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Washington Bureau chief at The Independent, MSNOW Columnist. Author: We’re Not Broken. Tar Heel. He/Him Eric.garcia@the-independent.com

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Democrats who voted against the War Powers resolution:
-Cuellar
-golden
-Landsman
-Vargas

05.03.2026 21:51 — 👍 41    🔁 23    💬 5    📌 7

Robin Kelly and Jasmine Crockett are deep in conversation right now. Kelly is running her own campaign where she is trailing in third for Senate in Illinois.

05.03.2026 21:26 — 👍 26    🔁 0    💬 3    📌 0

Pelosi giving a forceful speech on the war powers act on Iran. People forget, she not only votes against the Iraq War: SHE WHIPPED AGAINST IT.

05.03.2026 20:23 — 👍 206    🔁 35    💬 6    📌 1

True. The majority are the ones who didn't do a thing and it took Thom Tillis raising hell and Kennedy asking a good question to axe her.

05.03.2026 20:11 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Moral of the story? Congressional oversight matters. Congress should do it more.

05.03.2026 20:03 — 👍 818    🔁 125    💬 6    📌 5

Trying to listen for tears shed on the Hill for Kristi Noem, but I just hear Crickets

05.03.2026 19:51 — 👍 161    🔁 16    💬 8    📌 0

Buy puts for when it drops

05.03.2026 18:58 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

An 80-cent increase in gas in five days? Hooooo

05.03.2026 18:57 — 👍 120    🔁 18    💬 7    📌 4
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Trump fires Kristi Noem as Homeland Security Secretary The president has nominated Oklahoma Senator Markwayne Mullin to replace her

And there it is! Trump fires Kristi Noem as Homeland Security Secretary.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

05.03.2026 18:53 — 👍 45    🔁 10    💬 7    📌 3

Katie Britt is giving a speech about Homeland Security being shutdown. She's so forceful I can hear her floor speech from my seat in the gallery.

05.03.2026 18:44 — 👍 25    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Hence why you should have bought SPY puts four months ago

05.03.2026 18:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 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%

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

05.03.2026 18:30 — 👍 34    🔁 10    💬 6    📌 1

Yes you did, you invaded Poland

05.03.2026 17:11 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Don’t mention the war

05.03.2026 17:09 — 👍 47    🔁 8    💬 5    📌 0
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Trump puts Paxton on notice in Texas Senate primary in interview with POLITICO The president appeared to scold the attorney general.

Trump called Talarico “a terribly weak candidate” who is “more woke than even the very highly untalented Jasmine Crockett.”
“I think he’s going to be much easier than her, because he doesn’t have a real following,” Trump said.

www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

05.03.2026 17:04 — 👍 23    🔁 3    💬 8    📌 2
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Trump puts Paxton on notice in Texas Senate primary in interview with POLITICO The president appeared to scold the attorney general.

Trump criticized Paxton for saying he won’t step aside if Trump doesn’t endorse him

“Well, that’s bad for him to say,” Trump said. “That is bad for him. So maybe, maybe that leads me to go the other direction.”

www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

05.03.2026 17:00 — 👍 34    🔁 8    💬 8    📌 5

A GoFundMe for Nicole Armor, one of the first four servicemembers killed in the Iran War, has been set up. So far, it's raised $34,000 of the $50,000 goal. She had two children: one who was about to graduate high school and a fourth grader.
www.gofundme.com/f/honoring-s...

05.03.2026 15:36 — 👍 35    🔁 19    💬 3    📌 1

Thank you!

05.03.2026 15:31 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Georgia 2026 Poll: Senator Ossoff Starts Re-Election Near 50% and Outpaces GOP Field - Emerson Polling Collins Leads GOP Senate Primary; Lance Bottoms ahead in Democratic Governor Primary as Republicans’ Burt…Full Release & Results

New #GASen poll shows Jon Ossoff leading every one of his potential Republican opponents in Georgia.
emersoncollegepolling.com/georgia-2026...

05.03.2026 15:19 — 👍 54    🔁 11    💬 0    📌 3
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US troops who died in Iran war remembered as devoted parents and soldiers Sgt. 1st Class Nicole Amor was just days away from returning home to her husband and two children when a drone strike in Kuwait killed her and five others.

Nicole Amor, 39, was an avid gardener who enjoyed making salsa from the peppers and tomatoes in her garden with her son, a senior in high school. She also enjoyed rollerblading and bicycling with her fourth-grade daughter.

www.militarytimes.com/news/your-mi...

04.03.2026 13:07 — 👍 1338    🔁 503    💬 64    📌 14

For years on my old blog I published the names of servicemembers who died in Iraq & Afghanistan. No other outlets were.

These are the first 4 Americans to die in the Iran War.
Capt. Cody A. Khork, 35
Sgt. 1st Class Noah L. Tietjens, 42
Sgt. 1st Class Nicole M. Amor, 39
Sgt. Declan J. Coady, 20

03.03.2026 23:07 — 👍 8971    🔁 2983    💬 428    📌 160

Is there a Gofundme link?

05.03.2026 15:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Temuera Morrison says he “can’t really complain” that gets to play so many Star Wars characters.

“I’m Jango. I’m Boba. I’m Commander Cody. I’m all the clones. I’m Captain Rex”

(Source: www.inverse.com/entertainmen...)

05.03.2026 00:33 — 👍 357    🔁 35    💬 4    📌 7
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‘Nazi heaven’: Inside Miami campus Republicans’ racist group chat The chat is the subject of a Florida International University police investigation.

The secretary of Miami-Dade County’s GOP started a group chat for conservative students — and within 3 weeks, it was filled with over 400 instances of the N-word, Nazi rhetoric and writings of "dozens of ways of violently killing Black people"

05.03.2026 03:14 — 👍 5306    🔁 2550    💬 269    📌 561

The official flag of Loudoun County, Virginia

05.03.2026 03:16 — 👍 73    🔁 9    💬 1    📌 0

Stick a fork in it. It's over.

05.03.2026 03:14 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A young man will graduate high school without his mom cheering for him in the bleachers. A little girl is not going to get dressed up for prom with her mom doing her hair.

05.03.2026 02:59 — 👍 82    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

I've told this story before, but many years ago, the late Walter Jones, a Republican congressman, voted for the Iraq War. He came to regret his vote for the carnage it caused. He proceeded to write a condolence letter to the families of every servicemember killed in action.

05.03.2026 02:54 — 👍 178    🔁 34    💬 6    📌 0

Greg Abbott getting his gazillionth term only to end up with Don Huffines setting the revenue number as Comptroller is ... kinda perfect

04.03.2026 02:51 — 👍 68    🔁 6    💬 2    📌 0

She would not have lost!

04.03.2026 23:56 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0