Lisa Farrar

Elites Aren't Much Savvier Than MAGA They're both easy marks for Donald Trump.

Excellent piece from @brianbeutler.bsky.social today. Moneyed elites are as vulnerable to propaganda as maga. Anyone who remembered Trump's first term knew he'd screw up his second.

www.offmessage.net/p/elites-mag...

I wish I could say I was surprised

www.axios.com/2026/03/10/u...

Sanctions on Israeli settlements are working – even without the US As a new West Bank settlement plan gains steam, now is the time for governments to take multilateral economic action

Sanctions on Israeli settlements are working – even without the US

Epstein paid for a conference of top scientists in 2006. His motives are now clear A 2006 conference for physicists in the U.S. Virgin Islands that included a trip to Jeffrey Epstein's private island shows how he used his wealth to build relationships with prominent scientists.

More heads gotta roll. www.npr.org/2026/03/09/n...

Lot more on Dominari Holdings, Dominiari Securites' parent company, in this thread--

Trump family-linked financial group probed by congressional committee over Chinese stock scams Republican-led House committee on China demands information from Dominari Securities and two other firms

"Trump family-linked financial group [Dominari Securities] probed by congressional committee over Chinese stock scams"

GOP-led committee.

And Dominari is central to so much of Don Jr. and Eric's latest business, um, endeavors.

George Steer for @financialtimes.com

Opinion | Stephen Miller is down but not out A recent shift in tactics from ICE in the aftermath of Minnesota can’t be seen as Trump's overall deportation goals changing.

OPINION by MS NOW writer @hayesbrown.bsky.social

"While any drop off is encouraging, the danger in this moment is that the 'softer touch' Trump said his administration needed will be mistaken as a reversion to the norm."

READ MORE: www.ms.now/opinion/step...

Missouri drops murder charge against man who opened fire at Super Bowl rally

Man was among at least six people who started shooting outside Union Station in state, which has adopted stand your ground law

Inside the ICE facility at Ft. Bliss The Washington Post obtained a report that found over 60 violations at an ICE detention facility. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to Doug MacMillan, who obtained the report, about what it found.

Links:

www.npr.org/2025/09/22/n...

www.ibtimes.co.uk/crisis-camp-...

www.hrw.org/news/2025/12...

apnews.com/article/suic...

After all of this ICE is quietly reconsidering whether to keep the facility open at all. No accountability or consequences for anyone involved. Just a plan to maybe shut it down before more people start asking questions.

A man who spent months detained at Camp East Montana before being deported to the Netherlands sat down with the Associated Press and told them what he witnessed. He said he overheard a security guard discussing a betting pool among staff.

Three people have died there in just a few months. One death was ruled a homicide asphyxia after an altercation with guards, another was a suspected suicide, and a third man, from Cuba, also died inside.

Nearly one 911 emergency call has come out of that facility every single day. Those calls are for suicide attempts. Seizures causing head injuries. Assaults between detainees. A pregnant woman screaming in pain who had received zero prenatal care.

Camp East Montana is a massive tent camp sitting on Fort Bliss military base near El Paso, Texas. It opened in August 2025 and almost immediately became the largest ICE detention facility in the entire United States holding over 2,700 people. In tents in the Texas heat.

Election results in one of Germany’s states, together with polls suggesting further losses, are piling pressure on Friedrich Merz’s ideologically divided government.

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@billscher.bsky.social: US War Hawks helped instigate the war of 1812 because they were too young to remember history and "believed plucking Canada from the British Empire would be a cakewalk." Youth is no excuse, however, for Trump, Netanyahu "and their hype squads..."

Trump has undermined the one agency tasked with making sure America never has another nuclear meltdown | CNN The federal regulatory agency tasked with keeping America’s nuclear power plants safe and running smoothly is set to make huge cuts to the amount of time its staffers spend on safety and emergency ins...

The federal regulatory agency tasked with keeping America’s nuclear power plants safe and running smoothly is set to make huge cuts to the amount of time its staffers spend on safety and emergency inspections, opening the door for to more self-policing from the industry. https://cnn.it/4rlFKbS

As temperatures rise aboveground, the number of subway riders reporting uncomfortable heat belowground increases, according to a new study in the journal Nature Cities. This could worsen as climate change, driven by the burning of fossil fuels, makes for a hotter planet.

Read more: bit.ly/4umsC8S

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Here is what the Democracy Docket team is tracking today:

Active Voting Rights Cases: 167
Active Redistricting Cases: 50
Active Anti-Voting Cases: 92
Active Pro-Voting Cases: 72
Active DOJ Lawsuits: 32

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WHO warns of health risks from 'black rain' in Iran The World Health Organization warned on Tuesday that the "black rain" falling in Iran ​after strikes on oil facilities could cause respiratory ‌problems, and it backed Iran’s advisory urging people to...

The World Health Organization warned that the 'black rain' falling in Iran after strikes on oil facilities could cause respiratory ‌problems, and it backed Iran’s advisory urging people to remain indoors reut.rs/4s5G7bI

Video footage appears to show a U.S. Tomahawk hitting near a girls' school ⁠in Minab, in southern Iran, according to experts consulted by Reuters.

Airlines start broader fare hikes on fuel price surge, shares stabilise Air New Zealand said on Tuesday it has raised all of its fares due to ​the Middle East conflict and may take further pricing action, underscoring how global airlines will seek to pass on the costs of ...

Air New Zealand said it has raised all of its fares due to the Middle East conflict and may take further pricing action, underscoring how global airlines will seek to pass on the costs of higher oil prices to passengers reut.rs/4b3NDxS

Iranian women soccer players' hotel escape aided by Australian police Australian police extracted five Iranian women soccer players from the ​team's hotel before they were granted asylum, the interior minister said on Tuesday, as details of their ‌escape from Iranian go...

Australian police extracted five Iranian women soccer players from the team's hotel before they were granted asylum, the interior minister said, as details of their escape from Iranian government minders emerged reut.rs/4czjbwD

Iran bets on endurance, energy disruption to outlast US, Israel Iran's strategy is stark: Unleash drones and missiles, cut vital energy routes and jolt global markets hard enough ​to force Washington to blink first.

Iran is wagering it can outlast the United States and Israel — not militarily, but by grinding the war into a brutal contest of endurance. Its strategy is stark: Unleash drones and missiles, cut energy routes and jolt global markets hard enough to force Washington to blink first reut.rs/4bh04oL

Iran says oil blockade will continue until attacks end, Trump threatens to hit harder Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps said it would not allow any oil to leave the region if attacks from the United States and Israel continue.

Iran's Revolutionary Guards said they would not allow ‘one litre of oil’ to be shipped from the Middle East if US and Israeli attacks continue, prompting a warning from President Trump that the US would hit Iran much harder if it blocked exports from the vital energy-producing region reut.rs/4bwHKJw

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Crisis Pregnancy Centers Series | News From The States Billion Dollar Baby Bump: A States Newsroom 50-state investigation examining the tax records of more than 1,600 crisis pregnancy center organizations nationwide and state and federal budgets found the...

Public funding for crisis pregnancy centers has grown exponentially, but oversight hasn’t. States Newsroom’s investigation is ongoing.

If you’ve had an experience with a crisis pregnancy center, please get in touch: cpcproject@statesnewsroom.com

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While Germany emphasises that it is not a party to the Iran war, the US airbase in Ramstein plays a central role in the coordination of the US intervention.
➡️ https://l.euronews.com/x9pC

The report by the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on #Ukraine studied the cases of 1,205 ​children from five oblasts, or regions, in Ukraine and said ​that 80% of them have yet to return to Ukraine.