Lively and fun. And moving, given what Minnesotans have endured for the last couple of months. And inspiring, as they've shown us that we can prevail.

The grandson of the inventor of Reese's Peanut Butter Cups is calling out Hershey for "quietly replacing" the candy's chocolate and peanut butter ingredients

Trump’s EPA & Lee Zeldin are letting power plants emit more hazardous air pollutants that cause or contribute to cancer (lung, nasal, sinus); irreversible neurological damage, lower IQ, behavioral problems & learning deficits in children; cardiovascular, kidney, & reproductive dysfunction … 1/

JP SPINETTO: "The strategic logic is hard to escape: If Washington is serious about decoupling from China, reindustrializing its economy, bolstering national security and securing critical inputs, Mexico is not the problem — it’s a key part of the solution."

Jesse Jackson dead at 84

“False herring” is stupid, but the most dishonest & manipulative word here is “now.” As if this is some novelty. But warrants for entering homes, like cops who show their faces & badges, is how we’ve done things for 250 years. The radical novelty is suggesting we STOP doing these things.

I fear this is being treated as background noise rather than the 5 alarm emergency it is. Absolutely terrifying. Kennedy Allies Target States to Overturn Vaccine Mandates for Schoolchildren www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/h...

One of the contradictions of our time is the belief that work is good for the soul and also that we should just have robots do it.

It’s been that kind of week. @wsj.com @financialtimes.com @bloomberg.com @nbcnews.com

“.. the tariffs didn’t stop China’s export machine; they just reorganized it, while expanding Beijing’s global influence along the way.” @scottlincicome.bsky.social @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...