The lawyers are likely correct that Carr would lose this in court. They were also likely correct that Trump would lose his lawsuits against ABC and CBS -- but their corporate owners (with much deeper pockets to fight than a local station) folded instead. That’s the real threat.
The idea he’s genuinely endorsing is satire. But the idea he’s genuinely endorsing is also a dozen industrial thermonuclear detonations next to Iran — which, by the way, has claimed it pursued a nuclear program for civil use only
If you haven’t seen The Alabama Solution, hoo boy
Amid discussions on TODAY's call to evacuate, this story from Wednesday did not get enough attention.
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The Justice Department on Friday moved to dismiss charges against a veteran who set an American flag on fire across the street from the White House following an executive order seeking to crack down on flag burning.
Dark money campaign in IL-09 changed their shady website last night not to dispute reporting but to smear it with the fact that I worked w/ Abughazaleh's boyfriend at NBC 3 years ago. To be clear: Ben is cool. We used to work together. And that had no influence on this 100% true story. Send me tips!
"[Kushner] has spoken with potential investors in recent weeks about raising $5 billion or more for Affinity Partners, his investment firm.... Affinity’s representatives have already met with Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund" www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/b...
The Lebanese Ministry of Health claims Israel has killed 103 children in 11 days
*record scratch*
*freeze frame*
yup, thats me. youre probably wondering how i ended up in this situation.
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This is a good lesson for journalists: Use plain language to state true things clearly.
Google proposes Nebraska data center requiring more power than all of Lincoln flatwaterfreepress.org/google-propo...
I spent about two full years working on this story.
The FBI announced its investigation of ARC for Medicaid fraud in 2024, but there has been little indication of what they were specifically accused of. Thanks to two new pieces of information this year, I pieced it together, here:
Just wait til Larry Ellison has a say!
Ellison-controlled CBS, March 10: War intensifies
Hegseth: Why do the headlines say inflammatory things like “war intensifies”?
Pentagon official press release 3 days ago: Hegseth says war intensifies
Gunman in fatal Old Dominion University shooting IDed as convicted ISIS supporter
The president expresses a desire for a rare intermeeting rate cut. The last one occurred on March 15, 2020, as the Covid shock overwhelmed financial markets.
The Fed's next scheduled policy decision announcement—widely expected to be no change in rates—is in five business days.
The purpose of the FBI Ten Most Wanted list is to attract public attention and generate new tips that might lead to a capture.
In this instance, the added someone to the list an hour and 13 minutes before a coordinated handover took place.
The Trump fund that capitulating media outlets paid their settlements to has been dissolved and it is unclear where the money went. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Iran appears to have conducted a significant cyberattack against a U.S. company, a first since the war started
That’s obviously what I mean. Seems implausible that targeting information for an early target in a war of choice on a country we have gamed out for years and years could simply be outdated by a decade. What information did we rely on and why etc etc
It is unclear how it’s possible you can accidentally precision-bomb what the NYT reporting shows was for many years obviously and very clearly a *school*. That is one hell of a fucking accident. Where did the intelligence come from & why did we act on it like this?
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“A visual investigation by The Times showed the building housing the school had been fenced off from the military base between 2013 and 2016.
Satellite imagery showed that watchtowers that once stood near the building had been removed… play areas including a sports field were painted on asphalt…”
As you know, Nigel, there’s a fine line between stopid and clever
“stoping”
"We started a war of aggression for no reason & commenced it by accidentally bombing an elementary school & killing over 100 kids."
That simple fact is so horrific that it's just kind of bouncing on the surface of our collective consciousness. We can't absorb its full implications & significance.
NEW: The DOJ has established an ongoing pattern of obstruction regarding the Trump accuser’s records, which they still haven’t fully released, and which they still haven’t explained in a coherent way. Here’s a look at where the case stands today
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xAI wants to build a huge, natural gas-burning power plant in Southaven, Mississippi. Regulators plan to hold a key meeting about this in Jackson, ~200 miles away, on Election Day for the 2026 primaries tomorrow. Some residents will trek out to hear what they say...
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FBI subpoenas election records in Arizona, expanding 2020 inquiry
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on a wave of… mutilization?
