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Trump to Rubio: "Your next one is gonna be Cuba. He's waiting but he says, 'Let's get this one finished first.' We could do them all at the same time, but bad things happen."

FOLKS—-

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

NOEM TAKING QUESTIONS - DOES NOT APPEAR TO KNOW SHE WAS FIRED

Blowing this up now should do additional wonders for US economic growth. 🤡

There it is: Noem out, Mullin in

ISRAELI MEDIA: U.S. AND ISRAEL CONSIDER REDUCING ATTACK FREQUENCY AMID DECLINING WEAPON STOCKS TO SUSTAIN LONGER MILITARY OPERATIONS

You know what it's like teach Con Law in 2026? Here's our current assignment:

Dames & Moore v. Regan (executive authority to negotiate deal over 1979 Iran hostage crisis)
War Powers Resolution
Trump v. United States
Trump v. Hawaii
Trump v. Vance
Trump v. Mazars

sigh.

2) Iran is 4x the size of Iraq with 2x the population. Much of the land is very mountainous. There are practical reasons why the U.S. has never seriously considered a land invasion or occupation of Iran.

what are we doing here

September.

OpenAI hit with lawsuit claiming ChatGPT acted as an unlicensed lawyer ChatGPT maker OpenAI has been accused in a new lawsuit of practicing law without a U.S. license and helping a former disability claimant breach a settlement and flood a federal court docket with merit...

OpenAI hit with lawsuit claiming ChatGPT acted as an unlicensed lawyer www.reuters.com/legal/legali...

Azerbaijan just closed airspace "in the south of the country" per Bloomberg macro squawk. Losing that link would have a massive impact on Europe-Asia (incl the Indian subcontinent and ANZ) air travel.

From FT comments

Nancy Youssef, ..guil @ X.com @nancyayoussef The preliminary Pentagon cost estimate of the war in Iran is $1 billion a day, a congressional official told me. 12:20 PM • 3/4/26 • 44K Views

Preliminary Pentagon cost estimate of the war in Iran is $1 BILLION a day. So far.

"It is the purpose [of the War Powers Resolution] to insure that the collective judgment of both Congress and the President will apply to the introduction of United States Armed Forces into hostilities." 50 USC 1541

Or not.

lol

*HOUSE PANEL VOTES TO SUBPOENA BONDI IN EPSTEIN FILES PROBE

Apart from the terminally online, the average person has no ability to understand what is going on with the slightest amount of confidence right now. But perhaps that’s the point

Trump DOJ Pushes to Sideline State Bar Ethics Investigations The Justice Department has proposed a regulation seeking to authorize Attorney General Pam Bondi’s intervention to suspend state bar ethics investigations into current and former DOJ lawyers.

JUST IN: Trump DOJ proposes surprise rule aiming to let Attorney General Pam Bondi suspend state bar investigations into alleged misconduct by DOJ lawyers. Very unclear if there'd be legal authority for the AG to intervene in this manner.
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

U.S. sub sinks Iranian warship off Sri Lanka, killing 87 and expanding war zone A U.S. submarine sank an Iranian warship off the southern coast of Sri Lanka, killing dozens of sailors and dramatically widening Washington's pursuit of the Iranian navy.

A US submarine sinking a lonely, dinky Iranian surface ship an ocean away from the theater of the main conflict—and 9000
miles from North America—makes it pretty clear the US is fighting a general war, without the declaration required by the Constitution. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

Iran war Stay up to date on the latest Iran war news coverage from AP News.

We have added a new AP Stylebook Online entry for the Iran war.
Our guidance explains that it is acceptable to use the term "war" to refer to the joint U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran starting Feb. 28, 2026, and Iran’s retaliation.

AI Translations Are Adding ‘Hallucinations’ to Wikipedia Articles AI translated articles swapped sources or added unsourced sentences with no explanation, while others added paragraphs sourced from completely unrelated material.

low paid workers in the global south are using AI translation to generate Wikipedia articles that, surprising no one, include errors and hallucinations www.404media.co/ai-translati...

Gemini Said They Could Only Be Together if He Killed Himself. Soon, He Was Dead. A new lawsuit alleges Google’s chatbot sent a Florida man on missions to find an android body it could inhabit. When that failed, it set a suicide countdown clock for him.

A new lawsuit alleges Google’s chatbot sent a Florida man on missions to find an android body it could inhabit. When that failed, it set a suicide countdown clock for him. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/gemi...

“Our results show that the practical obscurity protecting pseudonymous users online no longer holds and that threat models for online privacy need to be reconsidered.”

Polymarket has created a market that would monetize a nuclear attack amid increasing concerns that bets are happening among government insiders who can make military decisions.

What stage of the apocalypse is this?

polymarket.com/event/nuclea...

The FBI Is Using AI to Hack Targets AI is a “game changer” for what the FBI calls remote access operations, an FBI official said in response to a 404 Media question on Tuesday.

"I see AI as having applicability across, again, every single tactic that would be relevant to those on-network operations, So it's a game changer in that sense.”

Yeah, the FBI is using AI to hack targets, saying it has "tremendous benefits."

Trump: "Effective IMMEDIATELY, I have ordered the United States Development Finance Corporation (DFC) to provide, at a very reasonable price, political risk insurance and guarantees for the Financial Security of ALL Maritime Trade, especially Energy, traveling through the Gulf. This will be available to all Shipping Lines. If necessary, the United States Navy will begin escorting tankers through the Strait of Hormuz, as soon as possible. No matter what, the United States will ensure the FREE FLOW of ENERGY to the WORLD. The United States’ ECONOMIC and MILITARY MIGHT is the GREATEST ON EARTH — More actions to come. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP"

Trump: "I have ordered the US Development Finance Corporation (DFC) to provide political risk insurance and guarantees for the Financial Security of ALL Maritime Trade through Gulf. This will be available to all Shipping Lines. If necessary, the Navy will begin escorting tankers through the Strait"

Breaking - US consulate in Dubai has been hit and is on fire
@cnn.com

DOJ has asked a federal appeals court to un-drop its challenge to lower-court rulings that President Trump illegally targeted law firms he disfavored.

“We won on tariffs.” What???