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This might be our most exciting event yet! @mehdirhasan.bsky.social in live conversation with Riz Ahmed and special guests in NYC on April 9, plus audience Q&A. Grab your tickets now: bit.ly/zeteony

A senior US official tells Zeteo's Asawin Suebsaeng that they have heard from foreign counterparts, in this US official’s paraphrase, some version of the following: “Trump wants us to die for him in the Strait of Hormuz, and we aren’t having it.” Are you subscribed to our First Draft morning email?

Is Trump Losing This War? *LIVE Q&A* With Mehdi Join @mehdirhasan.bsky.social and @premthakker.bsky.social for 'Ask the Editor,' our weekly live Q&A show, on Monday at 11am ET, 8am PT, or 3pm GMT. Watch live on Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6YI...

'The Voice of Hind Rajab' didn't win an Oscar tonight. Here's a reminder of the smear campaign it faced in Hollywood:

“Donald Trump has gone further than any president before him in enforcing a cult of personality.” Zeteo's @premthakker.bsky.social reports from “Donald Trump’s Pyongyang”, aka Washington DC, as Trump turns the city into a monument to himself, echoing Kim Jong Un. Subscribe to zeteo.com!

There is absolutely no bottom. @cnn.com www.cnn.com/2026/03/13/p...

"This Week in Palestine: Israeli Settlers Kill With Impunity, Israeli Soldiers Rape With Impunity" Zeteo's new weekly round-up of the stories you may have missed out of occupied Gaza and the West Bank, as Israel continues its genocidal war and apartheid policies.

"Do we really believe the United States would be in this war absent Netanyahu?" Obama's former deputy national advisor Ben Rhodes talks to @mehdirhasan.bsky.social about Netanyahu’s long campaign for war with Iran and why the U.S. justification doesn’t hold up. Watch: zeteo.com/p/ben-rhodes...

Pete Hegseth says Iran’s leaders are “desperate and hiding.” So… who’s this walking around Tehran? Sign up for more unfiltered journalism: zeteo.com/subscribe!

"Was This Iran War Planned 30 Years Ago?" My piece today for Zeteo's First Draft morning newsletter on the 1996 'Clean Break' memo that explains so much of this neocon war that we're seeing in Iran today. Read/share/subscribe: zeteo.com/p/was-this-i...

"The sooner David Ellison takes over that network, the better." The Defense Secretary calling for a billionaire ally of the government to take over a media outlet & make it more pro-government. This is what authoritarianism looks like. But in other countries they try & hide it.

The Israeli military has dropped charges against soldiers who were on camera raping a Palestinian detainee. @premthakker.bsky.social explains, the whole story is even worse.

"In Beirut, Nowhere Is Safe From Israel's Bombing" In an on-the-ground dispatch from Lebanon, displaced residents describe the toll of Israel's relentless attacks, as the Israeli military escalates its assault on the capital and advances in the south.

"How the 'Fox News Cabinet' Helped Jumpstart Trump's Iran War" Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, and Brian Kilmeade mounted a full-court press, urging Trump to attack Iran. Great reporting from Zeteo's @justinbaragona.bsky.social and @swin24.bsky.social. Read/share/subscribe:

Marco Rubio's BFF is an accused foreign agent and money launderer. His trial is about to start — and Rubio is on the witness list. My @vanityfair.com story on the legal bomb that's poised to go off in Trumpland. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/m...

Far-right figure Tommy Robinson posted online a few days ago an interview with Texas Railroad Commission GOP candidate Bo French, where French told Robinson that Muslims are on a "civilizational jihad" & thus "we have to ban Islam." Robinson in turn lauded French for his "bravery."

"Once you cheapen a phrase like antisemitism… when you call Miss Rachel an antisemite, you're completely undermining the very important common struggle we should have against antisemitism.” Piers Morgan & I discuss Ben Shapiro's attempts to cancel anyone who criticizes Israel.

'Iran Is Not Gaza': Read Arundhati Roy's Scathing Speech on the US-Israeli War Exclusive: The award-winning Indian novelist warns that the world is on the brink of nuclear calamity and economic collapse, and laments her own government's gutlessness.

Congressional and Presidential candidates who support Trump's illegal war in Iran could be toast in their primary races, according to our exclusive new poll with @dropsitenews.com. Especially if they are Democrats. Full results, including on the war's Epstein factor: zeteo.com/p/new-poll-m...

Join Zeteo for a LIVE Town Hall on Iran — TODAY. Drop Site's @jeremyscahill.com, Iran expert @valinasr.bsky.social, and journalist Rula Jebreal join @mehdirhasan.bsky.social for a timely conversation on Iran and the US’s ongoing illegal war. ⏰ 4:30 PM ET / 8:30 PM GMT 🔗: zeteo.com/p/iran-war-t...

Is the New York Times manufacturing consent for war in the Middle East? Is the mainstream media as a whole? Zeteo dug into some of the numbers in our First Draft newsletter this morning: zeteo.com/p/how-media-...

🚨NEW POLL: Most Americans Believe Trump Launched Iran War to Cover Up Epstein Scandal An exclusive Drop Site/Zeteo/Data For Progress survey also finds likely American voters are split on whether Trump is more responsive to the American people or to Israel.

