Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:

BREAKING: The GOP has put their name in the history books as being on board with GENOCIDE as well.

Trump is “increasingly desperate” because he is not in a “dominant position” and “cannot dictate terms,” while “the Iranians are not going to accept a ceasefire that puts them in the same position as Lebanon and Gaza,” says @tparsi.bsky.social of the Quincy Institute.

Disgraceful! The US/Israel just bombed Sharif University in Tehran. This is not only Iran's best university, but also a top 100 global university in the field of Civil Engineering. It has also been a center of student opposition to the Iranian gov And Trump just bombed it...

🤔

If all goes according to plan, in a few hours, a crew of astronauts will begin a journey that will take them on a loop around the moon. Here's a video that NASA put together to help people visualize the journey through space, first orbiting the earth before looping around the moon and flying home 🔭

Iran's Revolutionary Guard threatens US universities in the Middle East

Omar: There were hundreds of millions in oil futures traded just minutes before a reversal in US policy on Iran. This is corruption. At DHS, we got a reckless spending spree, planes, vanity projects. It's like a billionaire's midlife crisis, except the American people are paying for it.

🚨 BREAKING: we crashed an NHS meeting to tell them to keep Palantir out of the NHS. Tell your local hospital to say no to Palantir in the NHS 👇 https://goodlaw.social/74abab

Ousted Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and first lady Cilia Flores are being held at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, New York – a facility known for having housed other high profile inmates. Life inside the federal detention facility is notoriously tough. https://cnn.it/3NO7iJ3

A woman in Indiana who put off dental surgery because she can’t afford the copay. A Florida couple with young kids who are depleting their savings. A grandmother in Idaho who plans to sell her car to pay the rent. They are among about 50,000 TSA agents who’ll receive another $0 paycheck this week.

According to documents filed this morning by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of NY, ICE has been lying for a year — not only to the public, but to the courts and to prosecutors — about being authorized to make arrests at 26 Federal Plaza and other immigration courts. (1/2)

Oppose Trump’s show trial of Venezuela’s President Maduro morningstaronline.co.uk/article/oppo... #morningstaronline

Former CIA Director John Brennan to MSNOW: “I tend to believe Iran more than I do Donald Trump, because he could not acknowledge the truth even when he’s slapped in the face with it repeatedly.”

Here's what to know about meningitis case in Cork

More profiteering.

www.ctvnews.ca/world/articl... Maduro's next hearing in US court is scheduled for 26.3.

Iran's game plan:

The White House sending out proof that Trump was indeed talking to Iranian officials these past few days, despite Iran's denials of such talks.

So much for "vapes & kisses" droplet transmission for #meningitis #airborne "Annabelle said she was only at the #nightclub for less than an hour,had one drink and did not share vapes. She also said she was outside for "pretty much the whole time"." www.bbc.com/news/article...

#United Kingdom: Meningitis Outbreak in Kent An outbreak of meningitis in the southeastern English county of Kent has led to 29 confirmed cases and two deaths. The spread of the disease was caused by a strain of meningococcal bacteria. Read more: mailchi.mp/americangeo/...

'None of us in the UK have ever encountered a cluster of this size.' Dr Bharat Pankhania's fellow medical consultants say the current rate of meningitis cases is 'unheard of'.

This is a very important report from @davidkurtz.bsky.social, who was in court for this shocking hearing today. And, Judge Gallagher has, in an order, made clear what she expects tomorrow: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The US is no longer a democracy. One of the most credible global sources on the health of democratic nations now says this outright. The Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Institute at Gothenburg University reaches the alarming conclusion (cont.) 🧵 www.theguardian.com/world/commen...?

Nicolas Maduro Reportedly Calls For Help From Tiny Cell In New York City: 'Tell My Country We're Being Mistreated Here' "I am the President of Venezuela, tell my country I've been kidnapped," Maduro has yelled from his cell www.latintimes.com/nicolas-madu...

