$2bn/day, with $2.8bn/day in munitions alone over the first two days. I tend to think of myself as a Large Number Scale Understander but this is just mind-boggling amounts of money.

Emmaia Gelman wrote about this here in 2019:

Black rain in Tehran: Toxic smoke has swept over the city transforming day into night. The World Health Organization says damage to Iran's oil facilities released dangerous hydrocarbons, sulfur oxides & nitrogen compounds into the air. Black rain refers to acid rainfall w/ atmospheric pollutants👇

I don’t want 99% of the “advancements” being forced on and/or sold to me. I want clean air, clean water, and a stable ecosystem and planet. I want free healthcare and education. I want justice and collective liberation.

WHAT IF YOU JUST READ A FUCKING BOOK

I wrote a book that gets into these dynamics in sexual assault cases. See the chapter called “Never Enough Evidence.” bookshop.org/p/books/on-t...

Shahram Khosravi writes brilliantly on the current situation in Iran: “The word many people in Iran use to describe this condition is estisal, a state of helplessness, desperation, of being trapped in a problem with no imaginable solution.” www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/p...

Four Palestinians were killed in two separate villages in the occupied West Bank this weekend, as Israeli settlers continue to ramp up their attacks amid the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran. www.972mag.com/israeli-sett...

They're going to poison a city with 17 million people

The below quote is from Hegseth's pastor, Brooks Potteiger, speaking at one of Hegseth's prayer gatherings at the Pentagon. This is what they think about Tomahawk missiles that fall:

This is not just cursed, its monstrous. The digital resurrection of a historian who died in January of this year, all so Grammarly can get some more clicks and engagement from students and/or scholars and/or others. It feels so wrong on so many levels, these ghosts enslaved to AI forever

"Hard times are coming, when we'll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine real grounds for hope.“ — Ursula K. LeGuin

ICE killed Emmanuel Damas

What is there more to say beyond rage. They want to "evacuate" one of the densest suburbs of Beirut and have a quarter of a million+ people just move elsewhere and accept the fate of the destruction of their homes or worse the loss of their life. Fucking nightmare.

My 89 yo Lebanese-Palestinian-Italian grandmother, who fled the Nakba in 48 as a child to Lebanon, has essentially never lived more than a few years at a time in nearly a century of existence without being impacted by Israeli state violence. And then they call this 'crisis in the middle east.'

Another 🚨 @fieldnotes.co investigation is out in the wild. This one reveals how an obscure nonprofit founded by oil & gas lawyers and funded by right-wing ideologues—and registered at a suburban Texas strip mall—has played an outsized role in Donald Trump’s assault on climate /enviro policy. 🧵

We also need to know whether AI was used to select the target. WaPo is reporting Anthropic and Palantir tech were used to identify 1000 targets in Iran 24 hours. Who vetted those targets? Who pays for errors? It's possible they weren't involved in this strike but this we need to know.

Remember in August when the CDC was attacked by man who believed disinformation about COVID19 vaccines? You know, the one who fired 200 rounds into CDC buildings and killed a police officer? I’ve heard from two separate people that the bullet holes in the windows have still not been repaired.

Before the war on Iran, Trump dismantled teams at the Pentagon that focused on limiting civilian casualties in conflict Upon entering the war, the admin says: “no stupid rules of engagement” Big fear of war crimes among sources familiar with military discussions www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

this is not an amount of money any individual or household should be able to have and we have to abolish both billionaires as a group and the economic system that makes them possible

Here’s a composite of last night’s lunar eclipse and some stars taken a few weeks before from a completely different part of the sky. Makes for a lovely phone wallpaper.

What Charlie Kirk did for me was create an org whose watchlist targeted mostly Black & Brown jr professors who named white supremacy & other oppressions. For years, I got rape threats & death threats. Thanks Dept of Ed for featuring Kirk & reminding the rest of us how much you hate us.

GW‘s student newspaper appears to have broken the story that the institution has sold a satellite campus to Amazon to be turned into a data center, which is just about chef’s kiss for the state of American higher education rn

Yeah this is Mengele shit

These are “low enrollment” majors but the classes are regularly at capacity. They changed the funding structure a few years ago here, switching the allocation from course enrollments to majors then blamed these departments for a structural, top-down change. This is entirely a political choice.

