To be clear: any outlet that reports "Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz" without reporting "because they explicitly said the ceasefire must include Lebanon and Israel is continuing to bomb Lebanon" is an outlet you cannot trust.

If you've ever wondered why this is true, it's because right-wing media has billionaire sponsors and left-wing media does not It is truly that simple

“It’s difficult to cover him in a way that conveys how unhinged he is. Journalists are trained to be like, ‘OK, what did he say that was newsworthy?’ So you convey that to your audience. But in reality, when you actually watch, you see he's full of hatred, lying constantly, and very incoherent.”

💯Every cut to NASA, NOAA, SNAP, USAID, and all the layoffs forced by the GOP and DOGE are chicken feed. The massive tax cuts to the rich, and the massive funding for privately owned concentration camps, masked goons, and the military industrial complex all over shadow the budget. It’s all a choice

We have an economic problem masquerading as a political one and if we do not address the billionaire crime syndicate destroying all dimensions of society, we may dilute the fascism a bit by not losing the next election but we sure as hell won't rid ourselves of it.

Fox News was just talking about Soleimani’s niece and grand niece getting arrested by ICE: “Both were granted asylum in 2019 under the Biden administration.” The question of who was actually president from Jan. 2017- Jan. 2021 continues to perplex Trump supporters.

This is a multigenerational sin that isn’t really reparable

Seems to me if you think you have divine sanction for your warmongering when it goes badly you have to consider the opposite proposition but they never seem to!

Multiple weapons experts have disputed a US claim that Iran may have been responsible for a deadly strike on the town of Lamerd on the first day of the Iran war, which killed 21 people. Weapons experts say a US PrSM missile was likely used in the strike. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Sorry, which side is supposed to be religious zealots here, someone remind me.

Los Angeles Bluesky, I need your help. I just learned that on Saturday at the protest at the downtown Metropolitan Detention Center, a friend’s 18-year-old son was shot in the eye with a pepper ball by DHS, permanently blinding him. He needs justice. If you were there and saw anything, please… 1/5

..."The notions that difference is a threat, that there exists a golden past that can be returned to, that capitalism and inequality are eternal, all depend on lies." Writing about sociology in tonight's newsletter and needed this 🔥 www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

YOU DID WHAT?

It's so utterly telling that the organization "StopAntisemitism" is defending the Trump administration compiling list of Jews on campus... which scares my Jewish students so much more than anything on campus that is supposedly being investigated.

BREAKING: After a late night at the Capitol to finish out the 2026 legislative session, we could not be more excited to share that WE DID IT! We successfully defeated ALL of the nearly 15 pieces of anti-LGBTQ legislation! Swipe to read our full statement:

While Trump has railed against drugs coming into the U.S., his DOJ has declined to prosecute nearly 5,000 federal drug cases, including trafficking and money laundering — 45% higher than the average of the prior three new administrations.

People say Trump has no war strategy, but his strategy is quite clearly a criminal one of destroying Iran's civilian infrastructure (and killing a bunch of people in the process) unless they capitulate. We -- the United States of America -- are a rogue state and global pariah.

I don't know of any Somali-Americans who've wiped away half a trillion dollars in market capitalization with one 20-minute speech.

@chrislhayes.bsky.social: "On this Trans Day of Visibility, I just want to say to all the trans folks out there watching that we see you, we support you, and we have your back, and you absolutely do not deserve all the despicable cruelty being thrown your way."

this is why it's vital to loudly and publicly support trans women and push back against these narratives. it is imperative that we not let the loudest voice be this stupid cunt

If the estimates were right, there were about 9 million people at No Kings rallies today. That would mean this protest was THIRTY TIMES AS LARGE AS THE TEA PARTY PROTEST which we were told, over and over again, was a massively important sign that US politics had shifted dramatically to the right

It’s such a laughably bad argument for the war on Iran to say “The people there want regime change.” I want regime change in the US, and I 100% do not want the US to be bombed. F off with garbage arguments.

