OPEN THREAD: Monday, Monday.

PAYBACK: Trump Denies Biden’s Executive Privilege Request. Here’s Why it’s Biden’s Own Fault.

Biden himself set the precedent for this.

Only a sitting president can assert executive privilege, and in 2021, Biden denied Trump’s request to assert executive privilege over White House documents, thus allowing the partisan J6 Committee to use them for their bogus investigation. Trump sued to stop the disclosure, arguing that the committee had no legitimate need for many of the documents, which he said were unrelated to the Capitol riot.

Then, in May 2022, Acting National Archivist Debra Steidel Wall informed Trump’s attorneys that the Biden White House Counsel’s Office had formally requested NARA grant the FBI access to 15 boxes of Trump documents at Mar-a-Lago. According to Just the News reporter John Solomon, the same letter indicated Biden had authorized NARA to waive any executive privilege claims Trump might raise to block DOJ access. In other words, the former president who is now asserting expansive privilege protections is the same one who, while in office, helped engineer the unraveling of Trump’s privilege claims to fuel a bogus criminal investigation.

These documents are likely to fuel a non-bogus criminal investigation.

THIS SEEMS RIGHT. JUST ANOTHER LEFTIST NOBODY THE PRESS IS TRYING TO TURN INTO A SOMEBODY FOR POLITICAL REASONS.

She’s not ‘complicated’. She’s just another copy and paste third world Islamic supremacist antisemite living in the west away from the Islamic fascism she admires from a distance. pic.twitter.com/a4GcTmzTex

— A. Christopher (@frenziedsun) March 9, 2026

THIS ARGUMENT WOULD HAVE MORE FORCE IF THE PUBLIC HANDS HADN’T PROVED SO INEPT: A Plan B for space? On the risks of concentrating national space power in private hands.

AS ALWAYS, I WONDER ABOUT CAUSE AND EFFECT HERE: The Number of Kids You Have May Affect Your Lifespan, Study Finds.

WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Stunning High-Resolution Virus Blueprint Offers New Hope Against Antibiotic Resistance.

PAY ATTENTION TO THE NORMALS? BUT WHY?

@SenFettermanPA is also a very well respected senator in our state congressman☺️ and very popular; you should come out and talk to people about him outside of Philadelphia where elections aren't won or lost state wide
and in the 60+ counties outside of there where they are.

— ZitoSalena (@ZitoSalena) March 5, 2026

FASTER, PLEASE: Transplanted neural stem cells help preserve vision in retinal degeneration.

THE CROOK PROBABLY THOUGHT HE WAS SAFE IN ILLINOIS: Defensive Gun Use Chronicles: An Aggressive Burglar Meets an Armed Good Guy.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Cleaning Tips for Your Shotgun.

SCIENCE: I’m a longevity doctor. This is why I’ll never give up alcohol.

LUNAR HUMMUS IS A GO: Researchers successfully grow chickpeas in ‘moon dirt.’

DIVERSITY: Being an Essex girl never held me back, says spacecraft engineer.

PREHISTORIC MEDICINE: Ancient Woman Had Complex, Life-Saving Surgery on Her Skull 2,500 Years Ago, New Research Finds.

OH, CANADA: “One out of every 20 deaths in Canada is now caused by the government’s assisted suicide program.”

“What’s even more shocking is how fast the deaths are approved.”

TERRORISM IS MOSTLY RICH KIDS LARPING:

Look at that house

Look at it again (when home ownership is out of reach to too many native born Americans)

Don’t ever let them tell you it’s poverty and desperation that drives people to terrorism

Absolute and complete lie

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— self-radicalized Reince Niebuhr🍪 🇺🇸🧊🦁🐶 (@ReinceNiebuhr) March 9, 2026

BUT OF COURSE:

Fun fact: In 1996, Barack Obama won his first elected office (Illinois state Senate) by throwing all of his opponents off the ballot.

One of his tactics for disqualifying them was to challenge signatures on his opponents' petitions by married women who signed using the wrong… pic.twitter.com/nZaqrR0kzj

— David Freddoso (@freddoso) March 9, 2026

BIGOTRY ON PARADE: NJ college revises policy after it banned funds to Christian Club.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: George Washington University promotes ‘Reproductive Justice History is Black History’ event.

THE PRESS: MAGA IS FRACTURING OVER THE WAR.

Reality: Trump’s Approval Rating With GOP Hits 86 Percent Amid Operation Epic Fury: It’s the highest own-party approval rating of any 21st-century president at this point in a second term.

HE COULD WRITE THAT THEN, NOW HE’D BE LYNCHED:

Before “MAGA whackos”, there was liberal American journalist Joel Stein, who wrote about why he soured on Indian immigration to the United States, based on his experience growing up in a town that changed demographically almost overnight. https://t.co/Cy0zUwd0MY pic.twitter.com/HImfCEw4xM

— Project for Immigration Reform (@PFIRorg) March 7, 2026

THEY HATE IT WHEN AMERICA WINS:

.@PeteHegseth has just overseeing his military as it annihilated the entire leadership, navy, and air defense system of a significant regional power with minimal losses.

I understand why Democrats are so angry about him. https://t.co/xfOY3a4IAG

— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) March 8, 2026

ROGER SIMON: Putin Adviser Dugin: Crazy Like a Fox. Americans of both parties better educate themselves.

ICYMI: ROGER KIMBALL: Unconditional Surrender: When Wars Are Fought to Win.

Within just four or five days, virtually all of Iran’s senior leadership has been eliminated. Then its replacements were eliminated. “Their army is gone,” President Trump said a few days ago. “Their navy is gone. Their communications are gone. Their leaders are gone. . . . Their Air Force is wiped out. . . . They have 32 ships. All 32 are at the bottom of the ocean. Other than that,” he quipped, “they’re doing very well!”

The assault is not just continuing; it is ramping up. Just a few days ago, Israel destroyed a massive underground complex in the center of Tehran from which the (late) Supreme Leader Khamenei had planned to conduct the war. As retired Lt. General Keith Kellogg told Fox News, President Trump is “going after everything. . . . There’s a huge target list out there, and there’s no restrictions.” Kellogg, noting that he had never seen an operation like this, said that it’s not “whack a mole” but “whack a mullah. . . . This is a massive win for the United States.”

It’s also a massive win for the Iranian people. Just a week ago, the populace was cowed by the mullahs, their immoral “morality” police, and the murderous Basij thugs who terrorized the population. Remember, in January, they maimed and murdered tens of thousands of protesters. Tens of thousands. Now, a popular game in Iran is sneaking up behind Islamic regime clerics and knocking off their turbans. I like to see it. Around the world, exiled Iranians—often alongside Israelis and other Jews—are demonstrating in favor of President Trump. In London, a group of Iranians held a vigil, replete with candles and singing of the American national anthem, to honor the six American troops killed in Kuwait by an Iranian drone strike.

It helps to be the strong horse.

MARK SIMON: Mr. President, We Need to Talk About China.