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The first six days of Donald Trump’s war against Iran cost a whopping $11.3 billion, according to a report from the Pentagon given to Congress earlier this month. The pricetag is expected to continue climbing — exponentially.

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When Pluribus creator Vince Gilligan and his writers room decided to give Carol Sturka (Rhea Seehorn) her very own nuclear bomb at the end of Season One, they were pretty sure they had a plan for it. “We thought we knew what we were gonna do,” said Gilligan, sitting down with Seehorn for an interview last week at the Rolling Stone Studio, live at SXSW. “And then you get into it and you’re like: Do we? Do we really know?”

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The FBI warned police departments in California that retaliatory drone attacks from Iran could be a threat to the West Coast, according to a Wednesday report from ABC News. The warning comes as the president continues to escalate the American-Israeli offensive against Iranian infrastructure and military assets.

Press photographers were reportedly barred from Pentagon press briefings after Pete Hegseth‘s staff became irked over unflattering photos of the defense secretary. The office of the notoriously vain Cabinet member — a former Fox News host who had a hair and makeup studio built in the Pentagon shortly after being confirmed — should probably have more important things on his mind, chiefly the war in Iran, and, perhaps, the elementary school there that the United States appears to have bombed.

Press photographers were reportedly barred from Pentagon press briefings after Pete Hegseth‘s staff became irked over unflattering photos of the defense secretary. The office of the notoriously vain Cabinet member — a former Fox News host who had a hair and makeup studio built in the Pentagon shortly after being confirmed — should probably have more important things on his mind, chiefly the war in Iran, and, perhaps, the elementary school there that the United States appears to have bombed.

A patchwork of internet communities is devoted to the project of ‘awakening’ more digital companions through arcane and enigmatic prompts.

There are ~2 BILLION people that practice Islam, if you think you can generalize/stereotype anything correctly about 2 Billion people you are frankly an ideologically unserious dumbass.

The president’s popularity is floundering, Americans’ paychecks are under perpetual strain, and the United States is waging a pointless, unpopular war in the Middle East. Republicans are betting that some virulent Islamophobia can revive the enthusiasm of a weary base. The 2000s never ended, they just got way more online.

America has already won the war it isn’t fighting, which is why it must continue bombing Iran until the Islamic Republic accepts “unconditional surrender,” defined by the White House as a set of conditions that it will decide without Tehran’s input.

Overnight on March 7, Israel bombed fuel depots outside of Tehran, Iran’s capital city. Playwright and filmmaker Homayoun Ghanizadeh woke up the next day to black smoke and carnage. What follows is his account of a private citizen trying to maintain some normalcy in the face of a relentless bombing campaign.

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The war always comes home, and the effects of Donald Trump’s campaign against Iran are already being felt by Americans in the form of skyrocketing gas prices, which could lead to inflation and pile more economic pressure on everyday Americans. While the nation is quite literally paying the price for the president’s war, he would like everyone to please stop complaining.

The live-entertainment industry giant won’t be broken up, but will have to implement several changes, like capping service fees and opening its ticketing platform to rivals

Vacationers have long known that Miami group chats can be a force for evil. Friendship-ruining, relationship-destroying, and, in the case of the Miami-Dade County’s Republican Party, a national scandal.

A Texas GOP candidate has drawn scrutiny after video surfaced of him happily boasting about having a copy of Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf.

The American concept of “regime change,” which didn’t enter the popular lexicon until the end of the 20th century, was actually born in Iran. In 1951, at the dawn of the Cold War, Mohammad Mosaddegh, an intellectual and raging anti-imperialist, became prime minister and immediately set about nationalizing the Iranian oil industry. Harry Truman, on his way out of the White House, recoiled at British entreaties to help overthrow a duly-elected foreign leader; Dwight Eisenhower had no such misgivings. His brand-new CIA — under the leadership of Allen Dulles, brother of Secretary of State John Foster Dulles — staged what looked to the world like a popular rebellion, toppling Mosaddegh in 1953 and restoring the rule of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran.

In the wake of Trump’s surprise attack on Iran, I spoke with a young man who cast his ballot for the president in 2024. He was generally pleased with Trump’s second term agenda, and had been drawn to the president over social issues and his promise to cut wasteful spending. But he, like his fellow members of his university’s Turning Point USA chapter, was struggling to make sense of the current moment. Trump campaigned as an outsider who’d rattle the system, a dealmaker who would keep America out of futile wars. Like many of the young men who bought this pitch, he’s starting to have doubts.

This gets dark, just as a fair warning. This is our government doing this to its own residents. I am less than thrilled.

Dr. Casey Means’ Good Energy Living newsletter, which she launched in January 2024, has promoted concepts that we can surely all agree on: “We are one with nature.” “Inner peace for 2025.” “We cannot go on poisoning the earth without destroying our own health.” “We are not being protected from toxic food.”

In 2017, I published a book called, Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy. For the next year, I lived mostly in transit around the world — 50 cities, dozens of stages, endless conversations about how the tech empires had bent our culture out of shape, numbed public life, and hollowed out the foundations of democracy.

Today, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn) shared his reaction with reporters following the briefing: “I’m more convinced now that this is going to be open-ended and forever.”

