John P Dougherty (JD)

Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

(Published June 2025)

F.D.A. Faces Upset Over Denials of New Drugs

The FDA “has increasingly issued drug rejections or refusals — about 20 in the last eight months — that underscore a break from decades of general stability… It has advised companies to launch costly and complex studies that could add years to finding treatments for rare diseases with no cure”

It gets worse

bsky.app/profile/zete...

Now that Republicans have done Trump's bidding by blocking limits on his war powers, remember that in doing this, they are also relieving *themselves* of the obligation to vote on the enormously consequential decision of whether to go to war. Craven abdication.

newrepublic.com/article/2072...

never, ever, ever, ever accept "how will you pay for it?" as an argument against social programs.

Nancy Youssef, ..guil @ X.com @nancyayoussef The preliminary Pentagon cost estimate of the war in Iran is $1 billion a day, a congressional official told me. 12:20 PM • 3/4/26 • 44K Views

Preliminary Pentagon cost estimate of the war in Iran is $1 BILLION a day. So far.

bsky.app/profile/jdcs...

John Fetterman is the only Democrat to vote against curbing Trump’s power to order strikes in Iran The Senate voted 47-53, failing to advance a resolution to halt Trump's Operation Epic Fury in Iran.

www.inquirer.com/politics/nat...

Come on Pennsylvania, we got to fix this in a few years. 😡

Alt-text: political cartoon where tables are set around the dining room, one each for arts, sciences, education and medicine, but the only one being served, and overserved to the extreme, is war.

Get ready, Science Jawns 🧪🦅! Action week is here!

3/5: TEACH-IN on the State of American Science One Year into the Trump Admin. RSVP HERE: www.eventbrite.com/e/philadelph...

3/7: Philly's STEM, Healthcare, & Ed community will RALLY & MARCH to oppose the harms of aggressive immigration enforcement.

Chris Murphy: "It's just so disgusting to listen to the president be waxing poetically about the drapes he's buying while there are six Americans who are dead. There are six families who are about to bury their children because of a war of choice that no one in this country wanted, an illegal war."

Alt-text: in the font from the show, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, "the gang destabilizes Iran and starts a Middle East regional conflict."

"Riding in a golf cart, fatly" 😂

@JoyceCarolOates X.com speaking as glibly as Beavis & Butthead. does T***p even grasp the profound significance of what he has set in motion in the Middle East? this person whose most essential self is riding in a golf cart fatly, cheating at the profoundly insignificant game of leisure golf when he assumes no one is looking.

if “for sale, baby shoes, never worn” are the saddest six words, then “riding in a golf cart fatly” is the opposite of that

Netanyahu to the U.S. Congress, 2002: "If you take out Saddam, Saddam's regime, I guarantee you that it will have enormous positive reverberations on the region."

Bets on Fate of Iran’s Khamenei Spark Uproar at Leading Prediction Markets Scrutiny focuses on whether Kalshi and Polymarket offered proxy bets on an assasination of Iran’s leader.

6 accounts made $1.2M on online prediction markets on the Iran strike

Most were created days before it happened

Were they tipped by insiders or insiders THEMSELVES profiting off regular folks?

State AGs should investigate

How Trump Decided to Go to War

6 Americans are dead because Netanyahu ordered Trump to go to war. (NYT gift link)

(AXIOS) - No president in the modern era has ordered more military strikes against as many different countries as Donald Trump.

@axios.com
www.axios.com/2026/03/02/t...

TY for the detailed reply. Seriously, I appreciate the nuance and the discussion is needed.

Oil market opening

First 12 min

U.S. crude oil futures rose more than 7% to $72.11 per barrel. Global benchmark Brent jumped about 11% to more than $81 per barrel.

bsky.app/profile/jdcs...

bsky.app/profile/jdcs...

You can't win if you don't try🤦

"I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize"

- Steven Wright

share.google/Rtwzbpxg81Rc...

The Suicide Squad (2021)
dir. James Gunn

bsky.app/profile/jdcs...

Or Shrek
bsky.app/profile/jdcs...

The headline from The Wall Street Journal today reads "Lately the Epstein files are hitting Democrats hardest."

Wall Street Journal with the shallow headline. 🤦