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Michael Huggins

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DWM, technical writer, skeptic, avid reader, never-Trump conservative who votes Democratic, Renaissance and Baroque music, walking for fitness, museums, historic sites.

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Isn't it wonderful how Trump is bringing down gas prices. Just like avoiding wars.

Susie Wiles at center of 'screaming' panic inside Trump's White House as Iran war sends gas soaring www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...

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"'This is incredibly unusual, going back 70, 80 years,' Terrazas said in an interview. β€œThe fact is, we have not seen this long of a contraction in white-collar jobs outside of a recession ever before." - Quartz

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"White-collar payrolls have now contracted for 29 consecutive months. According to Aaron Terrazas, a former chief economist at Glassdoor, that’s without precedent. 'It's clear that white-collar hiring has slowed and white-collar payrolls have contracted.

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AI is already killing white-collar jobs and wages Economists, researchers, and workers are increasingly asking what happens to an economy built around a premium on human intelligence when that premium vanishes

AI is already killing white-collar jobs and wages qz.com/ai-white-col...

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Opinion | Kristi Noem is a nightmare for immigration hawks Sloppy enforcement and tone-deaf messaging have undermined Homeland Security’s credibility.

Opinion | Kristi Noem is a nightmare for immigration hawks - The Washington Post www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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Dreams of a Blue Texas Emerge Yet Again Yes, and No, and Be Careful, say typically nervous Dems.

Dreams of a Blue Texas Emerge Yet Again - by Lauren Egan www.thebulwark.com/p/texas-demo...

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Tony Gonzales admits affair with aide who died by suicide β€œβ€‹β€‹I’ve asked God to forgive me, which he has,” the San Antonio Republican told a conservative radio host the day after he was forced into a primary runoff.

Tony Gonzales admits affair with aide who died by suicide www.texastribune.org/2026/03/04/t...

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DOJ quietly shelves Biden autopen investigation that Trump demanded President Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed former President Joe Biden used an autopen without knowing the contents of what he signed.

DOJ quietly shelves Biden autopen investigation that Trump demanded www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

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Opinion | The Trump Doctrine is here. It ends forever wars. Like Reagan, the president has found a way to change the world without putting boots on the ground.

The author of this article is clearly insane, but I am sharing it for the sake of fairness. The bad things he says about Iran are true. Trump is not the solution.

With Iran, Venezuela military strategies, Trump Doctrine takes shape - The Washington Post www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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"and Trump has now taken that expansion to its extreme conclusion, launching wars and using military power as he sees fit." - The Atlantic

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"His launching of hostilities (with the embarrassingly bro-themed name β€œOperation Epic Fury”) is the culmination of decades of expanding presidential powers over national-security issues,

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"Donald Trump has taken America into war with a country whose population is approximately the size of Iraq’s and Afghanistan’s combined. He has done this without making a case to the American people, and without approval of any kind from their elected representatives.

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Trump Has Given America a Constitutional Dilemma Congress should not have to argue over whether to trigger the War Powers Resolution, and certainly not in the midst of conflict.

Trump Has Given America a Constitutional Dilemma - The Atlantic www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

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MAGA Already Hates Trump’s Iran War Although die-hard sycophants are pretzeling to support him.

MAGA Already Hates Trump’s Iran War - by Will Sommer www.thebulwark.com/p/maga-alrea...

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Fact-checking statements made by Trump to justify U.S. strikes on Iran President Donald Trump's accusation that Iran is building nuclear weapons that could "soon" reach the U.S. is contradicted by a 2025 federal government assessment that said Iran is years away from the...

Fact-checking statements made by Trump to justify U.S. strikes on Iran | PBS News www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

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This sounds bad.

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The State of the Union Revealed a Sad Reality Donald Trump misused the annual presidential tradition in ways so radical as to call the ritual itself into question.

"President Trump’s State of the Union address...was very like the man who delivered it: divisive, abusive, and childish."

The State of the Union Revealed a Sad Reality - The Atlantic www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

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Why Khamenei Is Dead The best-planned defenses don’t count for much if the people you trust to run them are ready to sell you out.

"But the leadershipβ€”that is, Khamenei and his tight circle of loyalistsβ€”have performed shambolically."

WhyΒ Khamenei Is Dead - The Atlantic www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

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"It has not experienced failure in every domain. The regime’s missiles partially deterred Israel. Its institutions held fast and didn’t collapse. No units of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps have defected.

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"He was the enemy of many. But he was also an enemy to himself, one of the Iranian regime’s points of vulnerability. During the past two years of conflict with Israel and the United States, Iran experienced a total failure of leadership.

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Suspect in Texas shooting wore 'Property of Allah' clothing and Iranian flag emblem, AP source says A law enforcement official tells The Associated Press that the gunman who killed two people at a bar in Texas early Sunday was wearing a sweatshirt that said β€œProperty of Allah,” and another shirt wit...

Suspected gunman in Texas bar shooting wore 'Property of Allah' sweatshirt | AP News apnews.com/article/aust...

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The "Peace Presidency" Aged Badly, Didn't It? March comes in with Epic Fury, but it is far from clear how it will go out.

"Barack Obama will attack Iran in the not too distant future because it will help him win the election.” - Donald Trump, November 2011

The "Peace Presidency" Aged Badly, Didn't It? charliesykes.substack.com/p/the-peace-...

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The Death of Khamenei and the End of an Era His life’s work was to preserve a revolution that is heading for the ash heap.

"The revolution he preserved was designed for a world that no longer exists."

The Death of Khamenei and the End of an Era - The Atlantic www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

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A girls’ elementary school was hit in Iran. Here’s what we know. | CNN Iranian state media says more than 100 students have been killed and scores more injured at a girls’ elementary school. CNN investigates cell phone footage of the aftermath.

A girls’ elementary school was hit in Iran. Here’s what we know www.cnn.com/2026/03/01/w...

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Who was Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei? | CNN Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ruled Iran for 36 yearsβ€”crushing protests at home, building regional militias, and surviving an assassinationβ€”before his death by US-Israeli strikes sparked mourning, revenge vo...

Who was Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei? | CNN www.cnn.com/2026/03/01/w...

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