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Legal/Justice Reporter, HuffPost. Writer covering Jan. 6; Proud Boys trial for emptywheel; Oath Keepers trial and Jan. 6 reporting at Daily Kos; former WH, Congressional Correspondent Courthouse News; Law&Crime; Reporter at The Southampton Press/27east.
The girls’ school in Iran, where 165 people were killed by an apparent US-Israeli attack, was hit with two strikes, with the second missile killing sheltering survivors, two first responders and the parent of a slain child have told Middle East Eye.
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“We are living in the weirdest timeline,” one social media user noted.
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Was in and out of the 6+ hour PROTECT Act hearing today but was happy that my much-abridged testimony got to be the final word of the day:
"The best time to ban formal and informal collaboration with ICE was yesterday. The second best time is now."
The preliminary Pentagon cost estimate of the war in Iran is $1B a day, a congressional office told me.
(1) This means it probably cost a lot more than that.
(2) Think of all the better possible uses!!
An ICE detainee in Arizona has died of a TOOTH INFECTION after it went untreated for weeks, a local official says. He was a Haitian asylum seeker imprisoned in Florence, Arizona. @emilybregel.bsky.social reports.
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Today, Kristi Noem refused 6 times to apologize or admit she was wrong when she publicly cast Renee Good and Alex Pretti -- both fatally shot by her DHS agents -- as "domestic terrorists."
“You told a lie about them!” Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) fumed.
www.huffpost.com/entry/kristi...
Raskin: Based on what you know today, were Renee Good and Alex Pretti domestic terrorists?
Noem: What happened was an absolute tragedy.
Raskin: Were they domestic terrorists?
Noem: My condolences to their families
Raskin: You lied about them.
I spoke with two ICE watchers who lost their Global Entry after brushes with federal agents. Now an internal memo shows Customs and Border Protection is evaluating cases where people's Global Entry could be revoked based on "encounters" with its officers.
www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-wa...
Here's the @balint.house.gov exchange I wrote up earlier. Thanks to @atrupar.com for clipping it.
04.03.2026 19:25 — 👍 1356 🔁 333 💬 28 📌 6And a sincere hat tip and thanks to @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social for first reporting this important story.
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NEW― Sources familiar with US policies on civilian casualties are deeply worried about the possible toll of Trump's war on Iran
-Key Pentagon teams focused on civilians have been slashed+reassigned (even at CENTCOM)
-Israel role raising fears of Gaza-style impunity
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
UPDATED story with an interview from a veteran who tells the public what they can do to help stop the madness:
03.03.2026 19:33 — 👍 221 🔁 105 💬 5 📌 2Ha! Id ask them to skip Revelation and maybe just stick to the red letters for a bit if they are doing any analysis!
03.03.2026 19:20 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0After 10 years of covering him, as a general rule its safe to say whatever he says - the opposite is more likely the truth
03.03.2026 19:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0There were children that died for this.
03.03.2026 19:13 — 👍 62 🔁 18 💬 3 📌 1Arrested:
03.03.2026 17:18 — 👍 42 🔁 12 💬 2 📌 0ALSO: In my chat with MRFF today I learned that some service members called him on Sunday reporting that they were being invited to Bible studies at their commanders’ homes to “discuss how this was all part of the plan and it’s all being lived out in the Book of Revelation"
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🚨 NEW: “They are promised a 200-mile-long river that is four-and-a-half feet deep filled with nothing but the blood that their weaponized version of Jesus will spill at the Battle of Armageddon,” Weinstein said. “That’s a lot of blood."
www.huffpost.com/entry/troops...
