Kathy L Weiss

Trump sides with crypto firms in trillion-dollar battle with banks over stablecoin yield The dispute centers on whether crypto firms like Coinbase can offer yields on stablecoins, which banks warn will siphon trillions of dollars from the industry.

Ask yourself why felons love #Crypto:

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They're depleting our military budget and bankrupting America...for what??

President Trump says he wants to cut off all trade with Spain President Trump said he wants to "cut all trade" with one of the nation's biggest trading partners over military base access and NATO spending. (AP Photo)

Snowflake: Trump can't take any criticism

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Republicans do not typically fare well in urban areas — they haven’t won a mayoral election in Houston in more than 40 years.

That is in part because Texas is no longer entirely the land of “wide open spaces” but an increasingly urban state, home to six of the 25 largest cities in the country and two of the five largest metropolitan areas.

...was closer to his showing in Iowa (an even 56%) and well behind his romps in Oklahoma (66%), Alabama (65%) and West Virginia (70%). Texas is more closely divided than you might think.

Yes, the state appears to be as red as red can be, but it is not deeply so; Trump’s 2020 performance in the state was slightly down from his 2016 performance, and even his comeback win in 2024 (taking just a bit more than 56% of the vote)

But life on the ground in Texas — particularly in the state’s sophisticated, high-tech, capital-intensive, immigrant-heavy economy — is a world away from the political theater.

Opinion | What the Cornyn vs. Paxton Runoff Will Mean for the Texas G.O.P.

What the Cornyn vs. Paxton Runoff Will Mean for the Texas G.O.P.

Republicans do not typically fare well in urban areas — they haven’t won a mayoral election in Houston in more than 40 years.
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Missiles and weapons systems are also expensive—a drone is about $35,000, and a Tomahawk missile costs millions—and the two aircraft carriers in the region together cost at least $13 million a day. And then there are the costs of operating aircraft, and so on.

March 3, 2026 About a week before Trump launched Operation Epic Fury, attacking Iran alongside Israel, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Dan Caine warned that the lack of support from allies and deplete...

Trump’s military strikes in Iran have already cost U.S. taxpayers more than $1 billion. The three F-15E Eagle jets lost to friendly fire on Sunday cost $90 million each. Transporting troops, ships, and aircraft to the Middle East cost about $630 million.
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Spartanburg County in South Carolina is ground zero for the largest measles outbreak since 2000. One school has a vaccination rate of 21 percent.

Parents Tried to Shield Their Children From Vaccines. Instead They Got Measles.

Parents Tried to Shield Their Children From Vaccines. Instead They Got Measles. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/u...

Trump's red neck caused by 'common skin cream,' White House says President Trump's red neck is part of a "preventative treatment," the White House doctor said. Here's what we know. (AP Photo)

He obviously has severe gut issues manifesting on his skin, and I bet it itches:

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The State Department urged Americans to immediately leave 14 countries, and closed U.S. embassies in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait after they were hit by drones. Israel’s military said it had seized new areas of Lebanon in its conflict with Iran-backed Hezbollah.

Live Updates: U.S. Closes 2 Gulf Embassies as Iran Steps Up Retaliation

U.S. Closes 2 Gulf Embassies and tells Americans to leave the Middle East as Iran Steps Up Retaliation

How are they supposed to snag a flight, Donald?!
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The Supreme Court on Monday announced that it would keep in place a New York congressional map, overruling a judge who had found that the map violated the Constitution by diluting the power of Black and Latino voters.

In Republican Win, Supreme Court Retains G.O.P. District in New York

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The Nobel Peace Prize wannabe says what?!?

The Board of Protection for global mobsters.

If the war in Iran enables Netanyahu to win the Israeli elections planned for this year, it will be a major propellant to his efforts to annex the West Bank, cripple the Israeli Supreme Court and make Israel an apartheid state, which would be a major blow to U.S. interests in the region beyond Iran.

Trump wants to promote those ideals in Tehran, even as his ICE agents operated for two months with limited regard for legal restraints in my home state of Minnesota and as he floats ideas about restricting who can vote in our next election.

Fourth, we must not let this war to bring democracy and the rule of law to Iran distract us from the threats to democracy and the rule of law posed by Trump in America and by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel.

Third, we must remember that the timing of the end of this war will be determined as much by the oil markets and the financial markets as by the military state of play inside Iran.

Second, this will not be easy, because this regime is deeply entrenched and is hardly going to be toppled from the air alone.

First, I hope this effort to topple the clerical regime in Tehran succeeds. It is a regime that murders its people, destabilizes its neighbors and has destroyed a great civilization.

Opinion | How to Think About Trump’s War With Iran

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California teen accused of making 27 ghost guns with 3D printers at home An 18-year-old in California was charged with manufacturing more than two dozen untraceable ghost guns, the Santa Clara DA's office said.

An 18-year-old man from Santa Jose, California, is accused of making nearly 30 "ghost" guns in his bedroom.

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The optics of Trump partying with his rich cronies while American soldiers died is at least partly what is behind the fact that today, “#SendBarron” trended on social media.

March 1, 2026 This morning, U.S.

Trump was hosting a fund raiser at Mar-a-Lago Friday as the U.S. offensive began. @nytimes.com reported in November that tickets for the dinner dance were $1 million apiece. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...