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When wars are going well, administrations tend not to whine incessantly about media coverage and threaten independent news organizations. |
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| There have long been concerns that the foundation of the war is built on the whims of a former television personality. Trump keeps confirming those fears. |
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There have long been concerns that the foundation of the war is built on the whims of a former television personality. Trump keeps confirming those fears. |
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| Foreign countries haven't exactly rushed to answer the American president's call for assistance. Imagine that. |
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Foreign countries haven't exactly rushed to answer the American president's call for assistance. Imagine that. |
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| There's a good reason many of the president's ambassadors have been described as "undiplomatic diplomats." |
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There's a good reason many of the president's ambassadors have been described as "undiplomatic diplomats." |
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WHAT'S ON RACHEL'S BLUESKY RADAR? |
- the big grin and the clapping him on the back.
"TRUMP: We had one who was very ill. Looked like he wasn't going to make it. You want to mention his name?
MIKE JOHNSON: Neal Dunn of Florida had real health challenges
T: His diagnosis was he'd be dead by June
J: Ok, that wasn't public. *audience groans* It was grim is what I was going to say"
(Rachel shares Aaron Rupar video)
- The National Park Service race to rewrite history becomes a slog — The agency is considering hundreds of changes to exhibits at parks. It's been an overwhelming task.
(Politico)
- It's gonna be a big one.
- "As of today, it's still 12 days until the next No Kings Day on Saturday March 28, but organizers say there are already nearly 3000 separate protests planned in the US:
Over five million people protested against the regime in June.
More than seven million people took to the streets in October.
March 28 will be even bigger, with nearly 3,000 events already on the No Kings Day map. Be part of the largest protest in American history: [LINK]"
(Rachel shares Indivisible)
- Video proves Delta flew Liam Ramos and his dad to ICE detention center — Three plainclothes federal agents can be seen boarding a Delta flight while guarding the 5-year-old boy and his father, right under unsuspecting passengers' noses.
(Gillian Brockell)
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- "SCOOP. From my OUR LAND newsletter: Trump's DOJ is helping to get a convicted FBI informant tied to Russian intelligence out of prison. The lie this guy told the FBI—Joe Biden took a $5m bribe from Burisma—was the main evidence for the GOP impeachment drive. 1/2
In an usual move, the DOJ just submitted a filing supporting Alexander Smirnov's effort to withdraw his guilty plea & overturn his 6-year sentence. Dep. AG Todd Blanche signed the submission. Why is the DOJ helping this Russian-linked fabricator? 2/2
Sign up for for OUR LAND at davidcorn.com."
(Rachel points to David Corn's scoop with Mother Jones)
- "He has no known criminal record.
"But for an entire year, he has remained imprisoned with no access to a lawyer, no contact with his family and no prospect of a trial before a judge..."
(Washington Post)
- Well that will open up the Strait of Hormuz.
"The White House's main entrance — framed by graceful Ionic columns — has been a signature image of the seat of US power
"A Trump-appointee is proposing to replace them with a more ornate style favored by Trump..."
(Rachel shares the Washington Post)
- "Renderings posted on social media "aren't a plan," he said. "When the President previewed his vision for a ballroom, he assured the public that the East Wing would remain untouched. Instead, it was completely demolished."
(Washington Post)
- "An obscure methodological change lowered a key measure of inflation in January, prompting questions about how government statistical agencies produce and report economic data...
"The bureau provided no public disclosure of the change..."
(New York Times)
- "The U.S. seized a ship from Venezuela. -- and has gotten stuck paying $47 million so far for repairs and maintenance.
The total value of the ship? $10 million."- "The government has already spent $47 million repairing and maintaining the aging ship, which is only valued at $10 million, federal prosecutors said in a court filing. And it will most likely need to spend another $5 million over the next few months to cover insurance and crew, among other costs."
(Eric Umansky shares New York Times)
- "To be clear: the SAVE Act does not simply require the identification voting ALREADY requires. It demands proof of CITIZENSHIP— a birth certificate with a name that matches yours now (bye, bye, married women), or a passport— both of which are expensive and take a long time to obtain."
- Sen. Hagerty: "We have to show ID for almost everything we do here in America. I do not understand why exercising one of our most precious rights as Americans is not one of those issues that Democrats can support."
(Heather Cox Richardson reacts to Aaron Rupar video)
- "...allegations that the Trump administration began negotiating the transfer of the center's space weather program to a private company in January, before the review had been completed...
"...attempts to improperly transfer public assets to private companies..."
Trump Administration Readies Plans to Dismantle Renowned Science Lab
(New York Times)
- "As of earlier this week, the tornado mapping contract still had not been renewed..."
Exclusive: 'Rescuers were flying blind': Inside the crucial $200,000 contract Kristi Noem's team let lapse
(CNN)
- MS NOW EXCLUSIVE: Iran is receiving 'military cooperation' from Russia and China, foreign minister says
(MS NOW)
- "Protesters march towards the One Towne Square building in Southfield, Michigan to demand that REDICO, the building's management, cancel its lease with ICE..."
(News from the States)
- "I don't think this shit will work but i never want to hear about free speech from any trumpers or anti anti trumpers ever again, fuck off forever"
- FCC Chair Brendan Carr threatens broadcast licenses over Iran War coverage
(Adam Serwer shares Catherine Rampell sharing Brendan Carr sharing Donald Trump)
- Pardoned Jan. 6 rioter accused of touching women's hair is barred from Metro — Bryan Betancur faces assault charges in D.C. and Virginia for offenses, police say, that he filmed on trains and posted on social media.
(Washington Post)
- per washington post, this is the company that's been given a sudden, new no-bid contract to run the disastrous trump prison camp at fort bliss in texas ("camp east montana"), where at least three people have already died: amentum
(Washington Post)
- How a small New Hampshire town stopped an ICE warehouse jail
In Merrimack, residents showed how organized communities can stop the expansion of ICE detention.
(American Friends Service Committee)
- "The Trump Administration invoked emergency powers to allow a company to restart an oil pipeline off the California coast that state officials have kept offline since it ruptured in 2015 and caused one of the worst spills in the state's history..."
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"It would be BP's first new deepwater project in the Gulf of Mexico since the Deepwater Horizon explosion in 2010, which set off the worst oil spill disaster in U.S. history..."
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"The new project could result in an oil spill of up to four million barrels. That's more than BP's Deepwater Horizon disaster, which spilled 3.19 million barrels into the Gulf over 87 days..."
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(New York Times)
- Trump Admin starts war.
Trump Admin shocked by consequences of war.
Trump Admin urgently (!) tells Americans caught by those consequences to get out! get out! and no there's no help coming from the Trump Admin, and good luck finding a land route out somewhere.- "The U.S. embassy in Baghdad released a statement urging all Americans to leave Iraq immediately, saying that Iran-aligned militias have carried out attacks on U.S.-associated targets throughout Iraq, including diplomatic facilities, U.S. companies and hotels frequented by foreigners. The embassy said that "Iran and its aligned militias" pose "a major threat to public safety in Iraq," and recommended that Americans leave by land routes to Jordan, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Turkey because commercial flights are not operating."
(Rachel shares the New York Times)
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