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“Stocks dropped on Monday as the selling pressures that dragged Wall Street last week persisted, with investors worried about an economic slowdown after President Donald Trump didn’t rule out a recession with US tariffs being implemented,” CNBC writes in the lede to their top story Monday.

“US stocks dropped in early trading on Monday, suffering widespread losses a day after President Donald Trump declined to rule out the possibility of a recession,” ABC News wrote in their convergent lede, both outlets and others probably risking another $10 billion lawsuit.

Deep State Attack? Twitter-X Is Down This Monday Morning

READ: https://t.co/rVFvtUBTb6 pic.twitter.com/Dw2oLLhhGM

— The Gateway Pundit (@gatewaypundit) March 10, 2025

Maybe, just maybe, it should be self-evident that Twitter is not down if you tweeted the fucking article after a 20 minute outage. It also could be worth considering that the “Deep State” would be more effective at cyberattacks and would have somehow taken the platform down permanently if they really wanted to. Lastly, and perhaps most importantly, one might also ponder whether Twitter owner Elon Musk is in fact qualified to run the entire US federal government if he can’t properly protect his own social media network from said attacks. Or just simple self-inflicted outages.

The US Supreme Court on Monday granted certiorari to Chiles v Salazar, a case whose petition reads “Kaley Chiles is a licensed counselor who helps people by talking with them. A practicing Christian, Chiles believes that people flourish when they live consistently with God’s design, including their biological sex. Many of her clients seek her counsel precisely because they believe that their faith and their relationship with God establishes the foundation upon which to understand their identity and desires. But Colorado bans these consensual conversations based on the viewpoints they express. Its content- and viewpoint-based Counseling Restriction prohibits counseling conversations with minors that might encourage them to change their ‘sexual orientation or gender identity, including efforts to change behaviors or gender expressions,’ while allowing conversations that provide ‘[a]cceptance, support, and understanding for…identity exploration and development, including…[a]ssistance to a person undergoing gender transition.’ Colo Rev Stat § 12- 245-202(3.5). The Tenth Circuit upheld this ban as a regulation of Chiles’s conduct, not speech. In doing so, the court deepened a circuit split between the Eleventh and Third Circuits, which do not treat counseling conversations as conduct, and the Ninth Circuit, which does.”

So yeah, it’s “muh freedoms” are more important than your conversion therapy ban.

In a landmark policy win for MAGA-QAnon freaks, Utah Governor Spencer Cox on Sunday said he’ll sign a bill to ban water fluoridation in the Green Jello State, the Wall Street Journal reports.

“It’s got to be a really high bar for me if we’re going to require people to be medicated by their government,” said Cox in an interview with ABC4 Utah. “It’s not a bill I felt strongly about; it’s not a bill I care that much about, but it’s a bill I will sign.” Cox added that half the counties in the state don’t fluoridate water supplies and claimed that dentists told him they don’t see big differences.

The American Dental Association urged Cox to veto the bill, writing it would end “one of the most trusted and tested public health strategies in the arsenal of preventive medicine.”

Dem Senators Andy Kim and Tammy Duckworth will on Monday introduce the Protect Veteran Jobs Act, forcing the Trump Regime to reinstate every US military veteran who has been DOGEd needlessly over the past few weeks and also require a quarterly summary on the number of vets removed from the federal workforce – and the justification for their firing, ABC News reports.

“Veterans who choose to continue their service to our country in the federal workforce deserve our utmost gratitude, but instead this Administration has kicked thousands of our heroes to the curb and left them without a paycheck,” Duckworth, a disabled combat veteran, said in a statement. “The message of our bill is simple: Give our heroes their jobs back. If Republicans really care about our Veterans, they should stop enabling Trump and Musk’s chaos and support our legislation.”

Hard to call this simply a “messaging bill” when there’s a not-completely-insignificant chance it could pass. If it does, great, if not then the Republican excuse for blocking it ought to be interesting, to say the least. Ted Cruz is always good for some speciously doctrinaire and/or technocratic horseshit but this is probably going to be a tough one for him to conjure up. Maybe more likely is a “poison pill” rider like abolishing the Department of Education or putting Trump on the $100 bill.

“As I made clear during my Joint Address to Congress, the United States strongly supports the people of Greenland’s right to determine their own future. We will continue to KEEP YOU SAFE, as we have since World War II. We are ready to INVEST BILLIONS OF DOLLARS to create new jobs and MAKE YOU RICH – And, if you so choose, we welcome you to be a part of the Greatest Nation anywhere in the World, the United States of America!” posted convicted felon President Trump on Sunday night, remembering he was supposed to be threatening the vast, icy island territory after the issue tailed off last month and he began threatening to annex Gaza instead.

