Cole Breedlove

The White House refused to answer how much the war is costing us. Now Trump wants $1.5T for defense, which is almost 70 percent of the discretionary budget. Trump is funding war & tax breaks for billionaires at the expense of healthcare and childcare for Americans

Israeli Defense Minister Katz said he wants to do in Lebanon what was done in Rafah.

I've seen firsthand how the Netanyahu government razed Rafah to the ground.

No American taxpayer dollars should be used to support this.

Before Citizens United, billionaires spent around $16 million on presidential elections. In 2024, they spent $2.6 BILLION. And what did they get for that money? They got a MASSIVE tax cut for themselves.

@RyanClancyWI Thank you, @RyanClancyWI, for standing up against ICE abductions! #FreeSalah

Just moments ago, hundreds of community members showed up to the Islamic Society of Milwaukee to demand the federal government free Salah Sarsour — the President of ISM who was detained by ICE agents at gunpoint on Monday. (1/2)

Rubio: Imagine if Iran funded the well-being of its people, rather than its military Trump, two days later: We can’t fund daycare or Medicaid, we need more money for our military

🕵️ New: U.S. embassies to coordinate with Pentagon psy-ops unit and Elon Musk: 🔹Secretary of State Marco Rubio signed a cable Monday ordering all U.S. embassies and consulates worldwide to run coordinated campaigns against what it calls foreign “anti-American propaganda,” according to The Guardian. 🔹Embassies are instructed to recruit local influencers, academics, and community leaders to spread messaging that appears locally driven rather than directed by Washington. The cable also promotes X’s “Community Notes” feature as a crowdsourced way to counter anti-American narratives “without compromising free speech or privacy.” 🔹The directive tells diplomats to work with the U.S. military’s psychological operations unit and use X—owned by Elon Musk—as a key tool, describing it as an “innovative” way to counter disinformation.

The Latin parish priest of the last entirely Christian village in the West Bank appealed for the solidarity of Christians worldwide in the face of new attacks by “fanatical Israeli settlers” seeking to displace the local population. Father Bashar Fawadleh issued an appeal on Saturday, March 21, telling ACI Prensa, the Spanish-language sister service of EWTN News, that the lands seized this week by Israeli settlers “belonged to the people of Taybeh and were, moreover, our private property.” These incursions, he continued, in addition to constituting “a violation of international law and of the rights of the local community,” represent an affront that, for the village’s inhabitants, goes far beyond a mere legal or political matter. “This story is about the life of a Christian community that has been present in this land for more than 2,000 years,” Fawadleh said. Taybeh is the modern name of the biblical village of Ephraim, where Jesus went to rest shortly before his passion (cf. John 11:54). In addition to being the only entirely Christian village in the West Bank, Jerusalem, and Gaza, it is also renowned for its beer. In recent days, Israeli settlers have seized areas near the village’s quarry and cement factory. These encroachments have been ongoing for some time. In July 2025, settlers set fire in the area near the ruins of St. George Church, built in the historic Byzantine style and dating back to the fifth century, where the local community typically holds religious celebrations. Several vehicles were also set ablaze, and the attackers “painted hateful graffiti,” according to sources in Taybeh. Christian leaders have demanded immediate action from Israeli authorities and called upon the international community to halt the escalating violence. When asked what message he would like to send to Pope Leo XIV and to all Christians around the world, he said: “We ask not only for compassion, but for solidarity.” Fawadleh, whose mother was born in Venezuela but returned to the West Bank at the age of 16, told ACI Prensa: “As a church, our mission is to help people remain in their land, to live with dignity, and to keep the Christian presence alive in the Holy Land. Our presence here is a living testament to the roots of Christianity — where it all began.” According to the parish priest, “when the land is threatened, people become fearful.” The local community simply wants “to live in peace, with dignity, and on our own land,” he said, noting that the farmers of Taybeh are even afraid to go out to their fields. “This is a matter that concerns the entire Church. We ask for your prayers, and for your visits to the Holy Land and to the ‘living stones’ in Taybeh and throughout the Holy Land,” he said. “And your support, so that Christians may remain here through education, housing, and employment opportunities. For the Christian presence in the Holy Land is not merely a local matter,” he pointed out. “For the truth is one; it is not a matter of distorting it. Thank you; we will remain in contact and united in prayer,” the priest said. ewtnnews.com/world/middle-e…

If you live in the bright orange-shaded region, a portion of your electric bill will be going to pay for a massive transmission project being constructed to serve new data centers in Virginia. The cost of the project just more than doubled to $960 million.

Just one month of the Trump-Israel war on Iran has cost US taxpayers over $31 billion. That's the exact cost of the ACA subsidies Trump cut last year, which doubled healthcare premiums for over 20 million Americans. That is absurd. Take action: nowarforisrael.org

The US, Israel, and (Milei's far-right) Argentina have stood alone in voting against a UN resolution condemning the enslavement of Africans.  The UN voted overwhelmingly to declare the enslavement of Africans by Europe and the US as "the gravest crime against humanity by reason of the definitive break in world history, scale, duration, systemic nature, brutality and enduring consequences that continue to structure the lives of all people through racialized regimes of labour, property and capital," and to call for reparations, remedies, and redress.  The US representative, speaking on the record, denied the right to reparations and derisively referred to the subject of the resolution (slavery) as a "narrow, specific interest and agenda" that the UN should not address.

