9/9. The case is in the DOJ archives. Read it before they delete it.

8/9. The larger lesson is that you cannot allow someone who profits from and enables foreign electoral operations to use them as a pretext to compromise US voting.

6/9. Trump and allies rewarded the Iranians and the Russians and the Chinese by punishing the US researchers who discovered all this and abolishing the agencies that tracked it.

3/9. The Iranians pretending to be Proud Boys hacked data and then threatened Democratic voters.

4/9. The Iranian operation in 2020 was designed to help Donald Trump get elected.

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...

Modern tyranny is terror management. I wrote this essay in April 2025 and updated it in November. I'm posting it again now because my fear of this scenario has continued to grow. "The Next Terrorist Attack: And What Comes After" snyder.substack.com/p/the-next-t...

The “big picture” here, to use Axios lingo, is that for a year team Trump has destroyed important counter-terror tools and diverted counter-terror personnel to immigration enforcement. And that Patel, Noem, & Gabbard have no qualifications and are riotously incompetent. www.axios.com/2026/03/02/i...

Those of us in the trenches with curricula of #greattexts #coretexts #history sadly recognize these old battles - and the motives behind them. Worth watching the whole exchange.

While American troops were in harm’s way, Trump was wining and dining political donors at Mar-a-Lago.

The Trump SCIF (Sloppily Curtained Info Fort) will soon be for sale in the Mar-a-Lago gift shop:

"See history - as it happens: The Gold Mar-A-Lago membership includes unique access to the invasion peep-show"

Releasing the Epstein files is about justice. No one is above the law. That’s why Rep. Massie and my effort is breaking through. Read Sarah Fitzpatrick’s authoritative reporting of how we did this. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

I saw some folks asking what the difference was between what OpenAI signed with the DoD and what Anthropic said they wanted, and Sam more or less admits here the key point: OpenAI's deal requires them to trust the NSA. Anthropic's contract had real safeguards.

The question facing Trump-supporting Evangelicals in 2026 is whether they’ve so internalized a MAGA political identity that no amount of wrongdoing can shake it. John Fea: 'Beyond Transactional' www.commonwealmagazine.org/fea-trump-ev...

Trump has no strategy to help the Iranian people build a legitimate state—in fact, he’s dismantling tools that could have helped promote civic engagement and build a united opposition in Iran, @anneapplebaum.bsky.social argues. theatln.tc/k99IcIzV

NEW: I and colleagues reviewed 15,000 documents to illuminate how Jeffrey Epstein used VIP doctors to control and manipulate young women* — and how the doctors helped him, treating his needs as more important than the patients'. Gift link. *see next post in thread

The latest post by @annelouiseavery.bsky.social is wonderful. Appropriately for such a 'foodie' episode, I gobbled up every detail and then came back for more. Her new character is a total treat. #OldFox'sCottage

BREAKING: The death toll from a strike that hit a school in southern Iran has risen to 85 people, an official says on Iranian state TV. Follow AP's live updates for more.

Good to know.

There better be a damn good reason an elementary school was designated as a military target. To be clear, it's a war crime to use non-military targets like a school as a shield for military forces. So if Iran did that, I expect to see some damn good evidence demonstrating that was the case.

One other issue here is while there is rightly discussion about what happens if the Iranian regime survives and Trump et al have no plan for what next, there also needs to be more discussion of scenarios where the regime falls and Trump et al have no plan for what next

I guess that wasn’t overanxiety on my part.

“If Kamala wins, only death and destruction await because she is the candidate of endless wars. I am the candidate of peace. I am peace.” - Trump, 11/1/24 “I’m not going to start a war, I’m going to stop wars.” - Trump, 11/5/24

Is it any wonder Anthropic didn't trust this Admin to decide what constitutes a "lawful use" of its products given how flippantly and egregiously the Administration is abusing its lawful authorities to now try to put Anthropic out of business?

Our story on how the Pentagon misread the situation with Anthropic. They thought they would fold under the strong-arm tactic. Instead, Anthropic is seeing a boom of support from other AI companies and their own employees. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/t...

posting, once again, the well-established definition of the crime of aggression in the rome statute for the ICC

what a crazy night for sam altman to be like "yeah we got that dept of war deal, and there's no moral concerns here"

Anthropic responds to Hegseth. www.anthropic.com/news/stateme...

Trump has launched an illegal regime change war in Iran with American lives at risk. Congress must convene on Monday to vote on Rep. Thomas Massie & my WPR to stop this. Every member of Congress should go on record this weekend on how they will vote.

Did Congress declare war? Because he just said we're at war. We should talk about this.

Sam Altman picked a hell of a day to basically urge the world to trust the morality and legal restraint of the Department of Defense

JUST IN: Trump orders government agencies to cease using Anthropic's AI tech over the company's refusal to bend safeguards for the military—including refusing to allow Claude to be used for mass surveillance or autonomous drones. Trump threatens to force Anthropic to comply with criminal penalties.

Outstanding @caseynewton.bsky.social analysis (of course) of the Anthropic/DOD fight. www.platformer.news/anthropic-pe...

There are two types of Trump II appointees. Guys you haven't heard of because they're 23 year old groypers, and guys you vaguely remember from some scandal revealing poor moral character.

Congress and the courts are refusing to give Trump what he wants, so he’s concocting a new plan to seize control of the election. Here’s what you need to know: open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

If Trump is serious about a war on fraud, he should start by looking in the mirror. Corruption is plundering America. The call is coming from inside the White House. -TN

He’s pro-bribery.

trump is calling for banning congressional stock trading, but he leaves out the key detail: the reason there's a standstill right now is democrats want it to apply to trump and the white house, but trump issued a veto threat over that.

Be warned everyone that this tidbit by Trump likely refers to a plan by certain techbros to run their own nuclear power plants. People need to fight hard against any effort to weaken the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, which grants licenses and ensures safe operation of nuclear energy facilities.

He is saying this in the United States Capitol, which he incited a violent attack against in order to try to illegally remain in power.

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."

“Fellow citizens: In the midst of an unprecedented attack on our democracy and our way of life, we can be grateful for the traditions that are enabling Americans to reclaim their democracy.” - @hcrichardson.bsky.social Continue watching at the link below.

@hcrichardson.bsky.social So great!! HCR’s State of the Union could also be used as a primer for anyone who needs to get up to speed. www.youtube.com/live/g_PnMMX...

You can’t make this stuff up: “Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen, who is running for lieutenant governor, posted a campaign video on Sunday saying that his newest opponent in the race, former Alabama Republican Party Chairman John Wahl, voted with a “homemade fake ID.” www.al.com/politics/202...

For context: in my course this semester -- ONE BOOK SLOWLY -- I am using the fact of reading slowly (11pp/class session, plus 2x/week commonplace book handwritten assignments) to emphasize the idea of pre-digital deep literacy as a technique and collection of techniques. I explain that reading...

Greenland Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen: “President Trump's idea of ​​sending an American hospital ship here to Greenland has been noted — But we have a public healthcare system where treatment is free for citizens. It is a deliberate choice"

Blue Lenten morning, fierce little kestrel

A retired British primary school administrator with a British passport and a valid visa was shackled, chained and detained for six weeks by ICE www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...