Also note: they chose to martyr the 86-year old Khameni (whose name Trump struggled to pronounce the other day, as if he's never heard it in a briefing), rather than just letting him just die. And we're not seeing all the backlash that resulted. zeteo.com/p/by-killing...

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

Wow

We are very far from normal, my friends, but the language the judge uses here is shocking. Any other time, this would fly through legal commentators with a collective gasp. Here and now, it's a Monday.

👋 Former State Department War Powers lawyer here. This statement by Rubio is false. As @tessbridgeman.bsky.social and I wrote in January: www.justsecurity.org/128517/war-p...

Our State Department isn't able to evacuate citizens anymore

What is the Constitutional threshold for impeachment again, is it 10 or 100 American lives lost in an illegal war?

"You can assume, because it's common sense" -- Mike Johnson claims Trump's war on Iran is actually defensive because if Israel attacked Iran, Iran was going to retaliate against the US

it's no surprise that CBS & Fox are now being mentioned in the same sentence re: pro-Trump reporting... "...outlets, such as CBS News and Fox News, uncritically accepted the administration’s framing of the attack as a “preemptive strike.” www.cjr.org/the_media_to...

The pride of Alabama thinks Democrats launched Gulf War I and II.

A clip from the moment Hillary Clinton found out Lauren Boebert took an unauthorized photo of her deposition: 'I'm done!'

We are alone with Israel.

The U.S. military said on Monday it was sending more forces to the Middle East and expects to “take additional losses.” Earlier, President Trump said that the U.S. could continue striking Iran for the next four to five weeks.

Republicans need to grow a spine and vote with Democrats to put an END to Trump's war with Iran. The American people want Congress to focus on lowering prices. They want their tax dollars going toward health care, not another costly and deadly war in the Middle East.

What he said.

National average price of gasoline realllly ramping up now, ticking higher every 5-10 minutes and on par to hit the $3/gal mark in the next ~hour or so, stands at $2.992/gal right now.

U.S. military death toll rises to 6 following Iran’s initial attacks in the region. Two previously unaccounted-for service members were recovered from a struck facility. -CENTCOM

to be honest about sagging trust in news you'd have to talk about corporatism, corporate power, and the ad engagement model's corrosive impact on truth. You'd also have to be honest about right wing propaganda. Being honest about any of this is a financial risk, so they just ignore all of it.

A Guardian analysis found that US political campaigns and committees spent at least $1.3 million at Trump properties since January 2025. That's more than three times Trump's presidential salary. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Cartoon by @slyngstad.bsky.social

Excuse me? With no rules of engagement - no moral and legal limits - you lead a band of nicely dressed murderers. Not #InOurName and not on our dime.

Keep hearing commentators/Hegseth saying a version of "this is not Iraq, we are not doing nation-building, it's a decapitation, the people will handle it." That's what Iraq 2003 was supposed to be! Nation-building, de-Baathification, disbanding of Iraqi army, it all came *after* things went wrong.

As bluesky has been noting for a few weeks now, AIPAC is dead as a political force in the Democratic party. Daniel Biss, the New Jersey races, and now Chris Van Hollen— there is no longer a taboo on being opposed to AIPAC. It’s finished. 1/2

Seeing a parade of vets sent down the Pentagon hallway with limbs blown off will change your perspective of this shit real fast.

Republicans when Americans die in Benghazi vs when Americans die in Iran

Stephen Miller in 2024:

For the 2026 primary elections, NPR has collected deadlines and information on how to register to vote — online, in person or by mail — in every U.S. state and territory.

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

OFFS. When Iran tried to interefere in 2020, researchers caught them and called them out. Then the Benz-Weiss-Taibbi-Musk-Jordan-Trump axis labeled those researchers "censors" ... and set about defunding them and dismantling their organizations.

My statement on President Trump’s combat operations in Iran⬇️

those 85 schoolgirls will never kill again

At the end of Trump's term perhaps he'll negotiate a withdrawal from Iran with an unreasonably hasty timeline and a Democratic president will be saddled with the fallout of living up to the agreement. Couldn't happen, could it?

McLovin is learning cat etiquette today.

I thought I’d be tired of the Rubio couch memes by now, but nope.

I love the question! 1. They used mirrors! And— 2. They discovered that for torches—because they had to avoid smudging smoke—sesame oil with salt added did not produce smoke!

Really hard to believe Trump lied about this.

Support For Attacking Iran: Oppose: 49% Support: 27% YouGov / Feb 23, 2026

Congress has a job and it is duty bound to carry it out and remove him, and if it fails it is our duty to remove them. In theory by regular elections although it’s faster if they resign.

Amen.

What if another country attacked us, unprompted, on the grounds that we have nukes, & we’re actually the only country in history to have ever used nukes on an enemy, & our leader is so unstable he can’t be trusted to be responsible w/ them? If we agree that wouldn’t be justified, how could this be?

To understand Donald Trump you have to understand the dynamics of domestic violence. Abuse with abandon and take no responsibility for anything. Lie and gaslight and never admit you’re wrong. Demand loyalty and lash out when your power is questioned. Punish and blame. Power and control. Trump.

MS NOW brings John Bolton on TV to say Trump’s attack on Iran is based on “legitimate“ grievances. How about putting a non-warmonger on the air. We desperately need better media.

“The lives of American heroes may be lost, but those heroes will die knowing they have made the ultimate sacrifice for a cause for which there is none worthier, distracting from the Epstein files.”

You almost have to admire the hubris of trying to frame this as a “preemptive attack” when the ENTIRE PURPOSE IS TO PROVOKE A RESPONSE FROM IRAN in order to justify ongoing and more extensive strikes.

People need to understand that one of the reasons they struck today, rather than next week, is bc the House is planning on a vote early next week. Trump had to shift dynamics of that vote.