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CHICAGO (AP) - Oil prices eclipsed $115 per barrel on Monday as the Iran war intensified, threatening production and shipping in the Middle East. The price for a barrel of Brent crude, the international standard, surged to $115.31, up 24% from its Friday closing price of $92.69. West Texas Intermediate, the light, sweet crude oil produced in the United States, was selling for $116.33 a barrel. That's 28% higher than its close Friday at $90.90

We're going for high scores, baby!

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China and Russia use Trump.

It’s really that simple they make him feel like a Dictator like they are but he isn’t in their club.

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WA commission acts against 2 police trainers accused of sexual harassment Multiple women accused two former instructors at Washington's police training academy of sexually harassing them in 2022.

I think when people imagine "police training" they imagine a v professional teacher in a tweed jacket. But they are actually a variety of cranks, Christian Nationalists, and burn outs.
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

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that the Trump administration is trying to shut down a leading AI company because it’s unwilling to develop autonomous murder systems is terrifying, and should be of grave concern to everyone in the world

A framed THEY LIVE (1988) digital movie poster on the wall of the movie theater.

About to go see my very favorite @thehorrormaster.bsky.social film in a movie theater for the first time!

Same here -- matinee show, opening day. I was initially confused by the campiness and the silly fight scene but dug the whole "hidden reality"/colonial exploitation vibe. Good times.

The Middle East is on fire. Gas prices are soaring. Jobs are disappearing. Senile Satan is golfing again.

This is disgusting. Risking lives for their own selfish greed. I despise those people so much...and the feeling is growing.

What a shameful exercise in performative religiosity and piety 😳

Spoke to @owenjonesjourno about how Trump has already lost control over the war and that increasingly desperate measures are being considered as a result.

In comparison, the Iraq war plan didn't go off the rails until August 2003.

Wow!

Look how fast gas prices are rising in the US as a result of Trump allowing Israel to push the US into a war of choice with Iran.

In January, it was $2.80. Now it's $3.41.

Trump may not care yet, but this will soon be impossible for him to ignore.

In Paris, Iranian monarchists waving Iranian & Israeli flags celebrated Trump & Israel's war.

A woman -unclear whether she is French or Iranian- is deeply angered, presumably by the immorality of supporting bombs on their own people while they celebrate in the safety of Paris.

Recent U.S. Assessment Found an Attack on Iran Unlikely to Result in Regime Change

As we said, the country would be destroyed, thousands killed, and the US further embroiled in the Middle East - for nothing!

Recent U.S. Assessment Found an Attack on Iran Unlikely to Result in Regime Change

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/w...

'He blew it': ​President found to have tossed away 'golden opportunity' to stop Iran war Even some conservatives are sounding the alarm after a report revealed that Donald Trump apparently threw away a "golden opportunity" to de-escalate a global conflict and bring an end to the Iran war....

He doesn't want peace. He started a war, or joined one, with intentions to keep it going as he further tries to distract from his other crimes in Epstein, fraud, war crimes...and greed. He needs to face prosecution.

www.rawstory.com/trump-iran-2...

"All the President's Men" was a warning Nearly 50 years later, the film feels less like a triumphant ode to journalism than a warning about media decay.

“All the President’s Men” was a warning

Nearly 50 years later, the film feels less like a triumphant ode to journalism than a warning about media decay
www.salon.com/2026/03/07/a...

A woman gave birth over the toilet in her jail cell at the Buncombe county jail (Asheville)
archive.ph/iLF9w

🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯 LOCK THEM UP !

Look who she's married to.

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“The historic function of fascism is to smash the working class, destroy its organizations, and stifle political liberties when the capitalists find themselves unable to govern and dominate with the help of democratic machinery.”

– Leon Trotsky, ‘Fascism, what it is and how to fight it’

Telegraph: Blair rebukes Starmer of failure to back Trump's war

Mail: Blair delivers a stinging blow to PM over war

Man who dragged Britain into an illegal war in the Middle East scolds other man for not dragging Britain into an illegal war in the Middle East.

What do the US Congress, Nicolás Maduro, the riots in Iran, Jeffrey Epstein, and the destruction of Syria have in common?

#Opinion by Sarmad Ishfaq

Read: www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260306-zio...

There's something deeply obscene and broken about the fact that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are bombing elementary schools in an illegal war of aggression, and there's still a sense among the opposition that it has to be explained in terms of gas prices in order to get American voters to care.

Wow -- as first spotted by @BadFoxGraphics on X, Fox & Friends this morning used *old footage of a previous dignified transfer* to mislead their audience about the fact that Trump wore a baseball cap during the one yesterday

WELKER: Why is Trump helping Russia in this moment?

WALTZ:I wouldn't characterize it that way

WELKER: How else would you describe easing oil sanctions?

WALTZ: It's common sense to allow oil sitting on ships to go to India

WELKER: Russia will be getting that money as it wages its war in Ukraine

BRENNAN: The US is suspending some sanctions on Russia. But doesn't Russia financially benefit?

WRIGHT: Right now we're worried about Iran & US consumers

B: Russia was helping Iran

W: Well, there's been rumors. We don't know

B: Iranian drones have Russian parts in them. They're sharing intel

House Intelligence Chair Rick Crawford: "We have been at war with Iran since 1947"

Burgum on gas prices spiking because of Trump's war against Iran: "This is about a transit issue"

Counterpoint: Limiting how US troops can be used illegally in unconstitutional wars of the president’s own choosing *IS* supporting “the troops.”