If you want info on Iran, follow @rezahakbari.bsky.social. A brilliant doctoral student working on a commensurately brilliant dissertation on modern Iranian politics. He knows what he’s talking about and tells it like it is.

The Washington Post sacked all of its Middle East correspondents a couple of weeks ago. Useful.

Taking fire so an Ohio lingerie magnate doesn’t get indicted

Just in the last year... Trump attacked Iran, Venezuela, Nigeria, Somalia, Yemen, Syria, and Iraq. And then murdered people in the Caribbean and the Pacific in boat strikes. Add on top of that, destroying USAID, pulling out of WHO, etc... and this administration has/is killing millions of people.

Haaretz and US both quote military officials suggesting war of “several days”. Trump says intense precision bombing all week They project confidence that Iran’s missile capability is heavily monitored and followed, limiting Iran’s capability to inflict harm with its missiles

Not the reassurance I’d want to be seeing if I was living in Tel Aviv If I was making all out attack on massive militarized 90 million person country I’d probably want to see the leaders having their ducks in a row and on the same page

Trump doesn’t stoop to get Israel’s most dedicated backers in the US Senate on board before inviting unpredictable disaster If Iran has strategic outlook (not sure how they’re perceiving the US) they have opening to attack and make divided US back down Who knows where that will leave region

long known that billionaire Les Wexner was Epstein’s patron. Knew Wexner ran Victoria’s Secret, gave young nobody Epstein access to billions, made him trustee of his estate Didn’t know Les Wexner also personally credentialed US Jewish leaders for decades jewishcurrents.org/a-new-focus-...

RT Robert Pape: "This represents 40-50% of the deployable US air power in the world. Think air power on the order of the 1991 and 2003 Iraq war. And growing. Never has the US deployed this much force against a potential enemy and not launched strikes."

OPB experts doing a series on protests at portland ice building and federal response “The Crackdown” Part 1 in doc series now w part 2 in spring www.opb.org/article/2026...

In case you were wondering, Polymarket had yet another spate of likely inside traders betting that the US would strike Iran by February 28. Per the due diligence investigation service Bubblemaps, the wallets used were created 24 hours earlier. The Pentagon Pizza Index has been replaced.

Discussing the potential of American casualties, Trump said "that often happens in war."

BREAKING: Iranian state TV has confirmed that Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in Israeli and US air strikes today. A tearful host on state TV's channel one announced the news live on air.

BREAKING Islamic Republic state media has confirmed that Ali Khamenei has been killed. HE IS DEAD!!! Long live the great, courageous, and noble people of Iran!

When Americans and Israelis are in spreading freedom mode, every child is a human shield As the Biden admin showed, just pay an AI comms professional to call the mass child massacre a “tragic loss of life” that can’t be commented upon because “it’s under investigation”

Trump’s disastrous recklessness sets every Democrat up for an easy slam dunk, further sinks his own party on the ground Terrible decisions will only lead to Trump doubling down on stealing elections in partnership with forces like Netanyahu, authorizing himself to deploy “special emergency powers”

Wow. What times we live in

Should call on Schumer and Jeffries to get out of leadership.

Today’s military strikes on Iran — carried out by the United States and Israel — mark a catastrophic escalation in an illegal war of aggression. Bombing cities. Killing civilians. Opening a new theater of war.

I hate it

Wow so inspiring 🫶🥹 We all owe these students, many impacted and with parents and family impacted, a debt of gratitude for making the senate and house chambers shake and reverberate Chinga la Migra

You can hear the sound of these protests reverberating in the House chamber.

We’re not “terrorizing” them we’re just preventing them from leaving their home, shopping, going to get medical care, making them fear their children will be kidnapped after an unknown man smashes in their car windows

US officials ask other US officials to consider being semi serious outwardly for a couple days as millions of Israelis brace to have ballistic missiles slam into their abodes, depending on the whims of Trump and how well all the mass bombing campaigns shake out www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I've been live-skeeting the inaugural Oregon Data Center Advisory Committee meeting today 🧵 for those of us with more sense and are out enjoying the beautiful weather

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

This is amazing. www.getyourfuckingmoneyback.com

This draft Trump EO on voting is even nuttier than you imagined. Zeroing out all voter rolls and making everyone re-register in person. Mandatory annual online re-registration. Requiring anyone casting an absentee ballot to find a notary. No dropboxes. All post-election disputes federalized. 😟

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ICE ramp-up shows US people never really put themselves in the shoes of the “inferior” people of other countries dealing with strife, or indigenous ppl of Americas Facing mild threat, US people spread tons of hyperbolic rumor, thinking that’s “helping” immigrants documentedny.com/2026/02/26/v...

tomorrow's article is a banger ngl

Wow clap clap clap USA maintains a semblance of due process for tiny fraction of victims of authoritarian ethno-supremacist regime

Bloody progress of the merciful and chosen

fascinating saga

Head of the IBEW on why Democrats should back Plattner: "He is an impressive person, kind of a Manchin, Fetterman type"

Even the most boring people in the world can find it in themselves to care about kids in Gaza Something that 85% of US congresspeople can’t manage to accomplish Because not only are they horrifically boring they find being complicit in mass child murder boring and mundane - just part of the job

“taking over” incredibly sophisticated factories of violent white nationalist idiocy (dressed up as intelligence and sophistication) and replacing them with Trump Steaks and Trump University may not be the win they think it is

They spent 2025 making a huge show of how "disruptive" and "transformative" they were being, with sweeping cuts at DOGE, massive changes in the One Big Beautiful Bill, and so much more. Now that the costs are becoming clear, they're pretending they did nothing at all. It's all Biden's fault!

this is actually real, I think?

I was skeptical but Mamdani has really done a number on Trump

Not every Mayor has these skills

Fact-Checking Claims About Zohran Mamdani https://theonion.com/fact-checking-claims-about-zohran-mamdani/

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Patrick Swindle is the CEO operating the Dilley concentration camp. There are people behind this. They must go to prison.

The people, polyculed, will never be defeated

NEW: Guards have taken away crayons, colored pencils & paper during recent room searches at Dilley, according to detainees and others. After one inspection, the children just “cried and cried and cried,” a mother said. The facility denies the claims. By @mckenziefunk.com @micarosenberg.bsky.social

Do drills to prepare for lying and tricks:

Donald Trump’s new transportation proposal will hurt transit funding in every single American state, undermining affordability across the board. From red states to blue states, and from drivers to nondrivers, everyone will feel the impact.

1. Numerous transgender people in Kansas are reporting that the state has sent them a letter demanding the immediate surrender of drivers licenses. Those driving could be arrested, charged, and see privileges revoked. Subscribe to support our journalism. www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...

Tommy Robinson visited the US State Department today at the invite of the Trump administration. He's Britain's most prominent far-right street thug with criminal convictions for assault, violence, fraud, stalking & harassment. He was jailed in 2012 for trying to enter the US with a false passport.