New: Senate Democrats are preparing to force repeated votes on the war in Iran in the coming days, aiming to consume hours of floor time and stall other Senate business in their push for public hearings on the Iran War with Trump officials testifying under oath

Shen Yun? More like Shan’t Yun, amirite?

1. A new theory of the war is starting to emerge. Since leadership decapitation and the degradation of Iran's military from the air has failed to overthrow the regime, the focus seems to have shifted to seizing some vital strategic objective that would force Iran to its knees.

GOP: <controls both houses of Congress plus the Presidency> Also GOP: we are just smol beans, please Democrats, save us from ourselves

Have you ever created a really amazing #Excel spreadsheet, but then been disappointed because none of your friends or family cares?

typical average is about 120 per day, so, uh, that's a 96% reduction in traffic

The idea that it is the Democrats' job to be Donald Trump's nanny and clean his dirty diapers every time he soils himself (but never be allowed to impose any real discipline) is nonsense. The core condition Democrats should have for supporting anything is "impeach and remove."

Perhaps unsurprising, given the author but this (www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...) is astoundingly dumb. It is an *obviously terrible* idea for Dems to sign on to an unpopular war, illegally launched and badly executed. The idea that they could win legislative concessions doing so is moronic.

The entire “population bomb” thesis was almost immediately proven false when the Green Revolution gained momentum and the world could easily feed itself many times over. It ought to have been discarded immediately. Instead, because it chimed with popular prejudices, it enjoyed wide currency.

Breaking News: A New Jersey woman who took part in pro-Palestinian demonstrations at Columbia University in 2024 has been released from a federal detention center in Texas, where she had been held for more than a year. She has not been charged with a crime. nyti.ms/4sJs8In

The most obvious way you can tell these Voter ID laws are all bad-faith bullshit is that *none* provide a free/easy way for people to obtain necessary documentation.

Godspeed, Darius. You were a terrific Eagle.

The party that currently holds majorities in both houses of Congress as well as holding the Presidency claims to be powerless, LOL

The new NFL market efficiency is getting quarterbacks who other teams are so sick of that they're willing to pick up the tab

It is annoying to me how many people just hate immigration and think it is somehow a threat when it is in fact, the most efficient way of transporting delicious restaurants to your neighbourhood ever invented

If Iran’s military capacity has been destroyed, then why would we need to escort tankers through the Strait of Hormuz, let alone beg allies to help us do so? 🤔🤔🤔

TJ Power scored a record-breaking 44 points and hit two clutch three-pointers in the last seven seconds of regulation to send the game to overtime, where the Quakers secured an 88-84 win over Yale.

41 years old, evacuated here legally, asylum case pending, kidnapped while driving his six children (one a US citizen) to school. Dead within 24 hours. Betrayed and murdered by the United States government. 42nd confirmed and reported death in ICE custody under Trump.

Nazeer fought alongside our soldiers and came to the US with the promise we'd protect him, only to be detained by ICE and dead 24 hours later. There needs to be an independent investigation into his arrest and his death and accountability for any mistreatment.

If Biden, Obama, or Harris had done this, a House with a GOP majority would have voted to impeach within 24 hours

This war is such a perfect distillation of the Trump admin's combination of stupid and evil (or incompetence and malice). It's immoral and illegal AND they also did absolutely nothing to plan for it. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Can you imagine if Hillary Clinton or Kamala Harris had said that as president, they would make decisions about war based on their *feelings*? Can you even fucking imagine? This country's rancid misogyny problem has all sorts of predictably horrific outcomes for us all.

The way our nation turned its back on those who helped us at great risk to themselves and their families is an unforgivable national shame. We owed Mohammad Nazeer Paktyawal. Instead, ICE arrested him in front of his children and he died in their custody. We failed him and his family.

This is the thing that gets me. An elite Afghan soldier who served for a decade with U.S. Army Green Berets is killed by dishonorable wannabes back in the United States.

He wasn't just an asylum seeker. Paktyawal was an Afghan special forces soldier who worked with the U.S. Army's 3rd Special Forces Group. He was evacuated on August 30, 2021, entered the U.S. legally and had a pending case with a work permit and social security number. Killed by ICE maggots.

ICE just murdered a man who fought for us in Afghanistan because he's an Afghan and a Muslim.

The lawyers are likely correct that Carr would lose this in court. They were also likely correct that Trump would lose his lawsuits against ABC and CBS -- but their corporate owners (with much deeper pockets to fight than a local station) folded instead. That’s the real threat.

Having a hard time believing this ides of March story, you're telling me senators did something other than send out fundraising texts

ICE and CBP are rotten and depraved to the core. This is a feature, not a bug. The purpose of a system is what it does.

It's not just recently that CBP and ICE have been filed with thuggish, depraved, violent commiting crimes worse (and more frequently) than the alleged 'criminals' they seize and eject from the US. Any group predicated on the idea some people are 'illegal' and subhuman will attract this kind of man.

A 50-year-old woman “had never been on an airplane until authorities flew her to North Dakota last year to face charges” based solely on AI facial recognition.

When Christi Webb tried to cut off the flow of millions in welfare funds to ex-pro wrestler Teddy DiBiase, Mississippi welfare chief John Davis called her crying, she testified. “‘The only way I can have friends is to give them money. He’s got to keep getting this money,’" she recalled him saying.

All of this incredibly obvious and infuriating welfare fraud happened under the first Trump administration and I don't recall them ever threatening to block funding to the state of Mississippi as a result.

Happy March 15. Here is my favorite Ides of March meme:

Surprise! You can’t start a war without even consulting US allies—and then insult them afterward—and then expect them to bail you out when you predictably get into trouble. Seriously, what country is going to risk their ships in the Strait of Hormuz when the U.S. Navy considers it too dangerous?

If you agree with Boasberg's characterization of the facts (and I don't see any reason to disagree) then the only acceptable response involves several impeachments and criminal charges for people involved.

Abolish the entire thing

Unintentionally correct

Donald Trump letting you know how the authoritarian capture of the media is going, in case you missed it. Unlike other authoritarians in places like Hungary and Poland he has no worries about advertising his authoritarian take over of the media.

DOGE was a huge win for the Effective Sociopathy movement

The crime is not just the killing of people who surrender. The crime is telling the enemy that if they surrender, they will be killed. Because when the enemy hears that they cannot surrender peaceably, the war changes from a strategic conflict to a blood-soaked deathmatch.

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

FCC Chair Brendan Carr threatens broadcast licenses over Iran War coverage

It’s crazy that he is negotiating on behalf of the U.S. at all. He has no government appointment and no one elected him and he has no business being in those meetings even without the grift

I cannot adequately explain how fucked up the World Cup situation is wihen the president of a host nation *threatens the safety* of one of the participants (Iran). The USA should be removed as a host nation and if it's not, the games shoud be boycotted and ANYONE WITH A MORAL CENTER should see that.

I don’t think this shit will work but i never want to hear about free speech from any trumpers or anti anti trumpers ever again, fuck off forever bsky.app/profile/cram...

This drives me nuts. You spend all this time trying to explain that the president doesn’t have much to do with, e.g., gas prices, & then this asshole comes along and drives up gas prices.

It’s darkly funny that the biggest thing this administration could do to alleviate dependence on Iranian oil, embracing renewable energy, is impossible for them because they decided it was gay in the early 2000s

Every now and then, it's worth reminding yourself that every single crisis of Trump 2.0 -- the economic downturn, the chaos in our cities, the rising health crisis, the foreign wars -- has been a direct result of their own actions. If they'd done nothing at all, they'd be coasting comfortably.