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New: @JohnCornyn bill to bar special treatment for lawmakers @TSA checkpoints wins unanimous approval from Senate

This is the most troublesome sign I've seen for Trump & the GOP. Trump's now a record low 41 pts underwater on the cost of living per Yahoo/YouGov. He's 60 pts underwater on the issue with indies!! Wave adios to the House & maybe Senate cause you can't win with these numbers.

A US immigration judge has ended the asylum claim of Liam Ramos, the Ecuadorian boy who was detained by ICE agents at the age of five in Minneapolis, as reported by Minnesota Public Radio reut.rs/3PtUnwn

They’re here!!! 🏊 The Miami (OH) swim/dive team storms down the bleachers in Speedos, as SMU is about to take a free throw 🤣 Whole crowd goes crazy. The free throw misses. #MiamiOH @WCPO #MarchMadness

🔥EXCLUSIVE🔥 Corey Lewandowski and DHS contracts. “He wanted payments — what some people would call a success fee,” said a person with knowledge of the meeting. WH officials aware of “pay to play” claims. @JuliaEAinsley, @Mdixon55 @strickdc & me. nbcnews.com/news/us-news/d…

Mysterious Drones Spotted Over Military Base Housing Hegseth and Rubio: Report mediaite.com/politics/myste…

New: Dolores Huerta writes lengthy statement following @nytimes investigation into Cesar Chavez. Huerta says she had sexual encounters with Chavez resulting in 2 children. “I have kept a secret because I believed that exposing the truth would hurt the farm worker movement…”

This story is HORRIFIC. This DACA recipient was brought here by his parents in 1999 when he was 8 years old. He is a laboratory scientist who's had DACA since 2012. Now he's languishing in an ICE detention center because the Trump admin failed to process his renewal in time!

Reporter: If you could say something to Trump, what would it be? PA voter: You’re a worthless pile of sh*t. Reporter: How many times did you vote for him? PA voter: 3 times. That was my bad. Apparently I’m an idiot.

JUST IN: The US Navy is investigating whether sailors aboard the USS Gerald R. Ford deliberately set fire to their own ship to end the deployment. That is the sentence. Read it again. The $13 billion carrier, the most expensive warship ever built, is now diverting to Souda Naval Base in Crete next week for refueling, repairs, and a formal investigation into the March 12 fire that damaged sections of the vessel and left more than 600 crew without proper sleeping quarters. Kathimerini, one of Greece’s most established daily newspapers, reported the details citing sources with direct knowledge of the planned port call. The investigation explicitly includes the possibility of deliberate sabotage by crewmembers. The Ford has been at sea since June 2025. Vice Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Jim Kilby told the Senate Armed Services Committee the deployment will run approximately 11 months, with return to Norfolk not expected until at least May. The crew was told they would be home months ago. They were extended. Then extended again. Then redirected into the largest Middle East military operation since 2003. And now some among them may have decided that fire was the only exit. If confirmed, this would be one of the most serious internal discipline events in the modern US Navy. A crew sabotaging its own vessel in a war zone does not happen because of poor food or bad weather. It happens when the institution has pushed human endurance past the point where the mission feels survivable. Eleven months at sea. Iranian drones striking Gulf airports daily. Eleven Reapers shot down in seventeen days. Gulf states pressing Washington not to stop but to escalate. No rotation ship. No relief force. No ceasefire on any horizon. And the carrier that embodies forward American naval power is pulling into a Greek port because 600 of its sailors have nowhere to sleep. The Crete diversion is the signal the market should be reading. The Ford is the only US carrier in the Gulf theatre. When it pulls into Souda, the sustained naval posture that was supposed to backstop convoy escorts, deter Iranian mining operations, and project power through the spring planting season temporarily loses its centrepiece. Repairs take days at minimum. Investigation takes longer. Every day the Ford sits in Crete is a day the Hormuz permissioned chokepoint operates without the threat of carrier-based air power overhead. After Crete, the Ford is expected to return to Gulf waters. The 11-month deployment timeline holds. But the sabotage investigation tells you something that no deployment order can override: the human beings inside the machine are breaking. The Mosaic Doctrine does not break. Provincial commanders do not file for shore leave. Standing orders do not need sleeping quarters. Mines do not experience morale collapse. The cheapest blockade in modern history runs on sealed packets and radio handsets while the most expensive warship in human history diverts to port because its own crew may have tried to burn their way home. The fertiliser trapped behind the permissioned strait does not care whether the Ford is in the Gulf or in Crete. The planting calendar does not pause for a sabotage investigation. And the 31 autonomous IRGC commands running the chokepoint do not need a $13 billion aircraft carrier to feel tired before they do. They were designed never to feel anything at all. Full analysis: open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

