it's surreal how Witkoff's talking points about Iran are just warmed-over Bush talking points on Iraq ...

I wrote about that last week. My mind was open 3 months ago. Not anymore.

significant that even Vance believes Trump's war is a political loser

The photo editor's choice here...

The Pitt on research funding cuts in health care

Chris Murphy: "It's just so disgusting to listen to the president be waxing poetically about the drapes he's buying while there are six Americans who are dead. There are six families who are about to bury their children because of a war of choice that no one in this country wanted, an illegal war."

BREAKING: Our client Mahmoud Khalil is appealing an immigration judge’s ruling that says the Trump administration can re-detain and deport him. This judge’s order was baseless and retaliatory, and must be reversed before Mahmoud’s rights are violated again.

Chris Murphy: "There is 0 history of an air strike campaign alone toppling a dictatorship and transitioning a country to democracy. We know that air strikes do not knock out Iran's nuclear capability. Why? Because we did air strikes last year. President Trump lied to the American public."

I think the fact that so many people who dislike BlueSky are reposting a weird person making an unpopular and insane claim about Jamelle Bouie as a sign of some deeper trend is probably more telling than the weird and unpopular claim. Noah Smith suggests it is a cultural norm that enabled fascism.

Still wild that I go to my doctor to get my immunosuppressing medication in the place where the other immunosuppressed patients are and I’m solo masking in the whole place.

Masks should never have been removed from medical settings.

It's illegal and Patel told Senators at his confirmation hearings that any personnel actions would be based on merit donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-the-fb...

Reminder, this is all illegal.

This.

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1. This morning, Texas AG Ken Paxton just released a chilling new declaration: Mental health therapists, counselors, and psychologists must cease affirming trans youth - using their name and pronouns - or potentially face child abuse charges and loss of licensure. Its a horrifying escalation.

‘The digital colonization of flyover states’: how datacenters are tearing small-town America apart

The gap between how cool he thinks he sounds and how he actually sounds would take light eight centuries to traverse.

Abbott posted then deleted a clip from a video game.

According to relatives, 19-year-old Nasrallah Mohammed Jamal Abu Siam was fired on as he tried to stop Israeli settlers from raiding his village to steal sheep.

murderer of children

Want to murder a Canadian citizen in Canada? If you have a big enough economy, we’ll find a way to forget pretty quickly.

100 accounts are behind majority of conspiracy theory content in Canada www.nationalobserver.com/2026/02/25/n... "...analyzed over 14 million social media posts from accounts in Canada, and found that 87% of conspiratorial claims come from influencers." Those on "X were the biggest culprits."

No attack was imminent. “Pre-emptiness” strikes is word salad for *illegal*. This is a war of choice, not of necessity. Pentagon tells Congress no sign that Iran was going to attack US first www.reuters.com/world/us/pen... #Iran

You cannot talk like this about any other minority in America. And if it was any other president’s adviser who said something like this about any other minority, it’d be the instant end of their presidency.

To some degree it's because pudding brain can barely string a sentence together, but even the flacks and flunkies haven't been able to settle on any talking points for what, exactly, we are trying to accomplish here.

There have been plenty of muddled and at times outright false justifications offered by presidents for past American wars, but it's something different to have no coherent rationale at all, no comprehensible stated goal, and no meaningful attempt to rally public opinion.

"The Constitution vests the power of declaring War with Congress, therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject, and authorised such a measure." Washington

We had a plan, but we blew up the plan.

Great week for the military industrial complex- their executives, principal investors, and stockholders. Lots of people about to make many billions from US taxpayers on Trump’s Iran bombings, which are costing us a fortune every single day.

Always the first to flee while everyone else suffers the consequences.

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War update: Nuance is buried in the same coffin as truth and the gravestone is an ever changing, Orwellian electronic message sign. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

The UK's permission for the US to use its bases in attacking Iran amounts to complicity in the crime of aggression. It drags us into what could be an endless war, without democratic or even parliamentary consent.

The people who think Trump is going to bring freedom, human rights, and democracy to Iran with his bombings should talk to the people who thought that about Venezuela. Trump doesn’t care about any of that stuff.

More than a little ignorant for a Jewish person to be advocating for another ethnicity to be "rounded up."

The UK has arrested high-profile figures connected to Jeffrey Epstein. Will the US?

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“We invoke international law and the “rules based international order” when adversaries engage in unlawful actions, but abandon those same rules entirely when it’s the Americans…For a country that depends on law more than force for its own security, that is not realism; it is recklessness.”

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This is after he repeatedly voiced explicit support for Donald Trump starting an illegal war with Iran. The Harper parallels grow by the day.

Glad people are talking about this.

Of course. No one wanted this war. They wanted food and health care and energy prices to go down. Now all those things will cost more. It's a war of folly by a doddering old man who likes when things blow up and needs to distract us from the child sex ring he's connected to.

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Mark Warner: "I saw no intelligence that Iran was on the verge of launching any kind of preemptive strike against the United States. None."

A USian is short for United Statesian. It could be USan or USAian if you prefer. See also Canadian, Mexican, Brazilian, Venezuelan, Argentinian, Chilean, etc., all of whom also live in the Americas. Plus, the rest of the world isn't interested in prioritizing your USian feelings right now.

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No press availability from PM?!