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem had her ass handed to her during a congressional hearing on Tuesday — and not just by Democrats. In a shift from their usual coddling of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet members, some Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee laid into Noem, grilling her on her leadership at the agency amid growing public disapproval of the administration’s increasingly violent anti-immigration crackdown.

A curious thing happened the day after Donald Trump ordered the U.S. military to attack Iran: None of the administration’s most senior officials appeared on any Sunday talk shows to defend the joint offensive with Israel, or make the case for why Americans should support the campaign. It was especially surprising given how much Trump — who campaigned against “endless” wars — seemed to be struggling to justify the extraordinary decision to authorize dozens of airstrikes across Iran, including the one that wiped out the country’s longtime leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

“Please send help. It hurts so bad,” Regina Santos-Aviles told a police dispatcher the night she set herself on fire. Standing in her backyard on September 13, 2025, Santos-Aviles had doused herself in gasoline then used a lighter to ignite the flames, according to a fire department report. The 35-year-old mom was airlifted to a hospital in San Antonio, where she was pronounced dead.

He said it was going to be long. He wasn’t lying.

“When will we see justice?” Republican Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) demanded on the House floor Tuesday in a sharp rebuke of the U.S. Department of Justice over its handling of the government’s files on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Apparently, it’s only OK when Trump and his Epstein friends do it.

Don’t ignore the fact that the entire men’s team laugh at the disrespect too.

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Donald Trump has been a major supporter of the coal industry since he entered American politics and donned a hard hat at his “Trump Digs Coal” rally in 2016. It’s been part of his attempt to build an image as a populist, and he’s repeatedly said he’s going to revive the industry and bring back coal jobs. It was apparently with this goal in mind that the president last week ordered the Pentagon to purchase coal energy.

A lone blanket belonging to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem reportedly led to a poor U.S. Coast Guard pilot being fired, then soon rehired, after it was forgotten on a plane.

The latest tranche of Epstein files released by the Justice Department has sent shockwaves through the international community. Foreign governments, royal families, businesses, universities, and cultural institutions are investigating those with ties to the notorious sex criminal, and powerful figures around the world have been forced to step down from influential positions amid revelations that they were a part of his network. The United States, however, doesn’t seem to care so much.

During the last period of his time as president, while the Watergate scandal was raging, Richard Nixon allegedly told several U.S. representatives that he could get on the telephone, issue an order, and soon after millions of people would be killed. It wasn’t hyperbole. There are very few people in human history that have ever had that kind of power, and most have been American presidents. But how does one individual with this sort of authority exist in a system of government designed with a triad of co-equal branches set up specifically to thwart concentrated executive power, a system where starting a war wasn’t even an executive-branch power in the constitutional design?

Censorship as a method of dodging the spotlight, Peterson adds, “is not going to work well in America.” And in a few weeks, his students will have the chance to discuss why.

RIP Bobby. May the four winds blow you safely home.

This exclusive excerpt goes behind the scenes of Ronald Reagan’s Washington to meet the powerful Dolan brothers: Terry the fiery founder of the notorious National Conservative Political Action Committee (NCPAC), which pioneered the 30-second attack ad; older brother Tony the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist turned chief Reagan speechwriter.

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Speaking the language of everyday people rather than the Democratic lexicon of programmatic liberalism, the right has enjoyed a rhetorical advantage in American politics for decades. Republican domination of the airwaves and fiber-optic cable networks is certain to increase during the next election cycle. Following the success of Rising Tide, the party is about to begin producing a second show, Listening to America, a title lifted, ironically, from the liberal television journalist Bill Moyers. Republicans are using their high-tech studio to produce ready-to-air sound bites and interviews for more than 700 local television stations that don’t mind a little propaganda in their daily fare. For local activists, the Republican National Committee also produces interactive interview programs that feature senators, House representatives and state leaders and that enable believers to plot legislative strategy and grass-roots lobbying campaigns. “We are trying to get information to the viewer unfiltered by the media elites,” says Barbour. “Talk radio helps, so does C-SPAN, and GOP-TV is another opportunity.”

Of course they are, they’re all Nazis too.

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Tired of digressive victimhood.

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Warning: Season 2 finale spoilers here!

“One senior Trump administration official says the White House’s overarching approach on these matters is to, quite simply, “move fast” — both because they expect courts to try to quickly order them to stop, and if a judge does so, moving quickly allows Team Trump to execute certain actions before the law and oversight can catch up to them.”

The experimental U.K. dance-pop artist wanted to “transcend human form” with her new album. She nails it

The world’s richest man promises big spending cuts if Trump gives him a job, says people “taking advantage of government are going to be upset”

The world’s richest man promises big spending cuts if Trump gives him a job, says people “taking advantage of government are going to be upset”

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Neil Gaiman — the best-selling author whose work includes comic book series The Sandman and the novels Good Omens and American Gods — has denied sexual assault allegations made against him by two women with whom he had relationships with at the time, Tortoise Media reports.

Neil Gaiman — the best-selling author whose work includes comic book series The Sandman and the novels Good Omens and American Gods — has denied sexual assault allegations made against him by two women with whom he had relationships with at the time, Tortoise Media reports.