In rebuke to @KariLake, US judge orders 1,000 Voice of America staffers back to work My story for NPR: npr.org/2026/03/17/nx-…

Thom Tillis says it’s mistake for Trump to withold endorsement in #txsen over Save Act, rails on intraparty feud “The more time we spend millions of dollars with Republican on Republican violence, Democrats” will benefit. “I get tired of Republicans being lazy and unstrategic.”

NEW from @nytimes: The Trump administration is seeking to oust the president of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, in its talks with Cuban political leaders. The Americans plan to allow the Castro family to keep power if they agree to economic changes, creating a client state for the US.

🚨HELLL YEAHH!! 💪🇺🇸Thomas Massie just revealed his nuclear option. If Pam Bondi’s DOJ refuses to unredact the Epstein client names — Massie will walk onto the House floor and read them publicly himself. Under congressional immunity. No prosecution. No injunction. No seal that can hold. The names would be in the Congressional Record forever. This is the same Massie that Trump is trying to primary “violently and miserably.” The same Massie who said from the House floor that the Speaker, AG, FBI Director, President and VP could have spared the party humiliation on Epstein months ago. The same Massie who has been the loudest voice demanding full release since day one. The Deputy AG admitted withholding footage of “death, physical abuse, and injury.” Half of 6 million documents remain sealed. Trump started a war the same week the names were supposed to drop. Bondi said “DOJ is done.” Massie said: then I’ll finish it. A prison guard who was there the night Epstein died testifies before Congress this month. The nuclear option is on the table. Never stop connecting the dots.

🚨 HOUSTON AIRPORT JUST TURNED INTO A MASS SLEEPOVER AFTER TSA LINES COLLAPSE — “LOOKS LIKE A DISASTER SHELTER” Wild video from inside Houston’s airport shows rows of emergency cots set up across huge sections of the terminal floor as travelers deal with unbelievably long TSA security lines. Passengers say waits stretched for hours, triggering waves of missed flights and leaving people stranded overnight inside the airport. With the backlog growing, airport staff reportedly began setting up temporary sleeping areas right inside the terminal so travelers had somewhere to rest while waiting. And this isn’t the first time this has happened at this airport... previous footage shows this isn’t new. At what point does this stop being “travel delays”… and start being a system failure?

Confirmed: Some Texas State House and Texas Senate Republicans headed to DC this week for meetings with President Trump's team at the request of the president, per sources. Not clear what all will be discussed #txlege

Trump: "I do believe I'll be the honor of having the honor of taking Cuba. That's a big honor." Q: "Taking Cuba?" Trump: "Taking Cuba in some form, yeah…I think I could do anything I want with it."

Heated confrontation between Sen. John Cornyn and Rep. Greg Casar outside of the Austin airport just now. The two are split on a DHS funding shutdown that’s left some federal employees without paychecks for a month now. @cbsaustin

White House insiders are saying Trump is "shocked" that attacking Iran didn't result in the jump in approval polls George W. Bush received after 9/11, that he was assured by son-in-law Jared Kushner that he would, and that had he known he'd receive such backlash he never would've done it. Why am I not shocked by any of this?

🚨CANADA SAYS SHOVE IT Trump is delivered a HUGE blow as he begged nations to assist in keeping the Straight of Hormuz accessible for 20% of the world’s oil. Mark Carney: “Canada will not assist the United States in any of its operations against Iran.”