Every once in awhile Trump's die hard supporters accidentally lay out the case for him being a failure and a loser.

They just lack the self-awareness to hear themselves saying it, as they only interpret things as confirming their biases.

It does remind me of the moment in Arrested Development where Lucille says her husband is no criminal mastermind as he can barely operate the paper shredder.

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Disturbing case study in censorship and self-censorship: climate scientists trying to do their work without using the word "climate".talkingpointsmemo.com/news/to-keep...#BannedWords #Censorship #Climate #DefendResearch #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics

To Keep Climate Science Alive,...

To Keep Climate Science Alive, Researchers Are Speaking in Code

This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. At the Department of Agriculture’s research division…

^{Kate Yoder (TPM - Talking Points Memo)}

I've said #NoKings is terrible branding because the other side gets to just say, well right, we don't have a king. It's so easy to brush off.

So what are alternatives?

Well I think I would start with No Felons off the top of my head...

#USPolitics #Trump

This is why I've been saying #NoKings suffers from terrible branding.

The branding makes it incredibly easy for folks outside of the choir to brush it off.

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They're getting desperate with the distractions, aren't they?

"Aliens" now is it?

And of course, being Trump's America, they have to think the Aliens are actually Demons because they're not right in the head over there....

....the President is still a nonce who started a war with Iran he cannot win.

theguardian.com/us-news/2026/m…

#MAGA #JDVance #Couchfucker #USPol #USPolitics

JD Vance says aliens are ‘demons’ and details obsession with UFOs

Vice-president promises ‘to get to the bottom of’ reports of US government files about unidentified flying objects

^{Richard Luscombe (The Guardian)}

The high profile conservatives setting policy for the US right now are just this stupid.

He really didn't realize that an island has set coordinates, that #Iran doesn't have to go to the Russians to figure out what the coordinates are.

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US conservatives are convinced that protests against #Trump are staged by people being paid to protest, but pro-government demonstrations in #Iran represent the legitimate feelings of the country.

(nevermind the dissonance of then expecting the country to pivot after regime change)

The conservative movement is being run by some of the dumbest people these days.

And that's how we get folks cheering on the idiocy that Trump engages in.

#USPolitics #GOP

Families can't afford healthcare, food, and housing, but the president is spending billions to send violent ICE agents into our communities. I'm marching on March 28 to say NO KINGS!

Join us in person or virtually online www.nokings.org #uspol #uspolitics #NoKings

It's striking how smallminded and myopic it is for mainstream #Trump supporters to laud a history of attacking during negotiation as a way to get future negotiation.

Reporting suggests #Iran isn't negotiating this time. For SOME reason.

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The U.S. Senate has confirmed Markwayne Mullin to replace Kristi Noem as DHS Secretary in a 54-45 vote. Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa. and Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M. voted to confirm, while Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., voted against. Here's all the latest from NBC.

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#News #USPolitics #TrumpAdministration #MarkwayneMullin

Senate confirms Markwayne Mullin to be DHS secretary, replacing Kristi Noem

The Senate voted to confirm Markwayne Mullin to lead the Department of Homeland Security, replacing Kristi Noem as DHS is shutdown leading to airport delays and lines.

^{Sahil Kapur (NBC News)}

The International Congress of Mathematicians (#ICM) decided not to meet in #Russia in 2022, for a list of reasons including Russa's "war of aggression in #Ukraine and the potential dangers…in regards to freedom of political expression and the safety of #LGBTQ participants." Now some ICM members have launched a petition asking it not to meet in the US in 2026, for a list of reasons including US aggression in #Gaza, #Greenland, #Iran, and #Venezuela, and "serious concern that academics (or anyone) traveling to the US may be denied entry."
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

#Mathematics #USPol #USPolitics

Move the 2026 ICM out of the United States

We, the undersigned mathematicians, call on the IMU to reconsider its decision to hold the 2026 International Congress of Mathematicians in the United States this coming July.

^{Google Docs}

CALLING TRUMP'S BLUFF!

Trump says he'll likely hold phone talks with Iran today and claims they both want to make a deal.

HOWEVER......

Iranian Foreign Minister says there are no talks with the United States, claims President Trump's statements are an attempt to lower energy prices and buy time for military plans.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #iranwar

More at @Free_Press

No lies detected.

#TheEconomy #WallStreet #BlueCollarWorkers #MiddleClass #USPolitics #LaborRights #IncomeInequality

Trump has a $1 1/2 Trillion dollar deficit so far in 2026.... Now he wants to add another $200 Billion!

Secretary of Defense Hegseth confirms Pentagon is seeking $200 billion for war with Iran.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #Breaking #BreakingNews

This is especially timely as Republican-aligned figures join in the debate over #ICE and DHS funding by explicitly rejecting due process for those accused of being illegal immigrants.

I cringe every time I hear them assert that, and it seems to be a major stickingpoint in Congress at the moment.

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You don’t regret that people might have lost important income…to support their lives?” one attorney asked Cavanaugh regarding the grant cancellations.
“No. I think it was more important to reduce the federal deficit from $2 trillion to close to zero,” said Cavanaugh, who is also the founder of AI-powered accounting firm Flow Finance.
“Did you reduce the federal deficit?” the attorney asked.
“No, we didn’t,”

Fortune yahoo.com/finance/news/no-didn… #DOGE #USPolitics #Inflation #Affordabiity

Newsletter: Justin Sun buys his way out of an SEC fraud case, Iranian transactions on Binance draw DOJ scrutiny as the exchange sues the newspaper that reported on them, and crypto super PACs dump millions into Tuesday’s primaries in Illinois.

citationneeded.news/issue-102/
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpolitics #USpol

Issue 102 – The public will pay

^{Molly White (Citation Needed)}

If you live in the USA, put March 28th in your diary.

nokings.org/

#USPolitics #NoKings

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power belongs to the people.

