SCOOP — Body camera footage obtained as a result of my lawsuit against the DC Metropolitan PD confirms DOGE and the Trump administration openly admitted they were entering private property when they raided the building on March 17, 2025. That didn't stop MPD from breaking down the doors.
My report:
The Massachusetts Department of Correction has been fighting me for months, trying to withhold data about its collaboration with ICE.
Yesterday, I won that fight, and obtained records showing that the state has transferred more than 2,000 people into ICE custody since 2009.
A quick thread:
The price of oil surged higher and showed no signs of halting its rapid climb a week after the U.S. and Israel launched major attacks on Iran that escalated into a war in the Middle East.
https://www.wpri.com/news/national/oil-and-gas-prices-rapidly-rise-as-iran-war-shows-no-signs-of-letting-up/
Just this photo choice. “Are my methods unsound?”
Lack of interest in off-ramps or complications to invading a country? Hunger to keep expanding the conflict and “jump in the deep end” for the hell of it? Sounds familiar to me!
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
dudes rock
“With about three weeks before leaders of the world's two largest economies are due to meet, preparation for Trump's state visit to Beijing has been frantic, raising concerns that the U.S. position could be undermined, according to people familiar with the planning. The National Security Council coordinates with multiple agencies to set possible goals for such meetings, but it was significantly downsized last May and overhauled by Trump, who directed Secretary of State Marco Rubio to oversee the security body along with his other duties. The visit is also being administered by the Treasury and Trade Representative, according to a former American diplomat with knowledge of the plan.”
Treasury and USTR running the planning for the Trump-Xi summit rather than NSC - asia.nikkei.com/politics/int...
Friday #synthwave -
Hearing “Oberlin” triggers the thousand-yard stare
South Korea, US militaries discuss moving Patriot missiles to Iran war, Seoul says reut.rs/3OJNdnA
My lord! The frigate the US submarine torpedoed, the one the White House has been bragging about, was unarmed and headed home from an international naval exercise, hosted by India, that the US pulled out of at the last minute! www.military.com/daily-news/i...
"Trump Says 'I Guess' Americans Should Worry About Iran Retaliating on U.S. Soil: 'Like I Said, Some People Will Die'
Quite the headline from People.com
people.com/trump-says-i...
Gov. Maura Healey, a Democrat, questioned why Noem wasn’t fired officially today during a press scrum. “I mean look, Kristi Noem has done a great disservice to the Department of Homeland Security, to what it has stood for, to what has it meant historically,” she said. Healey said Noem, who also oversaw U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, was an “absolutely terrible appointment.” “Under her watch, ICE has made us less safe, not just in Massachusetts, but all around this county. She had no business being in that role in the first place, and I’m glad she’s gone,” said Healey.
Even when criticizing Kristi Noem, Maura Healey can't help but reveal her inner cop.
www.wgbh.org/news/nationa...
Sorry, should be “either election” rather than “both elections”
What would have been truly nasty would
be to then ask Colby who won in 2024.
Then depending on how he answers, ask a) why he can give an answer for 2024 but not 2020 or b) ask him what he thinks the sitting President would make of his refusal to answer for both elections.
Congresswoman going deep into the Colby lore
"This is a polite way of saying the American military should be hoping the next salvo with Iran is smaller—and that China won’t do the math to figure out what is left of American precision-guided munitions to defend Taiwan." foreignpolicy.com/2026/03/05/i...
i really don't think Hegseth realized the diplomatic consequences of that strike
FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?
Anger among Pakistan's Shi'ites underlines its Iran-U.S. tightrope walk reut.rs/47t0szh
China to send envoy to Middle East for mediation, foreign minister says reut.rs/46Hnt1c
“And inside the administration, aides are still struggling to explain why the nation went to war — and what exactly comes next. “It’s a political risk, no ands, ifs or buts,” one Trump adviser said of an attack that the president has forecast could continue for weeks. “Let’s just hope something doesn’t go really wrong. Because if that happens, it’s going to be a problem.”
www.cnn.com/2026/03/04/p...
Beyond what he is actually saying, Hegseth is the most visibly and audibly anxious I’ve ever seen him. This suggests the realities of what they have started is setting in.
Indian Air Force gets Defence Procurement Board approval to buy 5 more S-400s from Russia, along with the 5 already contracted (and of which two remain to be inducted by India).
This US-Israeli raiding approach to warfare, if it continues at the current operational tempo for weeks, could draw down INDOPACOM & EUCOM stocks that will take many years to replenish, further weakening US military readiness.
“The U.S.-Iran conflict is likely to upend India's diversification away from Russian crude after Tehran said it would close the Strait of Hormuz, through which over half the South Asian nation's crude imports pass, potentially raising India's fuel prices and pushing it back toward Russian supplies.”
“Islamabad has asked Saudi Arabia to route oil supplies through the Red Sea port of Yanbu after the closure of the Strait of Hormuz disrupted shipping.”
Good Zia Ur Rehman piece on implications for Pakistan of the US-Israel war on Iran -
From 2022 when Biden's NPR was released - comparing selected hardware changes between Obama-Trump 1-Biden.
