Israel targeted all current and former leaders including the reformers. It's the same strategy as applied to Palestine -- kill or jail anyone who could emerge as a leader.

NEW– Trump's war on Iran boosts the global view of the US as a rogue actor, fueling instability, acting illogically+illegally & risking innocent lives Combined with his broader agenda + US record from Gaza to Iraq, international wariness of America is at new heights www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

"Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman made multiple private calls to Trump over the past month advocating a US attack [on Iran], despite his public support for a diplomatic solution..[he + brother Khalid bin Salman] warned about downsides of not attacking" www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Bored of Peace

Lmao

Guess what? Turns out antitrust policy is democracy policy.

Get ready for a lot of stuff to happen for “purely financial reasons”

Extremely fucked about.netflix.com/en/news/netf...

Netflix won't counter Ellison's offer. Ladies and gentleman, the full right wing power grab is here and will now be beamed into every home on CBS, CNN, HBO, movies from Warner and Paramount. about.netflix.com/en/news/netf...

NEW YORK (AP) — Warner deems Paramount's takeover bid superior to Netflix; Netflix has 4 business days to counter.

Remembering how many of the Catholic justices belong to schismatic branches

"The intended and unintended effects of the Executive Order are immoral and contrary to the Catholic Church’s fundamental beliefs and teachings regarding the life and dignity of human persons, the treatment of vulnerable people—particularly migrants and children—and family unity."

But what about the super secret line in the Constitution that a random guy found on microfiche in a Florida library? Looking forward to that argument.

Elizabeth Warren: Do you think it would be appropriate to station troops next to polling stations? Mark Ditlevson: Our focus is always to protect American citizens. Our number one objective is to make sure that people are safe and secure. Warren: Simple yes or no? Ditlevson refuses to answer.

JFC This is legal gibberish. There is no emergency national security power that “unlocks” presidential control. If you want to invent magical legalism, you should just write “if the President says abracadabra he can dissolve Congress.” That makes as much sense as this does.

This is such a well done piece that reports out, with hard data and interviews, something profound about what's gone wrong in this country. www.wsj.com/us-news/amer...

NEW: Black voters in Mississippi are on the brink of a major victory — a federal judge ordered the state to redraw its state supreme court districts to ensure greater Black representation. But GOP lawmakers are dragging their feet for now, looking toward SCOTUS & its Callais order to "save" them:

In the coming months, the Supreme Court will rule on a case that could gut key parts of the Voting Rights Act and radically alter the country’s voting maps Mississippi's Black voters are bracing for "devastation"

No

DHS has also provided this statement: “ICE is not planning operations targeting polling locations. ICE conducts intelligence-driven targeted enforcement, and if an active public safety threat endangered a polling location, they may be arrested as a result of that targeted enforcement action.”

DHS official and election denier Heather Honey told state election officials that ICE won't show up at the polls. www.huffpost.com/entry/dhs-ic...

Let's also note that Kansas requires voter ID so this has the potential to disenfranchise.

This is like the most lurid and ridiculous conspiracy theories about presidents deliberately provoking or orchestrating, like, Pearl Harbor or 9/11, now an administration's all-but-openly stated position.

Trump's State of the Union offered Dread and Circuses www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...

DHS official and election denier Heather Honey told state election officials that ICE won't show up at the polls. www.huffpost.com/entry/dhs-ic...

So this call, which was making the rounds a couple weeks ago, apparently included Heather Honey, who, according to AZ SOS Fontes, said: "Any suggestion that ICE will be present at any polling location is simply not true."

In the DVD case, Judge Murphy finds that DHS's policies for sending aliens to third countries is "unlawful." Must 1st try alien's "designated" country & give meaningful notice. Grants class relief. But stays order for 15 days to allow appeal. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Now imagining Susan Collins after eating an eighth.

The big moment for Republicans last night was when Trump said "adipshitsayswhat" real fast and then all the Democrats said "what?" and all the Republicans laughed and clapped. This will be cut into attack ads.

Trump just described voting as "the greatest privilege of them all." We don't call it a privilege here. It's a right.

There's nothing Trump loves more than giving a long, lurid description of a "beautiful" young woman being murdered

The state of the union is hockey?

It's so annoying having to hear this drivel. So dull and insulting.

This allegation would upend most reporting and understanding that Trump and Epstein met in the late-80s or early-90s. I have not seen any reporting that connects them as early as 1983.

This image shows what happened to Mike Lee's brain

Lol tactical discourse nuke

Now that IEEPA tariffs are out, what to make of Trump's pivot to Section 122 balance of payments tariffs? @paulblumenthal.bsky.social @huffpost.com reports, with insights from @ilyasomin.bsky.social Gopinath Setser, Busch, Trefler, Milton Friedman, and me. www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...

The Miscarriage+Abortion hotline is a vital resource in a post-Roe world where more and more people are getting abortion pills in the mail. Here's who picks up the phone when you need help managing an abortion or miscarriage at home.

Are Trump's new Section 122 tariffs also illegal? A lawyer for the plaintiffs in the case that struck down his IEEPA tariffs says it's "very likely" we're going to find out in court www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...

What new tariffs Trump uses to replace old ones is besides the point. The mad corporate and hedge fund rush to grab refunds for the illegal Liberation Day tariffs will dominate the next 3 years, and damage economic growth. From me: prospect.org/2026/02/24/l...

Believe they call this blowback

I think this tells us something important about how they viewed this case.

This remains the biggest non-Nazi sticking point for Twitter and was a big reason (again non-Nazi) reason I couldn't use it anymore. It just destroyed the UI.

NEW–Amid fears of a massive war, successful US-Iran diplomacy is increasingly hard to imagine Trapped in Iran’s brutal Evin Prison is an ailing American journalist whose case helps explain why: Reza Valizadeh New details here on the calculus among Trump/GOP/Tehran: www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

The New Steal

Very good piece by @gregsargent.bsky.social for @newrepublic.com on the wavering of two major pillars of Trumpism in recent weeks: economic nationalism and a draconian immigration policy. The two are ideologically connected in important ways... newrepublic.com/article/2068...

NEW: Tom Homan declared last week the ICE surge in Minnesota was over + the drawdown of federal agents would carry on through this week. But ICE is still all over. “It certainly hasn’t stopped,” Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey told me. "People are very much on edge." www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-mi...