I wanna point out something serious. The admin has been complaining about Iran winning the information war. This same administration shut down Voice of America, and other information operations the US govt does. It’s a self goal. Actions have consequences

Use 👏 US 👏 Steel 👏 to 👏 build 👏 the 👏 totalitarian 👏 bribe 👏 palace 👏

Happy Confederate Surrender Day from Minnesota where we still have your goddamn flag and we’re not giving it up. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/28th_Vi...

the guys walking around in shoes that don’t fit are not gonna do a 25th Amendment

Congratulations to our incredible service members who rescued the downed F-15 WSO in Iran. One major reason so many of our finest volunteer to go into harm’s way is the solemn pledge we will leave no one behind.

I think the opposition party widely expected to make historic gains in the next election(s) has an obligation to explain how they'll stop this and prevent it from happening again or it's reasonable to conclude they don't plan on doing those things, which raises more uncomfortable questions

A racial/racist civilizational narrative; territorial expansion and spheres of influence; the embrace of struggle, suffering and violence as redemptive societal forces; the use of Douhet's terrorizing model of air war. Trump II is quite clearly pursuing a fascist foreign policy. 🧵

Facing the reality that brutality and cruelty also have tradeoffs and are not a secret weapon that facilitates an easy victory, they are furious at being embarrassed by their lessers and seeing their theory of the world publicly discredited (not that they would ever acknowledge that)

The President of the U.S. The man with the nuclear codes. And people are just going to pretend this is ok. In a functioning society, he would be removed from office within hours by his own party.

NEW: Under AG Pam Bondi, the DOJ has dropped 23,000 criminal cases — including hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime and drugs — while prosecuting 32,000 new immigration cases in just the first six months of Trump’s second term.

"the secretary of defense did insider trading on a war he was about to start" what the fuck are we doing here, honestly

go directly to jail, do not pass go, do not collect two hundred million dollars

This is called “strategic defeat.” You have ended up in a worse position than before you began, with your adversary, while battered, emerging in a stronger position than before.

In fairness it’s not like the consequences of having a mad king unilaterally take the country to war on a whim were so incredibly obvious that you could see it coming from the 18th and 19th centuries www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Kid Rock Bottom 😁

The timeline where the "grab them by the pussy" tape actually sunk the Trump candidacy is the better timeline.

A cresecent-shaped bronze decorated openwork mount originally fixed to the front of the helmet found with the North Bersted warrior Part of a two piece crest which created a piece of head attire quite unlike anything else discovered from the British Iron Age 🤩 📷 March 2026 #Novium #FindsFriday

NEW: the UK government recommends that toddlers should not be given more than a hour's screentime a day www.ft.com/content/44fc...

Wonderful ancient artistry! Some 3,400 years ago, an Egyptian artisan captured a sense of speed and elegance in this beautifully carved whip handle in the shape of a horse! New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, reign of Amenhotep III, c. 1390–1352 BC. The Met 📷 by me #Archaeology

Was there any sense ever that he was getting a complete picture of the war (or anything else, really)? I have always assumed he gets a TruthSocial/FoxNews truncated version of everything, with anything that might upset him elided. Also some “dear leaders” thrown in for good measure.

Utterly damning

In this excellent distillation of the Palantir worldview, @jacobsilverman.com sees the defense tech industry as driven by fear of perpetual conflict. That echoes the vast Cold War-era military-industrial, whose influence depended on perceptions of threats. www.businessinsider.com/palantir-gui...

Brotocracy: A government run by tacky middle-age-to-old incurious men suffering from acute arrested development.

NEWS: Six months before the Trump admin began bombing Iran, the Department of State fired its oil and gas experts. State’s energy division got completely DOGE’d. And with it went the people who knew how to plan for a global energy crisis.

Whether or not Trump's cognitive decline is merely normal aging or something more pathological, the quotes below are not the sign of an ordered mind.

Buttigieg: "We lived through a war that was sold to us on false pretenses when I was younger. This war has not been sold on any pretense. The president just went ahead and did it."

Last nights sunset from Wyoming.

"We're actively slaughtering the middle class, but that's a sacrifice we're willing to make"

Palantir CEO promises that his technology will reduce educated women's economic and political power newrepublic.com/post/207693/...

Media: More questions to him like this one from reporter Shawn McCreesh, please!

he’s gonna give a speech in front of an AI generated banner that says, “ŃMIMMS1ØN ACĞŒMPLISSHEP”

It was wrong and harmful - and quite possibly unlawful - to cut already approved NEH grants because Donald Trump hates "DEI." But the way DOGE went about doing it was even dumber than you probably imagined. They fed abstracts into ChatGPT and demanded an answer in fewer than 120 characters.

just the vilest brand of armchair war criminals

It's so rare that we see photos like this one of an Iranian schoolboy. Maybe we need to see more of them.

The competition for the dumbest member of the United States Senate has just heated up with the elimination of one its strongest contestants!!

Sea Foam Camellia of Skinnerville March 2026

Here's my first edit on the March 3rd Lunar Eclipse. 15 moon shots, 1 foreground. Taken over a 3 hourish period.

Women's History Month Elizabeth Van Lew (Oct 12, 1818 – Sept 25, 1900) was an American abolitionist, Southern Unionist & philanthropist who recruited & acted as the primary handler of an extensive spy ring for the Union Army in the Confederate capital of Richmond during the American Civil War.

The mood at the Pentagon is not good.

#WomensHistoryMonth2026 Harriet Tubman Born enslaved in Dorchester County,she became the most influential conductors of the underground railroad. She escaped slavery 1849, but helped more Marylanders.She helped guide 70 people to freedom. Explore more on Harriet Tubman Byway Maryland.

#OnThisDay, 3 Mar 1879, Belva Lockwood is sworn in at the US Supreme Court Bar, becoming the first woman admitted to it. #WomenInHistory #History #AmericanHistory #WHM #WomensHistoryMonth 🗃️

For #WomensHistoryMonth: Let us celebrate the life and accomplishments of Annie Scott Dill Maunder, née Russell (1868-1947), pioneering astronomer, astrophotographer, and science communicator. She did important work with using photography to better understand solar activity. 🎢⚛️🧪🔭⭐️🪐1/n

Just a random reminder that over 50 members of Congress collectively own millions of dollars in defense contractor stocks. They stand to personally profit from wars that enrich these contractors. Make no mistake, this is legalized corruption. Watch how they vote this week.

WELCH: Mr. Yoho is also the husband of your former spokesperson, Tricia McLaughlin? NOEM: Yes WELCH: So your former assistant and her husband are the ones that got the DHS no bid contract for $143m. Any dispute about that? NOEM: No.

Lemon Tea #oilpainting #art

Today the paperback of THERE IS NO PLACE FOR US is out. It's arriving in a country once again waging war—a country that can spend tens of billions on bombs without blinking, while millions of Americans are one missed paycheck, one rent hike away from homelessness. Let's take stock of where we are.

It’s a foreign policy of reckless action and spectacular violence—and no clear strategic objectives beyond creating content for social media. trib.al/FD0H0zp

The whole Trump administration is just rooting around in complicated systems - regional balances of power, state legitimacy, funding for global health - and ripping wires out, and they've frankly been lucky that they've ripped out so many wires without electrocuting themselves. Won't last forever.