Mastodawn

Do you understand why Trump has lifted the oil sanctions that were punishing Iran, the country he’s bombing, and Russia, the country that’s helping it?

Do you understand why Trump is sending 5,000 Marines to sail through the Strait of Hormuz while complaining that none of our friends and allies will help him reopen it?

Here's the whole explanation.

https://no01.substack.com/p/march-19-21-god-is-a-comedian

March, 19-21: God is a comedian

A stiff drink is recommended

Gold and Geopolitics

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A.R. Moxon, Verified Duck 🦆12h ago

The legacy of Mueller is that if you do diligent methodical careful work on a damning report, trusting to our institutions to do the right thing, damned liars will just tell damned lies about your work and the lies will stand, because institutions won't confront power and nobody does the reading.

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A.R. Moxon, Verified Duck 🦆12h ago

The Mueller report should have been not only the end of Trump but the end of the Republican Party from rump to snout, and it's only one of maybe 1000 things that should have been that. What's needed now is a confrontation with uncomfortable truth and a meaningful lasting reckoning and reformation.

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Gabe Ortíz 1d ago

“Less than a week after Jeffrey Epstein was found dead inside his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan, something was afoot inside an office where the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ After Action Team had set up a probe into what had happened to their most high-profile inmate.

The FBI was told that there were people shredding documents. Bags of them.” https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/crime/article315131144.html#storylink=cpy

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Preston MacDougall 2d ago

@heidilifeldman The war in #Iran should be called the #FelonsCrusade.

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https://bsky.app/profile/emilyyour8.bsky.social/post/3mhgia7kdg22x

Emily (@emilyyour8.bsky.social)

You know you're in trouble when the cover of The Economist looks like a political cartoon from The New Yorker.

Bluesky Social

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Chris Geidner 3d ago

BREAKING: Two former FBI agents who had been assigned to Arctic Frost — investigating the efforts to overturn the 2020 election — have sued Kash Patel over their fall 2025 firings, alleging the firings violated their First and Fifth Amendment rights. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.290567/gov.uscourts.dcd.290567.1.0_5.pdf

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Tofu Golem 3d ago

Source:
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/pregnancy-related-prosecutions-400-post-roe-wade-rcna233323

The 400 number is from September 2025. The number now is likely higher.

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David Dayen 4d ago

Good tidbit in this Bob Kuttner report on Israel and the Iran war: "According to a soon-to-be-released poll from IMEU Policy Project and Demand Progress... voters believe the war is being conducted for Israel’s benefit over America’s by a nearly 2-to-1 margin." prospect.org/2026/03/18/i...

Israel’s Manipulation of Trump...

Israel’s Manipulation of Trump on Iran

The worse the Iran war goes, the more blame is likely to be directed at Israel, and by association the Jews.

The American Prospect

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Heidi Li Feldman 4d ago

Just as I was starting to fundraise to continue my fight for a street use permit for a City March in Santa Fe for No Kings, this message from Santa Fe City Manager arrived. Victory!