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I just threw together a website visualizing this ICE contract data! You can browse through the companies and their contracts, and filter them by state micahflee.github.io/ice-contracts/

Gas Prices Could Go Above $3 Per Gallon Next Week After Iran Strikes, Analyst Warns Gas could reach a national average above $3 per gallon for the first time this year, as analysts anticipate crude oil prices will jump next week.

Gas could reach a national average above $3 per gallon for the first time this year, as analysts anticipate crude oil prices will jump next week.

The judges in WV have seen enough.

They say that if the ICE continues detaining people in ways they have unanimously deemed illegal they will start issuing civil fines and contempt findings — including against state officials who help them carry it out.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

NEW: Four federal judges have formed a firewall against ICE in West Virginia — and say they’ll punish state and federal officials of they continue detaining people in ways they have ruled illegal and unconstitutional.

www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

They are calling out violations of court orders, sloppy paperwork in detention cases, the destruction of families, the erosion of civil liberties and a climate of fear wrought by masked agents operating on WV’s roadways. Contempt is next, they say. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

One reason they’re ordering release of detainees — rather than bond hearings: Berger and Johnston say the hearings are increasingly a pre-cooked sham, resulting in detention without a genuine chance for bond. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

The costs of this Iran war debacle will likely be more than the cost of extending the ACA health insurance subsidies.

If you asked Americans, which do you want: another war in the Middle East or lower health care costs at home, is the margin 90 to 10? 95 to 5?

feeling compelled to post this new yorker reject from years ago, for some reason

Which part of late-stage capitalism is this? 😦

How Trump will fill his immigrant gulags DHS is rewriting its detention rules to ignore the law—and entrap millions.

Trump campaigned for president on deporting violent wrong-doers.

But as both of these new detention programs demonstrate, the administration’s ambition to fill warehouses with millions of humans can only be achieved by locking up people without criminal records.

Today, Trump is playing Battleship. What joy!

3. The point is creating a made-for-TV war that makes Trump look like a big, tough war president. He’s doing this for obvious reasons: things are going badly for him, very badly, at home. Freedoms are being violated. The middle class is being immiserated.

Push from Saudis, Israel helped move Trump to attack Iran President Trump launched a wide-ranging attack on Iran after weeks-long lobbying by an unusual pair of U.S. allies in the Middle East: Israel and Saudi Arabia.

It will change nothing except harden the regime and crush the spirit of democracy that was rising up on its own.

Post: “Now Trump will bear the risk of the bet he has placed: that a major military operation conducted from the air can achieve political goals on the ground.”

Pope Leo XIV ! @Pontifex X.com I am following with deep concern what is happening in the Middle East and in Iran during this tumultuous time. Stability and peace are not achieved through mutual threats, nor through the use of weapons, which sow destruction, suffering, and death, but only through reasonable, sincere, and responsible dialogue. 7:33 AM • 3/1/26 • 39K Views 175 L> 455 • 1.9K 953 Relevant v View quotes > Pope Leo XIV & @Pontifex • 18m .... Faced with the possibility of a tragedy of immense proportions, I make a heartfelt appeal to all the parties involved to assume the moral responsibility of halting the spiral of violence before it becomes an unbridgeable chasm. May diplomacy regain its proper role, and may the well-being of peoples, who yearn for peaceful existence founded on justice, be upheld. And let us continue to pray for peace.

One of the more bizarre primaries happening Tuesday

So we just bomb them and hope everything works out from there. There is no plan. bsky.app/profile/atru...

So would the families of the 3 US soldiers who were killed so far. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Trump Has No Plan for the Iranian People The mere act of bombing Iran will not by itself create a stable regime.

The fate of the Iranian people has never been of great concern to American administrations, and this one is no exception

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Reminder that the CFTC is already mandated by law to prohibit these kinds of contracts and is abdicating its responsibility

“.. One of the challenges is you can deplete these [munitions] really quickly,” said Kelly Grieco, a senior fellow at the Stimson Center .. “We’re using them faster than we can replace them.”

@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/world/middle...

The Trump Administration Is Spending Billions to Militarize the Border The border-industrial complex has become even more profitable since the start of Donald Trump’s second term.

Garrett Graff: For Trump, border hysteria is a cover for massive grifting that profits his cronies. The US border—particularly the southern border, with Mexico—has been heavily militarized since 9/11. During the second Trump Administration, the border-industrial complex has become quite profitable.

What a terrifying batch of headlines to wake up to.

It goes without saying, but — boycott ChatGPT, everybody.

Reposting for the A.M. crowd ⬇️

We've received many questions about when precisely the Minneapolis vehicles will arrive in Williamsport. We don't have that info. What the comms we reviewed said: vehicles are en route from MN to MD, and ~90 Baltimore-staged vehicles are moving to a separate in-state location.

Maryland and the DMV: It is time to prepare, organize, resist, fight. Learn from Minneapolis, Chicago, Portland, LA. Figure out how you can help, and fight for your rights. Fight for your neighbor’s rights. Fight like hell, Maryland.

Got a cab near the Department of Education. Hadn’t seen the Charlie Kirk banner before.

It is very striking that, in the modern era, everyone turns into children when bombs begin dropping. It's a good reminder that, in fact, the arrangement between 1945 and present, whatever you want to call it, has been so successful for so long people have forgotten what war is like.

“The point is that both Hitler and Stalin held out promises of stability in order to hide their intention of creating a state of permanent instability.”

― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

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