US-Israel war on Iran driving historic levels of global hunger, UN says

This is insanity: Trump's DOJ is about to "settle" his lawsuit against the IRS by creating a $1.7 billion slush fund to pay off victims of Biden "weaponization." I talked to Jamie Raskin about this. It's even more corrupt than it first appears. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2105...

1. On March 11, Trump toured a Thermo Fisher Scientific facility in Ohio and repeatedly praised the company. On *the same day* Trump bought between $15,000 and $50,000 of Thermo Fisher stock. The purchase was "UNSOLICITED," meaning it was requested by the customer, not recommended by an advisor.

Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed.   Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us.

Israel’s foundation was based on horrific crimes, crimes that continue to this day with US support. It was justified with lie after lie. Muhammad Shehada exposes these crimes and lies, revealed entirely in the words of Israel’s founders. Have empathy for Palestine. m.youtube.com/watch?v=qk55...

In 2017, Criselda Vasquez painted this portrait of her parents and titled it "The New American Gothic." Last month, her father, the man in this portrait, was abducted by ICE after being in the US for 30+ years. The family is now struggling with bills. A GoFundMe has been started: gofund.me/456d8a193

"Our people are still there, resilient,” says Palestinian writer Muhammad Shehada on Nakba Day.

We have a year’s worth of economic data since Liberation Day, when President Trump announced much higher tariffs on most imported goods and countries, and the data are definitive; the tariffs have done significant damage to the economy.

1. Hegseth testified in Congress that the cost of first 60 days of the Iran War cost $25 billion. Internally, the Pentagon says its $50 billion. Popular Information crunched the numbers, and the real cost is much higher: At least $72 BILLION.

Read George Packer's profile of David Sacks if you want to understand how a part of Silicon Valley turned against American democracy www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

The Trump administration falsely claims that boat strikes target fentanyl and have halted 97 percent of cocaine shipments to the U.S.

1. ICE has not paid for detainee medical care for 7 MONTHS The termination of payments to providers has coincided with a MASSIVE SPIKE in detainee deaths. This is a health crisis and a moral crisis. Follow along for details. 🧵

“A Justice Department that is willing to stretch both the facts and the law to mislead a grand jury into returning an indictment could literally charge any American with a crime"

Israel is wiping out dozens of villages in Lebanon, destroying homes, schools and mosques. The IDF calls this a “security zone.” But the goal seems to be to eliminate the native population and settle it with colonists from the aggressor state. The Nazis called this Lebensraum.

Hegseth gutted Pentagon programs to mitigate harm to civilians and fired judge advocates general, removing important checks on war crimes. The result? “The U.S. has killed more than 2,000 civilians across the world during Trump’s second term from Latin America to Africa to the Middle East.”

The DNC autopsy likely reveals how Biden’s and Harris’s support for Israel’s genocide angered Democratic voters and depressed turnout. Smarmy DNC Chair @kenmartin.bsky.social won’t release the autopsy because has nothing but contempt for Democratic voters. Martin has been a disaster as DNC Chair.

Vance said to be concerned about “drastic depletion of U.S. missile stockpiles” hobbling US ability “to defend Taiwan against China, South Korea against North Korea, and Europe against Russia.” Despite Vance’s public support for the war, it’s a disaster for the US and his own political prospects.

🇺🇸✝️ “Break the teeth of the ungodly… more bombs, sir, and bigger bombs!” Greatest hits of Pete Hegseth, America’s most unrelentingly brutal, devastatingly lethal, and insufferably pious war criminal.

Maxim Yusin: Trump “will post a few of these pseudo-victorious videos, he will rejoice, in his elderly senility… the real tragedy is that the whole world is starting to live in the brain of an old dotard.”

NEW from me in @justsecurity.org. My dissection of the Trump administration's latest legal defense of its war on Iran. "This defective and overly permissive justification risks further eroding legal constraints on the use of force." www.justsecurity.org/137097/state...

BREAKING: Since August 2025, the U.S. has spent at least $4.7 billion on operations in Latin America and the Caribbean, including the operation to oust Maduro. [THREAD, 1/11]

The insider trading suspicions looming over Trump's presidency www.bbc.com/news/article...

