Remember when his Sieg Heil was just a gesture of heartfelt joy?

So, the easiest way to achieve the main goal of the war would have been not to start the war

If you missed any Civil Discourse posts this week, here they are, all collected in one place, so you can get caught up. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Oral argument before the Supreme Court in major cases involving mail-in ballots and asylum, and plenty of other legal developments to get on top of by reading here, before the week gets underway: open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Every senator who has supported the SAVE America Act, condoned Trump’s election lies, and stayed silent while Cruz spread conspiracy theories on the Senate floor is complicit. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/the-...

Lindsey Graham is an Idiot!

Iran says it will ‘irreversibly destroy’ Middle East infrastructure if US attacks energy sites

Trump lauds Viktor Orbán as Europe’s far-right leaders gather in Budapest

In launching a war with Iran, President Trump somehow failed to prepare for a huge spike in gas prices at home. Now, he’s lifting sanctions on Iran. The President is giving billions of dollars and a financial lifeline to the same people who are shooting at and killing U.S. forces.

Trump, who was harsh toward people who posted critically about Charlie Kirk's death, has shown no such restraint involving people recently deceased, including the Hollywood director Rob Reiner, who was slain by his own son in December. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Dear maga: no bitching now when people celebrate your God Emperor’s demise. Thems the rules.

⬇️⬇️ …..”even TRUMP knows Mueller DID NOT clear him”…

We should reconsider the term „energy crisis“ when speaking about the effects of the Iran war. This is very specifically a crisis of fossil fuels and their single point of failure. Fossil fuels are no longer synonymous with „energy“. We have other, better options.

There is no solar power crisis. No wind power crisis. No insulation crisis. No heat pump crisis. No e-bike crisis. No electric bus crisis. But there is a #fossilfuel crisis. And a #climatecrisis.

James Hansen & Michael Mann seem to disagree on whether or how climate change is accelerating and what crucial concepts do their differences of opinion hinge. I asked "Claude" this and below is its answer - Comments would be helpful.

Trump starts a war with Iran. Iran closes the Strait of Hormuz. Global oil prices soar, with U.S. gasoline prices up nearly $1/gallon. Trump lifts sanctions on Iranian oil, hoping to ease prices but helping his enemy make money. U.S. vows to “maintain maximum pressure on Iran.” Also, up is down.

Bring your family and friends to the No Kings protests a week from today. It's important.

Record-torching March heat 'virtually impossible' without climate change yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/03/reco...

The multiple 112° readings today are just 1° short of the national April record, which happened in Death Valley with 113° on April 24, 1946 and also on April 22, 2012. Note that those occurred in late April (h/t to weather historian Chris Burt).

CBS News Radio is basically up there with motherhood and apple pie as a defining feature of America.

Please add your signature! I use EM-DAT frequently. "If EM-DAT were to cease operations, the consequences would not be abstract; they would be practical, immediate and damaging. It offers a carefully assembled, globally comparable database of disasters, including their human and economic impacts."

Not so much a 'breaking point' but a 'tipping point'. The post-WW2 peace and security system state is now very 'far from equilibrium', that is, close to a critical threshold or, rather, set of interacting thresholds at which a rapid and inescapable transition to an alternative system state occurs.

The father of a US military member killed in the Iran war has contradicted Pete Hegseth’s claim that bereaved families urged him to “finish” the job in the Middle East. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

History is made. New US March monthly heat record at Martinez Lake, AZ at 110°! The most intense spring #heatwave in US history.

Pick your weather poison this week: Tornadoes, blizzard, record rain, wildfire, or summerlike heat yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/03/pick...

It's March Madness, U.S. weather-style! @bhensonweather.bsky.social and I have the latest on the current Great Lakes blizzard, record Nebraska wildfires, Mid-Atlantic tornado threat, Hawaii record rains, and the mind-boggling Southwest U.S. heat wave: yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/03/pick...

Good news, the Morrill Fire in Nebraska is now 98% contained. This will free up firefighting resources for fires that erupt in the current SW U.S. heatwave. The Morrill Fire burned an area 83% of the size of Rhode Island, and ranks as the 9th-largest continental U.S. fire since 1900.

Today, I took to the Senate floor to try to pass funding for TSA. My Republican colleagues said no. They are holding all the other Homeland Security agencies hostage because of ICE. Set ICE aside while we negotiate reforms. Fund everything else today. youtube.com/shorts/5cmjP...

It gets worse. Now someone is leaking that Kent has been under FBI investigation for a while for leaking classified info? And they left this person in his role that entire time? My clients get shown the door and put on unpaid leave after a mere accusation like this.

Jim Himes: The president has said that Iran was preparing an imminent attack on the US. That is not true. Not one of your agencies has produced a single report saying that Iran posed an imminent threat. The president also claimed that Iran would soon possess a nuclear weapon. That is also not true.

Nobody on Fox's roster of propagandists seems to blame Trump for elevating Joe Kent — a notorious conspiracy theorist — to the nation’s top counterterrorism post in the first place.

Blatantly unconstitutional. Stone v Graham, 1980. But of course, this Supreme Court seems to treat precedent as mere suggestion.

"Israel, out of anger for what has taken place in the Middle East, has violently lashed out at a major facility ​known as South Pars Gas Field in Iran," Trump posted on ​X. Three Israeli sources said the attack had been carried out with his consent.. www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Depicting our long-time former friends and allies, since WWII, that trump has systematically bullied, denigrated and insulted. The only country and leader he has never spoken ill of or done anything to anger is Putin and Russia.

Watch the short video.... www.wionews.com/world/dan-go...

A Patriot air defense system is being deployed to Incirlik Air Base, a strategic Turkish installation used by U.S. forces, as allies continue to bolster their defenses in the wake of Iranian airstrikes against NATO member Turkey. From Stars and Stripes' John Vandiver:

Three U.S. military bases in Japan have canceled or restricted attendance at upcoming spring festivals amid heightened security measures, scaling back events that typically draw tens of thousands of local visitors. (from @alexmwilson.bsky.social)

ICYMI: During a congressional hearing this week, a Pentagon official called Cuba a "significant threat" but said he was unaware of any plans to strike the country, as lawmakers readied a resolution barring military intervention in Cuba without approval from Congress. (from @svetashko.bsky.social)

apnews.com/article/fbi-... deflects when asked on Capitol Hill about intelligence she'd offered Trump before Iran war

Terribly enlightening....as Trump's Director of National Intelligence refuses to answer the question for fear of provoking President Trump! youtu.be/hi1JnyY2VIU?...

And it's only March Just wait until August AND it looks like the mother of all super El Ninos is on the way www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

As the demise of Rome informs us, when things start to fail, it's the roads that go first Global growth slowest this decade since the 1960s Climate breakdown will do the rest Economic and societal breakdown coming to you by 2050 www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

I wonder what the Large Hadron Collider will be used for once unmitigated, devastating, and all-pervasive climate breakdown has brought about economic and societal collapse? www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

No excuses now If you plan to vote Reform, don't say you didn't know www.theguardian.com/uk-news/ng-i...