Markwayne Mullin on the attempted deportation of Liam Ramos, a 5-year-old child of an undocumented immigrant in Minneapolis:
"This story that they’re blowing up about this 5-year-old kid is so false, is so untrue that honestly, there probably should be some lawsuits filed against this."
the standard line is that we counter lies with more speech; but when the right owns all the major news outlets & social media platforms, the idea that the truth will magically overcome their lies is not serious. We need to remake the system @deanbaker13.bsky.social cepr.net/publications...
The fundamental error of this piece is it's failure to appreciate that Trump's page is, and always has been, blank.
Trump’s suggestions that the war with Iran might soon be over are bringing a new problem to the fore: Israel and the U.S. have rather different ideas.
So I’m wondering what more it would take for everyone to finally understand that, just like he was famously awful as a businessman, Trump is completely and thoroughly horrible at managing the economy? Other than turning off Fox News, I mean.
Despite attempts by Trump to claim otherwise, the U.S. military was responsible for killing at least 175 in a strike on a school in Iran.
Exclusive: Foreign hacker in 2023 compromised Epstein files held by FBI, source and documents show
Here’s the reason the United States bombed the Children’s school in Iran.
And yes, it’s Trumps fault.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Former NATO chief says says Iran *can* close Strait of Hormuz -- and not much we can do:
-Iran has more than 5,000 mines
-they can be dropped by small boats, even civilian ones.
-U.S. only has handful of minesweepers
-clearing mines could take months.
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
I can’t stop thinking of the health consequences of the bombing of oil depots, especially when multiple hospitals are not functioning due to damage. Lives lost due to respiratory exacerbation in the context of reduced healthcare access are also casualties in this war.
I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public.
I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are.
1/ Here's what I can share:
Did the bombing of the girls' school at Minab flow directly from Hegseth's obsession with "lethality"? There's very good reason to believe that. And it furnishes another reason for his removal, as well as further disciplinary action against him.
"If your kid was in the armed services and you watched Pete Hegseth doing his WAR! shtick, what would you think? If it was me, I’d be sick to my stomach seeing that my child’s life was in the hands of a man with low character and lower intelligence."
www.thebulwark.com/p/everything...
Arizona is now ground zero for this cynical and profoundly anti-democratic effort, and we’re going to fight like hell to stop it.
With his poll numbers sinking, Donald Trump is abusing the powers of his office to manufacture doubt, poison trust, and build the pretext to seize elections — or to sow doubt in the result if voters reject him and his party again.
Federal agents should chase criminals, not debunked conspiracy theories. But let’s not kid ourselves about what this is...
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www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Our analysis, which shows that more women nearly bled to death during miscarriage after Texas banned abortion, adds to a growing body of reporting revealing that maternal outcomes have gotten worse under bans.
(Published July 2025)
I know you are surprised to find out it’s a clown show.
Can someone help Pinocchiogles understand how immigration works pls
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Russian and Ukrainian officials this week made rival claims of battlefield successes in their four-year-old war, as the U.S. postponed its sponsored talks between the two sides due to the war in the Middle East.
Just out @propublica.org: How did the Pentagon make the horrible mistake that left more than 150 school children dead? Perhaps because it cancelled an effort to limit such harm in favor of Hegseth’s lust for “lethality.”
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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Marco Rubio's BFF is an accused foreign agent and money launderer. His trial is about to start — and Rubio is on the witness list.
My @vanityfair.com story on the legal bomb that's poised to go off in Trumpland.
www.vanityfair.com/news/story/m...
Abortion rights advocates warn that House Bill 2144 not only imperils reproductive health care for individual women but also violates the Arizona Constitution
story via @glorihuh.bsky.social
Americans are paying more for gas Monday as the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran chokes off a significant route for roughly one-fifth of the world’s petroleum products ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/03/09/r...
Gen. Joshua M. Rudd was confirmed as the next head of the National Security Agency and U.S. Cyber Command, ending nearly one year of leadership limbo at the nation’s largest spy agency and the military’s offensive cyber organization.
Mike Johnson: "This was a limited operation and excursion. I don't call it a war. We haven't declared war."
The Trump administration is gearing up to kick an estimated six million more people off of food assistance programs — including nearly two million children.
The move would save just $1 billion a year, while Trump spends upwards of $1 billion per *day* on his new forever war.
Priorities.
Approximately 140 U.S. service members have been wounded in the first 10 days of the war with Iran, according to the Pentagon
