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GRASSLEY: The press is attacking you for changing airport shoe removal policy. Does the $1b investment relate to the issue in the IG report?

KRISTI NOEM: I can't speak to that report because it's classified. There was flawed data included in it.

03.03.2026 14:40 β€” πŸ‘ 400    πŸ” 92    πŸ’¬ 44    πŸ“Œ 8
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Noem: "Our ability to provide for a safe and successful World Cup is being hindered"

03.03.2026 14:35 β€” πŸ‘ 603    πŸ” 143    πŸ’¬ 311    πŸ“Œ 134

Who is making the US unsafe for visitors?

03.03.2026 14:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1183    πŸ” 212    πŸ’¬ 29    πŸ“Œ 4
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DURBIN: Is DHS required to follow federal court orders?

NOEM: Yes sir, and we do

DURBIN: How do you explain that your agency has repeatedly violated them, as your own administration has admitted?

NOEM: We follow them when they apply


DURBIN: I'm sorry

03.03.2026 14:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1692    πŸ” 495    πŸ’¬ 87    πŸ“Œ 54
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DURBIN: Do you understand that people protected by DACA have to go through a criminal background check?

NOEM: Yes

D: Why have you deported dozens of DACA holders who complied w/ background check

N: We follow all laws

D: Why did you deport them?

N: I don't know the details of that specific case

03.03.2026 14:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1929    πŸ” 671    πŸ’¬ 167    πŸ“Œ 51
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DURBIN: How does taking dad from child dying of cancer qualify as a violent crime?

NOEM: I don't know what you're speaking of

D: Ruben Torres 2 weeks ago buried his daughter. When he was arrested at Home Depot, he said, 'Please. My daughter is dying.' They deported him. Was he a violent criminal?

03.03.2026 15:02 β€” πŸ‘ 4342    πŸ” 1506    πŸ’¬ 384    πŸ“Œ 120
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Trump's Iran War and the Article One crisis Congress's refusal to do its job is now the world's problem.

Check out today's latest at @atrupar.com featuring contributions from @snipy.bsky.social on the Article I crisis in Iran and Joe Dye's roadmap for today's primaries.

www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-iran...

03.03.2026 15:00 β€” πŸ‘ 106    πŸ” 28    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

See, the thing is we haven’t beenβ€”not because past presidents were perfect angels or thrilled with Iran, but because they didn’t want to close the Strait of Hormuz, evacuate American civilians from the whole region, and set the world economy on fire.

03.03.2026 15:05 β€” πŸ‘ 2020    πŸ” 446    πŸ’¬ 65    πŸ“Œ 1
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"Is it so hard to say you were wrong?" -- under questioning from Durbin, Kristi Noem refuses to retract her statements about Alex Pretti and Renee Good being domestic terrorists, but throws "agents at the scene" under the bus for the fact she said it in the first place

03.03.2026 14:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1824    πŸ” 587    πŸ’¬ 118    πŸ“Œ 35
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Once again, a single cartoon tells more truth that the entire US Congress.

Thanks to Rick McKee for making our current situation easy to understand.

03.03.2026 02:55 β€” πŸ‘ 6722    πŸ” 2280    πŸ’¬ 115    πŸ“Œ 61
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USLPA authorizes strike with season kickoff looming The USLPA has voted to authorize its bargaining committee to call a strike unless an agreement with the USL can be reached on a new Collective Bargaining Agreement.

USL players are more unified than ever in their fight for professional standards.

The players make the Championship league happenβ€”and they’re ready to strike. It’s time for the USL to do the right thing and bargain for a fair contract now.

02.03.2026 23:10 β€” πŸ‘ 58    πŸ” 26    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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🏦

03.03.2026 02:28 β€” πŸ‘ 2154    πŸ” 755    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 29
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Very sorry about your bad luck.

02.03.2026 22:06 β€” πŸ‘ 436    πŸ” 133    πŸ’¬ 40    πŸ“Œ 19
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I found a little β€œsoot sprite” in the sea.
But its true identity is a school of juvenile catfish Plotosus japonicus!!

They may look beautiful and cute, but they have venomous spines at the base of their fins⚠️
Be careful if you’re tide pooling or fishing 🫧 Ν›.*⁑

02.03.2026 12:56 β€” πŸ‘ 188    πŸ” 34    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 2

I’m a broken record on this but Trump’s entire plan was clearly β€œkick them in the face, collect praise from Twitter, walk away.” From his perspective it’s always worked before. It seemingly never occurred to them that they may not be able to walk away.

03.03.2026 13:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1112    πŸ” 214    πŸ’¬ 28    πŸ“Œ 12
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My take away from watching Trump’s speech today is that he has absolutely no concern or care for the soldiers who are out fighting his war.

www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...

02.03.2026 17:30 β€” πŸ‘ 827    πŸ” 180    πŸ’¬ 96    πŸ“Œ 14
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I'm over the god shit this administration is pushing. They are literally the least godly people around.

