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Rachel Maddow
about 10 hours ago
the president has no idea what he has set in motion. none.
www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
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Justin Wolfers
about 9 hours ago
Markets are *very* unhappy about developments in Iran.
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Effin' Birds
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Josh Marshall
about 17 hours ago
huh, makes the whole 25 year period when the Shah was our top ally kind of awkward
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Timothy Snyder
about 20 hours ago
A purpose of the war on Iran might well be to provoke a terrorist attack inside the United States. This would provide Donald Trump with a pretext to try to cancel or “federalize” the coming Congressional elections.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-desire...
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The Desire for Terror
And the defense of democracy
https://snyder.substack.com/p/the-desire-for-terror
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Olga Nesterova
about 21 hours ago
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.
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The Tennessee Holler
about 22 hours ago
Why
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Sean Redmond
1 day ago
And all 60 years' worth of NEH grants will be outspent in a week of attacks on Iran
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Aaron Rupar
1 day ago
Trump multiple times just today has said the country is at war. War can only be declared by Congress, and Iran posed no imminent threat. What Trump is doing there is a textbook illegal war and impeachable offense — if we still had a Congress.
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paulpro
1 day ago
“I’m not learning your damn language” was the warmup to these two:
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Open Culture
3 days ago
Roman Statues Weren’t White; They Were Once Painted in Vivid, Bright Colors
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Roman Statues Weren’t White; They Were Once Painted in Vivid, Bright Colors
The idea of the classical period—the time of ancient Greece and Rome—as an elegantly unified collection of superior aesthetic and philosophical cultural traits has its own history, one that comes in l...
https://www.openculture.com/2026/03/roman-statues-werent-white-they-were-once-painted-in-vivid-bright-colors.html
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Jesse Duquette
1 day ago
MAGA’s latest flex is sending their kids to die in a war because a pedophile doesn’t want his sex crimes exposed
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paulpro
2 days ago
@mwcartoons.bsky.social
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Tom Heintjes
3 days ago
PLAY BALL! In "Peanuts," Charlie Brown first played baseball (though not yet as pitcher) 75 years ago, on March 6, 1951:
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paulpro
2 days ago
@mwuerker.bsky.social
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Effin' Birds
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McSweeney's
3 days ago
"Does your leader view the lives of armed services personnel as disposable by mocking their service or saying things like 'that’s the way it is' whenever they are killed?"
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Does Your Country Need Regime Change? A Quiz
“In announcing the U.S. military strike on Iran, President Donald Trump went significantly beyond his previous justification of destroying the coun...
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Seth Cotlar
3 days ago
If you took $1 billion and gave it to the endowment of a different small college each day, they could each provide a free college education to several hundred students per year in perpetuity. Instead we are using that money to bomb schools and kill students in Iran, for no clearly stated purpose.
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Brent Toderian
3 days ago
He doesn’t care even a tiny little bit about you.
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What fresh hell is this?
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights | United Nations
A milestone document in the history of human rights, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights set out, for the first time, fundamental human rights to be universally protected. It has been translated...
https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights
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News Eye
4 days ago
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)
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Ashton Pittman
4 days ago
"Men older than me spat on me in public,” Lauren Stokes said, recalling the days after the University of Mississippi fired her for sharing a post calling Charlie Kirk racist. A chill fell over campus as faculty grew fearful of sharing their views on anything, colleagues testified in federal court.
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Stokes’ Firing Over Kirk Post Chilled Speech at University of Mississippi, Faculty Testify
The University of Mississippi’s firing of Lauren Stokes for sharing a post criticizing Charlie Kirk chilled speech on campus, faculty testified.
https://www.mississippifreepress.org/lauren-stokes-firing-over-kirk-post-chilled-speech-on-university-of-mississippi-campus-faculty-testify/
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southpaw
5 days ago
A US submarine sinking a lonely, dinky Iranian surface ship an ocean away from the theater of the main conflict—and 9000 miles from North America—makes it pretty clear the US is fighting a general war, without the declaration required by the Constitution.
www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...
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U.S. sub sinks Iranian warship off Sri Lanka, killing 87 and expanding war zone
A U.S. submarine sank an Iranian warship off the southern coast of Sri Lanka, killing dozens of sailors and dramatically widening Washington's pursuit of the Iranian navy.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/sri-lanka-rescues-30-people-board-distressed-iranian-ship-foreign-minister-says-2026-03-04/
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5 days ago
@effinbirds.com
keeping it real. This calendar channels all my feelings. Highly recommend it.
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It’s just fucking insanity on roller skates. Seriously people. How long can we go on like this?
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Ned Richardson-Little
6 days ago
Gotta love how academic books don't earn you money, but LLMs can make money off of stealing them in the aggregate and if you write enough, they can also profit from stealing your personality after you are dead.
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Aaron Rupar
6 days ago
CNN put together a montage of the regime's incoherent talking points about Trump's war on Iran
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Sun Tzu “Again, if the campaign is protracted, the resources of the State will not be equal to the strain.
7 days ago
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Ryan Enos
7 days ago
One person is setting policy for the entire globe, deciding life and death for people in other countries, with virtually no constraints. Congress has a moral obligation to assert its authority.
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John Carl Baker
7 days ago
Look at this chart
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Opinion Today
7 days ago
Just one in four Americans supports US strikes on Iran, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds
www.reuters.com/world/us/jus...
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Fiona "Fi" Webster 🌎🌍🌏
8 days ago
Paolo Calleri
@paolo-calleri.de
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paulpro
8 days ago
Garry Trudeau
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Tom Toro
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paulpro
8 days ago
@deadder.bsky.social
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Ann Telnaes
9 days ago
Operation Epic Distraction
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Effin' Birds
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Mueller, She Wrote
9 days ago
Welp
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paulpro
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McSweeney's
9 days ago
January 2026 saw a whopping 62 new atrocities from Trump and his administration.
#LestWeForgetTheHorrors
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Lest We Forget the Horrors: An Unending Catalog of Trump’s Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes: January 2026: Atrocities 658-730
Early in President Trump’s first term, McSweeney’s editors began to catalog the head-spinning number of misdeeds coming from his administration. We...
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just fucking insane. the mad king orchestrates chaos from the country club. no congress, no constitution, no president. just madness.
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Nick Davis
9 days ago
No congress, no constitution, and a king. What a way to celebrate 250 years.
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Effin' Birds
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Carl Quintanilla
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paulpro
9 days ago
@davewhamond.bsky.social
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Kai Ryssdal
9 days ago
So let’s think about this. A private company refused - on principle - to yield to the government’s demands. The government then cancelled its contracts with the company and has set about destroying it
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Science Magazine
9 days ago
For the first time, officials at the U.S. National Science Foundation have spoken publicly about how President Donald Trump is now calling the shots at the $9 billion research agency, with his administration reorienting it to focus on White House priorities.
https://scim.ag/3Ow4Qap
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NSF officials break silence on how AI and quantum now drive agency grantmaking
Leaders acknowledge White House role in controversial moves
https://scim.ag/3Ow4Qap
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