FCC Chair Carr faces fierce backlash for his broadcast license threats [ over media coverage of the #US-IsrealWar ]
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#Oil prices may keep rising despite the biggest release of stockpiles in history [ falling far short of demand]
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"The media event quickly went off the rails as #Pirro, 74, took questions. She lashed out at reporters, and outright yelled at members of the press at times.
"She got extremely angry when asked about her office’s failure to prosecute Democratic members of Congress who made a video reminding military personnel they can refuse to carry out illegal orders."
Daily Beast https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-goon-stages-public-meltdown-232814034.html #TrumpRegime #USPolitics #ICE
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"Arizona U.S. Attorney Timothy Courchaine, whom Attorney General Pam Bondi appointed to the post last year, has now told conservative outlet The Daily Wire that Justice Department officials in the border state are losing those cases at a devastating rate."
Daily Beast https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/maga-appointee-panics-over-losing-140333419.html
#TrumpRegime #USPolitics #ICE
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"President Donald Trump’s decision to bomb Iran is rattling global oil markets, threatening to reignite inflation—and according to Morgan Stanley’s Global Investment Office, it could cost Republicans their Senate majority and send the national debt into overdrive."
Fortune https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/trump-just-put-republicans-hold-152801972.html
#InternationalPolitics #TrumpWar
#TrumpRegime #USPolitics #Affordability
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"A similar story is playing out at his #socialMmedia company, with shares reaching an all-time low on Friday of $9.73. That’s an enormous fall from the company’s record high of just shy of $80 shortly after the company merged with a blank check acquisition company in March 2024, a move that allowed it to be publicly traded.
"Since then, it’s been a long slide."
Futurism https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/trump-disastrous-truth-social-company-184823267.html
#TrumpRegime #USPolitics
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#Affordabiity #AI
"If #Meta settles on the 20% [layoffs] figure, the layoffs will be the company's most significant since a restructuring in late 2022 and early 2023 that it dubbed the "year of efficiency." It employed nearly 79,000 people as of December 31, according to its latest filing."
Reuters https://finance.yahoo.com/news/exclusive-meta-planning-sweeping-layoffs-001705452.html
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"To sidestep these negative consequences [of pesticides,] Zhang drew inspiration from chess boards and 'Dance Dance Revolution.' Combined with weeks of extensive field observation, deep algorithmic programming and an umbrella seized from her family’s patio, the teenager built ArTreeficial, a solar-powered, self-cleaning, artificial-intelligence-driven 'tree' that entices the spotted lanternfly and eliminates the bug using an electronic mesh." Smithsonian https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/this-high-schooler-invented-an-ai-powered-trap-that-zaps-invasive-lanternflies-180983918/
#Science
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#3goodthings
1. Saw family and friends today we haven't seen in years
2. The group prayed, each in his or her way, for peace.
3. The snow was lighter than predicted
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How the attack on Iran could impact the global oil market and economy
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/28/iran-us-attack-oil-market-economy.html?__source=androidappshare
A prolonged closure of the Straits...could tip the global economy into recession.
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"US President Donald Trump announced a major attack against Iran on Saturday, vowing to "annihilate" the country's navy and missile sites, and urging Iranians to overthrow their government."
AFP https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-says-us-aims-destroy-092750765.html
#TrumpRegime #InternationalPolitics
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"Commenters were quick to excoriate Trump.
“Idiot president,” wrote one.
Said another, “Tipping a struggling state over the edge into a failed state, like we’re doing in Venezuela? Smoove move.”
silive https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/idiot-president-trump-sparks-furor-195324052.html
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"[a] permit authorized Enbridge to withdraw roughly five billion gallons of freshwater from wetlands and aquifers for the construction of the pipeline, depleting water in a region where wild rice depends on stable levels of clean water to survive....threats to manoomin look different but no less serious. #ClimateChange disrupts the seasonal rhythms on which wild rice depends, while mining and development projects threaten water quality." JSTOR article https://daily.jstor.org/wild-rice-and-the-rights-of-nature/?utm_source=mcae&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=jstordaily_02262026
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"He is hardly alone in looking elsewhere. In 2025, the U.S. experienced definitive negative net migration for the first time since the Great Depression, with an estimated loss of about 150,000 people, according to Brookings calculations reported on by the Wall Street Journal. The analysis found a “millions-strong” American diaspora"
Fortune https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/more-george-clooney-moving-france-080000139.html
#TrumpRegime #USPolitics #ICE
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"Capital efficiencies and returns drive our investment decisions," said an #oil and gas operator responding to the Dallas Federal Reserve's fourth quarter energy survey.
"If economic conditions worsen, drilling and completion activities will cease in 2026."
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/trump-pushed-for-lower-gas-prices-and-got-them-the-oil-industry-is-paying-the-price-100021352.html
#USPolitics #Affordability #Tariffs
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Core wholesale prices rose 0.8% in January, much more than expected
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/27/ppi-january-2026-.html?__source=androidappshare
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"the stunner was a Washington D.C. federal grand jury’s rejection of a proposed indictment of Sens. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) and Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) and Reps. Chris Deluzio (D-Pa.), Maggie Goodlander (D-N.H.), Chrissy Houlahan (D-Pa.) and Jason Crow (D-Colo.) — all military veterans or former intelligence officers. Their supposed crime? Appearing in a video urging service members not to obey illegal orders."
The Hill https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/opinion-pam-bondi-thought-grand-180000862.html
#TrumpRegime #USPolitics
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"A federal judge reprimanded Donald Trump’s administration for claiming that an immigrant seeking his release from custody was convicted for marijuana possession in 2009 — when he was 4 years old."
Independent https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/judge-blasts-ice-sloppiness-claiming-143623689.html
#TrumpRegime #USPolitics #ICE
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"Fewer Americans tuned into the State of the Union this year, even as President Donald Trump delivered the longest one in history.
"Preliminary data released by Nielsen on Wednesday showed an estimated 12 percent decrease in total viewership for the State of the Union Address across the seven most-watched networks"
Daily Beast https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-humiliated-americans-bail-big-015439284.html
#TrumpRegime #USPolitics #25thAmendment
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“A vulnerable man – nearly blind and unable to speak English – was left alone on a cold winter night with no known attempt to leave him in a safe, secure location. That decision from US Customs and Border Protection was unprofessional and inhumane,” Buffalo Mayor Sean Ryan said Wednesday, calling Shah Alam’s death “preventable,” and insisting CBP “answer for how and why this happened.”
CNN https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/nearly-blind-refugee-found-dead-095130652.html
#ICE
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"More than three centuries ago, this marsh was a crucible of courage. Enslaved Africans fled the rice plantations of the Carolinas and the cotton fields of Georgia, moving south through wetlands alive with alligators and snakes... The first recorded group of formerly enslaved people to reach St. Augustine—eight men, two women and a nursing child—arrived in 1687. They risked everything to make it to ...refuge from the colonial British #slave system."
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"Recent policy changes and economic shifts have slashed 12 years off the projected life span of the trust fund that pays for #Medicare Part A, according to ... [the] (CBO). The Hospital Insurance (HI) Trust Fund is now slated to be entirely exhausted by 2040, even though the balance generally increases through 2031, as spending will begin to outstrip income in the following year."
Fortune https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/less-trump-erased-12-years-195408202.html
#TrumpRegime #USPolitics #Affordability #HealthCare
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