When Brandon Herrera ran for Congress in 2024, the Republican Jewish Coalition called him “a goose-stepping extremist” and spent big to take him down. Two years later, he’s the presumptive GOP nominee — and his former foes are staying home. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

Several ambulances belonging to a Jewish volunteer rescue organization were set on fire outside a synagogue in a neighborhood home to London’s largest Jewish community early on Monday, in what police are treating as an anti-Semitic attack. www.cnn.com/2026/03/22/u...

What I'm discovering during this war is that it's pointless to be a strategy expert if the main belligerent is not using strategy

Around 7000 Americans were killed on Iwo Jima and 19,000 wounded, and it was part of a campaign that ended with a nuclear weapon being used, so maybe not the wisest comparison.

The US President casually announcing his intention to commit war crimes on social media. That's where you're at, America.

United Airlines has updated its contract of carriage to stipulate that "passengers who fail to use headphones while listening to audio or video content" can be refused travel or removed from the aircraft. https://cnn.it/4lKOYx1

After months away, Portland teen detained by ICE returns to the soccer field

"Make no mistake: the SAVE America Act is one of the most brazen attacks on women’s voting rights in the League’s 106-year history. Democracy must invite voters in, not lock them out. Reject this legislation."—Celina Stewart, LWV CEO www.lwv.org/newsroom/pre... @lwvus.bsky.social @lwvva.bsky.social

A transformational shift in public opinion is happening in Germany, France, Canada and the UK, away from the US and towards China www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

Three men, including the star 19-year-old wrestler Saleh Mohammadi, were executed by hanging in Iran on Thursday after they were convicted of killing two police officers during protests in January, the Iranian authorities said. Human rights groups had raised concerns about the cases against them.

This is very bad news for our society...

After a series of suicides allegedly linked to AI chatbots, one lawyer is trying to hold companies like OpenAI accountable. www.wired.com/story/how-ai...

The Congressional Hispanic Caucus on Wednesday said it would work toward renaming federal landmarks and holidays bearing Cesar Chavez’s name, after the late labor-movement icon was accused of sexually abusing minors and women who were part of his activist movement.

Please realize that our biomedical research - like almost every other part of US science - is being demolished. And once you destroy it, you can't snap your fingers and get it back. It's gone. Biomedical research was THE breakthrough area in US science. There were miracles in the pipeline. No more.

Dolores Huerta issued a statement following the New York Times’ investigation into sexual misconduct by Cesar Chavez medium.com/@dolores_hue...

Churchill: "Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy...The Statesman who yields to war fever must remember, however sure you are that you can easily win, that there would not be a war if the other man did not think he also had a chance." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

🔥🔥 RAND PAUL confronts Trump DHS pick Markwayne Mullin at hearing: "I just wonder if someone who applauds violence against their political opponents is the right person to lead an agency that has struggled to accept limits to the proper use of force." www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

Trump does not think strategically, historically, geographically, or even rationally. He does not connect actions he takes on one day to events that occur weeks later. Allied leaders know that if they help him in the Gulf, he won't be grateful, or even remember www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

More than offering inspirational words for students with disabilities, if Newsom runs for president, what will he do for students with disabilities? Will he commit to fully funding IDEA? Will he commit to ending restraint and seculsion? Representation is nice. Policy is better.

BREAKING: huge summary judgment win in our Voice of America case EVERYONE put on admin leave is ordered rehired & all other decisions made by the Trump admin to gut agency down to "statutory minimum" r "vacated and set aside" Kudos to r amazing partners & clients in labor, democracy & journalism

NEW @politico.com: Longevity influencer Peter Attia had a deeper relationship with Jeffrey Epstein than he publicly acknowledged last month. - He asked Epstein for patient referrals - He met a foreign-born model through Epstein, whom he interviewed for a job www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

The economic toll of ICE’s recent campaign of terror in Maine is starting to come into focus. $10-$20 million, according to @mecep.bsky.social. That includes an estimated $3.4 million hit to retail sales alone. These are BIG numbers for a small state like Maine.

ICE agents in Maine did not follow policy when they threatened observers, DHS lawyer says

A righteous lawsuit. "The teen is suing xAI as part of a group of Tennessee teenagers who allege the company’s AI tools were used to create nude images of them by editing photos in which they were clothed." Surely Congress could stop this tomorrow. wapo.st/4uwe5aT

“These kind of attacks on immigrants hurt us all by reducing the size of the workforce, reducing business activity," #mepolitics www.mainepublic.org/business-and...

