Over 1,400 people in six countries have been killed in an illegal war of aggression and Trump’s opposition here at home is talking about suspending gas taxes.

Congress loves voting on not having to vote on things, and that's dangerous for the long term (and short term). www.huffpost.com/entry/iran-w...

It's interesting from a targeting standpoint because targeting infrastructure like this - especially for a country that can't really export right now and has way throttled industry - is almost entirely a "punishment" strategy. Why? To what political end?

Nothing but the best people.

Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.

This will be the worst energy crisis in human history.

Cupich: “A real war with real death and real suffering being treated like it’s a video game -it’s sickening. Hundreds of people are dead, mothers and fathers, daughters and sons, including scores of children who made the fatal mistake of going to school that day.” www.archchicago.org/en/statement...

jesus

I’m sorry, doing this in a baseball cap sold by your campaign store is deliberately disrespecting the dead.

It's a sign of the times that AI companies are deciding whether or not to allow the military to engage in mass surveillance of US citizens and this is treated as a legitimate debate of two reasonable positions.

This is no different from Putin saying MH17 was shot down by Ukraine or Assad saying rebels gassed themselves.

If mass murdering children isn't enough for you to oppose this illegal war, if the myriad war crimes and religious zealotry aren't enough, if the contempt for human life and international law aren't enough...how about the fact that we are literally destroying the planet?

If Corporate Media reported honestly & aggressively on Trump’s mix of corruption & incompetence & cruelty & authoritarianism, if they had been honest about what his polices would do to US rather than pretended their was legitimate debate: Harris would have crushed Trump.

A lesson about abusive relationships: you can’t placate the abuser.

the IRA is an unfortunate example of the failure of the non-bigoted theory of popularism it was a good law that poured piles of money into infrastructure (in rural areas!) and they got zero credit for it from the people who complain about those sorts of things, because the complaining is the point

How is this real

Trump also said the war was "won" today so I guess that means the DoD doesn't need any more funds from Congress

Not sure what has to rot in the heart of a person who behaves like this, but … honestly, I hope these staff die broke, miserable, ashamed and unloved.

Israel lying about whether or not it bombed hospitals all over again

There is a legal provision in immigration law that someone married to a US citizen can stay in the US while there visa is pending. Immigration officials have long recognized it to allow residency during the wait time. The DHS has just stopped following this part of the law.

Shutting an oil well isn’t like turning off a faucet. It’s a huge engineering risk, difficult to reverse — and an indicator the Kuwaitis don’t see choke points improving anytime soon.

Trump's psychotic, murderous post: "Iran is being beat to HELL … They said, 'Thank you President Trump.' I said, 'You’re welcome!' ... Today Iran will be hit very hard! Under serious consideration for destruction & certain death are groups of people not considered for targeting until this moment"

Taken walking down Columbia Road. Love the phenomenon of streets intersecting with themselves at right angles

When you cut out the rambling middle, what you have left is an explicit admission of an upcoming war crime.

“The State Department is declaring an emergency with the war in Iran to bypass Congressional approval and sell more than 20,000 bombs to Israel that are valued at nearly $660 million, according to two current U.S. officials and a former official.”

This headline is inane. As the article itself concedes, no one thinks Trump is bombing Iran for humanitarian reasons. Nor is there any argument that the debate about R2P created the legal or political space for this idiotic war.

The asymmetry of the value placed on human life is so striking. Israel has a goal to recover 40-year-old remains; to do so, it invades a sovereign country, and the lives of 26 Lebanese are an afterthought. Their names not even worth printing in the New York Times.

Speaking as a lower middle class graduate with an office job and a mortgage, born in the late seventies, I would say: this is half my social circle and most of the people I worked with for years. How in the name of Christ did nobody in politics or media see this coming?

BRUSUELAS: At $125 per barrel, $4.25 per gallon of gasoline and 4% inflation, the U.S. economy “will feel the pain quickly .. “.. a risk that .. will negate the fiscal tailwind we were expecting from the One Big Beautiful Bill ..” @joebrusuelas.bsky.social

just fwiw, here are the arguments being made, in order: 1. iran has apologized to its neighbors and admitted it lost 2. this is unprecedented and because of me 3. iran has not surrendered and will collapse if it doesn’t admit it lost 4. i am going to bomb iran more and worse until it surrenders

"He is the first president in the era of modern polling to take the United States to war without the support of the public." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/u...

This is because he is now running in a district Harris won by 9 points. He is doing this not on any principle; he is a right-wing Republican who wants to lie to voters. thehill.com/homenews/cam...

"The administration has bypassed the informal approval process in Congress three times to sell arms or send weapons aid to Israel, but previously has not declared an emergency."

Lindsay Graham loves word associations. Here's mine: when you say "Lindsay Graham," I'll say "Belongs in the Hague." www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

They're going to write books about all the big brain moves of this gang of imbeciles and among them will be "Spending a year trying to kill renewable energy and then launching a war that sends oil prices soaring"

this is explicitly genocidal

This is just senseless destruction. This is a war crime. 👇🏽

Hegseth needs to stand trial after this as a war criminal. Between this attack and the girls' school, there's no ambiguity. He is responsible for mass murder and must be held accountable.

"Every intervention makes the same promise: remove the dictator and the people will be free. Libya is what happens when the dictator is removed and the people are forgotten." www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

Public opinion is not fixed. And it's the job of a campaign to move people.

Imagine all the cool, fast trains we could have with the billions we spend on bombs.

Why aren’t you on this list, @sethmoulton.bsky.social?

I love that there are people mad about the claim that God is non-binary. Like, what? Did you check “God’s” “genitalia” to make sure that God was using the “correct” bathroom? What the fuck is your problem?

This is one of the most jaw dropping moments of Trump’s presidency. Up there with brainstorming about injecting bleach and shining light up orifices to cure COVID.

“A DOJ source told the Miami Herald that agents found her to be credible—and that they would not have interviewed her four times if they thought she was lying.” @jkbjournalist.bsky.social bringing it home www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

THE CITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT HAD TO TELL THE POLICE HE'S FUNDING HE WORKED ON THE CITY COUNCIL OF LOS ANGELES

The woman who told FBI agents that Trump sexually assaulted her when she was as young as 13 recalled that she and her mother received death threats afterward, with callers saying “we know where you’re at, you need to keep your mouth shut." Here's a Miami Herald gift link.

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