Charlie Nelson

Paxton offers to drop Senate bid if Republicans pass SAVE America Act The message quickly drew praise from online far-right activists.

🚨BREAKING: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) is publicly offering to abandon his U.S. Senate campaign if Senate Republicans agree to change the filibuster rules and pass the SAVE America Act, a sweeping anti-voting bill. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Haitian man dies in US immigration custody with untreated toothache, brother says A Haitian man confined at an Arizona immigration detention center for months after the denial of his asylum application has died in the hospital

Emmanuel Damas, 56, told medical personnel at the Florence Correctional Center that he had a toothache in mid-February, but he was not sent to a dentist, said Damas’ brother, Presly Nelson.

Damas is among at least nine people who have died in ICE custody this year.

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TP USA and Club America are indeed being channeled into university, college, and high school environments with one objective only - grow a new crop of White Christian Nationalist student "converts" to fight against everything seen as woke, DEI, progressive, or expressing freedom of thought.

HERALD: “Sec of Miami-Dade County’s Republican Party started a group chat for conservative students… filled with racist slurs… included FIU’s TP USA president, ex College Republicans recruitment chair.”

As @SenJohnson pushes TP USA into our schools.

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Translation: This is Iraq on steroids. Trump has decimated VA hospitals as well. So not only will people be coming home in body bags (#BoneSpurs calls them “losers” & “suckers”), the wounded will not have medical facilities to be treated. There isn’t even a hospital ship that’s not in dry dock!

Raskin tears Kristi Noem a new one: "Apparently when your blankie was left on one of the govt jets and not transported to the new one, your special govt employee, Corey Lewandowski, chivalrously stepped forward to fight the pilot -- mid air!"

This is nuts and I don't understand why it isn't the top story in every news source. The lights are blinking red, you guys.

No Help and Few Options for Travelers Stranded by Mideast Conflict

One woman who called the State Department helpline looking for help said they told her to "stop ranting and raving" and hung up on her.

Another woman said they asked her how to spell Oman.

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/t...

Ex-senator warns Trump faces 'biggest problem' yet in Iran: 'They can't fix this now' Former Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) shredded President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on MS NOW's "Morning Joe" Wednesday, for rushing headlong into a war in Iran without any idea why they are doing it or what they are going to do now that it's happening."You said on Armed Servic...

Ex-senator warns Trump faces 'biggest problem' yet in Iran: 'They can't fix this now'

GOP-controlled House Oversight Committee votes to subpoena Bondi over Epstein Files “The American people want answers on the Epstein files, and so do we,” Republican Rep. Nancy Mace, who introduced the motion to subpoena Bondi, said.

🚨BREAKING: The Republican-led House Oversight Committee has voted to subpoena Attorney General Pam Bondi to testify about her role in the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) incomplete release of its files on convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

🚨Republican National Committee v. Koski Learn more.

🚨BREAKING: Virginia Supreme Court halts trial court order blocking preparations for congressional redistricting referendum. The special election will move forward with early voting beginning on Mar. 6.

A defeat for the GOP and victory for Virginia voters
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In ominous sign, Texas Republicans changed voting rules, then blocked efforts to protect voters “We can’t let a small group of conspiracy theorists set the rules for Texas voters anymore."

Texans in two counties struggled to find their polling locations for primary voting Tuesday after a GOP-driven change. The secretary of state’s office failed to provide accurate information. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

YouTube video by I've Had It IHIP News: Melania FILLS IN For An UNHEALTHY TRUMP At UN And BOMBS In Front of WORLD LEADERS!

youtu.be/LuNilSZLljs #ihipnews

Trump takes the day off and sends Melania to fill in for him at the UN meeting.

Jennifer Welch & Angie Sullivan | IHIP News

Here's the @balint.house.gov exchange I wrote up earlier. Thanks to @atrupar.com for clipping it.

America first?

We all misspeak. We're human. But when people misspeak and they don't immediately correct themselves, it's a behavior that's correlated with personalities who are significantly dishonest.

Spain slam dunks on Donald Trump and his cheerleader. Film at 11.

Pete Hegseth C*ckblocks Anthropic And OpenAI collects its winnings.

"Let’s not bury the lede here: The DoD wants to use AI for fully autonomous lethal systems and mass surveillance of American citizens. Anthropic said 'no,' and now the US government is retaliating by trying to destroy it." — @lizdye.bsky.social

A few of his "insurmountable" endorsements lost their races yesterday.

Democrat Alex Holladay won a Republican-held seat in the Arkansas state House on Tuesday night, marking the ninth time Democrats have flipped a district from red to blue in a special election since the start of Donald Trump’s second term.

So, the president launched this country into a deadly, costly war based on… “a feeling”?

Nobel Peace Prize, my ass

Washington Post Headline Last Week: "Trump aids struggle with how to spend $500 billion more on military."

Yes, the Christian Nationalists in MAGA are notorious for not wanting to impose a religious faith on others.

(Pardon me, I need to go outside so I can laugh even louder.)

NOEM: Our federal detention centers are held to the highest standards in comparison to other detaining facilities

McBATH: Did you just hear me? He has to crawl through mold and feces and bodily fluids just to take a shower. This is absolute lunacy and you know it.

Alternet: A U.S. combat-unit commander told American soldiers that the attack on Iran is part of “God’s divine plan." He said Trump was “anointed by Jesus” for the specific purpose to ignite Armageddon.
#ProudBlue #Pinks #SheShed #VoteOutRepublicans

This is indeed a very dark thought, but it is heartbreakingly something that is not outside the realm of possibility. Such dark considerations will always result from the actions and crimes of powerful people who have only darkness in their hearts.

Could a 9/11-Scale Crisis Be the Political Lifeline Trump’s Presidency Desperately Needs? History shows how suddenly national tragedy can transform a struggling leader into a wartime commander, and why that precedent should make Americans uneasy today…

2/2 "...The logic is almost too ugly to contemplate, but it tracks perfectly with recent history. Bush needed 9/11 and got it, and it saved his presidency. Trump needs something equally dramatic to reset his collapsing political fortunes."

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Could a 9/11-Scale Crisis Be the Political Lifeline Trump’s Presidency Desperately Needs? History shows how suddenly national tragedy can transform a struggling leader into a wartime commander, and why that precedent should make Americans uneasy today…

1/2 "Why would a president who just bombed Iran simultaneously gut the very intelligence infrastructure built by previous administrations to detect and prevent Iranian retaliation? Why would you poke a hornet’s nest and then fire the guy with the EpiPen?

Unless you wanted to get stung....