Everyone is asking *how* the grid can accommodate data center expansion. But we should be asking whether we can do it at all. Our Energy and Industrial Policy Manager Winston Yau explains how and why we need to put democratic planning of our grid—and economy—back on the agenda.👇

BREAKING: Rep. DeGette gets heated with a constituent pressing her on why she voted to send bombs to Israel: "If this the only issue that you care about is this issue, then you should not vote for me" DeGette, who's 68, is facing a primary challenge from @MelatKirosCO.

NEW: The Trump-Vance-Rubio administration has once again bypassed Congress to push through a $151.8 million bomb sale to Israel —>

Trump and Israel’s war against Iran has already cost US taxpayers over $6.5 billion. That’s more than the federal government spends on Homeless Assistance Grants ($4.05 billion) in an entire year - and on top of the tens of billions we’ve spent funding Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

READ: Israel developed a doctrine of total societal destruction that is used in Gaza — and is now deploying it in Lebanon and Iran with full US backing. This is one of the most important things you'll read today:mondoweiss.net/2026/03/israel…

🚨 Report: ‘Double-tap’ strike killed 165 Iranian schoolgirls in Minab An investigation by Middle East Eye finds the deadly strike on the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ school in Minab, southern Iran, involved two explosions, with the second blast hitting survivors who had taken shelter after the first attack. ▪️ Witnesses and Red Crescent medics said students were moved to the school’s prayer hall after the initial strike. A second missile then hit the same area. ▪️ 165-181 people were killed, almost all girls aged 7–12. Many parents had been called to collect their children when the second strike occurred. ▪️ Officials say the destruction was so severe that dozens of victims remain unidentified, with DNA testing underway. U.S. and Israeli officials say they are “investigating” the incident. White House Press Secretary @PressSec responds in the clip below from today. 👇

MEE has collected 61 names and ages of many of the 168 victims killed in a "double tap" strike on the Shajareh Tayyebeh primary school in Minab, Iran. The identified victims include students, staff, and siblings, including a two-month-old baby. Hana Dehqani, 8 years old Fatemeh Salari, 34 years old Reza Habashian, 7 years old Arya Bahadori, 9 years old Ali Asghar Zaeri, 8 years old Zahra Bahrami, 7 years old Ahmad Soltani, 8 years old Hamed Par-ashegh-nezhad, 7 years old Fatemeh Yazdan-panah, young girl, age unknown Mahdis Nazari, 7 years old Athena Chamani-nezhad, 6 years old Amirghasem Zaeri, 7 years old Fatemeh Dorazehi, 10 years old Arad Ahmadizadeh, 8 years old Saman Karimzadeh, 7 years old Fatemeh Shahdadi, age unknown Nadia Shahmiri, 9 years old Parham Ranjbari, 9 years old Mahmoud Gholamyani, 35 years old Fatemeh Rahdar, 10 years old Amir-Hassan Rasouli, 8 years old Zahra Behrouzi, 8 years old Mohammadhatam Raisi, 10 years old Asna Raisi, 12 years old Benyamin Jangjou, 8 years old Mohammad-Sadra Zarei, 8 years old Maryam Pazark, 10 years old Liana Mohammadi, 7 years old Mandana Salari, 29 years old Sara Shayesteh, 5 years old Zoha Pasand, 8 years old Esra Zakeri, 9 years old Salma Zakeri, 6 years old Fatemeh Taherifard, 29 years old Zahra Ansari, 7 years old Fatemeh Fadavi, 10 years old Mahna Zarei, 2 months old Athareh Zarei, 10 years old Alireza Zarei, 9 years old Mohammadreza Shahsavari, 8 years old Samira Basarde, 38 years old Ehsan Saleminia, 6 years old Fatemeh Zahra Karimi, 7 years old Zeynab Bahrami, 10 years old Mohammad Shah-dousti, eight years old Reza Barani, seven years old Athena Ahmadzadeh, 10 years old Khadijeh Darvishi, 9 years old Roqayyeh Karimi, 42 years old Reza Ranjbar, 6 years old Marzieh Bashiri-far, 38 years old Mohammad-Mehdi Chegini, 10 years old Mohammadian Bahrami, 17 years old Ali-Akbar Karyani Pak, 8 years old Hananeh Mehdikhah, 7 years old Fereshteh Sangarzadeh, 44 years old Mohammad-Ali Karyani Pak, 7 years old Parsa Mokhtari-nasab, 12 years old Arina Arab-Kish, 8 years old Makan Nasiri, 12 years old Esra Farahi-Zadeh, young girl, age unknown

Today, only 65 of us voted to release names of congressmen who have used the sexual harassment slush fund to pay off claims against them. 357 members voted to “refer it to committee” knowing that resolution ain’t ever making it out of committee. Roll call: clerk.house.gov/evs/2026/roll0…

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