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Sunday, March 01, 2026

Donald Trump on Saturday appeared to link the massive attack he ordered against Iran to his persistent claims about his 2020 election loss to former president Joe Biden, in a social media post about allegations that Tehran's government interfered in the US president elections.

"Iran tried to interfere in 2020, 2024 elections to stop Trump," his Truth Social post said, "and now faces renewed war with United States".


A deposit of gold ore discovered in China isn't just giant. It's supergiant. So much so, in fact, that Chinese experts claim it could be the largest deposit of any precious metal -- not just gold ore -- in existence today.


America is strong because its leaders are strong. President Trump proves that every day. Naturally, his son Barron is more than ready to defend the country his father so boldly commands. Service is honor. Strength is inherited. Dog Bless Barron.


ERBIL, Kurdistan Region of Iraq " US President Donald Trump said on Sunday that Iran's new leadership "want to talk" and he has agreed, a day after US and Israeli strikes on Iran that killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.


"They want to talk, and I have agreed to talk, so I will be talking to them. They should have done it sooner. They should have given what was very practical and easy to do sooner. They waited too long," Trump told The Atlantic's Michael Scherer in a phone call.


Three people were killed and at least others 14 others injured in a mass shooting overnight in Austin, Texas. Austin police responded to reports of gunfire at Buford's bar in downtown Austin just before 2:00 a.m. early Sunday morning, with officers firing back and killing the suspected shooter, KVUE, KXAN and KUT 90.5 reported.


Who Is Leading Iran?

On Sunday, Iran formed a council to assume leadership duties and govern the country as outlined in the country's constitution, the Associated Press reported.


U.S. troops killed as Iran retaliates with strikes after death of supreme leader Three U.S. service members have been killed in action and five others were seriously wounded, the U.S. military said in a statement Sunday. Read more


Lifted from social media (yeah, I know...)

Just received this from a friend in Qatar. Inside info on the negotiations. Really worthwhile read. 47 could have bragged that he negotiated a tougher deal than Obama, but the pace wasn't good enough to redirect from Epstein Fury. Israel's code name is equally dumb--Roaring Lion. Little boys should be locked away in their sandboxes where they can do school children no harm:
"I am a diplomatic aide in the Sultanate of Oman's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. My job is logistics. When two countries that cannot speak to each other need to speak to each other, I book the rooms. I prepare the briefing materials. I make sure the water glasses are the right distance apart. You would be surprised how much of diplomacy is water glasses. Too close and it feels informal. Too far and it feels like a tribunal. I have a chart. (con't)


In newly revealed text messages between Jeffrey Epstein and Steve Bannon, they discussed how "psychotic" Trump is and if cornered he would launch a war as a diversion.

They also talked about a hypothetical scenario for Trump.

Epstein told Bannon that, "Trump would not blink twice at encouraging an attack on us, so he can leap to the country's defense. That's his mindset: If I go down, I'm taking everyone with me."


One year out of college and with no apparent national security expertise, Thomas Fugate is the Department of Homeland Security official tasked with overseeing the government's main hub for combating violent extremism.


At least nine people were killed and about two dozen were wounded in violent clashes with police and paramilitary forces Sunday after hundreds of protesters stormed the U.S. Consulate in the Pakistani port city of Karachi, authorities said. The violence came hours after the United States and Israel attacked Iran and killed the country's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Police and officials at a hospital in Karachi said at least 25 people were also wounded in the clashes and some of them were in critical condition. Summaiya Syed Tariq, a police surgeon at the city's main government hospital, confirmed that initially six bodies and multiple injured people were brought to the facility. However, she said the death toll rose to nine after three critically wounded died.


President Donald Trump may have been led to strike Iran alongside Israel by an "unusual pair" of allies, a new report revealed. The Washington Post reported on Saturday, citing four sources familiar with the matter, that Trump's decision to conduct a series of strikes against Iran's ballistic and nuclear missile facilities came at the behest of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who had been lobbying for the strikes for weeks, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. "The combined effort helped lead Trump to order a massive aerial campaign against Iran's leadership and military, which in its initial hour led to the death of [Ayatollah Ali] Khamenei and several other senior Iranian officials," according to the report.


The surprise overnight bombing attack in Iran was blasted Saturday by both sides of the political spectrum, including MAGA stalwarts Tucker Carlson, Nick Fuentes and Marjorie Taylor Greene, with the former Georgia congresswoman calling it the work of "sick f"king liars." The ongoing attack comes just days after Donald Trump announced his so-called Board of Peace, and marks the United States' first new full-scale military conflict in either of his terms after years of boasting that he is an ender of wars. Both Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have made it clear the operation is not limited in scope. "The Trump admin actually asked in a poll how many casualties voters were willing to accept in a war with Iran??? How about ZERO you bunch of sick f"king liars. We voted for America First and ZERO wars," Taylor Greene wrote in one post.


All unaccompanied immigrant children who are pregnant, many by rape, are being moved to a single facility in Texas in order to avoid providing abortion services in a significant human rights violation, critics say. As detainees are frequently moved across state lines quickly, often to red states like Texas, pregnant people are facing challenges accessing reproductive health care in detention centers. Unaccompanied minors who lack immigration documentation are at high risk for trafficking and other forms of harm, so they fall under the care of the office of refugee resettlement (ORR), which previously had facilities across the country capable of caring for children under the age of 18 who are pregnant. Since July, more than a dozen pregnant children have been moved to a single facility in the small town of San Benito, along the south Texas border.In Texas, abortion is banned in nearly all circumstances, including rape and incest.


The passenger in the car when a Texas driver was fatally shot last year by a federal immigration agent and disputed the government's version of events died last Saturday in a fiery car crash in San Antonio.


First Donald Trump and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth declared America a Christian republic at the National Prayer Breakfast in early February, then USSECSTATE Marco Rubio declared the country a white European Christian republic.

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