In a series of since-deleted tweets dug up by CNN’s KFile, far right shitbag influencer-turned-Acting Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy Darren Beattie on January 7, 2021 all but outright called his now-boss Secretary of State Marco Rubio a homosexual, writing “Forget Wainwright park, forget the foam, forget the war promotion and the neocon sugar daddies, forget the low IQ, forget the 2016 primary, Rubio is TOUGH ON CHINA (and good for military industrial complex) So be a good DOG and vote for him!!!” with “Wainwright Park” code for some old curfew violation from when Rubio was a teenager and “the foam” alluding to foam parties at LGBTQ nightclubs.

Then, in a less-inscrutably-coded tweet, Beattie followed up with “What happens in the Cabana stays in the Cabana #Rubio.” Other trashed tweets included “If a bunch of DC wonks try to reinvent Marco Rubio as a nationalist, but a ‘respectable’ one who promises tax credits to BLM supporters and is ‘TOUGH ON CHINA’ will you be a good dog and vote for him?” and “I bet Rubio still thinks Assad gassed his own people.” So they’re probably getting along great at work.

“Michigan autoworker Joseph Knowles, a guest at President Donald Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress, explained why he ‘made a damn good choice’ switching from being a lifelong Democrat to a Republican. During Trump’s address on Tuesday, when he honored a 13-year-old brain cancer survivor and the mother of a 12-year-old girl who was murdered, allegedly by illegal migrants, most Democrats remained seated. Some protested the address by holding signs that read ‘FALSE,’ ‘NO king!’ and ‘MUSK STEALS,'” says the lede to a Fox News story printed early Saturday morning, itself just a recap of an on-air segment from Wednesday after Trump’s stupid speech.

“I’m very disappointed in the Democrats on how they handled things,” Knowles told two Caucasian Fox News anchors in the middle of the afternoon. “And you know what? I feel like I made a damn good choice of not voting for them anymore, and I’m very proud of how Donald Trump handled it.”

Moving on from complaining about Dems’ conduct at the speech, he then ripped into the party overall. “They said their agenda was for the working people, but that’s not the case,” said literally every fucking Fox News guest billed as a “former Democrat” over the last decade Knowles. “They’re out-of-touch, and I can no longer support an organization or a political party like that.”

It might’ve been around this point, or maybe when Knowles said “I got very good hope for the Republican Party. I mean, more and more people are seeing the true colors of the Democrats. And it took me, I’m sorry, 20 years to see that, and I woke up. I’m very confident the American people will wake up too,” that a reader might begin to perceive something about this interview. Not just that Knowles’s lines were scripted, because you’d have to be pretty fucking stupid not to have picked that up right away, but that they were scripted with a specific intent. A very specific intent.

Acting on orders directly from the White House, ICE agents on Saturday detained Columbia grad student Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian-born Algerian citizen green card holder, who had acted as a negotiator during last year’s protests at the Ivy League college’s NYC campus, Drop Site reports.

Khalil had last week participated in a sit-in at Milstein Library at Barnard, a college within a college at Columbia, protesting the recent expulsion of three Barnard students over pro-Palestine activism, at which the NYPD arrested nine. Khalil was not among those cuffed, but several MAGA and far right pro-Israel Twitter accounts over the previous few days had been tagging convicted felon President Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Attorney General Pam Bondi, and dog murderer Kristi Noem in posts identifying Khalil as a protestor. Then on Saturday night, two ICE agents approached Khalil as he was headed into his campus residence with his wife, who is eight months pregnant.

A statement by the pro-Palestine group Writers Against the War on Gaza (WAWOG) stated that Khalil was told his (non-existent) student visa was revoked “despite the fact that he has a green card, not a visa, and is a lawful permanent resident” and “abducted and detained without the physical demonstration of a warrant or officially filed charges,” with an ICE database apparently listing Khalil as being held at an ICE detention center in New Jersey under God knows what conditions.

Needless to say this is extremely fucked up and dark. As tempting as it might be to revel at the misfortune at another “Genocide Joe” dead-ender getting theirs (and there’s no info on how deep Khalil was into that shit), just keep in mind that next time it might be a Ukrainian green card holder.

