BBC Verify reporter parsing fact from fiction (a difficult, important job, especially in wartime) x.com/Shayan86/sta...

Top lawmakers were notified about the operation shortly before it was launched, but the White House did not seek authorization from Congress to carry out the strikes. n.pr/4l12c8B

Update: Israel and the U.S. launched strikes against Iran, and Iran retaliated with attacks on Israel and several Gulf countries.

Trump has dismissed Vice Admiral Fred Kacher, deputy director of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, for issuing warnings to him about what might go wrong in a new war against Iran, Reuters report. www.reuters.com/world/us/pen...

Congress must return immediately and vote to put an end to this war. Every Senator should be on the record—the American people deserve to know which of their leaders supports another potentially bloody and costly war in the Middle East. No war with Iran.

Pay for however many newsletters you want, please, give all those writers money But you can't replace a whole journalism ecosystem with a series of freelancers, you just can't. There also needs to be support for serious papers, magazines, online newsrooms, and nonprofit reporting

In the past, sometimes presidents have said it’s just a military operation or limited airstrikes to skirt Congress. Trump has unilaterally launched major combat operations, declaring war with the goal of regime change. A major violation of the U.S. Constitution, also illegal under international law

Still up on the official White House website: www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...

A timely reminder that CNN is and has been a go-to source for solid, fact based, timely, often live on location reporting on conflicts like this. The international news network may soon have a new owner in David Ellison that will surely not be committed to this level of coverage or truth telling.

Time is a flat circle

Which enemy is Hegseth speaking of? Putin? Greenland? Critical thinking? Democrats? Science? 🤔

The "RFK Jr Curve"

That's some serious hazmat gear in use today on the Seattle Ship Canal as firefighters respond to an ammonia spill on a fishing boat. x.com/SeattleFire/...

boy I don't know www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Radiohead rages against the machine:

It’s time for another Washington water supply update 💧 No, there’s still not enough snow. And yes, we're still in a drought. So far, water year 2026 has been the warmest on record. We had a lot of rain in December, but January has been too warm and too dry to add to our snowpack.

Wall Street Journal reporter Emily Glazer told KUOW’s Kim Malcolm about what Gates said in a staff town hall meeting this week.

FUN FACT: The UK has nearly twice as many public EV chargers as fuel pumps www.gov.uk/governmen...

Or we can keep staring at our screens.

The cover of this week's Lancet, featuring RFK Jr:

This week's cover @thelancet.com

La Puerta del Infierno

“The court is not aware of another occasion in the history of the US in which a federal court has had to threaten contempt—again & again & again—to force the US govt. to comply with court orders” *210* violations of court orders in MN alone according to Reagan-appointed judge x.com/rparloff/sta...

Numismatic glorification: Trump team wants his image on a second coin, this time in gold. But an obscure panel is blocking it. "Only those nations ruled by kings or dictators display the image of their sitting ruler on the coins of the realm.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/u...

NEW: Minnesota's top federal judge is threatening to hold Trump administration officials in criminal contempt if they continue defying court orders in immigration cases. "One way or another, ICE will comply." www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

Legislating Under the Influence... not of powerful lobbyists or campaign donors, but of alcohol #waleg

Amazing map/dataviz of elite aviation (and emission)

A federal judge in Oregon has ordered dams that operate on the Columbia and Snake rivers to generate less hydropower and allow more water to pass in an effort to keep salmon populations from dying out.

Apparently there are no big geothermal energy projects in Washington, though there is high potential in some areas:

It's stunning how much Trump's taxpayer-funded cult iconography resembles the giant Hitler, Stalin and Mao posters in dictatorships of the past.

I highly recommend listing to this @onthemedia.bsky.social podcast about media capture. There's some terrific history in there about how we got to this point. 🗃️https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/articles/the-centurylong-capture-of-us-media

The State of the Climate.

Can't say this often enough! An acre of solar produces 50-300 times more energy than an acre of biofuels. Stop using food for fuel.

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uh does that make us a 'shithole country'?

#H5N1 #BirdFlu detected in northern elephant seals on CA coast. Virus annihilated the funny-looking seals in South America between 2022 and 2024. From UC Davis and UC Santa Cruz research. www.latimes.com/science/stor...

🚨🚨Check this out👇👇A French judge states that Trump sent people from the US Embassy to try to intimidate her during Le Pen’s trial for embezzlement. She says he’s done this to other judges around the world. What do you think he’s doing to judges in the US. This is madness‼️

Got milk? 🥛

Drunk drivers breathe a sigh of relief into the breathalyzer

The state of the union is jesus fucking christ www.npr.org/2026/02/24/n...

It’s completely bizarre and ominous — it has placed hearsay, essentially, at the center of the platform in a sticky way. I’ve never seen anything like it online. It’s reminiscent of a class where nobody has done the reading but instead of ending, it just persists, topic after topic, day after day.

Agents with the FBI's elite evidence response team were delayed in reaching the scene of a mass shooting at Brown U. in December because there was no FBI plane available. Kash Patel was using one of the jets to party in south Florida. www.ms.now/news/senator...

The erratic whims of an impulsive, poorly informed authoritarian continue to whipsaw the US and global economy

Never, ever trust a Google AI Overview. They are bankrupting actual, reputable sources (like the academic, non-profit, and journalistic sites they are stealing and cannibalizing), and they are fundamentally unreliable.

I was thrilled to witness a rare spawning aggregation of Lime bikes in south Seattle recently. After the first new moon of winter, scientists say, the bikes gather from miles around to mate before dispersing again.

An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump. n.pr/4qTItsU

These thieves keep stealing blueprints from my theft empire!

They stole from our stealing machine!

noting the KOMO/Sinclair story atop the list