"Roughly 50% of Iran’s missile launchers are still intact and thousands of one-way attack drones remain in Iran’s arsenal despite the daily pounding by US and Israeli strikes against 12,300 military targets over the past five weeks, according to recent US intelligence assessments"

A history of the top marginal tax rates on the wealthiest Americans: 1940: 81% 1950: 84% 1960: 91% 1970: 72% 1980: 70% 1990: 28% 2000: 40% 2010: 35% For 50 years, corporate backed politicians in Congress have slashed taxes to line the pockets of their wealthy donors.

If you weren’t already allowing AI to mess with your feed, you wouldn’t need to block BS accounts. Just unfollow anyone propagating BS, or posting more than you have time to read. It’s OK to specialise. Corollary: it’s important to repost important posts. Each of us is a filter as well as a source.

In any normal parliamentary democracy, the government would have long ago fallen to a simple majority no-confidence vote, due to the unprecedentedly scandalous, fascist behavior of the Defense Minister, & the new elections would already have been held.

Setting up your own international organization can be lucrative.

Shameful. And pointless: why meet with a bunch of powerless Putin lackeys like this, other than to humiliate yourself, or possibly they are hoping for/or have already received a gift from Putin?

Strikeouts were the story of Opening Day for the Brewers, who got a record-setting start from Jacob Misiorowski to begin a 20K day. www.mlb.com/news/jacob-m...

“.. the first evidence Moscow has been willing to provide lethal support to Iran since the start of the war.” @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/d5d7...

Every Day Should Be Earth Day!! It's Manatee Appreciation Day, the gentle giants of the sea. Closest relative is the elephant, must live in warm shallow fresh or salt water, little body fat, easily chills, herbivores, sea grass diet, up to 1200ibs, eat 8+hrs, humans only predator, surfaces for 02

I just learned the most heartbreaking thing: among the people who were killed today were the National Guard soldier and his 15 y.o. daughter. They were just going back from visiting his wife in the Ivano-Frankivsk maternity hospital - she had just given birth to a son this Saturday

Jessie Diggins has represented Minnesota and our country with grit, determination, and heart. As the most decorated cross-country skier in American history, she built an extraordinary career and a lasting legacy. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Think voting doesn’t matter? 766 votes.

Lots of truly abominable and unqualified people in this US admin. Nevertheless, criticizing people on the basis of their name, where they are from, or lack of college degree, rather than job qualifications per se, IMHO just reveals one's own class antipathy, and unless you're a snob, it is not a win

Eid Mubarak! Wishing all who celebrate in CA-28 and across the country many blessings. May the end of Ramadan bring you peace and clarity.

Remember: It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.

Trump’s Plan A was to hit Iran hard, watch the theocrats flee, and then hand power to a government of his own choosing. Should such things not come to pass, Plan B was … well, apparently, there was no Plan B. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

I love creating magical characters. They are born from a mood, from silence, from tiny details and each of them has its own story, its own character. Sent today 🤗 www.etsy.com/shop/HappyJe...

19-year-old Vladyslav Stepanchuk led 21 soldiers out of encirclement during a four-hour firefight. Zelenskyy awarded him the title Hero of Ukraine — he is the youngest Hero of Ukraine, reports Suspilne. 1/

People are numb to these numbers. But the $200 Billion being asked "to kill bad guys" is $600 for every single man, woman and child in America. $2,400 TAKEN from every family of four. Trump promised to give money to Americans; now he is taking it away.

Oh @economist.com

Fully agree w this thread

That’s funny, because Nate Swanson, who used to be the point guy on Iran at the NSC but got fired because of Laura Loomer, warned of this in an article written four days before the war started. It was called “Why Iran Will Escalate.”

Finally!

Moscow's had a pretty good week, thanks largely to Trump's Iran misadventure. Oil prices are booming, sanctions are suspended, Iran is hewing even closer to Russia, the US is even more diplomatically isolated from Europe, and now Russian intel + tech are throwing sand in the gears of US war effort

Who else would have an interest in high oil prices, strained NATO relations, and distractions from Ukraine? @wsj.com www.wsj.com/world/russia...

I'm reupping this because it's a must-read. Explains so much about the Trump administration, beyond the attacks on Minnesota and Medicaid. And no one is better qualified to explain this than @donmoyn.bsky.social and @pamherd.bsky.social.

