This is … really pretty awesome. James Connolly mentioned.

One side (the left) is concerned about how state power is being wielded to suppress speech via coercive, often violent, means The other (conservatives) is upset over how social norms made them feel uncomfortable. THESE ARE NOT THE SAME THING. They aren’t remotely similar.

What a paragraph. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

This 80 second clip of Justice Robert Jackson’s opening statement will send shivers down your spine. Commit it to memory like the Gettysberg address. It’s even more important than Lincoln’s speech because we forgot his words the first time. We can’t promise “never again” if we don’t remember.

It's a U.S. backstory since World War II. Women dominating college enrollment, voting more Democratic. Less-educated men embracing the GOP Now Big Tech thinks AI will render diplomas worthless and help its GOP enablers stay in power Saying the quiet part out loud www.inquirer.com/opinion/alex...

It you watch one thing from the Oscars, let it be this…

whining that allies you’ve spent 10 years demeaning and undermining are failing to step on a series of rakes for you even tho you asked them so nicely is crybullying on a geopolitical level we haven’t seen in decades.

Trump asks for help with Iran, but others can’t trust the US to help them when they need. They can’t trust that he’ll tell the truth about their contribution. They can’t even trust that the US will coordinate actions, share information, and not screw them over. That is entirely Trump’s fault.

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The is the federal government telling news stations to provide favorable coverage of the war or their licenses will be pulled. A truly extraordinary moment. We aren't on the verge of a totalitarian takeover. WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF IT. Act like it.

Yemen’s Houthis have announced they’ll be joining the war in support of Iran shortly. Analysts expect them to shut down another strait, Bab El-Mandeb, which will close the Suez Canal. The global economy hangs by a thread.

So, on top of to the awful human toll, the US will: —Crash the global economy —Put boots on the ground in Iran? —Undercut what's left of alliance cred in Asia —Burn through overstretched naval assets —Incentivize global nuclear proliferation —Enrich Russia/China —??? www.wsj.com/world/middle...

Let's be clear: you would not be pulling THAADs from South Korea and moving a Marine Expeditionary Unit from Japan to the Gulf two weeks after launching a war on Iran if you had properly anticipated the fallout it would be likely to cause.

Hegseth practices these knockoff Mattis-isms in the mirror like they should come with a 15% discount code for Black Rifle Coffee. But instead they're just gonna confuse some field-grade officer into thinking he just got an order to shell a maternity ward. bsky.app/profile/zack...

He speaks exclusively in vetbro tee shirt slogans and when you have command authority this is how murdering shipwrecked drugboat survivors and bombing schoolgirls happens.

Hegseth: "We will keep pushing, keep advancing. No quarter, no mercy for our enemies." No quarter is the refusal to take prisoners and instead just execute everyone. It's been considered a war crime for over a century.

Declaring that no quarter will be given is straightforwardly prohibited under international humanitarian law. When done to threaten an adversary, the declaration itself amounts to a war crime. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/u...

Immediately disqualifying for the job for which he has been nominated. The 4th Amendment specifies it’s “the right of the people,” not of citizens. We cannot allow someone who doesn’t understand the 4th Amendment to be the head of DHS.

Again, do you know how absolutely wicked someone has to be to experiment on some of the most vulnerable children in the world???? @housedemocrats.bsky.social you all need to co-sponsor these articles of impeachment against RFK Jr. H. Res 944.

Every media outlet in the country should be loudly calling for Tuberville's immediate impeachment or resignation.

not sure why everyone thinks this is such a big problem when an obvious solution exists

Had a great conversation with @perrybaconjr.bsky.social about what we can learn from the past 14 months of Trumpism in power - and why Trump’s authoritarian desires are limitless, but his ability to impose them on the country is very much not:

“The Republican Party (. . .)sees the Gospel as a story of masculine dominance and power and an authorizing narrative for a politics of misogyny, racism, and tyranny. Only the weak fail to see this. And only heroes, the protagonists of the story, can ever be wronged”

as someone who monitors right wing media, its under discussed right now but i can tell you conservatives are absolutely terrified of the way talarico is using religious messaging against them

Shorter Sen. Joni Ernst on the deaths of Iowans fighting Trump's war against Iran: 'Worth it.'

I doubt any top military officer told this shallow, callous, weasel of a man that it was more fun to sink Iranian ships than capture them. This disgusting man has no business being commander in chief.

OMG they released the deposition videos where they revealed that these two DOGE bros were just feeding grants into ChatGPT and saying "tell me if this is DEI in less than 120 characters." www.techdirt.com/2026/02/19/d...

Hey, Rick, you forgot Russia. Why is that, Rick?

Vance: "When people like Kamala Harris send our sons and daughters, our young people, to fight in stupid wars, it is the young generation that carries the burden of that. We're gonna stop sending our young people to far away lands. We are not the policemen of the world."

Every Democratic candidate in an even remotely competitive race should be running this clip as an ad right now, with Vance's face fading into the face of the Dem's Republican opponent.

This is incredibly on point. Spot oil prices grab the news, but it’s the impact we’re about to witness to petrochemical and derivative production that should really scare the shit out of folks. It’s the sort of shock that could ripple through our global industrial economy for many months.

RIP, Country Joe McDonald. Time to make popular his "Fixin'-To-Die-Rag" -- an anti-war song -- again. "Yeah, come on all of you, big strong men, Uncle Sam needs your help again. He's got himself in a terrible jam."

Remember when Trump tried to hide the facts about Covid and people died? Now Trump is trying to hide the facts about the rising terror threat created by his Middle East War.

"Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer"

It turns out the U.S. did a “double tap” attack just as emergency responders were arriving at the girls’ elementary school. This is what the Russians do routinely in Ukraine. That’s a war crime under international humanitarian law.

Yesterday's strike on Tehran fuel depots caused a spill that sent burning fuel flowing through the capital's street drains, triggering additional fires across the city. #Iran

CNN’s Frederik Pleitgen says black, oil-contaminated rain is falling over Tehran after strikes on oil facilities by U.S./Israeli airstrikes.

If you’re a democrat in congress who goes on fox the first thing you say in response to any question should be “why did you show the wrong footage of trump saluting dead soldiers?”

Page One in Miami: @miamiherald.com

Page One in UK: @telegraph.co.uk

Same vibe as March 2020.

Remember how this guy lobbied hard to get a pardon for a war criminal who slaughtered children? Turns out that’s literally his entire philosophy of armed conflict

Trump multiple times just today has said the country is at war. War can only be declared by Congress, and Iran posed no imminent threat. What Trump is doing there is a textbook illegal war and impeachable offense — if we still had a Congress.

Abu Ghraib on American soil.

But Obama held a coffee cup while saluting a Marine when he got on the helicopter.

Why was this story on the front page of the UK’s Daily Telegraph — but NOT America’s leading newspapers?

just fwiw, here are the arguments being made, in order: 1. iran has apologized to its neighbors and admitted it lost 2. this is unprecedented and because of me 3. iran has not surrendered and will collapse if it doesn’t admit it lost 4. i am going to bomb iran more and worse until it surrenders

DHS nominee Markwayne Mullin is one of the most active stock-traders in the Senate — and violated the STOCK Act against insider trading as recently as last August. He currently holds stock in L3Harris, which has millions in contracts with ICE and FEMA. The grift continues.