Did you know that 6th months ago, while presumably we were planning this stupid war, the Navy decommissioned its four Avenger-class minesweepers that had been stationed in Bahrain precisely to deal with Iranian mines in the Strait? More from @jvl.bsky.social . www.thebulwark.com/p/our-low-iq...

Glad @chrislhayes.bsky.social pushed back on this.

As the Senate prepares to vote on the GOP’s dangerous voter suppression legislation, join us in DC tomorrow to defend our voting rights and stop the SAVE Act: www.mobilize.us/dfadcoalitio...

Border Patrol agents have been roving from city to city over the last 15 months, far from their home bases in California and elsewhere along the U.S.-Mexico border, engaged in an unprecedented mass deportation campaign.  A collaboration w/ @calmatters.org @evidentmedia.org and @bellingcat.com

Oh my god - I'm familiar with this dude. Van Irion was a birther attorney - he lost an administrative law hearing in Georgia that tried to get Obama kicked off the ballot back in 2012.

According to the law, “No head and shoulders portrait or bust of any person, living or dead, and no portrait of a living person may be included in the design on the reverse of any coin.” But Trump is [shockingly!] ignoring the law. Only Congress could intervene to stop it, which they haven’t yet.

After I reached out to Donald Scarinci—the chair of the Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee—about the proposed gold Trump coin, he let me know about the deleted video. Luckily, he told me, another member recorded a copy of their February meeting with US Mint officials and posted it on Youtube.

SCOOP— Trump wants a 24k gold coin w/ his face on it for America 250, but an official at a late February coin advisory committee meeting called it something only done by "nations ruled by kings or dictators." After NYT reported the criticism, US Mint yanked online vid of the meeting w/o explanation.

Tulsi: “No, war with Iran”

such a soulless, weird little fake populist and opportunist

Trump is such an asshole he’s got the Irish guy defending the English guy

DOJ should be required to post this transcript with its hiring announcements. “Hey, 3Ls with no practice experience! Do you want to be publicly castigated for being soft on child porn and forcibly removed from courtrooms because your bosses don’t know what they’re doing? Come join the DOJ!”

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Harris accused Altman of being the “Goebbels of the Trump administration.” But on Tuesday, Harris said by email: “It was late and I had a few too many martinis so I misspoke when I said Goebbels… I should’ve said Friedrich Flick.”

There's a six page appendix listing out all of the many many times these lawyers appeared to rely on hallucinated citations. YIKES.

"The Irish famine was not a true famine arising from scarcity of food. It was what an English writer styled the Indian famine⎯a “financial famine,” arising not from scarcity of food but from the poverty of the people" -HG, "The Land Question"

Historian here, Happy Saint Patrick’s Day and do read the quoted post!

Everyone's getting their jokes off about this, which is fine. But instead of goofing around, I won $300,000 on Kalshi by betting that there'd only be one provably barefoot person in a photo of seven crypto freaks. Enjoy being poor.

Um - whoever designed the USA uniform is either too aware of today's geopolitics or too unaware. Are other people not bothered by the striped, curvy "S" which looks just like a backwards Russian fascist "Z"?

Life hack for tonight: for people who want to watch the World Baseball Classic but don't want to watch Fox, if you have a Netflix subscription and a VPN you can watch the Japanese broadcast. No English subtitles but the announcers are cheerful and the action is easy to follow.

“No deporting US citizens” is a CONCESSION???

the smirks with which these guys deliver these calls for god to kill talerico and say they want him crucified give up the game about how they don’t believe any of this is actually christian or justifiable, it’s transgression. i doubt either even actually believe in a god of any kind

Also yup, with the understanding that fracturing Trump's base and hastening his downfall in this very specific way would likely also be blamed (by people who have a propensity for violence) on The Jews™.

IRAN WAR 🧵A thread of thoughts (mine and others) about blaming The Jews™ for the President of these United States acting on his long-hold and frequently-expressed desire to trash Iran.

"This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land"

So when you read Kent's resignation letter, or Candace Owens' reaction to it (bsky.app/profile/sara...) don't give any of them a high five for opposing Trump or his war in Iran.

The city of Tyre is now being asked to evacuate, which is just utter madness. Tyre is 1.5 hours by car from Beirut. x.com/AvichayAdrae...

A Reagan appointee judge, no less. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Bad day for alternate universes

Wow this investigation identifies 5 federal agents who "engaged in a pattern of force and questionable detention, aggressive tactics that courts have said likely violated the constitution, as they moved from Bakersfield to Los Angeles, and then Chicago and Minneapolis" calmatters.org/investigatio...

But yeah it is not a coincidence that the crowd looking to box out “the groups” from any decision making our power in the Democratic Party are eager to have a veteran as the face of their efforts.

This is a good book on some of this from Joseph Darda outlining the way white people in America formed identities around being working class veterans mainly to counter the idea they enjoy systemic benefits from being white in the US.

Joshua Haymes & Brooks Potteiger (Pete Hegseth's pastor) pray imprecatory psalms against James Talarico: "I pray that God kills him. Ultimately, that means killing his heart and raising him up to new life in Christ ... If it would not be within God's will to do so, stop him by any means necessary."

Pete Hegseth is just as, if not more, fanatical than the Iranian mullahs he rails against.

You actually have to have an id to have sex!

Why, after years of scrutiny, isn’t there any evidence that large numbers of children were given irreversible treatments without assessment? “The journals are corrupt! And the doctors are corrupt! And the debate was suppressed! And the data is coming out any time now!” Like listen to yourselves

I don’t choose that word lightly. The idea that an entire field of medicine, as well as numerous academic journals, systematically suppressed evidence that gender-affirming care doesn’t work is a conspiracy theory. Meanwhile, none of these people can provide a shred of evidence for their core claim

Weird how every journalist writing ‘balanced’ feature stories on this issue turns out to be a deranged conspiracist and ideologue the second you hear them speak off the cuff

I AM DOG. THESE NOT DOGS

Big news for the 2026 fall election and for control of the State Senate: Van Wanggaard is retiring. The district Wanggaard represents (SD21) has yet to be on the ballot under new maps, and was a Harris+1/Baldwin+2 district in 2024. A flip opportunity for Democrats, where Trevor Jung is running.

New piece for The Nation on the ubiquity of "performative" and "virtue signalling" as terms of derision. "Citizenship ... is inherently performative and that abandoning the performance of democratic life means courting democratic collapse." www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Completely agree. Virtue signaling is good, actually! It's good to do good things, and to nudge other people toward doing good things!

People often think of right-wing conspiracy nuts as Nick Fuentes or Alex Jones look-alikes, but the reality is that many conspiracists are women. @noellecook.com joined me to discuss her new book profiling why millions of women have descended into extremism

Big day for me and the six other people alive this was written to appeal to

More on National Park -and Fish and Wildlife- sign removal chaos from my pretend cousin Lisa and the Sierra Club. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/c...; www.sierraclub.org/press-releas...

SAVE Act Talking Filibuster so far: a Republican Senator is giving a speech about Iran. 🤷‍♂️

On the one hand, U.S. law does in fact prohibit POTUS from unilaterally withdrawing from NATO. On the other hand, if POTUS refuses to discharge U.S. obligations under Article V of the NATO treaty, Congress does not have a lot of great options to respond in real time.

okay, a happy holidays video, we see those all the time *ten seconds in* "a british warlord named coroticus" you have my attention sir