Source: New York Times
“The Israeli military said it pounded Hezbollah targets in the densely populated southern suburbs of Beirut early Friday while also pummeling Tehran, after the U.S. military said its campaign was sharply degrading Iran’s ability to retaliate. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps also launched a wave of drones and missiles at targets in Tel Aviv on Friday, according to a statement from the force reported by IRNA, the country’s state news agency. Air-raid sirens went off in the city, and the Israeli military said that it had detected missile launches from Iran.” (03/06/26)
https://archive.is/53kfS
Source: The Dispatch
by Ilya Somin
“The large-scale U.S. military attack on Iran (undertaken in collaboration with Israel) is blatantly unconstitutional, even if its wisdom and morality are more debatable. Article I of the Constitution gives Congress the exclusive power to declare war. One can debate the extent to which presidents can initiate relatively small-scale military actions, and such debates have raged for decades. But this attack is obviously large enough to qualify as a war. Thus, it just as obviously requires congressional authorization. President Donald Trump got no such authorization, nor did he even try. You need not take my word for the proposition that this is a war. Take Trump’s own. He himself has called it a war, and proclaimed that the objective is regime change.” (03/05/26)
https://thedispatch.com/debates/donald-trump-iran-war-constitution-congress/
Source: Ron Paul Liberty Report
“Panic Sets In As Iran War Expanding.” (03/05/26)
https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1pKdRbDknXyJW
Source: Axios
“Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is leaving the department and he will nominate Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) as her replacement, President Trump said Thursday. … Trump said Noem will be ‘moving to be Special Envoy for The Shield of the Americas, our new Security Initiative in the Western Hemisphere we are announcing on Saturday in Doral, Florida.’ He also said Mullin will start on March 31, calling him a ‘A MAGA Warrior’ who ‘truly gets along well with people, and knows the Wisdom and Courage required to Advance our America First Agenda.’ … Noem drew bipartisan fury after accusing Minneapolis nurse Alex Pretti and mother Renee Nicole Good of being domestic terrorists after both were [murdered] by federal agents in January. … Half of Americans supported abolishing ICE in an early March YouGov poll, a sign of how much support has eroded for one of Trump’s signature political strengths on Noem’s watch.” (03/05/26)
https://archive.is/bnDH5
Source: Garrison Center
by Thomas L. Knapp
“In The Joy of Yiddish, Leo Rosten defines chutzpah as ‘that quality enshrined in a man who, having killed his mother and father, throws himself on the mercy of the court because he is an orphan.’ Ladies and gentlemen, meet US Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) and US House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA).” (03/05/26)
https://thegarrisoncenter.org/archives/20396
Source: Al Jazeera [Qatari state media]
“A power outage has struck most of Cuba, including the capital Havana, the state electric utility said, as the administration of United States President Donald Trump continues its attempts to cripple the Caribbean nation by curtailing vital oil shipments. News of the widespread power outage on Wednesday emerged as the country’s diplomatic relations with Latin American neighbour Ecuador plummeted after the expulsion of Havana’s top envoy and diplomatic staff from the Ecuadorian capital Quito was announced. Cuban state media outlet Cubadebate said the blackout was caused by a fault at the Antonio Guiteras thermoelectric plant, located about 100km (62 miles) east of Havana, which cut electricity from Pinar del Rio in the far west of the country to the eastern Las Tunas province.” (03/05/26)
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/5/cuba-hit-by-widespread-blackout-ecuador-expels-havanas-ambassador-staff
Source: Sex and the State
by Cathy Reisenwitz
“There’s no AI doomer who wants China to get the jump on the US when it comes to AI supremacy. At least that I’m aware of. So why did they all either support or remain silent about a guy who is leading a movement that seems Hell-bent on giving China that lead? Explain it to me like I’m five, guys who get paid half a million dollars a year to write about AI for a general audience? Surely I am not the dumbest of the people you need to convince. What does a country need for AI supremacy? 1. A thriving economy 2. World-class talent 3. State-of-the-art technology … The Trump admin is actively taking a giant dookie on all three of America’s advantages in the AI arms race.” (03/05/26)
https://cathyreisenwitz.substack.com/p/maga-is-shitting-on-our-ai-lead
Source: Politico
“The Justice Department posted a trio of FBI interviews with a woman who alleged President Donald Trump sexually assaulted her when she was a young teenager after she was introduced to him by Jeffrey Epstein. The woman’s central allegation, according to FBI summaries of her interviews with investigators, known as FBI 302s, is that Trump hit her after she bit his penis when he attempted to force her to perform oral sex. The three files come as Democrats are investigating whether the department purposefully withheld materials that included sexual assault allegations against Trump.” (03/05/26)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/05/donald-trump-epstein-files-allegations-00816123
Source: Antiwar.com
by Andrew P Napolitano
“Over the past weekend, some apologists for President Donald Trump’s recently ordered attacks on Iran argued that because Trump’s plans call for a quick strike, the attacks do not constitute a war. George Orwell is vindicated yet again. These apologists believe that calling a war something else means it is not a war, and so moral and constitutional justifications are unnecessary. No rational observer looking at 2,000-pound bombs being dropped on military targets and thousands of missiles being fired indiscriminately at both civilians and military personnel in Iran can conclude that these events constitute anything but a war. That recognition triggers a series of analyses — moral, constitutional and legal.” (03/05/26)
https://original.antiwar.com/andrew-p-napolitano/2026/03/04/trumps-unjust-and-unconstitutional-war
Source: NBC News
“Some two dozen states challenged President Donald Trump’s new global tariffs on Thursday, filing a lawsuit over import taxes he imposed after a stinging loss at the Supreme Court. The Democratic attorneys general and governors in the lawsuit argue that Trump is overstepping his power with planned 15% tariffs on much of the world. Trump has said the tariffs are essential to reduce America’s longstanding trade deficits. He imposed duties under Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974 after the Supreme Court struck down tariffs he imposed last year under an emergency powers law. … The new suit argues that Trump can’t pivot to Section 122 because it was intended to be used only in specific, limited circumstances — not for sweeping import taxes. It also contends the tariffs will drive up costs for states, businesses and consumers.” (03/05/26)
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/20-states-sue-new-tariffs-trump-imposed-supreme-court-loss-rcna261964
