The FCC Chair who spent years fashioning himself as a crusader for free speech is now openly threatening to revoke broadcasters' licenses over their coverage of the war with Iran.
This is state-sponsored censorship. Pure and simple. And straight out of the dictators' playbook.
CARTOON OF THE DAY
(From slyngstad )
He rapes kids. He is a convicted felon. He bankrupts casinos. Let's not be under any illusion that we are dealing with a mildly intelligent person here. There is exactly a zero percent chance that Trump could not tell you, off the top of my his head, what the NATO acronym stands for.
HASSETT: The latest number I was briefed on is $12 billion
BRENNAN: $12 billion for six weeks of war?
HASSETT: No, I'm sorry. The $12 billion was what I was briefed has been spent so far.
To be clear: the SAVE Act does not simply require the identification voting ALREADY requires. It demands proof of CITIZENSHIP— a birth certificate with a name that matches yours now (bye, bye, married women), or a passport— both of which are expensive and take a long time to obtain.
What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.”
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
Donald Trump is notorious for filing lawsuits at the drop of a hat. He's filed over 4,000 of them. Many for defamation.
But Donald *will not* sue Ted Lieu for defamation. Why? He's been told by lawyers that in defamation actions, truth is an absolute defense.
“If the strait remains closed for even a month…sustained higher oil prices could plunge the world into a recession, raise borrowing costs, alter the outcome of ongoing wars, and shift the balance of global-power competition in favor of Russia and China”
www.theatlantic.com/economy/2026...
The cost of building a new hospital is about $100 million.
We're dropping the equivalent of 10 hospitals a day on Iran.
Trump decided this war was a better use of taxpayer money than giving Americans health care. It’s not.
Americans are dying so that Kushner can make money
This is absolutely bonkers and infuriating.
Must-read reporting by ProPublica.
Trump is basically telling oil companies to go play chicken in a war zone.
Three commercial ships were just hit and any competent president would’ve known the risk before pushing tankers into the Strait of Hormuz.
Instead, we got: “I think they should use the strait.”
McGowan: You're saying 46 Americans died, so we should attack this country. Here at home, 68,000 Americans die a year because they don't have health insurance. So, if we're going to spend billions of dollars on something…
Let’s talk Iranian drones and California. Do I think it’s likely? Probably not, but some of you are suffering from a severe failure of imagination.
I’ve seen a lot of “lol it’s 7,500 miles from Iran to Cali, drones would never make it”
The Pentagon is moving an Amphibious Ready Group (ARG) to the Middle East.
This consists of an amphibious task force naval element and a landing force (Marine Expeditionary Unit / MEU) and about 5,000 marines.
The biggest thing that is giving me hope right now is that pretty much everyone with a functioning brain can see that the emperor is naked.
He’s even losing some of his previously hardcore MAGA supporters, surprisingly.
The GOP is absolutely panicking about the midterms, and they should be.
I’ve always thought of Trump as a reptile. Although sometimes I feel I’m being unfair to reptiles.
Hate begets hate; violence begets violence; toughness begets a greater toughness. ~ MLK Jr.
Netanyahu killed his brothers, niece and nephew in Lebanon. He attacked innocent children in Michigan yesterday. You'd have to be a fool to think these aren't connected. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
As many as 5,000 additional U.S. Marines are reportedly heading for the Middle East.
BREAKING: BOOTS ON THE GROUND. The pentagon is sending a Marine Expeditionary Unit of up to 2,500 to Iran. 1/ www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
EXCLUSIVE: A dark money group is offering influencers $1,500 for posts attacking Chicago Democratic primary candidate @katmabu.bsky.social
www.ms.now/news/kat-abu...
Talarico on Trumpworld's "short term pain" talking point: "I'd like them to tell that to the parents of the American troops who have lost their lives. That is not short term pain. That is pain that will last forever ... no one asked for this."
These dumbass right wingers always think it won’t happen to them. They’re fine with it happening to others, but once it affects them, they cry the blues.
It's truly amazing to me how many people danced with the devil (Epstein) in the pale moonlight.
I don't understand how a woman could dance with that devil, but they did.
I have no words.
You know, if people stayed away from him because of the pedophilia and torture, he would have been a nobody.
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In the 1920s, there was an enormous Klan-aligned caucus in the House of Representatives that passed an immigration restriction bill designed to keep out Catholics and Jews because they supposedly posed an existential threat to American civilization. 100 years later, here we are.
If people in the White House thought the war was going well I don't think JD Vance's allies would be leaking stories like this
www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
PAPER PLANET: “While Trump gutted food stamps for the poor and disabled, Hegseth ran up the largest single-month bill in history… $93.4 Billion in September… $6.9 million on lobster tails… they told you there’s no money for health care, there’s plenty.”
