Jose Pagliery

Not calling a war "a war" is a deliberate act with specific intentions in mind.

Okay, so drop some recs! Tag away

DOOCY: It sounds like the Russians are helping Iran target and attack Americans--


TRUMP: That's an easy problem compared to what we're doing here. What a stupid question that is to be asking at this time. We're talking about something else.

When I was in Minneapolis in late January, the person in front of me at a fast food joint ordered a "sprite NO ICE," and he and the attendant laughed nervously, and that little moment has been on my mind for a month.

"Trump support is also leading his supporters to believe that they’re more masculine. This finding wasn’t the goal of the study."

lol

The "police-involved shooting" of war crimes

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Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say Military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday, two U.S. officials told Reu...

A huge tip of the hat to the NYTimes, the CBC, the BBC, Reuters and others for being absolutely all over this school bombing and piecing together the truth of what happened -- www.reuters.com/world/middle...

ICE arrested Nashville journalist without warrant, attorneys say The journalist, Estefany Rodriguez, was taken to a detention center and remains there as of 3 p.m. March 5.

ICE arrested Nashville journalist without warrant, attorneys say
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www.tennessean.com/story/news/l...

SCOOP: In a January letter to Rep. Delia Ramirez (D-IL), DHS says 270 DACA recipients have been arrested from January to September 2025. In addition, 174 DACA applicants have been deported, according to ICE records.

Those numbers differ from what was shared with Sen. Dick Durbin in February.

Footage shows a Iranian ballistic missile striking Bahrain's Bapco Energies refinery. The IRGC confirmed it had completed a 12th wave of missiles targeting 'US bases'. #Iran

Some Indian politicians claim the Iranian warship sunk by the US submarine was on its way home from an international joint exercise — where the rules mandated it show up unarmed.

And that the US knew that, because it pulled out of participating at the last minute.

www.thehindu.com/news/nationa...

Foreign nationals fleeing Iran through neighboring Armenia shared their memories of the first moments of the US-Israeli strikes as they queued at the border.

‘Nazi heaven’: Inside Miami campus Republicans’ racist group chat The chat is the subject of a Florida International University police investigation.

The secretary of Miami-Dade County’s GOP started a group chat for conservative students — and within 3 weeks, it was filled with over 400 instances of the N-word, Nazi rhetoric and writings of "dozens of ways of violently killing Black people"

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...

NOEM: I would disagree with the judge

CROCKETT: I'm sure you would, but can you tell me whether or not you have a law degree?

NOEM: A what?

CROCKETT: A law degree

NOEM: No I do no-

CROCKETT: Okay

We are not treating this, war, the murder of people for arguably legitimate and just ends, with the solemnity it deserves.

The Trump government has adopted the flippant media tactics we saw from ISIS recruitment videos a decade ago.

It was damning for jihadists then.

How about now?

www.al-monitor.com/originals/20...

State Department Hotline to Americans in Middle East Now Says Help Is Available As of Tuesday, the hotline said Americans could not “rely” on the U.S. for evacuation plans, despite the administration’s claims that it was organizing travel.

UPDATE: State Department is finally offering travel help for people stuck in Middle East — 5 days into war.

I just spoke with a woman stuck in UAE. She's been registered with State since Saturday, but only got a crisis form this morning. No chartered flight info yet

A video from Admiral Brad Cooper, who's leading US Central Command, says that the American military is using suicide drones on Iran — based on the very same design as the Iranian Shahed drone.

x.com/CENTCOM/stat...

DOJ Revokes Rules Restricting Partisan Activity by Political Appointees A new memo obtained by NOTUS claws back the stricter rules for political employees issued during the Biden administration.

I got a leaked memo.

DOJ is reversing rules on its top officials — including one that says they can't "use their official authority or influence to interfere with or affect the result of an election."

@notus.com:

www.notus.org/courts/pam-b...

The Ballad of Briscoe Cain, the MAGA Legislator Whose Dreams Were Squashed by Trump Briscoe Cain could only exist in the Texas Legislature. He was tragically tempted to run for U.S. Congress.

A+ writing

www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

ICE under Trump 2.0 built an unprecedented media operation - deploying videographers to raids, pumping out edgy social posts, swiping pop music for hype videos - and the main metric for evaluating its impact shows that Americans now hate ICE more than ever

www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...

Deepfake Spotter – Deepfakes Tracker Deepfake Spotter: A Guide to Spotting Deepfakes in the Wild Practical Human Judgment – Your First Line of Defence Technical and Visual Signs of Deepfakes – Your Second Line of Defence Big Picture Rule...

Journalists have been asking us again and again about how to spot deepfakes.

Here’s our best advice for now, though it may evolve quickly, as AI advancements are happening in weeks and months rather than years. deepfakestracker.org/deepfake-spo...

Senators Demand Answers From Kristi Noem on Her Leadership of DHS Noem faced criticism, including from her own party, over her management of the Department of Homeland Security amid President Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign.

Lawmakers from both parties criticized DHS Secretary Kristi Noem’s handling of immigration enforcement in a fiery Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. https://www.notus.org/immigration/kristi-noem-hearing-dhs-immigration-shutdown

'UNIMAGINABLE CRUELTY': Judge Gary Brown, a Trump appointeee from NY, thrashes DHS' treatment of a man who came to the US at 9 as an abuse/neglect victim, has no criminal record and became a college grad.

"The laws of decency condemn such villainy." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

A Minnesota Police Chief Said ICE Was Harassing Residents. Here Are Some of Their Stories. Residents of Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, say in interviews with Reason that encounters with ICE left them afraid and angry.

Latest: Remember when the police chief of Brooklyn Park, Minnesota held a press conference about how ICE was racially profiling residents?

I FOIA'd the police department for complaints and incident reports and interviewed two people who say they were harassed by ICE reason.com/2026/03/03/a...

Heading back in. Update later.

But the judge this morning drew a hard line at stopping the protesters from even claiming self-defense against an officer who drew his gun when chasing down an unarmed protester.

Those monitoring say this trial has the potential to criminalize dissent in a way that harkens back to the Red Scare.

This case is a real fork in the road for this Trump Administration. The feds are trying to pin the injuring of a cop on all the protesters, even the ones who just showed up to set off fireworks on the residential street.

Unclear how the jury is responding to that.