[Exit Murderer.]

Wasn’t Special Envoy for the Shield of the Americas what they called the guy Antonio Banderas stole a horse from at the beginning of The Mask of Zorro

If you needed a dose of hope today, this might just do it. 🏳️‍⚧️ 💗 (If within your means, I think they're still selling these. I recommend the Lemon-Ups with their lemon sugar glaze and sassy sayings written on each cookie.)

BEHOLD ME

How Congress politicians in India are discussing the boat strike (the guy she's citing is of India's most decorated GOFOs):

“Almost all the 165 people killed in the attack were girls aged between seven and 12, according to local officials. There were around 170 girls at the school in southern Iran’s Minab at the time.“ A double-tap strike on little girls at school.

This will go down in history with My Lai, Kent State, and Czechoslovakia 1968. Killing little girls at a school in our name. What a dirty and war criminal government we have. They must face consequences. We must work to make them face consequences.

the one who loved horses, the one who was a great goalkeeper, the one who kept a diary every day, the one who held her sister's hand when they walked to school, the one who read Harry Potter in English, the one who collected old coins, the one who drew rainbows for her grandmother ...

I want to know each of their names.

“Almost all the 165 people killed in the attack were girls aged between seven and 12, according to local officials. There were around 170 girls at the school in southern Iran’s Minab at the time.“ A double-tap strike on little girls at school.

"'You keep moving them around, they're foreign, they don't know where they are — you want them to give up on life. Literally, that's what they’re trying to do,' she said, noting those transfers also put detainees' family 'in trauma.'" tucson.com/news/local/b...

One woman who called the State Department helpline looking for help said they told her to "stop ranting and raving" and hung up on her. Another woman said they asked her how to spell Oman. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/t...

Their lives are precious. How dare these people treat human beings this way

One of my favorite parts of last night’s election results. The only Democratic talking point should be: we don’t abandon anyone.

also Wes Anderson, From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

A Haitian man made it all the way here - likely fleeing through unimaginable circumstances - and then died from a toothache infection in ICE custody.

@anjalikdayal.bsky.social do you have a missed call?

man, graham platner is not actually young and it’s really insulting our collective intelligence to claim he’s working his way through the youthful confusions of learning how to take accountability for your actions

David Attenborough [whispering]: “As the predators close in on their helpless prey, we can only watch in silent horror, for it is not man’s role to interfere in the hierarchy of nature.”

War Crimes McGee here doesn’t even know enough to understand he’s offering up a catalogue of failure

joy! a friend, a joke! what a terrific photo

I’ve been notified about another death in ICE custody. This marks a stunning 40 deaths during the second Trump administration. This cannot continue. There must be real accountability for ICE and DHS.

This at the UN, not NATO. Iran is not in NATO. Mike Waltz is the US Ambassador to the UN, and he's threatening Iran's UN Ambassador, who is explicitly not on US soil when he's at the United Nations. Mike Waltz knows that and is behaving like a lawless thug anyway.

I am teaching about disarmament and sanctions this morning so naturally the one thing I remember ever having learned in my life is the Rowlatt Act of 1919

why don't more buildings have entry weasels

The gap that's opened up between the military capacity of the United States (unmatched in human history) and its political and diplomatic capacity (none) is frightening

If you, as a social scientist, believe that AI is now a better social scientist than you, then (a) you’re probably right, and (b) sure sounds like a skill issue, y’know?

Judgment and discernment are fundamentally interpretive tasks, developed through practice, that by definition cannot be outsourced to a machine. If you believe that these are crucial parts of producing meaningful knowledge, then the idea that the entire research process can be automated is absurd.

how dare he involve an eggplant blazer in this bellicose mess

good thread. One of my big takeaways from Saturday’s Security Council meeting was that this mode of international law is only going to survive via a coalition of states who affirm it categorically, like Colombia, and the AOC-Moulton-Kristol US domestic coalition interested in accountability

Big W from Tish James here.

something of a side note, but i also want to point out that, although the nuremberg charter/tribunal is popularly thought of for its war crimes prosecution, the very first ground for jurisdiction is "crimes against peace" - the illegal use of force.

the brilliance of the UN Charter's ban on and conditions for use of force -- legitimate individual or collective self-defense, or Security Council authorization -- is that it challenges governments to justify what is the most devastating use of state power. it's also intuitive.

a thing historians will marvel about when they study this era is the extent to which the "war is a thing that happens to poorer, browner people" class went about systematically dismantling every aspect of the global political order that confined the costs of war to poorer and browner people

Again, Americans are not “choosing” not to depart at the time. The airspace is closed.

There are at least 10,000 Amcits in Qatar alone, and the US government is saying we are on our own

happy to report that Cincinnati zoo has an orphaned opossum named Ellie as an animal ambassador and she is adorable

We had several days of “AOC is clueless” because she took a long pause during one answer at a conference. Meanwhile, the second term president who just launched a war on Iran doesn’t know basic stuff about the country he’s bombing.

I'm on a break in a meeting so I'm not watching, but I'm always really annoyed when I see pundits watermark UN materials, so: if you want to watch Melania Trump presiding over the UNSC you can watch here: webtv.un.org/en, it's open and available to everyone

it includes India but not Usha Vance

you know, this is why you should not elect people who have never once learned anything about anything

this a straightforward and important way other states could counter both the US’s actions and its claim that those actions are legitimate

omggggg

I have a university meeting at this time, someone call me if she takes off a stiletto and starts pounding the table with it

"Kill them all, God will know his own," is a rule of engagement. Not one that has been found to be honorable through the ages.

kind of him to fill out the indictment himself, isn’t it. all his successors will need is the will to use it

Melania Trump is still scheduled to chair the UN Security Council mtg on Monday 3PM on the topic of "children, technology & education in conflict" 2 days after US/Israeli strikes in Iran (inc reportedly hitting a girls' school)

Lucille Ball as a very young, very blonde, lightly Harlow-ish (the brows!) starlet in 1935. That year the hard-working Lucy made nine movies, playing roles like "Flower Shop Girl" in TOP HAT. (It's fun to spot her in these bits, though.)

If you listen to the whole clip, it doesn’t sound to me like he’s disavowing the strikes—he says they were vital & well-timed. To my ear, he’s rejecting the possibility that there’s a dangerous amount of nuclear material in Iran that no one has a plan to secure & incidentally negating the nuke claim

Ban the fucking polymarkets. Betting on death. Betting on war while Incentivizing death and war. Shaping foreign/domestic policy by rewarding the rich people already in the know and encouraging them to make decisions that destroy the world while padding their pockets. Burn it down.