BREAKING: In a wild New Jersey hearing, a judge fiercely questioned a prosecutor about whether Alina Habba still had some operating role in the U.S. attorney's office, ejected the office's head of appeals from court and ordered its 3 leaders to testify nytimes.com/2026/03/17/nyr…

The most definitive White House statement purporting to justify the Israel-US war on Iran was its March 2, 2026 statement entitled "The Iranian Regime's Decades of Terrorism against American Citizens". whitehouse.gov/articles/2026/… After a brief editorial opening, the article lists

The “genius girl” who previously worked at DeepSeek and was recruited by Lei Jun for Xiaomi AI is now on Twitter as well. It feels like more Chinese AI talent is realizing they can come here, speak for themselves, and build influence directly. I’m all for the added interaction

SK Hynix plans to tap TSMC for 3nm production of its base-die chip for next-gen HBM4E memory chips to gain a performance edge over Samsung, media report, adding SK Hynix will use its 10nm-class 6th generation (1c) DRAM production process for the DRAM stacked in HBM4E. Its HBM4

Yowsa. Trump has destroyed law and order in New Jersey. What complete chaos! No one is in charge of the U.S. Attorney's office, so trials can't proceed.

#Micron’s $5 billion #CapEx hike for FY2026 (totaling over $25 billion) has raised market concerns regarding excessive capital spending. The primary driver of this expanded CapEx is the acquisition of #PSMC’s Tongluo facility, which is slated to begin contributing to production

.Paul Krugman best work imo was identifying the mid-1990s asian economic miracle as a a bubble, mainly because Total Factor Productivity was so poor - the miracle was that investors believed the hype and gave them tons of capital to invest. Does the same apply now? H/T (((The Daily Shot)))

This is wild. The The White House plagiarized its reason for launching a war on Iran from FDD, a cutout of Israeli intelligence. Side-by-side screenshots in the 🧵

NEW: The GOP sued Fulton County commissioners – even asked a judge to jail them – for refusing to appoint their election board nominees. The nominees are tied to the same network that tried to overturn Trump’s 2020 loss. Today they lost – Fulton elections stay in local hands.

The US government has taken $1B in fees from immigrants & US sponsors for services it has no plans to provide. The government won’t even adjudicate the immigrants' applications and often refuses even to issue denials. cato.org/blog/banned-im…

NEW: The Trump administraiton has lost more than 7,000 immigration detention cases in recent months. Increasingly, DOJ is telling judges they have no argument to present or couldn't get facts from ICE to present in court. A look at this emerging trend. politico.com/news/2026/03/2…

"I was always warning, talking to executives from oil and gas that are partnered with ‌us, talking to the U.S. Secretary of Energy, to warn him of that consequence and that that could be detrimental to us," QatarEnergy CEO Saad al-Kaabi told Reuters. reuters.com/business/energ…

For the record, this answer was to me after I asked him if he had miscalculated the cost of going into Iran…

BREAKING: A federal judge ruled in favor of the New York Times, finding that the Pentagon's press policy violated its First and Fifth Amendment rights, and that of reporter Julian E. Barnes:

BREAKING: Judge voids Pentagon's new press policy that led most outlets to surrender their credentials. In suit brought by NYT, Judge Paul Friedman (Clinton/DC) says policy violates 1st Amendment because it's designed to "weed out disfavored journalists." ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_p…

The ruling uses multiple DoD officials’ statements against them. “The record evidence supports the conclusion that the Policy discriminates not based on political viewpoint but rather based on editorial viewpoint—that is, whether the individual or organization is willing to

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BREAKING - A U.S. federal judge rules against the Pentagon's press policy that revoked our credentials, saying it violates the Constitution. Key quote: "The Court recognizes that national security must be protected, the security of our troops must be protected, and war plans

One of the toxic things about Jeff Hauser is that even though he and I have real policy disagreements, he absolutely refuses to articulate and debate them insisting on arguing *exclusively* through misrepresentation, innuendo, and slander.

JUST IN: Magistrate judge handling church protest case against Don Lemon et al accuses DOJ of an “unacceptable” delay in producing any discovery to defendants. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…