"The most effective consumer boycotts in history share two qualities: they are narrow and they are easy," writes @rutgerbregman.com

With Iraq, the admin shouted "there are WMDs!! YELLOW CAKE!!!" at us every chance they got. Was there yellow cake?? We didn't actually know until later. Now they're shouting "Iran's been at war with us for 47 YEARS!!!!" We can see in real time this is patently false, and is, in fact, ridiculous.

Been seeing this logic for 60 years now.

The subhead is what really gets me here. Also: support local journalism

Quietly, calmly and forensically, BBC just dismantled the Trump communications shitshow on Iran. No hyperbole, just laying out an unprecedented military, diplomatic and reputational shambles. Worth a watch. (🎥 BBC News/BBC Verify)

never, ever, ever, ever accept "how will you pay for it?" as an argument against social programs.

A student, when reading about yellow journalism, said. "Oohhhhhh, so click bait!" and on behalf of him, you're welcome, history teachers.

When we were talking about Iran in class, someone brought up the name - Epic fury - and two students nodded approvingly, saying, "oooh that's tough" **THEY WERE 16 YEAR OLD BOYS** That is who this whole campaign is designed to appeal to. This guy is narrating a video game but with human lives.

I say this allllll the time, but if you want some cheap hope in these troubled days: find your local high school basketball championships, pick a team to root for, and enjoy the hyphy fans and the scrappy teenagers out on the court. Such great basketball and, as the kids say, IMMACULATE VIBES.

I'm not a bumper sticker person but this one might convert me

Being a Normative Man seems 🔥 rn Get up. Slather on beef tallow balm. Eat Man Cereal. Microbet. Nugenix w raw milk. Eat ungodly amount of liver. Listen to podcast. Bump American Badass in Cybertruck. Record podcast. Berate yourself for gooning. More liver. Watch Power Slap. Sleep. But w one eye open

Picasso's depiction of a fascist massacre, a murdered family unceremoniously tangled together under a dining table. [Pablo Picasso, The Charnel House, 1944-45]

tl;dr: more people should watch this gentleman's speech and think seriously about what he is saying bsky.app/profile/slcl...

When our regime representatives start to rant about seeking vengeance on Iran for bombing embassies, where are the brave journalists who will ask: how is this vengeance when you began this campaign of blood? When you killed 55 little girls?

Those three downed jets run around $90 million each. It cost $20 million a year to operate the food kitchens serving 816,000 people in Sudan.

"They inspect the books and backpacks… as if searching through the pages for laughter that never had the chance to bloom, and dreams cut short at the very beginning. Torn schoolbooks and small backpacks stained with blood bear witness to an unbearable tragedy"(Sana Aljamal) #Iran

I can't fucking believe we're doing this again.

The Department of Education has hung a massive banner honoring a racist college dropout who built a lucrative career out of targeting professors for harassment

While people are (rightfully) appalled by Kirk being on the dept of ed, given the other 2 "heroes" they chose, it makes sense. Booker T championed Black businesses over challenging Jim Crow. Beecher was an anti-suffragist who though women should be teachers and take care of children. Kirk fits.

For my entire life, the people protesting US wars have always been ultimately vindicated and that being right is completely forgotten when the next war comes.

Agree! Signed this petition to get ChatGPT out of our California State University too: actionnetwork.org/petitions/ca...

This is one of the videos the NYT has verified and links to in their reporting. NYT: "Video verified by [NYT] showed ... rescuers digging through the rubble with building cranes and shovels, and piles of bloodied, dusty backpacks." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/w...

"The Islamists oppose women getting an education," I mutter, as I aim my missile at the girls school

In some toasty corner of hell, the Dulles brothers are looking up at this and rubbing their bloody hands together and saying YESSSSSS

My statement on President Trump’s combat operations in Iran⬇️

Congress could stop all of this right now if it chose to act like a coequal branch instead of a little bitch

Americans aren't great at pattern recognition.

I am sure JD Vance will resign in protest, right?

This guy is dropping truth. Awesome man.

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...

“The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

this is what they said it would be like under socialism

HELL YEAH

« The historians’ brief — authored by Professor Martha S. Jones and Professor Kate Masur — centers on the pre–Civil War advocacy of free Black Americans for a broad and inclusive principle of birthright citizenship. » www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

In some hyper-local news, Oakland teachers have a tentative agreement, averting a strike! Yay insomnia for letting me be one of the first to know! For 12 months, our district's raise offer was 0% 🤡 We got to 11% over 2 years. Another small win in the F you, make me column.

In utterly DELIGHTFUL news, Adwait Paliwal, the desi techbro behind the cheatbot Einstein AI which claimed it could log into Canvas and do/turn in your assignments for you has been forced to take down his website. He'll likely be back, and there are others like him in abundance, sadly.

I've been in education for so long and have seen several cycles of "we must rethink education!" and I think it is NOW more than *any other time in the last 30 years* that we need to rethink education. We must address AI, screens, attention span, democratic ideas and weighty ethical questions.

i cannot stop thinking about this man, who survived the Rohingya genocide but couldn’t survive border patrol. “He died trying to get home” is a gut punch

This is what I need cis folks to understand. It's been a decade. Imagine living TEN FUCKING YEARS watching as a blatant, artificial campaign to erase your personhood, your identity and your safety chugs along, increasing in power every single day, and most people don't care or dismiss it

This is one of the the articles that will be printed out and displayed in a museum next to the room with the pile of shoes

Another ICE murder

This was the first thing that every single US history teacher thought about too, I am certain.

You're absolutely right--that was a flock of birds, not an incoming first strike. I apologize, and will try to get it right in the future.

You can't erase history. Bravo James Millward wapo.st/4kT0GVX

We’re looking at generations of harm done. Abolishing ICE should be the conservative position at this point. Take their budget and use it to start trying to make amends.

Of course it's the people of color again having to say things... the white Democrats in that room are sitting on their hands.

I played hockey myself and grew up around a lot of male hockey players and lemme tell you: I am not surprised.