Melissa Jo Peltier

THIS ISN’T GETTING NEARLY ENOUGH ATTENTION

U.S. intelligence intercepted an encrypted transmission believed to be from Iran, possibly an operational trigger for sleeper cells.

🚨Government alert: Iran may be activating sleeper cells.

With Trump and Hegseth running the show, we’re screwed.

You’re not interested, Ted?
Oh.

Peter Mandelson, the Russian superyacht and the scandal we completely misread When Britain's most powerful political fixer was caught on an oligarch's boat in Corfu, we called it Yachtgate and moved on. The Epstein files now reveal the full picture: a web of Russian money, paed...

We are just begin to get an inkling of how deeply embedded Peter Mandelson and Tony Blair were/are with the sinister rich. Every time you think you've seen the worst of it, something else emerges.
www.thenerve.news/p/peter-mand...

This is a Steely Dan song

in case you've never seen it, this is Roger Ebert on The Mummy

We're spending $1 billion per day on war as millions of working people struggle to get by.

Meanwhile, America's ultra-rich have never been richer.

As long as you don’t need gas, groceries, affordable healthcare, retirement savings or constitutional rights, things aren’t so bad.

David Letterman: FRAME MOGGING! That’s what the kids say, they say he was MOGGING A FRAME

Paul Shaffer:

They all said I was a FOOL for buying a plug-in hybrid when gas prices were low last year.

Actually, nobody said that. But I’m going to pretend they did to burnish my ego.

Yes, hello, is that God? Yeah, hi. I have a complaint. You gave me this brain that’s designed for finding berries and avoiding lions and now people are ‘just circling back’ to see if we can ‘move the needle’ on ‘key initiatives’? NONE of those things are berries.

clip and save

Here we go again

Rep. Bresnahan April 2025: I meet with my financial advisor. We talk about, you know, what different positions are coming up.

June 2025: The trades that are being executed on my behalf, I do not have any dialogues with my financial advisors.

Kaine: "As we saw in Vietnam & Iraq & as I think we're seeing now, our troops sometimes get betrayed by poor civilian decision making. They're gonna do what we ask them to do in wonderful ways, but when civilians don't make good decisions, who suffers? Them. We've had 7 troops come home to Dover."

I love that Florida Man here has the sunglasses sunburn on his face as he's casually demanding the deportation of an elected official

Hegseth says otherwise.

Can we get some actual journalists in the Pentagon press pool?

Report: President Donald Trump Is Giving 'All The Boys' Dress Shoes That Don't Fit Right | Defector It goes without saying that there is a great deal of Psychology going on in Donald Trump’s second term. None of it is especially complicated, because the people involved are without exception clammy, ...

I wrote about The Florsheim Affair, and what kind of man wears the ill-fitting dress shoes his weird boss gave him to work. defector.com/report-presi...

A March 3 satellite picture (sourced to Planet Labs) of a March 1 missile strike on Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia. The "damaged structure" which is marked, is close to a Radome, also marked.

In first report on Russia helping Iran w/targeting, WaPo focused on strikes in Saudi Arabia. NYT earlier revealed this strike on Prince Sultan Air Base--which they later implied was the strike that would lead to Bejamin Pennington's death.

We need to know if RU played a role in killing Pennington.

bsky.app/profile/rapb...

“Who could’ve seen this coming?” is highly unpleasant when the answer is “most people who know anything about this big topic and they’ve been saying so for years.”

this is probably the least interested i’ve ever been in paying my federal income taxes, i tell you what.

“This is our second war in a month.”

Take a moment to sit with that.

NYC $30 minimum wage proposal headed to City Council Mayor Mamdani campaigned for the nation-leading increase, which would land at a time of of heightened economic uncertainty.

BREAKING: A bill is being introduced in the NYC City Council to raise the minimum wage to $30/hr by 2030.

gothamist.com/news/nyc-30-...

Just a buddy comedy gone terribly wrong.

Long-time buddies Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were out for a pleasant van drive in Oklahoma when, all of a sudden, their lives would change.

Viral 'Quittr' Porn Addiction App Exposed the Masturbation Habits of Hundreds of Thousands of Users A couple of 20-year-old developers make $500,000 a month promising to help men to stop watching porn, but exposed their private porn watching habits.

NEW: A couple of 20-year-old developers make $500,000 a month promising to help men, including minors, to stop watching porn, but exposed their private porn watching habits.

When we asked them about it in January, they lied about the huge security flaw. Here's why we're naming them now:

Rand Paul: "The 2026 elections, already we are behind the 8 ball. If you add in high gas prices, high oil prices, and if we're still bombing Iran with kinetic action -- people don't want to call it war -- I think you're gonna see a disastrous election."

Here is what the Democracy Docket team is tracking today:

Active Voting Rights Cases: 167
Active Redistricting Cases: 50
Active Anti-Voting Cases: 92
Active Pro-Voting Cases: 72
Active DOJ Lawsuits: 32

Support their work by subscribing today. bit.ly/4qmEiFz