U.S. forces likely bombed an Iranian elementary school on Feb. 28 during an operation targeting a nearby military base, a New York Times analysis suggests. It is the deadliest known episode of civilian casualties since the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran — and no side has yet taken responsibility.

MASSIE: “Iran is not Venezuela. The Ayatollah was not a president. He was a religious leader… 🇺🇸 & 🇮🇱 turned him into a martyr, expended billions, 6 🇺🇸 families must now lay to rest their sons & daughters. And for what? This administration can't even give us a straight answer.”

Sen. Schiif and Sen. Kennedy asked Kristi Noem if Trump approved her $220 million PR contract with the spouse of her former flack. She told our committee that Trump signed off on the contract. I wonder if Trump fired her because she did not cut him in on a percentage of the $220 million deal.

Trump sure can pick ‘em.

“.. Johnson, 45, tried to keep the children quiet by telling them he would share millions of dollars in restitution money he expected to receive from the Trump administration in connection with his Jan. 6 case.” @npr.org www.npr.org/2026/03/05/n...

PAT RYAN: 'Does the US want to be the policeman of the Middle East getting nothing but spending precious lives & trillions.' Rng a bell? COLBY: Defer to you R: That was Trump. How about this - 'we simply cannot afford to get enmeshed in a Middle East war' C: Defer to you R: That was actually you

Dallas Co fiasco and confusion perfectly explained in detail by my friend, Eliza Orlins. 👇🏽 Please read her substack for all of Paxton’s fuckery in the Texas Dem primary.

Crockett concedes: “This morning I called James and congratulated him on becoming the Senate nominee. Texas is primed to turn blue and we must remain united because this is bigger than any one person.” (Statement via NBC’s Priscilla Thompson)

Discussed here. sciencebasedmedicine.org/hidingeveide...

Parents Tried to Shield Their Children From Vaccines. Instead They Got Measles. Spartanburg County in South Carolina is ground zero for the largest measles outbreak since 2000. One school has a vaccination rate of 21 percent. Gift Link: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/u...

Vice President JD Vance—before he abandoned his principles to become a groveling Trump sycophant—warned us in 2016 that Trump was "America's Hitler," and John Kelly, Trump's former Chief of Staff, warned us in 2024 that Trump is a fascist. And here we are.

Anti-Vax MAHA crazies are upset that RFK, Jr. and his henchmen are not moving fast enough to deny Americans access to life-saving vaccines: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/h...

“.. A prolonged campaign against Iran could also produce a failed state with enriched uranium, destabilize crucial oil routes, threaten Gulf allies, trigger a refugee crisis, and disrupt the global economy.” @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Axios: GOP insiders fretting over Texas Senate primary www.axios.com/2026/03/02/g...

A 2024 warning from the People of Germany and here we are:

Tulsi Gabbard: "An all out war with Iran would make the wars that we've seen in Iraq and Afghanistan look like a picnic. It will be far more costly in lives, American lives, and American taxpayer dollars — and all towards accomplishing what goal? What objective?" (2020)

At least Carlin isn’t alive to see this.

The MAGA Ellison family is about to buy CNN and hand it to Trump. This is BEYOND concerning.

Atlantic reporter says Crockett campaign ejected her from event thehill.com/homenews/cam...

Tech Has Never Caused a Job Apocalypse. Don’t Bet on It Now. Neither theory, history nor the latest data suggests a recession driven by AI job dislocation is likely www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...

My former boss has just been named!!!! youtu.be/-c3blbM_s2Y?...

Another day in the unfolding disaster that is Trump's second term: A Surgeon General nominee who refuses to recommend that children get measles and flu vaccines:

A federal election has never been postponed or canceled in the history of the United States. Ever. And Donald Trump's “evidence” of “Democrat cheating" is entirely fake. There is no mass voter fraud. trib.al/1ewzrp5

A+ State of the Union counterprogramming by TCM.

Exclusive: Epstein hid secret files in storage units across US www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2... Justice Department withheld and removed some Epstein files related to Trump www.npr.org/2026/02/24/n...

An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump. n.pr/4qTItsU

Really good article in Fortune: The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents archive.is/NyJG2#select...

“.. Pressed on whether Israel had a right to this land, which covers much of the modern-day Middle East, including parts of Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Iraq and Saudi Arabia, Huckabee said ‘it would be fine if they took it all’.” @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/465e...

In 2024, reports emerged that Aaron Siri, a lawyer closely aligned with RFK, Jr. and involved in his transition team, petitioned the FDA to revoke approval for the polio vaccine. This move is part of a broader, long-term campaign by Siri and associates against vaccines. youtu.be/-qhj8X2lM3M?...

@bsky.app The sharp swing in Hispanic support away from Republicans in 2024 appears to have been a key factor in the 31 point swing in the recent Tarrant County Texas Senate race upset: www.texastribune.org/2026/02/02/t...

In October 2024, the Georgia secretary of state’s office launched an investigation after receiving numerous reports from residents across several counties saying they’d received partially prefilled absentee ballot applications from Musk’s America PAC. trib.al/iWJMZHi

A reminder that John Kelly, Trump's former Chief of Staff, ret. 4-star Marine Corps General & Gold Star father, confirmed on the record what Donald "Bone Spurs" Trump thinks of US service members sacrifices when he confirmed that Trump denigrated American war dead as "Suckers and losers."

Absolutely insane story about a middle-aged woman from Hertfordshire who got arrested, shackled, and detained by ICE and held in a prison for eight weeks.... while on holiday... with a valid tourist visa... as she tried to leave the country.

GORSUCH: “.. permanent accretion of power in the hands of one man. That is no recipe for a republic.” 👀

It occurs to me that millions of us, including the dwindling number of ethical people remaining in the Trump administration, are experiencing moral injury.

“If I knew this could be the outcome, I still wouldn't have given my son the vaccine.” This was said by the mother of a child in South Carolina who has been hospitalized with measles encephalitis since January. I tried out several sentences for this spot, but none could capture my thoughts.

This. Every damn bit of it.

Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. (Published Feb. 2025)