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By the time Trump is done, Americaโ€™s only allies will be the dictatorships who sign up for the Board of Peace.

07.03.2026 21:43 ๐Ÿ‘ 410 ๐Ÿ” 124 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 51 ๐Ÿ“Œ 23
Caitlin KALINOWSKI over X

I resigned from OpenAl. I care deeply about the Robotics team and the work we built together.
This wasn't an easy call. Al has an important role in national security. But surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got. This was about principle, not people. I have deep respect for Sam and the team, and I'm proud of what we built together.

Caitlin KALINOWSKI over X I resigned from OpenAl. I care deeply about the Robotics team and the work we built together. This wasn't an easy call. Al has an important role in national security. But surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got. This was about principle, not people. I have deep respect for Sam and the team, and I'm proud of what we built together.

OpenAI head of robotics just resigned over company deal with the Pentagon sayingโ€ฆ

โ€œSurveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they gotโ€

07.03.2026 19:05 ๐Ÿ‘ 6342 ๐Ÿ” 2402 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 124 ๐Ÿ“Œ 196
Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon speaking during a congressional hearing

Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon speaking during a congressional hearing

Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon: โ€œSo he is using YOUR Tax Dollars to protect oil tankers from attacks in the Strait of Hormuz, which will cause gas prices to go up โ€” because he started a war using YOUR Tax Dollarsโ€

07.03.2026 02:24 ๐Ÿ‘ 4301 ๐Ÿ” 1299 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 98 ๐Ÿ“Œ 56
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07.03.2026 14:16 ๐Ÿ‘ 4960 ๐Ÿ” 2346 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 379 ๐Ÿ“Œ 176

True, but, we need an English teacher to break out her synonym rolls and find one for โ€œunhingedโ€. lol.

The adverb never grows old.

Yes, I know itโ€™s not my place to editorialize.

Iโ€™m just babbling on an iPad.

07.03.2026 15:20 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The Last Gatekeepers Why the Trump administration wants to neutralize state bar discipline.

My latest on the complicity of lawyers in dismantling democracy and the Justice Department's attempt to thwart the ability of state bars to hold them accountable open.substack.com/pub/asharang...

07.03.2026 14:54 ๐Ÿ‘ 403 ๐Ÿ” 171 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 10 ๐Ÿ“Œ 4
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Reminded: Netanyahu been saying the same thing for 40 years

07.03.2026 14:30 ๐Ÿ‘ 1468 ๐Ÿ” 621 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 125 ๐Ÿ“Œ 33

Noisy sex *with honors* Iโ€™m sure.

07.03.2026 15:11 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Since Trumpโ€™s return, America has not supported a single resolution condemning Russian aggression. Not one.

07.03.2026 14:27 ๐Ÿ‘ 428 ๐Ÿ” 191 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 21 ๐Ÿ“Œ 6

lol. ๐Ÿ˜†

07.03.2026 15:07 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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A knock on the window and a glimpse of Americaโ€™s surveillance future โ€œThis is taking a big and very scary step toward a kind of totalitarian checkpoint society,โ€ a privacy advocate warns in a special France 24โ€“Mother Jones report.

License plate readers. Cellphone location data. Social media monitoring. Now, real-time facial recognition on the street.

DHS is building a surveillance apparatusโ€”and you're probably already in it.

Our latest with @france24.com:

07.03.2026 15:02 ๐Ÿ‘ 277 ๐Ÿ” 194 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 15 ๐Ÿ“Œ 11

Remember how this guy lobbied hard to get a pardon for a war criminal who slaughtered children? Turns out thatโ€™s literally his entire philosophy of armed conflict

07.03.2026 03:42 ๐Ÿ‘ 2625 ๐Ÿ” 552 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 70 ๐Ÿ“Œ 8
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FEW JOURNALISTS ARE COVERING THIS :

Trump's war in Iran has brought one more disgusting scandal to the WH ; there are bets going on in the Situation Room about how many strikes there will be.

While our people suffer with soaring prices, they made $1M+ betting on death and human pain ...

07.03.2026 10:58 ๐Ÿ‘ 435 ๐Ÿ” 275 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 23 ๐Ÿ“Œ 18
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Trump insiders accused of โ€˜profiting from warโ€™ after $1m bet on Iran attack A US senator has accused those close to Donald Trump of โ€œprofiting off war and deathโ€ in the wake of suspiciously timed bets predicting a US strikes on Iran.

One of the few sources :

www.yahoo.com/news/article...

