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WaPo: Behind closed doors, Republicans have tamped down their hopes of unseating Senator Jon Ossoff (D-GA), a 39-year-old powerhouse fundraiser, as he seeks another term Rep. Buddy Carter (R-GA) warned a crowd of Republicans in Roberta, Georgia, in January that he faced an uphill battle in November to unseat Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff in the purple state, if he becomes the Republican nominee. washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/…

Didn't realize Trump coming out and admitting very pubicly that he's the reason airports are in chaos was part of some 5 Dimensional chess move.

vance's favs being so strongly negative is funny. about 95% of the people who dislike him do so strongly.

NEWS: Inside the Trump-Netanyahu call 48 hrs before the strikes in Iran began. Netanyahu made his final pitch: Trump should avenge the Iranian efforts to kill him and help make history in reshaping the Middle East. Soon after, Trump flipped the switch reuters.com/world/middle-e…

I'm not sure which is worse news: this, or the paratroopers

Huh.

Let he who has never spent $20,000 on horse rentals cast the first stone

Incredibly bleak numbers for Trump (and Republicans) 7.5 months before the midterms: 🟡 62% say tariffs are having a negative impact on the cost of living (14% say positive) 🟡 58% disapprove of Trump’s handling of the economy (39% approve) 🟡 57% say their income is not keeping up with the cost of living (39% say it is) 🟡 50% expect the economy to be worse than it is now this time next year (37% expect it’ll be better) 🟡 50% have an unfavorable toward tariffs (28% favorable) 🟡 46% say Trump’s actions on immigration are hurting the economy (28% say it’s helping)

Even if the war ended tomorrow, we estimate that it would take at least four months to bring energy markets back to some semblance of normalcy: - it will take two to four weeks to rev up oil production, and up to seven weeks to restart Qatar's LNG plant - shippers may hesitate to transit Hormuz until there's been a long stretch without attacks or threats - once they resume, many will be in the wrong place: tankers that haul Middle Eastern oil to Asia are headed to pick up cargoes in America instead, and the round-trip voyage can take 90 days - finally, you'll have to bring refineries and regasification plants back online in importing countries, and that will take several more weeks And this is the optimistic scenario: the longer the war goes on, the longer the consequences will linger. economist.com/finance-and-ec…

to elaborate: one story is because ATC audio suggests one controller was directing both vehicles due to understaffing, the next is due to serious maintenance lapses, and the last is because regular security isn’t being paid quite a choice for the wealthiest nation on the planet

Tomorrow

Breaking: A Mexican teenager has died while in ICE custody in South Florida. He appears to be the youngest person to die in ICE custody since Trump took office last year. miaminewtimes.com/news/mexican-t…

Turning off ALPRs is huge. One thing to keep in mind though: If these things are still installed and not covered, they're probably never really turned off. boltsmag.org/verona-wiscons…

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Texas keeps failing to release people from jail when their time is over, leaving people languishing there unable to be released texastribune.org/2026/03/19/tex…

Truly insane detail from this article about Flock surveillance in Verona, WI: The city didn't have to know about this surveillance company because Flock's former partner, Axon, paid for the surveillance out of pocket on behalf of the Sheriff. boltsmag.org/verona-wiscons…

Wisconsin State Party Feb Fundraising Total Receipts 🔵 WisDems: $1,515,042 🔴 WisGOP: $167,242 Total w/o Non-Federal Transfers 🔵 WisDems: $525,846 🔴 WisGOP: $83,316 Last fed filing ahead of the 4/7 WI Supreme Court election. Next state filing due on 3/30.

Last November, the city of Verona, Wisconsin, pulled out of a sprawling surveillance network run by Flock Safety. The company waited months to remove its cameras installed around town, only doing so when the city finally covered them with plastic bags. boltsmag.org/verona-wiscons…

Virgina's Loudoun County is one of the bluer counties in ICE's 287(g) program, due to its longtime GOP sheriff who has championed Trump's immigration agenda. Here, a county supervisor is cheering a new state law that'll likely force the county out of the program.