Alan Wessman

Trump has fully shattered the world we all grew up in. It’s a dramatic break from how things worked before, even compared to the Iraq War and other misadventures - the United States abruptly tumbling over a cliff and becoming literally more reckless and domineering than Putin’s Russia.

Seems an audit of all documents coded as duplicative is in order.

Thread digs into the components of the job loss numbers. Good for understanding why they dipped.

Optical illusion of a woman bent over some papers. Her sunglasses are pushed up and she is wearing a hair band so the top of her head looks exactly like a Muppet face

Sorry I know the world is in a terrible fix but I've been laughing at this for ten minutes now

Cosined

Noem Alone

[Exit Murderer.]

If Noem is fired, will Lewandowski be fired too, or resign to follow her, or stay in DHS?

To put some more color on this: no one is calling for Tony Gonzales to step down because he cheated on his wife. It’s because he had sex with a subordinate. That is a violation of House ethics rules and is a terminable offense in any functioning corporate office.

Others may more wittingly retcon a religious rationale on top of their own preference, as a way to insulate their decisions from challenge or consequence, or to gain the upper hand in a debate.

It can be hard to distinguish externally either of these two cases from sincere religious belief.

Absolutely.

Where it gets tricky—and I’m being descriptive here, not prescriptive—is when a person habitually interprets their personal preferences as external spiritual direction. They may not think of their visceral reaction as their own preference but as guidance from the Divine.

Calling states "red" and "blue" based on presidential results not only ignores the partisanship of other statewide votes but also ignores how lousy those descriptors are at the presidential level.
www.ms.now/opinion/texa...

NEW: Mesa County District Attorney Dan Rubenstein (R) who prosecuted Tina Peters says Gov Jared Polis (D) giving Peters clemency "would be a gross injustice." Rubenstein points out that separate case cited by Polis to justify clemency misses the purpose of sentencing ranges.

Your Honor, we would like to introduce this clip as Exhibit #1.

Supreme Court Abuse of the Shadow Docket Under Trump The Court has sided with the administration 80 percent of the time when making “emergency” rulings, often without revealing its reasoning.

Today marks one year since the Supreme Court first used the shadow docket to rule on Trump policies in his second term. Since then, the Court has sided with the president 80 percent of the time. bit.ly/4cybln3

I do wonder though, if there’s not also a new challenge for Russia in being deprived of Iran as a partner and supplier. Isn’t a fair amount of Russia’s arsenal lately coming from Iran—drones and missiles especially?

NEW: Clemency for Tina Peters would be unprecedented, based on my analysis of Gov Polis' 25 commutations. Peters hasn't shown remorse, taken accountability, or sought to restore harm. No Polis commutation was for a harsh sentence alone and Peters' would be the shortest by 30+ yrs

Now that Republicans have done Trump's bidding by blocking limits on his war powers, remember that in doing this, they are also relieving *themselves* of the obligation to vote on the enormously consequential decision of whether to go to war. Craven abdication.

newrepublic.com/article/2072...

so a month of this war is about a year of USAID

gosh, I wonder which option had more positive impact on America's international relations

Sepsis from a tooth infection should be a never happen event in a government run prison system.

That these prisons are private almost ensures that the prisons are cutting back on services and resources. But even then, a situation such as this was entirely preventable.

This is absolutely criminal.

Despite suggesting during briefing that they would take their map challenge to SCOTUS, Utah Republicans have not yet taken any steps to do that. (The federal district court denied their request for an injunction on 2/23, a week and a half ago.)

Burgess Owens and Mike Lee were in heated competition for the title of “Most Bluster, Least Benefit” in Utah’s congressional delegation. Now Lee wins by forfeit.

spiral galaxy NGC 5314 Looks like the eye of Sauron. https://www.space.com/astronomy/james-webb-space-telescope/spectacular-spiral-galaxy-revealed-by-james-webb-space-telescope-space-photo-of-the-day-for-march-4-2026

JWST continues to kill it

Dear STEPHEN HELD: The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) previously found you eligible for the TSA PreCheck™ Application program on 12/21/2020. As an individual previously found eligible for the TSA PreCheck™ Application Program, you are subject to recurrent checks against various databases, including law enforcement, immigration, regulatory violation, and intelligence databases for continued eligibility. TSA has made a preliminary determination that you may no longer be eligible to participate in the TSA PreCheck™ Application Program because you committed certain violations of security related regulations, described below in greater detail. As a result, TSA has preliminarily revoked your eligibility for the program. RESULTS OF TSA'S ELIGIBILITY DETERMINATION: Pursuant to TSA PreCheck™ eligibility requirements, applicants may be ineligible to participate due to disqualifying criminal offenses and other factors, which includes determinations that an applicant does not pose a sufficiently low risk to transportation security. TSA considers your conduct on or about September 27, 2025, in Terrace, Illinois, involving Assault on Certain Officers or Employees under U.S. Code 18 USC 111, to be inconsistent with expedited screening eligibility, which is reserved for persons known to pose a low risk to transportation security. This determination is distinct from any criminal or civil enforcement proceedings which may be brought against you in conjunction with this incident. You have not yet been disqualified from participation in the TSA PreCheck ™ Application Program. This letter is an ineligibility determination that notifies you of the preliminary decision made by TSA. You may inform TSA in writing of your intent to correct any information you believe is inaccurate. TSA must receive your request to correct any information you believe to be inaccurate within 60 calendar days of the date of this letter. If you wish to correct this information, you must provide any…

Shortly after the TSA letter, I received an email that my Global Entry was also revoked.

Keep in mind, I was arrested for no reason. No charges were filed.

TSA's letter incorrectly claims that I was involved in an "assault," in a nonexistent place called "Terrace, Illinois."

Linux isn’t a website or social platform w “sign ups,” profiles or accounts tied to email

When u “create an account” on Linux, ur just creating a local system user on that machine. No internet call. No central database. No identity check. No universal registration flow where age could even be asked

An upcoming California law requires operating system providers to enforce basic mandatory age verification It's basic, and by the looks of it, near unenforceable.

A new California law says all operating systems, including Linux, need to have some form of ID verification (which they’re calling age verification) at account setup.

This makes absolutely ZERO sense if you have even the most basic understanding of technology

I would like to remind you all that we are broke, we have no money, we have to cut spending immediately for all of you entitlement bums on Medicare and Medicaid... but war, we have tons of money for that.

If Mike Johnson and congressional Republicans thought that this operation was essential to protecting national security, they had a simple path forward: Vote to authorize it. Why doesn't Mike Johnson want to vote to protect American national security?

newrepublic.com/article/2072...

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...

“Ellis, a registered nurse who is Haitian-American, said she is outraged and called for an investigation into Damas' death, which she said came weeks after the man first complained of tooth pain to Florence staff.

'Nobody should die from a toothache,’ Ellis said. 'Something has to be done.’”