Important clarification on the dime story. The article I read today failed to mention this.

😬 "While the United States remains at war with Iran, the owner of a bomb shelter manufacturer said at least two members of President Donald Trump’s administration ordered bunkers from his company" and "orders have gone up 'tenfold' since attacks on Iran began this month."

"Trump's White House features the eagle clutching only arrows and looking to its right talon, which is supposed to hold the olive branch, as if it had accidentally dropped it."

interesting thread seeking to explain why the NYT keeps acting the fool

I think about the cruel dismantling of USAID all the time. I've tried to read all the stories—so many children have died painful, unnecessary deaths 😥

A Democrat has won the mayor's seat in Boca Raton... by one vote:

So often, the incompetence of this regime is disastrous (see: current war!). But other times? It's a gift. Their ignorance of the system means they can't insta-deport Somalis because they were "unprepared to defend it in court." As in, DOJ hadn't assigned a lawyer! Didn't even file a brief!

"You’ll get the inside scoop DIRECT from me, President Trump," the email promised to supporters who quickly paid to become a "National Security Briefing Member"

"the brave ones from Minnesota" 💪🏾

It's barely covered on local news and not at all nationally. The outside world believes Americans are complacent. No—we're protesting nonstop, not only No Kings, but it's less visible in a huge country with highly fragmented news coverage. My tiny rural town protests 2X week; you'll never see it.

won't someone please think of the poor oil executives 😭

"Top Trump officials acknowledged to lawmakers during recent classified briefings that they did not plan for the possibility of Iran closing the strait in response to strikes." www.cnn.com/2026/03/12/p...

Reminds me of when Marjorie Taylor Greene belatedly realized the One Big Beautiful Bill prevented states from regulating AI for a decade. Don't they read the fine print??

I still cant believe these idiots are running the country. Into the fucking ground.

In retaliation for the girls' school strike, an Iranian-linked hacking group seized 50 tb of the Michigan-based company Stryker's data, "knocking out Windows-based devices, including laptops and mobile phones." The group also "claimed a simultaneous attack on payments company Verifone."

Since Trump’s election: 🔵 Democrats have flipped 28 state legislative seats 🔴 Republicans have flipped 0

The FBI warned CA police departments in California that "Iran could retaliate for American attacks by launching drones at the West Coast," described as "a surprise attack using unmanned aerial vehicles from an unidentified vessel off the coast... against unspecified targets in California."

The Pentagon said Tues 140 service members were injured, 8 severely, with 108 returned to duty. But 38 remained hospitalized Tues with TBIs, shrapnel wounds, and burns: 1 in San Antonio, 12 at Walter Reed, 25 at Landstuhl in Germany. I'm cautious with CBS news now, but this is great reporting.

No plan for the Strait of Hormuz is just a stunning failure of strategy. This was the most wargamed outcome ever! *How can there be no plan?? *rhetorical Q, they're not smart! and this was ego-driven, sycophant-supported decision-making, totally untethered from reality

The gas lines are already happening. 🇮🇳

Witkoff's seriously in the running here for the least self-aware statement ever made by a Trump official

Holy shit - this would be very, very bad: "The databases, called “Numident” and the “Master Death File,” include records for more than 500 million living and dead Americans, including Social Security numbers, places and dates of birth, citizenship, race and ethnicity, and parents’ names."

4 days ago, NPR reported that the Trump administration is still withholding, in violation of the Epstein files statutes, 37 pages of documents that implicate him in the rape of a child. This should end his presidency. www.npr.org/2026/03/05/n...

The estimates are low (no further comment), they're cheap to make, & the US Navy has paid short shrift to building mine clearing vessels for decades. Saddam mined the approaches to Kuwait during the Persian Gulf War which is why no amphib ops could be conducted. Took 7 months to clear the sea mines.

It was plainly obvious that these were not good faith negotiations because Wikoff and Kushner aren't diplomats; they're representatives of Trump's business interests. Their lack of nuclear expertise only further proves this was not meant to be a serious diplomatic venture.

