03/04/26
Good morning! It’s Wednesday, March 4th.
Nothing grammar day!
Here’s what you can’t tell… for a joke, I wrote the wrong its. CLASSIC comedy.
And now, the news.
Update: Iran
Starting of course… with the war!
First, the Pentagon has released the names of four of the six service members who were killed on Sunday in a drone attack in Kuwait.
The release of the names comes on the heels of Sen. Matt Hawley’s comments after a closed-door briefing. His comments? “Personally, I would hope for a very swift conclusion, but I don’t know if that’s going to be the case.”
Hey, that doesn’t feel super positive!
He added: “The briefers emphasized this, it’s really almost changing by the hour.”
Is this… I know this can’t be right, but I’m starting to think we started this war of choice by not preparing for it first!
Noem Testifies Before Congress
-via CBS News
Speaking of making choices without any forethought…
Kristi Noem went before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday with Democrats, and even two Republicans!, criticizing the Homeland Security Secretary for… well it says here – all of it. Her general everything.
For example, Dems focused on her response to the deaths of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. When those deaths occurred, Noem said they’d engaged in acts of domestic terrorism. On Tuesday, she defended those comments by saying she was just going with the info she was given BUT, when presented with the opportunity to do so, she never retracted her comments.
Republican Senator Thom Tillis brought up the fact that she killed her own dog. Yeah… he went there! Also, I forgot she killed a goat.
He started with: "You decided to kill that dog because you had not invested the appropriate time and training, and then you have the audacity to go into a book and say it's a leadership lesson about tough choices. … And you killed a goat because you said it was behaving badly. You are a farmer. You don't castrate a goat, they behave badly. You should have probably done that before."
And honestly, I think just reminding people that she killed her own dog and was so okay with it that she wrote about it in her book was a solid move. But he tied it to immigration by saying: "My point is, those are bad decisions made in the heat of the moment. Not unlike what happened up in Minneapolis. We're an exceptional nation, and one of the reasons we're exceptional is we expect exceptional leadership. And you've demonstrated anything but that."
Oh daaaaaaaanggggggggg
Pretty cool
Corey Booker said she was, “going into our schools, you're terrorizing our children, you're detaining children, you're arresting Americans, you're breaking into our homes, you're terrorizing our streets, you're violating our rights to peacefully protest again and again and again.”
And her response was, “None of that is true.”
That’s a lie.
But my favorite part of their exchange is what he said: "You should step down from your position. If you don't, you should be removed by this president, and if not, Congress should impeach you."
And she just said: “I appreciate the encouragement.”
And I know she thought she ate with it.
She in fact, did not.
The government is still in a partial shutdown, bt-dubs. And as a reminder, it’s over the funding of DHS.
Colin Gray Found Guilty
-via AlJazeera
Colin Gray, the father of Colt Gray who was 14-years-old when he shot and killed two students and two teachers and injured 14 others at his high school.
Prosecutors in the case argue that Colin enabled the shooting by allowing Colt access to the gun and ammunition. He’s been charged with two counts of second-degree murder for the killing of the kids, two counts of involuntary manslaughter for the killings of the two teachers, as well as guilty of reckless conduct.
His sentencing will come at a later date but he faces life in prison.
Election Night
-via NY Times
And of course – Tuesday was election night in a few states.
Let’s take a look at the biggest races of the night.
These were primaries.
In North Carolina, Democrat and former governor Roy Cooper dominated his primary. He will face the former chair of the RNC Michael Whatley in November.
In Arkansas, Senator Cotton found himself in a rare position – having competition. Normally he doesn’t. He did this time. Unfortunately, that didn’t really mean anything. He won his primary and will face democrat Hallie Shoffner in November.
For governor of the state, Sarah Huckabee Sanders ran unopposed and will face state Senator Fred Love in November.
But of course, all eyes were on Texas – for both the Republican and the Democratic primaries.
On the Republican side: Senator John Cornyn will face Ken Paxton in a runoff! You, of course, remember Ken Paxton as the attorney general who’s got himself so many scandals that his scandals have scandals.
And still, somehow, Texas was like – we can’t choose! To be fair… they’re both pretty bad!
So they’ll head to a runoff.
As for the Dems… as of this recording, there is no official call in the race but James Talarico will take home the W. James Talarico was running away with the entire thing until Jasmine Crockett entered the race and gave him quite the competition. In the end it wasn’t enough and Talarico took home the win.
I am personally disappointed but I will save all those reasons for later because now, right now, the most important thing is turning Texas blue. Texas is a purple state! It’s gerrymandered and its horrific voter suppression leaves it with low voter turnout, but at the end of the day… that there is a purple state!
It’s all about turnout.
So let’s do this.
I should note that Texas did run into some issues (in Texas?? That’s crazy!) where some voters were turned away after they showed up to places they couldn’t vote. Because of this confusion, democrats filed to have their hours extended two hours. Why just democrats. Because the Republicans weren’t smart enough to call and demand the same thing. That’s it. They could have done the same thing… they chose not to.
It was going swimmingly until the State Supreme Court stayed the order, saying that anyone who wasn’t in line by 7 PM should be “separated.”
What it doesn’t say, however, is what will happen to the ballots cast in that little space between 7 PM and when the state Supreme Court got involved. So we’ll see what happens
And that’s it. That’s the news.
I’m proud of voters.
You know this! You know I’m proud of voters.
Also grammar. And because there ain’t not much better than those things there… I’m proud of you.