Please call your electeds.

How to understand war with Iran? We must get away from propaganda. Facts suggest two interpretive frameworks: a foreign war as a mechanism to destroy democracy at home; and a foreign war as an element of personal corruption by the president of the United States. snyder.substack.com/p/why-attack...

Trump has launched a war of “fury,” to “raze” and “annihilate,” that has already killed dozens of Iranian girls, reportedly cost the lives of U.S. servicemembers, and will kill many more of both. He is acting without authorization by Congress and flouting international law.

"The USA And Israel Have Started Bombing Iran: A Primer What Do We Know, What Should We Be Asking?, For What Should We Be Watching" From @phillipspobrien.bsky.social phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/the-usa-an...

Join my conversation with @phillipspobrien.bsky.social about Iran on Thinking Live at 12:00pm ET. snyder.substack.com Read his primer on the bombing of Iran: phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/the-usa-an... And my thoughts on the reasons behind attacking Iran: snyder.substack.com/p/why-attack...

Trump’s bombing of Iran is reckless and a direct threat to American and Iranian lives. Launching military strikes without congressional authorization or evidence of an imminent threat is not strength. It is an abuse of power. Tell your Members of Congress to put an immediate stop to this war.

Ironically, if the US wanted to end the nuclear arms race in the Mideast, the place to begin would eliminating Israeli nukes.

Once again our first thoughts should be of human cost of conflict in Middle East, price paid and risks incurred by innocents.

Thank you to everyone who voted for the psychotic man child. Congratulations. You now have MORE blood on your hands. YOU, who knew who he was, and still said 'he's the one'. You're shameful.

I can't remember if I posted this one before, but here is a shot of the Larrmaster, @number10cat.bsky.social looking particularly relaxed. Still stuck in Germany with more medical stuff & major surgery piling on. 2026 not great so far, but hope to be back home in London and Downing Street soon.

From the excellent @joecirin.bsky.social in the @newrepublic.com posted Friday afternoon: newrepublic.com/article/2071... via @newrepublic.com

The oily involvement in politics by toxic tech figures like David Sacks, Peter Thiel and Marc Andreessen will make our country much less safe: OpenAI Reaches A.I. Agreement With Defense Dept. After Anthropic Clash www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/t...

www.yahoo.com/news/article... So he's cool with states restricting ICE employees from getting state jobs. I am 🤷🏽‍♂️

I have had the good fortune to witness a few of these, and I do recommend figuring out if you'll be able to see it. There's this weird thing where the blood moon, stripped of solar reflection, is also stripped of any sense of perspective and looks like a basketball hanging in the sky

Breaking WSJ: Kristi Noem for months failed to appropriately respond to the findings of an internal watchdog that one of her biggest changes to airport security—allowing passengers to pass through screening checkpoints with their shoes on—is creating "significant" security risks.

Booo! My prescription allergy meds got more expensive again! The price just keeps creeping up. (If anyone else takes apoquel, Costco has the best price, but it’s still not immune to increases. $127 for 60 pills. Which is thankfully 120 doses for Gus. But still $ per dose)

28 February 1926 | German Jewish boy, Friedrich Jakob Kahn, was born in Bingen. He emigrated to the Netherlands. He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork in September 1942. He did not survive. --- Children at Auschwitz 📖 https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/dzieci_EN/ 🎧 https://youtu.be/aYKx_zpLSqA

I'm begging my fellow politicians, Illinoisans, and Americans to realize that right now, we aren't fighting over policy or political party. We're fighting over whether we're going to be a country rooted in empathy and kindness — or one rooted in cruelty and rage.

Got it. 🪶

Few patients appeal a health insurance denial, but a little-known process that requires insurers and plans to seek an independent opinion can force insurers to pay for what can be lifesaving treatment. Here’s what experts say you need to know.

1 million and 300 hundred thousand views in just 1 day! I was interviewed for this excellent report by Johnny Harris www.youtube.com/watch?v=GV8K...

Yesterday on What's the Plan I said that it looked like Anthropic might cave to Hegseth. It's looking like I was wrong. I'm going to dig into this more, but I think it's important for us to highlight and praise companies who don't obey in advance and actively push back. bsky.app/profile/phil...

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The other campaign may have the money, but we have the people. It’s on us to earn every vote. We won’t be out-worked or out-organized. Not this team. The next step in the fight is getting on the ballot. Can I ask you to join us for a volunteer shift? www.mobilize.us/landerforcongress

A list of things you might do if you were trying to end the republic. In other words: a news review. snyder.substack.com/p/cabinet-ap...

Again, there is one & only one mechanism for dealing with such pervasive & systematic lawless authoritarianism. The fact that 10-25 Congressional Republicans are oath-breaking cowards & it’s not going to happen doesn’t mean that this isn’t true, & pretending otherwise continues to not be helpful.

27 February 1927 | A French Jewish girl, Helene Aronowicz, was born in Paris. In September 1942 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber. --- ▶ Video about the first two gas chambers created near Auschwitz II-Birkenau: https://youtu.be/Rr6lF75fDmU

Larry Ellison is buying CNN. That’s a disaster www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEwy...

“If you’re an ICE agent, you’re signing up to engage in unlawful conduct…engage in racially profiling Latino communities…engage in illegal detentions and deportations of people who have legal rights in this country, you’re signing up for the separation of families and children,” - Ravi Bhalla #RFA

Call it what it is: Hungarian state media. Tech, TV, Movies and News: Ellisons on Brink of Colossal Empire www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/b...

Since MSM isn't hammering this message daily... I will: If. You. Don't. Have. A. Passport. Get. One. By. The. End. Of. March. GET IT.

Today marks 14 years since 17-year-old, unarmed Trayvon Martin was shot and killed while walking home. 14 years later, we’re still demanding a country where our children can walk home in peace — without being treated like a threat.

I would say one of the main right-wing projects of the past twenty years has been gaming every web 2.0 platform into thinking the right-wing is much bigger and more influential than it actually is. And the people who have been most taken in by this effort has been the right wing

Columbia President with NEW details: 5 DHS agents entered a residency with no warrant. They said they were police looking for a missing kid. Security camera even captures them showing pictures of the "kid." A campus officer asked for a warrant & their boss. They ignored him & took the student.

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What a surprise this comes out right after the story breaks about her secret bag on the flight with Lewandowski.

Interviewer: "What's your take on how he's framing the economy?" Me: "It's that he's lying."

Young folks, I strongly recommend buying a DVD player and stocking up on some great DVDs of classic movies and TV shows. Many of them won't exist after this Paramount-Warner Bros merger.

Please allow me to also sail my humble little ship out here. 🙏 gillianbrockell.ghost.io/noems-luxury...

Every stage of this process - his arrest, spending a year in jail, being dumped on the streets to die - would be deeply shameful in a society that actually valued human life.

“On the merits, its detentions are illegal,” the judge wrote. “[The government] knows this.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/n...

"It’s hard to know how much Stonepeak makes off this misery..." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Wow jmail.world/drive

They dropped off Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a blind refugee who didn't speak English, at a CLOSED Tim Hortons. 5 miles away from his home. He never made it. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Now that CNN and WBD are set to become state media in a sale to Paramount/Oracle/TikTok, it is especially important to support independent media. Off the top of my head: www.thehandbasket.co 404media.co www.garbageday.email Add your favorites in the replies. Fuck state-backed media monopolies.

Trump: "This is the Golden Age of America."

Pro Trump, Pro Netanyahu fanatics Larry and David Ellison will most likely now control Paramount, CBS, CNN, HBO, Warner Bros, and TikTok