07.03.2026 10:58 ๐Ÿ‘ 71 ๐Ÿ” 45 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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07.03.2026 03:23 ๐Ÿ‘ 213 ๐Ÿ” 73 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 9 ๐Ÿ“Œ 3
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Donโ€™t worry, weโ€™ll tariff you anyway.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

07.03.2026 12:55 ๐Ÿ‘ 487 ๐Ÿ” 119 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 19 ๐Ÿ“Œ 3
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Global oil benchmark Brent crude breaks above $90 a barrel amid Iran war, U.S. crude tops $87 The oil market is worried that Gulf countries will have to shut production if tankers are unable to pass the the Strait of Hormuz.

NEW and AWFUL--all thanks to Trump: "Markets
Global oil benchmark Brent crude breaks above $90 a barrel amid Iran war." Experts say if oil gets over a $100 a barrel and remains there it will trigger a recession on a global scale!! www.cnbc.com/2026/03/06/i...

06.03.2026 13:59 ๐Ÿ‘ 29 ๐Ÿ” 19 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

Israel is bombarding, literally bombarding, two Middle East capitals, Beirut and Tehran, killing 100s of civilians, and yet the US and UK media continue to portray Iran as the threat to the region.

Israel has nukes, but Iran is the nuclear threat.

We live in Orwellian times.

06.03.2026 13:15 ๐Ÿ‘ 7389 ๐Ÿ” 2500 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 169 ๐Ÿ“Œ 56
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06.03.2026 12:37 ๐Ÿ‘ 147 ๐Ÿ” 85 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 9 ๐Ÿ“Œ 8
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Trump is a fucking disaster in every area of presidential responsibility.

06.03.2026 13:54 ๐Ÿ‘ 1817 ๐Ÿ” 502 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 113 ๐Ÿ“Œ 33
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In 25-Country Survey, Americans Especially Likely To View Fellow Citizens as Morally Bad Across 25 countries, Americans are the most likely to see the morality and ethics of people in their country as somewhat or very bad.

A Pew Research poll of 20 countries asked if residents thought their fellow citizens had bad ethics & morality. Only Americans were more likely to think that.

ttps://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2026/03/05/in-25-country-survey-americans-especially-likely-to-view-fellow-citizens-as-morally-bad/

06.03.2026 01:44 ๐Ÿ‘ 520 ๐Ÿ” 150 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 46 ๐Ÿ“Œ 4
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I stopped even considering traveling through Budapest and Hungary overall awhile ago, not feeling safe with all the Orban remarks. Now itโ€™s official : Ukraineโ€™s Foreign Ministry advises against travelling to Hungary as being unsafe for Ukrainians amid the actions of Hungarian authorities.

06.03.2026 15:25 ๐Ÿ‘ 49 ๐Ÿ” 11 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Never forget that this what The Washington Post said when Noem was nominated.

06.03.2026 02:45 ๐Ÿ‘ 12839 ๐Ÿ” 2855 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 748 ๐Ÿ“Œ 182
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Yup, that about sums it up.

05.03.2026 23:17 ๐Ÿ‘ 2465 ๐Ÿ” 816 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 88 ๐Ÿ“Œ 27
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MASSIE: โ€œIran is not Venezuela. The Ayatollah was not a president. He was a religious leaderโ€ฆ ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ & ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ turned him into a martyr, expended billions, 6 ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ families must now lay to rest their sons & daughters. And for what? This administration can't even give us a straight answer.โ€

06.03.2026 04:11 ๐Ÿ‘ 19718 ๐Ÿ” 6033 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 557 ๐Ÿ“Œ 235

Todayโ€™s jobs report is even worse than losing 92,000 jobs last month in February:

โ€œWith these revisions, employment in December and January combined is 69,000 lower than previously reported.โ€

So much for Donald Trump being the โ€œJobs President,โ€ MAGA.

06.03.2026 14:04 ๐Ÿ‘ 379 ๐Ÿ” 121 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 17 ๐Ÿ“Œ 5
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Speculation swirls after Trump demands to name new Iran leader: 'Supreme Leader Kushner' President Donald Trump is insisting that he must be personally "involved" in choosing Iran's next leader, and social media users wondered exactly how that would work.Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was assassi...

Speculation swirls after Trump demands to name new Iran leader: 'Supreme Leader Kushner'

www.rawstory.com/trump-choose...

06.03.2026 10:52 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 3 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

This is early March 2020. You know how bad this is going to get. The rest of the world needs to find out the hard way.

06.03.2026 11:39 ๐Ÿ‘ 88 ๐Ÿ” 11 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Zelensky highlighting the moral and strategic poverty of the USA under Trump. In the last year Trump has ended all military aid for Ukraine, has undermined Ukrainian air defense, has tried to bully Ukraine in handing over territory, and has rolled out the red carpet for Putin.

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