US government does not allow Nicolas Maduro to use Venezuelan government funds to finance his trial costs in New York Trump administration opposes Maduro's request to dismiss drug trafficking case www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

The Lonesome Death of Daphy Michel Haitian woman, 31, dies alone at Pittsburgh bus stop days after ICE released her to the streets far from home to perish. Rest in power, miss. migrantinsider.com/p/the-loneso...

Hundreds of thousands of NHS staff in England attacked and harassed, survey shows

No to Palantir. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Big rise in UK employers losing migrant worker licences after Home Office crackdown giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

The FBI has warned police departments in California that Iran wants to retaliate for American attacks by launching offensive drones against the West Coast, according to an alert.-ABC News abcnews.com/US/fbi-warns...

U.S. intelligence assets have begun to see indications Iran is taking steps to deploy mines in Strait of Hormuz shipping lane. Iran is using smaller crafts that can carry 2 to 3 mines each.

fascinating FT piece on how Monday was the most volatile oil trading session in history: "Over the next 23 hours, the benchmark Brent crude price surged to as high as $119 a barrel before plunging to $84, the biggest intraday swing in dollar terms on record...." www.ft.com/content/6b0a...

British Airways cancels all flights to and from Abu Dhabi until later this year, and all flights to and from Amman, Bahrain, Doha, Dubai and Tel Aviv until later this month. -BBC

Iran has closed the Strait of Hormuz in retaliation for US-Israeli attacks, threatening the flow of about one-fifth of global oil supply. Attacks on regional energy facilities have further threatened supplies. As a result, companies are invoking force majeure right now, but what is it? #Infograph

Trump’s economic chaos is grinding the job market to a halt. This is Trumpflation at work—and people across the country are paying the price.

Dear Shabana, Let's clear some things up around migration and remember we're talking about people's lives.

Satellite imagery captured March 5 shows at least two oil storage tanks burning at the Fujairah Oil Industry Zone in the UAE, with a third completely burnt out after Iranian attacks. Fujairah is one of the world's largest ship refuelling hubs. #Iran

Ukraine accuses Hungary of taking "hostage" a group of Ukrainian bank employees who were reportedly transporting $40 million and nine kilograms of gold u.afp.com/Su6C

Wow. Iranian writer & researcher Ary Jeay reports that this is the missile launched at Tel Aviv tonight. The writing on the missile reads: “In memory of the girls of Minab School”, A reference to the 150+ children killed when US & Israeli missiles hit a school in Minab, Iran on Saturday.

This is reportedly a Khorramshahr-4 missile with a cluster warhead. It releases 80 submunitions at high altitude. Iran has been warning it had yet to deploy its more advanced technology. It appears to have arrived in Israel tonight.

I'm suing to block the Trump administration's illegal new tariffs and uphold the law. The U.S. Supreme Court already ruled that this administration can’t impose massive new tariffs on a whim. The administration can’t ignore the law and hurt consumers and small businesses.

One down, twenty-one to go.

An incredibly talented team of my colleagues at @propublica.org have created a searchable database of Trump's team financial disclosures, to help explore potential conflicts of interest: projects.propublica.org/trump-team-f...

My God! The patience of that man is saintly. We have been helping Russia destroy his country for more than a year. The fucking nerve of this admin!!!

Well, we did it because of the protesters Nukes I mean they’re building an ICBM We did it defensively because Iran was going to attack us I mean Israel was gonna do it anyway so we did it too They were gonna attack us because Israel was gonna attack them so we attacked them

Our Observers in Tehran: 'For us to achieve freedom, war is the only option'

Preparing the graves for more than 150 elementary school girls who were killed by an Israeli-American strike. Photo: IRNA #Iran

'UNIMAGINABLE CRUELTY': Judge Gary Brown, a Trump appointeee from NY, thrashes DHS' treatment of a man who came to the US at 9 as an abuse/neglect victim, has no criminal record and became a college grad. "The laws of decency condemn such villainy." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...