Everything just feels so grim. Has it really come to this? Stockpile as we can not shape the world to be safe for virtually anyone let alone the majority. #CapitalismIsFailing #Wars #ClimateCrisis #GreedyBastards www.theguardian.com/food/2026/ap...

Happy Easter to all those who celebrate. May we keep in our minds all those who are living in poverty or seeking refuge from the horrors of war. During these important days of renewal and compassion, let us spread a message of peace and humanity for everyone, everywhere.

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The rightwing administration of Washington's leading public university has fired the director of its Middle East Center for publicly opposing Trump's war on Iran. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Trump’s Bizarre Iran Speech Horrified the World

Thinking about all these guys who voted for Trump

The ships that left the Persian Gulf on February 28 are arriving at their destinations. There’s nothing behind them. There is currently a 5 week gap in output of oil, LNG, helium and so on.

Drives me crazy that centrists keep comparing Mamdani to Spanberger and dismissing his win (because he was in a blue city!) while ignoring that Virginia gave Spanberger the exact same advantages

Third Way has no vision for Democrats beyond attacking Hasan Piker and selling out the party to corporate lobbyists.

He's a Stepford husband

This is a very good review. If you think he's the man for 2028 definitely read it. Please.

In his new memoir, the California governor tries desperately to seem down-to-earth. Instead, he reveals himself as a shallow, inauthentic son of privilege who’ll say anything to get ahead. www.currentaffairs.org/news/gavin-n...

The tension between two narratives, between the struggling kid and the well-connected insider, is the central drama of Young Man in a Hurry. Unfortunately for Newsom, it is also the reason the memoir never quite works. www.currentaffairs.org/news/gavin-n...

The memoir begins with Newsom explaining that his father did not leave “much in the way of an estate,” setting the tone for the book’s central project: minimizing the immense network of wealth and power that surrounded him throughout his life. www.currentaffairs.org/news/gavin-n...

This is supposed to be the story of a politician who understands hardship because he lived through it. But the difficulty with this framing is that the book repeatedly contradicts it. www.currentaffairs.org/news/gavin-n...

Interestingly enough, a bit that didn’t make the book is that the elder Newsom spent two years traveling Europe with a Nazi SS officer turned defense contractor named Otto von Bolschwing, a disturbing sign of the amorality that surrounded the Getty empire. www.currentaffairs.org/news/gavin-n...

Gavin Newsom frequently adopts the language of economic fairness and climate responsibility while remaining cautious about policies that would significantly increase taxes on the ultra-wealthy. www.currentaffairs.org/news/gavin-n...

*Afshin Matin-Asgari on what it was like to fight the Shah as a leftist in 1979—and why U.S. and Israeli attacks won’t bring the change they claim to promise* by @currentaffairs.bsky.social Interviews www.currentaffairs.org/news/a-revol...

*Well, you might say the president had a bad week. He’s lost interest in his war and can’t figure out a way out. It’s an old pattern for men like Trump—when things are getting rough at the office, kick the cat or maybe the wife* by Robert Kuttner April 3, 2026 prospect.org/2026/04/03/b...

*“The president of the United States would like everyone to know that he is acting with criminal intent, in case there was any ambiguity,” a US law professor said of his social media post with bridge bombing footage* www.commondreams.org/news/iran-tr...

*Iran has put a tollgate across the Strait of Hormuz. This fundamentally changes the global economy* by @ddayen.bsky.social prospect.org/2026/04/02/o...

“This War Is Already Lost”: Spencer Ackerman & Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi on Trump’s Iran Debacle www.democracynow.org/2026/4/2/ira...

it's really hard to see all of the space cheerleading right now when this admin sees the moon missions as a stepping stone for space colonization while at the same time it's doing it's best to gut everything that makes the Earth habitable

"We have reached an important point where the end begins to come into view. There is light at the end of the tunnel." --Gen William Westmoreland on Vietnam, 1967 "We can see the finish ‌line. It's not today, it's not tomorrow, but it is coming." -- Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Iran, 2026

AIPAC-backed Jared Moskowitz gave Trump a blank check for war. He called the Iran war powers resolution the “Ayatollah Protection Act.” Now we’ve replaced Khameini w Khameini, spending $1B/day, & gas is $4. I’m his anti-war opponent running to save US lives & taxpayer dollars.

If he and/or his family had just placed bets on a market fall maybe it was a great speech.

oh

A Tired, Weak Trump Tries to Gaslight the World About His Failed War on Iran I listened to Trump's incoherent stream of lies about the Iran War. Here are the Cliffs Notes. thelefthook.substack.com/p/a-tired-we...

Trump's insistence that the U.S. is on the cusp of victory because our bombs are destroying a lot more things than are Iranian counterattacks reminds me of the similarly one-sided "body counts" of North Vietnamese and Viet Cong soldiers--it doesn't necessarily mean you are winning.

The US owes the world reparations for its economic terrorism, every extra dollar you pay from this war crime is a dollar stolen from you by the United States.

This is heartbreaking. In play, children reenact what they see in order to make sense of it and feel a degree of control. In Gaza, little girls play "funeral" with their doll playing the role of a friend who has been killed.

hes announcing that hes stealing our future, this is what our country is going to be doing and spending money on for the next decade now

Trump's speech tonight was the speech of a president who can't figure out what to do about the disastrous war he started. Congress should choose for him: end this war before it becomes an even bigger catastrophe.

Oh shit, I forgot the Fuhrer was talking. Anything *new*? Are we at war with the sea now?

Widely carried unlike

congrats to everyone who said he was gonna be “winding down” in iran you fell for it once again

For those sane souls who didn't listen to the Trump speech, I have you covered. Will give you Cliff Notes. Join me on thelefthook.substack.com

Whatever Trump said during this speech, I’m sure sounded much better in his head. This was the most pathetic address to a nation in US… no... world history. What the fuck was that?

Trump says the Strait of Hormuz will “open up naturally”. He’s no Moses and this isn’t the Red Sea.

The 82nd Airborne Division deployed to the Middle East may complete a high-risk mission to retrieve uranium stored deep underground in Iran’s Isfahan nuclear site. Many will likely die. But they wouldn't have to if Trump had not pulled out of the Iran Nuclear Deal in 2018. trib.al/9qifWQ9

Trump is setting up a protection racket to expand corporate power around the world

unlike education, health care, child care or parental leave which is woke bull shit

So, five weeks after joining Israel in an illegal and unwinnable war, Trump has NOW decided to sell the war to a skeptical public, which is suffering from higher oil and gas prices. Cool, cool. You think the majority of Americans will be convinced?

It’s noticeable that Trump’s speechwriters now have to insert “never before in history” every few sentences to try to curb his appetite to say it even more than that

Trump is not doing well lmao