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Author, dad, journalist at Mother Jones/CIR. My book TRIGGER POINTS is the story of expert teams who are preventing mass shootings, from K-12 schools to the FBI https://www.amazon.com/dp/0062973533/

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Noem has been caught perpetrating $143 million in fraud with taxpayer money, says Rep. Joe Neguse

04.03.2026 22:17 — 👍 122    🔁 55    💬 5    📌 0
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“I feel like I’m grieving my mother” Damaris Bello's mother attended a green card interview—and was deported less than 24 hours later.

An important read, the latest reporting from @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social on Trump's cruel policies targeting immigrants.

"Damaris Bello’s mother attended a green card interview—and was deported less than 24 hours later." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

05.03.2026 20:20 — 👍 7    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
Noem is answering questions from local organizations representing police officers, but they have not asked about her firing. Notably, she is still speaking as if she is leading the Department of Homeland Security. She said she was coming to meet with New York state sheriffs soon.

President Trump said in his announcement that he wanted Senator Markwayne Mullin to start at the end of the month.

Catie Edmondson
March 5, 2026, 2:29 p.m. ET26 minutes ago
Catie Edmondson

There’s quite a split screen playing out as Noem takes questions at a conference in Nashville while Republican senators are backslapping Mullin on the Senate floor in the middle of a vote.

Noem is answering questions from local organizations representing police officers, but they have not asked about her firing. Notably, she is still speaking as if she is leading the Department of Homeland Security. She said she was coming to meet with New York state sheriffs soon. President Trump said in his announcement that he wanted Senator Markwayne Mullin to start at the end of the month. Catie Edmondson March 5, 2026, 2:29 p.m. ET26 minutes ago Catie Edmondson There’s quite a split screen playing out as Noem takes questions at a conference in Nashville while Republican senators are backslapping Mullin on the Senate floor in the middle of a vote.

No matter how much bootlicking, no matter how much lying on his behalf… working for Trump always ends in humiliation and disgrace. Noem is just the latest.

05.03.2026 19:56 — 👍 25    🔁 7    💬 2    📌 3

Noem has been caught perpetrating $143 million in fraud with taxpayer money, says Rep. Joe Neguse

04.03.2026 22:17 — 👍 122    🔁 55    💬 5    📌 0
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Damn, Barbara Starr 🔥

04.03.2026 20:08 — 👍 2588    🔁 626    💬 85    📌 15
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Opinion | Ominous Texas Signals for Republicans As Democratic voter turnout surges, the GOP Senate majority is in serious jeopardy.

"Democrats are climbing over one another to vote, and control of the Senate is now in play... President Trump is inspiring Democrats to turn out, as he might put it, like no one has ever seen before." www.wsj.com/opinion/texa...

04.03.2026 18:29 — 👍 11    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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"You told a lie about them. Do you regret that?" -- Raskin grills Noem about her comments that Good and Pretti were domestic terrorists

04.03.2026 16:14 — 👍 3430    🔁 822    💬 193    📌 100
Huckabee jokes to embassy staff about procreating while sheltering
By John Hudson
U.S. ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee joked to embassy staff about procreating while sheltering in place on Tuesday in a memo one U.S. official described as “awkward” and “odd.”
The memo, addressed to U.S. diplomats, local staff and family members, said that if the “extended time” with your spouse “results in the birth of your next child in about 9 months, I of course expect that you will want to name the little bugger after me!”
“If it's a girl, Michelle is a nice name too,” he wrote, in a memo reviewed by The Washington Post.
The jocular missive came at a distressing moment for staff

Huckabee jokes to embassy staff about procreating while sheltering
By John Hudson
U.S. ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee joked to embassy staff about procreating while sheltering in place on Tuesday in a memo one U.S. official described as “awkward” and “odd.”
The memo, addressed to U.S. diplomats, local staff and family members, said that if the “extended time” with your spouse “results in the birth of your next child in about 9 months, I of course expect that you will want to name the little bugger after me!”
“If it's a girl, Michelle is a nice name too,” he wrote, in a memo reviewed by The Washington Post.
The jocular missive came at a distressing moment for staff

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“Mike Huckabee joked to US embassy staff about procreating while sheltering in place on Tuesday… The memo said that if the “extended time” with your spouse “results in the birth of your next child in about 9 months, I of course expect that you will want to name the little bugger after me!”

