‘Four Avenger-class mine countermeasure ships stationed in Bahrain were decommissioned in 2025 after each serving for over 30 years’ www.navytimes.com/news/your-na... Cc @starsandstripes.bsky.social #Iran #Trump #Russia

Trump lies about everything. This is dog bites man. But I’m glad it’s being called out.

Peter Thiel's Palantir is converting ICE into the secret police of the future. When the masked ICE officers appeared in Minneapolis late last year and attacked migrants, activists, and other citizens like an occupying force, it wasn't just an assault on a city. It was also a test of a software-

Just a reminder that in January of this year, Trump and Hegseth decommissioned EVERY US mine sweeper. Yep. Every. Last. One. Evidently they could never imagine a scenario in which the US needed minesweepers. In Trump's America, we are governed by idiots.

Trump: "I do believe I'll be having the honor of taking Cuba. That's a big honor. Taking Cuba in some form. I think I can do anything I want with it, if you want to know the truth."

Gregory Bovino was removed from his position in January after federal agents’ killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis.

Good. Greg Bovino led the mass kidnapping and disappearing campaign in several U.S. cities this last year, including Minneapolis, where without evidence, he claimed Alex Pretti intended to “massacre” federal agents. Retiring though is not enough. There must be accountability.

Greg Bovino won’t just get to walk away — he will be held accountable and responsible for the damage he's done to our nation. We won’t forget, and neither should you. No one is above the law.

After working with the U.S. military in Afghanistan, Mohommad Nazeer Paktyawal died in the country he spent years of his life helping. The cruelty is endless.

#Trump spiritual advisor indicted in Oklahoma for alleged child sex abuse www.kgou.org/criminal-jus... #pedophile #Oklahoma

This is unforgivable: Afghan who fought with US special forces — and was legally evacuated to the U.S. — dies in ICE custody www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

We need a pirate radio tv station playing this clip incessantly to every us military base and robo mailing it to every service member. This is exactly how he values you.

NEW: House Oversight Committee wants to interview Epstein prison guard -- interview request comes after @miamiherald exclusively reported that she was overheard by inmate talking about covering up his killing. Here is a free link to our story: www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...

Trump Removes Sanctions on his friend Putin to Help Oil Flow Amid Iran Conflict but also channel billions of US taxpayer dollars to Russia while it attacks Ukraine www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/u...

it’s unreal how these grown-ass men had no problem destroying untold lives with chatGPT but go crying to a judge when people make fun of them online

Pleased to be quoted alongside Sarah Yager in this piece. “The basic idea is that it’s both inhumane and counterproductive to execute people who have laid down their arms.” And an outrageous war crime to even announce you will do so. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/...

Update: the videos have been taken off YouTube after a government request and a judge order www.404media.co/doge-deposit...

What stands out to me is the arrogance. The surefootedness that this was the correct thing to do despite no experience in government. The presumption that they were entitled to use their own uninformed judgement to cut funds to things that they don’t personally value www.404media.co/i-watched-6-...

At least Putin is happy. Funny how that worked out.

✋ Former USG war crimes lawyer here. Apropos of SecDef's remarks this morning: Denial of quarter—even the declaration of no quarter—is a war crime. And recognized as such by the US Government. From DoD's Manual for Military Commissions.

Pentagon orders Stars & Stripes to limit the use of wire services, eliminate comic strips and other syndicated material. www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2...

Wow huge break for russia. so weird. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/u...

Fantastic work, @willbunch.bsky.social: "In a cruel irony, the loss of public trust in government ... caused Americans to turn to a dictator too lazy to even come up with good fibs this time around. And with no plausible answer to the question, why are we in Iran?" www.inquirer.com/opinion/iran...

Trump Rewards Russia for Helping Iran Target US Service Members emptywheel.net/2026/03/13/t...

Putin is the beneficiary of Trump’s attack of Iran www.reuters.com/business/ene...

A girls school in Iran had a website filled with photos of students and listed its address online. It was destroyed in a strike on the first day of the war. The school's online presence raises serious questions about how the US military reviews strike locations reut.rs/411S0Dy

Under Trump, the world’s most powerful military does not verify targets? www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/u... #soldier #veteran #honor

Trump and Hegseth murdered Iranian schoolgirls.

Hegseth’s Pentagon spent $100,000 on a Steinway grand piano for a general’s home. $60,000 in luxury recliners.

The key beneficiary from Trump's War on Iran is Russia: Figures from thinktank show Russia received extra €672m in revenues from oil, gas and coal during March so far. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Trump's EPA head caught scheming with German chemical giant Bayer AG to thwart judicial awards over glyphosate-based weed killer. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

In less than 1 week, Trump wasted $11.3 BILLION of your taxpayer dollars on the Iran war. Instead that money could have: - Restored SNAP to 4 million Americans - Established universal pre-K education - Built 100,000 units of housing Our priorities are warped.

The 2026 National Science Foundation budget is $8.75 Billion.

Trump officials privately pessimistic there's a strategy to end war, but they fear telling this to Trump, NYT reports. On the pod, @profsaunders.bsky.social brilliantly explains how this shows perils of "personalist" rule and the total absence of constraints on him: newrepublic.com/article/2076...

$11.3 billion could cover any of the following for a full year: -1.4 million people on Medicaid -19 million kids getting free school lunches -1.4 million people getting affordable housing -1.1 million hungry seniors fed -0.8 million children given free child care

Just fully detached from reality here.

Fine reporting by investigative reporters Steve Eder and Devlin Barrett on #FBI cover-up in #Epstein files undermined by #NYT’s inexplicable use of the ridiculous word ‘missteps’ in the title. The #NYT has great #journalists. Why do the editors of headlines do this? www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/u...

In 1935, NYT published this: Germany Begins a Drive To End Non-Nazi Press; ' Dictator' May Dismiss Editors and Suppress Newspapers -- gift article from The New York Times. www.nytimes.com/1935/04/26/a...

NEW: DOD employees are being pressured to volunteer to help with DHS's immigration crackdown. The work includes things like: “developing concepts of operation and campaign plans to execute internal arrests and raids as well as patrols along the Southwest Border” www.wired.com/story/pete-h...

#YouTube and the #protocoles Wow

"Experts interviewed for this story expressed concern that abusers in the ranks of law enforcement would soon be able to see their victims’ case information and addresses, and that a manifest of vulnerable children would become widely available in the government." www.propublica.org/article/dhs-...

NEW Provenance research DATASET: Decisions and reports by Austrian Commission for Provenance Research and Art Restitution Advisory Board www.openartdata.org/2026/03/Aust... #arthistory #artlaw #Austria

With the release of his Netflix documentary "Inside the Manosphere," the director talked to WIRED about why so many young men are drawn to toxic influencers. www.wired.com/story/louis-...

"A Guardian review of Levi’s record found that more than a dozen experts have criticized research papers he has authored on the topic for being misleading."

Exclusive: The Metropolitan Police interviewed Virginia Giuffre 3 times after her lawyers handed them a dossier of evidence saying that she was trafficked to UK by Epstein and Maxwell, and made her have sex with Prince Andrew But they did not launch an investigation www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/w...

Reporting like this--establishing a direct casual line between managerial decisions and avoidable catastrophes--is so essential to tracking the concrete costs of this administration's assault on government capacity. Thanks to @propublica.org for this work.

Iran is sending more crude through Hormuz NOW than it was before the war — “showing it is in control of a strategic waterway that it has closed off to the rest of the region’s oil producers.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/world/middle...

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:

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...