Frank Gilbane 🇺🇦

Trump blames Hegseth for the war: "Pete, I think you were the first one to speak up. You said, 'Let's do it.'"

A man in a hot air balloon realized he was lost. He lowered his altitude, spotted a woman in a boat below and shouted to her: “Excuse me, can you help me? I promised a friend I’d meet him an hour ago, but I don’t know where I am.” The woman consulted her portable GPS and shouted back, “You’re in a hot air balloon approximately 30 feet above ground elevation of 2,346 feet above sea level. You’re at 31 degrees, 14.97 minutes north latitude and 100 degrees, 49.09 minutes west longitude." The man rolled his eyes and yelled, “You must be a Democrat." “I am,” replied the woman. “How did you know?” “Well,” answered the balloonist, “everything you told me is technically correct. But I have no idea what to do with your information. Frankly, you haven’t been much help to me.” The woman smiled and yelled, “You must be a Republican.” “I am,” shouted the balloonist. “How did you know?” “Well,” said the woman, “You don’t know where you are or where you’re going. You’ve risen to where you are thanks to a large quantity of hot air. You made a promise you have no idea how to keep and you expect me to solve your problem. You’re in exactly the same position you were in before we met, but somehow now it’s all my fault.”

These are the 49 Republicans who just voted to block TSA funding, causing massive lines at airports nationwide

Le pianiste classique chinois Lang Lang et le pianiste Emilio Piano ont livré un duel de piano à couper le souffle à la Gare de Lyon à Paris. 🎹🔥 Tout simplement épique !

Justice Jackson brought up what felt like an elephant in the room most of the 2 hour argument If state post-election mail-in ballot deadlines are preempted by federal law, then why is Congress considering the SAVE Act courthousenews.com/supreme-court-…

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This makes very good sense

NEW: Seems to me #SCOTUS likely to deliver a defeat to Trump and rule states can count ballots received after Election Day, with Roberts, Barrett and maybe Kavanaugh joining the liberals politico.com/news/2026/03/2…

BREAKING: Republican Senator Kennedy just blamed Trump the government shutdown! "The Democrats have offered to open up everything but ICE. Ted Cruz and I said, ‘OK let’s accept their offer…’ Senator Thune submitted that to President Trump. As is his right, [Trump] said ‘No! No deals with the Democrats.’ It would have worked. We could have had TSA paid by the end of the week but the President said ‘no deal.’” This is the DONALD TRUMP SHUTDOWN! Even Republicans are acknowledging it.

Here are the @GOP who just voted to block TSA funding. Make sure to send them a thank you note for your airport line: Sen. Banks (R) Sen. Barrasso (R) Sen. Blackburn (R) Sen. Boozman (R) Sen. Britt (R) Sen. Budd (R) Sen. Moore Capito (R) Sen. Cassidy (R) Sen. Collins (R) Sen. Cornyn (R) Sen. Cotton (R) Sen. Cramer (R) Sen. Crapo (R) Sen. Cruz (R) Sen. Ernst (R) Sen. Fischer (R) Sen. Graham (R) Sen. Grassley (R) Sen. Hagerty (R) Sen. Hawley (R) Sen. Hoeven (R) Sen. Husted (R) Sen. Hyde-Smith (R) Sen. Johnson (R) Sen. Justice (R) Sen. Kennedy (R) Sen. Lankford (R) Sen. Lee (R) Sen. Lummis (R) Sen. Marshall (R) Sen. McConnell (R) Sen. McCormick (R) Sen. Moody (R) Sen. Moran (R) Sen. Moreno (R) Sen. Mullin (R) Sen. Murkowski (R) Sen. Ricketts (R) Sen. Risch (R) Sen. Rounds (R) Sen. Schmitt (R) Sen. Scott (R) Sen. Scott (R) Sen. Sullivan (R) Sen. Thune (R) Sen. Tillis (R) Sen. Tuberville (R) Sen. Wicker (R) Sen. Young (R)

