“direct your anger at trump not the democrats” buddy you are severely underestimating the amount of anger i have available to me

I am going to link to organizations that I know for sure are helping trans Kansans. This thread will develop slowly as I either know people or will vet them. At this point we have not heard from anyone being helped via relocation resources. These exist, but I assume they are overwhelmed.

The people outside of a country that they left for whatever reasons should not be listened to over the people who still live in said country. *Exile* politics is always fraught. Exiles have self-interests like everyone else.

Social media created this nonsense idea that not exposing yourself to hatred is isolationist. Choosing to not spend your free time with bigots isn’t living in a bubble. I don’t need to know what’s going on at X. I won’t be smarter or more knowledgeable or empathic by being there. Neither will you.

hey is it a good sign when the company where you ordered your gas mask sends out an email saying "Due to current world events, we’re seeing unusually high demand, please bear with us"?

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Dusting this one off again:

“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.” James Baldwin

Home of reformist opposition leaders from 2009 Green Movement, Mir-Hossein Mousavi and Zahra Rahnavard was also hit by Israeli/US strikes. They have been under house arrest by the regime for over a decade.

Procedural liberalism on display. We support the murder of innocents, the immoral and demonic violence, but the President didn't fill out the right paperwork. The same logic that calls for higher police training budgets and more diversity among prison guards. Polishing the bars of the cage.

i’m at the anti-ICE protest i’m at the anti-war with iran protest i’m at the combination anti-ICE anti-war with iran protest

Lemme guess: we're going to investigate ourselves and find no wrongdoing?

“Unfortunately, because Congress is not taking any steps to rein ICE officers in, there really is no option other than states protecting their constituents’ rights," said Joanna Schwartz, a law professor at UCLA.

In case you were wondering, Polymarket had yet another spate of likely inside traders betting that the US would strike Iran by February 28. Per the due diligence investigation service Bubblemaps, the wallets used were created 24 hours earlier. The Pentagon Pizza Index has been replaced.

"Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman made multiple private phone calls to Trump over the past month advocating a U.S. attack, despite his public support for a diplomatic solution, the four people said." MBS is as predictable as Bret Stephens.

Half a billion dollars gambling on death and destruction. We are a diseased society. bsky.app/profile/bloo...

As US and Israeli bombs fell on Iran this weekend, bettors on Polymarket — where $529 million was traded on contracts tied to the timing of the strikes — were cashing in

Scientists have resolved a longstanding mystery about the Great Unconformity, a huge gap in the geological record that shows up across the world and has inspired speculation for more than 150 years. www.404media.co/great-unconf...

One of my senators (D) went on TV and framed the problem with Trump's decision to launch an unprovoked assault on another country as entirely about process. She agrees with the carnage, she just wishes she would have been consulted about it first. Sorry to be a bit bummed out by that, I guess.

Essential reading. "We in the U.S. need to reckon with the fact that so much of our state wealth, capacity, and technology goes toward burying children in rubble."

Since the CIA’s Watergate-era spying on civil rights and anti-war activists inside the United States, intelligence agencies have, with some exceptions, been prohibited from gathering information on the domestic activities of U.S. citizens.

NEW: X Is *drowning* in disinformation following US and Israel’s attack on Iran. WIRED has reviewed hundreds of posts on X that promote misleading claims about the locations and scale of the attack. read @davidgilbert.bsky.social:

Stop the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran! Rally and march in Times Square, NYC Feb. 28, 2026

And this: a PAC supporting Raja is spending $250k just to run ads boosting Kelly, because they figure that will hurt Stratton and give Raja the win. bsky.app/profile/capi...

Gaza, south Lebanon, the West Bank, southwest Syria, this is the model that Israel wants across MENA: weak, permanently unstable, incapable of infrastructural reconstruction or administrative cohesion.

Choose your fighter. @tomsuozzi.bsky.social says he agrees with Trump, and signals that he simply wants to bomb Iran with a bit more decorum and ideally not for too long. I believe it is foolish to start another forever war with preemptive strikes. We already made that mistake once.

sure the pedophile felon president just illegally bombed a country that may have nukes while federal forces under his command murder and harass people in america and immigrants are tortured and he moves forward with plans to build concentration camps and sorry idk where i was going fuck all of this

"How can you oppose war when Khamenei was evil?" Simple. If you killed Donald Trump by nuking Washington DC, I would not mourn Trump but I'd still say you're an evil war criminal who belongs in the Hague. It's really not hard.

❓NBC News to Iran’s FM: “Sir, how can attacking U.S. military bases abroad be justified?” 💬 FM Araghchi: Because they are attacking us. These US military installations, facilities, bases are being used to attack us. We are under attack. Why don’t you, you know, recognize this this fact? We are...

The latest from YouGov (n ~ 1.6k adults): Approval of Iran strikes: -10 Approval of Trump's handling of Iran: -15 Should Congress approve wars first: Yes +31 Will intervention make Iran better/worse off: Worse off +20 yougov.com/en-us/search...

People really struggling with the idea that the Iranian government sucks but we shouldn't be bombing them can both be true, eh?

"The Islamists oppose women getting an education," I mutter, as I aim my missile at the girls school

one good thing about being antiwar is you will never be wrong. one bad thing about being antiwar is no one who matters will ever listen to you

Iran, while authoritarian, is not a strongman dictatorship. It has an elected parliament that is not a duma; it has an elected president; the clerical leader is elected by a specialized body. Decapitation is unlikely to bring it down

The details in this story are shocking, and I hope people will spend some time with it, despite the *gestures* EVERYTHING ELSE HAPPENING. Some of these details have been previously reported. Other big ones have not. Gift link:

Rep. Ansari Statement on United States Attack on Iran.

there's a madman in the white house, he's illegally started a war, he's offered no explanation to the public other than an insane conspiracy theory that Iran somehow tried to interfere in last year's election, and the opposition leaders are releasing statements full of mixed support and concern

Here is @ndp.ca’s statement condemning US-Israeli military strikes in Iran and calling on the Carney government to defend international law

Senate leaders are urging the Department of Defense to prioritize the purchase of generic drugs manufactured in the U.S., warning that the country’s overreliance on foreign factories poses an “existential risk” to the military.

A new Super PAC, "Chicago Progressive Partnership," just jumped into #IL09, opposing Kat Abughazaleh. Filings show they’re using the same vendors as AIPAC.

congress sounds cool i wish it was real

This is one of the videos the NYT has verified and links to in their reporting. NYT: "Video verified by [NYT] showed ... rescuers digging through the rubble with building cranes and shovels, and piles of bloodied, dusty backpacks." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/w...

Trump's contribution to American politics is showing that pretense isn't necessary. You don't have to shake your head somberly when you do evil, you can say you're doing it because you want to. Why bother with PR when no one can stop you?

Only Congress has the constitutional power to authorize war. Yet, the Trump administration is once again taking unilateral and reckless military action against Iran, putting both servicemembers and civilians in danger. This is unconstitutional.

I don't understand why he doesn't get the Nobel Peace Prize just because he keeps invading other countries.

Two things can be true at once. Trump, neocons, war hawks, pro Israel lobby and Christian nationalists want their regime change in Iran. And Trump wants to distract from the fact he allegedly raped girls with Epstein and has a failed Presidency and GOP are posed to lose big in the elections.

In the first eleven months of 2025, 10,109 doctoral-trained scientists left the federal government. The losses were concentrated in agencies that fund medical research, regulate environmental standards and model climate. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Top lawmakers were notified about the operation shortly before it was launched, but the White House did not seek authorization from Congress to carry out the strikes. n.pr/4l12c8B