NEW: Four federal judges have formed a firewall against ICE in West Virginia β and say theyβll punish state and federal officials of they continue detaining people in ways they have ruled illegal and unconstitutional.
www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
01.03.2026 12:44 β
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Man it was so much fun
01.03.2026 17:17 β
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Might not be terrorism, for sure, but worth recognizing the potential risks Trump created. Lone gunman, random, the night after Trump broke international law & assassinated the theocratic leader of a Muslim country. In any event we canβt let this admin hijack excuses for mass surveillance state etc
01.03.2026 16:52 β
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Totally fair, and we should, but itβs also a wildly different context than if this had happened on, say, Friday night
01.03.2026 16:40 β
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We just assassinated the theocratic leader of a Muslim country
01.03.2026 16:38 β
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Same bar where I played Free Bird (yes sorry) with my brother not long ago, one of the happiest moments of my life
01.03.2026 16:29 β
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Deadly anti-U.S. protests outside the American consulate in Karachi. This is going great.
www.nbcnews.com/world/iran/l...
01.03.2026 15:57 β
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Thankfully, we can be confident the President of the United States does indeed remember that the world has seen nukes before, so he canβt mean that
01.03.2026 05:34 β
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Remember how Trump's SOTU included a line about how he'd stopped eight wars, including Israel v. Iran?
28.02.2026 17:47 β
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Wouldnβt be the first time
01.03.2026 04:35 β
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βYeah, so just reassure the ayatollah and everyone that Huckβs just bluffing, weβve gotta flex a bit to keep the Saudis happy, and you can confidently carry on with your scheduled internal discussions about trying to reach a nuclear deal with usβ
01.03.2026 04:34 β
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Fairly good point here that identifying insider prediction market trades in real time would be a real coup for foreign intelligence
01.03.2026 04:21 β
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Yeah, theyβve got no skin in it β but man the AI scanner idea would be a hell of a resource for reporters
01.03.2026 04:17 β
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Someone should build an AI program that scans prediction markets and flags surges in unusual activity
01.03.2026 04:11 β
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This Trump post is mental and he also genuinely does not seem to care about managing the war he started, which Iβm sure inspires faith in governments and businesses around the world
01.03.2026 03:57 β
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Trump has been building up military presence in the Gulf for several weeks, but Iβm definitely interested to learn when he decided to greenlight the assassination
28.02.2026 22:13 β
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For Trump, the Iran Attack Is the Ultimate War of Choice
Trump decided to launch a war of choice against Iran not because it posed an imminent threat but because it didn't. With Iran weaker than in years, a window of opportunity opened. @sangernyt.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/u...
28.02.2026 21:50 β
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Meanwhile Trumpβs DOJ is still withholding records of a woman the FBI wanted to cooperate with for a criminal investigation into whether Trump raped her when she was a child
28.02.2026 21:47 β
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Exclusive: Trump floats "off ramps" after attacking Iran
"I can go long and take over the whole thing, or end it in two or three days..."
With the assassination of the ayatollah (!) it sure seems like Bibi and Trump β now openly calling for urgent regime change β are forcing the Iranian people into a civil war, whether theyβre ready for it or not. Unless of course weβre going in to secure the country www.axios.com/2026/02/28/t...
28.02.2026 21:45 β
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They tried to assassinate Khamenei?
apnews.com/article/iran...
28.02.2026 06:42 β
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Ah
www.reuters.com/world/middle...
28.02.2026 06:38 β
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Looks like a couple commercial jets just turned around from their scheduled landing in Tel Aviv
28.02.2026 06:29 β
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Trump just made it clear that (at least as of his interests today) that he wonβt bail Howard Lutnick out of testifying about Epstein. To the lions.
βHoward would go in and do whatever he has to say. Heβs a very innocent guy, doing a good job.β
28.02.2026 03:37 β
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4/4 what the fuck
*not a rating
28.02.2026 02:02 β
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Paramount + WBD may not be the slam dunk you think it is.
It's a great bet that this is not on most people's radars in Hollywood. But they might want to pay attention.
A worthwhile piece on Warner.
"So Paramount, w/a $12 bil market cap, is doing a $111 bil acquisition, $33 billion of which is debt, $40 bil which is equity backed by Larry, whose wealth is tied to Oracle, which is leveraged to the gills. What could go wrong?"
jmarie89.substack.com/p/paramount-...
28.02.2026 00:30 β
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How Todd Blanche Gave Ghislaine Maxwell Blackmail over Donald Trump - emptywheel
Among the implications of DOJ's attempt to bury Epstein files implicating Trump are that Ghislaine Maxwell has blackmail material over Trump.
Reupping my piece on missing Epstein docs, which I stand by.
I note in it that substance of allegation is not salient until we get missing docs. What it does, for now, is prove DOJ is improperly withholding docs.
Their claim docs are duplicative is patent bullshit.
emptywheel.net/how-todd-bla...
27.02.2026 00:37 β
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DOJ to Review Whether Epstein Files About Trump Were Improperly Withheld
The Justice Department didnβt release notes from several interviews a woman gave to FBI agents in 2019.
NEW: WSJ now confirming my reporting that the DOJ is withholding at least three FBI interviews with a woman who told the FBI that Trump sexually assaulted her when she was a child
www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
26.02.2026 00:04 β
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