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ICE arrested Nashville journalist without warrant, attorneys say The journalist, Estefany Rodriguez, was taken to a detention center and remains there as of 3 p.m. March 5.

"She frequently reported on stories critical of ICE for Nashville Noticias, the Spanish-language outlet."

www.tennessean.com/story/news/l...

14 cases, that are known. DHS refuses to respond to inquiries.

“In response to the outbreak, the facility has been closed to visitors and legal advisers and isn’t expected to reopen until March 19”

Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say Military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday, two U.S. officials told Reu...

Reuters Exclusive

"U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school."

"The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the ​Middle East."

The Rage at OpenAI Has Grown So Immense That There Are Entire Protests Against It Protestors gathered outside OpenAI's headquarters on Tuesday, calling on the public to stop using its AI chatbot.

"What OpenAI is doing in terms of building legal mass surveillance technology for the government... is frankly, insane."

Trump Says 'I Guess' Americans Should Worry About Iran Retaliating on U.S. Soil: 'Like I Said, Some People Will Die' In an interview with 'Time,' President Donald Trump acknowledged the possibility that Iran retaliates with attacks on U.S. soil, saying, 'We think about it all the time. We plan for it'

Trump on terrorist attacks in America: “Like I said, some people will die. When you go to war, some people will die."

In his SOTU--a mere 9 days ago!--Trump declared: "The first duty of the American government is to protect American citizens." Yet, as Prof Neil Buchanan says on the blog, he is failing even at his duty "not to inflict gratuitous harm and death on disfavored people essentially for kicks." 👇

Great point here by Politico. By dominating the clean power market, China now has its own kind of freedom from the war's economic impact.

www.politico.com/newsletters/...

The House just defeated the Massie-Khanna War Powers Resolution on Iran.

Crosses, reportedly, were-
R's voting yes: Massie, Davidson (R-OH)
D's voting no: Golden, Landsman, Cuellar, Vargas

Marsupials previously thought extinct for millennia discovered in New Guinea The chances of finding one mammal species thought to be lost was ‘almost zero’ and finding two is ‘unprecedented’, biologist Tim Flannery says

“Researchers led by the Australian scientist Tim Flannery have made a once-in-a-lifetime discovery: that two charismatic marsupial species that had been thought extinct for 6,000 years are alive in rainforest in remote West Papua”

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Black-American Members by State and Territory | US House of Representatives: History, Art & Archives The table is supplemented by an interactive map of the United States and is based on information drawn from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Names are followed by the Congress...

As the Supreme Court is about to gut the Voting Rights Act maybe we should remember that 18 states have never, ever, sent a Black person to Congress.
Ever.
history.house.gov/Exhibitions-...

Trump sides with crypto firms in trillion-dollar battle with banks over stablecoin yield The dispute centers on whether crypto firms like Coinbase can offer yields on stablecoins, which banks warn will siphon trillions of dollars from the industry.

Follow the money

The Coinbase CEO met with Trump at the WH & hours later Trump attacked banks for opposing stablecoin yields

His family has made hundreds of millions from World Liberty Financial, which issues USD1 — a stablecoin that benefits directly!

Corruption in plain sight

House Farm Bill clears committee with controversial pesticide and livestock provisions intact After days of debate and disagreements, the House Committee on Agriculture on Thursday passed its version of the 2026 Farm Bill, which includes controversial provisions critics say will hamper the abi...

The House Committee on Agriculture passed its version of the 2026 Farm Bill.

Rebecca Wolf, senior food policy analyst at @foodandwater.bsky.social, called its pesticide provisions “clear handouts to industry.”
www.thenewlede.org/2026/03/hous...

The Real Reason Trump Went to War Trump has called for sending American forces to Iran since 1980. He finally has, and must own the consequences.

"Believing that Trump was somehow a 'peace president' devoted to American restraint, as some credulous commentators claimed, required ignoring everything he’d said before he was president and everything he’d done after he became president."

What does this imply for those of us who are not Christian, and who labor under the assumption that we're protected by the First Amendment?

Iran school and nearby military base struck multiple times, satellite image reveals Iranian authorities say the attack, which took place on Saturday, killed 168 people.

"Verified videos and satellite imagery show extensive damage around the Shajareh Tayebeh primary school in Minab and the adjacent Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps compound. It also suggests the area was 'struck by multiple simultaneous or near-simultaneous strikes'"
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Many people are saying that Noem has called Trump to ask for a blanket pardon.

Having secured all of the homeland, Markwayne Mullin takes a moment to rest…

Google pledges roughly three hours of its annual profit to fight climate change Google and others are committing $100 million to combat climate change.

The perfect headline doesn’t exi…

Arming Kurdish groups could ignite ethnic conflict, fracture the opposition, and escalate regional instability, potentially strengthening the Iranian regime rather than weakening it. Such a conflict could rally many Iranians behind the government and risk triggering a prolonged civil war.

The Coming Invasion of Iran The U.S. and Israel are arming Kurdish groups to stage an incursion. What could go wrong?

Middle East War about to take a sharp turn in the likely direction of greater chaos.

President Trump on Kurdish ground offensive:

“I think it’s wonderful that they want to do that, I’d be all for it."

What could go wrong:
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

Two weeks ago.
Today.

@politico.com @reuters.com

noem's dog looking down from heaven

DHS’S ESCALATING LAWLESSNESS HAS COST LIVES; KRISTI NOEM AND STEPHEN MILLER MUST RESIGN Democracy Defenders Fund issues the following statement in response to recent actions by the Department of Homeland Security and its immigration enforcement agencies.

Kristi Noem is gone from DHS

But the allegations of misconduct, self-dealing & cover-up don’t leave with her

@democracydefendersfund.org called for Noem & Miller to resign & we’ll keep calling for accountability

The reckoning continues -TN

The bio should also mention that he mistakenly referred to Iran as Iraq, confused Ruhollah Khomeini with Ali Khamenei, and twice referred to Pete Hegseth as “president.” In the same interview, he also said the situation was “not a war,” only to refer to it as a “war” moments later.

Turns out lawlessness is not a winning strategy. See you at Nuremberg 2.0

A chart showing that as of 1:18 PM on March 5, 2026, the price of a barrel of oil is $79.93, up %.27 or 7.06%

We are getting pretty close to $80 a barrel for oil. $WTI Crude

BREAKING

President Trump is preparing to fire DHS Secretary Kristi Noem.

Her combative Congressional hearing was the last straw, sources tell the WSJ.

Full Story: on.wsj.com/3Nl1G91

Trump admin wants to buy Ukrainian weapons to fight Iran: Report Iran has fired drones and missiles at U.S. assets across the Middle East, including military bases, since the war began.

We've gone from "The US needs to arm Ukraine" to "Ukraine needs to arm the US." www.newsweek.com/trump-drones...

First Draft: 🤬 Is This the Worst-Run War in US History? Trump and his administration are improvising a major conflict in the Middle East, as Democrats keep winning in the 2026 redistricting war that is immensely backfiring on the GOP.

“privately, Trump has voiced extreme unease about how the rising American body count “looks,” and few officials close to him believe he has tolerance for a protracted quagmire, sources with knowledge of the matter tell me” - Swin for Zeteo’s First Draft morning newsletter. Have you subscribed yet?