This new @jhppl.bsky.social special edition on "Public Health Under Siege" is awfully timely as I work to finalize my regulatory politics syllabus

New forms of war profiteering we previously never could imagine.

I have, to be clear, no love for the Iranian government. But the US’s allies are pulling their punches, mentioning Iran’s violations by name and the US’s violations in generalities about the situation. This is not what an even application of international law looks like.

NB when I live post like this it’s as much notes for me as anything else; I’m not a reporter, just someone who’s watched hundreds of security council meetings and read the minutes of thousands. I am paraphrasing unless something is in quotation marks

NEW Within minutes of Trump announcing the launch of Operation Epic Fury, X was flooded with disinformation. Almost all of the accounts sharing fake videos of the attack on Iran featured blue checkmarks, meaning X is profiting from this. www.wired.com/story/x-is-d...

Israel has closed all the crossings into Gaza and reimposed total siege.

To be entirely clear: every "AI" company should have bright red ethical lines against things like genocide and weapons systems and surveillance and consent violations and shepherding an encroaching fascism, and those lines should be placed way earlier than anthropic and openAI's seem to be.

Do not forget the people of Lebanon either, who have been suffering the "preemptive" bombardment of Israel for well over a year and a half and are suffering it intensified tenfold today

After a US-Israeli strike on a girls’ elementary school in Minab, Iran, rescuers dug through the rubble for survivors. The death toll is still rising, with more than 80 confirmed dead so far.

There is no reform, there's no body cams, there's no amount of anything that is going to fix this. Abolition is the BARE MINIMUM. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

She’s been released 🙏🏽

for those fixated on congressional authorization, i get it. this is a massive violation of our constitutional order. even so, congress *cannot* legitimize an illegal war. there is nothing congress can do to make it legal under int'l law.

I’m not watching that video st 3am but I don’t need to see it know this is a grave violation of US and international law. From my area of study I can tell you that it’s easy to think the UN Charter doesn’t mean much, but we want to live in a world that values its prohibition on aggressive warfare

New — I spoke to eight trans people in Kansas about the new state law that invalidated their driver’s licenses overnight, what’s it’s like to live there right now, plus details of two DMV emails exclusively obtained by The Handbasket that shed light on the law’s chaotic and cruel rollout:

excited to hear tech companies will now be allowed to build their own power plants for their data centers. i am sure the makers of "the app that tells kids to kill themselves" will responsibly operate coal plants

It’s giving middle passage

This huge AAUP legal win would not have been possible without the unity and effort of UCLA faculty, staff, and students. Let’s keep it up and reclaim higher education for the common good.

⚡⚖️ Continuation (and end) of historic #climatelitigation hearing at Paris Judicial Court this afternoon in historic case against TotalEnergies. 👀 🧵 Follow in thread below for blow-by-blow reporting in English. 🧵 🇫🇷 See also here in French via @notreaffaireatous.bsky.social: bsky.app/profile/notr...

BREAKING — WE WON! DC Superior Court Judge Darlene Soltys ordered the DC Metropolitan Police to produce ALL body cam footage of the March 2025 DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace within 14 days. Thanks to my @rcfp.org lawyers for their tireless work. Details on thehandbasket.co later today!

🚨 NEW REPORT & DATA RELEASE 🚨 GEM's (@globalenergymon.bsky.social) data shows a major surge in the global clean power pipeline in 2025! ☀️💨🔌💡🧪 #energy #renewables #solar #wind #opendata Read our latest report here: globalenergymonitor.org/report/globa... A short 🧵 with main findings below!

It is VERY important to get your electeds to publish state "abolish" as it moves the needle of what will be a midterm platform point. If you want Dems to abolish when they have legislative levers, it has to be publicly acceptable discourse RIGHT NOW.

Terrorizing and traumatizing children as U.S. government policy.

Her community rallied so fast and so diligently. This is a victory to uphold and celebrate. Reminds everyone that it's worth fighting back.

Note that this is local police not ICE or CPD attacking these young people. Local police are working overtime to distance themselves from ICE/CPD. Don't buy the hype.