A man threatened me at my town hall last night. I want to tell you exactly what happened. 🧵
#mepolitics
In my book The Privateers I explain how DeVos, Koch, and Bradley $$ created “soldier scholars”—right-wing political operatives with PhDs and campaign-style tactics to push right-wing policy priorities through courts and legislatures.
This week seeing new examples👇
Attorney General Bondi thinks she can play hide-and-go-seek with the Epstein Files, but the law is clear and mandatory.
She must release the Files in their entirety so we can end this massive coverup and elite protection for predators.
NEW: House Oversight Committee wants to interview Epstein prison guard -- interview request comes after
@miamiherald exclusively reported that she was overheard by inmate talking about covering up his killing. Here is a free link to our story: www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...
Search-and-rescue crews were “flying blind” trying to rescue survivors from deadly tornadoes that hit the Midwest last week.
Why? Because Kristi Noem hadn't approved FEMA’s $200,000 contract with a tornado-tracking tool.
But she had time to spend $220 million on anti-immigrant ads. Priorities.
“I remain deeply concerned about any attempts to improperly transfer public assets to private companies,” Mr. Neguse wrote.
Yeah, me too. My bet is that it involves AccuWeather dude, who has been trying since Trump 1.0 to get control of the federal weather data they've been repackaging for years
⚡️ US doesn't need Ukraine's help with drone defenses, Trump says.
"No, we don't need their help in drone defense," Trump said. "We know more about drones than anybody. We have the best drones in the world, actually."
Michael McFaul: "It is a reflection of our current political environment that Trump has been able to take the United States into a war that few Americans wanted, that he never mentioned on the campaign trail, and that received neither congressional authorization, nor UN or NATO approval."
NEW: Senate Democrats have filed legislation that would prevent the U.S. from attacking Cuba without congressional approval as they seek to force a vote on President Trump's stated goal of a "takeover" of the Caribbean country
Devastating, in-depth indictment of Witkoff's handling of the Iran negotiations: "Witkoff did not have sufficient technical expertise or diplomatic experience to engage in effective diplomacy." www.armscontrol.org/blog/2026-03...
For guests, Epstein’s island was a Caribbean dream; for victims, a nightmare with no escape. CNN's Kyung Lah reports on what files released by the Department of Justice reveal.
#EpsteinCoverUp
In the 1920s, there was an enormous Klan-aligned caucus in the House of Representatives that passed an immigration restriction bill designed to keep out Catholics and Jews because they supposedly posed an existential threat to American civilization. 100 years later, here we are.
Trade Representative Jamieson Greer on the Iran war: "I think we're talking about a matter of weeks. Our expectation is that any effects we see will be short-lived."
JD Vance launches a leak campaign, the core message of which is: "Hey, I was against this stupid war from the beginning." www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
You better have our money.
How is getting your own money back that the govt illegally seized from you a “windfall”? This is a form of “conservatism” I’m not familiar with. bsky.app/profile/atru...
So, both stagnation and inflation simultaneously? Do we have a word for that?
“Planning around preventing this exact scenario — impossible as it has long seemed — has been a bedrock principle of US national security policy for decades,” a former US official who served in Republican and Democratic administrations said. “I’m dumbfounded.”
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An abrupt collapse of the Cuban state could lead to internal conflict, mass exodus, and expanded trafficking routes in the Florida Straits.
⚡️ BREAKING: Zelenskyy warns a U.S. decision to ease sanctions hands Russia a $10B for its war effort.
Moscow is funneling energy profits directly into weapons like the mass-produced drones targeting Ukraine and beyond.
NEW: Oregon voters overwhelmingly approved limiting campaign contributions in 2020.
Four years later, the Legislature finally adopted limits, but an advocate for tighter controls says recent changes render Oregon’s contribution limits “illusory.”
🚨 UN confirms Putin personally oversaw the systematic forced deportation of Ukrainian children.
A new report classifies the deportation of Ukrainian children as "crimes against humanity," detailing a state-run system of indoctrination and illegal citizenship changes.
They can't control what's happening now, so they're trying to control what gets said about it.
While Putin helps Iran kill Americans, Trump shrugs. The material outcome of their chumminess is no longer theoretical. A THREAD.
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Watch this clip.
Professors will recognize this kid as the student who didn't do the reading but still has very strong opinions about how it's all "bullshit," except this time he's not the callow student who's going to fail your course, he's the reviewer who's going to cancel your grant.
“There’s another young boy I met last time whose name is Liam Nias,” @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social said. “He’s 7, from Honduras, I believe. He reminded me of Liam Ramos, except no one knows this other boy — he’s just unknown and sitting there in this prison.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/u...
“American economic policy would effectively be allowing billions of dollars to flow into the hands of a state that may be indirectly supporting attacks on US troops.”
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On the "we've been at war with Iran for 47 years" and "Trump is the 47th president," all I can say is that a lot of his base is really into numerology
Bessent's thesis since his confirmation -- that the US would "de-lever" the public sector to "re-lever" the private sector -- has been turned upside down.
