A Telegram-linked channel, VChK-OGPU, which claims insider access to Russian security services, has reported that authorities have implemented restrictions on internet access in central Moscow. These restrictions are particularly concentrated around key military and law enforcement sites.
The Trump effect: Americans get the most expensive beefsteak in US history
“The result of a consistent and total substitution of lies for factual truth is not that the lie will now be accepted as truth and truth be defamed as a lie, but that the sense by which we take our bearings in the real world … [gets] destroyed.”—Hannah Arendt, Lying in Politics (1971)
An important review, particularly of the things that Ghislaine Maxwell apparently has, but the DOJ decided to withhold from Congress and the US public. Roger Sollenberger again helps us identify the nature and scope of Pam Bondi's cover-up operation.
So how successful was the decapitation strike that opened the US-Israeli war on Iran? Less successful than we were told before. US intelligence indicates that Iran's leadership is still largely intact and is not at risk of imminent collapse after nearly two weeks of relentless US-Israeli bombardment
Joe Klein: "There is a growing sense in the media, over the past few days, that the war in Iran is not going well, that Iran has been “clever” in its response, that Trump will walk away, Mission Incompleted. I dunno. And neither do you." Yes, and neither do Trump and Hegseth, for that matter.
WATCH: “Amid all the chaos and death, how did our wartime president spend the afternoon? By palling around with internet personality and aspiring boxer Jake Paul in Kentucky—and of course, dancing to the YMCA,” says Chris Hayes.
DOJ lawyers discontinued litigation against law firms after concluding that the legal position they had staked out was utterly bereft of legal merit. Then Trump personally ordered them to resume the cases anyway. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
The fundamental error of this piece is it's failure to appreciate that Trump's page is, and always has been, blank.
Truly he's ready for the funny farm.
At one point Dans said that “the United States has done the rest of the world a great service by making everyone understand that people live in Greenland.” Others in the audience looked on in disbelief.
A report on the jaw-dropping buffoonery of Trump's representatives at the Arctic Circle Forum in Rome: "Thomas E. Dans presented numerous explanations for the Americans’ interest in Greenland, including that it concerns 'humanitarian' assistance.
Citizens Bank has decided that there's lots of money to be made in financing the construction of a whole archipelago of concentration camps for Trump. How do their shareholders feel about that? www.de-icecitizensbank.org
Pete Hegseth has ardently defended the operation against the Islamic Republic, and has done so for all intents and purposes as a television personality performing as a defense minister. He has disregarded rules of engagement and boasted about American supremacy in language that often seems comic.
Gen Mark Hertling: There are professional and moral responsibilities that go with the job of being secretary of defense. Pete Hegseth appears not to understand any of them.
Fetterman is operating in an alternate universe.
"Navy officials... said they have haven’t been told to provide escorts and said that doing so currently would pose enormous risks to US warships and commercial vessels. One official said the Strait of Hormuz could become an Iranian 'kill box' if ships start trying to pass through."
The GOP ad campaign against Talarico consists of AI Deepfakes in which the GOP makes Talarico say whatever they like, consistently (like this) things he never said or did.
The video released by the Iranian regime takes a swipe at Trump over the Jeffrey Epstein files scandal that has dogged his administration www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Led by Pete Hegseth, the Trump administration pushed to increase the ‘lethality’ of US war operations, a move that appears to have led directly to hundreds of unnecessary civilian deaths, including the bombing of a girls' school in Minab where 180, mostly young school girls, were killed.
At his rally in Kentucky, Trump tells his supporters that the Iran War is essentially a super fun and entertaining video game. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Pediatricians contending with a sharp rise in vaccine hesitancy are trying to stay sensitive and supportive, even as they bear the brunt of parents’ mistrust and confusion.
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/h...
Major update: Bombshell Epstein deposition outlines the wealthy men funding Epstein, including a foreign leader.
California on alert after news of possible Iranian plans for drone attacks.
Trump declares USA won the war as the war costs $11 billion dollars and Iran attacks oil tankers tonight.
I may be wrong, but it feels to me like reporters are giving Trump a lot more "Yeah, no, that's bullshit" responses now than they did just a few months ago.
Members of Congress are using the kind of hateful rhetoric about Muslims that was common in the early 2000s—but this time with a president who has encouraged it, @dgraham.bsky.social writes in The Atlantic Daily.
Prof. @pkrugman.bsky.social and historian @hcrichardson.bsky.social joined forces today by launching "Lunch Money,” a new monthly conversation series about how money shapes our politics www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6vc...
the mental fragility of maga he-men is incredible to behold bsky.app/profile/scot...
Бестолковый марионетка, witless stooge: that's how they refer to Witkoff in Moscow. And they love him.
This has been a topic in bar circles for weeks. Two Democrats are calling on the DOJ's internal watchdog to launch a probe into what they say is a "troubling pattern" of favorable outcomes for clients of defense attorney Brad Bondi, the brother of AG Pam Bondi, in cases involving the DOJ.
investment group New America Acquisition I Corp, which said in filings last year that it would seek to buy a US company “well-positioned to benefit from federal or state-level incentives, such as grants, tax credits, government contracts or preferential procurement programs”.
