Sirens and explosions have been reported near Incirlik Air Base in Turkey.

JUST IN: Judge Shah in Illinois has blocked the Trump admin from yanking $600m in public health funds from four blue states, saying it appeared to be a “contrived” and illegal effort to punish them for sanctuary immigration policies storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

"Top Trump officials acknowledged to lawmakers during recent classified briefings that they did not plan for the possibility of Iran closing the strait in response to strikes." www.cnn.com/2026/03/12/p...

To quote members of this administration who have been questioned by Congress and others, “I won’t entertain hypotheticals.”

US has burned through ‘years’ of munitions since start of Iran war ft.trib.al/Gil05rp

The federal government has purchased a Salt Lake City warehouse for $145.4M to house an ICE detention facility, according to a deed recorded with Salt Lake County on Wednesday — with the seller being an entity tied to RREEF, the real estate investment arm of DWS Group, the Frankfurt-based ...

U.S. OFFICIALS REPORT THAT IRAN IS LAYING MINES IN THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ, ACCORDING TO THE NEW YORK TIMES. THIS CONTRADICTS EARLIER REMARKS BY TREASURY SECRETARY BESSENT WHO STATED IRAN HAD NOT MINED THE STRAIT.

"Palantir CEO Alex Karp says his AI technology will lessen the power of “highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democrat” while increasing the power of working-class men." Just saying it right out loud now. newrepublic.com/post/207693/...

BREAKING: CENTCOM says a U.S. KC-135 refueling aircraft was lost during Operation Epic Fury in friendly airspace. The incident involved two aircraft: one crashed in western Iraq while the other landed safely.

‘Practically nothing less to target’ Trump, 2026 Stalingrad has been 'destroyed and [was] without any further worthwhile targets.’ von Richthofen, (senior Luftwaffe commander), August 1942

Imagine a world in which the Strait of Hormuz is closed… permanently?

The rise of this Fishback dude is both pretty alarming and worth keeping in perspective

Newly uncovered photos raise questions about whether Coral Gables elected officials may have been closer to Dariel Gonzalez, the FIU student from the racist group chat, than they previously acknowledged.

say what you will about this country, we are always developing extremely unique voter profiles

SCOOP: WIRED has learned the identity of the DOGE operative at the center of a whistleblower complaint about social security data www.wired.com/story/john-s... by @makenakelly.bsky.social and @telliotter.bsky.social

A man who was shot by Connecticut police last year and later died had to wait 10 extra minutes for another ambulance to arrive at the scene, after another officer having an anxiety attack took the first one.

Just re-upping this post from NIH/CDC “Director” and right-wing podcast staple Jay Bhattacharya, who seems to think that he is a more “trustworthy source to comment on reforms in public health” than the Lancet. He traded science for politics to gain Twitter fame, and has not altered course since.

SCREAMING at Holly Rowe leaving the sourcing in her tweet and revealing it came from the league. Holly’s never been a journalist but this is fully amateur hour from a long-time member of the media.

Feels apt to share a little passage from my upcoming book, about the USMNT playing Iran at the last World Cup...

BREAKING: The suspect in an attack on a Michigan synagogue is dead, AP source says.

It’s just hitting me now that this almost certainly got back burnered because it’s not ‘lethality’

I know we all understood that the post-Musk version of Twitter featured more right-wing slop, but this academic study of the algorithm's effects is pretty astonishing: Just 7 weeks of using the "For you" feed made X users more sympathetic to Trump www.fastcompany.com/91507338/x-a...

One thing that can tell you quite a lot about where the movement is going is that these stories sound an awful lot like the ones you'd hear from women leaving the white nationalist movement in 2018 on. nymag.com/intelligence...

Iranian state media say the country's new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, in his first public statement, has called for the Strait of Hormuz to remain shut.

He's 29. Dropped out of college after one year (IU) and likely got on the tech boyz radar because he started an IP company called Brainbase in college. He ended up on Forbes 30 under 30 showing again that that list is cursed.

An extraordinarily English way to say "1 out of every 5 English women murdered last year was murdered by her own son"

Lawyer: You don't regret that people might have lost income? Cavanaugh (DOGE): No, I think it was more important to reduce the federal deficit from two trillion dollars to close to zero. Lawyer: Did you reduce the federal deficit? Cavanaugh: No, we didn't.

Just laying it out here as a prediction: there's no way they actually go through with waiving the Jones Act. A hot stove they are reaching out to touch that don't even realize is a stove

This is Nathan Cavanaugh, another DOGE staffer explaining how he flagged grants at NEH for "DEI" which would be reviewed for termination. 404 Media has reviewed hours of this footage and we'll have more soon. Part of a lawsuit by @acls1919.bsky.social, @modernlanguage.bsky.social + @historians.org

I'm so mad about this new tax I'm going to save money by ... buying a $44 million penthouse?

This might be the greatest split-screen ever broadcast. They’ll play this in museums in future. (🎥 LCI 🇫🇷)

BREAKING: #Florida's average diesel price has reached $5 per gallon for the first time since 2022 and is the 6th most expensive in the nation.

congratulations to FIFA on their incredible choice of recipient for the first FIFA peace prize

🇺🇸 A fire broke out aboard the USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) on March 12 in the ship’s main laundry area. The incident was “not combat-related and was quickly contained.” The carrier remains fully operational. Two sailors suffered non-life-threatening injuries and are in stable condition.

Just looking at Paxton running better than Cornyn here, but both running behind Talarico, and thinking again about the narrow straits that MAGA makes vulnerable republicans have to navigate.

“Nice soccer team you got there. It’d be a shame if something happened to it.”

Hey want an article that will make everyone mad? www.looper.com/439503/every...

This country seems to want to unlearn every single lesson of the 20th century in under a decade

Uh, who negotiated the US withdrawal from Afghanistan?

Absolutely stunning statistic here www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/o...

BREAKING Axios, citing a US source: Trump is eager to continue the war for at least another 3 to 4 weeks before making a decision.

tl;dr: woman joins movement for the racism; subsequently shocked by all the misogyny

Look, people: this keeps happening because the project is intellectually superficial. It starts with a vague discomfort or prejudice, and then an “intellectual” framework gets reverse engineered to justify it. When women notice the premise is just misogyny, they leave.

THAT'S NOT HOW TIME WORKS

Kash Patel confirms UFC fighters will train FBI agents this week, calling it a "historic opportunity'

"U.S. officials called London insurers and brokers, trying to figure out how the market operates, industry insiders said." When applied to the current administration, I urge caution in using terms like "plans," "strategy," "policy," or "doctrine." www.wsj.com/finance/u-s-...

Newsmax host: “Hold on for like two to three tanks of gas for -- it will be an extra 10 to 12 bucks a tank, while Trump wraps this up. I'm asking you to trust the guy here.”

All this talk of advanced AI targeting and the U.S. still fired a Tomahawk at an elementary school where an outdoor playground has been visible on Google Maps since 2017 www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

One of the biggest and least understood shifts in immigration enforcement isn't happening at the border. It's happening at your local sheriff's office. A thread on 287(g). 🧵

One thing that's so interesting about Holocaust remembrance today is that people reach for it - and deny it should be reached for - because it's the universally recognized evil event except that also, simultaneously, this has meant that people are also reaching for it to show how hateful they are