Source: Liberal Currents
by Thomas Pepinsky
“The anti-Trump coalition in the United States is broad, spanning the political spectrum from establishment conservatives and libertarians to social democrats, progressives, liberals, and those who prefer to avoid politics altogether. The breadth of this coalition is both its strength and its weakness. A coalition against the current president and administration has the numbers to win any national election, just so long as everyone votes together. But the same coalition can be easily divided over policy: over tax rates, over how to rein in ICE, over policies to address racial inequality, and anything else. In other words, the anti-Trump coalition is a negative coalition, defined by what it opposes rather than what it supports.” (03/04/26)
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/the-republic-and-its-enemies/
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“Iran is better than the United States. The United States is worse than Iran. This is true not because Iran is especially good, but because the United States is especially evil. Iran isn’t blanketing a major metropolis with military explosives, killing over a thousand people including hundreds of children. The United States is doing this with its partner in crime Israel. Iran isn’t continuously bombing and invading countries around the world, toppling governments, circling the globe with hundreds of military bases, targeting civilian populations with siege warfare and brandishing nuclear weapons at its enemies in the name of securing planetary domination. Only the United States is. The US empire is the single most murderous and tyrannical power structure on earth, by an extremely massive margin. No one else comes anywhere remotely close.” (03/04/26)
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2026/03/04/iran-is-morally-superior-to-the-united-states/
Source: Seattle Times
“The House Ethics Committee said Wednesday that it has opened an investigation of Rep. Tony Gonzales, R-Texas, over allegations that include having an affair with an aide. The top Republican and Democratic members on the committee said in a joint statement that an investigative panel would look into whether Gonzales engaged in sexual misconduct toward an employee in his office and whether he discriminated unfairly by dispensing special favors or privileges. … The San Antonio Express-News reported that it had obtained text messages in which the former Gonzales staffer, Regina Ann Santos-Aviles, wrote to a colleague that she had an affair with the congressman. … Santos-Aviles, 35, died in September 2025 after setting herself on fire in the backyard of her home in Uvalde, Texas.” (03/04/26)
https://archive.is/6zgKH
Source: Bet On It
“A conversation with Monica Snyder, Executive Director of Secular Pro-Life.” (03/04/26)
https://www.betonit.ai/p/reason-and-abortion
Source: The Bulwark
by Rachel Janfaza
“Gen Z uses AI for everything. It’s embedded in apps for everything from social media and messaging to music and podcasts, it fills the role that search engines played only a few years ago, and it’s even common in online dating. The majority of Gen Z uses AI at home, at school, and at work every month, if not every day. In fact, nearly three in ten U.S. teens report using AI chatbots daily, according to a new report from Pew Research Center. But just because Gen Z uses AI doesn’t mean they like it. Despite its omnipresence—or even because of it—Gen Z has a complicated, ambivalent relationship with AI.” (03/04/26)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/gen-z-has-a-love-hate-relationship-ai-jobs-chat-gpt-claude-grok-regulation
Source: Popular Information
by Judd Legum
“On Friday afternoon, Liberty University Law School emailed its first and second-year students about an ‘exciting opportunity to intern with the Department of Labor in DC.’ The available positions covered the full breadth of the DOL’s activities …. For second-year students, the internship ‘could lead to a full-time job offer for after your 2027 graduation.’ One important caveat: only passionate devotees of President Trump would be considered. Students who ‘aligned politically with President Trump’ and were ‘willing to work hard’ were strongly encouraged to apply, even if they had poor grades.” (03/04/26)
https://popular.info/p/the-meritocracy-exposed-internal
Source: KDFW 4 News
“Starting April 1, Texas will become the first state to implement sweeping new restrictions on the types of food and beverages available for purchase through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), state officials announced Wednesday. Under the new rules, the 3.3 million Texans who rely on SNAP benefits will no longer be able to use their Lone Star Cards to buy candy, gum, or sweetened drinks. The Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) issued the reminder as part of a final push to educate retailers and recipients before the deadline. The policy change follows a waiver approved by the U.S. Department of Agriculture in August 2025, a move championed by Gov. Greg Abbott and the Trump Administration to shift the program’s focus toward long-term health outcomes.” (03/04/26)
https://www.fox4news.com/news/texas-ban-candy-soda-from-snap-purchases-starting-april-1
Source: Ron Paul Liberty Report
“Iran War Day Four: Shifting US Narratives At Skepticism Grows.” (03/04/26)
https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1yKAPMweMkDxb
Source: Eunomia
by Daniel Larison
“Marco Rubio tries to spin U.S.-Israeli aggression: ‘The bottom line is this: The president determined we were not going to get hit first. … If you tell the president of the United States that if we don’t go first, we’re going to have more people killed and more people injured, the president’s going to go first. That’s what he did. That’s what the president will always do.’ This is Rubio’s attempt at damage control, but this answer is even worse than the one he gave the day before. If the U.S. and Israel hadn’t attacked, U.S. forces weren’t going to get ‘hit’ at all. The president’s threat against Iran was the main reason that American troops were in any danger in the first place.” (03/04/26)
https://daniellarison.substack.com/p/rubios-preposterous-preventive-war
Source: Town Hall
by Mark Lewis
“On March 4, 1801, Thomas Jefferson delivered his inaugural address as our third president. Here is part of what he said: ‘Enlightened by a benign religion, professed, indeed, and practiced in various forms, yet all of them inculcating honesty, truth, temperance, gratitude, and the love of man; acknowledging and adoring an overruling Providence, which by all its dispensations proves that it delights in the happiness of man here and his greater happiness hereafter. With all these blessings, what more is necessary to make us a happy and prosperous people? Still one thing more, fellow citizens: a wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned …'” (03/04/26)
https://townhall.com/columnists/marklewis/2026/03/04/march-4-1801-n2672265
