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What Happened Today – March 4, 2026

Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino with BORTAC officers at a Minneapolis gas station, January 2026

Border Patrol Minneapolis Commander Greg Bovino led BORTAC officers through a Minneapolis gas station operation in January, just weeks before DHS opened an antisemitism investigation against him. (Photo by Chad Davis, CC BY 4.0)

This time America is fighting the holy war. Animus toward Iran runs back to the 1979 hostage crisis and the events that shaped a generation of neocons and worse. Now those grievances have an outlet, and the people running this war have stopped pretending it isn’t personal. Asked to rate the war on a scale … Read more

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