NicolieFL @flnicolie.bsky.social

Northern CA native. Book lover. Wanderer. Mother.

Four-byline alert: 🚨

“.. A broker for Pete Hegseth, the US defence secretary, attempted to make a big investment in major defence companies in the weeks leading up to the US-Israeli attack on Iran, according to three people familiar with the matter.”

www.ft.com/content/744ea8dc-6d93-4fe9-a5e3-36de4f5d06db?syn-25a6b1a6=1
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🚨 Breaking: House Natural Resources SHUT DOWN over Don Jr. Subpoena! 🚨

We know Trump and his family are lining their own pockets with corrupt government deals. But, when we tried to subpoena his Jr. to answer questions today, Republicans shut it down. ⬇️
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Houston Chronicle @houstonchronicle.com
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As President Trump rejects a deal to fund TSA and fix airport lines, Republican lawmakers should simply pass a bill and force him to veto it. bit.ly/4t5rDbT
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New from me for @latimes.com: Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco, who is a leading Republican candidate for governor, has seized more than 650,000 ballots from last November’s election and is investigating whether they were fraudulently counted. www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-03-21/riverside-county-sheriff-chad-bianco-seizes-more-than-half-million-ballots
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WHOA. Lewandowski is accused of demanding fees from a private prison company to steer them ICE contracts, at a time when he was widely known to be running DHS on Kristi Noem's behalf, then punishing them when they didn't pay up.

Congress should conduct a full and bipartisan investigation into this.
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Jeff Stein @jeffstein.bsky.social
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SCOOP: The Pentagon asked the White House today for more than *$200 billion* for Iran war supplemental, sources say

Some in WH think Congress won't support b/c it's so big

Will tee up giant battle in Congress

My last story for WaPo:

www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/03/18/iran-cost-budget-pentagon/
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What is going on with this? @the-independent.com
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404 Media @404media.co
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A DOGE staffer assigned to the National Endowment for the Humanities to flag grants for "DEI" tries to explain what "DEI" is. This deposition is part of a lawsuit by the @acls1919.bsky.social, @historians.org and @modernlanguage.bsky.social.
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404 Media @404media.co
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This is Nathan Cavanaugh, another DOGE staffer explaining how he flagged grants at NEH for "DEI" which would be reviewed for termination. 404 Media has reviewed hours of this footage and we'll have more soon.

Part of a lawsuit by @acls1919.bsky.social, @modernlanguage.bsky.social + @historians.org
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social
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✋ Former USG war crimes lawyer here.

Apropos of SecDef's remarks this morning:

Denial of quarter—even the declaration of no quarter—is a war crime.

And recognized as such by the US Government.

From DoD's Manual for Military Commissions.
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Sarah O @erniebufflo.bsky.social
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Older couple came in the bar tonight. They had some drinks, had some oysters, decided “what the hell, we’ve never had caviar before,” seemed to have a nice time. As they left, I was folding napkins in our lobby. Wife walked ahead, husband stopped to chat.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com
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INBOX: @couriernewsroom.bsky.social is circulating a video of #TX23 Republican nominee Brandon Herrera showing off his "1939 edition" copy of Mein Kampf.
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social
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Reuters Exclusive

"U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school."

"The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the ​Middle East."
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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social
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NEW: A Democratic candidate in the primary in Eric Swalwell’s district raised $2M in the first two weeks of her campaign from unknown donors.

Rakhi Israni’s personal political donations have gone to over 10 MAGA and far right candidates including Laura Loomer.

theintercept.com/2026/03/04/california-eric-swalwell-rakhi-israni-donations-maga-gop/
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BREAKING: Credible whistleblower discloses that FBI forensic experts were ordered to stand down from processing the scene where Renee Good was killed, because Kash Patel did not want Good referenced as a “victim” in the warrant.
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if you believe in any form of free enterprise at all, the idea that the Pentagon can not only cut off your contract but designate you a supply chain risk and prevent other companies from buying from you just because you won't build killbots for the government should be terrifying
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Photo released last month by the Justice Dept as part of Epstein files that showed Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick with Epstein on Epstein's island in the Caribbean was removed from the Justice Dept website before being restored Thursday

www.cbsnews.com/news/photo-of-howard-lutnick-on-epsteins-island-was-removed-from-justice-department-files/
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Columbia student detained today is a day-in-the-life influencer with 100K followers. Her stories right now go from her studying for a Genetics exam in a nicely edited "ten hour study with me at Columbia" video, to a photo of her knees with the caption "dhs illegally arrested me please help"
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The Constitution clearly gives Congress the power to spend taxpayer funds, and no law allows the president to halt if he feels some US states aren’t being “good stewards” of the money.

In case there’s any confusion on this, the Impoundment Control Act forbids it.

Taxation without representation.
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A whistleblower just disclosed that FBI experts were delayed by AT LEAST A DAY in deploying to investigate Charlie Kirk’s assassination.

Why?

There was an FBI plane and pilot shortage… because Kash Patel was using them for personal flights.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov
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Donald Trump has enough money to:

- Renovate his $400M Qatari jet
- Give Amazon a $7.8 billion tax break
- Send Kash Patel to party at the Olympics

But YOUR refund on his illegal tariffs?

Trump says eat dirt.
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The Upshot @upshot.nytimes.com
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The latest polling shows Trump falling consistently below 40 percent approval in high-quality surveys. Gift link:

www.nytimes.com/interactive/polls/donald-trump-approval-rating-polls.html?unlocked_article_code=1.J1A.I389.aNFS2MH8MJ9m&smid=url-share
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Last weekend.
This weekend.

@washingtonpost.com
www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/02/21/trump-hegseth-budget-military/
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com
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Read this sentence slowly:

“Gov. Gavin Newsom, crypto executives and business leaders are ramping up efforts this week to stop the proposed wealth tax...”

gift link:

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/us/california-wealth-tax-opposition-bernie-sanders.html?unlocked_article_code=1.M1A.qU51.qYnluD6zcpxG&smid=url-share
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ACLU @aclu.org
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BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide.

This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.
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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social
1mo
Key excerpt from today's hard-hitting column on the RFK Jr./Kid Rock erotic workout video:

(Full column here, if you dare: www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2026/02/18/rfk-jr-kid-rock-video-workout-milk/88723505007/)
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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social
1mo
"You know who is not one of my guests tonight: Texas State Representative James Talarico. He was supposed to be here, but we were told in no uncertain terms by our network’s lawyers, who called us directly, that we could not have him on the broadcast."

www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/stephen-colbert-cbs-blocked-interview-fcc-equal-time-1236507471/
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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social
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So when thousands of women (and children) were being duplicated--including in non-consensual AI porn--it was no big deal. But it took "only a 15-sec clip" of these two famous white men to draw outrage and fear. Gotcha. Cool cool.
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davidrlurie @davidrlurie.com
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This scheme to make passports harder to obtain comes as Republicans are trying to make passports one of the few documents that can be presented in order to be permitted to register to vote.
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