Trump last week: War is necessary b/c Iran is "a radical bloodthirsty terrorist regime." Today: "Iran’s ferocious response against its neighbors caught the Pentagon somewhat off guard." Hegseth: “I can’t say that we anticipated necessarily that’s exactly how they would react." Idiocracy.

Iran announces "the start of targeting the enemy's technological infrastructure in the region," by which they mean targeting assets of American companies like Google, Amazon, Microsoft, etc, across the region.

Oh so now we don't need means testing

at this point, the only rational conclusion is they don’t want to win.

To hell with forced assimilation of ANY KIND.

Hoping that another useless war can also help people come to grips with the idea that poor Kids of Color should not be forced into the military to pay for college or to get discipline or for any reason. Especially now that masks have come off & nazis and white supremacists are running the military

I talked to dozens of experts in government, academia, cybersecurity, and industry about exactly this scenario last year and not only did not one of them think I was being alarmist, many brought it up unprompted and many said there was zero chance it hadn’t already happened

"Contrary to what folks on the outside might assume, there are people in prison who use the word 'prisoner' as a form of self-empowerment. For them, and myself, this term is more accurate because it connotes being held against one’s will."

Attacking cultural heritage can be a war crime

The officer who killed Ruben Ray Martinez has been identified as Homeland Security Investigations agent Jack Stevens.

death camps in all but name

This could be one of the "largest known data breaches in American history," Sen. Ron Wyden warned.

for all the tough talk in 2020, to do nothing at all about trump is just handing it to the voting is useless crowd. hell of a way to burn down his own legacy

Guess that’s why so many of them voted to approve approve his most recent appointee 🙄

Collaborators all

NEW: After CBP's FOIA office released a "Privacy Threat Analysis" of the face recognition app Mobile Fortify, 2 staffers were reassigned and leaders order PTAs to be mislabeled to prevent their release. @dell.bsky.social w/ the scoop: www.wired.com/story/cbp-pr...

in case you've never seen it, this is Roger Ebert on The Mummy

These people should just join the actual fascist party so we don't have to waste precious time and money debating their bullshit as if we were on the same team. We clearly are not. And I will just underscore that EVERY. SINGLE. PROGRESSIVE. POLICY polls extremely well basically everywhere.

Thank you, @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social @henryburke.bsky.social and @prospect.org As I have always contended, "moderate" is just a cover for embedded racism, classicism, and people eager to make money off of both. There is no idea here. There is only reflexive "no." prospect.org/2026/03/10/c...

Federal immigration officials have increased enforcement in the interior of the country, targeting cities with high immigrant populations that are led by Democrats such as Chicago, Los Angeles, Minneapolis and the District of Columbia. From @statesnewsroom.com

These people were openly plotting to manufacture false pretenses to undermine federal law and overthrow the constitutional order. Clark, the ringleader, was already under indictment for conspiring to overturn the 2020 election. And then we just . . . put them in power again.

It's all there. All of the bullshit claims about emergencies and national security threats. The goal all along was to give Trump the power to deploy the military domestically to suppress dissent and crush MAGA's enemies. These are dangerous people. They're now in the highest levels of government.

This is just astonishingly great reporting. All of the crises the White House has claimed over the last 14 months were planned in advance. All of them. And however much contempt you have for media outlets who reverently relayed Trump's claim to have no relation to Project 2025, it isn't enough.

ICE taking a watchdog community member Simi Valley, CA

Since the CFPB has been stripped of its power, Credit Bureaus aren't correcting mistakes on consumers' credit reports. www.propublica.org/article/cred...

Truly a perfect news alert

This greed for wealth and property also played a role in Japanese internment

"This is what opened my eyes to what lynching really was. An excuse to get rid of Negroes who were acquiring wealth & property & thus keep the race terrorized & keep them down." -- Ida B. Wells after People's Grocery lynching in Memphis #tdih 1892. Read ⬇️ 🧵 www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/pe...

“Several years ago, nephrologists attempted a first-of-its-kind effort: remove race from a key clinical algorithm, and attempt to undo the harms… A new study found the change had big results, impacting 27% of Black patients and resulting in 5.3 more transplants per 1000 Black candidates.”

(2) WFH as adaptation

If you’re a journalist, and you refer to Pete Hegseth unironically as the “Secretary of War,” you might as well refer to Donald Trump’s Trump as “His Majesty.”

Getting really sick of this shit.

New analysis shows ideology, not science, drove the global prohibition of psychedelics

I follow the news around local data center resistance fairly closely. This one stands out.

Reupping this because it's to support a good friend and a good cause. Please share. 🥰

Hundreds killed in Haiti drone strikes, including 60 civilians: Report https://aje.news/jwl9ic

War on Iran fuelling Islamophobic social media surge in US: Report https://aje.news/no0dln

As War Comes to Gulf States, Migrant Workers Pay the Highest Price - migrant workers are facing the heaviest toll as war comes to the Gulf countries. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/w...

Here's the research, and a fascinating article how using ChatGPT may permanently damage your cognitive and creative abilities. This is a must read for teachers and students alike. I'm sure we'll see more of these studies too. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

If the Dems who win in the 2026 midterms get squeamish about prosecuting this administration, we'll need to elect a bunch of new people running on Nuremberg shit for 2028. This isn't a joke. It's the law. It's justice. Biden let Trump back in the WH and this happened because Joe didn't do his job

Historian of French Revolution here to say that in periods like this, squeamish compromisers do as much to drive radicalization as do ideologues. If you keep making excuses for the unfit king, eventually folks come for you and him.

ICE is buying warehouses across America and calling them detention centers. But there's a problem no one in the federal government seems to want to answer: where does the water come from? A thread. 🧵

There's a broken cuneiform tablet from the Old Babylonian period, nearly 4,000 years ago, which preserves a tiny portion of a dialogue between two friends. It feels a bit like the conversations I've been having for the past week, so I wanted to share it.

One day the NYT's editors will read these stories again and be ashamed of themselves. Mamdani called the attack "heinous," "criminal," "reprehensible," "terrorism," and "the antithesis of who we are." The insinuation that he's conflicted about this is disgraceful. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/n...

There should be no such things as “billionaires.” This is a lesson we as a society learned in the past…and yet

“The Times analysis found 300 billionaires and their families donated more than $3 billion—19% of all contributions—in federal elections in 2024. The billionaire families gave an average total of $10 million each in 2024, roughly equal to what 100,000 typical political donors gave, combined.“ Gift:

This happened early on in Gaza also. When Israel first bombed a hospital, the world gasped and most would not defend it. By the second third fourth strikes, no one cared

I am routinely struck silent by the fact that we can stop HIV in its tracks, literally zero transmission, and as a society we just choose not to.