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Trump: Iran asked me to be Supreme Leader, but I said no thanks

Trump’s “Iran asked me to be Supreme Leader” joke at an NRCC fundraiser uses a real, deadly leadership crisis in Iran to normalize assassination-as-policy and blur what’s confirmed about the war and succession.

Mar 26, 2026

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‘Men need to be perp-walked’ after Epstein files release, Massie tells BBC

A GOP lawmaker says the Epstein document releases are still falling short—because redactions and withheld material may be blocking accountability and survivor-centered justice.

Mar 25, 2026

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Trump fires Kristi Noem as Homeland Security Secretary

A Cabinet secretary was forced out amid contracting and oversight scrutiny, signaling that executive control—not transparent accountability—can dictate leadership of the agency driving mass detention and deportation.

Mar 5, 2026

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The Trump gold coin is not normal : Consider This from NPR

A federal design panel OK’d a Trump portrait for a commemorative gold coin, but the key question is whether Treasury can legally bypass long-standing limits meant to keep living politicians off U.S. money.

Mar 23, 2026

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White House Confronted Over Huge Bets Made Minutes Before Trump’s Big War Move

A $580 million burst of oil-futures selling minutes before Trump’s Iran “talks” post raises a basic public-interest question: did anyone trade on advance knowledge of a market-moving national security decision?

Mar 24, 2026

Bernie Sanders’ billionaire tax would soak about 900 people to fund $3,000 checks for the middle class | Fortune

A new federal wealth-tax bill would convert billionaires’ net worth into recurring revenue and direct cash checks, testing how far Congress will go in normalizing redistribution by annual asset taxation.

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https://fortune.com/2026/03/04/bernie-sanders-billionaire-tax-ro-khanna-3000-checks-middle-class-americans

Summary

Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Ro Khanna introduced legislation proposing a 5% annual wealth tax on U.S. individuals with net worth of $1 billion or more, with first-year revenue funding a one-time $3,000 check for lower- and middle-income households earning $150,000 or less. It advances federal use of an annual wealth tax paired with direct cash payments and targeted spending as an explicit redistribution mechanism. The proposal would shift tax policy toward recurring taxation of accumulated wealth and create a new expectation of broadly distributed, tax-funded checks tied to wealth-tax revenue.

Detail

Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Ro Khanna introduced the “Make Billionaires Pay Their Fair Share Act” on Monday. The bill proposes a 5% annual wealth tax on individuals with a net worth of $1 billion or more; Sanders estimated 938 billionaires in the U.S. with $8.2 trillion in collective wealth.

The bill directs first-year tax revenue to a one-time $3,000 check for every person living in a lower- or middle-income household, defined as earning $150,000 or less. Sanders stated that revenue in subsequent years would be directed to “the most pressing crises facing working families,” and estimated the plan would generate $4.4 trillion over a decade.

Sanders and Khanna said the funds would be used to reverse $1.1 trillion in cuts to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act attributed to the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, establish a minimum $60,000 salary for public school teachers, and cap parent childcare payments at 7% of household income. The piece notes the legislation faces steep odds with Republican control of the House and Senate.

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Anti-LGBTQ+ Congressman Dan Crenshaw ousted by more extreme candidate in Texas GOP primary

A GOP primary defeat rewards escalation toward using federal funding levers to restrict medical care, signaling a hardening precedent of policy-making aimed at narrowing civil protections.

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Mar 4, 2026