A statue of Caesar Rodney, who signed the Declaration of Independence and also enslaved over 200 people, was removed in Wilmington, Delaware, during racial reckoning protests in 2020. It will now be displayed in D.C. for America’s 250th birthday. https://wapo.st/4sXNguN

"We were -- knee deep in the Big Muddy But the big fool said to push on" www.reuters.com/world/middle...

A heartbreaking and important statement from UFW founder Dolores Huerta

“The farmworker movement has always been bigger & far more important than any one individual. Cesar’s actions do not diminish the permanent improvements achieved for farmworkers with the help of thousands of people.“ -Dolores Huerta, today. medium.com/@dolores_hue...

El Salvador is forcibly disappearing and arbitrarily detaining Salvadorans deported from the United States. Deportation cannot mean enforced disappearance. Read more from HRW:

“College Republicans Chapter Sues School for Right to Make Nazi Salute. The student group has filed a lawsuit after its suspension from campus.” 1/ newrepublic.com/post/207877/...

Removing pride flags from public view “suppresses free speech on campus” and is “just one of a growing number of disappointing choices by the administration to contradict the values it purports to champion." —Joseph Harris, Boston University AAUP

yes, Mono Lake in California is another example. Los Angeles was sucking it dry, destroying a precious environment in the high desert. But activists fought for years to save it and now it is thriving. @monolake.org www.monolake.org

Imagine if the main way to analyze the US was through the lens of Christian nationalist belief...oh wait

Terrible. It has long been known in labor circles that the UFW had become more a cult than a union in the 1970s. As cult it lost dynamism as union, despite favorable political atmosphere in Cal. This is a horrible confirmation of that reality.

MARKWAYNE MULLIN: Dueling with two consenting adults is still there RAND PAUL: It's been illegal for 170 years! There's no precedent for legal dueling

People have long memories when it comes to notorious atrocity crimes.

A Belgian aristocrat who served as diplomat and European commissioner will have to face trial regarding his possible involvement in the murder of Patrice Lumumba, the Congolese prime minister and independence leader assassinated in 1961. www.ft.com/content/16c5...

UN report: Israel has accelerated settlement expansion & annexation in the West Bank, displacing 36,000+ Palestinians. There were 1,700+ settler attacks documented, with claims of state involvement and impunity. www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

always good to see a truthful statement from the Trump White House.

Is the war against Iran also fueled by a dangerous civilizational ideology? PAVLOS ELEFTHERIADIS argues that the Trump administration’s rhetoric about “Western civilization” revives an old logic of domination that threatens the foundations of international law. verfassungsblog.de/the-enduring...

We should notice what Rubio is saying. My post at Verfassungsblog.

I was just disinvited from the Air War College where I’d been asked to lecture on my book, which is a history of U.S. civil-military relations.

in a single sentence Trump claims Iran's military is "destroyed 100%" but also admits "it's easy for them to send a drone or two" 🙃

HYPOTHETICAL Legal Advice to SecDef Hegseth on “No Quarter” Statement (from General Counsel) By Daniel Maurer, retired Judge Advocate "... may be construed as ... a war crime. This may expose you to criminal liability under 18 U.S.C. 2441(c)(2) ... We recommend that you publicly retract."

U.S. Suffers Additional Casualties In War It Won Last Week — theonion.com/u-s-suffers-...

One of the most damning pieces of reporting I have read to date about Trump's insane war.

"Left unanswered were such questions as how to evacuate U.S. citizens in an escalating conflict—or ensure the next Iranian leader was friendly with Washington, U.S. officials said." Gift link 🎁 www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

Sen. Murphy: “The fact that these guys didn’t have a plan ahead of time, and a week into the war still didn’t have a plan, was pretty shocking.” They are going to release the plan next week after they release the plan for replacing Obamacare.

Just so we're all clear, this is a war crime and would be punishable by life or death under U.S. law.

✋ Former USG war crimes lawyer here. Apropos of SecDef's remarks this morning: Denial of quarter—even the declaration of no quarter—is a war crime. And recognized as such by the US Government. From DoD's Manual for Military Commissions.

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.

U.S. Suffers Additional Casualties In War It Won Last Week

The US will release its plan for the Strait of Hormuz right after Trump's health care plan.

Don't give in to the scare mongering. Jews are not in more danger than other groups in the US--deadly attacks on synagogues are extremely rare. We don't have to live in fear. Our security lies in the security of all.

Trump and Hegseth must have refused to listen to the warnings of the military since their strategy was well known. www.reuters.com/world/middle...

The best and the brightest brought us the Vietnam war, 5 million dead, and a massive defeat for the US. What can the worst and the dumbest do to top that?

The best and the brightest brought us the Vietnam war, 5 million dead, and a massive defeat for the US. What can the worst and the dumbest do to top that?

🎁 link and important: the US is failing because Iran prepared better (and has an easier task) www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

It might be timely to read this 1999 op-ed by a leader of the Otpor movement against the Milosevic regime which criticized the NATO bombing of Serbia as being detrimental to their pro-democracy struggle. Though they eventually won, the war set back their efforts. www.csmonitor.com/1999/0402/p1...

The best and the brightest brought us the Vietnam war, 5 million dead, and a massive defeat for the US. What can the worst and the dumbest do to top that?

The best and the brightest brought us the Vietnam war, 5 million dead, and a massive defeat for the US. What can the worst and the dumbest do to top that?

from a CIA report in 1984, declassified in 2009 title: "The Iranian Mine Warfare Threat" www.cia.gov/readingroom/... we ignore deep expertise and knowledge of facts at our own peril

This was the way Hegseth prepared for the closing of the Strait of Hormuz.

Come on, @mwhanna.crisisgroup.org they fired a bunch of trans servicepeople, purged high ranking officers, did a bunch of pushups and shaved beards. What else would you expect them to do?

Even if they projected a quick, decisive military campaign of days, it’s pretty alarming that military planners are only now considering their options. Disruptions in the strait can’t be a surprise if there was any contingency planning done.

The Trump administration will soon ask Congress to pass a bill to fund the unconstitutional war with Iran. Our elected officials must listen to their constituents and reject pleas for more money for this illegal war that Congress never authorized and the American people never wanted.

Unconditional surrender is not unconditional surrender “When President Trump says that Iran is in a place of unconditional surrender, he’s not claiming the Iranian regime is going to come out and say that themselves,” --Leavitt www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...

AI boosters can take solace in the news that people still hate Democrats and Iran more than chatbots. https://gizmodo.com/people-hate-ai-even-more-than-they-hate-ice-poll-finds-2000731438

To be honest, given how this organization defined the universe of Jews they consider worthy of polling, the fact that a quarter of these Jews still oppose the Iran War seems pretty noteworthy.

I simply can't believe the guy who made an app to help you "cheat on everything" would turn out to be untrustworthy

Blowtorching diplomatic and humanitarian capacity while burning through military capabilities and alienating allies is malpractice of the highest order by the Secretary of State, the nation's top DIPLOMAT, and by the National Security Advisor. It does not help the military to kill US diplomacy. 14/