Let me get this straight. The leading Senate Republican walked into the White House Sunday with a bipartisan deal to end the TSA nightmare. Fund everything except ICE now, get TSA agents paid today, handle ICE separately. Senate Republicans and Democrats said yes. Trump said no. Why? Because Trump is holding TSA workers’ paychecks hostage to try and force Congress to pass the SAVE Act, a voter suppression bill that would knock millions of eligible Americans off the voter rolls. He wants to make it harder for Americans to vote. Like a petulant child flipping the board when he’s losing, Trump torched a bipartisan deal his own Senate leader handed him on a silver platter. His tantrum continues as he unleashes ICE agents into airports. Agents with zero screening training, zero TSA authority, and a good chance of making everything worse. Democrats have been ready to fund TSA from day one. What we refuse to do is write a blank check for an ICE agency that gunned down two American citizens in Minneapolis and still demands the ability to kick down doors without a judge’s approval while hiding behind masks. We will not pass the SAVE Act either. Call it what it is: the SAVE REPUBLICANS Act. Non-citizen voting is already illegal. It was illegal yesterday. It will be illegal tomorrow. This bill solves nothing except the Republican party’s losing electoral math. Fund TSA. Reform ICE. End this today. Trump is the one standing in the way.

NEW: We have seen DOJ secure a search warrant to seize ballots in Georgia and a subpoena to seize ballots in Arizona. Now a sheriff is seizing ballots in California. This is a crisis unfolding in real time. democracydocket.com/news-alerts/go…

NEWS: Trump Backs Down on Bombing Power Plants Due to Productive Talks, Iran Says Trump is Lying, Devastating Crash at Airport, ICE Deployed to 13 Airports open.substack.com/pub/aaronparna…

Things aren't getting any better for Hungary's Russian-backed Victor Orban regime. Despite all the Kremlin's efforts, with Trump issuing video appeals and even sending JD Vance to Budapest to save him, Putin's puppet Orban continues to collapse.

So, ICE, which has already all but abandoned important investigative priorities like child exploitation, is paying ICE agents to lurk over the shoulders of unpaid TSA agents? Who is running this show?

🇺🇦😎 The Ministry of Defense has approved the use of a new Ukrainian interceptor drone capable of covering a section of the sky with a radius of up to 40 km. JEDI Shahed Hunter receives data from radar stations in automatic mode and is also automatically guided to the target. With a total mass of just over 4 kg, the drone carries up to 500 grams of payload. This is enough to destroy a strike drone. And the power of its engines is enough to accelerate the drone to over 350 km/h and rise to a height of up to 6 km.

Columbus police were dispatched on a so‑called “high‑risk” call. An unarmed Black woman stepped out of the car with her hands up. Seconds later, she was slammed face‑first into the pavement. This is what “routine” looks like for Black people in America: guns drawn first, questions never. There is no justification for taking a compliant woman and driving her head into the concrete. That’s not “procedure.” That’s excessive force. We need answers: – Why was this level of force used on a woman who was already surrendering? – What specific policy allegedly authorizes this takedown? – What consequences will this officer face? I represent families all over this country who have lost loved ones after encounters that started just like this. We will not wait for another funeral to demand accountability. The Inspector General and city leaders must move quickly, release all footage, identify this officer, and make clear whether this conduct violates policy and the Constitution.

‼️🇺🇸: Federal Judge rules that the PENTAGON CAN NOT RESTRICT ACCESS TO JOURNALISTS who refuse to have their stories approved before publishing. This is a HUGE WIN for We the People and the First Amendment. 🔥

Absolute dysfunction in Washington. Former US diplomat exposes how the State Department was completely sidelined. He reveals Trump and his loyalists are making massive war decisions based on "magical thinking" and gut feelings, completely ignoring intelligence and experts.

The unsettling reality is that with this president, Americans in wartime are in the unprecedented position of having to suspect that the enemy’s version of events is more likely to be true than our own. We have become Baghdad Bob.