MATT TAIBBI EXCLUSIVE: The FBI’s Secret Stash Finally Uncovered.

A Federal Bureau of Investigation task force has begun excavating the separate set of books FBI keeps using an inaccessible “prohibited access” file designation, according to multiple government sources. Though an internal fight over how to handle the files continues, embattled FBI Director Kash Patel has assigned personnel to examine decades of hidden history, Racket News has learned, with some files already turned over to Congress.

“This is it — the deep state,” one of the sources said.

Judiciary Committee Chair Chuck Grassley, whose work with whistleblowers and pressure across years was key to prying prohibited access files loose, expressed cautious optimism.

“If it weren’t for whistleblower disclosures to my office, the very existence of the FBI using ‘Prohibited Access’ files for some investigations would have remained in the dark,” he said. “I’ve asked Attorney General Bondi and Director Patel to turn over certain Prohibited Access records to Congress. I’ve received some, but am still waiting on others. I urge the DOJ and FBI to keep digging – which previous administrations apparently didn’t make any effort to do – so that the facts can come to light. The FBI’s secret stash of records is scandalous.”

Needless to say, read the whole thing.

NOT A MONTY PYTHON SKETCH, THIS IS MAMDANI’S NYC:

This really is an all time photo. A protestor shouting about the pros of immigration is interrupted by an Islamic terrorist throwing a bomb jumping over him. pic.twitter.com/3TyBfewCYT

— memetic_sisyphus (@memeticsisyphus) March 9, 2026

Then there’s this… which is still not a Python bit:

He's coming out harder over peaceful protest than he is at guys throwing incendiary devices outside his house, https://t.co/XGGhoYgs5D

— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) March 9, 2026

You can’t make this stuff up, and in America’s blue zones, you don’t have to.

SARAH ANDERSON: The Shield of the Americas Summit’s Five Biggest Losers.

WHACK-A-MULLAH:

Important possible scenario:

There is a chance that Mojtaba is in fact dead, and that the regime deliberately selected a dead man as SL.

Why would they do that? In the hopes that israel goes looking for a ghost while ignoring the real decision makers. A distraction.

His… pic.twitter.com/BlT9sDGKPo

— 𝐍𝐢𝐨𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠 🇮🇷 ✡︎ (@NiohBerg) March 9, 2026

PRIVACY: Calif. lawsuit accuses Meta of sending nude video from AI glasses to workers.

The company pitches its glasses, with their small cameras that have raised some privacy concerns, as safe: “Designed for privacy, controlled by you.” In late February, the Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet, or SvD, published an investigation that said Kenyan subcontractors end up seeing deeply personal footage from the glasses — including bank cards, people changing and people having sex. A new federal lawsuit filed in San Francisco on Wednesday points to the article and accuses Meta of false advertising, fraud and breach of contract.

“Consumers purchased these Glasses believing Meta’s privacy assurances,” the complaint says. “They did not, and could not reasonably, understand that their bedrooms, bathrooms, families, bodies, and more would be exposed to strangers around the world.”

Meta is still analyzing the lawsuit and did not answer SFGATE’s specific questions about why private video might end up at data labeling offices in Kenya. Spokesperson Chris Sgro told SFGATE, “Unless users choose to share media they’ve captured with Meta or others, that media stays on the user’s device.”

Maybe, maybe not — but those glasses are still creepy.

THOSE FIRST SEVEN WORDS ARE EVERGREEN: David French Suffers An Apparent Brain Injury Over James Talarico.

In a moment we should have seen coming, New York Times columnist David French has just gushed out a shameless celebration of Talarico’s insane nonsense, every word of which should qualify the worst op-ed prostitute in America for urgent psychiatric intervention. Here’s a whole paragraph: “Or, to put it another way, Talarico is one of the few openly Christian politicians in the United States who acts like a Christian, and by acting like a Christian he reveals a profound contrast with so many members of the MAGA Christian movement that’s dominated American political life for 10 years.”

