the president has no idea what he has set in motion. none. www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

Markets are *very* unhappy about developments in Iran.

huh, makes the whole 25 year period when the Shah was our top ally kind of awkward

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...

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.

Why

And all 60 years' worth of NEH grants will be outspent in a week of attacks on Iran

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.

“I’m not learning your damn language” was the warmup to these two:

Roman Statues Weren’t White; They Were Once Painted in Vivid, Bright Colors

MAGA’s latest flex is sending their kids to die in a war because a pedophile doesn’t want his sex crimes exposed

PLAY BALL! In "Peanuts," Charlie Brown first played baseball (though not yet as pitcher) 75 years ago, on March 6, 1951:

"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?"

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.

He doesn’t care even a tiny little bit about you.

What fresh hell is this?

Universal Declaration of Human Rights www.un.org/en/about-us/...

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)

"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.

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...

@effinbirds.com keeping it real. This calendar channels all my feelings. Highly recommend it.

It’s just fucking insanity on roller skates. Seriously people. How long can we go on like this?

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.

CNN put together a montage of the regime's incoherent talking points about Trump's war on Iran

Boy howdy, is it stupid here.

Sun Tzu “Again, if the campaign is protracted, the resources of the State will not be equal to the strain.

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.

Look at this chart

Just one in four Americans supports US strikes on Iran, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds www.reuters.com/world/us/jus...

Paolo Calleri @paolo-calleri.de

Garry Trudeau

Operation Epic Distraction anntelnaes.substack.com/p/operation-...

Welp

January 2026 saw a whopping 62 new atrocities from Trump and his administration. #LestWeForgetTheHorrors

just fucking insane. the mad king orchestrates chaos from the country club. no congress, no constitution, no president. just madness.

No congress, no constitution, and a king. What a way to celebrate 250 years.

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

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