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🚨 Breaking: The new head of Basij who replaced the previous head of Basij who was eliminated yesterday, was eliminated today

Planned Parenthood's Illinois chapter will pay $500,000 to settle claims that it sorted its employees into race-based "affinity caucuses" and tolerated harassment of white workers, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said on Thursday. reuters.com/legal/governme…

Three Charged with Conspiring to Unlawfully Divert Cutting Edge U.S. Artificial Intelligence Technology to China “The indictment unsealed today details alleged efforts to evade U.S. export laws through false documents, staged dummy servers to mislead inspectors, and convoluted transshipment schemes, in order to obfuscate the true destination of restricted AI technology—China,” said John A. Eisenberg, Assistant Attorney General for National Security. “These chips are the product of American ingenuity, and NSD will continue to enforce our export-control laws to protect that advantage.” 🔗: justice.gov/opa/pr/three-c…

It would be an extraordinary event to pass up the advantages in a primary of running as the incumbent VP. Biden's the only VP to become president after passing on running as the immediate successor, & it took a global pandemic to make that possible.

NBC is also reporting thousands of troops being deployed to the Middle East from the West Coast (San Diego) (Newsmax reported this story today as well) nbcnews.com/world/iran/liv…

I presume Lewandowski has criminally lawyered-up already...

US Mint can begin producing Trump commemorative gold coin after arts commission approves design apnews.com/article/trump-…

White House on Iran executing a 19-year-old champion wrestler Saleh Mohammadi, and two others in public hangings: “This is the Iranian terrorist regime. President Trump will never allow these murderous, evil terrorists to obtain a nuclear weapon to threaten the American people, and this horrific tragedy is a stark reminder why Operation Epic Fury is righteous, and necessary.” – Olivia Wales

@DeceasedCake She is filing an appeal, but it may be too late. Ballots were finalized today.

@Politics1com Is there a way to appeal?

NEBRASKA. A judge ruled against Dem activist Cindy Burbank (D) - a supporter of indy candidate Dan Osborne - in her effort to get back on Dem US Sen primary ballot. With her out, pro-life pastor Bill Forbes, a supporter of US Sen Pete Ricketts (R), is unopposed for the Dem nom.

@Joeytheman03 Legally, I guess the difference was she presumably planned to quit to the race once the party nominee replacement deadline passed, so Osborne would not have a Dem nom draining votes from him. Forbes plans to stay on the ballot to do just that.

@Politics1com Forbes should be disqualified for the same reason

Wut?

Minnesota restaurant offers free meals to state lawmakers who dine with pols from across the aisle trib.al/guAWLEg

JERUSALEM/WASHINGTON, March 19 (Reuters) - Israel's attack on an Iranian gas field on Wednesday was coordinated with the United States but is not likely to be repeated, three Israeli officials said, despite President Donald Trump saying he did not know about it in advance.

Given the opportunity, Gabbard doesn't say she disagrees with Joe Kent's resignation statement. Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik read part of the statement of the resignation of Joe Kent, when he wrote: "'Early in this administration, high-ranking Israeli officials and influential members of the American media deployed a misinformation campaign that wholly undermined your America first platform and pro-war sentiments to encourage war with Iran. This echo chamber was used to deceive you into believing that Iran posed no imminent threat to the United States and that you should strike now. There was a clear path to a swift victory. This was a lie and was the same tactic the Israelis used to draw us into a disastrous Iraq war.'" Stefanik said she "cannot say how much I disagree with that statement. Do you agree or disagree with what this letter was put out by former director Kent?" "He said a lot of things in that letter," Gabbard said. "Ultimately, we have provided the president with the intelligence assessments and the president is elected by the American people and makes his own decisions based on the information that's available to him. Stefanik asked Gabbard if that statement Kent made concerns her. "Yes," was all Gabbard responded.

It's simple: pay TSA agents, don't fund ICE. We could get this done today.

This digital necromancy is a very bad idea. First of all what makes a great actor is their unexpected, inspired choices in a given role; A glance, a grimace, an extended phrase. The AI Val Kilmer will be denied all of those uniquely human and very personal choices. It will be an extended facsimile of an actor without his fire or ingenuity- a hallow show. In addition to which, the deceased Kilmer will be saddled with a performance and a role he has no agency over. This is a violation of his dignity and his work as a living artist.

$200 billion would pay for free college for every American, $10 day childcare, 1000 new trade schools, the 40% federal share of special needs education and a lot more. What are we even doing here? MAGA is now Iran first?

The Pentagon blackballed its own newspaper from covering its own press conference? Reminder, Stars & Stripes employees are US Army civilians. Their editorial independence is protected by Congress specifically to prevent political leaders from feeding troops propaganda.

Scoop: FBI and IRS agents are forming a new initiative to investigate nonprofit organizations over suspected possible links to domestic terrorism, sources briefed on the matter told @SarahNLynch and me. @CBSNews cbsnews.com/news/fbi-irs-i…