Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!

There's a reason the feds were doing this in the first place ... This admin is happy to attack states for pursuing clean energy, but when it comes to environmental protection, they (& their polluting friends) prefer to let under-resourced states handle it: www.eenews.net/articles/epa...

On @npr.org today talking about the war and energy markets 👀on LNG markets. High nat gas prices= bad for consumers, great for LNG exporters👀 The 🌎 is still reliant on fossil fuels, but @paashamahdavi.com says countries w more renewables+batteries+EVs are less vulnerable to oil/gas price shocks 🎧📻⬇️

Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on Iran: “Remember that one can be against a hateful regime, as is the case with the Iranian regime, as is the whole of Spanish society, and at the same time be against an unjustified, dangerous military intervention outside of international law.”

just became aware of this--the regime wants to clear-cut massive chunks of Oregon's old growth forests in the name of timber production. you have until March 23rd to comment. i know we have endless fucking things to scream at politicians about--this is an important one too.

I get why/that people say this, but dont' underestimate this: all other social networks are invested in making sure that posts that link to journalism remain buried, or at least never go viral. BlueSky doesn't do that. That makes it very valuable to a ton of newsrooms righ tnow.

President Donald Trump’s administration is expending a significant proportion of America’s best firepower – at a speed that may take the country’s industrial base years to replenish and leave American power diminished for other wartime scenarios.

Didn't get a cut of whatever's next.

Oil prices surged and shares slid as military conflict in the Middle East looked set to last weeks, sending investors flocking to the relative safety of the dollar and gold reut.rs/46ycd7c

Trump administration officials acknowledged in closed-door briefings with congressional staff that there was no intelligence suggesting Iran planned to attack US forces first, two people familiar with the matter said reut.rs/46ybyTg

“It’s not going to be anybody that we were thinking of because they are all dead.”

this isn't really the huge font headline you want to see when you're launching a war of choice that you can't explain to your allies in congress

Reminder that Donald Trump Jr. sits on Polymarket's advisory board and his firm invested double-digit millions into the platform last year. The DOJ and CFTC both had active investigations into Polymarket that were dropped after Trump took office.

This is what happens when you effectively have no ethical rules at the top of government — virtually limitless opportunities for insider profiteering.

You don't think "Operation Epstein Fury" will work?

A big part of the authoritarian playbook is war. War takes over the news. War blots out criticism. War divides a nation’s people, subjecting those against it to being called unpatriotic. War grants leaders all sorts of emergency powers. War consumes everything else. We mustn’t let this war do so.

December 2025 through February 2026 was the 2nd warmest winter on record for the Contiguous U.S. according to Prism climate data. The widespread record to near record warmth in the west easily outweighed the cool temps in the east. 🔥🔥🔥

How different the world might be today if the U.S. and the U.K. had not launched the 1953 coup in Iran that overthrew Prime Minister Mosaddegh, who had nationalized Iran’s oil industry

ICYMI: Recent extended freezes in Florida have led to an estimated $3.17 billion in damage to crops in the state. This ranks among the most damaging agricultural hits to Florida from freeze conditions on record. content.govdelivery.com/attachments/...

"Sunday 'No, More Wars!' Toons" bradblog.com?p=15652 — THIS WEEK: Latest Epstein Distraction ... SOTU That Was (or Wasn't) (or Whatever) and more in our latest collection…

So, so instructive to compare media response to Afghanistan withdrawal -- months of hysterical garment-rending & catastrophizing, relentless criticism of the admin -- with the response to an unprovoked, unmotivated, illegal war of aggression, ie, "some critics say maybe Trump should have reasons."

Read @adamserwer.bsky.social on elite impunity. IMO this is the biggest issue in US politics, the one that underlies all others. It gets too little discussion, because discourse is so heavily governed by precisely the elites who favor the impunity, but beneath the surface, pressure is building.

