A month ago, we noted that Jared Kushner’s appointment as special envoy for peace meant he would need to file a financial disclosure so that he could resolve potential conflicts of interest and called on him to proactively divest from Affinity Partners. He hasn’t.🧵

Climate/renewables arguments aside, this is the president's administration paying a foreign company to invest in states where Republicans are in charge rather than ones where Democrats are in charge -- using tax dollars to punish people who didn't vote for his party.

Doing “The Weave”

WATCH: “Democracy means mob rule.”🤔 Ag chair Rep Chris Todd says the quiet part out loud, opposing a fellow REPUBLICAN’s bill to protect the River in SCOTT COUNTY from a proposed landfill. @brotherjones.bsky.social says he owes an apology — local meeting TUESDAY: www.cumberlandclear.org

finally, japan answers america’s call to help open the strait of hormuz

This cruelty is being done in our name. Shame on this administration. Shame. 13,000 third country deportees so far. Many were ordered deported decades or even generations earlier, but no admin previously would have considered something as inhumane as this as a means of carrying out a removal.

Then Jesus said to him, ‘Put your sword back into its place; for all who take the sword will perish by the sword.’” (Mt 26:52) Let’s be clear: there is no universe in which Jesus Christ blesses preemptive war and wanton destruction. To wrap war under the mantle of Jesus Christ is blasphemy. ⚓️

Area dipshit: I could marry my partner of 20 years, the mother of my kid, at least so she doesn't get deported OR I could post about sex parties until she finally leaves me and then use my Trump connections to try to get her deported

NCAA needs to limit portal transfers to 1 and years of eligibility to 5.

Link: xcancel.com/repmikelevin...

Three Israeli officials tell Reuters that the U.S. helped coordinate Israel’s attack on Iran’s South Pars gas field. Great job, NY Times, in swallowing Trump's lie and puking it out to the rest of us.

How Google Maps is shaping where we eat – video

Aid to Ukraine from 2022-2026 was a rounding error. We used more in the first two weeks of the Iran war than we provided in the 4 years of aid to Ukraine.

Approving the money could allow the Trump administration to argue that Congress had retroactively authorized the war.

The current spread of measles in the U.S. warns of future rubella outbreaks, since the vaccines are given together. “It will come back with a vengeance," an ex-CDC doctor says. "We will see babies being born who are blind, deaf and have heart disease.” talkingpointsmemo.com/news/how-rob...

Is this bad? It sounds bad.

A U.S.–Israeli missile strike hit a home in Amrabad near Arak in central Iran, killing a family of four as they slept, local reports said. The victims included a 3-day-old baby, his 2-year-old sister, their mother, and grandmother.

Why is a PAC for a Florida high-speed rail line helping to fund an inexperienced Congressional candidate in Wisconsin? Might have something to do with his father-in-law, MTV reality star-turned-Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy. New from @megomatz.bsky.social @propublica.org

The latest White House thinking on the Strait of Hormuz.

"Iran is the third-largest urea exporter on the planet. The Strait of Hormuz handles roughly 25% of all globally traded nitrogen fertilizer. The attack came in late February, weeks before spring planting — the narrow window when fertilizer has to be on vessels, at ports, or already in the ground."

JFC. Impeach and remove this lawless man, you fools.

Seems like pretty straightforward book-cooking here. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/b...

One thing I just want to note about this: this is a warning for the midterms. If you see a "left leaning influencer" criticizing a true (non-Platner) progressive as we head toward November, you should view that influencer with an extreme degree of suspicion.

HOLY SHIT. A dark money group, hidden behind a bunch of shell companies, is paying influencers thousands of dollars PER POST to attack @katmabu.bsky.social on social media a month before her election. Thank you to the people who declined the money and went forward with this. So who's behind this?

The Pentagon dismantled its civilian protection effort as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made “lethality” a top priority and the Trump administration reorganized national security around two principles: more aggression, less accountability.

"We must be willing to criticize Israel as though antisemitism does not exist... We must be willing to name and fight antisemitism as though the state of Israel does not exist." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

What really pisses me off is that Americans won’t be welcome abroad for decades

it’s a single burnt nugget on stale bread wrapped in a list of all the ways you’ve disappointed your parents

Again, leaders of other countries don’t talk this way. The glee with which our current leaders talk about killing people is not normal, and nor is their lack of concern for who exactly we’re killing. American bombs incinerated 100 kids in Minab. Were those the “right people”?

While we’re worried about the war, the Epstein files, drone attacks in CA… Josh Hawley and Republicans are taking this moment to push legislation to strip FDA approval for Mifepristone The assaults on Americans are coming from inside the house.

French news channel, LCI, airs a split screen simultaneously showing footage of Trump dancing to YMCA in front of a rally crowd as oil fields in the Middle East are in flames

A great recap of how "smirking little shit" tech bros destroyed the National Endowment for the Humanities, by @lizdye.bsky.social www.lawandchaospod.com/p/doge-bros-...

Gen. Grynkewich: "What I've observed over the course of studying air power in history is that any time you attack a civilian population, you usually end up finding that it just hardens their resolve."

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Ex-Trump National Security Advisor Nadia Schadlow: “Congress does not have a constitutional role in the declaration of war.” @ezraklein.bsky.social : *READS HER THE CONSTITUTION* 🤔

Marco Rubio's BFF is an accused foreign agent and money launderer. His trial is about to start — and Rubio is on the witness list. My @vanityfair.com story on the legal bomb that's poised to go off in Trumpland. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/m...

Get a load of this one

My gynae lecturer is so unenthusiastic about the vagina. Mumbling as fast as possible to get through it like a vagina defeated him in honourable combat and now he’s ashamed to look at one directly. As a lesbian I cannot understand the impulse

Um, yep, this says what needs to be said.

A cause to risk one's life for

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

Marco Rubio hanging out with Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio at the "Shield of the Americas" event, in case you were still thinking it had some sort of legitimate purpose

BREAKING: The US has bombed Tehran’s main refinery and burning oil is now flooding down the streets into the city’s sewers. This is a vision from hell, unleashed by the US tonight. (🎥 Vahid Online)

How many countries will Trump bomb, how many will he try to destroy, in order to avoid accountability for his involvement with Jeffrey Epstein and avoid the reality of his accelerating physical and mental decline?

Donald Trump is pointing to missions in Iran “as if the excellence with which they have been conducted somehow constitutes a strategy in itself,” @radiofreetom.bsky.social argues.

this is unspeakable

Anderson Cooper: “So it's more expensive to have a chronically homeless person living on the streets than it is to actually subsidize an apartment for them?” Answer: “Yes, we’re paying more as taxpayers to walk past that person on the street and do nothing.” #HousingFirst #UrbanTruth