1. As Jared Kushner heads to Pakistan to represent the United States in critical talks with Iran, the media is ignoring a historic corruption scandal. Kushner is serving in this role while on the payroll of the Saudi government. Let's look at the data. 🧵

Rubbish. Neither Iran nor the USA is a party to UNCLOS and Iran is not bound by a customary norm that it has persistently rejected. International law does prohibit aggression but Kaja Kallas won’t condemn the US-Israeli aggression against Iran. She couldn’t care less about international law.

Middle East crisis live: Red Cross ‘outraged’ as Israeli strikes on Lebanon kill at least 254; strait of Hormuz impasse continues

Difficult to describe how unusual it is for @icrc.org to speak publicly like this. "Heavy explosive weapons with wide-area effects struck densely populated urban areas, including the capital Beirut, without effective advance warnings." ICRC Outraged by Deadly Strikes in Densely Populated Areas

"Among the president’s initial war goals—preventing Iran from having a nuclear weapon; eliminating its ballistic-missile capabilities; ...overthrow of the regime; and eradicating Iranian proxies in the Persian Gulf—none have been met." from Nancy Yousseff www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

With Trump Threatening a Genocide, Military Must Disobey His Orders, Former Pentagon Officials Say “What President Trump is describing as the destruction of ‘a whole civilization’ would be a war crime, plain and simple.” theintercept.com/2026/04/07/t...

Whatever happens, this is a deeply shameful episode in American history that will leave a permanent stain on the country. Repeatedly vowing to commit war crimes against millions of innocent civilians is beyond the pale.

Consider the opportunity costs of the war in Iran. The missiles might have been sent to Ukraine, to end that war. The money might have bought healthcare for Americans. The attention of Europe and Asia might have been focused on countering Russia and China, not re-opening the Strait of Hormuz

Iran struck an Amazon data center in Bahrain yesterday. For the first time in military history, private sector data centers are coming under deliberate attack.

Meanwhile in Russia: Vladimir Solovyov and his guests talked about Iran, Donald Trump, JD Vance, strengthening Russia's alliances with China, North Korea and Belarus, and the end of nuclear non-proliferation. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PF_2...

An analysis by The Intercept reveals that the “peace” president has embroiled the U.S. in more than 20 military interventions, armed conflicts, and wars.

FCC Chair Brendan Carr brags that the Trump regime is bringing US media under its control.

Viktor Orban wants Hungarians to re-elect him, even though he has turned Hungary into the most corrupt and one of the poorest countries in the EU. To do so, he is telling Hungarians to fear sabotage, thievery, or even a military attack from … Ukraine www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

I’ve been a journalist for 27 years. I’ve reported major stories about mass surveillance, torture, war, the military-industrial complex, police black sites, etc. But this is the most important story I’ve ever had the horror/honor to work on. For it is a story about the current phase of a genocide.

“Since Day 1, the Trump administration has acted as if they had hired some crack team of consultants to study the problem and find all the ways the president of the United States could personally jack up prices for people,” says Chris Hayes.

With Israeli settler attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank increasing and now causing a crisis in Israeli politics, it's a good time to watch this interview I did with @infinitejaz.bsky.social, if you missed it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FKP...

NEW: The US and Ecuador claimed they bombed a drug trafficking complex in early March. A @nytimes.com investigation found it was actually a dairy farm. From Ecuador: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/w...

I think this is worth a listen/view for understanding the trap of escalation in Iran. #WITHPod www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OW4...

Multiple sources reported earlier today that the U.S. specifically approved of this strike on Iran, which Trump is now trying to disavow.

$200 billion sounds like a lot but it’s a small price to pay for global economic instability.

Trump does not think strategically, historically, geographically, or even rationally. He does not connect actions he takes on one day to events that occur weeks later. Allied leaders know that if they help him in the Gulf, he won't be grateful, or even remember www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Trump: "I do believe I'll be having the honor of taking Cuba. That's a big honor. Taking Cuba in some form. I think I can do anything I want with it, if you want to know the truth."

“They’re clowns performing for a ringmaster.” Trump and his claque of sycophants blithely launched a criminal war against Iran, unleashing disaster.

1. Jared Kushner said that, to prevent conflicts and corruption, he would not raise any funds for his private equity fund during Trump's second term. HE LIED.

New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

Meanwhile in Russia: experts explained why Russia is poised to become the main beneficiary of an Iran war, mocked Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth, and predicted that "more and more coffins" will be coming back to America. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-e-E...

The Defense Minister of Israel says it was "blood libel" to go after Israeli soldiers caught on camera raping a Palestinian.