Pete Hegseth is openly calling on Trump-friendly oligarchs to take over the media while unshackling the military from the "rules of engagement" he hates so much. What he really wants is a world in which horrors like the school bombing don't ever fully come to light.
newrepublic.com/article/2077...
I guess he got what he needed from public service, and is ready to return to and protect his private interests.
Is NBC really the only major news outlet covering this overtly anti-Muslim (and eugenicist) rhetoric from Trump and his Congressional cronies?
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
1/What is happening at the Pentagon? Wall Street recruiters promise positions that "gain access to fund-raising channels that include royal families and foreign sovereign contacts". This is not military contracting but rebuilding the state around neo-royalism.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/u...
Instead of blowing up things in Iran, the federal government could have spent $11 billion in a week paying the entire household incomes for everyone in these counties. www.ms.now/opinion/trum...
How is this real life and not SNL?
When a federal judge (finally) put ICE officers under oath, they admitted that they are given daily detention quotas and rely heavily on a Palantir-supplied AI tool to select targets, without warrants and without enough evidence to obtain one. They simply go into neighborhoods and round people up.
I feel like it should be more widely unpopular that in the past year we’ve witnessed the creation of an American Stasi required to meet arrest quotas who utilize an AI technology created by a company run by a sweaty raisin of a billionaire who thinks Greta Thunberg is the antichrist.
The Senate passed a bipartisan bill to lower the cost of housing, but Trump apparently isn't interested. According to Punchbowl News, Trump told Speaker Mike Johnson, “No one gives a [bleep] about housing.”
Giving 'em the old shuffle.
Pete Hegseth wants to live in a world in which the US military can drop bombs on scores of children and face no serious media scrutiny for it. His vile claim that he can't wait for David Ellison to run CNN shows he pines for oligarchic control of media.
New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2077...
Tillis: Don't appeal this ruling. The probe was a "failed attack" on Fed independence
(Pirro just announced she will appeal Boasberg's ruling).
One-third of Americans skip meals or other needs to afford health care
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...
FFS
This is an interesting Epstein file — a deposition of a JPMorgan banker talking about how Epstein helped the bank land some of the richest clients in the world
US has burned through ‘years’ of munitions since start of Iran war ft.trib.al/Gil05rp
You can't understand deportations without understanding immigration courts. And right now, those courts are in crisis with new rule changes that could make things significantly worse. 🧵
The case, along with two others, has been selected as a bellwether trial, meaning its outcome could impact how thousands of similar lawsuits against social media companies are likely to play out.
https://to.pbs.org/4bckCyw
There’s an explosive piece in the Danish weekly Weekendavisen on the Bandim Health Project—the Danish researchers funded by RFK Jr to do a randomized trial in Guinea-Bissau in which 1/2 of newborns would be denied the hep B vax birth dose (the trial is suspended). Here’s a translation of the title
Who knew that when Hegseth was talking about lethality he meant our planes crashing into each other?
Ms Rachel talking to Deiver Henao, a 9yo in an immigration detention center
www.instagram.com/reel/DVzUzoz...
What a world
This is incredible.
Hey guess what Wonder Bread Slice’s company is doing!
They are buying up nursing homes.
These white supremacists with no empathy will be in charge of caring for at least some of the elderly in our population.
No. And pathetic
Trump ended the IRS Direct File program that allowed millions of taxpayers to file taxes for free.
That happened after Intuit, the maker of TurboTax, lobbied the government to block the IRS from launching its own program.
Intuit also donated $1 million to Trump’s inauguration.
See how this works?
Holy shit - this would be very, very bad:
"The databases, called “Numident” and the “Master Death File,” include records for more than 500 million living and dead Americans, including Social Security numbers, places and dates of birth, citizenship, race and ethnicity, and parents’ names."
Terrible policy. Even worse politics.
He created this crisis for himself!
Sun Tzu (D-NY) - “When your enemy is making a mistake, fix it for him at great cost to yourself.”
