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Trump's Priorities Spell Doom for GOP - the Wednesday AM Quickie 3/11/26

By Corey Pein —

A new poll shows that most Americans want nothing to do with AI, with only 26 percent of voters saying they have positive feelings about Silicon Valley's latest job-killing scheme. Keep it up, folks, constantly making fun of the slop-peddlers seems to be working. Let's pop that bubble! - Corey

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THE BIG NEWS

Trump Sets Up House and Senate GOP for Midterms Collapse

Donald Trump's recklessness, selfishness, and ineptitude have driven new wedges between himself and his formerly obedient Republican underlings in Congress. This week House GOP members have decamped to Trump's Doral resort in Florida for a policy retreat. The thing is, Trump has dictated that no Republican policy priorities will be passed into law until Congress approves his voter suppression bill, perversely dubbed the SAVE America Act. Politico reports that Budding Theocrat House Speaker Mike Johnson and other party leaders are fobbing off Trump's priority bill onto the Senate, where it will fail. "That is just a function of math," Senate Majority Leader John Thune told reporters yesterday.

This is good news. And it gets better. "If we don't pass the SAVE America Act, the GOP will lose the House and Senate," Mark Meadows, who was Trump's White House chief of staff for a while in his first term, warns, per HuffPost. As I wrote recently in this newsletter, Trump is leaving Republicans nothing to run on. They're in panic mode about Trump's unpopular war on Iran and his equally unpopular mass deportation program.

That said, Trump hasn't yet lost his sway over the party. Yesterday in Georgia, the candidate he endorsed to replace Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green, Clay Fuller, advanced to the November runoff, where he will face Democrat, cattle farmer, and retired US Army officer Shawn Harris.

Meanwhile in Mississippi, Democratic primary voters opted to retain 78-year-old, 17-term Rep. Bennie Thompson over two younger challengers, Evan Turnage and Pertis Herman Williams III. Thompson led the Jan. 6 investigation into Trump's 2021 coup attempt. God willing he'll get to vote on Trump's third impeachment.

War on Iran: 1,300 Iranians Killed; 140 American Wounded; Sleeper Cells Feared

  • Iran Claims US and Israel Have Hit Nearly 10,000 Civilian Sites in 11 Days of War Pete Hegseth's Pentagon nixed offices dedicated to the reduction of civilian casualties as part of his push for "lethality." via Al Jazeera, ProPublica, Politico, the New York Times, and NBC News.
  • 'Black Rain' Falling Over Tehran Poses Respiratory, Cancer, and Environmental RIsks Meanwhile, Lebanon, Gaza, and Iran are facing food shortages as a result of Donald Trump's war, the United Nations warns. via Reuters, the Guardian, the New York Times, and Al Jazeera.
  • After Markets React, Energy Secretary Chris Wright Deletes Post With False Claim That US Reopened Strait of Hormuz Iranian officials have vowed that not "even a single liter" of oil will be shipped through the vital ocean corridor, a situation that Saudi oil officials warn will have "catastrophic consequences" for the global economy. via Politico, the Associated Press, the Guardian, and HuffPost.
  • After Classified Briefing, Democrats Warn That Trump Will Send Ground Troops to Iran Senate Democrats want Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio to testify under oath about the "shifting, and at times conflicting, objectives for this war." via Common Dreams, Al Jazeera, the New York Times, and The American Prospect.

Senate Advances Bipartisan Housing Bill

Massachusetts Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Republican Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, who head up the Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, co-sponsored a bill to address the country's housing affordability crisis. According to the New York Times, the legislation "would streamline production, modernize federal programs, improve financing options, ease regulations and set limits on large institutional investors."

Yesterday senators voted 89-9 to advance the bill, and a vote to approve it could come as soon as today. But Politico reports that industry groups are lobbying against a provision in the bill that would ban large investors from buying up single-family homes. And even if the bill passes the House, Donald Trump has vowed not to sign off on anything until he gets his voter suppression law passed. Business as usual!

QUICKEST QUICKIES

  • Elon Musk DOGE Flunky Stole Private Social Security Data, Whistleblower Warns "Not only has an ex-DOGE bro been accused of running around with the Social Security information of every American on a flash drive, he also may have the ability to edit and manipulate data at the Social Security Administration at will," California Democratic Rep. Robert Garcia says. "This is dangerous and outrageous, and Oversight Committee Democrats will fight for transparency and accountability." via the Washington Post and HuffPost.
  • Ukraine Retakes Territory from Russia on Southeastern Front Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused Hungary's government of "banditry" for seizing a shipment of cash and gold worth $122 million last week. via the Associated Press and the Guardian.
  • FDA Backtracks from Trump's Bogus Claims About Drug Cure for Autism Despite its promotion by regime officials, "the American Academy of Pediatrics doesn't recommend routine use of leucovorin for autistic children." via the AP and the Washington Post.
  • White Supremacist Loudmouth Jeremy Carl Withdraws His Candidacy for State Department Post Meanwhile, Budding Theocrat House Speaker Mike Johnson declined to criticize hateful anti-Muslim comments from Rep. Andy Ogles, saying "the demand to impose sharia law in America is a serious problem." via Politico and the Guardian.

SOME NUMBER

7

That's how many places the United States fell last year in a ranking of press freedom across the Americas, from fourth to eleventh, Al Jazeera reports. The Inter American Press Association's report blames the "alarming decline" of US press freedom on Donald Trump, the "stigmatisation of critical journalism," and "government actions aimed at limiting free expression and access to information."

ON THE SHOW TODAY

3/11: Sam will be hosting solo. The guests will be three activists organizing to stop an ICE camp from opening in Hagerstown, Maryland: Patrick Dattilio, founder of Hagerstown Rapid Response; Claire Connor, HRR organizer; and Ethan Wechtaluk, candidate for Congress in Maryland's 6th District. Then Sam will talk to Joel Jacobs, data reporter at ProPublica, about his piece on the chaos Trump created by dismantling the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

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PARTING WORDS

"The attacks on Iran by the United States and Israel are unraveling international law, the Geneva Conventions and the legitimacy of the United Nations. This is extremely dangerous for the future of the planet and humanity. ...
"After the horrors of World War II, the international community came together to establish international law — a system of rules designed to prevent aggressive wars and hold nations accountable for violating basic human rights. Trump and Netanyahu are destroying that effort and are pushing the global community back into international anarchy — a world that produced 10 million dead in World War I and 50 million dead in World War II.
"We cannot go back to a world where might makes right — where any nation can invade, bomb or destabilize another country for any reason they choose. That mentality leaves all of us, and future generations, increasingly unsafe."

-- Vermont independent Sen. Bernie Sanders, in a statement yesterday denouncing "Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu's efforts to unravel international law."

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