As early practitioners of siege warfare in the late Middle Ages learned during the first few times they utilized rudimentary artillery against their foes, one need check wind conditions and correct accordingly to make good on their intended target. Failing to do so typically meant no worse than a perfectly good cannonball landing in the mud behind the castle it was supposed to strike, though there were no doubt more than a few medieval warlords who were big on punishing waste, fraud, and abuse by their troops and were happy to make examples of incompetent cannoniers.

It’s this kind of history that North Texas human cannonball Chachi “The Rocketman” Valencia may do well to contemplate as he convalesces from a similar fuckup he brought upon himself last Sunday at the Riverside County Fair and National Date Festival in Indio, California. “I know the mistake that we made,” Valencia told KHOU from the San Diego-area home of a relative where he’s currently laid up.

“And it was a judgement call probably,” Valenica continued as he described the chain of events leading to he and his wife/assistant deciding it was go time. “So when I got shot, the wind completely caught me,” sending him into and then over the net around his target and onto the adjacent pavement. “A broken wrist. I got a few broken ribs. And I have a bleeding liver,” he said.

“If it wasn’t for my wife who is here, I don’t know how I could survive really. It’s just so hard to move around, you know,” Valencia said, adding he’s going to be much more careful next time. Whenever he’s healthy enough to be shot out of a cannon again. “You know, this is what I do for a living. It’s not like I can stop this tomorrow and get some other job or something. This is what I do.” Plus he can’t let the fans down. “They’re so excited to see you get shot out of a cannon. Hard to say no, you know what I mean? In the future I just need to be, be a little bit more firm” about waiting out the wind.

MAGA Michigan state Representative Josh Schriver, a pro-child marriage far right racist zoomer constantly in trouble with his superiors, is taking things a few steps further than the intrusive online age verification laws imposed by Republicans in other states and working hard on slapping together a bill outlawing pornography in the Great Lakes State, the Detroit News reports.

Schriver’s still got some kinks (no pun intended) to work out of the plan, namely how such a prohibition would actually work in practice. “Is that something you guys are equipped to enforce?” Schriver asked Michigan State Police Detective Lt Jeff Hoffman during a Tuesday hearing of the House Communications and Technology Committee. Hoffamn said state troopers do “not enforce the internet,” but MSP’s involvement “would depend on the bill.” So no, Hoffman was not looking forward to having to stop vehicles with out-of-state plates to see if issues of “Buttlovers XXL” or DVDs titled “Karate Fist Fest 9” are stashed in the trunk, to say nothing of the internet and VPNs.

Asked how it’d work, Schriver said simply “In the same way child porn is rightfully illegal, all porn shall be so.” Luckily for Michigan masturbators this has approximately zero chance of passing.

In a no doubt heavily edited interview with batshit idiot Maria Bartiromo aired Sunday, convicted felon President Trump said he would “hate to predict something like that” when asked if there could be a recession this year, downplayed the beating investors are taking in the stock market, and more or less told CEOs to go fuck themselves if they want economic stability. So yeah, it was a pretty typical performance by the president who told his fans “the only reason the stock market is doing good, doing OK, but it’s doing actually good, because everyone thinks that Trump is going to win the presidency,” three days before the election and whose whose voters said shit like they have “no doubt he will make the US better than where we are financially.”

New York Governor Kathy Hochul on Saturday declared a state of emergency in effect for eastern Long Island’s Suffolk County as a number of wind-driven brushfires broke out in the wooded areas north of Westhampton, leading to the evacuation of an Air National Guard post, WCBS reports.

The largest fire was about 80 percent contained on Sunday morning, but the dry, windy conditions continue to pose an elevated risk. “We have about 600 acres burned. Two commercial buildings that suffered damage. There are no residential buildings that have been damaged or threatened at this time, and there are no evacuations at this moment, and we hope it to stay that way. But as the day goes on, we’ll be able to proceed from there,” said Westhampton Beach Fire official Lewis Scott.

Secret Service agents on Saturday shot a libtard who was brandishing a firearm near the White House early Sunday morning, NPR reports. The libtard, believed to have traveled from Indiana, was flagged as a security risk to the Orange God Emperor prior to the incident.

“On Sunday March 9th, an adult male was shot by US Secret Service personnel following an armed confrontation with law enforcement in Washington DC. Earlier on Saturday, local police shared information about a suicidal individual who may be traveling to Washington DC from Indiana.”

