by Saifedean Ammous, The Unz Review: When Israel and the US launched their war on Iran, they claimed it would last a few days. A few days later, they said it would last 3 to 4 weeks. As the fourth week ends, it is a good time to take stock of what has happened and […]

by Bill Bonner, Daily Reckoning: “We negotiate with bombs.” – Pete Hegseth Words are a lot less expensive than bombs. And you don’t have the costs of cleaning up. Which is why thinking, and expressing your thoughts in words — even single syllable words — rather than bombs, is almost always the cheaper and more effective way […]

Former Democratic Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who is considered a potential 2028 presidential nominee, said his party has “lost the plot” on cultural issues with many voters. “We lost the plot,” Emanuel said on “The Fifth Column” podcast. “We as Democrats nationally, from ‘Latinx,’ to defunding the police, to ‘Police organizations are all racist,’ to bringing a set of cultural wars to our schools. We are on the losing side of those cultural wars. Full stop,” he continued. “You are worried about bathroom access and locker room access, why don’t you focus on classroom excellence? You have 50% of our kids not reading at grade level,” he added. “Well, they can just say, ‘We can do both,’” one co-host of the podcast commented. “You’ve proven you can’t, because you’ve permitted a 30-year-low in reading and math scores and nobody seems to be calling the whistle on this. We’ve lost the plot,” Emanuel said. “Because the party got unanchored,” he said. “Every one of our most successful electoral presidents anchored themselves in what I call middle-class values and values that are universal, at least in this country, ascribed to. We went from acceptance to advocacy. Big difference,” he explained. Check it out: Rahm Emanuel on how and why the Democrats have "lost the plot." Our members-only episode with Rahm Emanuel is available now on Substack. pic.twitter.com/5HALlSCBEj — The Fifth Column (@wethefifth) March 31, 2026 Fox News shared further: Emanuel argued there were multiple peak moments in the first 25 years since the millennium, such as the Iraq War, which he said was waged on a lie, the 2008 financial crisis where banks were bailed out, and the COVID-19 pandemic, all of which had one key result. In all those events, he said, the wealthy were able to stay afloat while others paid the price as their world dramatically changed. He said that, while many people simply wish to point the finger at President Donald Trump for bringing more rage to American politics, Trump merely rode the anger that was already there. 'LOST THE PLOT': Former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel torches his own party for losing touch with Americans, saying Democrats are "on the losing side" of culture wars and have "un-anchored" themselves from middle-class values. Emanuel pointed to the transgender athlete issue as an… pic.twitter.com/E9JhvSQG8q — Fox News (@FoxNews) April 2, 2026 Emanuel, who served as White House chief of staff under Barack Obama from 2009 to 2010, could potentially rival other Democratic presidential contenders on social issues. “Electorally I don’t think he’ll be a threat, but he has an ability to shape the race in other ways,” one Democratic adviser to another potential 2028 contender said, according to POLITICO. “He’s good at getting reporters to cover him and he is shameless in a good way: He’s not afraid of putting himself out there,” the adviser added. “He will spice up the race,” another individual commented, the outlet noted. New: @RahmEmanuel, headed to NH and SC this week, is prepping a presidential campaign that’s a rolling rebuke of his own party. Can he really win in 2028? He sees a weak field. “The answer to that is: It’s a jump ball,” he told me. “Even for the frontrunner, it’s a jump ball.”… — Adam Wren (@adamwren) March 29, 2026 POLITICO has more: Not all Democratic operatives hold an Emanuel candidacy in high esteem. Asked what she thinks of an Emanuel campaign, Rebecca Katz, the Democratic strategist who represented Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral campaign, simply said, “I don’t.” But he’s good at making himself hard to ignore. He has released no fewer than eight policy proposals, from a social media ban for children under 16 to a predictive markets ban for federal employees and their family members to age limits on politicians running for office. He has said he would campaign in forgotten parts of the country, and during his recent Michigan trip he demonstrated he’s in his “wearing safety glasses and touching heavy machinery alongside blue-collar workers in a battleground state” era. He also just hit up battleground Wisconsin, and on Monday will visit New Hampshire’s St. Anselm Institute of Politics for the storied Politics and Eggs event before heading to early-primary South Carolina — the surest sign yet he’s looking to be a 2028 contender. Meanwhile, he has established a weekly routine of jetting from a CNN appearance, where he is an on-air contributor, to back home in Chicago, where he cranks out columns for The Wall Street Journal and records a handful of podcasts a week, including one about fly-fishing, his favorite pastime. The notion that he is merely trying to troll the Democratic presidential field and rein them back toward the center has given way to the idea that he is actually serious about running himself. “He is out there throwing ideas out and traveling and being provocative and stirring the pot and moving the debate, and I don’t think it’s a prelude to a podcast,” says David Axelrod, the former senior adviser to President Barack Obama who worked with Emanuel when he was Obama’s chief of staff.

