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Yes — as @POTUS has said — we are bombing Narco Terrorists on land as well. Thank you to our partners in Ecuador. Much more to come from @Southcom …

In other war powers news…

Really not clear what is happening here.

Who is the “we” SecDef refers to?

Is this merely bombastic PR for U.S. support to Ecuadorian operations?

Or U.S. direct action?

A free Iran will resume, after decades, its formerly warm ties with the United States. The rebirth of our nation will usher in an era of peace and prosperity, with energy reserves, an educated and entrepreneurial population, and geography that make it a natural hub of regional commerce. Iran is not Iraq. We will not repeat the mistakes that followed that conflict. There will be no dissolution of institutions, no power vacuum, no chaos. That is precisely why my team of experts produced a transition plan called the Iran Prosperity Project. This detailed road map for national recovery, including the first 100 days after the regime’s collapse and the longer-term reconstruction and stabilization of our country, is backed by many business leaders around the world. The Post’s David Ignatius has called the IPP “smarter than anything the U.S. government or Iraqi exiles produced before the 2003 invasion.”

re-reading the Reza Pahlavi op-ed they tossed up on Washington Post:

When DOGE Unleashed ChatGPT on the Humanities

What we suspected is, of course, true.

They blew up an elementary school Tom
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Sulaymaniyah is getting hammered tonight, PUK and rojhelati organizations and even hotels. this is the direct consequence of all the speculative reporting on Kurdish intervention.

"It's pissing people off": Older Dems are sick of hearing about "generational change" "I have no idea why this is the year to write this story, except that Joe Biden was old."

lol

www.axios.com/2026/03/06/h...

Jalisco state police agents entered Michoacán territory as a shield for a CJNG group and fired at residents of the Tepalcatepec, Michoacán.

The fact that Jalisco State Police went all the way to Michoacan for this is pretty indicative of their connection with CJNG.

‘I Genuinely Am Upset That Your Kids Are Vaccinated’ Del Bigtree, a longtime ally of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., isn’t just anti-vaccine. He’s pro-infection.

It's as if they understand and accept the facts and/or expert consensus on a given topic but set policy in the opposite direction to annoy the libs.

It's not just ignorance or a lack or knowlege. It's anti-knowlegde.

Rebecca Solnit Says the Left’s Next Hero Is Already Here

“One of the great weaknesses of our era is we get lone superhero movies that suggest that our big problems are solved by muscly guys in spandex, when actually the world mostly gets changed through collective effort, more like caregiving than it is like war.”

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/m...

There is a legal provision in immigration law that someone married to a US citizen can stay in the US while there visa is pending. Immigration officials have long recognized it to allow residency during the wait time. The DHS has just stopped following this part of the law.

this isn't just a MAGA thing, it's a cross-American one and *especially* a lot of people who came of age in politics or punditry in the 1990s. the idea that the news could happen to them - that the world might not be all going their way - is genuinely brain-breaking to a lot of them

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I planned to share my report on the body cam footage early next week when I learned that a DC news station had obtained some of the footage as a result of my lawsuit and they were going to scoop me. After working on this for a year, I couldn't let that happen. Published 2 mins before they aired :)

On it chief

Running for Congress on a platform of sneaking into Polymarket HQ and unplugging all their stuff. Overflow crowds at a local Knights of Columbus hall roar with delight as I promise to pour Florida's Natural Grapefruit Juice (with pulp) into the USB-C port of every computer in the damn place.

We bombed a girls elementary school.

Probably first major US loss of the conflict when it comes to ballistic missile defense. One of TPY-2 radars belonging to the THAAD battery deployed to Muwaffaq Salti Airbase in Jordan seems to have been struck. The full radar set goes over $200M.

To the surprise of some officials in Kyiv, no one from the U.S. bothered to ask Ukraine to share its expertise in how to defend against drones before starting the offensive in Iran, Simon Shuster and Nancy A. Youssef report. theatln.tc/AFPCstm6

It’s hilarious how much Congress hates OSD and the strategy cheese in particular rn

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Seems relevant to the upcoming war powers vote in the House.

It implies that we are visitors in someone else’s country.

you can genuinely watch the news anchor not compute in real time

Obviously will want to verify this further but this certainly looks like a double-tap strike on first responders in Beirut, moments ago on the AP livestream. The fire burning was started by an air strike about three or four hours ago.

The restrictions Miller and Hegseth railed against were designed to prevent us from doing things like slaughtering children en masse.

ICE detains reporter Estefany Rodríguez in Nashville - Nashville Banner Reporter Estefany Rodríguez, detained by ICE with no arrest warrant, may face deportation. Her attorneys seek immediate review of the legality of her case.

ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.

They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.

US forces land in Iraqi western desert, clash with Iraqi troops, leave one dead: Sources A US special force has landed in desert areas in Iraq’s Anbar, Najaf and Karbala provinces, resulting in reported clashes with Iraqi forces that left one soldier dead and two others wounded, according...

The JSOC experience: arrive, murder a member of the armed forces of a nation who we want to be a partner, leave.

The use the language of "clash" but the additional reporting is that a column sent out to investigate what was happening got air striked with no warning.

www.rudaw.net/english/midd...

Just gonna leave this here: danieldrezner.substack.com/p/why-trumps...

on this team and gonna keep saying: behind the extremely thin veneer of concern and responsibility of anti-Bluesky takes is the desperate attempt to portray something that is obviously their problem as though it were our problem. nice try. go with God, have a blessed day

Iran missile launches slowing; drone interceptor weakness exposed in war Deep dive, geeky take on the missile/interceptor technology that is being used by the Iranians, Israelis and the United States. Meanwhile, why are Iranian drones getting through American defenses?

Deep dive, geeky take on the missile/interceptor technology that is being used by the Iranians, Israelis and the United States.

Meanwhile, why are Iranian drones getting through American defenses?

www.iranwar.news/p/iran-missi...