Tehran is a city of nine million people, with 17 million in the larger metropolitan area. Saturday is the first day of the week for Iranians. Millions of people are at work, and children are in school.

Israel is bombing Lebanon too, according to the Wall Street Journal

Nothing like starting a war when the House has a vote on whether or not it is legal early next week.

CNN reporting that the strikes on Iran tonight are joint US and Israeli strikes. Which means Donald Trump should be impeached for a third time. What he has done tonight is illegal under the US constitution and the UN charter.

Scary af, by @deanwb.bsky.social

#GEO A Private Prison Falsified Death Records. ICE Gave Them More Money. newrepublic.com/post/207120/...

New: As David Ellison prepares to take control of CNN, legendary CBS News producer Mary Walsh, who is exiting, sent a goodbye note to colleagues. In the note, Walsh writes, "We’ve been told to aim our reporting at a particular part of the political spectrum. Honestly, I don’t know how to do that."

Could the Higgs field in the way it “creates” mass via drag from particles also be what gravity actually is? I.e. gravity being the accumulated drag from matter? I doubt I have any theoretical physicists following me, but would love another informed layman’s thoughts as well.

Quakertown 5 Update: The marauding chief of police is now out on workers' comp leave. Apparently, he needs treatment for the wounds he incurred while choking and beating a teen girl.

Documents released by the DOJ revealed Brende had met the convicted sex offender for three business dinners and also communicated with Epstein over email and text messages.

NEW: Democrats are seeking access to any records that could identify which one of 15 anti-voting groups signed a “voter data agreement” with DOGE to share private voter data.  The demands are part of a wider congressional probe into the faux-agency’s involvement with election deniers.

JUST IN: A federal judge says the Trump administration has been “terrorizing” refugees — violating the promise America made to them when they fled persecution at home — by locking them up illegally. He blocked the policy for those in MN storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

New — I spoke to eight trans people in Kansas about the new state law that invalidated their driver’s licenses overnight, what’s it’s like to live there right now, plus details of two DMV emails exclusively obtained by The Handbasket that shed light on the law’s chaotic and cruel rollout:

It’s why I already voted for @julianastratton.bsky.social!

This comes amid a surge of violence by Israeli soldiers and settlers targeting Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. On Tuesday night, settlers set fire to vehicles and tents in the Palestinian village of Susya.

Dozens of international aid organizations have made a final appeal to the Israeli Supreme Court to prevent a de facto ban on their operations in Gaza and the occupied West Bank, set to take effect in early March.

Pure blackmail!. What they really want is the voter rolls so they can rig the next elections in favour of Trump! & Republicans.

Stansbury: “The vast majority of co-conspirators that were investigated were the women who assisted in Epstein's crimes— None of the male perpetrators who committed rape & SA, including potentially the president who’s accused in the files, have been called to testify & to account for what happened”

an important one by @justsamironly.bsky.social www.stlmag.com/news/city-ju...

Remember how I wrote this a few days ago about white plaintiffs claiming they were discriminated against & pointing to DEI as evidence? Well, a class action lawsuit has been filed against Philadelphia on behalf of all white male cops who were denied promotions & they're pointed to DEI as evidence.

Trump and Republicans are: -Trying to ram through a bill that would disenfranchise millions of voters -Considering an EO that would allow Trump to take over elections -Proposing to station ICE agents at polling places They’re trying to rig their way to victory. We won’t let them.

Great piece by @ewong.bsky.social puncturing the myth of Trump's "isolationism" and explaining how his actual approach is "an embrace, and even a celebration, of Western imperial histories." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/u...

The Guardian obtained the missing 302s. This story destroys the DOJ's excuse that they withheld the last three interviews because they were duplicative. The accuser covered different ground in different interviews.

More than a decade after a federal judge ruled that the New York Police Department’s stop-and-frisk practices violated the Constitution, the agency is still not following the law according to a new report by a court-appointed monitor. www.thecity.nyc/2026/02/26/n...

The state board of elections has determined that Elon Musk committed voter fraud in Georgia yet no major news outlets are reporting it.

Rep. Dan Goldman on Wednesday accused President Donald Trump of having been credibly accused of sexually assaulting a minor and alleged that the Justice Department is withholding related records from the public. Calling the situation “an outrage and a disgrace,” Goldman urged Attorney General Pam...