11 US troops were killed when Biden ordered they *leave* Afghanistan, and the most of the US media didn't stop blaming it him for three years. It was pretty much Biden's Vietnam. Trump *starts* a war and within a day, 3 are dead, he casually says "there will be more" --and it's "U-S-A! U-S-A!"

a slurring Trump in new video on American troops killed by Iran: “Sadly, there will likely be more before it ends. That's the way it is. Likely be more.“

trump take gas

“We expect to see that increase as long as we continue to warm up the planet by burning fossil fuels and putting carbon pollution into the atmosphere."

“The newly disclosed files do not provide additional insight into one of the key mysteries of the Epstein case: why Mr. Acosta engineered the widely criticized deal” …and then Epstein was released from prison

No apologies necessary. I’ve got it. Gift Article 🎁: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/01/u...

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 pretense of a negotiation by Steve and Jared, a negotiation that was either so incompetent as to be worse than useless or — probably more likely — a negotiation that was so incompetent by design, to serve its paymasters”

“There’s the fact that Iran’s conflict with the west doesn’t just go back 47 years, to 1979, when it seized Americans as hostages, but to 1953, when the US and UK launched a coup against Iran, in significant part to protect the oil industry”

Reup, on the forgotten claim that Jared and Steve were purportedly seeking peace. emptywheel.net/iran-things-...

Without Weighing Costs to Public Health, EPA Rolls Back Air Pollution Standards for Coal Plants 😡😡 The federal Mercury and Air Toxics Standards for coal and oil-fired power plants were strengthened during the Biden administration. insideclimatenews.org/news/2802202...

The fate of one of the last thriving coral reefs in Florida could soon be wiped out — not by hot-tub water temperatures or the mysterious plague of stony coral tissue loss disease, but by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

They went to war with Iran (which nobody in America was asking for) so they could conjure an excuse to allow ICE to keep murdering Americans and teargassing schools here at home with impunity (which nobody in America was asking for).

For the 2026 primary elections, NPR has collected deadlines and information on how to register to vote — online, in person or by mail — in every U.S. state and territory.

NEW: X Is *drowning* in disinformation following US and Israel’s attack on Iran. WIRED has reviewed hundreds of posts on X that promote misleading claims about the locations and scale of the attack. read @davidgilbert.bsky.social:

If South Asia + the Middle East destabilize simultaneously, humanitarian systems will be tested far beyond current capacity. We should be watching displacement indicators NOW — not after borders are overwhelmed. Conflict headlines = migration headlines within weeks, not years.

I know maps are less popular than clickbait, but pls entertain me 🧵 We are watching two escalating conflicts at the same time: • Pakistan–Afghanistan cross-border fighting • Israel–Iran strikes, with spillover across the Gulf These events may converge into a regional displacement crisis.

Hoo boy is there a lot off ass covering leaking in this piece

The regime that dragged us into their war for supremacy in the Middle East also just staked Paramount in their takeover of Warner Bros. to purchase our media

Link to Axios interview: www.axios.com/2026/02/28/t... Link to Washinton Post interview: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

On the left: Trump tells Axios U.S. military action could end quickly and then resume if Iran starts rebuilding it nuclear and missile programs On the right: Trump tells Washington Post, U.S. military action is about freedom for the Iranian people/regime change

7 out of 10 Americans did not support attacking Iran. Are you seeing their voices reflected in the news coverage much?

NEW: US diplomacy with Iran was doomed to fail. Trump & his aides made broad demands, and their priority wasn't the crippled nuclear program. Trump and Rubio signaled the need for regime change, and Israel pushed them to decimate Iran's ballistic missiles. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/01/u...

in two days is one of the biggest Election Days of the year so i made a guide to what you should know — piece by piece, local election by local election sunday is the best time to explore it! boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...

deja vu all over again

New, from me: Why is American attacking Iran? It helps to have a coherent reason, to justify to the US public the costs in money and blood, to allies about the potential long-term risks, and to Iranians about the future of their country. Lets take a look 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-reason...

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

Catherine Beecher is the perfect choice to juxtapose with Charlie Kirk. In the era when American women began advocating for suffrage, Beecher was a prominent anti-suffragist.