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Retired officer, USAF; retired support contractor @ DOD; now just busily retired! Liberal Democrat. News junkie. Refugee from Post News.

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Opinion | Trump’s mini-me ambassadors are insulting and alienating U.S. allies Save the undiplomatic diplomats. The president does enough damage to America’s reputation all by himself.

Gift article

wapo.st/40eSMwM

06.03.2026 18:22 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1
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U.S. was only country in a worldwide survey to say most fellow citizens are bad people A new Pew survey shows that other countries’ citizens tend to look more favorably on their neighbors.

Gift article
wapo.st/4d4DgLi

06.03.2026 18:11 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Dear MAGA Voter: He Played You — The Swamp Wasn’t Drained, It Was Sold to Billionaires A quick note to my MAGA acquaintance...

open.substack.com/pub/thomhart...

06.03.2026 17:54 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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March 5, 2026 President Donald J.

Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) was more direct: “Turns out lawlessness is not a winning strategy,” he posted. “See you at Nuremberg 2.0.”
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

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Capitol rioter who was pardoned by Trump gets a life sentence for molesting 2 children in Florida A Florida handyman who was sentenced on Thursday to life in prison for molesting two children had been convicted of storming the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, but was pardoned by President Donald Trump. O...

www.yahoo.com/news/article...

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Andy Borowitz (@borowitzreport) In Latest Explanation, Trump Blames War in Iran on Fauci

Satire (Or, is it?)

substack.com/@borowitzrep...

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Did Jared Kushner Negotiate Peace — or Set a Trap for Iran’s Leadership? As Iran’s leaders gathered to debate a U.S.-brokered nuclear deal, American and Israeli intelligence already knew their location. Was this diplomacy, or something darker?

open.substack.com/pub/thomhart...

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March 4, 2026 Buried in the cascade of news this week, Sadie Gurman and Caitlin Ostroff of the Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that 47,635 files are missing from the Epstein files documents that the Justice ...

open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

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Kurdish Dissident Groups Say They Are Preparing To Join The Fight Against Iran With U.S. Support Their entry into the war could pose a significant challenge to the embattled authorities in Tehran and could also risk pulling Iraq further into the conflict.

www.huffpost.com/entry/iraq-i...

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US citizen sues ICE after agents allegedly left him bleeding from head A man who says federal immigration agents left him “bleeding and in pain” has filed a $1.25 million damages claim.

www.newsweek.com/us-citizen-s...

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U.S. and Israeli forces will obtain “complete control of Iranian skies” within days, and they will soon begin a second massive air assault dropping 500- and 2,000-pound bombs on targets.

The Washington Post

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Shifting tactics: After a blistering campaign that has hit more than 2,000 Iranian targets and sunk 20 Iranian warships, the U.S. military campaign will shift inland, the Joint Chiefs chairman, Gen. Dan Caine, told reporters Wednesday. At the same briefing, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said (cont)

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Moulton: He ought to think about the war that he didn't go to. That he allowed another American to go to in his place when he dodged the draft, making up some excuse about a sore foot so that he didn't go have to go serve in Vietnam. There is an example of a war where we sought regime change

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Trump Boasts That International Criminal Court in The Hague Has Invited Him to Receive Award “It will probably be some kind of medal or maybe a gleaming gold trophy," he mused.

Satire

open.substack.com/pub/borowitz...

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Trump Says He’ll Cut Off Trade With Spain Over Air Base Use “I told Scott to cut off all dealings with Spain,” Trump said Tuesday during a meeting at the White House, referring to US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. Trump didn’t explain how he planned to fol...

finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-s...

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