Trump administration today: "No, you are wrong. We TOTALLY planned on the Strait of Hormuz being closed because of President Trump's decisions. And our plan was to beg the allies we'd insulted to bail us out. That they rudely ignored us was *their* plan, not ours. Otherwise, our plan was perfect."

It is the anniversary of the My Lai massacre today. I'd say that even more than most years, it's important to remember what happened. And the role Hugh Thompson, an active serviceman, played in both stopping and publicising it. Despite enormous military, political and public pressure to stay quiet.

The NATO treaty says that "an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all." Trump reads this as: "If the U.S. starts an illegal war that it cannot win, the others have to come to its aid."

WSJ: The likelihood of Iran closing the strait was discussed, Gen Caine predicted it, and Trump decided “Tehran would likely capitulate before closing the strait — and even if Iran tried, the U.S. military could handle it.” www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

They can't control what's happening now, so they're trying to control what gets said about it.

This is monstrously fucked up and should be Streisand Effected to the greatest degree possible

Haitian woman, 31, dies alone at Pittsburgh bus stop days after ICE released her to the streets far from home to perish. Rest in power, Daphy Michel: migrantinsider.com/p/the-loneso...

In California, ballots are mailed to all registered voters. In 10 years, with over 1 billion votes cast, 31 incidents reported. Most are irregularities, administrative errors not necessarily fraud. Heritage Foundation database lists 1 documented case fraud of absentee ballots in 40 years.

Hey folks - @dbrauer.net put together these t shirts in honor of all of the work folks did to fight back ICE. All profit goes to Lucy Laney school here in north Minneapolis. Also some options just to support the school. my.cheddarup.com/c/we-save-us

it’s unreal how these grown-ass men had no problem destroying untold lives with chatGPT but go crying to a judge when people make fun of them online

How does an authoritarian leader build — and maintain — a fiercely loyal security force? And how much of that playbook shows up in developments around the U.S. Department of Homeland Security? We followed @donmoyn.bsky.social’s invitation and wrote a guest post - based on our new book 👇

When a federal judge (finally) put ICE officers under oath, they admitted that they are given daily detention quotas and rely heavily on a Palantir-supplied AI tool to select targets, without warrants and without enough evidence to obtain one. They simply go into neighborhoods and round people up.

If you want more understanding about f this case and why it is so dangerous as it is now law to say wearing black at a protest makes you a terrorist bsky.app/profile/harm...

The federal government is explicitly arguing that "wearing black clothes" at a noise demonstration is "enough to convict the eight defendants accused of material support" for terrorism. The outcome of this trial cold be catastrophic.

this is important

Whomst.. whomst amongst you could have POSSIBLY predicated this? Oh, most of you? Huh. Weird.

GDP growth lower than expected for last 3 months of ‘25, only .7% while core inflation in January *rose* to 3.1% And that is all before war in Iran. www.cnbc.com/2026/03/13/f...

BREAKING: All 6 crew members aboard the U.S. KC-135 died in the incident. CENTCOM continues to say the loss of the aircraft was not due to “hostile fire or friendly fire” but has not provided additional details. May they rest in peace.

We have a Congress who for all intents and purposes have given all of their power to the president on foreign policy. Would be great if they would actually do their jobs and be a co-equal branch of government.

2,500 Marines going in:

How we know “the war” is going “well” …

These are the type of people you can imagine nuking China and then later saying they didn’t think of China retaliating with nuclear weapons. Like, this is a degree of detachment from reality & motivated thinking that reminds me of Hitler in WWII ffs, except w/an incomparable war machine

Why

Hegseth and Stephen Miller ridiculed "rules of engagement" and vowed this war won't be "politically correct." Now it looks like we may have bombed an elementary school. Hegseth/Miller's certainty that their version of "strength" would have support is imploding. 3/ newrepublic.com/article/2074...

Over 1,400 people in six countries have been killed in an illegal war of aggression and Trump’s opposition here at home is talking about suspending gas taxes.

My daughter reported that the ICE presence outside her school during recess last week involved ICE officers sitting IN AN ICE CREAM TRUCK. And this wasn't kids misinterpreting. We had an email from the school the day it happened; we just didn't get the ice cream detail in the email.

🚨 White House blocks intelligence report warning of rising US homeland terror threat linked to Iran war I realize it’s the Daily Mail, but it sounds like they really did get their hands on a DHS bulletin that was meant for public release until the WH stopped it. The report is worth reading in full:

Guardian points out reporter Estefany Rodriguez “produced reports that were unflattering to ICE” — and she and her husband were in a marked Nashville Noticias vehicle when they grabbed her🤔 She is reportedly being held in Alabama www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

These are war crimes, violations of the Geneva Conventions. Increasingly I think we should turn the whole Trump cabinet over to the ICC to be tried at The Hague.

In every Republican presidency of my lifetime there's been a recession and a new war in the Middle East.

If you took $1 billion and gave it to the endowment of a different small college each day, they could each provide a free college education to several hundred students per year in perpetuity. Instead we are using that money to bomb schools and kill students in Iran, for no clearly stated purpose.

Bernard LaFayette, the advance man who did the risky groundwork for the voter registration campaign in Selma, Alabama, that culminated in the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, has died.

NEW: U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for the strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children but have not yet reached a final conclusion, two U.S. officials tell Reuters

Quite the headline from People.com people.com/trump-says-i...

Remember when we used to have a Congress? That was nice.

“Almost all the 165 people killed in the attack were girls aged between seven and 12, according to local officials. There were around 170 girls at the school in southern Iran’s Minab at the time.“ A double-tap strike on little girls at school.

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

This line from the majority opinion always sticks with me: "After enduring nearly a century of systematic resistance to the Fifteenth Amendment, Congress might well decide to shift the advantage of time and inertia from the perpetrators of the evil to its victims."

Why bomb a school? Could've been aiming at something else and missed. But it looks like this missile hit the intended target. Except the target selection—perhaps by an AI system called Maven that uses Claude—was based on outdated information. Target suggestions are one thing. But no human review?

🤷🏼 🇺🇸

The design of the Constitution divided warmaking authority between Congress and the executive to prevent a president to take the country to war by themselves for any petty or self-serving reason. You know, like a king would. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Warren is saying “it’s so much worse than you thought” and Blumenthal says he’s more fearful than ever that we may be putting boots on the ground. Not great.

This is not good news. Conservative activist academic Robert P. George of Princeton announcing that Trump has nominated the Executive Director of Princeton’s right-wing James Madison Program, the model for all these conservative indoctrination centers on college campuses, as US archivist.

"No stupid rules of engagement" is how you shoot down three of your own F-15s in one day. Just a shocking display of martial ineptitude.

Shades of George W Bush reportedly not knowing the difference between Sunni and Shia Muslims in the run up to the Iraq War. inthesetimes.com/article/bush...

Macron announces that French nuclear umbrella will now encompass UK, Germany, Poland, Netherlands, Belgium, Greece, Sweden, and Denmark www.liberation.fr/internationa...

The savings we're getting here by annihilating decades of American science will pay for whole minutes of the operation to create decades of death, immiseration, and chaos in Iran.

Same as it ever was.. www.mnftiu.cc/category/gywo/war81/#

In the name of all that's holy, please try to find a space within yourselves to hold more than one truth at once. If it is bad to indiscriminately bomb the people of one country, it is bad to indiscriminately bomb the people of any country. You DON'T HAVE TO SUPPORT ANY SIDE to know that.

Minnesota would like a word.