The Gov Hub: March 3, 2026

An account trading on predictions market Polymarket named “Magamyman” has caught eyes after having placed $553K in bets that the IRGC murderer of his own people, Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei would be out of power – something that then happened not even two hours after the bet was placed as a result of an airstrike that killed Khamenei. The possibility that gov insiders are using classified info to profit through trades on the marketplace, follow similar moves made ahead of the U.S.’s kidnapping of Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro in January 2026. Rules around Polymarket, a business invested in by Donald Trump Jr’s VC firm, are seemingly cloudier cloudier, because despite the Trump Admin giving Polymarket the green light to open up a U.S. based platform, it hasn’t been fully publicly launched, meaning that American users are using VPNs to do their trades, shielding identity and location – and keeping them out of the regulatory zone of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. 

According to ProPublica, several top federal election officials attended a summit hosted by none other than Trump’s former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn and leader of the “Stop the Steal” movement to overturn the 2020 presidential election results. At said summit, Flynn was reported to have urged attendees to push Trump to declare a national emergency to take control of this year’s midterm elections. Also reported was that a draft of an executive order, which came into the hands of Democracy Docket, was circulating, with its core objectives being to ban mail-in ballots and get rid of voting machines.

Congresswoman Nancy Mace [R-SC] is under investigation by the House Ethics Committee for allegations of conducting “improper reimbursement practices.” The investigation as a result of a referral received by the nonpartisan Office of Congressional Conduct.

In a rare W for justice, Sherry Xue Li, a MAGA businesswoman, has been sentenced to nine years behind bars for a financial scheme that, according to AP, resulted in her taking $30M in from foreign investors under false pretenses and dumping some of that money into political campaigns, including a fundraiser for Trump.

A new law in Kansas has invalidated the licenses of more than 1,000 trans residents. The change immediately voided licenses previously updated to reflect residents’ gender identity, with the state’s DMV notifying impacted residents that there would be and is no grace period – meaning residents couldn’t even drive themselves to the DMV to make changes to comply with the law [Lyft has stepped up help]. Following, a lawsuit has been filed by two trans residents, “Daniel Doe” and Matthew Moe,” in the Douglas County Court, challenging SB244, which was enacted over Gov. Laura Kelly’s veto. The lawsuit argues that the law, which also allows for private lawsuits over bathroom use in gov buildings, violates the constitutional protections afforded to Kansans, including due process, equality, privacy, and free expression. 

A federal judge – Judge John Coughenour – sat down with 60 Minutes to discuss the insane number of threats he and his family has received in the last year since blocking Trump’s attempt to end birthright citizenship. Despite having made rulings against terrorists and militia members, Coughenour cites the past year as the worst year for threats in his 44-year career.

Three people were murdered, and fourteen physically injured in a mass shooting in Austin, Texas over the weekend. The violence is being investigated as a possible act of terrorism, with the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force joining the investigation. To note, Waymos got in the way of emergency response to the scene. 

Somewhere between extremism and just freakin’ weird ass shit, is this piece of news that deceased right-wing podcaster and organizer Charlie Kirk’s image is featured on a banner hanging from the U.S. Department of Education in celebration of America’s 250th birthday. 

The Anthropic x Hegseth battle continues… To back it up a step, Anthropic had previously signed a $200M contract with the Pentagon allowing them to use the company’s AI tech. The contract included two stipulations: that the Pentagon could not use the tech for mass surveillance of Americans, and that it couldn’t use the tech to power weapons that kill people without a human making the final call. Come this past January, Anthropic caught wind of the fact that the Pentagon had used its AI in the kidnapping of the Venezuelan dictator, and naturally pressed the Pentagon for answers. Defense Sec. Hegseth’s response to that? To threaten Anthropic with an ultimatum that they have to drop their two contract stipulations, or “else.” The “else” amounted to labeling Anthropic a national security risk or using the Defense Production Act to force Anthropic to hand over its tech with no restrictions despite both of these threats contradicting one another. Alas, Anthropic said no, despite OpenAI, Google, and xAI saying yes. Can you guess which AI tech shot up the download charts by consumers in response? Anthropic’s ClaudeAI.

Following Trump starting a war this past Saturday against the IRGC, for reasons that keep changing, the hashtag #sendbarron began trending, suggesting that Barron be sent to fight. The hashtag also followed Trump’s address where he shared that American lives would be lost because it’s a part of “war.” Since then, at least six members of the U.S. military have been killed. And while this entire story is moving at a rapid pace, one thing is more concrete, and that is that this situation is causing a MAGA civil war.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott [R] reposted a video posted by a pro-Trump account on Twitter from a WW2-themed video game, War Thunder, with the words “bye bye,” seemingly thinking that the video was footage from the latest war in the Middle East. The post has since been deleted.

Filed under unfortunate family members, Chappell Roan’s uncle is a state rep in Missouri and he’s trying to ban abortion. 

The former host of the Bachelor, Chris Harrison who left the franchise after the scandal, has been handpicked by Fox Nation to host a dating show focused on “traditional marriage” with “clear roles.” According to OUT, the applicant questionnaire includes a question about faith-based leadership in the home, amongst others that give #tradwife x #nightmarefuel.

L.A.’s Metro merch is going viral in tandem with an announcement the city’s D Line extension will be opening in May – and once you see the cheeky little photo mock-up you might be able to understand why [hint: it says “ride the d”].

In the year 2026, TMZ has become a valuable news source, and this time one of their fellas reported in from a DC restaurant saying that they overheard a conversation amongst people there about bombing the IRGC – something that happened less than 24 hours later. In other words: classified info meets public place meets TMZ. 

