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"[The Iron Dome] costs about $100 million a year. So I don't understand why [Israel] can't fund it. They've got a $45 billion defense budget." Rep. @rokhanna.bsky.social shares his view with @mehdirhasan.bsky.social on US funding for Israel’s Iron Dome. zeteo.com/p/no-more-ai...

As Israel and the U.S. wage war in Iran, there has been a surge of violence in the West Bank, mostly by Israeli settlers against Palestinians. https://to.pbs.org/4c3spzd

"This is clearly the week when the costs of the war are so exponentially larger than the benefits," David Brooks says. "Russia is now getting all this revenue. Iran is getting all this revenue. The European economy and the world economies are in crisis. NATO is in shreds." https://to.pbs.org/41QYWDO

BREAKING: U.S. job growth for February revised sharply lower — from -92,000 to -133,000 jobs, marking the largest monthly job loss since December 2020.

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Artemis II sent a pic of the beautiful garden planet we are too greedy, lazy, short-sighted, and ungrateful not to destroy:

NASA’s Earth photos from Artemis inspired me to put this on today… 🙂 Getting lots of positive comments on it as I run errands…

Apparently the democracy isn’t as strong as we thought.

Let's focus on something we ALL agree on: #ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files

Lunatic Lindsey really thought he could counter the creepy Disney bubble wand pics with a gun pic, bless his heart

Never stop talking about the Epstein files

Taking care of business. We need to do this and move on.

🚨 BREAKING: Elon Musk found liable for misleading investors in Twitter takeover. Damages could cost him billions.

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French President Emmanuel Macron says France would never take part in operations to unblock the Strait of Hormuz: "We are not party to the conflict and therefore France will never take part in operations to open or liberate the Strait of Hormuz in the current context”

WATCH: A Times of Israel reporter says online gamblers pushed him to alter his story about an Iranian missile strike so they could collect a payout. Chris Hayes and Sen. Chris Murphy discuss that and more.

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We have the right to record ICE agents and other government officials at work in public. Use these tips to document agents’ actions. Read up on your rights and understand the risks at aclu.org/kyr_record-

Merrimack, NH: "Testing of a groundwater sample from a well near the warehouse [site of proposed Trump prison camp] in 2021 found PFOA present at 109 parts per trillion. That’s far higher than the state standard for PFOA in drinking water of 12 parts per trillion..." www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2026...

When oligarchs talk of “personal liberties and free markets” they mean their own liberties to become even richer and more powerful. When oligarchs speak of “freedom,” what they actually seek is freedom from accountability. Know the truth.

Wow — “The Kentucky Supreme Court struck down a law Thursday that would have allowed public funding to go to charter schools.” Very different story here in Tennessee, where @GovBillLee and the privatizers attack public schools daily. thehill.com/homenews/edu...

"The Social Circle city manager was contacted by ICE... “They asked me to turn on the water,” he said of a 1m sq ft warehouse nearby that the government plans to use for locking up as many as 10,000 detainees. “I told them I’m not going to do it,” he said... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Add another 🇺🇸 citizen to ICE’s kill list. Ruben Ray Martinez (23) www.newsweek.com/ice-agent-fa...

"Why aren't reporters asking whether the president has the legal right to launch another Middle Eastern war?" From my Zeteo piece/newsletter today: zeteo.com/p/an-illegal...

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The American president is more insulated from accountability than a British royal. Our political system provides the elite with immunity. It has to change.

“They will use those records to challenge voters, to intimidate them and to preemptively disqualify them, because Georgia has one of the preeminent Senate races in 2026,” says Stacey Abrams on the Trump FBI seizing Georgia’s 2020 ballots.

Alysa Liu broke Team USA's long Olympic medal drought in women's figure skating Thursday when she won gold in the singles competition Thursday in Milan.

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NEW: Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer’s husband has been barred from entering Labor Department HQ after two female staffers accused him of sexual assault inside the building, according to NYT. One alleged incident was captured on security cameras and is now part of a criminal investigation.

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Often overlooked in America’s history of World War II are the 27 Tuskegee Airmen who disappeared in combat. https://to.pbs.org/3Ohp739

I’m proud as fuck of our Olympians. open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...

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