This is the first Ramadan when my grandmother's chair is empty because she was martyred during the famine, when medicine became a wish and bread became almost impossible to find.

Imagine the reaction in the US if ~175 schoolgirls had been killed by a targeted Iranian missile. (Or anyone's missile.) This is an atrocity.

“All of the same arguments, the same talking points, the same propaganda to justify the same mass casualty war.” @mehdirhasan.bsky.social warns that the “Gaza playbook” is now being repeated in Iran zeteo.com/p/will-the-u...

Yet again, Enbridge will pay police to protect an oil pipeline from peaceful protesters via an escrow account - this time in Wisconsin. Did elected officials learn nothing from Line 3 in Minnesota? @alleenbrown.bsky.social has the details for @grist.org: grist.org/indigenous/e...

So far the war on Iran has cost $9.4 billion. That's $1 billion per day. $41,666,667 per hour. $11,574 per second. Thousands of lives lost. People don't want this. They want a living wage. They want healthcare. They want to be able to afford a home. They want their basic needs met.

They had names. They had beautiful faces. And they had the same dreams as your kids - crushed when American "precision" bombs slammed into their Minab elementary school, killing 175 Don't blame AI for this. Blame the sick humans who see war as a game My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/iran...

I was in Tehran this time last year. I want you to see how beautiful my city is. I want you to see the city the US/Israel is trying to wipe off the face of the earth

According to this study, in almost all cases for both men & women worldwide, each generation is more conservative than the last (Gen Z > Millennials > Gen X > Boomers, except Z W ~= M W) This is telling a horrifying story of the global rise of misogyny, esp from men. How can we fix this?

This story has everything, a focus on desal that led to overlooking other water sources, a city manager making $400K/yr saying don’t panic, a former water system manager saying residents should absolutely panic, and magical thinking: “The last hope to avert disaster was a 20- to 30-inch rainfall.”

When the next Katrina hits, Kristi Noem's sabotage of FEMA will make disaster recovery even harder.

"A deadly climate change effect is even worse than feared, study finds" by Doyle Rice for @usatoday.com: www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

Join us on March 8th for Communities over corporate profits: How we win! ¡Las comunidades por encima de las ganancias corporativas: cómo ganamos! 8 de Marzo

See ya soon!!

My daughter reported that the ICE presence outside her school during recess last week involved ICE officers sitting IN AN ICE CREAM TRUCK. And this wasn't kids misinterpreting. We had an email from the school the day it happened; we just didn't get the ice cream detail in the email.

News: Sources say that Trump has been receptive to officials and allies privately encouraging him to send US troops into Iran. This comes as Lindsey Graham has reportedly gone to Israel and coached Netanyahu on how to push Trump to take action in Iran.

Is this one of those "dumb wars" I keep hearing about? Because it seems like a dumb war

Good visual reminder that war not only has large human and economic costs, it can have environmental impacts as well.

“We’re going down and getting gasoline below $2 a gallon” - Donald Trump, 2024

Multiple news outlets are reporting a US attack on an Iranian #desalination plant. If verified, this violates international law protecting #water systems during wars, and it sets a dangerous precedent, given intense dependence of Gulf countries on desalination. timesofoman.com/article/1691...

I talked with @lewispants.bsky.social about the art and science of transformation, how people *really* let go of harmful beliefs, and how we can cultivate the conditions that make unlearning possible.

How Trumpsters and fossil fuel cronies loot the country.

The last photo of third-grader Mikaeil Mirdoraghi, waving to his mom before he left for school. He was killed shortly after in the U.S./Israeli strike on a primary school in Minab.

“This is just yet another so-called reason to get rid of her because she has caused the White House so much embarrassment over recent months.” Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social breaks down the incredibly stupid reason Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was fired by Trump.

So let’s be clear: this type of corporate bullying is designed to rob us of our rights and freedoms.  But we will not be silenced. www.greenpeace.org/internationa...