Washed up and overtanned actor Dennis Quade was spotted on Trump’s Air Force One with Senator Ted Cruz [TX-R].

Congresswoman Lauren Boebert [CO-R] is back in the news for not only getting her ass handed to her by Hillary Clinton, but for failing to be able to define the term inflation during an appearance on Piers Morgan’s show.

Full warning cringe ahead with these two posts – the latest of RFK Jr. attempting to do things at the gym [another angle where a gym goer is winning against him in a battle of the stair master] and VP JD Vance claiming that he’s the “coolest vice president ever.”

Trump’s neck rash is going viral in the form of a picture making its way around the web and prompting people to go “ew what is that??”

Another preventable death has happened at the hands of federal immigration agents, this time after Border Control dropped a blind refugee from Burma, Nurul Amin Shah Alam, off in freezing temperatures in a parking lot in the middle of the night without notifying his family or lawyers. Five days later, he was found dead in Buffalo, New York. Before being detained, and then released to his death, the man was violently arrested by police when his walking stick was mistaken for a weapon. Congressman Tim Kennedy [D-NY] said this about the tragedy. 

Minnesota’s Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty has announced that her office is investigating 17 cases of misconduct by federal officers, including Greg Bovino. Moriarity’s office has set-up an online portal for submission of photos, videos, and eyewitness accounts of misconduct can be shared. 

A new report from MotherJones has shared an ongoing phenomenon where citizens, those with valid work papers, documentation, etc are being released from detention without their papers/forms of ID that prove their status. The topline: they’re refusing to give people their documentation back, making them even more vulnerable once released to being detained again, and then without any physical proof of who they are.

A ProPublica report has detailed a massive clampdown on information going out the door from Texas’s notorious Dilley Detention Center. As detailed in the piece, those that ProPublica spoke with shared that art supplies have been removed and kids art describing their experiences there, seized; in the same vein, some have lost their access to their email accounts and staff hovers during video calls, and more, with what seems like an attempt to prevent detainee experiences from leaving the facility.

As reported by the Senate’s Judiciary Dems, a whistleblower has shared that the FBI told forensic experts at the scene of Renee Good’s murder to “stand down” from processing the scene because allegedly Kash Patel didn’t want her to be referred to as a “victim.” 

Minnesota AG Keith Ellison is answering VP JD Vance’s move of withholding $243M in Medicaid funding allocated to the state over unproven claims of fraud, with a lawsuit. To that unproven tidbit, the lawsuit filed by AG Ellison hinges on the argument that the Trump Admin violated due process procedures with their move, failing to prove that the state wasn’t complying with Medicaid regulations. TBD on what happens in this game of the Trump Admin’s war against its own citizens, but those named in the lawsuit are the Department of Health and Human Services, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, along with CMS Admin, Dr. Oz and HHS Sec. RFK Jr. 

Trump’s DOJ is suing the state of New Jersey, or rather NJ Sec. of State Dale Caldwell, seeking private voter data, as in birth dates, partial social security numbers, driver’s license deats – the whole bit really. Per the NJ Monitor, similar cases in California and Oregon have been dismissed, but that has not deterred the Trump Admin, which has sued 29 states and DC for this type of data. Notably, other states’ have offered the Admin voter lists sans the most sensitive data like social security numbers, and the Trump Admin has said “hard pass.”

The latest DHS policy that has required Congressmembers conducting oversight at ICE facilities to provide a week’s notice, which spurred a lawsuit by 13 members of Congress, has been temporarily suspended by a federal judge. The judge – U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb – noted in her ruling that the DHS policy is likely illegal and goes beyond the gov’s ‘statutory authority.’ 

SCOTUS brought back to life a lower-court injunction blocking parts of a California policy that shields trans kids from being forcibly outed to their parents by their school(s). In an unsigned order, the justices allowed a legal challenge to move forward, while limiting the policy’s student confidentiality protections during the appeal. 

A ‘walk of shame’ has appeared in DC, with stars on the sidewalk emblazoned with the names of those in the files.

Video from Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton testifying behind closed doors [they had requested public] has become available, watchable, and shareable. And what top-lined for many was this shakedown by Hillary on why Trump should testify, calling out his pattern of court-documented SA. There was also this notable moment, where Congresswoman Boebert was called out for going against the rules, and taking a picture of Hillary, which she allegedly sent to right-wing influencer, Benny Johnson. Meanwhile, Bill shared details of a prior convo with Trump, where Trump discussed having “great times with Epstein” over the years.

This photo has been making its rounds of Sec. of Commerce Howard Lutnick with none other than Jeffrey Epstein.

Block, the company behind Square and Cash up, that’s led by Jack Dorsey, announced 4,000 layoffs, claiming AI as the reason for the move. In the announcement, Dorsey warned that other tech companies will start to follow suit.

A new poll has revealed that over 50% of Americans say that healthcare, a weeklong vacation, and a new car are unaffordable. The same poll found that two-thirds of Americans who don’t own their homes, don’t think they will be able to afford one in the “foreseeable future.”

Despite reporting $1.6 billion in earnings in 2025’s Q3, Lowes has decided to layoff 600 workers.

In a super creepy big brother move, Burger King has announced that it will be using AI to access the friendliness of its employees, with a chatbot in employee’s headsets that will analyze things like if the employee says “please” and “thank you.”

AP: Treasury Department terminates union contracts for IRS and Bureau of the Fiscal Service Workers

Axios: Trump didn’t endorse them, but they’re acting like he did

USA Today: Can this red state Democrat and political heir win back the working class?

Vanity Fair: The Photographer Who Helped Launch Melania Trump’s Modeling Career Is a Recurring Character in the Epstein Files