Behind the preserved historical facades, the ultra-rich are buying up adjacent townhomes in the West Village and Upper East Side, combining them into a megamansion. It's part of a broader trend of small multifamily buildings being turned into single-family homes. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Trump ordered all federal agencies to stop using Anthropic's AI technology in an escalation of the Pentagon's power struggle with the company

“He was using the modeling company as a cover in part for the sex trafficking… They would send the youngest girls down to Epstein’s place in Palm Beach… When Epstein formed that company, he said to her, I want it to be set up just like Donald Trump’s modeling agency.” Julie K Brown @meidastouch.com

Credit Where Credit's Due Dept.- The nickname "Presidementia" is from the JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE! NO KINGS PROTEST SIGN NICKNAME GUIDE. Many thanks to @jimmykimmellive.bsky.social & his writers! Save this chart for the upcoming NO KINGS DAY on March 28 next month. What's YOUR favorite nickname? #PedoPrez

Eva Woods is a tireless community leader in Los Angeles who has, for years, spearheaded care for our neighbors in MacArthur Park. She was recently assaulted and needs help to pay for extensive medical bills. If you can support, friends have organized a GoFundMe: www.gofundme.com/f/support-a-...

The U.S. has reported more than 1,000 measles cases in 2026—and we're just two months into the year. That's nearly half of all the cases reported in 2025. And public health experts say it's a sign that the U.S. has likely lost its measles elimination status. My reporting for @sciam.bsky.social:

St. Paul anti-ICE church protest: 30 more people indicted

I wrote about allegations by ANOTHER Epstein victim who said Trump raped her when she was 13 years old. The New Republic responded by writing multiple hit pieces on me. That other child rape case, and its court documents, are in my 2020 book HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT.

This is the exact type of hypocrisy people are sick of in politics. We need to be honest about who we are and who’s supporting us.

EXCLUSIVE: Documents obtained by The Atlantic detail internal battles at Meta over whether protecting kids from sexual grooming should take precedence over platform growth, Kaitlyn Tiffany and Michael Scherer report.

Great point here from @mjtoma.bsky.social: Trump effort to sabotage elections could get easier with right wing oligarchic control over big news organizations, which gives pro-Trump forces "effective control over how it is presented." newrepublic.com/post/207138/...

I wrote this last year about the oligarchs buying up all of legacy and social media. It's just as true now and extremely grim. www.thedissident.news/the-oligarch...

If only--IF ONLY--we knew a power couple close to Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell who could be deposed to answer questions about them! (scratches chin, furrows brow searching fruitlessly for any kind of answer)

1. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has announced that under a new deal with Scouting America, formerly Boy Scouts of America, trans scouts will be forcibly outed and segregated from peers of their gender. The policy is the latest cruel capitulation. www.erininthemorning.com/p/secdef-heg...

I love how they, including main stream media, have completely failed to mention, repeatedly, that there is literally a picture of her on the pole, dancing for Epstien, in THE TRUMP-EPSTIEN FILES.

Little scoop before publishing a full story on the situation later — I've obtained the email sent to all Kansas DMV employees by Kent Selk, Driver Services Manager for the Kansas Department of Revenue on how to handle the compulsory gender marker change for trans people. Full text of Selk's note:

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This is a big one. A newly uncovered document has revealed the existence of a mystery Epstein investigation. It was spearheaded by the DEA and involved drug trafficking and money laundering. Epstein was one of 15 targets. The other 14 names are redacted. I've got questions.

Sheriff Rivera said ICE’s tactics are dangerous because her deputies are encountering armed, masked men with no identifiers and having to determine in the moment whether or not they are federal agents.

Everything the Ellison family could own if Paramount buys Warner Bros: Paramount+ CBS CNN Showtime HBO Warner Bros TNT TBS MTV DC Studios Nickelodeon Comedy Central Cartoon Network And more... This is a rotten deal that the Trump regime has rubber stamped. State AGs must step in and block it.

Why haven't the Private Detectives that Epstein Hired to Move his Files Around to Storage Units: Been Located and Questioned?

This is a type of ICE "ruse," and is a tactic the agency has deployed for decades. In 2015, ICE went to my former client's house posing as cops and convinced his 16-year-old US citizen niece to call him home from work with a fake story (the "identity theft ruse" explained below), then arrested him.

Cops understand that the process *is* punishment. So beating the rap is nice, but it fucks you up, though theoretically you’re not being punished unless and until you’re convicted.

Files known to contain allegations of sexual abuse of a minor by President Trump have been withheld or removed by the Department of Justice.