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Experts Point To Long, Glorious History Of Successful U.S. Bombing Campaigns https://theonion.com/experts-point-to-long-glorious-history-of-successful-u-1819575498/

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Trump is giving his first official presser since he started bombing Iran. After a few minutes, he moved on from the war to the curtains he’s picked for the White House and his new ballroom. “I picked those drapes in my first term. I always liked gold.” www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...

Trump has no plan. This is a damning summary from The Economist’s Middle East Correspondent Gregg Carlstrom.

How cool is it that Mar-a-Lago guests can land selfies with the Sec. of State just as the US is bombing a foreign country? #bespoke

Oh holy shit there's more?

killed by him!!!

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.

I'd be more inclined to believe that Graham Platner is merely a dumbass if he was making different kinds of "mistakes" instead of one very specific type of "mistake" over and over

Multiple outlets have described that Trump is reneging on the arms deal offered for Taiwan to ensure he has a happy summit with Xi in April (where he will try to convince China to start buying soybeans again after Trump destroyed those exports with his illegal tariffs). www.wsj.com/world/china/...

They fired all the experts so just leave it to AI?

So the talks were going too well, so he had to hurry up and strike?

Best of the best. open.substack.com/pub/theicema...

This is why we have antitrust laws *which are still current law*

Left Behind

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).

There are no fewer than 36 righteous people in the world who greet the Shekhinah in each generation--talmud, sandhedrin 97b

Trump is draining the US’ weapons stock. Hope there are no more enemies anywhere.

Nooooooo

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Maddow: Who benefits from Trump's attack on Iran? youtu.be/QiNsRu2E1As

So this post inspired my New Year's resolution to read 50 books this year. That's about a book a week. All these folks in the timeline fondly recalling your liberal arts education? No time like the present to continue it.

"Trump is seen dancing at his Mar-a-Lago golf club just before announcing unauthorized strikes in Iran."

Book people: the following small presses have just lost funding from the National Endowment for the Arts. Please consider supporting them! A Thread.

Reminder that Trump gutted VOA Farsi.

What a great way to spend a season. And the essay is lovely.

Congratulations to the Defense Department for becoming so evil and incompetent that they have somehow made an AI company the good guys in the story.

After sexual violence, it's victims who get punished the most. Victims who lose their jobs and have to leave their industries. Victims who lose their friends and support systems. Victims who lose their health and sanity. Perpetrators might lie low, sometimes, before being handed it all back.

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This song slaps, I’m a fan of percussive piano and this one has great hooks too, RIP Neil Sedaka youtu.be/jZNIhySugSA

RIP NEIL SEDAKA

Someone should 100% write a TV series about Neil Sedaka, Barbra Streisand, Neil Diamond, Barry Manilow & Carole King growing up at the same neighborhood in Brooklyn

"Music would play, they tell me the days were sweet and clear It was a sweeter tune and there was so much room that people could come from everywhere There was a time when strangers were welcome here" - Neil Sedaka, "The Immigrant" RIP to a man who saw this coming www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMPb...

In an interview with AP, Renee Good's family remembers how she loved sparkles and laughter and any excuse for a celebration. She was “slow to anger, quick to love, quick to care,” said her father, Tim Ganger. “That’s the essence of who she was.” bit.ly/4l0DViP

The "RFK Jr Curve"

"The passenger in the car when Texas driver Ruben Ray Martinez was fatally shot last year by a federal immigration agent gave a lengthy statement to lawyers for the slain man's family disputing the government's version of events. That witness died Saturday in a fiery car crash in San Antonio"

ICE has not left Minneapolis. Our neighbors are still being taken by masked secret police.

You first

1. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has announced that under a new deal with Scouting America, formerly Boy Scouts of America, trans scouts will be forcibly outed and segregated from peers of their gender. The policy is the latest cruel capitulation. www.erininthemorning.com/p/secdef-heg...

First they came for the…scouts? TV entertainer and inexplicably Secretary of Defense/War/whatevs Pete Hegseth: “The Department of War has officially put Scouting America on notice. “It’s time to get back to basics, and DoW is leading the charge.” He really wants his Hitler Youth.

The H5N1 #birdflu virus that devastated South American elephant s#eal populations has been confirmed in seals at California’s Año Nuevo State Park, researchers from UC Davis and UC Santa Cruz announced Wednesday. www.latimes.com/science/stor...

What a surprise this comes out right after the story breaks about her secret bag on the flight with Lewandowski.

What could be in that Secret Bag that would be so embarrassing for “The Mile High Princess” that she would fire the pilot before he’s flown home, and fabricate a cover story about a blanket? Any one want to venture to guess? www.rawstory.com/kristi-noem-...

Murdered by police at the wrong address over stolen lawn equipment owned by a local official? No criminal charges? www.wkyt.com/2026/02/26/g...

Cover of The Lancet: @thelancet.com www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Barrett wrote in her Skrmetti concurrence that there wasn’t a history of de jure discrimination against trans Americans, and the GOP has relentlessly sought to prove her wrong.

"In fact, the articles of impeachment drafted for Nixon stated that he had ‘endeavoured to obtain from the Internal Revenue Service, in violation of the constitutional rights of citizens, confidential information contained in income tax returns for purposed (sic) not authorized by law.’”