Drains across the Iranian capital Tehran are continuing to explode after earlier Israeli and US strikes on oil depots and infrastructure. Medical experts are warning the toxic smoke and runoff has increased the risk of deadly illnesses, including cancer.

Brilliant 🏆 Isata Kanneh-Mason absolutely tears through Rachmaninoff’s fiendish Piano Concerto No. 3 with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.

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.

This video shows real smoke over Tehran from Israeli strikes on oil depots & fuel facilities last night—confirmed by NYT, AP, Al Jazeera, Times of Israel. Black clouds from burning hydrocarbons—not normal sunrise.

Blade🫶 #doodle #marvel

“If it brings the end of the world, it brings the end of the world. They’re ready. They can’t wait for the Rapture to happen." If you want to understand the nuances of Trump's self-created crisis in Iran, revisit @smencimer.bsky.social's deep-dive into our End Times president.

Bernard LaFayette, the advance man who did the risky groundwork for the voter registration campaign in Selma, Alabama, that culminated in the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, has died.

A court-documented history of family violence didn't bar the suspect in the West Sixth Street shooting from owning guns under Texas law.

A message from Brian McGinnis, the firefighter and Marine veteran who was forcibly removed and injured by officers during his anti-war protest at the Capitol

Jamie Raskin and Joe Neguse just exposed a massive corruption scandal. DHS handed $143M to a "company" with no website and no HQ, tied directly to Noem’s cronies. Follow the money: www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trump-regi...

If you're wondering about US Capitol Police's opinion on Senator Tim Sheehy after he attacked a protesting veteran that they were in the process of also attacking... they gave him a patch. This is what the Capitol Police think of protesters. Remember j6th with that in mind.

[WARNING: This is a bit graphic.] A Marine Corps veteran protesting Trump’s War on Iran had his arm broken by Capitol Police and GOP Senator Tim Sheehy. It appears to be a compound fracture.

“Many friends have died in the name of money” NEW: Russia is luring African men with false promises of good jobs, only to be forced into military service in Ukraine. Numerous recruits report being unpaid, stripped of passports, and abused while trapped on the front lines.

We saw an uptick in ICE activity today. ICE continues to be spotted around the metro area - dining, driving, and hiding in between events. Current vehicles on the short list include Black Chevrolet Tahoes, White or Silver Jeep Wagoneers, and White Ford Transit vans with fake branding.

Bro, ICE is still here kidnapping people, now they’ve even got transit vans advertising fake companies.

the phrase “more than a dozen pregnant children” ringing in my ears www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Obama is the only president to date born when there were 50 states

Hello Bluesky. I'm working on an animated short and just launched a Kickstarter for it. Please take a look and share with anyone you think will like it! 🙏 www.kickstarter.com/projects/alt...

This is terrifying www.advocate.com/news/crime/b...

Extraordinary crowds as a mass funeral procession begins in Minab, Iran for the 165 school girls & teachers killed in the US/Israeli school strike on Saturday. Many outcomes of this war are uncertain. But a renewed generation of hatred towards the West is now baked in. (🎥 Alireza Akbari)

New addition to the bookshelf (hi randy)

for those of you who werent adults during iraq, its hard to overstate how much the media loves war porn. they salivate over pentagon spin briefings. they love stories about all the bombs and how supposedly infallible they are. they love the notion of the commander in chief, in the situation room etc

‘Liberation,’ American-style.

They lied and here's the video proof. I cannot believe we're just gonna keep on like this and absolutely nothing happens

Harriet Tubman In Living Color. Happy #BlackHistoryMonth

The near-total memory-holing of Trump’s disastrous withdrawal from the JCPOA - literally, the central reason why Iran & nuclear weapons is still an issue in 2026 - from the National Conversation™️ is incredible, & not in a good way. The “better deal” never existed & still doesn’t. And here are.

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If you have the means, please donate to the Trans Continental Pipeline right now. They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate and they are overwhelmed with requests. Colorado borders Kansas, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out. tcpipeline.org

The reason you stand firm about sports participation and bathrooms is because it never stops with sports participation and bathrooms. And it never stops with trans people. As we've been saying the whole goddamn time!

Kansas is sending letters to trans people telling them that their licenses will be revoked as of tomorrow and that they risk arrest for driving on a suspended license. This is pure cruelty. www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...

The fact that the Dem Party is doing nothing to support Al Green but folks still believe then to want to defend the public is enough for me. Every justification is for decorum, not democracy

Today is the birthday of Alvin Hollingsworth (Feb. 25, 1928-July 14, 2000), a fine art painter, teacher, & comic artist. At only 12, he was assisting on Cat-Man comics, and he worked for several companies on a variety of titles in the Golden Age. #BlackHistoryMonth

They beat a blind refugee who speaks no English for failing to obey police commands he could not understand. Then instead of apologizing, they charged him with possession of a “weapon”—HIS WALKING STICK. Then they dumped him miles from home without notifying anyone, after which he was found dead.

Please read this article to the end. Even before ICE got involved, this started because this *blind man who speaks no English and uses a curtain rod as a walking stick* got lost on a walk and some Karen called the police on him and they tasered and beat him bc he didn’t drop the rod. WTF

we don't yet know why superintendent carvalho had his home raised, but just some context:

“Black people don’t listen or rock music.” Look who invented the genre.

Aliya Rahman, woman who was dragged out of car by ICE in Minneapolis: "I've spent the last month learning the names of the tendons in my shoulder, because both of my shoulders are torn -- cartilage and tendons. But what I haven't learned is the names of the people who did this to me."

🚨Trump's ICE Covered Up the MURDER of a Fourth U.S. Citizen for nearly a year—and with the help of Texas, seems to be burying video evidence. Via @jordanchariton.bsky.social www.statuscoupsubstack.com/p/trumps-ice...

BREAKING Former ICE agent: On my first day training new cadets, I received secretive orders to teach them to violate the Constitution by entering homes without a judicial warrant.

Her research laid the groundwork for the Global Positioning System, GPS, a technology that has made getting lost a thing of the past. wapo.st/4c3qzA5

Listen to this 13 year old who went to her city's council meeting. She had some things she needed to get off her chest

Via @rchapoco.bsky.social.: Charles "Sonny" Burton is 75 years old. He is in a wheelchair. He was sentenced to death for a murder he did not commit and was not present for. Alabama plans to execute him on March 12. buff.ly/0bILxC6

NEW: A Georgia railroad owned by a descendant of an enslaver is using eminent domain to take land owned by descendants of the enslaved. If you want to understand how slavery still shapes power today, start here: capitalbnews.org/georgia-rail...

"It’s a history and legacy of struggle — a model of selfless struggle and undaunted struggle that carries down generations." sojo.net/articles/how...

“Jackson is arrested in 1993 after blocking 5th Avenue as part of a group protesting against the Clinton administration’s policy of maintaining a detention camp for Haitian political refugees who were HIV positive” Remember this history as we remember this man.