"The $7.3 billion National Cancer Institute (NCI), NIH’s largest institute, is also feeling the effects. At a recent public meeting, Deputy Director Doug Lowy noted the NOFO approval process now requires 16 steps. He joked that it’s now more complex than a 1929 Rube Goldberg design for a can opener"
A former top Chevron executive was super tight with Delcy Rodriguez. He told the CIA to back her instead of Venezuela's democratic opposition,. The agency told Trump.
Now Ali Moshiri is ready to cash in. He's raising $3 billion to get back in Venezuela's oil game.
www.wsj.com/world/americ...
Hegseth, his announcement, and plan can be summed up in just ONE word from your 6th post in thread:
"JUVENILE".
#Hegseth
I served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Force Education and Training for three years before the office was disestablished last year. I owned the policy on professional military education for all five services. I have listened to Secretary Hegseth's announcement. I have thoughts. 🧵
Staffing “was always bad. And now it’s at a breaking point,” a VA psychologist said.
They described being stretched so thin that one-on-one appointments were cut down to 16 minutes or replaced with group sessions with as many as 35 veterans.
Folks, I regret to inform you: This design was OK'd by the Citizens Coin Advisory Committee in...October 2024. Its design was set in place when Biden was in office. The designer left out the olive branch to symbolize the colonists' not yet achieving peace, but hoping for it. Trump didn't do this.
Pete Hegseth reportedly spent $24M of expiring DOD funds on lobster, ribeye steaks, and Alaskan king crab.
Now the Pentagon wants ANOTHER $500B, on top of Trump's record-setting $1T military budget.
Imagine what we could spend that money on instead.
And to be clear, we have zero intention of doxxing her or posting her personal contact info online.
But we will seek to sue her for her actions, which have consequences, as we have other #JamesOKeefe paid undercover operatives.
Your assistance will be held confidential.
📽️NEW: The DOJ is sitting on half the Epstein Files — and Congressman Robert Garcia says that's no accident.
Rep. Garcia breaks down where the Epstein investigation stands: who's been subpoenaed, what the DOJ is hiding and why this is already worse than Watergate.
https://bit.ly/47zoAAn
I wrote this essay about the private sector's exploitation of American concentration camps in July 2025. The situation has since advanced much further.
snyder.substack.com/p/concentrat...
It’s crazy that he is negotiating on behalf of the U.S. at all. He has no government appointment and no one elected him and he has no business being in those meetings even without the grift
They made them take down the videos because they would cause "reputational damage" to people like this young man, Nathan Cavanuagh, so definitely don't post this all over the internet with the name Nathan Cavanaugh attached, or this guy might suffer reputational damage. This guy, Nathan Cavanaugh.
How Epstein lured girls to his Zorro Ranch and kept authorities away
At least 10 women and girls say they were groomed at what was once Jeffrey Epstein's Zorro Ranch in New Mexico.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
The fact that a statement like this does not immediately cause members of the @houserepublicans.bsky.social to call for Articles of Impeachment, reveals the level of rot and cowardice of Republicans elected to defend their voters.
Solidarity with @kschake.bsky.social. The US military gains nothing from this systematic banning of scholars. It snacks of fear of facts- another sign that there is a design of ideological indoctrination.
For those who think that the US armed forces would never carry out illegal orders from the Trump administration, note that they are still carrying out boat strikes--which experts agree are illegal. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/u...
Josh Nass, a lawyer and lobbyist with connections in Trump’s orbit, has been arrested by FBI agents and charged with attempted extortion, according to court papers.
Nass had recently represented Joseph Schwartz, a former nursing home executive pardoned by Trump late last year.
NEW: White House officials have heard President Trump’s personal iPhone number is being sold to CEOs. Crypto bros are trying to trade for it. Journalists are bartering. Inside the hunt for the most important 10 digits in DC. W/ @ashleyrparker.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
I have thoughts on the recent joint ventures between the UFC and the FBI, and am thankful to @ms.now for giving me a forum to voice them.
Blueberry
It is hard to overstate, for non-lawyers, just how milquetoast the ABA is in normal times. It’s supposed to be boring insurance lawyers leading workshops with boring tax lawyers, trying to drum up business.
A pissed off ABA is like dentists manning the barricades and singing Le Marseillaise.
So, Geoff Bennett has a new book, Black Out Loud, & it’s nothing you’re expecting and everything you want to read write now, so I got him to talk with me about it & about what it’s like to be in the anchor chair for NewsHour.
Ossoff: "The WH put out a video depicting this war as a video game. When service members are returning in flag-draped coffins, & even more have lost limbs or suffered brain injuries or are fighting for their lives, this WH treats war like a game. It's a disgrace. And it speaks to a moral rot."
This is so powerful.
Search-and-rescue crews were “flying blind” trying to rescue survivors from deadly tornadoes that hit the Midwest last week.
Why? Because Kristi Noem hadn't approved FEMA’s $200,000 contract with a tornado-tracking tool.
But she had time to spend $220 million on anti-immigrant ads. Priorities.
BREAKING: Pete Kegstand IGNORED the CENTCOM chief and the Chair and Vice Chair of the Joint Chiefs opposition to GUTTING offices that limit civilian casualties, calling them "stupid." He fired and replaces all opposed. Politico with the exclusive: www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
The latest step, and a major one, in the Trump administration’s consistent efforts to keep the Russian army in the field against Ukraine.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/u...
Pete Hegseth lashed out at a CNN story on the failure to adequately plan for Iran closing the Strait of Hormuz.
But I looked at the story he's criticizing. He's full of shit. He's mischaracterizing the reporting:
newrepublic.com/article/2077...