“They’ve lied to the American people. We are clearly at war.” @premthakker.bsky.social asked Rep. Pat Ryan whether the illegal strike on an Iranian naval ship violated the law of war. If you want to follow more of Prem’s reporting, subscribe to zeteo.com

Think about this: Trump’s new pick to “protect Americans” said he didn’t know how many Americans have been killed by Israel — and when asked if that concerned him, he said he hadn’t “even give it much thought”

Thomas Massie tells @premthakker.bsky.social Trump’s war on Iran is “at least costing $1 billion a day,” and warns that Congress may send even more straight to the “military industry complex.” Subscribe to zeteo.com to follow more of Prem's coverage

👀 NEW RESEARCH 👀 There’s been lots of buzz – and misinformation – about data centers. Our research team debunked Big Tech’s bogus claims and did a deep dive on the problems created by these facilities in our new report below. Make sure to give it a read! https://fwwat.ch/4r75Xe8

But, I caution, it’s early as we need to get past the spring predictability barrier. But if it happens, then what does this mean? To simplify, it typically means suppressed activity in Atlantic hurricane season (that doesn’t mean there won’t be landfalls but there are typically less). 2/

It also means huge heat will be lofted into the atmosphere, (which has been stored in the subsurface Pacific during cool La Nina) that would mean Earth likely sets new all-time heat records in late 2026-27 -and- it will super charge heat waves and storms/ flooding next fall/ winter (non tropical).

New interview! On the Israel-US war on Iran, Jeffrey Epstein, and the forces behind both: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zobD...

Congress to America: "What War?" www.kenklippenstein.com/p/congress-t...

At least 1,097 civilians had been killed in Iran so far, including 181 children.

There's been a lot of debate within the Democratic establishment about what rhetoric to use via ICE. Well, an incumbent doesn't lose by 48 percentage points very often—and her vote on collaborating with ICE was the defining issue here.

North Carolina sent a clear message tonight: You cannot betray our community and keep your seat.

wow -- Tillis goes ballistic on Noem, telling her "what we've seen is a disaster under your leadership"

NEW: Kansans are fighting to block a new state law that invalidates any driver’s licenses or birth certificates that don’t reflect a resident’s gender assigned at birth — a measure that deprives transgender individuals of required voter ID months before the state’s 2026 primary elections.

⚡️NEW: SEN. BERNIE SANDERS: “Israel should not be directing American war policy. That’s something the American Congress should be doing.” Julian Andreone (X: @JulianAndreone) | @sanders.senate.gov

Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) called the strike on a girls’ school in Minab a “horror.” The attack reportedly killed 165 people, mostly children. He rejected Sec. Rubio’s argument that the US had to follow Israel into war to defend American interests. “I think it’s not a close call. We make foreign...

"By killing him, the US and Israel didn’t just strike Iran’s government. They struck a spiritual leader with transnational religious authority – and created exactly the kind of martyr that galvanizes movements for generations.” ~ Narges Bajoghli open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...

Nida Alla, Kat Abughazaleh among those seeking new aims for Dems in midterms, including abolishing ICE and ending wars.

Main Topic: Thousands of Heat-Related Deaths Go Uncounted in Texas Each Year, New Research Finds via @andrewdessler.com On The Extreme Temperature Diary MON 3/02/2026 At: guyonclimate.com + #climate #weather + record temp reports @michaelemann.bsky.social @katharinehayhoe.com @zacklabe.com

Such a great interview with Mohsen Mahdawi. 'Red Scare': Columbia Student Formerly Detained by ICE Describes 'Chilling Effect' on Campus open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...

By me: Today marks 10 years since the assassination of Indigenous environmentalist Berta Cáceres, a rare leader whose death marked a before and after for many including me. Despite some justice, the extractive economic model and its criminal modus operandi continues apace. drilled.media/news/berta

Join 50501 on March 5th for a mass call for a discussion about how everyday people are fighting back against the Trump administration's plans for warehouse concentration camps across America. bit.ly/march5masscall

ICE is a plague in our communities, stealing away our neighbors and terrorizing residents as they carry out their raids. There is nothing worth saving or reforming within ICE. WE MUST ABOLISH ICE. Call your representatives and urge them to ABOLISH ICE for the safety of American communities.

A big part of the authoritarian playbook is war. War takes over the news. War blots out criticism. War divides a nation’s people, subjecting those against it to being called unpatriotic. War grants leaders all sorts of emergency powers. War consumes everything else. We mustn’t let this war do so.