A $6 billion data center was approved by a Missouri city council despite members of the public filling the bleachers of a gym to express their disapproval. In a 6-2 vote, the Festus City Council approved an ordinance to create a “framework of requirements” for the data center developer, St. Louis Public Radio reports. Members of the public filled the Festus High School gym to oppose the data center. “No data center,” the crowd chanted. Check it out: This is literally insane So many people showed up to oppose a $6 billion dollar data center in Missouri they had to use bleachers The whole crowd yells and chants they don’t want the data center Festus City Council voted to approve the data center anyway right in their faces pic.twitter.com/I9xOyK9U4p — Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) April 3, 2026 More from St. Louis Public Radio: The ordinance locks in rules the developer must follow if the data center is built, like requiring CRG to pay for infrastructure upgrades to water, sewage and streets. Around 25 members of the public were allotted five minutes each to comment on the ordinance before the vote. Lauren Albers lives near the proposed location, three houses down from where CRG has said it will offer buyouts to homeowners. Like many who spoke at the meeting, she said she believed the city council had already made up its mind on the proposal. “I am not against growth,” she said. “I’m against putting data centers between homes. I am against rushing into development before residents get real information, real answers and a real voice.” Thirty-nine people signed up to speak, but Mayor Sam Richards cut off public comment after two hours before the council moved the ordinance to a vote. Staci Templeton and Brian Wehner, council members who represent Festus’ second ward, voted against the ordinance in what many audience members called a “surprise move.” After the vote, members of the council and representatives of Clayco CRG left through the back doors of the gymnasium as angered residents lined up against a wall of Festus police officers. “The developer, CRG, a subsidiary of real estate firm Clayco, plans to build the facility on more than 360 acres of wooded land off Highway 67 and County Road CC,” KSDK stated. Public pushback on the data center proposal has been ongoing for months. Festus residents push back against potential data center https://t.co/3hxM9nytP5 — FOX2now (@FOX2now) February 10, 2026 KSDK has more: While the vote marks a major step forward for the project, opponents signaled the conflict is far from over. The financial stakes for the city are substantial. Festus City Attorney Brian Malone said the deal is expected to generate $1.3 billion for the city. A significant portion of that revenue will come from utility taxes tied to the facility’s energy demands. “There will be no cap on the city’s utility tax. That alone will provide $8 million annually in revenue per year for the city at the start of operation, and that will increase to $22 million per year in 2031 when the center reaches full power usage,” Malone said. Under the agreement, the developer must offer voluntary buyouts to homeowners living within 1,000 feet of an active data center building. Recent changes to the deal include extending the buyout timeline and placing a cap on the maximum daily water usage. For residents near the proposed site, the financial incentives offer little comfort. Rozilyn Daniels and her teenage daughter, Mercie Daniels, live on Glenkee Court in a home eligible for a buyout and remain undecided about their future. “I hate that that is the reality of my life now. I hate how they think of these places as houses and not homes. These are people, and it really affects us,” Rozilyn and Mercie Daniels said. The project’s timing presents a challenge for Mercie Daniels, who would likely be in her senior year of high school if the family relocates. Watch additional coverage below:

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