
🚨U.S. to allow Iran to get ~14 billion dollars (!!!) in oil revenue 🚨This is a huge financial concession to Iran by the U.S. 🚨It is the first time U.S. is buying Iranian oil since 1996 🚨It's all happening in the middle of a war against...Iran
Topher Spiro
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Senior Fellow @amprog. Former White House Office of Management and Budget. Opinions my own.

🚨U.S. to allow Iran to get ~14 billion dollars (!!!) in oil revenue 🚨This is a huge financial concession to Iran by the U.S. 🚨It is the first time U.S. is buying Iranian oil since 1996 🚨It's all happening in the middle of a war against...Iran

Lis Smith of all people pans Governor Mills’ messaging on Iran, praises Graham’s messaging. “Too many Democrats…default to playing legalistic hall monitor and complaining about how Donald Trump didn’t fill out the right paperwork before launching strikes.”

BREAKING The Trump administration has granted a temporary sanctions waiver allowing the Islamic Republic of Iran to sell oil. The authorization applies to shipments that were already loaded onto tankers before March 20, 2026, and gives a deadline of April 19 to complete them. The regime may not sell oil to North Korea, Cuba, or any part of Ukraine under Russian control.

The orchestrated campaign to single out and demonize pro-Israel Americans, including millions of Democrats who are members of AIPAC, for participating in the political process is wrong and fundamentally undemocratic.

Ossoff: History is calling the question: What kind of a country are we?


Ironically, Greg's argument is DC-centric. If you talk to people in TX, this resonates with them: Dems in DC (including in Biden Admin) made immig policy based on the interests of lobbyists/groups, ignoring the views of the ppl who actually live in border communities.

Ossoff: "After years of this president trashing our allies, we learned today that the Danish govt was preparing military options to defeat a potential American invasion of Greenland just months ago. The president has treated our allies like they don't matter then demanded they come to his aid."

"'We need about a month to weaken the Iranians more with strikes, take the island and then get them by the balls and use it for negotiations,' a source with knowledge of the White House thinking said." axios.com/2026/03/20/ira…

.@mcuban says he's not worried about AI doom scenarios related to robotics because AI "doesn't understand the consequences of its recommendations": "Right now, LLMs are basically bimodal: it’s almost all text and pictures, with some video. You can’t model the world with that." "AI, right now, doesn't understand the consequences of its recommendations. It has no idea what happens next. A 2-year-old in a highchair and a sippy cup knows if it pushes the sippy cup off the highchair, mom's coming running, and the kid's going to start laughing at mom. LLMs don't understand [that]." "So we have to evolve to models that can capture the world and physics, and deal with the latency of not having access to video that you can't see — you have to try to model that. And not only does that take up a lot of processing power, but it takes up a lot of bandwidth." "And so the Terminators taking over, I just don’t see how it’s going to happen."

Just to be clear, what we reported is that the *Pentagon* is asking the White House to propose $200 billion for the Iran war supplemental. This is not the same as the White House proposing it. On that q, we have to see

New KFF poll on expired ACA subsidies (among 2025 marketplace enrollees) —80% report higher health care costs —51% say "a lot" higher —28% switched plans, 9% went uninsured —78% say Congress was wrong to let funds expire —62% blame Trump or Republicans —14% blame Democrats

NEW: Bessent actually just said: The US may “unsanction” Iran oil that is floating on water What message does this send to Iran?

The Democrats’ decision to shut down the Department of Homeland Security has caused chaos at our airports, delayed assistance to communities affected by disasters, and forced thousands of frontline employees to work without any guarantee of when they will be paid. The United States is less safe because the Democrats chose to walk away from the bipartisan DHS funding bill and have blocked repeated Republican efforts to pass a short-term funding patch to prevent disruptions while negotiations continue. The White House made a good-faith offer last month that builds on the reforms included in the bipartisan funding bill negotiated earlier this year, with new safeguards to protect both the American public and law enforcement and increased oversight. Democrats waited 18 days to respond. In that time, we saw violent attacks at Old Dominion University and the Temple Israel Synagogue in Michigan and a massive cyber attack on the Stryker Corporation. It is time for Democrats to get serious and work with us in earnest to govern responsibly.