A history of America First streamer Nick Fuentes’ extreme misogyny: www.mediamatters.org/nick-fuentes...

‘Mr. Nobody Against Putin’ Director: “This is about how you lose your country — through small acts of complicity: when a government murders people on the streets, when oligarchs take over the media… we all face a moral choice. But even a nobody is more powerful than you think."

The way our nation turned its back on those who helped us at great risk to themselves and their families is an unforgivable national shame. We owed Mohammad Nazeer Paktyawal. Instead, ICE arrested him in front of his children and he died in their custody. We failed him and his family.

Oh this is good! I was wondering why Trump has treated Marina Corina Machado like a gnat on his shoulder.

Staffing “was always bad. And now it’s at a breaking point,” a VA psychologist said. They described being stretched so thin that one-on-one appointments were cut down to 16 minutes or replaced with group sessions with as many as 35 veterans.

Declan Coady was an Eagle Scout who served the homeless. He was the youngest service member killed in the Iran war. The embodiment of an Eagle Scout. www.kcrg.com/2026/03/05/w...

The mood in Moscow was triumphant after Trump administration temporarily lifted some sanctions on Russian oil because of the Iran war, report Ivan Nechepurenko and @paulsonne.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/w...

Kenek Bautista Torres has high-support needs #autism. Without access to therapy, his mother said he would hit himself, cry through the night and beg her to let him return to his school in Louisiana. His mother worries about how much he may have regressed — and whether the trauma will linger.

I spent the past two years writing a book on men and by far the thing that scares me the most about their future is sports betting. @mckaycoppins.bsky.social's piece showed me, I wasn't scared enough. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

This is true 100% and I’ll add 2 more points. 1. As it was a Reform synagogue, there probably are many members who oppose the Netanyahu government and what it’s doing. 2. Violence against others for their beliefs is never legitimate.

An important new U.N. investigation finds Russia’s abduction of thousands of Ukrainian children amounts to crimes against humanity. The world must stand together to reunite these children with their families and hold those responsible accountable.

1. A reminder that Candace Owens’ podcast is almost always in the top ten “news” podcasts on Apple, alongside NYT’s The Daily, and each episode of her show surpasses 1 million views on YouTube alone. Her channel, which has nearly six million subs, averages more than 60 million views per month.

From Dutch intelligence, on Russian efforts to gain access to your Signal and WhatsApp accounts english.aivd.nl/latest/news/...

I'm beating a dead horse but it's not that there was "no plan," it's that there isn't a military solution period if Iran has been provoked into going big, short of "invade Bandar Abbas" The plan is -don't do a war with Iran if you don't have to -if you do then terminate it as quickly as possible

Note that Platner claims that everyone knows about his negatives from media revelations, but that's not true, making this 2 point lead over Collins meaningless. No one has run a single negative ad against him yet. Collins and the GOP will. Both Mills and Platner can win or lose. #mepolitics

I guess all those people on X who claimed it was an Iranian missile and Bellingcat had lied about it being a Tomahawk are rushing to correct themselves - U.S. at Fault in Strike on School in Iran, Preliminary Inquiry Says www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/u...

This story suggests that Witkoff and Kushner bungled the negotiations with Iran because they don't understand nuclear technology www.ms.now/news/trump-i...

The U.S. cost of the war in Iran has surpassed $10 billion so far — and counting. I need to double-check whether that figure includes the cost of repositioning all of those military assets to the Arabian Sea and the Persian Gulf. That alone ran into the hundreds of millions.

Breaking: SC newspaper verifies portions of Trump accuser's story. Textbook journalism. Local journalism. Support your local news outlets. www.postandcourier.com/news/epstein...

And viciously hard to end them

This is no different from Putin saying MH17 was shot down by Ukraine or Assad saying rebels gassed themselves.

"I've been going after fraud since before Dr Oz was on TV selling fake supplements" This is a good response. It’s defiant in the face of Trump’s political attacks, but also includes a lengthy (47 page) answer to their questions #mepolitics www.maine.gov/governor/mil...

Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs

VA has eliminated thousands of medical positions vacated by a wave of resignations and retirements last year. The total number of VA doctors and nurses fell for the first time in at least 20 years. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/u...