As millions of Americans were losing their SNAP benefits the Pentagon spent: 🔹️$6.9 million worth of lobster tails🦞 🔹️$15.1 million for ribeye steak 🥩 🔹️$2 million for Alaskan king crab 🦀 🔹️ and even $98,329 on a Steinway & Sons grand piano ✏️ by @newrepublic.com

BREAKING: powerful iPhone hacking tools used by Chinese criminals originated from US defense giant L3 Harris. Their zero-click exploits went to Russian spies too. Unbelievable harm to our collective security. Scoop: @lorenzofb.bsky.social, here's why it matters 1/ techcrunch.com/2026/03/09/a...

I keep saying it, but the JCPOA team included 150 subject-matter experts, mainly on nuclear and sanctions issues. I expect Jared and Steve to know precisely nothing about the nuclear side. Probably the sanctions too.

Lmao--having gone to Reed College, one of the only schools that requires Humanities 110 of all students, including works by Heraclitus and Aristotle and the Bible, I can testify that a return to the classics will not have the cultural effect that these middling conservative minds think it will.

Clifford’s story isn't isolated. There are millions like him across the U.S. living in "hospital towns"—places suffering from high rates of treatable conditions, where a single institution controls the healthcare market. 4/7

This @postandcourier.bsky.social investigation of the woman accusing Pres Trump and Epstein of sexual assault is excellent. The allegations remain unproven. But the reporters confirmed elements of her story, and blackmail by Epstein illuminates his approach. www.postandcourier.com/news/epstein...

folks, the Wall Street Journal is not the NYT, it is a paper for people who want a headline like "New Dictator Installed, Stock Market Up." they do not mess around if they're getting worried, there's reason to be worried

“We're marching through the world.” Every single time he talks, he makes us all less safe. Every TV appearance he does results in fewer allies and more enemies for America.

Facts

Trump multiple times just today has said the country is at war. War can only be declared by Congress, and Iran posed no imminent threat. What Trump is doing there is a textbook illegal war and impeachable offense — if we still had a Congress.

Trump’s entire political life has been premised around the unimportance of reality and the belief that he will never be held to account for his actions. From his perspective, why wouldn’t that pattern continue?

Let’s talk about Graham Platner’s Big Lie, finally. In 2009, at the height of the Gulf War, the Marines barred him from active duty. Platner claims it was his forearm tattoos. But his one forbidden tattoo was the Nazi symbol on his chest. He knew - and he left the Marines rather than give it up. 1/

My best day doing voter registration was seeing the joy that overcame a man who thought he couldn’t vote because he had been in prison.

Great to know their CEO doesn't even understand how AI works. It's not anxious because it's conscious, dumbass. It's anxious because you've been scraping the social media of users living and posting through fucking unstable times.

Mission Epic Ego

This is how you write a goddamn headline.

Israel, US intensify Iran strikes, targeting homes, hospitals, stadium https://aje.news/olna4h

My hopes and doubts have been erased: We are definitely the bad guys now

Yeah, this clip will certainly be shown as evidence at the trials.

No matter how gross the art is, it’s not CSAM. I know it’s vile. I know your want everyone to know how gross the person who made it is. But when you intentionally mix up these terms you harm actual children by diverting attention and resources away from material that exploits them.

I’m going to the airport tomorrow and hope her hideous fake face is no longer disgracing the screens in the TSA areas. 🙏🤞

Here’s Hegseth buddy Benny Johnson saying earlier this week that we need mass denaturalization and deportations of those with “ideologies that are incompatible with Western civilization.” They want to start with Muslims. Very unclear they’ll stop there. www.mediamatters.org/us-iran-rela...

Any of those Board of Peace guys want their money back?

Another exhibit for thread on porn by @boxelderdust.bsky.social

@emptywheel.bsky.social talks about the ICE/CPB crimes being a Porn War also

Praise @propublica.org 👏👏👏

Republicans Toil to Avoid Saying ‘War’ as Iran Conflict Widens” via @nytimes.com Big gas tanks for gaslighting; made fools by the Admin that keeps grabbing them by the balls. Normal people hate this wordplay. Call it Pancake Breakfast: we see reality direct from victims & international media!

To be fair, I don't think it *ultimately* matters who specifically blew up the school full of children, israel wasn't gonna act without the US, so the blood is on both our hands for that one.

Some may ask, "Why develop a theory on this?" The answer: because we must. And urgently. Unsolved mysteries in a hot war *require* a "theory of the case" to determine what to do next. If we let default (improbable) suppositions reign, NATO could enter this war on false pretenses.

Someone tried to scam me by calling me and posing as the place in Longmont that has done several MRIs for me over the past 6 months. I called the actual place (not the number they left) and the receptionist was like.. nope. We didn't call you. We don't have anything under that reference number.

It appears that possible DHS agents or bounty hunters? (still unclear) fired a weapon towards protestors yesterday in Minneapolis. They were seen leaving the area in a white van with a fake business name and disconnected phone number. Source of video: www.instagram.com/p/DVeSrXdDzN0/

James Talarico tonight: "It doesn't matter what happens in this Republican runoff. We already know who we're running against: The billionaire mega-donors and their corrupt political system. Not any one politician ... We are running against the broken system and the powerful people who broke it."

DOJ didn't have all those FBI agents going through the Epstein files flagging Trump's name for no reason. They tried to release only the files without Trump's name in them, but they missed a few. A few. Most of the bad stuff about Trump is being kept from us. 2/2 www.mediaite.com/opinion/doj-...

Everybody gets hit with Body Stuff, but white women and the thinness thing is just diabolical. Like…they want y’all to look you’ve been surviving off cotton balls soaked in milk and roach carcasses.

Saying his endorsements have been “virtually insurmountable” is hilarious given that THREE Trump-backed republicans just lost their primaries in Texas yday

Iran-Contra happened 40 years ago! It *literally* involved the US selling weapons to... Iran. So, the argument is we were funding the armed forces of a country we were at war with?

Colorado, please call and write your governor and express your frustration. Make sure he knows this will not go unnoticed and will not be forgiven.

⚡️Congress: you are failing. You’re ineffective. You can’t stop Trump from doing anything. You’re the mall cops of our democracy. And now, he just hit Ecuador. 🍎Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Republicans have caused total chaos in Dallas County. It's instructive. Whether or not Trump attempts some sort of executive order to nationalize election administration, Republicans have an endless number of paths to create absolute mayhem in November.

Meanwhile in Russia: State Duma deputy Leonid Kalashnikov described the United States as "the devil" and pondered out loud whether Putin might be taken out like Khamenei. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tpz...

They cut Meals on Wheels for seniors, doctors for the VA, and food for American children - but send billions of taxpayer dollars to the Middle East for an unnecessary war of choice.

This “it’s not a war but a special military operation” is very Kremlin March 2022. As is the propaganda that we are not starting a war but ending one. As is the confusion of oligarch media as it tries to be faithful in the confusion…

I'm looking to hear some specific examples of how disabled Minnesotans have been harmed by federal Medicaid pause for reporting I'm doing at @motherjones.com . Please reach out to [email protected] with any leads.

All I can think about is Jeff Bezos saying that he slashed jobs at the Washington Post — including those of foreign correspondents in the Middle East — based on "the data," and a few weeks later a whole war breaks out in the Middle East that these laid off folks would have covered as true experts.