"The correct footage was available. The network had it. At other times... they used it. The selective invisibility of Trump’s hat was not an accident of the archive. It was editorial judgment exercised in real time, in service of a man who stacked his Cabinet with Fox News personalities."

🎶 it's a cult 🎵

Pentagon year-end spending in Sept 2025 included: $12,000 on fruit basket stands, $2 million worth of Alaskan king crab, a $98,329 grand piano, a $21,750 handmade Japanese flute, millions on donuts waste fraud and abuse etc.

"Zelenskyy has said Ukraine plans to provide expertise to help civilians and US soldiers in countries in the Middle East." “We responded: we will send experts and provide everything needed to protect them.” Guess Zelenskyy has the cards after all, huh?

Ugh. The brand-new Coast Guard jet Kristi Noem was using before she got fired flew down to Florida late Friday -- presumably for the "Shield of the Americas" announcement -- and then returned to Watertown, SD, late Saturday. So she's still using it!!

As an historian, I celebrate such a win: history preserved, not consigned to a dusty storage room. Memories dull in the absence of historical preservation and practice; censorship strips us of our right to know the past.

If 176 children were slaughtered in their classrooms in Dublin, Brussels, Berlin, Tel Aviv or Texas by a foreign adversary, the world would rightfully be at a standstill. - Shona Murray www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu... @shonamurray.bsky.social

"you can refuse illegal orders"

Oh no, I can't believe all those slurs forced themselves into that defenseless group chat!

We're hosting a virtual rally for those who are not able to attend a March 7th National Day of Action event in person. We don't think structural barriers should prevent anyone from being able to participate in a movement that directly impacts their lives. (1/2🧵)

It was us. The guilt and shame and grief is unbearable 💔

ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there. They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.

Someone needs to explain this as well... www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Over 160 schoolgirls are dead. Anthropic and Palantir executives must immediately testify and tell the public whether their AI is responsible.

Reuters Exclusive "U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school." "The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the ​Middle East."

Based on "a body of evidence assembled by The New York Times — including newly released satellite imagery, social media posts and verified videos," the US is likely responsible for the strike on the Iranian elementary school that killed at least 175, mostly children. 💔

Add Cuba to the pile of Iran and Venezuela. “People are loving what’s happening,” Trump insisted. He predicted that Iran’s government would not be the last to buckle in a Trump-initiated confrontation: “Cuba’s going to fall, too.”

As rural hospitals close...

BREAKING: The national average price of gasoline has risen to $3.262/gal- the highest level recorded during either of Trump’s terms in office, according to live GasBuddy data.

“.. I don't ‌have any concern about it," he said, when asked about the higher prices at the pump. "They'll drop very rapidly when this is over, and if they rise, they rise, but this is far ​more important than having gasoline price go up a little bit." @reuters.com www.reuters.com/business/ene...

Remind me: when you bomb an elementary school, lure the survivors into a false sense of safety, and then bomb the survivors, leaving behind dozens and dozens of dead school children... are you the good guys?

"'We see everything - from living rooms to naked bodies,' one worker reportedly said." Meta confirms this: "Meta said subcontracted workers might sometimes review content, including films and images, captured by its AI smart glasses for the purpose of improving the 'experience'."

Neither the US nor Israel has taken responsibility for this atrocity: “By the time we arrived, the entire school had collapsed on top of the children,” the mother told NBC News. “People were pulling out children’s arms and legs. People were pulling out severed heads.”

1/3: Here's what wild about gas prices right now. The past two days have seen the largest increase in gas prices ($0.22/gallon) since 2005, making it one of the fastest increases ever. What's suprising about this is not only the magnitude, but the speed of the passthrough.

I haven't said anything about this before, bc in the grand scheme of horrors this only rates as an inconvenience, but since others are experiencing it: Just three days after CBP arrested me for filming them outside Broadview on 9/27, my TSA Pre & Global Entry were suspended—and so were my wife's.