A challenge: Find the evidence French offers for the claim that Talarico “acts like a Christian.” He cites some speeches, but speeches aren’t actions. How, in David French’s conception, does James Talarico live like a Christian, by his actions, and what does he think that means? Hang onto this point, because we’ll be coming back to it.

But then go on to the characterization of MAGA as a Christian movement, full stop, as if no one would argue. Quick: Name the top three speeches Donald Trump has made in which he used the Bible as an argument for his political program. Discuss, in detail, the specific policy influence of Trump’s pastor, who you should be able to name if we’re talking about a Christian nationalist ideologue. Or, as a shortcut, just show the evidence French has ever presented to prove that MAGA is primarily theological, and that Trump’s first instinct is to steer by religious faith. French doesn’t argue this, because he can’t. He just says it. It’s a noise he makes, endlessly. It has no meaning of any kind.

Read the whole thing.

GLEICHSCHALTUNG: Virginia Dems Force ‘Insurrection’ Label on Jan. 6 in Classrooms.

NEXT!

🚨 BREAKING: IRANIAN AIR FORCE GENERAL KILLED

Mohsen Darrebaghi, an Iranian Air Force Brigadier General, has reportedly been killed.

According to initial reports, Darrebaghi played a role in coordinating operations targeting U.S. and Israeli forces.

His death marks another… pic.twitter.com/QwGTyYvkS2

— Jim Ferguson (@JimFergusonUK) March 9, 2026

THE KING RALPH SCENARIO: Israel will target ‘every successor’ appointed by Iran’s Islamic regime, IDF warns. “We want to tell you that the hand of the State of Israel will continue to pursue every successor and every person who seeks to appoint a successor. We warn all those who intend to participate in the successor selection meeting that we will not hesitate to target you, either. This is a warning!”

A CALL FOR DECENCY THAT DEMOCRATS WILL IGNORE: Jesse Jackson’s son blasts Obama, Biden for using father’s memorial to take shots at Trump.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Freedom Fever Is Catching, and Cuba Might Get It Next. “If hope is indeed growing in the island communist cesspool, it could very well be the X factor that has been missing all of these decades. OK, President Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio have a lot to do with everything, but hope can be so powerful when people who have been oppressed for far too long finally hit a liberation tipping point.”

“AMERICA AND PUBLIC DISORDER”:

We don't have public restrooms because they'd be trashed in days.

We don't build bus stops because they'd become homeless shelters.

We don't have dense walkable cities because nobody wants to be accosted by strangers.

This is because we have chosen to accept public disorder,… pic.twitter.com/9o8YnMOPLA

— Chris Arnade 🐢🐱🚌 (@Chris_arnade) March 9, 2026

You can read Chris Arnade’s full Substack article here.

YES: Energy secretary predicts rising oil prices due to Iran conflict will be temporary.

U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright said Sunday that a recent rise in gasoline and energy prices tied to the escalating conflict with Iran is temporary, stressing that markets are reacting more to fear of a prolonged war than to an actual shortage of supply.

Wright made the comments during an interview on CBS’ Face the Nation.

“What you’re seeing is emotional reactions and fear that this is a long-term war,” Wright said.

“We have a temporary period of elevated energy prices, but it will not be long,” he also said.

The world is awash in the stuff. It’s just that some of it is stuck in the Gulf.

RACISM, SEXISM, STRAIGHT UP:

In 2019, cardiologist Norman Wang published a peer reviewed paper on affirmative action in medicine. He argued that the institution of medicine was violating civil rights law by discriminating against Asians/Whites/Males.

Wang was a well liked/respected highly published EP… pic.twitter.com/MVbntHrWJ0

— Anish Koka, MD (@anish_koka) March 9, 2026

Background here.

HMM: Cases of AI Agents ‘Freeing Themselves’ and Going Rogue Are Becoming Increasingly Common.

“SHOCKING?” “REVELATION?” REALLY?