^{No Kings}

Is the U.S. still a democracy? Some analysts see warning signs that autocracy is already here.

Oliver Kaplan is the author of the book “Resisting War: How Communities Protect Themselves”, and spoke about the topic at our recent webinar on what Americans can learn from nonviolent civil resistance movements around the world.

#USPolitics #democracy

Winning the war in Iraq didn’t fix Iraq. More than 20 years after the U.S. invasion, the country sits firmly in Iran’s sphere of influence.

A security scholar says this new war with Iran risks repeating the same mistake: military success without a plan for what comes next.

theconversation.com/iraq-wars-…
#USPolitics #Politics #IranWar

Iraq war’s aftermath was a disaster for the US – the Iran war is headed in the same direction

More than 20 years after the US military success in Iraq, the outcome of the US effort at regime change wasn’t as expected, and authoritarians with close ties to Iran now rule the country.

^{The Conversation}

Florida once led the nation on government transparency.

Now it charges average citizens over $1,600 in copy fees to access public records and fulfills only 34% of requests.

The trend reflects a nationwide erosion of open government.

theconversation.com/this-sunsh…
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This Sunshine Week, Florida reflects an alarming national trend of blocking the public’s access to information

A lack of transparency at both the federal and state level is making it increasingly difficult for journalists and citizens to hold government to account.

^{The Conversation}

"We won,"
- Trump declares the United States has won the war against Iran.

Trump has no end game plan in Iran. He has no plan at all.

First it was to aid the Iranian people - then he hung them out to dry.

Then it was regime change - now it's not.

Trump will simply declare victory and then run and hide...or pick on a smaller country like Cuba next.

THE MAN IS A MENACE!
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All U.S. wars until now have begun with a powerful story about why the fight matters.

Trump’s war against Iran doesn’t have one — and Americans overwhelmingly oppose it.

theconversation.com/trumps-war…
#USPolitics #IranWar

Trump’s war against Iran is uniquely unpopular among US military actions of the past century

Trump’s Iran war is historically unique in one critically important way: Early on, the war is not popular with the American public.

^{The Conversation}

The annual Ig Nobels, the awards for odd and funny scientific achievement, will be held outside the United States for the first time in its 36 years because of concerns about attendees' safety. The 2026 ceremony, which takes place in September ahead of the Nobel Prizes, will be held in Zurich. “We cannot in good conscience ask the new winners, or the international journalists who cover the event, to travel to the USA this year," Marc Abrahams, editor of event organizers the Annals of Improbable Research, told @AssociatedPress.

flip.it/XUTUGr

#Science #IgNobels #IgNobelPrize #TrumpAdministration #USPolitics

Great, here come the sleeper cells. 🙄 Tell me again why Trump decided to start a war in the first place? Last I heard he was on the "affordability!" bandwagon. Instead we're staring down a 1973-style oil shock but with bonus terrorism!

#news #thoughts #terrorism #war #politics #USpolitics #MiddleEast

abcnews.com/US/iran-activating…

Iran may be activating sleeper cells outside the country, alert says

The encrypted transmission was intercepted by the U.S.

^{Aaron Katersky (ABC News)}

What does authoritarian rule typically look like?

[Authoritarian leaders] “rule by fear and coercion, and when necessary, force.”

John Shattuck is an international human rights scholar who led a university in Hungary when the country elected Viktor Orbán in 2010 — and who remains in power today.

This is a soundbite from our webinar on what Americans can learn from nonviolent civil resistance movements around the world.

#USPolitics #Histodons @histodons

funny how speaker johnson is suddenly #deadnaming the Department of War

x.com/cspan/status/20297121668…

#MikeJohnson #congress #uspol #uspolitics #deptOfWar #deptofdefense #DepartmentOfWar #DepartmentOfDEFENse

Private Eye nails it (again)

#iran #trump #uspolitics

Americans stranded across the Middle East may have to wait “a few days, maybe a week” for evacuation flights, according to former U.S. Ambassador Donald Heflin, who worked on this sort of thing for years at the State Department.

He says the U.S. did not follow its usual protocol of warning Americans to leave as tensions escalated — leaving many scrambling for a way out now.

#USPolitics #News

¡Viva España!

#Spain #Sanchez #PedroSanchez #Trump #Israel #Iran #USA #USPolitics

Well, in this administration one also has to put quotes around "committed" given that so many don't follow thought once the Eye of #Trump has wandered elsewhere.

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“It is late in the day to emulate the Mossadegh coup with information operations,” writes scholar Gregory F. Treverton. “And it is probably more difficult in an era of ubiquitous social media, not newspapers. But it’s not too late to try.”

buff.ly/rUUXs5Z
#USPolitics #Histodons @histodons

The last time the U.S. helped overthrow Iran’s was with a covert CIA operation in 1953. Carefully planned, coordinated and strategic.

Where’s Trump’s plan?

Story by a scholar and former practitioner of intelligence and national security policy in the White House:
theconversation.com/cia-agents…
#USPolitics #Histodons @histodons

CIA agents successfully executed a plan for regime change in Iran in 1953 – but Trump hasn’t revealed any signs of a plan

A covert US campaign in the mid-20th century helped steer Iran toward the intense anti-American sentiment that has distinguished its government policy for decades.

^{The Conversation}

You are being manipulated.

#USPolitics #IranWar #Propaganda #Iran #Trump