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In what world is it okay for the Defense Secretary to make multi-million dollar investments in defense companies: a) Ever; b) Just before launching a war. FT has the scoop: ft.com/content/744ea8… In a functional democracy, he would offer his resignation tonight.

So much for Trump and Putler! In 48 hours, Zelensky has signed ten-year defense agreements in three Persian Gulf capitals, with more industrial partnership contracts on the table, and he has sent 200 air defense experts. Just a reminder: in just a year, Ukraine has gone from a "country without papers" to a protective weapons exporter and security expert, turned to by the world's richest countries. ✊🇺🇦

Trump told a lengthy story last week about negotiating over the price of Sharpie pens. The company says it has no record of any such conversation. "We don't have any information about the conversation described." washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/…

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Fed Chair Jerome Powell warns US national debt is growing "substantially" faster than the economy and says it's not sustainable. "It will not end well if we don't do something fairly soon."

Some very good journalism from MSNBC, reporting on all the fabricated stories that Donald Trump has told over the last year. It’s embarrassing. The guy is either brazenly lying or riddled with dementia—likely both—but either way, that boy ain’t right.

Four-byline alert: 🚨 “.. A broker for Pete Hegseth, the US defence secretary, attempted to make a big investment in major defence companies in the weeks leading up to the US-Israeli attack on Iran, according to three people familiar ..” @FT ft.com/content/744ea8…

NEW: Since the FBI seized over 650 boxes of 2020 election records from Fulton County’s main election hub, one key question still remains: how did the DOJ convince a federal judge to approve a search warrant? New filings reveal that the judge helped the department to refine its request. democracydocket.com/news-alerts/fu…

BREAKING 🚨: 🇮🇷 Iran HUMILIATED Trump 🇺🇸Trump: "They gave us 20 boats of oil, big boats of oil going through the Strait of Hormuz".⚡️ 🇮🇷Iran: "We hadn't gifted anything to Trump not even small boat of oil. As usual he is lying" 🔥 Trump is habitual lier⚡️

Absolute humiliation for Washington. An expert journalist documents 90 massive oil tankers and cargo ships freely navigating the Strait of Hormuz under Iranian protection. The US blockade is a total failure, and global trade is bypassing the American empire.

🚨 White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt today: “Our nation was founded, almost 250 years ago, on Judeo-Christian values.” The Treaty of Tripoli. 1797. Signed by Founding Father John Adams. Ratified unanimously by the Senate: “The Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.” Thomas Jefferson — who wrote the Declaration of Independence — was a deist who literally cut the miracles out of his Bible. James Madison — the father of the Constitution — explicitly warned against the “diabolical hell conceived principle of persecution” by state religion. The First Amendment’s opening words: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.” They put it first.

Rep. Jim Himes: We're giving Iranians billions of $ by letting them sell oil to China, which they use to buy drones from Russia. And, we're allowing Russia to sell oil so they can fund attacks against Ukraine and our own troops. You couldn't make this up in a Hollywood script.

Spain closed its bases to the Iran war -- now its ships sail through Hormuz undisturbed. Germany should do the same and send US troops home.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, on behalf of Donald Trump, expressed regret that the Saudi authorities signed defense agreements with Ukraine without consulting the United States, which had been Saudi Arabia’s main ally. In response, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman noted that the U.S. had failed to fully protect the Kingdom from Iranian strikes, and therefore Saudi Arabia made a decision that could quickly strengthen its defense capabilities. The Crown Prince also stated that his country will continue to be guided by its own national interests when making decisions regarding its defense. This was a slap in the face to Trump from Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in response to Trump’s crude and scandalous public statement that “…now let the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia kiss my ass and be polite to me from now on.” Thus, Trump’s reckless and irresponsible remarks have effectively put U.S.–Saudi relations on pause. The Saudi Crown Prince proved to be more diplomatic than the American president and, notably, did not respond to Rubio by saying that Trump should “kiss my ass” and behave politely toward him in the future 😉

Nothing to see here, just the White House press secretary publicly announcing murders by the US and Israel, open war crimes here:

It's time to impeach Trump and put him on trial at the Hague, along with Netanyahu. Enough is enough of this shit.

Now they know what it’s like for contractors doing business with Trump Org over many decades.

NEW: Democrats have officially claimed a second upset in Florida's recent special elections. The AP just declared Brian Nathan, an electrical workers union leader, to be the winner of a tight state senate contest in reliably Republican West Tampa. nytimes.com/2026/03/30/us/…

Re: Trump threatening desalinization plants: @GarrettHaake asks @PressSec, "Under international law, striking civilian infrastructure like that is generally prohibited. Why is the president threatening what would amount to potentially a war crime with the U.S. military?"

Honestly, I cannot believe 77 million Americans voted for this absolute fucking clown.

This is an absolutely INSANE thing to say out loud. We killed their leaders in the middle of negotiations because we didn’t like the way they negotiated?!?!