“I Was a US Intelligence Analyst. Here's What a Ground Invasion of Iran Could Look Like” The Trump admin has 3 possible ground operation plans but, @harrisonmann.bsky.social writes for Zeteo, they all risk dragging the US into a forever war in Iran.

Must-read thread from Sen. @chrismurphyct.bsky.social

“Don’t ever be the first to stop applauding.” -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, writing about the unfortunate director of the local paper factory mannerofspeaking.org/2010/05/12/s...

"Debunking Donald’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Remarks" In this morning's First Draft newsletter, Prem annotates and unpacks Trump’s insane remarks in Florida on everything from the Iran war to mail-in voting, while Israel continues to terrorize the people of Lebanon.

"Don't Forget Gaza and the Palestinians" "Israel is using the illegal war on Iran to continue to kill and starve Gaza, steal more Palestinian land, and restrict movement in the West Bank, writes Diana Buttu for Zeteo. "Don't look away."

What do most voters actually want? Pollster @gelliottmorris.com argues to @johnjharwood.bsky.social that chasing the political “center” misunderstands what voters really want. Watch here: zeteo.com/p/g-elliott-...

“All of the same arguments, the same talking points, the same propaganda to justify the same mass casualty war.” @mehdirhasan.bsky.social warns that the “Gaza playbook” is now being repeated in Iran zeteo.com/p/will-the-u...

"Jews don't belong in American society." Imagine a sitting member of Congress tweeting that. You can't. Thankfully, it'd never happen. And *if* it did, it'd be the end of their career and the biggest story in America. But Ogles can say this about Muslims without any censure.

"What’s Next for This War? Mehdi Takes Your Questions on Iran, Trump, Lebanon, & More" Join me and Prem and Mehdi for 'Ask the Editor,' our live Q&A show, on Monday at 11am ET, 8am PT, or 3pm GMT on YouTube or on the Substack app. youtube.com/@zeteo

“President Lindsey Graham?” Prem on how the hawkish Republican senator got the Iran invasion he’s been pining for and now wants to attack Cuba too, while Donald Trump is still not worried about exploding gas prices. Today’s Zeteo First Draft:

“It is up by 42% since hostilities began. American motorists are already paying over $3.40 for a gallon of petrol on average, around 50 cents more than on February 27th. In Europe prices of natural gas, of which the Gulf normally ships lots in liquefied form, are 92% higher than before the war.”

"Many Americans seem to have forgotten just how catastrophic US regime change wars have been in the past. So, with the risk of history repeating itself once again, here is Zeteo’s list of seven of the US’s most disastrous attempts at regime change, ranked"

"DHS insists they are targeting criminals. But all I see here are mothers, sisters, daughters, grandmothers...they are transferred from detention center to detention center. It is human trafficking, by another name...Listen to our words. Demand accountability."

On this International Women's Day, please don't forget all the women in this detention facility. This is Leqaa Kordia, a NJ resident: "An Immigration judge has now twice ordered my release on bond, but ICE used procedural loopholes each time to keep me confined." Capitol Switchboard: 202-224-3121

We’re still murdering people in “drug boats” even as we start a new war in Iran. Six people today.

“Beheaded Babies? Trump White House Attacks Me for Calling Out Its Anti-Iran, Anti-Palestinian Propaganda” My response:

“EXCLUSIVE: I’m the Palestinian Who Has Been in ICE Detention for Almost a Year” Writing for Zeteo from inside of prison on International Women’s Day, Leqaa Kordia asks us not to forget the female detainees being held and mistreated in ICE detention camps.

I know a bunch of groypers run the administration’s Twitter accounts but just in terms of basic facts: 1) Iran or Iranians didn’t carry out Oct 7, & 2) no babies had their heads cut off on Oct 7. Just total atrocity propaganda that was long ago debunked but still pushed by Trump

Trump Is Dangerously Close to Sending Troops to Iran: Sources Tell Zeteo

Nothing to see here. Just GOP Senator and arch-hawk Lindsey Graham treating, and speaking to, Donald Trump like a six-year-old child to manipulate him into a war of aggression against Iran that Netanyahu and Graham have long wanted. Beyond parody:

“Seven US Regime Change Wars, Ranked by Disastrousness”

"You don't liberate people at the barrel of a gun. Have we learned nothing from Iraq or Afghanistan? All we seem to have learned is from Gaza. Israel has learned that you can bomb hospitals & schools with impunity." Me on MSNOW with @chrislhayes.bsky.social Full intv: youtube.com/watch?v=u7LU...

“Trump’s White House Posts Fascist Memes As It Wrecks the Economy” The president’s extremely online staff is posting ‘Grand Theft Auto’ memes and cracking jokes about his Iran war as energy prices explode.

"From launching an illegal war with no clear strategy to obstructing a DHS inspector general, here’s what Trump and his allies did this week that harm democracy, undermine the Constitution, and hurt societies worldwide" From Zeteo's 'This Week in Democracy':

"You don't liberate people at the barrel of a gun. Have we learned nothing from Iraq or Afghanistan? All we seem to have learned is from Gaza. Israel has learned that you can bomb hospitals & schools with impunity." Me on MSNOW with @chrislhayes.bsky.social Full intv: youtube.com/watch?v=u7LU...

I’ll be on @msnownews.bsky.social with @chrislhayes.bsky.social talking about the US strike on the Iranian elementary school and the rising civilian casualties in this war. Live at 8.40pm Eastern. Join us.