The correlation between being a Jan 6er and being a pedophile is incredible, it must be like several standard deviations outside what you’d expect just based on chance

Elizabeth Banks

Withholding HIV, tuberculosis and malaria medications from Zambia in order to force the country to open its copper, cobalt and lithium reserves to U.S. companies is monstrous, diabolical. And the aid would still be half what it was before. This is evil.

There's no "here's how we're going to make life better for Americans," apart from violently attacking and deporting people of color or eliminating trans people from public life. No one gets anything out of it except people who enjoy seeing that happen. That's the only benefit anywhere to anyone

The President of the United States said I insulted Jesus. You want to know what insults Jesus? Kicking the sick off their healthcare. Bombing schoolchildren in Iran. Deporting moms and babies. Covering up the Epstein files.

"Police-involved pregnancies."

The very fact that in read outs of public opinion surveys, "Independents" are always presented between Dems and Reps pushes the false story that they're centrists. Sure, some are! But the largest growth of independents recently comes from pissed off leftists.

And remember the lesson from 2025: you can do ALL of that while firmly Embracing trans and other marginalized people bsky.app/profile/wolv...

Jesus Nick Brendon had a very hard life and seems like he made life hard on others. Very sad top to bottom.

billionaire: not pissing yourself is a modern invention interviewer: fascinating

Economic anxiety.

I know I've said this a trillion times but I have to say it periodically to keep from going insane: The right ran a huge, well-funded, & ultimately successful campaign to completely take over political media & the infosphere more generally. This is by far the most important political development...

I do not feel the slightest bit histrionic saying the party is dead if they won't stop this shit, and what replaces it will likely be worse. www.arlnow.com/2026/03/16/r...

If the NYT quoted Trump as they quoted AOC it would be: "Uh, numerous countries have told me they're on the way, uh, some are very enthusiastic about it, and some aren't. Some are countries that we've helped for many, many years, uh,"... (cont.)

Last month the NYT said AOC "struggled" to give an answer on Taiwan and quoted her with "uhs" and "ums" to make her look stupid Yesterday talking about Hormuz Trump claimed he's heard from "numerous countries" and said "uh" four times. The NYT deleted the "uhs" and paraphrased him to look smarter:

It’s interesting how every billionaire ceo’s ideology boils down to “you should give me all your money, I should be above the law, and I should be allowed to do anything I want.” Thiel being like, “oh you see because otherwise the antichrist” is barely an innovation

So @bencollins.bsky.social inspired me. In the middle of @katmabu.bsky.social‘s campaign, I had a major life crisis where I was living in an unsafe position and very, very scared. Law enforcement was involved. It was awful. Kat is the busiest person I know. I am her boyfriend’s business partner.

Just evil behavior from the US www.cnn.com/2026/03/16/a...

The US sanctions collapsed Cuba’s power gird. Cuba is not a threat to the US, but we’ve continued waging an economic war against them long after the missiles were removed. Why does any country have the “right” to dictate the economic system of another?

1) we have "energy independence" in the way he means, we are a net exporter of oil, the reason our prices go up with stuff like this is because GOP policy preference is oil company profit, not low consumer prices 2) we can get better, cheaper, cleaner "energy independence" from solar and wind

“Jewish text and tradition could not be clearer about our obligation to welcome the sojourner. In the U.S. today, that should look like a just immigration system that treats individuals with dignity and care,” said Rabbi Jill Jacobs, the CEO of T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights.

It’s hard to blame woke DEI when the military is losing a war because of the straits.

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.

Saw @garynumanofficial.bsky.social live in fucking concert, tonight and it was… really wonderful. Bunch of elder goths and youngns, queerdos, and neurodivergent ppl all in a room together. The opener, @tremoursmusic.bsky.social, was really great, too; much recommend. Helped my headspace, immensely.

Something has fundamentally broken in our collective episteme, and every day it goes on I'm less and less sure of what it's going to take to either repair it or build something new.

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