BREAKING Israeli and Islamic Republic officials told the New York Times that Mojtaba Khamenei, the new Supreme Leader, sustained leg injuries on February 28. Full Story: nyti.ms/40Tz6Pc

And we’re back in Helsinki

One of the law firms Trump tried to intimidate with an executive order is representing Anthropic in court. Here are the details of the two lawsuits against the government after DOD tried to blacklist the developer of Claude AI. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

2. What Washington fears are the consequences of a collapse of the state. A failed state could trigger very dangerous conditions: civil war among armed factions and militias, wider regional instability affecting states across the Persian Gulf, and major disruption to global oil flows and markets.

1. Fareed Zakaria: Israel and the US have separate goals in this war. What Israel wants is an Iranian state that can’t function, much like what happened to Syria for a decade. Syria mired in civil war actually helped Israel — one more enemy taken off the board.

“All I do is remove children from climbing the furniture, and then I go help someone who’s upset … and then I go stop someone from smearing poop all over the floor,” #OntEd #OntEdReality www.torontotoday.ca/local/educat...

One thing I've been stressing is that, if Hormuz traffic remained stopped, the monumental oil supply shock will manifest as sharp price spikes in wealthy nations that sap disposable incomes In poorer countries, the shock will manifest as outright physical shortages.

Exclusive: HSI, a branch of DHS that usually investigates drug cartels and human trafficking networks, is now probing the 2020 election results in Arizona: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

⚡️Russia committed crimes against humanity through deportation of Ukrainian children, UN inquiry finds. The forced deportation and transfer of Ukrainian children by Russia throughout its full-scale war in Ukraine amounts to crimes against humanity, a UN investigation published on March 10 found.

(Guardian) — Iran has spurned two messages from Donald Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, seeking a ceasefire as its leaders sense it is not losing the war and the US president is at the minimum feeling the political pressure. @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

NBA's ALL-TIME record for points in a single game: 1. Wilt Chamberlain: 100 points 2. Bam Adebayo, 83 points 3. Kobe Bryant, 81 points

"Attorney General Pam Bondi has quietly relocated to one of several military bases in the Washington area where other Trump administration officials also live, after facing threats from drug cartels and critics of her actions in handling the Jeffrey Epstein case..." ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 🎁🔗

Just as Putin’s arrogance blinded him to the risks of war in Ukraine, Trump’s construction of an echo chamber in the executive branch has warped his judgment.

“In my 15 years in the Senate, I have never left a briefing this angry. We are heading down a path toward sending U.S. troops to Iran as ground forces,” — Sen. Richard Blumenthal

#Breaking: NDP MP Lori Idlout crossing the floor to join Carney's Liberals

PRESS RELEASE: NoJetsTO Condemns Premier Ford and Ports Toronto shutting Torontonians out of the airport debate. Tell Ford you want a say at NoJetsTO.com! af93970d-16e7-4a9a-be2f-16918dd39444.usrfiles.com/ugd/af9397_b... #topoli #onpoli #cdnpoli

83 POINTS! Heat star Bam Adebayo has passed Kobe Bryant for the second-most points in a game in NBA history.

NEW: Before the Iran War, Trump ignored warnings that Iran could retaliate across the region and stop oil shipments. Now, with energy markets in chaos, some aides are pessimistic about the lack of a strategy to end the war. But they haven't told Trump. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/u...

Bam Adebayo has scored 81 points in a game

Holy shit - this would be very, very bad: "The databases, called “Numident” and the “Master Death File,” include records for more than 500 million living and dead Americans, including Social Security numbers, places and dates of birth, citizenship, race and ethnicity, and parents’ names."

With Lori Idlout crossing the floor from the NDP, the Liberals now need two seats for a majority Three by-elections are scheduled for April 13

“I Was a US Intelligence Analyst. Here's What a Ground Invasion of Iran Could Look Like” The Trump admin has 3 possible ground operation plans but, @harrisonmann.bsky.social writes for Zeteo, they all risk dragging the US into a forever war in Iran.

