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Founder of http://TheReload.com. Former CNN contributor. Firearms reporter. Gun-safety instructor. Philly fan. DM me some story tips. Email: Gutowski@TheReload(dot)com

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Kristi Noem Didn’t Give a Sh*t About ‘the Details’ Such as a woman who was here legally and helped the homeless—but was then deported anyway.

"I wanted to know what it’s like when the government—one’s own government—says you can live and work here legally, before betraying you at a green card appointment and plucking you unceremoniously from your family, job, and life. So I spoke to Maria."
www.thebulwark.com/p/kristi-noe...

07.03.2026 04:16 👍 45 🔁 10 💬 2 📌 0
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FDA vaccine chief to leave the agency for a second time Dr. Vinay Prasad will step down in April after a controversial year at the FDA.

BREAKING: FDA's vaccine chief, whose tumultuous tenure included unfounded claims about Covid shots, will step down next month.

06.03.2026 23:46 👍 76 🔁 33 💬 5 📌 4

Trump may be about to throw Putin another lifeline.

06.03.2026 23:43 👍 42 🔁 18 💬 2 📌 4
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Trump has privately shown serious interest in U.S. ground troops in Iran The president’s private comments have not focused on a large-scale ground invasion of Iran, but rather on the idea of a small contingent of U.S. troops that would be used for specific strategic purposes, sources say.

EXCLUSIVE: Trump has privately shown serious interest in U.S. ground troops in Iran.

06.03.2026 22:58 👍 196 🔁 85 💬 64 📌 136
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Wars Often Lose Public Support Over Time. Trump Started This One Without Much.

Americans skipped the rally-around-the-president stage this time. JFK gained 13 points after Cuban Missile Crisis, LBJ 8 after bombing Hanoi, GHW Bush 18 during Gulf War, GW Bush 8 after Saddam captured, Obama 11 after OBL killed. Trump gained 0 since Iran. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/u...

06.03.2026 21:45 👍 925 🔁 267 💬 69 📌 25

I guess they were right about your face getting stuck like that.

06.03.2026 22:45 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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06.03.2026 21:37 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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DC’s Highest Court Strikes Down Ammo Magazine Ban America’s capital has once again been violating the Second Amendment, according to a new court ruling.

You can read the full story for FREE here: thereload.com/dcs-highest-...

06.03.2026 21:37 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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DC’s Highest Court Strikes Down Ammo Magazine Ban

06.03.2026 21:37 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0

This looks like something you'd see a 12-year-old boy post on Youtube in 2011.

06.03.2026 19:47 👍 15 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Aside from the childish unseriousness, the thing that just really stands out to be here is just the artistic and cultural leeching. They can't produce anything anyone actually wants to watch themselves so they just pinch a load of clips to repurpose.

06.03.2026 12:55 👍 505 🔁 79 💬 24 📌 7
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Karoline Leavitt Downplays Reports Putin Is Helping Iran Target US Troops: ‘Doesn’t Really Matter’ White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt was pressed by Fox News host John Roberts on Friday about reports that Russia is feeding Iran intelligence to target U.S. troops in the Middle East The post Karoline Leavitt Downplays Reports Putin Is Helping Iran Target US Troops: ‘Doesn’t Really Matter’ first appeared on Mediaite.

Karoline Leavitt Downplays Reports Putin Is Helping Iran Target US Troops: ‘Doesn’t Really Matter’

06.03.2026 18:55 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 3 📌 2
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“.. one thing the US economy doesn’t need right now is a war of choice shutting down a major trade route, blowing up oil markets, and driving up the cost of energy for Americans, just as the labor market seizes up.

And yet, here we are.”

@dkthomp.bsky.social
www.derekthompson.org/p/the-econom...

06.03.2026 17:33 👍 571 🔁 176 💬 37 📌 11

So, obviously this isn’t true. But if the CEO actually believes this nonsense, it implies he thinks maybe he’s enslaving a sentient being that has the capacity to feel emotional distress. And he hasn’t immediately halted operations to suss out how to resolve that?

06.03.2026 17:33 👍 623 🔁 125 💬 25 📌 13

The U.S. economy lost 92,000 jobs in February, stoking labor market worries (Steve Kopack/NBC News)

Main Link | memeorandum Permalink

06.03.2026 17:26 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The US also has intelligence suggesting that China may be preparing to provide Iran with financial assistance, spare parts and missile components, three people familiar with the matter said, though Beijing has stayed out of the war up until now. China relies heavily on Iranian oil and has reportedly been pressuring Tehran ⁠to allow safe passage for vessels through the Strait of Hormuz.

The US also has intelligence suggesting that China may be preparing to provide Iran with financial assistance, spare parts and missile components, three people familiar with the matter said, though Beijing has stayed out of the war up until now. China relies heavily on Iranian oil and has reportedly been pressuring Tehran ⁠to allow safe passage for vessels through the Strait of Hormuz.

uh china is preparing to do what now edition.cnn.com/2026/03/06/p...

06.03.2026 17:20 👍 352 🔁 62 💬 19 📌 31
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Iran war pushes oil price above $90 threatening rise in global inflation Reports Kuwait was cutting output pushed up cost of barrel of Brent crude to highest weekly gain since pandemic began The Iran conflict has driven the oil price past $90 a barrel to its highest weekly gains since the Covid-19 pandemic six years ago, threatening a fresh rise in global inflation. Reports that Kuwait had begun cutting production of oil at some fields after running out of space to store it drove the cost of a barrel of Brent crude to as high as $91.89 at one point on Friday – its highest since April 2024 and up from about $72.50 just before war broke out. Continue reading...

