Longtime PYD leader Saleh Muslim Mohammed has passed away. Important figure during the Syrian war. english.anf-news.com/rojava-syria...

a fun thing about this war is Iran has been planning for it forever (in western time) while Trump thought hard (it’s relative) for 30 minutes after consulting with Kushner.

“.. For the American consumer, things are getting very real, very fast: average gasoline price is now up by 19.9% over the past 10 days ... that eclipses the move in 2022 and is now the largest spike we've seen in the history of the data going back to 2004.” ⛽️ - Schwab

* SPAIN REMOVES AMBASSADOR TO ISRAEL, ACCORDING TO OFFICIAL STATE GAZETTE @reuters.com

Yesssssss dreams come true!!!

The ongoing reflexive refusal of mainstream media to forthrightly describe the publicly known actions of prominent men who were accused of sexual predation was brought home to me so powerfully in the #MeToo era.

crucial coverage from The Guardian that features our collaborative, movement-building website against-a-i.com

RIP Walid Khalidi, who died today at the age of 100. Founder of the Institute for Palestine Studies and author of a number of essential works in the field. Here he is in 1945 with a group of friends the historian Sonja Mejcher-Atassi has dubbed “the ecumenical circle.”

‪Trump is on the record in his belief that the American tolerance for remembering let alone caring about anything is two weeks at the outside max. make of that what you will. ‬

Yes they do

I deleted a previous post because I inadvertently left out that no one charged under section 111 has been convicted *at trial* (ie some have reached plea deals). It’s still pretty astonishing

Fucking hate this.

Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs

Oh man we are HAVING A NEWS DAY I see *BLACKROCK’S $26 BILLION PRIVATE CREDIT FUND LIMITS WITHDRAWALS

Blackrock’s $26 billion private credit fund limits withdrawals.

DOJ has posted some pages of the missing Epstein files related to the FBI’s belated investigation of Trump’s participation in Epstein crimes after Epstein’s arrest and death in custody in 2019, and they are as bleak as you might expect. www.documentcloud.org/documents/27...

Ah, that explains the [ahem] trial ballon yesterday about DOJ being able to prevent bar association ethics investigations.

A massive scandal in any normal information environment. As it stands, if anyone even bothers asking Trump about it he'll just say he has didn't know anything about the guy and that'll be good enough.

There is literally no strategic mission that people aren’t totally cool dumping on the Kurds. Probably using the same independence flags we printed up for them in 2002. Ask how that went the last 5 times. www.cnn.com/2026/03/03/p...

either (a) there was no evacuation plan; (b) it wasn't feasible to begin with; (c) it wasn’t executed in time; or (d) it wasn't activated on purpose.

And on and on

The plan was called Operation Epic Expedia Dot Com.

everything comes back to this administration firing people who should not have been fired…

big night for John Fetterman -- he's going on Hannity after Netanyahu

you actually did start this war though

Analysis by my colleague @suzannemaloney.bsky.social before the killing of Khamenei has turned out to be right:

A third question to ask President Trump is how he feels about the sacrifices made by U.S. troops and their families in light of reports he previously referred to them as "suckers" and "losers."

Someone page all the Real ‘Muricans™️. Not sure this made it to Fox News.

I cannot underscore enough that Biden withdrawing troops from a Forever War was met with wall-to-wall scorn and criticism. Meanwhile, Trump starting a new Forever War is met with mostly subdued excitement. bsky.app/profile/scho...

If Biden ordered an attack on Iran and military members died, Trumpy wingnuts would be calling for immediate impeachment and prison. I am curious to see how they respond here.

Just a quick reminder that Trump ostensibly launched this war because he was unable to negotiate a deal very much like the one he blew up just to spite Obama.

Not trying to conspiracy theorize, but given our current understanding of how LLMs work, there is a non-zero chance that it inadvertently disclosed work by the DoD on any planning that may have been done on Grok. It's why this type of work is done on local LLMs, not publicly accessible AI!

It is amazing how many of the same people terrified of state media in the US immediately believe Iranian state media.

Reminder that Trump gutted VOA Farsi.

that top DOD officials spent the entire day feuding with a tech company and the boy scouts before launching a war in the middle of the night should probably inform your opinion about how well planned and executed this will be

Looking at Flightradar24 on and off and saw a large number of civilian helicopters fly out to the middle of the Gulf, stop for a bit then immediately return to Doha. Looks like evacuations of oil and gas workers from the platforms

NYT already providing comic relief

This is illegal act of war committed by a president who is actively trying to cover up evidence he sexually assaulted a 13 year old girl. This should not be treated as legitimate in any way.

JD Vance will not be meeting the Pope again. Pretty sure tonight confirms his place in hell.

Paging the gutless US Senate. The blood is on your hands. #Iran

Really don't understand how this isn't a bigger scandal. This is conspiracy to commit federal witness tampering (and likely witness murder) for the purpose of covering up a foreign government's deal with organized crime, a deal that has been affirmed by the DOJ.

Tonight of all nights, WE WILL NOT FORGET. #WEHAVEFRIENDSEVERYWHERE # SOTU bsky.app/profile/anam...

Annie Farmer, one of the survivors of Jeffrey Epstein, has taken her seat. I asked her why it was important for her to show up tonight. "I really think there's power in numbers, and I think that we feel that strength when we come together, and I hope that he feels it as well."

bsky.app/profile/linc... Nation knows what they are hiding. Unconscionable, America.

it is very funny that mike lee’s brand for most of a decade was the intellectual “constitutional conservative” when it is quite clear that he has given himself a lobotomy

NEW Strength In Numbers/Verasight poll: Ahead of SOTU, Trump's approval falls to new low of 37% — & just 20% among independents. Issue approval on immigration and deportations falls to new lows of -15, and voters say admin is spending on the wrong issues. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/ahead-of-s...

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