EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war. The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been “inundated” with more than 110 complaints. One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus…

Lebanese civilians flee amid deadly Israeli strikes on Beirut suburbs https://aje.news/gzjdfs

also said in the call that bombing iran is expected go 4 or 5 weeks, could be shorter could be longer ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Israel strikes Beirut. Many roads gridlocked with people trying to flee. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

this is a good breakdown of how embedded the regime structure of Iran is, why many are so invested in keeping it going regardless of who is alive or in charge & making it super complicated to dismantle www.instagram.com/reel/DVRQ6TV...

couple thoughts from an iranian american: 1) iranians in iran are being hit on all sides. their government has just killed them by the thousands, leaving them shellshocked and trying to save tens of thousands from being executed in the aftermath. many already couldn't afford everyday life..

As Trump frames himself as a savior for Iranians & asks them to fight for freedom, note he has banned nearly all of them from travel to the US, heavily pressured ordinary people thru sanctions (hitting material including vital medical goods) & tied his operation closely to Israel—deeply mistrusted.

the 12 day war gave the regime cover to be even more repressive under the guise of finding spies. and that was before the protests that killed several thousand under the darkness of internet cutoffs. so for Iranians, surviving bombs by the US and Iran will mean walking on eggshells like no other

This is so well done www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Read of the week re: SF teacher strike by @esksf.bsky.social. The union didn't hide how serious it was for months and it wasn't hard to see much of this coming. Will City Hall largely led by relative newcomers, like SFUSD, take note for other contracts this year? missionlocal.org/2026/02/sfus...

The @washingtonpost.com layoffs disproportionately affected union members of color, per data from the @postguild.bsky.social. 50% of Hispanic/Latino guild members,​ 45% of Black members, and​ 43% of Asian members were laid off, compared to 37% of white members. www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/wash...

Some notable movement in the SF teacher’s strike: SFUSD tonight proposed fully funded dependent care by Jan 2027, according to the teacher’s union Strike enters its 5th day tomorrow www.sfpublicpress.org/teacher-stri...

Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family. “He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.

Trump says he was the one who decided to post the video with racist imagery of the Obamas, not an anonymous aide, but says he didn't watch to the end before sending it to "the people" to post for him. But he has no regrets. "No, I didn’t make a mistake." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/u...

"A city turned to ash before our eyes, and we burned with it" No easy feat to reconstruct this massacre, one of many still being tallied..

They watched Israel do this with every Palestinian they killed for two years and so they never imagined it wouldn't work

NYT has been toying with the headline but should absolutely keep and blast this one www.nytimes.com/2026/01/25/o...

Uncanny valley of reality.

Protest breaks out at Dilley immigration detention facility holding 5-year-old Liam Ramos www.tpr.org/border-immig...

Since July, I've tracked at least 2,300 cases in which federal judges have ruled ICE has illegally detained people without bond or due process. This is one that stands out: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

There's an episode of Black Mirror in which soldiers are unwittingly programmed to see humans as mutants they call roaches who are actually victims of genocide. I think about that episode a lot more these days. That and Vampire Diaries, the recurring plotlines about their humanity being switched off

“Children have been falling asleep in the middle of class or bursting into tears. When Silvia’s school was under a “code yellow” – meaning ICE agents had been sighted nearby, the school was under a lockdown and outdoor recess was cancelled – some elementary school-aged children peed themselves.”

i do not know how this goes on for three more years

"They say they're coming to save us from some evil? They're talking about our neighbors who take care of us ... Alex was murdered while he was helping. Mr Rogers said look for the helpers, & right now the helpers have a target on our forehead ... Mr Rogers would be here right now too, so I'm here."

if it makes anyone feel better about…everything else, it’s looking like the coming robot war is not focused on humans at the moment

ICYMI: It’s too simple to cast PG&E as the villain in SF’s recent blackout, argues @idamoj.bsky.social. The CPUC is supposed to regulate the utility — but commissioners are appointed by the governor and, as one expert put it, “the fish rots from the head.” www.coyotemedia.org/in-the-dark-...

Especially stoked to do this with COYOTE, working with the great @emmaruthless.bsky.social and again with @nuala.bsky.social. Give it a read and support COYOTE!!

loved editing this piece by @idamoj.bsky.social about a topic that could seem really wonky and dry but boy did she bring it to life. “The fish rots from the head”!!

"“They specifically asked me if I knew where the Hmong families lived on my street & in the neighborhood.” Lugert-Thom responded, “I don’t know anything about that” & she said they then asked, “Well, what about the Asian families?”" "“I was a bit shaken & a bit shocked of what I was asked to do.”"

Horrible violence against a protester in California: www.latimes.com/california/s...

new SF publication alert! huge fan of the concept, and also the neon logo they came up with

at least 538 estimated killed in Iran amid mass protests, internet, international phone calls and electricity shut offs. it was about the same number but within a year of the 2022 protests. please don't treat these numbers as normal, just like we wouldn't here.

during Trump 1.0 an Iranian elder told me the US is looking more like what she left behind, what my parents left behind. Today, it’s not lost on me that there are protests raging in both countries, both fueled by anger over state violence

This is the second time in three months a DHS agent called a US citizen a "bitch" as he shot her. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whos-threa...

I can't describe how bad Minneapolis feels right now. My neighbors are pulling kids out of school. The public schools are offering remote learning until 2/12. We are having conversations in our alleys about how to protect ourselves. It feels like a military occupation with a blockade.

this man is a true patriot. this is from 2010 when he facing a 6-year sentence archive.nytimes.com/thelede.blog...

New, from me: The Trump administration isn’t just using social media to shape a narrative. They view the world through a social media lens in a way that is plausibly corrupting their judgment and undermining their performance. Welcome to the clicktatorship. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/life-under...

"ChatGPT started coaching Sam on how to take drugs, recover from them and plan further binges. It gave him specific doses of illegal substances ... Then, last May, tragedy struck." Incredible piece of journalism from @leddder.bsky.social and @stephco.bsky.social: www.sfgate.com/tech/article...

The New York Times has just confirmed that 40 civilians died in President Trump's invasion. This is the aftermath in one area

New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

In the past week, the Trump-Vance admin: –Bombed Nigeria –Bombed Venezuela, abducted its leader –Bombed more ships in the middle of the ocean –Threatened military action in Iran, Colombia, and Cuba –Accepted the “Israel Prize” & hosted Netanyahu in Mar-a-Lago (despite his soldiers killing Americans)

Best thing I’ve read this morning, from a human rights lawyer in Mexico. Translation is in the ALT-text.

actually reads like it was drafted by the White House, cherry on top is the argument that Maduro will be in the “humane American prison” system

People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.

Three million people live in Caracas, five million in the metro area. It's one of the densest cities in South America. Remember this in the morning when they try to spin this as anything other than a cold-blooded attack on a major civilian center.

hey remember when a bunch of middle-aged drunk korean lawmakers climbed the locked gates to the national assembly to hold an emergency session after the president gave illegal orders to the military, all of which ended with said president being sentenced to prison

The U.S. Postal Service implemented a rule clarifying that postmarks reflect when mail is processed, not when it is dropped off.

"It's another thing for The New York Times to report this. I think they put a stamp of legitimacy on medical falsehoods. They also legitimized anti-trans hate, really." Very important comments from @billiejsweeney.bsky.social. transnews.network/p/a-directiv...