Lieu: "I want the White House to send Kevin Hassett to every single TV channel and to every single swing House district where he can tell the voters of America that hurting consumers is 'the last of our concerns.'"

🥇🇺🇦 Paralympics-2026: Ukrainian national team won 19 medals: 3 gold, 8 silver and 8 bronze. Most of the medals were won by Ukrainians in biathlon - 16 awards. The team won three more medals in cross-country skiing.

Thank you so much 💙💛 Robert De Niro recorded a touching message to Ukrainians: “Good people in the United States support you in your struggle against immoral russian aggression. Stay strong… Slava Ukraini.”

This. Also a lot of offended Belgians were telling me De Wever is staunchly pro-Ukrainian, he’s just worried about the legal consequences from confiscating the Ru frozen assets. That he’s now suggesting this soft-on-Ru approach shows he was simply hiding behind legal arguments all along.

This is probably how hell must look like. Only hell is here, and humans can be worse than demons : this is Zaporizhzia tonight, after Russian drones bombed the city.

🇺🇦President Zelenskyy: Over the past week alone, the Russians struck Ukraine with 1,770 attack drones, more than 1,530 guided aerial bombs, and 86 missiles, including more than 20 ballistic ones.

The film conveys both the humanity-affirming side of the refugee experience (the warmth of the Polish hosts, the learning from each other) and the deep trauma of losing your home that comes in the most unexpected ways, like finding some old candy from your pre-war life at the bottom of a box...

Russia is a 100% beneficiary of this war in Iran (high energy prices, revenue windfall, and easing of US sanctions). For the Trump admin, Russia pays NO COSTS no matter what it does in Ukraine, Europe, and now even acting against US forces in Iran:

🔴 BREAKING: A Russian Shahed drone struck a commuter train in Ukraine's Sumy region. No injuries reported at this time as passengers were successfully evacuated.

So much bad news in the world, with many things going on simultaneously. Iran war is the headline, but other conflicts (Russia still striking Ukrainian civilians every day) and humanitarian disasters continue: New op-ed from humanitarian philanthropist and @uwpolisci.bsky.social alum, Amed Khan:

The corruption of the Trump Administration remains so massive while also being so obvious that people just don’t know what to do. If Kushner was merely shaking someone down for $5,000 using his govt role, there’d be an outcry. But do it for $5,000,000,000 and mostly there’s 🤷‍♂️ #TrumpCorruptionWatch

Good thread here on Russia👇

🔴 Russian forces conducted a massive attack, targeting Ukraine's energy infrastructure. Preliminarily, about 300 drones and 70 missiles were deployed, according to monitoring channels.

NEW | The United States lifted sanctions on Russian oil that is already on tankers at sea until April 11, 2026, a decision that will buttress the Russian war economy. www.criticalthreats.org/analysis/rus...

Russia rakes in $150mn a day in extra revenue from surging oil prices Also: Bessent announced today that we’re relaxing more sanctions on Russia. The US will allow countries to buy Russian oil stranded at sea www.ft.com/content/dd97...

Slotkin: "If Russia is helping to kill US forces, we have crossed a rubicon. We have to take decisive action on that. Instead, we're giving them breaks on oil. They're making a ton of money."

Russia cut mobile data in Moscow City, blacked out the State Duma's internet two days running, and is now preparing to throttle Telegram through VPNs ISW: the Kremlin is accelerating censorship to get ahead of reserve call-ups and the Sep 2026 elections euromaidanpress.com/2026/03/13/r...

Every media outlet in the country should be loudly calling for Tuberville's immediate impeachment or resignation.

I couldn't believe this shoe story was real, but here it is in the Wall St Journal:

Cybersecurity is an ongoing threat from Russia & especially China. Not a great time for the US to be unprepared: www.foreignaffairs.com/guest-pass/r...

🇭🇺 Kremlin has reportedly backed a covert online disinformation campaign to help Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán win the April 12 election, - FT The plan aims to flood Hungarian social media with pro-Orbán messages and attacks on Magyar.

🤬 Russia is giving Iran intel on US forces and now also drone advice! Yet Witkoff says about 🇷🇺 "We can take them at their word.” “Let’s hope that they’re not sharing.”😖 If Iran uses drones to keep the Strait closed & prices high, Russia massively benefits, with more money for their war on Ukraine