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“We expect exceptional leadership and you’ve demonstrated anything but that,” North Carolina GOP Sen Thom Tillis said. “What we’ve seen is a disaster under your leadership. What we’ve seen is innocent people getting detained that turn out are American citizens.”
From @statesnewsroom.com
According to AAA, the average cost of regular gasoline is $3.20 per gallon — which is up 7 cents from last Tuesday.
The average highest price is in Crawford County at $3.46, while the lowest is in Cameron County at $2.92.
From @statesnewsroom.com
Image of Rev. David Black being pepper sprayed by DHS agents
Oh: Rev. David Black getting pepper sprayed and being shot in the head w/pepper balls was just mentioned by Sen. Hirono at this hearing w/Sec. Noem.
Black's first full interview about that — along with other clergy who say they experienced the same — was w/@rns.org religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...
“I think there is a sense of urgency,” said Lauren Bowen, the provost at Juniata College. “This is an incredibly important issue, and given various pressures, we understand we need to address rural health care needs, and I think there is room for optimism."
From @radio.wpsu.org.web.brid.gy
“In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.” -- Dwight D. Eisenhower.
"No plan of operations extends with any certainty beyond the first encounter with the main enemy forces." -- Prussian Field Marshal Helmuth von Moltke.
Dow tumbles 1,000 points and oil prices surge as concerns mount that the Middle East conflict could escalate https://cnn.it/4skxSIv
03.03.2026 15:02 — 👍 106 🔁 40 💬 36 📌 14Is he including the CIA-backed coup in the 1950s?
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"CI-12 ... also has veteran agents trained on threats and spy operations with a special focus on the Middle East, including Iran and its proxies, but also Cuba and some terror organizations. It does not investigate threats from China or Russia, which are handled by separate units."
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New from 404 Media: CBP tapped into the online advertising ecosystem to track peoples' movements, according to an internal DHS document. Shows for the first time DHS tracked phones via process for putting ads in ordinary apps—video games, fitness apps, many more www.404media.co/cbp-tapped-i...
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A rainy, icy start to this Tuesday.
Good morning, friendos.
If you need to release some frustration, have I got a song for you.....the best I heard on my commute:
"Anger is a gift."
NEW: Multi-drone attack collapsed roof at US embassy in Saudi Arabia and contaminated the inside with smoke, per State Dept. alert obtained by The Post. US personnel “continue to shelter in place" www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...
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Plans to build more than 50 data centers in Pennsylvania face opposition from a growing network of community groups, environmental activists and state lawmakers from both major parties.
From @insideclimatenews.org
The expansion of immigration enforcement hasn’t happened primarily through high-profile raids: It has unfolded through formal partnerships between sheriffs’ offices or local police departments and ICE, under what’s known as the 287(g) program.
From @stateline.org
"The source familiar said it was a direct hit just after 9 a.m. local time, on the center of the building they described as a triple-wide trailer with office space inside.
The attack came quickly and with no warning or sirens to alert troops to evacuate or get into a bunker, the source said. "
👋 Former State Department War Powers lawyer here.
This statement by Rubio is false.
As @tessbridgeman.bsky.social and I wrote in January:
www.justsecurity.org/128517/war-p...
Jones served on the federal bench in Pennsylvania and is now the president of Dickinson College in Carlisle.
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Jan. 6 rioter Jake Lang, who was amongst those pardoned by Donald Trump, has been charged over comments he made to an officer who protected the Capitol during the violent pro-Trump siege.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
U.S. Central Command had updated the death toll of American service members to six, though little detail was provided. Their names, ranks and hometowns have not been disclosed.
From @statesnewsroom.com
House Ethics Committee announces ethics complaint filed against Nancy Mace:
"NATURE OF THE ALLEGED VIOLATION: Rep. Mace may have engaged in improper reimbursement practices under the House reimbursement program by seeking reimbursements that exceeded her reimbursable expenses incurred."
The use of a chemical irritant by Greg Bovino is among 17 instances of “potential unlawful behavior” by federal agents in Minnesota currently being investigated for criminal charges, Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said.
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Breaking WSJ:
The Trump admin plans to abandon its defense of Trump's executive orders sanctioning several law firms.
DOJ — as soon as today — is expected to drop its appeals of four rulings that struck down Trump's actions against Jenner & Block, WilmerHale, Perkins Coie, and Susman Godfrey.
The Rijksmuseum says a painting once dismissed as "not a Rembrandt" is now confirmed as a work by the Dutch Golden Age master.
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From @theathleticfc.bsky.social: Six days after FIFA president Gianni Infantino claimed that “every” 2026 World Cup match is “already sold out,” FIFA, out of nowhere, launched an effort to sell World Cup tickets.
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NEW: A federal appeals court swiftly rejected the Trump administration’s request to delay next steps in the fight over tariff refunds for importers after the US Supreme Court struck down the president’s signature economic policy
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Also from the NYT: "After just a few minutes, Trump has moved on from his war in Iran to the curtains he’s picked out for the White House and his new ballroom. “I picked those drapes in my first term,” he says. “I always liked gold.” There’s light chuckling in the room."
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"President Trump declined to rule out sending ground troops into Iran and promised that still bigger waves of airstrikes against that country were coming, in further signs of an expanding, lasting war."
02.03.2026 17:04 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0Starmer: "I will not permit, I will not commit our military personnel to unlawful action. That is not what they would expect and deserve. They are entitled to better than that."
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Brandon Straka: I’m at the Pentagon this morning for a briefing with @SecWar @PeteHegseth on the Iran strikes. Session starts in 10 minutes.
Here's a Jan. 6 rioter posing with a press pass before Pete Hegseth's press conference, just to give you a sense of the type of "journalists" who were in the Pentagon briefing room this morning.
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As NBC News first reported on Friday, Democracy Defenders Fund filed a FOIA for Kash Patel's Olympics travel records:
www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
