This is excellent. open.substack.com/pub/no01/p/m...

“We cannot remain silent in the face of the suffering of so many people, innocent victims of these conflicts.” www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...

“Dictators, in reality, thrive not on love but on indifference. … They feed off the tepid responses to violence and the thousands of daily compromises that citizens choose to survive.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/b...

More trustworthy than Bari Weiss and Tom Cibrowski … web.archive.org/web/20260320...

The thing to remember is that people like Bari Weiss, RFK Jr., Pete Hegseth, Pam Bondi, Markwayne Mullin, Marco Rubio, Mike Johnson, JD Vance, and Donald Trump are put in charge of things, not to fix them, but to destroy them. Corruption thrives in chaos. wtop.com/national/202...

“In recent days, Republicans in the House and Senate have made the remarkable argument that there is no need for them to question Trump administration officials under oath about the war because those officials are already fielding news media questions about it.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/u...

“… increasingly incoherent messaging from Washington …” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Words to live by: “One should not … set the sofa on fire in order to heat the room.” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Netanyahu: “Does anyone really think that someone can tell President Trump what to do?” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

“One previous attempt to engage Trump on the status of the talks deteriorated when the president switched the conversation to one of his favourite topics: shoes.” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

“One Gulf 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.’” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Joe Kent is a right-wing lunatic with a “PANZER” tattoo (yes, in the original German), has close ties to White Nationalists and extremist paramilitary groups, he has consulted with Fuentes about social media strategy, employed a Proud Boy on his campaign - and that’s just off the top off my head.

Joe Kent, director of the National Counterterrorism Center: “Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/w...

The cemetery of Minab, photographed as it prepares to bury more than 100 of the town’s young girls, is one of the defining images of the war on Iran. Google’s Gemini and Musk’s Grok say the photo is not real, but the AI platforms are wrong: The image is authentic. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Lá Fhéile Pádraig sona dhaoibh.

Welcome to Kentucky. Again.

Ali and Waed Odeh, and two of their four children, were shot in the head by Israeli soldiers. The family was killed late Saturday after going out to buy new clothes for Eid al-Fitr. apnews.com/article/mide...

Trump says US may strike Iran’s Kharg Island oil export hub ‘just for fun’ www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

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.

Anti-Muslim rhetoric rises among Republicans with little pushback this time from GOP leadership apnews.com/article/repu...

War has already displaced nearly a million Lebanese, and aid groups warn of a humanitarian crisis apnews.com/article/leba...

Hope turns to despair among anti-regime Iranians as Israel and the US kill civilians and destroy essential infrastructure and culturally significant historical sites. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Ghost town: St. Louis city’s long struggle with vacant, abandoned buildings rwklose.com/wp-content/u...

“Traditionally, the Republican Party’s relationship to these far-right figures has been an uneasy mix of pandering and embarrassment. One of Trump’s innovations was to dispatch with all shame, reveling in the energy born of smashing taboos.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/o...

A large explosion rocked an area of Iran’s capital where thousands were gathered Friday for an annual state-organized rally to support the Palestinians and call for Israel’s demise. Israel had earlier warned that it would target the area in central Tehran. apnews.com/article/iran...

A man with a rifle who crashed into a large Michigan synagogue lost four family members in an Israeli airstrike in his native Lebanon last week. apnews.com/article/mich...

“… an erratic president who has destabilized the world economy through tariffs and now has led us into war ...” heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-12-2...

“It’s becoming abundantly clear that the political appointees at the EPA are more invested in protecting pesticide company profits than the health of Americans.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

“When social media feeds provide your very own bespoke bullshit, it’s almost impossible to be educated by the truth.” tinabrown.substack.com/p/trumps-wil... by @tinabrownlm.bsky.social

Some things never change.

An ongoing military investigation has determined that the United States is responsible for a deadly Tomahawk missile strike on an Iranian elementary school, according to U.S. officials and others familiar with the preliminary findings. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/u...

AP photos from Iran, Israel, Lebanon. apnews.com/photo-galler...

“Operation Epic Fury is certainly not the first time that the United States has acted out of the belief that overwhelming airpower can compel rapid political collapse. The US war in Vietnam exposed the limits of this assumption.” www.foreignaffairs.com/iran/why-esc...

The worst cabinet in American history open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...

“Destruction and governance are entirely different enterprises. And confusing them is how empires exhaust themselves.” theconversation.com/iraq-wars-af...

Missouri’s Sen. Eric Schmitt: “One of the most aggressive of MAGA nationalists, even among the Republican elected officials.” bsky.app/profile/arde...

Pity the poor reporters who have to make sense out of this.

“A Christian hotel owner opened her doors to Shiite Muslims fleeing Israel’s bombardment of the southern outskirts of Beirut. Then an Israeli missile struck the hotel, killing her 34-year-old receptionist.” www.nytimes.com/video/world/...

Murphy: “I think it’s likely the U.S. carried out this attack on this school — I think it's unforgivable under any circumstances, but the fact that this was one of our 1st targeting decisions, that this mistake was made on the 1st day of war — I think speaks to the incompetence of our leadership”

“Trump’s Iran adventure … is running hard into reality. It appears that Trump saw the strikes themselves as the culmination of his performance and did not have a plan for what would happen after them.” heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-8-2026

Mounting evidence points to US culpability for the Feb. 28 strike, which hit a school, killing more than 165. apnews.com/article/iran...

“He’s a white Christian nationalist and has the arsenal of the United States government at his disposal and a permission slip from President Trump to deploy carnage wherever he wishes against whomever he wishes.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Fox News used old video of Donald Trump in multiple reports, concealing from viewers that the commander-in-chief wore a golf hat throughout a ceremony on Saturday in which he saluted the remains of the first US troops to die in his war on Iran. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Bayer supplies white phosphorous, via intermediaries, to the United States military, which uses it to fill white phosphorus munitions at the Pine Bluff Arsenal in Arkansas. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/c...

As the US temporarily lifts oil sanctions on Russia, the president downplays reports that Russia is providing intelligence to help Iran target US troops and assets. apnews.com/article/iran... #iran

“The White House has leaned into an online propaganda campaign that seems less about intimidating Iran or projecting US strength abroad than it is about reaching a rather niche domestic audience: young rightwing American men who spend a lot of time online.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The President who promised to be the “President of Peace” and to put America First is now casually shrugging off the possibility of Americans dying at home because of a war he chose.

Discovered a few prints of my grandfather’s woodcuts, including these two, in a 1928 publication sbc.org.pl/Content/5701... #schlesien

“Optimus Grime” cleans the aisles of my local grocery store. It’s doing a job one of my sons performed when he was young.

Freiheit ohne Gleichheit ist Ausbeutung. Gleichheit ohne Freiheit ist Unterdrückung. Solidarität ist die Quelle von Freiheit und Gleichheit. Rosa Luxemburg, geboren am 5. März 1871