On March 12, Israeli drone attacks killed Dr. Hussein Bazzi Dean of the Faculty of Sciences at the Lebanese University’s Rafik Hariri Campus in Hadath, and Dr. Mortada Srour, Professor of Chemistry and Physics at the same institution. See MESA letter: mesana.org/advocacy/com...

Everything happening now in Lebanon & Iran—the killing of schoolchildren, the targeting of hospitals & healthcare workers, the murder of journalists & its open justification, the bombing of universities—every single war crime that has been normalized was forced upon our consciousness first in Gaza

Sandra Wong, the great granddaughter of Wong Kim Ark, is preparing to march at the #NoKings Rally in San Francisco. Today is the 128th Anniversary of the SCOTUS decision affirming birthright citizenship.

Lebanese artist Ali Sbeity Sbeity, who painted vibrant portraits and landscapes of his rural hometown in Southern Lebanon, has reportedly been killed in an Israeli strike.

Good afternoon. This is your daily reminder that Trump just lifted sanctions on Iran to give them $14 BILLION to hep fund their war against us. In other words, your daily reminder that this is probably the dumbest war of all time.

Leavitt on regime change in Iran: "Has it not? Their entire leadership has been killed. Wouldn't you say there's been a change in the regime? Thank you for confirming the president was right."

Israeli attacks on Lebanon have killed 1,094 people and wounded 3,119 since March 2nd. — 121 children killed. — 42 healthcare workers killed. (source: Lebanese Ministry of Health)

The U.S. and Israeli bombardments of Iran have devastated tens of thousands of civilian facilities, the Iranian Red Crescent Society says, killing over a thousand civilians so far and damaging infrastructure considered completely off limits in war time like schools and hospitals.

🎉 Congratulations to Emily Gregory on her election to represent House District 87! We know you will fight hard for Palm Beach County in Tallahassee. Democrats just flipped Trump's home seat and Mar-a-lago!

The US government collected over $1 billion in immigration fees then refused to process the applications. No denials. No refunds. Just silence. This is the largest fee fraud in the history of the American immigration system. Here's what's happening. 🧵

It's just unreal how little thought or planning went into starting a new massive war in the Middle East.

[walks to the fridge immediately]

NEW: For the first time, ProPublica has been able to quantify how many U.S. citizen children have been directly affected by Trump’s immigration crackdown: more than 11,000 kids had a parent detained — and that’s an undercount. 1/ 🧵 www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Israeli military says it is conducting strikes in Tehran reut.rs/4lMQq24

Sign on the door of a food shop in Iran: “No worries. If you need it, take it. You can bring the money after the war.”

The “main goal” of the Iran War may have changed, reports Washington Post: “Israeli officials said securing the [Strait of Hormuz] for energy shipments could become the war’s main goal now that regime change and ending Iran’s ability to obtain a nuclear weapon seem out of reach.”

This year Eid Al-Fitr, marking the end of Ramadan, and NoRuz, marking the first day of spring and the Iranian New Year fall on the same day. The people of Iran, Gaza, Lebanon, the Arabian Peninsula, and Sudan are marking these days under the dark clouds of conflict. May peace and justice prevail.

A brilliant & perceptive critic. He wrote one of the best profiles on Iranian American artist Siah Armajani www.newyorker.com/magazine/199...

AP follows the @notus.com report on how the Trump administration had already gutted the State Dept’s staff of Middle East policy experts — and “eliminated the dedicated Iran office ..” @apnews.com apnews.com/article/iran...

This year my sabzeh is quite pathetic, but it fits the mood of this Noruz.

Trump: "Some of this weaponry is unthinkable. You don't even want to know about it. Oh, you could end this thing in two seconds if you wanted to."

We analyzed atmospheric conditions using NOAA’s HYSPLIT model to track smoke dispersion over Tehran, simulating how particles from the fires spread under recorded wind conditions.

MERIP provides succinct, insightful series of articles & interviews on the regional impact of Israel & US' war on Iran www.merip.org/2026/03/war-...

Outrageous. Stripping Liam Conejo Ramos and his family of asylum is beyond cruel and indefensible. This decision must be overturned. Shame.

Academic freedom doesn't mean you HAVE to hire race scientists, especially not one who says "In a meritocracy… Black people would disappear from virtually all high-ranking positions, with the exception of sports and entertainment"

“The farmworker movement has always been bigger and far more important than any one individual. … I have kept this secret long enough. My silence ends here.” Read Dolores Huerta's statement on Cesar Chavez in full:

The credible allegations against Cesar Chavez for rape and sexual abuse are horrific. My heart is with the survivors who, for decades, have seen their abuser lauded as a hero. As one of them says: “The movement — that’s the hero.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/u...

In the early morning, residents were given an hour warning to evacuate before their homes were bombed apnews.com/video/israel...

Ugh

It’s 90F. Simone went outside, quickly took care of business, ran back inside & parked herself in front of the AC. #CaliHeatWave

A proposed radical re-making of Charlottesville's Robert E. Lee monument, the melted-down remnants of which are now in MOCA's "Monuments" exhibition, may be the most radical re-making of US national symbols and our civic narrative that I've ever seen. www.instagram.com/p/DV_GOyXkQu...

Cuba’s electrical grid has collapsed. The island-wide blackout comes amid a harsh U.S. oil blockade and recent comments from Trump that he wants to “take” Cuba. No oil shipments have reached the country in three months, compounding a humanitarian crisis caused by decades of severe U.S. sanctions.

A blockade that causes a national power grid to collapse would be a crime against humanity. www.cnn.com/2026/03/16/a...

Israel says it killed Ali Larijani and Gholamreza Soleimani, the highest profile assassinations since the targeting of Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on the first day of the war. n.pr/4bvxtMs

UK security adviser attended US-Iran talks and judged deal was within reach. One diplomat with knowledge of the talks said: “We regarded Witkoff and Kushner as Israeli assets that dragged a president into a war he wants to get out of.”

The fact that neither “It Was Just an Accident” nor “The Secret Agent” won anything at the Oscars “is a reminder of the Academy’s cultural myopia,” Justin Chang writes. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/67xQmu

The growing human toll of Trump's Middle East "excursion."

Today I got my 93 year old dad away from war in CNN for a bit. We went to a local market & stocked up on Persian treats. A bit of normalcy amidst all of it.

NEW: The Trump administration is seeking to oust the president of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, in its talks with Cuban political leaders. It plans to allow the Castro family to keep power if they agree to economic changes, creating a client state for the US. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/w...

just plainly evil.

This is a lie on a scale of Elon Musk saying he would cut the deficit to zero. Just insane. Not just untrue, but the opposite of the truth, which is that immigrants are lowering the deficit. www.cato.org/white-paper/...

Tears your heart into pieces. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/15/w...

ABC: Can you say why we're sending 5,000 Marines and sailors? TRUMP: Shhhhh. You're a very obnoxious person

“legally evacuated to the U.S. after the fall of Kabul”

“With all newspapers in Germany being told what to publish and how to write the news and editorials, it was inevitable that a deadly conformity would come over the nation’s press.” - William Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, p. 406

It’s crystal clear now that Trump has lost control of this war. He badly misjudged Iran’s ability to retaliate. The region is on fire. 1/ I’m going to explain to you in this🧵what I’ve learned - in part from closed door briefings - about the four biggest current crises.

Americans are dying so that Kushner can make money