“Around midnight, members of the Secret Service encountered the individual’s parked vehicle near 17th and F Streets, NW. They also saw an individual on foot matching the description nearby,” said the Secret Service in a statement. As officers approached, the individual brandished a firearm and an armed confrontation ensued, during which shots were fired by our personnel. The suspect was transported to an area hospital and his condition is unknown. There were no reported injuries to Secret Service personnel. The incident is under investigation by the Metropolitan Police Department Internal Affairs Division’s Force Investigations Team, which investigates all law enforcement officer involved shootings in the District of Columbia,” said the Secret Service in a statement.

“ELON AND MARCO HAVE A GREAT RELATIONSHIP. ANY STATEMENT OTHER THAN THAT IS FAKE NEWS!!! DJT,” posted you know who on Saturday evening, apropos of not very much.

Calling the DOGE shitshow ruining people’s lives capriciously “exciting,” “exhilarating,” and “the greatest thing that’s happened since I’ve been in Congress,” in an interview with the Associated Press, National Republican Campaign Committee chair Congressman Richard Hudson was then asked “Do you feel any blowback back home from people losing their jobs, cuts to veterans?”

Hudosn’s answer: “(Musk) did say that the the the firings at the VA (Department of Veterans Affairs) were a mistake done by that agency, by the VA. He said mistakes were made by bureaucrats.”

It gets even better. Asked “what’s your message to the fired federal workers, what do you say to them?” Hudson: “Hang tight.” AP: “What does that mean?” Hudson: “I mean there may be some mistakes that are being corrected.” AP: “Do you think that will be an OK message for other GOP lawmakers to use?” (Keep in mind Hudson is responsible for defending and expanding the House Republican majority. He was in charge last year when it shrank by two seats). Hudson: “The American people are sick of the swamp. They’re sick of waste, fraud and abuse. For the first time. ever, we finally have the tools to affect it. So I think the voters are going to reward us.”

Hudson closed out the interview by boasting that Democrats eyeing a 2026 wave are “digging their own grave politically. We’re on the side of the angels. We’re doing what the American people asked us to do, what 77 million people voted for Donald Trump to get. We’re going to pick up seats.”

Not sure what to add here. It’s one thing to project confidence when things are obviously starting to go south for one’s team, it’s another to project hubris a minute after feigning sympathy for those fucked over needlessly but then saying it was also “exhilarating.” Also pretty telling that Hudson did not go into any detail about asking Musk to overrule these nameless “bureaucrats” at the VA.

Among several articles linked in Truth Social posts by convicted felon President Trump’s account on Saturday morning was a February 17th piece in the Daily Caller by small-faced propagandist Charlie Kirk headlined “Shut Up About Egg Prices – Trump Is Saving Consumers Millions,” in which Kirk wrote “Democrats are positively giddy about the price of eggs. A dozen currently costs around $7, up from just $2 in October. For liberals who resent President Trump’s overwhelming electoral mandate, that’s sufficient proof that these backward, ‘extreme’ MAGA Republicans didn’t know what they were voting for,” and that it’s actually Joe Biden’s fault, libs, and blah blah blah.

It’s possible Trump himself did not personally post the link to the article as previous patterns and reporting seem to indicate that when there are no poorly spelled and unhinged text-based “Truths” then it’s one of his minions who has access to the account. That does not make this a good look and it goes without saying Biden would’ve been impeached within hours if he’d done the same.

The media’s not terribly likely to make this a thing given all the other shit the fat bastard is “flooding the zone” with these days, but they might do well to ask about it at the next press conference.

"It negates the whole idea of sitting down for a family game night": @LaraLeaTrump reacts to the new Monopoly game that replaces cash with an app on your phone pic.twitter.com/lMJWZ4TKNd

— FOX & Friends (@foxandfriends) March 8, 2025

“On March 4th, 2025, a Lee County Sheriff Deputy went to the residence of 2219 Valley Road to serve an active order for arrest on Jessica Nicole Jones (37). Upon pulling into the driveway, the Deputy observed Jones lose no time as she dashed into the residence. Samantha Michelle Goins (an occupant in the residence) falsely told the Deputy that Jones was not inside of the residence and attempted to keep Deputies from entering. Deputies entered the residence and noticed a refrigerator had been moved to obstruct a door that led to the garage area. Once inside of the garage, Deputies located Jones hiding in a pile of clothes and placed her into custody.”

“Jones was taken before a Lee County Magistrate and issued no bond. Deputies also placed Goins (32) into custody for resist, delay, obstruct, and harboring a fugitive. Goins was taken before a Lee County Magistrate and given a $2500.00 bond,” says a Facebook post from the Lee County, North Carolina Sheriff’s Office. It’s not clear what crime Jones was wanted for. Probably something drugs.