Major @TheShotgunStart In, Out, Alternate vibes here.
Zach Stanley retweeted
Trump says that if Republicans lose in North Carolina he will use the power of his office to deny US Marine Corps veterans’ claims for medical treatment for cancer and other life threatening diseases resulting from decades of water contamination by toxic chemicals at Camp Lejeune
Zach Stanley retweeted
Wow @marcorubio straight lied about the admin’s biggest donor’s complicity in the murder of Ukrainian children
BREAKING WSJ:
Elon Musk ordered the slowdown of the military-grade version of Starlink that Ukraine relied on.
wsj.com/world/ukraine-starli…
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Actually cannot believe what I've read here.
The police shooting that killed 1-year-old Kohen Wiley as he sat in his mother’s lap in a Walmart parking lot in Senatobia in June “was justified,” Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch’s office says.
mississippifreepress.org/pol…
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Billions of dollars’ worth of contracts predicting oil would fall and the S&P 500 would rise were placed about 15 minutes before Trump announced a U-turn on Iran in a post on Truth Social. CFTC staff began to investigate-- then were told to lay off. bloomberg.com/news/features/…
Zach Stanley retweeted
The Russians have provided Iran with satellite intelligence...ammunition, drone components, and explosives...used to kill American soldiers. Trump’s response is to beg Putin to accept American money in exchange for a few thousand barrels of diesel?
thebulwark.com/p/hes-despera…
Zach Stanley retweeted
New WH Press Secretary Katie Zacharia has deep ties to Communist China, working in Beijing for years at Chinese law firm Zhong Lun.
Zhong Lun regularly acts as counsel for Chinese state agencies, state-owned enterprises, and cross-border transactions tied to Chinese government strategies like the Belt and Road Initiative.
Zach Stanley retweeted
Starting Oct 19, the Trump administration is rolling back Biden-era airline passenger protections, and airlines will no longer have to provide stranded passengers with meals, hotels, or other assistance for delays or cancellations.
Airlines are no longer required lodging, meals, or other assistance when delays or cancellations.
Starting October 19, under 14 CFR 234.4, rule is to reduce the number of disruptions for which airlines provide amenities or compensation.
federalregister.gov/document…
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If you’re wondering why we’re talking about televised firing squads all of a sudden it’s because it was finally revealed we lost *an entire base* in Kuwait and our troops didn’t have enough bullets to defend it. A career ender for Hegseth in any other world.
Zach Stanley retweeted
As a homicide detective, I can say with all of my being that there is no lesson learned in seeing someone die. But there is a price. And that price is your peace. Your decency. And the soul of our society.
We don’t have to be this way, this fake tough but real ugly way. Stop
Breaking news: The firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be live-streamed, the Defense Department said.
“People need to understand that there’s serious consequences for these types of things,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said. wapo.st/4hNxK0C
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the Vice President of the United States has gone on record citing this man as one of his biggest intellectual influences
if you didn't know this, it's probably because for some reason literally no mainstream political media outlets think it's worth mentioning
Zach Stanley retweeted
DHS's goofy assumption that a $100k fee on STEM OPT won't reduce STEM OPT participation is necessary for them to argue their plan won't be detrimental to the US economy.
Once you account for the fact this will shrink the skilled STEM workforce, this kind of change will conservatively cost the US $240-481 billion a year, or about $1,000 per household.
From @m_clem, @AmyMNice, and my work for @theNASEM:
nap.nationalacademies.org/re…
Zach Stanley retweeted
New England is a great example of why energy regulation via permitting-friction is structurally bad for clean energy:
- Fossil fuels can be transported several ways, making them flexible — if a pipeline gets blocked fossil can move on ships or trains.
- Clean electricity HAS to move on transmission lines that connect generation in specific locations to market.
- Permitting and other frictional costs are bad for building all complex infrastructure, BUT that's much worse for clean energy than for fossil.
Case in point: New England
- Over the last 10 years several pipelines to bring natural gas into New England were blocked.
- At the same time major transmission projects to bring hydro power from Canada to New England was also blocked/delayed.
- What happened when both pipelines and transmission lines were constrained? We just shipped more expensive natural gas to New England on tankers because fossil is more flexible under frictional costs
- Ironically New England often ends up using dirtier foreign LNG because of the Jones Act
xitter.cf/mattyglesias/status/21…
Blocking gas infrastructure in New England hasn’t caused renewables to magically sprout, it just means that electricity is expensive to “electrify everything” is unattractive.
We need a better strategy.
slowboring.com/p/the-permitt…
Zach Stanley retweeted
Hours before Krist Noem left her job as D.H.S. secretary, her agency bought 5 planes from a donor at a big markup, records show. They were supposed to fly deportees but have largely sat idle -- a striking symbol of gov. waste under President Trump. nytimes.com/2026/10/04/us/po…
Zach Stanley retweeted
One day after @jaredkushner took to this platform to insist his work diplomatically is unconnected to his business interests, the Times drops this one
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I think something to consider here is that Collins voted to confirm Russ Vought as OMB Director despite the fact that he said a billion times that he thought Trump had a constitutional right to illegally impound funds, and now she’s doing shocked Pikachu reactions.
Without warning or consultation, Congress just received an $810 million package of pocket rescissions from the Administration. This is the most recent attempt by this Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to undermine Congress’s Constitutional power of the purse.
This move shows that OMB intentionally withheld these funds for months to execute this unlawful cancellation of appropriations that were approved on a bipartisan basis and signed into law.
Not only is the delay itself an impoundment that was not reported to Congress, but also it is a usurpation of Congress’s appropriations powers. OMB is an agency of the executive branch. It does not get to decide which programs are worth funding.
The independent Government Accountability Office has concluded that pocket rescissions are unlawful and not permitted by the Impoundment Control Act. Any effort to rescind appropriated funds without congressional approval is a clear violation of the law.
I will work with my colleagues to address these illegal actions.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Senator Collins voted to confirm OMB Director Vought, despite Vought’s known support for the President’s efforts to impound Congressionally-approved funds.
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It’s not just that all of these guys have stood with Trump every step of the way on this disastrous course, the whole Republican Party has been driving toward this war for 10+ years since they started working to scuttle JCPOA.
#OhioSenate
Politico: Senator Jon Husted (R-OH) says the Iran War “needs to come to an end as quickly as possible.”
politico.com/news/2026/09/22…
Read this thread. Deep corruption by Susan Collins.
Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign.
The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers.
Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵
ALT Martin Kao, CEO of defense contractor Navatek, poses next to Sen. Susan Collins for a photo. Collins is holding a model of a boat in her hands. Behind them is a large sign with the Navatek logo.