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The US military set a destroyed 16 Iranian mind-lang vessels near the street of her moves amid concerns
“that Iran could mine the key global oil shipping route.”
President Trump warned Iran to remove any minds immediately or face military consequences. While the Pentagon said it was also targeting mine storage facilities, conflicting reports emerged about U.S. Navy S. courts for ships through the street with U.S. officials denying that any oil tankers had been escorted and Iran warning it would stop U.S. fleet movements with missiles and drones.
You know, I've talked to some senior military officials about this and there's a term for it.
“Custer fuck, no planning, no sense of consequences, no preparation for what was necessary,”
no preparation for evacuations, no preparation for impact on the streets of Formos, no preparation for impact on our allies, no preparation for the consequences of depleting our weapons resources here and thus impacting our goals in Ukraine or places like the Indo-Pacific
no examination of the cost consequences which are apparently much higher, not a billion dollars
a day, probably not two billion dollars a day, more than that. No awareness of the impact on daily life here, rising gas prices, rising food prices, no sensitivity to the impact on the military eight people dead so far, 150 wounded, no real sense of the potential long-term impacts, whether that is a rekindling of a rise of anti-U.S. terrorism around the world or a global nuclear arms race.
There is no level at which you can look at what has happened here and conclude that it was anything other than a badly planned incoherent incompetent dangerous mess that is making the world less safe with each passing day, Riley. And a special election for Georgia's 14th congressional district Republican Clay Fuller and Democrat Sean Harris have advanced to an April 7 runoff to fill the seat and vacated by
Marjorie Taylor Green. Fuller a district attorney endorsed by the president let a crowded 14 candidate field but fell short of the majority needed to win the seat outright. Harris, a retired Brigadier General on a cattle farmer faces an uphill battle in the heavily Republican district but hopes to build a coalition of bipartisan support. The winner will serve the remainder of Green's term, potentially bolstering the
Narrow Republican majority in the House.
The more votes for the dam than the Republican and so there's possibility that a dam might claim
“this seat. Certainly the swing and voting totals in all elections has been in the direction”
of the Democrats. So, you know, one hopes the trend continues. Certainly it has Republicans very nervous. President Trump told House Republicans that passing the Save America Act was his top legislative priority for 2026. But GOP leaders at their policy retreat focused instead on other bills they see as more likely to pass. Mike Johnson suggested the elections bill is now largely a Senate issue where it faces the 60 vote bill of
Mr. Hurdle and limited Republican support, especially for provisions like a near total ban
on mail voting. Meanwhile, party leaders discuss alternative legislation and midterm strategy while also expressing concern about declining Hispanic support tied to the administration's immigration rhetoric. Look, all I can say is this is a bad piece of legislation and the most
“important thing is that Johnson does not seem to want to blow up the filibuster to force it”
through, which is a good thing for everybody because that means it may not become law and the elections may be a little more fair, although certainly they will try everything in their power
to rig them anyway. I says recorded 23 deaths since October marking the deadliest year for
immigration detention and over two decades and already surpassing the previous fiscal years of total. The surge falls a massive expansion of the detention population to 70,000 resulting in severe overcrowding and infectious disease outbreaks like measles. Advocates in medical experts attribute these preventable fatalities to systemic medical neglect and a significant reduction oversight personnel within the Department of Homeland Security. Accountability is further
hindered by reporting lags and agency disruptions caused by ongoing government shutdowns. That's bad news. Tell you what's worse news. We're probably not getting the truth. The one thing we know about this administration is that they lie about any kind of data points that they feel are uncomfortable for them. This is clearly in that category. So as bad as this sounds, and given the vast expansion and the number of people under ISIS control and the number of facilities
“that they will be running warehouses for human beings, bad doors. That's what my expectation is.”
Pete Hegseth, juristically reduced Pentagon civilian protection oversight offices, cutting about 90% of staff and leaving minimal capacity to investigate civilian harm during the current U.S. Israel air campaign against Iran. The cuts come as the Pentagon examines a strike on in Iranian girl school reportedly killing about 170 children and 14 teachers, while the U.S. has hit more than 5,000 targets in the 11-day conflict. Critics say the downsizing weekends
accountability and civilian protection, while Trump and Hegseth emphasize fewer restrictions and greater lethality for U.S. forces. Not just U.S. forces, greater lethality for school girls in Iran, greater lethality for civilians, greater lethality for victims of U.S. mistakes. Hegseth's focus on lethality shows exactly why he is the wrong person for this job, because while that's one of the goals of the military. The broader goals of the military
are to advance U.S. interests, to advance U.S. standing, to advance U.S. security. All of those things are undermined when rules of engagement are not responsibly devised when international laws are ignored when errors of judgment are allowed to go unchecked and uninvestigated. That's the Pete Hegseth Department of Defense, and it is going to take a lot of repair work to turn it back into the kind of Department of Defense that the United States needs and deserves.
And that is it for today, Wednesday, in the middle of March, a warm day here in Washington and we're all going to relax and go outside and it's going to be 85 degrees and we're going to go, "Oh, spring is here!" And then for sure tomorrow or the next day they'll pull the rug out from
Under us and it'll get cool again.
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