“Pahlavi allies have crafted a hefty plan for a post-Islamist Iran, called the Iran Prosperity Project. It envisions an emergency phase in the wake of the regime’s fall during which Pahlavi and his aides say keeping the country stable will be crucial. But that emergency phase plan also gives the leader of the transition — presumably Pahlavi — significant power that makes some activists nervous.
While Pahlavi has long called for a secular democracy in Iran, he has also said Iranians should decide what type of government they want. The Prosperity Project envisions Iranians eventually having a choice between a “democratic monarchy” and a “democratic republic.””
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2026/02/24/reza-pahlavi-iran-trump-00793877?ICID=ref_fark
The Conservative Supreme Court justices can’t agree on what the major questions doctrine is and what exceptions to it should be.
The Supreme Court made a major change in how lower courts operate by limiting nationwide injunctions. Such injunctions could have prevented the US government from illegally taking all this money in the first place and avoided the issue of if, when, and to whom, the tariff money is paid back. This policy allows the president to act illegally for months or years until the Supreme Court finally resolves a case.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BQsRxvkcZI
Congress should codify Trump’s trade agreements so Trump can’t keep going back on them and creating more uncertainty in the economy.
Trump still has a variety of tariff powers, but they are more limited and require more hoops to jump through.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krb6SQKRdeg
F-22 Raptor getting some upgrades to help the US maintain air-to-air superiority while we wait for the next air-to-air fighter.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8N_0L9uASjA
So what is a balance of payments deficit, anyway?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VY6dZSseUY0
Early on when Covid was spreading in Asia, it was clear that hospitals that wore masks had lower spread of Covid than those that did not.
Although older people were much more likely to die from Covid, lots of middle-aged people died too.
Operation Warp Speed saved millions of lives.
USAID saved millions of lives a year. Donald Trump and Elon Musk destroyed it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8p0c_TOI74
A big Mexican Cartel Boss was killed by Mexico with intel help from the US. Afterwards, violence escalated around Mexico. The cartel’s forces are almost as well equipped and trained as the Mexican military. The cartel is attacking the Mexican military around the country and creating chaos.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwE4nGCWxjU
“As in the Good case, experts in police training and tactics questioned why a federal officer apparently positioned himself in front of Martinez’s vehicle.
“You don’t stand in front of the car, you don’t put yourself in harm’s way,” said Geoffrey Alpert, a police use-of-force expert at the University of South Carolina. He added that there’s never a scenario where it’s justified, “because you don’t know whether this person is going to flee, and if he flees, you could be dead.””
https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/20/us/texas-ruben-ray-martinez-shooting
In Trump’s second term, his administration sees their job as pleasing Trump, not making sure he has the best true information. Trump doesn’t really care about the truth. People in the administration try to get in Trump’s good graces by publicly lying for him. Sticking their necks out and lying and yelling on his behalf, is a display of loyalty.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjcQdFKOzFk
Xenniels grew up at least partially in an analog world, but were still in their formative years when we went mostly digital. They didn’t grow up in one world or the other. They grew up in both worlds and during the transition. They also got hit early with the Great Recession.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pqs0PokPDqo