When we grumble that congressional Democrats need to do more to hold the Trump regime accountable, the things that @oversightdemocrats.bsky.social do are basically what we have in mind. Use your position to demand accountability and when they try to dodge that, start yelling and don't stop.

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...

My 1st guest post is now live, with words from @laileanah.bsky.social!✨ "On Sunday, March 1, 2026, I had a deeply frightening experience of anti-Black racism in the Emergency (ER) department at Corewell Health Livonia. To convey the gravity of this matter, it may help to rewind to a few weeks ago."

The Irish President:

Leqaa Kordia has been released from ICE detention after a year under lockdown. The 33-year-old Palestinian woman and Columbia University student was arrested during Pro-Palestine protests on campus. Read her account of her time under lockdown: zeteo.com/p/leqaa-kord...

Also, for the "everyone is 12" file ... "I'm starting a new club and you jerks can't be in it"

Israeli forces killed a mother, father, and two children—a 5-year old and a 7-year-old—by shooting them in the head while they were driving in the West Bank. A surviving 12-year-old child told media that, when the IDF was interrogating him afterward, one soldier said, “We killed dogs.”

“AI can never be AI without humans. It is not artificial intelligence. It’s African intelligence...We are training our own death. We train ChatGPT and it’s killing us slowly.” www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...

Speechless.

My my, how it’s come full circle.

When the fart breaks bad

The political corruption piece is especially powerful. It gives a name to people’s anger that isn’t the usual “Blame the Black/poor/immigrant” people.

Zelensky to Trump in August: We have developed amazing, inexpensive drone interceptors that shoot down Iranian Shaheds that we can provide you in case you are ever in another conflict with Iran. Trump: No we’re good. We’re the US - you have nothing we need. You have no cards.

A++++++ question there

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...

"England 1819" = US 2026. King George III = Donald Trump "An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying King; Princes, the dregs of their dull race, who flow Through public scorn--mud from a muddy spring; Rulers who neither see nor feel nor know, But leechlike to their fainting country cling." --Shelley

NEW: Trump appointees in the State Dept. failed to urge Americans to leave the Middle East even though the US & Israel had been planning their war for weeks. Thousands are now frantic amid missile barrages. Rubio pushed out many veteran diplomats last year. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/u...

"The Real Religious Fanatics Behind the Iran War" They're not in Tehran, they're in Washington DC. I bring receipts in my lede piece for today's First Draft morning newsletter from Zeteo. Check it out/share/subscribe:

This ghoul has finally been fired. But make no mistake, Stephen Miller is still in charge of DHS and especially ICE.

That's Noem, Lewandowski, and Bovino out. Wannabe fascists, perhaps, but you are not living in a fascist country. Public pressure, embarassment, legislative opposition - all of them helped to turf these folks. That's what I mean by "the levers of democracy still work and you should use them."

Preparing the graves for more than 150 elementary school girls who were killed by an Israeli-American strike. Photo: IRNA #Iran

TERRIBLE TIMING: When FBI Director Kash Patel fired a dozen FBI agents and staff last week for their role in the classified documents investigation of Donald Trump, he targeted an elite counter espionage unit that investigates threats from foreign adversaries and specializes in Iran.

Today was an important day for the opposition movement. The law firms that stood up against Donald Trump threats won. Those that capitulated and collaborated with Trump will need to explain to their families, clients and future generations why when democracy was at stake they were such cowards.

Rep Jason Crow (D-CO): “I went to war three times for this country and learned that when elites in Washington bang the war drums, working class folks pay the price. The tough talk of a five-time draft dodger falls flat for Americans tired of military adventurism”

Averting war may not have been the goal

THIS.

"The speech treated combat as if it were a sport, done for the thrill and challenge and the chance at glory, rather than in service of a greater cause." Military heroism is not a replacement for coherent strategy.

Depraved. Nurul Amin Shah Alam, Blind Rohingya Refugee Dumped by Border Patrol, Dies in Cold – Mother Jones www.motherjones.com/mojo-wire/20...

One Texas congressman, Al Green (Dem.), holds up a sign at the State of the Union. Republicans: Censure! Another Texas congressman, Tony Gonzales (Rep.), sexually harasses a staffer who then commits suicide. Republicans: Crickets. ktrh.iheart.com/featured/hou...

“The Justice Department has withheld some Epstein files related to allegations that President Trump sexually abused a minor, an NPR investigation finds. It also removed some documents from the public database where accusations against Jeffrey Epstein also mention Trump.” www.npr.org/2026/02/24/n...

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As a Black man with Tourette Syndrome, the Public Advocate has some thoughts on BAFTA, Pt. 1: Hear about his experience with Coprolalia, his thoughts on how BAFTA mishandled the moment, and the need for care for all who are harmed: Full video: youtu.be/FgaqKIxS4Hs

Henceforth, I will be describing the way that U.S. men’s hockey spectacularly squandered good will, brand recognition, and fan loyalty as “pulled a Target.” They pulled a Target.

If this man dies, ICE murdered him. This is how they work. They don’t need mass graves and unburied shell casings they will just put weak and vulnerable people in positions where they can suffer and die and then wait. If they survive they can do it again. You do not hate the modern Gestapo enough.

Precisely. The unique inflammatory nature of the word so awful WE DON’T EVEN SPELL IT OUT has gone ignored. The conversation so quickly moved to “he’s not a racist!” as if that’s the end of the conversation. As if the racisM can then be swept under the rug. I’m truly disgusted.

An ICE agent shot and killed 23-year-old U.S. citizen Ruben Ray Martinez in Texas almost an entire year ago and hid the shooting from the public. It’s only now coming to light, 11 months later, due to Freedom of Information Act requests. What else is the regime hiding from us?

Newsfeed Cleanser: 🥇Alysa Liu 🇺🇸 🥈Kaori Sakamoto 🇯🇵 🥉Ami Nakai 🇯🇵

Breaking: The Olympic gold-winning U.S. women's hockey team DECLINES Trump's invitation to his State of the Union address after he was caught on video mocking them.

I lost my gov’t job as Director, Race & Equity in part due to the Trump administration’s ongoing attacks on anything they perceive as “DEI.” They believe DEI means giving under- or unqualified Black people jobs or university admission, instead of better-qualified, more-deserving white applicants.

Gaza is under shelling at this moment. Right now, we are being hit by heavy bombardment!!

And yet it’s even more dumb: Both hospital ships are in dry-dock in Alabama, so they won’t be arriving anytime soon. This is a weird distraction from the Danes medically evacuating a sick US sailor from a US Navy nuclear sub yesterday 9 miles from Nuuk. What was a sub doing nine miles from Nuuk?