03.03.2026 23:53 — 👍 13    🔁 5    💬 3    📌 3
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CIA working to arm Kurdish forces to spark uprising in Iran, sources say | CNN Politics The CIA is working to arm Kurdish forces with the aim of fomenting a popular uprising in Iran and the Trump administration has been in active discussions with Iranian opposition groups and Kurdish lea...

What is the point of having a covert action program if don't brag about it to the media?

On substance, what could go wrong?

www.cnn.com/2026/03/03/p...

03.03.2026 22:00 — 👍 159    🔁 51    💬 23    📌 23

staggering amount of self-dealing and corruption in Trump 2.0, just the latest example among many…

03.03.2026 21:48 — 👍 2    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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As Maduro and Khamenei Learned, It’s Harder Than Ever for Leaders to Hide

wait, WHAT?

“Ayatollah Ali Khamenei apparently ignored the evidence that the C.I.A. was tracking him and his top leaders, an operation that President Trump exposed in a social media post eight months ago.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/u...

03.03.2026 05:37 — 👍 9    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
In the briefing, Mr. Rubio argued that, no matter if Israel or the United States struck first, Iran would respond with a powerful barrage of weapons against U.S. bases and embassies. It was logical then, Mr. Rubio said, that the United States should act in concert with Israel, since America would be dragged in anyway. And Israel, Mr. Rubio said, was determined to act.

This logic sat poorly with some Democrats, who thought the Trump administration was letting Mr. Netanyahu dictate American policy — and was making a circular argument that the United States had to attack because its military buildup could prompt Iran to strike.

In the briefing, Mr. Rubio argued that, no matter if Israel or the United States struck first, Iran would respond with a powerful barrage of weapons against U.S. bases and embassies. It was logical then, Mr. Rubio said, that the United States should act in concert with Israel, since America would be dragged in anyway. And Israel, Mr. Rubio said, was determined to act. This logic sat poorly with some Democrats, who thought the Trump administration was letting Mr. Netanyahu dictate American policy — and was making a circular argument that the United States had to attack because its military buildup could prompt Iran to strike.

just wild that Rubio would frame the US attack on Iran as beholden to what Israel was going to do and/or as inevitable based on circular logic like this… www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/u...

03.03.2026 02:03 — 👍 32    🔁 13    💬 2    📌 3

"A Reuters/Ipsos poll released Sunday showed that just one in four Americans approves of the US attack on Iran, while around half believe Trump uses too much military force. Unless the public is given more answers on exactly what the White House intentions are, those numbers are likely to get worse"

02.03.2026 22:41 — 👍 10    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Opinion | Nothing to See Here, Folks

"For a guy who calls himself the secretary of war, Pete Hegseth sure is defensive" www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/o...

02.03.2026 22:36 — 👍 13    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0
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Donald Trump was never antiwar MAGA's critique of globalism always left room for conflict.

Trump was never antiwar — that's MAGA fiction. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

02.03.2026 18:37 — 👍 160    🔁 39    💬 10    📌 2
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Unreal… gives zero clarity about launching his war on Iran, but gold drapes for his WH ballroom

02.03.2026 17:01 — 👍 7    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0
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Welcome to Wyoming, the Frontier of America’s New Gilded Age

“The minting of dozens of new billionaires occurred in the immediate wake of the 2017 tax cuts championed by Trump, the nation’s biggest tax overhaul since 1986… Overall, the top 1% now control $55.8 trillion in assets—more than the GDP of the US and China combined.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/u...

02.03.2026 14:41 — 👍 9    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 1
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Trump Stays Out of Public View After U.S. Launches Military Assault on Iran

a social media video in the middle of the night and then just staying sequestered at his private club… what a way to launch the United States into a war www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/u...

