The is the federal government telling news stations to provide favorable coverage of the war or their licenses will be pulled. A truly extraordinary moment. We aren't on the verge of a totalitarian takeover. WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF IT. Act like it.

This is everything

Everyone with a platform should be screaming that Trump is unfit to be commander-in-chief. www.wsj.com/politics/nat... gift link

"Faraway (adj): closer or further than Iran. On Saturday, Trump called previous presidents 'really stupid' because they had waged wars in 'faraway places where they weren’t even wanted.'" Read the complete Trump War Glossary: lnk.thebulwark.com/4loslyi

"This fault lies directly on Trump and Hegseth" -- Sen. Andy Kim points out that the Trump administration gutted the budget for the DoD's "civilian protection center," which could've helped Hegseth and company not bomb an elementary school in Iran

The president is handing out oversized clown shoes to his cabinet — and watching to see who refuses to wear them. It's Solzhenitsyn's Stalin story come to life: the first person to stop applauding ended up in the gulag. The lesson then, as now — never be the first to stop clapping.

Ossoff: "The president appears increasingly to have lost touch with reality. That is deeply concerning when you have a a cabinet much more concerned with winning his favor than giving good advice & the nation now plunged into war. It speaks to the necessity of winning these midterms in a landslide."

Trying to use less plastic? Big Oil and the plastics industry are spending billions to make sure everyone else uses more. “I think what stood out most is the deliberateness and intentionality over the years of pushing plastic into our lives,” said @bethgardiner.bsky.social. “It was such a shock."

Kim: The vast majority of what I hear in these classified briefings can be said publicly, but they intentionally do this to as a tactic to be able to prevent the American people from hearing and questioning what it is that they're doing. They know that the American people do not want a war

It takes a certain kind of…narcissistic nihilism to look across the country at people self-organizing against something that is generally a fairly good material symbol of the intangible class warfare that has alienated them and say, “what a silly distraction from what *really* matters.” And yet…

This is so freaking great. #EpsteinFiles

Page One @miamiherald.com

Who would have guessed that the legal system in America was so fragile that a single crazy president could ignore the whole thing, from the Constitution right down to state laws? Why does the Supreme Court and Congress let this demented moron act like the dictator of a banana republic?

Trump's decision to bomb Iran is now the greatest windfall to the Russian war effort on record. If it continues, it might save the Russian war economy.

The DOJ released evidence, which the FBI deemed credible, that the President of the United States sexually and physically assaulted a 13 year old girl AND she was afraid to talk about it because Trump would kill her—and it’s somehow not the biggest scandal in American history?

This is what ecocide looks like.

Please please read this from the archbishop of Chicago www.archchicago.org/statement/-/...

MUST READ. Thank you @djrothkopf.bsky.social

Wait, WHAT? The USA attacked and destroyed an UNARMED vessel? WTAF

I was wondering why my legs and feet are aching so much, then I realized I walked almost 15 miles over the past three days. #tourguidelife

What the fuck is wrong with America. That his approval is anywhere near 40 is madness. He should be closer to 20. Fuck sake the dems and others are not making the case that he is STEALING democracy from under their noses. In plain sight. Something must be done.

We already went through this shit in Iraq. You don’t fund the GOPs dumb as fuck wars. Period. This isn’t hard. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

Fuck Trump and every single person who supports him. One day they will pay for the pain and suffering they cause. #illegalwar

This is insane and dangerous and unamerican.

Trump: "If we didn't do what we're doing right now, you would've had a nuclear war and they would've taken out many countries. Because you know what? They're sick people. They're mentally ill sick people. They're angry. They're crazy. They're sick. Thank you very much. Thank you very much everybody"

Yup.

She would have been an AMAZING president. OMG #Imstillwithher

Follow the money. The war in Iran was started to line their pockets and to distract from the Epstein files.

Of course. No one wanted this war. They wanted food and health care and energy prices to go down. Now all those things will cost more. It's a war of folly by a doddering old man who likes when things blow up and needs to distract us from the child sex ring he's connected to.

A PSA from Thomas Massie:

> @covie93.bsky.social

Khanna: "Clinton has set a precedent, a new Clinton rule. That means Trump should do the same -- answer questions -- and Howard Lutnick should do the same. I'm working with a Republican to subpoena Lutnick next week ... someone made allegations against Trump that she was sexually abused as a minor"

Meanwhile, @greenpeaceusa.bsky.social risks "a potentially fatal verdict" in the pipeline suit. This will likely end up in front of #CorruptSCOTUS so they can use it to chip away at the First Amendment. (Gift link.) www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/c...

JFC out of the frying pan, into the fire, and yet, the #epsteinfiles will not go away. Exclusive: Prior to attacks, CIA assessed Khamenei could be replaced by hardline IRGC elements - www.reuters.com/world/middle...

When Bush lied us into an illegal war, he expended some effort convincing us that the lies were real. That was enough to delude a huge majority of Americans, still traumatized by 9/11, into supporting the war. Trump didn't bother, and he's going into this without public support. Huge difference.

I’m 58. This is basically true.

The war is aimed at regime change, has spread across the Middle East, and was started without the consent of the American people.

Cover of The Lancet: @thelancet.com www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Bravo @djrothkopf.bsky.social “the speech did not just break records for its duration and its lies, but also for its insufferability, its incoherence, its offensiveness, and the danger its contents present for the future of the country.”

democrats should internalize that this is what their colleagues think of them and act accordingly

Every accusation an admission…

I’m watching the #SOTU in the Ed Sullivan Theater with the audience for @colbertlateshow.bsky.social Everyone is shaking their heads and/or laughing at the lies and BS spilling from his mouth. It is gratifying to see so many people loathing him all together; I can’t wait to see what Colbert says.

“Epstein is less the thread that connects the rich and powerful than … the common denominator for the cursed ideas—white supremacy and patriarchy, a cheapening of human life and human values and human choice—propelling the apocalypse forward.” Brilliance from @anamariecox.bsky.social Please read!

Excellent analysis (as always) from @thomaszimmer.bsky.social Please read! @hcrichardson.bsky.social I would LOVE you to interview Prof. Zimmer one of these days. I can only imagine what an interesting conversation it would be.

I can't get over this number: in 2007, there were 360,000 newspaper jobs. Now, there are 80,000. "My local paper sucked!" Sure. What sucks even more? The void. "I get all my news from the Guardian!" No, the Guardian doesn't report on your town council, your school board, local cops.

Pritzker’s invoice to White House: (via @nbcnews.com) @govpritzker.illinois.gov

Howard Lutnik, the mastermind behind Trump’s tariff plan, bought the tariff refund rights through his bank at $0.25 on the dollar last year. Actively betting on his own policy to not work. Lutnik and his bank now stand to make billions.