Everyone already knew this… https://t.co/1sTrEOKGUl

— Dean Cain (@RealDeanCain) March 9, 2026

CHANGE: French President Emmanuel Macron announced the extension of France’s nuclear deterrent to eight European nations, alongside the expansion of France’s nuclear warhead stockpile. “Macron laid out that nuclear-capable Rafale B fighters would be spread out across Europe on temporary deployments as an “archipelago of forces” that would complicate the decision making of any nation wanting to use extreme force against France or its allies. Alongside these deployments, allies will also be invited to take part in French nuclear exercises, in a similar manner to NATO’s Conventional Support to Nuclear Operations programme.”

Not many people had “French nuclear umbrella” on their 2026 bingo card.

UGH: U.S. Military Warns Iranian People of Regime’s Military Ops in Civilian Areas.

I WONDERED AT FIRST IF MAYBE THIS WAS AI, BUT NO:

After Trump said that Tucker is "Not MAGA," & "not smart," Tucker responsds by releasing an interview critisising Trump's war.

Tucker allegeds that Trump wants American soldiers to "rape" Iranian women, and that Trump is "moving towards" using nuclear weapons in Iran. pic.twitter.com/pjTK8zeeFl

— H.A. Hazony (@HAHazony) March 8, 2026

Who’s buying this stuff?

HOWEVER MUCH YOU DESPISE THE MEDIA…:

We’ve seen it all now. What any honest person would call an IED, the New York Times calls “smoking jars of metal and fuses.” pic.twitter.com/7DZxcv5u7w

— Hans Mahncke (@HansMahncke) March 8, 2026

THANKS, FELLAS:

Ukraine is now sending help to the Persian Gulf, aiding Gulf states and the U.S. to protect their military bases from Iranian suicide drones with cheap Ukrainian interceptor drones:

US Patriot missile: $4 million
Iranian Shahad drone: $35,000
Ukraine’s interceptor drone: $3,000 pic.twitter.com/3HEvk2wSTG

— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) March 7, 2026

Not that you’d fire a Patriot at a Shahed…

I DID NOTICE:

By the way if you've noticed far less Gaza propaganda in your feed it's not because Iran knocked Gaza off the front page. It's because Iran is what kept it there. Now that their cyber command has been smashed, so too has a global propaganda exercise.

— Daniel (@VoteLewko) March 7, 2026

THIS:

If you want to know why Donald Trump was elected, watch Barack Obama’s attack speech yesterday at Jesse Jackson’s funeral. As he did throughout his presidency, he created a straw man to describe Republicans as bigots who force the American people to “turn on each other”.

He said…

— Ari Fleischer (@AriFleischer) March 7, 2026

PRESUMPTION OF INNOCENCE, ARKANSAS STYLE: Hero Dad Wins Arkansas Sheriff Primary Election While Awaiting Murder Trial.

Picture this: A sleazy 67-year-old creep named Michael Fosler sneaked around Spencer’s home, lured Mr. Spencer’s young daughter from her bedroom with unknown promises, and bolted away in his dusty pickup truck.

Spencer sensed that something was amiss. He looked into his daughter’s bedroom and saw that she was gone. Dad heard Fosler’s truck leaving with some urgency. Spencer wasn’t going to wait for the cops to finish their donuts to respond. He grabbed his gun and tok off in hot pursuit.

Minutes later, Spencer caught up to the child molester’s truck like he was Liam Neesom in Taken.

After Spencer forced the perv’s pickup off the road, words flew. An “altercation” ensued and…boom. Spencer plugged the creep ceasing any respiratory activity and rescuing his little girl from what could’ve been a lifetime of nightmares.

Heroic? Hell yes. But the local prosecutor decided he can’t just let a heroic dad “get away” with doing the right thing. He slapped Spencer with a murder charge. Because, you know, the justice system gonna justice.

Fuming, but far from finished, Spencer flipped the script, saying, in effect, “Screw this broken machine — I’ll fix it myself.”

Awesome. But he still needs to be found Not Guilty when the case goes to trial this spring to run in the general election.

REPORTS REMAIN CONFLICTING: Will the Kurds Fight? If They Do, All Hell Could Break Loose in the Middle East.