When the State of Israel and the U.S. government discard the long-standing position that puts assassination of state leaders off-limits, guess what kind of actions get the okay.

Trust me on this: no matter how much you practice, you’ll never be able to swallow a beverage and inhale simultaneously without repercussions.

Odd that a district gerrymandered years ago to produce the most reich-wing candidate produces just that.

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike “Otter” Huckabee to U.S. nationals: “You fucked up. You trusted us.”

A very wise move.

JUST IN: North Carolina's Dem lawmaker Carla Cunningham gave the GOP the decisive vote to pass a law forcing police to comply with ICE. She said "all cultures are not equal." She just lost reelection BIG in the Dem primary to a progressive pastor & activist, Rodney Sadler. 70% to 22%! Context:

Political scientist Jeanne Zaino calls it democracy's "day two problem": revolutions are exciting. Building and sustaining self-governance is the hard part. 250 years after Common Sense, we're still working on day two 🎧 benfranklinsworld.com/435 #Revolution250 #America250 #History #Democracy

Just because Iranians vehemently protest their regime (because they love freedom) does NOT mean that they will side with the invaders (because that’s treason). I hope the U.S. right wing (people, government, most legacy media) keeps this in mind.

I think we can legitimately as anyone engaging in the “whose side are you on” rhetoric, “whose side are YOU on, Russia’s or China’s? Those are the only nations that will benefit from our stupidity. (Bibi thinks he’ll benefit, but not in the long run)”

Dear Senator Mullin, Stop talking. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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priestly apples, painted by mary daisy arnold, 1915

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They can’t be ushering the end times - the billionaires haven’t made their space colony to retreat to yet…

Today’s Find: 1986 novel by Noah Gordon, “The Physician” tells the story of an English boy in the 11th century who travels across Europe to study medicine with the Persians tinyurl.com/y888bnqb #histmed #medicalhistory

In March 1918 flu swept through Camp Funston, a massive U.S. Army training facility in Kansas. 1100 soldiers presented at the base hospital that month. A pandemic had begun tinyurl.com/4sm9m9kv #histmed #medicalhistory

@sulliview.bsky.social "When the media covers war, every other topic fades." bit.ly/3OVOwzE She's not wrong.... Wondering what would be on the home pages of national media if we had not bombed Iran. Here are today's landing pages...

Patrick offers more than 2 books on post-WW2 Iranian history in this thread. I’m not in any position to evaluate the value or summaries he assigns to each, so treat these as a good beginning bibliography.

It appears that Trump has done a 180° from lusting after the Nobel Peace Prize.

1703 June 28: One of the founders of Methodism, John Wesley, was born. tinyurl.com/y8s26tcu A major work was "Primitive Physic" tinyurl.com/yckvo9pq First published in 1744. Wesley died 2 Mar 1791 #histmed #medicalhistory

Hell. Hell is where you go.

You know who else did medical experiments on prisoners?

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Today is Duodi the 12th of Ventôse in the year 234. Ventôse is the month of wind. Today we celebrate the elm.#JacobinDay More information on the elm

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.

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Everyone, you MUST source the VIDEO you post. In a war, situation, [eople need to know what is true. That means video has to be checkable. Do not circulate decontextualized video. If you don't link, at least name a source: AFP video, France 24, Reuters, etc.

Bored of Peace (as previously noted by myself and many others)

I think the last time the USA created regime change solely through bombing was in Cambodia, when a massive carpet bombing campaign so destabilized the country that the Khmer Rouge came to power and wiped out the Royal government—the American ally. Genocide followed.

The truth is not the average of a fact and a lie.

Remember kids, when oil prices go up, gas prices go up. When gas prices go up, all consumer prices go up. Trump couldn’t finish the job of driving the U.S. into a recession with tariffs, but this is the way.

Take a moment to enjoy some ridiculousness from the past (not the green feather kids, but the book banners who were as dumb and mean as our current batch).

This also applies to Israel killing its way through Iran's civ-mil leadership until the most ideological radical and reckless hotheads are in charge.

Happy March to all who aren’t consumed with existential dread.

How can you be talking about HISTORY with everything that's going on. 18th century history? Women's history? Waves hands. Friends, it is precisely because of everything that's going on that we need to talk about history much, much more.

congress sounds cool i wish it was real

Slow news day, AP?

Trump does, indeed, have a plan for the Iranian people: Chaos, Horror, Destruction, Death, then Abandonment.

For those interested in keeping #Iran’s past experience with imperial presence in perspective as you follow today’s developments, I invite you to read a piece I wrote a couple of months ago about Iran’s experience after World War I. guardeddomains.substack.com/p/a-neutral-... 2/3

Credit where due: hurrah for Chuck!

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Nailed it. Morality and legality don’t take popularity as a guide.

Anyone who believes Trump’s bald-faced lies or supports them as a causus belli is craven, or a fool, or a craven fool.

From a self-interested, amoral viewpoint, no matter how much the people in this video hate their government, they now hate us more.

The crux:

“If you really loved the U.S., you’d already know.”