01.03.2026 17:58 — 👍 11    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 2
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U.S. Strikes in Middle East Use Anthropic, Hours After Trump Ban Within hours of declaring that the federal government will end its use of artificial-intelligence tools made by tech company Anthropic, President Trump launched a major air attack in Iran with the hel...

“Within hours of declaring that the federal government will end its use of artificial-intelligence tools made by tech company Anthropic, President Trump launched a major air attack in Iran with the help of those very same tools.” www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

01.03.2026 15:45 — 👍 10    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Stephen Miller in 2024:

28.02.2026 19:50 — 👍 2503    🔁 922    💬 118    📌 70
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21%

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01.03.2026 13:04 — 👍 4756    🔁 1357    💬 288    📌 214
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Read: The ‘Emergency’ Executive Order Proposal That Trump Activists are Rallying Behind On Thursday, the Washington Post reported that Trump-aligned activists are pitching the...

Read: The ‘Emergency’ Executive Order Proposal That Trump Activists are Rallying Behind talkingpointsmemo.com/news/read-th...

28.02.2026 19:19 — 👍 174    🔁 49    💬 10    📌 6
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Opinion | War and Peace Cannot Be Left to One Man — Especially Not This Man

“There is no national consensus around the decision... There isn’t even a Republican consensus…only a mercurial man so detached from reality that he actually reposted “Iran Tried to Interfere in 2020, 2024 Elections to Stop Trump, and Now Faces Renewed War With U.S.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/01/o...

01.03.2026 15:35 — 👍 7    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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Exclusive | Classified Report Finds Kristi Noem Created Security Vulnerabilities at Airports The Homeland Security secretary’s handling of an issue related to allowing travelers to keep shoes on at checkpoints fits pattern that has alarmed some national-security officials.

“Many officials said Noem’s handling of the report fits a pattern in which she has ignored or played down national-security concerns… her office [also] published photos of a secret government facility, publicizing a site meant to house the president in emergencies” www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

28.02.2026 20:20 — 👍 11    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

insane:

“FBI tactical agents have ferried her to a resort in Britain before a dinner at Windsor Castle and to an appointment at a hair salon in Nashville”

“Last month, a three-man SWAT team fanned out at a fundraiser where she sang… Afterward, agents drove Ms. Wilkins 135 miles to LAX”

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28.02.2026 18:14 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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Kash Patel’s Girlfriend Seeks Fame and Fortune, Escorted by an F.B.I. SWAT Team

His frat boy antics at the Olympics were debasing and embarrassing, but this is on a whole different level, just a jaw-dropping abuse of power. Patel should resign or be fired www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/u...

28.02.2026 18:07 — 👍 23    🔁 10    💬 1    📌 1
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Trump’s Commerce Secretary Loves Tariffs. His Former Investment Bank Is Taking Bets Against Them A subsidiary of Cantor Fitzgerald, which is run by the sons of US commerce secretary Howard Lutnick, is letting clients essentially bet that President Donald Trump’s tariffs will be struck down in cou...

reminder, now that Scotus has struck down the tariffs… www.wired.com/story/cantor...

27.02.2026 21:45 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 2
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Full transcript: Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger delivers Democratic response to State of the Union address Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger delivered the Democratic response to President Donald Trump's State of the Union address Tuesday.

Powerful speech from Gov. Abigail Spanberger... 13 minutes well worth watching if you missed www.wbaltv.com/article/span...

27.02.2026 20:28 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump continues to attack Supreme Court after tariff ruling The president called the court “incompetent” as he appeared to brace for another legal defeat.

lambasted the majority justices as "unpatriotic and disloyal to our Constitution"... www.politico.com/news/2026/02... 2/x

27.02.2026 20:18 — 👍 9    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Justice Thomas Bemoans Incivility as Security Prompts Cancellation of In-Person Speech

Threats to Supreme Court justices are indeed very troubling... maybe Thomas wants to tell it to the guy who just put fresh targets on some of their backs over the tariff ruling? www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/u...

27.02.2026 20:16 — 👍 13    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 0