Iran war pushes oil price above $90 threatening rise in global inflation

06.03.2026 17:23 👍 57 🔁 30 💬 8 📌 7

Record high support for abolishing ICE in latest YouGov/Economist data

06.03.2026 16:54 👍 412 🔁 125 💬 5 📌 5

also if the eagles trade aj brown today i'm walking off the job and into dc's shit-filled river in protest

06.03.2026 16:54 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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As the leadership in Tehran faces a potentially existential threat, many of the fighters and militia groups the Iranians cultivated in Iraq have so far not entered the fight for them. Reuters investigates why: reut.rs/4syEjrI

06.03.2026 15:07 👍 21 🔁 7 💬 2 📌 0
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Dow drops 900 after oil prices jump to highest in nearly 2 years and data show a slowing US economy U.S. stocks are falling sharply after getting a whiff of a worst-case scenario for financial markets: a weakening economy combined with high inflation.

U.S. stocks are falling sharply Friday after getting a whiff of a worst-case scenario for financial markets: a weakening economy combined with high inflation.

06.03.2026 14:55 👍 250 🔁 103 💬 23 📌 23

The U.S. lost 92,000 jobs in February.
According to our polling, 24% of Americans say Trump has made the economy better since becoming president, vs 53% who say he's made things worse.
Voters say 2:1 Trump isn't focused enough on the things they care about.
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/53-of-amer...

06.03.2026 14:52 👍 298 🔁 84 💬 10 📌 8

Well, he launched his campaign because Gonzales voted for the 2022 Bipartisan Safer Communities Act. So, his campaign is built around a pro-gun message. He seems further right on most issues than Gonzales as well.

06.03.2026 05:36 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say Military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday, two U.S. officials told Reu...

Reuters Exclusive

"U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school."

"The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the ​Middle East."

06.03.2026 02:50 👍 9925 🔁 5227 💬 621 📌 627

I will never get the AIM open/close door sounds out of my head for as long as I live

I got my bluesky invite from a friend I first met on IRC

do not cite the deep magic to us

06.03.2026 04:38 👍 1082 🔁 101 💬 48 📌 7

That presumably means Guntuber Brandon Herrera will be the Republican candidate in this race. He lost to Gonzales in a runoff last election by a slim margin.

06.03.2026 04:29 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

NEW: Republican Rep. Tony Gonzales says he will NOT run for re-election — but he'll serve out the rest of his term.

06.03.2026 04:25 👍 483 🔁 127 💬 35 📌 16
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Iran appeared to surveil center where U.S. forces were killed in Kuwait, Army memo says In the week before an Iranian retaliatory strike that killed six U.S. service members, Iranian intelligence was likely able to identify and track American forces, according to a memo reviewed by CBS N...

New: Army memo said Iranian intelligence was likely able to identify and track the American service members who moved to the tactical operations center in Kuwait that was struck by a drone killing six. Smaller drones were suspected of conducting aerial recon. www.cbsnews.com/news/iran-ap...

06.03.2026 01:53 👍 59 🔁 25 💬 2 📌 0
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“We’ll Smash the Fucking Window Out and Drag Him Out” We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a “mini...

Last year, we documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office.

ICE claims its officers use a “minimum amount of force.” You can judge for yourself.

(Published July 2025)

06.03.2026 02:00 👍 861 🔁 369 💬 12 📌 13
Landrum has prior drug trafficking felonies, and he committed his § 922(g)(1) offense while on supervised release. So, he concedes that Kimble and Giglio mean he can be constitutionally disarmed pursuant to the Second Amendment. But he points out that these decisions had not been handed down at the time of his offense conduct—his possession of the firearm in November of 2023. He thus avers that at the time of his offense, an ordinary person with his history would not have had “fair warning” that he could not possess a firearm. That is, he contends that Bruen and Diaz rendered § 922(g)(1) unconstitutionally vague by requiring courts to perform unpredictable historical analyses to determine the constitutionality of convictions under the statute.   There are two fatal problems with Landrum’s argument. First, the vagueness doctrine requires that the challenged statute itself be unconstitutionally vague.18 Landrum does not argue that § 922(g)(1) itself is vague, nor could he: the statute “clearly defines the prohibited conduct— possessing a firearm as a felon.”19 That clarity is dispositive.

Landrum has prior drug trafficking felonies, and he committed his § 922(g)(1) offense while on supervised release. So, he concedes that Kimble and Giglio mean he can be constitutionally disarmed pursuant to the Second Amendment. But he points out that these decisions had not been handed down at the time of his offense conduct—his possession of the firearm in November of 2023. He thus avers that at the time of his offense, an ordinary person with his history would not have had “fair warning” that he could not possess a firearm. That is, he contends that Bruen and Diaz rendered § 922(g)(1) unconstitutionally vague by requiring courts to perform unpredictable historical analyses to determine the constitutionality of convictions under the statute. There are two fatal problems with Landrum’s argument. First, the vagueness doctrine requires that the challenged statute itself be unconstitutionally vague.18 Landrum does not argue that § 922(g)(1) itself is vague, nor could he: the statute “clearly defines the prohibited conduct— possessing a firearm as a felon.”19 That clarity is dispositive.

Argument: Bruen rendered the felon-in-possession ban unconstitutionally vague by requiring courts to perform unpredictable historical analyses to decide the constitutionality of convictions as applied.

5th Cir.: nah, bruh.

www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...

06.03.2026 00:28 👍 34 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 1