And then there were, apparently, 4 (who crossed the floor).

5/ And on the Strait of Hormuz, they had NO PLAN. I can't go into more detail about how Iran gums up the Strait, but suffice it say, right now, they don't know how to get it safely back open. Which is unforgiveable, because this part of the disaster was 100% foreseeable.

4/ Ok, so what ARE the goals? It seems, primarily, destroying lots of missiles and boats and drone factories. But the question that stumped them: what happens when you stop bombing and they restart production? They hinted at more bombing. Which is, of course, endless war.

3/ Second, they confirmed "regime change" is also NOT on the list. So, they are going to spend hundreds of billions of your taxpayer dollars, get a whole bunch of Americans killed, and a hardline regime - probably a MORE anti-American hardline regime - will still be in charge.

2/ Maybe the lead is that the war goals DO NOT involve destroying Iran's nuclear weapons program. This is, uh...surprising...since Trump says over and over this is a key goal. But then of course we already know air strikes can't wipe out their nuclear material.

I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public. I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are. 1/ Here's what I can share:

This is silly and false. The only operators of Tomahawk missiles are the U.S. Navy, Royal Australian Navy, Royal Netherlands Navy and Royal Navy. Iran has no Tomahawk missiles. If it did, it’d have no way to launch them.

This is terrible. The Ford government is splashing out cash to fund tunnels under the 401 and build shiny new convention centres on Toronto's waterfront and is harming the most vulnerable students to help fund it. #OntEd #OnPoli

Whoa. This is big. "The U.S. Navy has refused near-daily requests from the shipping industry for military escorts through the Strait of Hormuz since the start of the war on Iran, saying the risk of attacks is too high for now." www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Idiot plot

The Doug Ford government’s proposal to amalgamate conservation authorities received 14,000 public comments. Ontario now has a $20-million final plan to make it happen. thenarwhal.ca/ontario-cons...

BREAKING: Federal lawsuit over Jan 6 plaque will CONTINUE. Police argue plaque was hung in “hidden” location that’s no better than a basement storage room youtube.com/shorts/umXT1...

My @thestar.com column: For 15 years, Doug Ford has had an obsession with Toronto’s waterfront, hyping up half-baked ideas. The latest? A busier airport and a mega convention centre. But the waterfront has never needed Ford's ideas—and will be worse because of them. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

WALLACE: Why are we at war with Iran? CHRIS MURPHY: Great question. The simplest explanation might be the one they gave 24 hours in that they've kind of tried to backtrack from since -- that Israel made us do it.

Please help me share the post below. I don’t have a huge following, but this nomination is a bit under the radar and deserves more attention. His committee vote is this Thursday.

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Very different than the "neck and neck" poll that came out last week. Always look and see who's being a poll.

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Here we go again.

Elizabeth Warren: "I am a hard no on a supplemental. This is not a war the American people want us to engage in. This is not a war that makes us safer ... No. No more money. The only thing Congress has the power to do is to stop actions like this through the power of the purse."

Trump has now conducted 42 boat strikes, killing nearly 160 people. Remember: no judge or jury has found these boats were trafficking drugs. We're simply taking Trump's word for it. He’s unilaterally acting as judge, jury, and executioner. This is a danger to us all.

Russia is the one thing that can attack the US in countless ways and Trump never ever ever responds

Hm, yes, if only the provincial government would provide an option as an alternative to driving to Pearson. Maybe some sort of… express? www.thestar.com/news/gta/dou...

Doug Ford wants to be mayor of Toronto, part 1,308 www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

UNBELIEVABLE. What a bully! To thwart Toronto council saying "no" to him, Ford muses expropriating the airport. Me: 1) this issue was protested and settled as NO jets! in 2015. 2) Doug Ford lost his bid for Toronto mayor in 2014 but can't admit defeat - so he hypermeddles in all things Toronto.