03.03.2026 14:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1020    πŸ” 285    πŸ’¬ 134    πŸ“Œ 68

This is Cheryl Mills---an important member of the Clinton inner circle. She also served as Chief of Staff to Secretary Hillary Clinton and Counselor to the U.S. Department of State.

03.03.2026 14:37 β€” πŸ‘ 179    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 2
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if I ever need a lawyer, somebody call this lady

03.03.2026 13:34 β€” πŸ‘ 4217    πŸ” 662    πŸ’¬ 192    πŸ“Œ 97
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Ted Lieu Is πŸ’―% Correct.......

03.03.2026 08:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1814    πŸ” 850    πŸ’¬ 95    πŸ“Œ 41
Verge headlin: Meta won’t let morality get in the way of a product launch
by Sarah Jeong

Verge headlin: Meta won’t let morality get in the way of a product launch by Sarah Jeong

"After months and months of ceaseless whining about the doxxing of ICE agents, there hasn’t been a single peep from Attorney General Pam Bondi about the future of facial recognition in Meta glasses."

Read more from @sarahjeong.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/policy/88634...

02.03.2026 18:06 β€” πŸ‘ 602    πŸ” 206    πŸ’¬ 32    πŸ“Œ 18
The war machine
Lockheed Martin (LMT): Approximately $450
Raytheon Technologies (RTX): Around $100
Northrop Grumman (NOC): Approximately $500
General Dynamics (GD): About $250
Boeing (BA): Roughly $210
Palantir Technologies (PLTR): Recently surged by 6.6%

The war machine Lockheed Martin (LMT): Approximately $450 Raytheon Technologies (RTX): Around $100 Northrop Grumman (NOC): Approximately $500 General Dynamics (GD): About $250 Boeing (BA): Roughly $210 Palantir Technologies (PLTR): Recently surged by 6.6%

Isn’t it funny how the β€˜Department of Defense’ is now the β€˜Department of War,’ yet we still call companies β€˜defense contractors’ because it sounds better for Congress to justify funding. Language shapes perception. Meanwhile, these companies are making billions supplying weapons of war. πŸ”„

02.03.2026 18:57 β€” πŸ‘ 203    πŸ” 86    πŸ’¬ 20    πŸ“Œ 5
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Former Middle East adviser at the US Department of Defense, Jasmine El-Gamal, has it exactly right.

03.03.2026 13:28 β€” πŸ‘ 3128    πŸ” 1359    πŸ’¬ 125    πŸ“Œ 112
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You Go,Jo Jo From Jerz......

03.03.2026 09:21 β€” πŸ‘ 857    πŸ” 424    πŸ’¬ 34    πŸ“Œ 13

"The things that will DESTROY US are:

POLITICS WITHOUT PRINCIPLES;

PLEASURE WITHOUT CONSCIENCE;

WEALTH WITHOUT WORK;

knowledge without character;

BUSINESS WITHOUT MORALITY;

SCIENCE WITHOUT HUMANITY;

and worship without sacrifice."

~ Mahatma Gandhi

03.03.2026 13:37 β€” πŸ‘ 2026    πŸ” 601    πŸ’¬ 69    πŸ“Œ 23

Respectfully, they believe they're fighting a holy crusade against evil that will spawn the resurrection of their god so they probably aren't too concerned with rational ammunition levels

bsky.app/profile/jona...

03.03.2026 11:58 β€” πŸ‘ 207    πŸ” 33    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 6

Let’s talk Iranian war.

You’ve probably seen a lot of hand-wringing over missile interceptor quantities. Are we running out? Can we fight for years?

As usual, the answer is somewhere in the middle.

Bottom line up front: interceptors are a finite resource. That’s a fact.

03.03.2026 11:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1668    πŸ” 348    πŸ’¬ 78    πŸ“Œ 21

I was told each cpu would cache data and it would be an actual web.

Data β€œcenters” is the only way companies could figure out how to make money off the internet.

BTW: They never solved for security.

03.03.2026 14:00 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Screenshot of Google AI definition of "Decentralized internet".

Screenshot of Google AI definition of "Decentralized internet".

Large data centers aren't necessary. Decentralized internet can achieve the same goal - all of the info we submit to the web (posts, photos, account logins, etc.) is kept locally on personal servers. The problem is the companies would no longer own our data. Same for solar. Legislate for the people.

03.03.2026 12:38 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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It's lights out for WA Legislature's effort to regulate data centers β€’ Washington State Standard Big technology companies scored a win in Olympia on Monday, as a sweeping bill to regulate data centers lapsed in the Washington state Legislature. House Bill 2515 would have required data centers to ...

Big technology companies scored a win in Olympia on Monday, as a sweeping bill to regulate data centers lapsed in the Washington state Legislature. washingtonstatestandard.com/2026/03/02/i...

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