6 months before bombing Iran and closing the Strait of Hormuz, the Trump admin fired the State Dept. oil and gas experts. The people who modeled exactly this scenario. The ones with contacts at Gulf energy ministries. Now nobody knows who to call. You can't make this up.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

The US is led by a man who refers to a military intervention as an excursion, surrounded by advisers wearing ill-fitting shoes he has given them who are too afraid to tell him the word is incursion and the shoes don't fit. We need to seriously rethink the assumptions in The Emperor Has No Clothes.

Trump is literally buying drones from his sons… But please, tell me more about Hunter Biden. Nepotism overload.

We are spending an estimated $1B per day on the war on Iran. Now Trump and Co want an extra $200B from Congress to fund the war. But healthcare? Cut. Food stamps? Cut. Education? Cut. Cancer research? Cut. Environmental protections? Cut. And of course, taxes on the rich? Cut. It's obscene.

More news: Rep Adam Smith, top Dem on Armed Services committee, tells us that if Dems win House, committee will subpoena Pentagon officials on things like Hegseth scrapping rules of engagement. He says Ds will pass legislation mitigating military harm to civilians: newrepublic.com/article/2080...

It's interesting to watch Trump's support crumble with people who are losing their minds over Cluster B Personality disorder symptoms/characteristics that the Mental Health field have been warning about for a decade. 1/

Breaking character: Every so often, I like to remind people that Trump has a serious personality disorder that makes his decision-making different from a normal person's. The media doesn't explore this, which makes their reporting on him useless, but my friend Nick Carmody does.

A protester waves a sign calling for peace in the Middle East during a protest in Jackson, Mississippi, on Thursday, Mar. 5. See the full photo gallery: buff.ly/bSeH0nr

Super interesting story out of Idaho: As Trump Demands Voter Data, This Fiercely Independent Red State Says No, by @audreydutton.bsky.social @jenafifield.bsky.social

Democrats must hold firm on refusing to fund DHS without significant ICE reform They should look to abolish ICE altogether at this point, but unfortunately Chuck Schumer doesn’t have the courage to go that far

Another innocent person killed in ICE custody. And these are the stories we know about. Imagine the names that are buried, lost and forgotten? www.cbsnews.com/news/son-and...

"For the record, the President of the United States is simultaneously claiming that he has won the war, is currently winning the war, needs help to win the war, and needs no help to win the war. All to destroy the nuclear program he claims to have destroyed last year."

Ruling in the case of Michael Jennings, the Black pastor who was arrested while watering his neighbor’s flowers, the Alabama Supreme Court said police can demand to see ID during a stop if they don’t like a person’s verbal answers

““We are hated as a nation now. One man has done this.”

The John F. Kennedy Library Foundation said it chose to honor Twin Cities residents “for risking their lives to protect their neighbors and immigrant community members from an unprecedented federal law enforcement operation."

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Police violently grab Black woman by her neck—flip her over backwards headfirst onto pavement. She was standing with her hands behind her back—not resisting being handcuffed. All while at least 4 police officers surround the woman—pointing guns directly at her. Columbus, Ohio.

"Although Americans (and people around the world) are hardened to Trump’s outrageous behavior," writes @sulliview.bsky.social, "they ought to be aware of what this is."

Is Palantir in your pension? And do you even know? The new @thenerve.news investigation reveals one of Britain’s biggest pension providers, Legal & General, holds nearly £2bn worth of Palantir stock. Other companies include Barclays, Aviva, Aberdeen. 2/ www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-u...

NEW: Up to one in three people with workplace pensions may be unwitting investors in the controversial tech surveillance company, Palantir. A @thenerve.news investigation led by @ftm.nl reveals UK financial services companies hold more than £5bn in Palantir shares 1/

A transformational shift in public opinion is happening in Germany, France, Canada and the UK, away from the US and towards China www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

Mexican teen dies in U.S. immigration custody in Florida. 19-year-old is 2nd person in ICE custody to die this week, 46th since Trump took office. www.cbc.ca/news/world/t...

The Iran War’s Next Threat Is to Food and Water A prolonged closure of the Strait of Hormuz could unleash a humanitarian crisis. By Vivian Salama www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Trump is demanding a supplemental budget for the Iran war that is three times larger than all US military aid to Ukraine since Russia attacked. The same isolationists who once claimed that the US couldn’t afford to help Ukraine stop Russia are now supporting it

What’s it going to take for people to realize we’ve got Biff Tanner in the White House?

Over the last few years, American tech oligarchs have become the greatest argument against their own existence. The sheer scale of their erratic behavior and political interference proves that extreme wealth concentration is a structural threat to society

An absolutely pathetic ‘pro-Russian traitors only’ line-up for CPAC Hungary 2026. The only surprise is how utterly weak the line-up is

President Kennedy's family created the profile in courage award in 1989 to honor Kennedy and to recognize political bravery. The John F. Kennedy Library and Museum announced Twin Cities residents have earned the Profile in Courage Award.

Ossoff: "After years of this president trashing our allies, we learned today that the Danish govt was preparing military options to defeat a potential American invasion of Greenland just months ago. The president has treated our allies like they don't matter then demanded they come to his aid."

President Trump has slashed the number of people on the Board of Immigration Appeals and stacked it with his appointees, tightening the due process available for immigrants, an NPR analysis shows. n.pr/3PO1SON

The data broker industry must be destroyed: www.theverge.com/news/897145/...

Remember when all the Republican mouthpieces assured Americans that no one would lose health insurance due to Trump's Orwellian-named "Big Beautiful Bill"? Over 2 million Americans have already lost coverage. That's from the facts, not a prediction. www.huffpost.com/entry/millio...

(cartoon Jeff Stahler)

Ukraine helps expose Russian operation against US troops. President Zelenskyy confirms Ukrainian intelligence shows Russia is helping Iran target US troops and assets in the Middle East.

The grift keeps getting bigger. Tariffs were a way for Trump to extort our trading partners to line his cronies’ pockets.

I leave my phone at home about half the time now. I drive an old car with no dashboard computer. Every inch of town is wired with cop cameras now, of course, but at least I'm not making it easy for them, especially this creep.

If you think Trump's war with Iran is a catastrophe, wait until you tally up all the damage caused by every other thing he has done as president. No foreign enemy has ever hurt us so grievously. None have even come close. My latest. www.thedailybeast.com/the-foreign-...

More corruption in plain sight.

Students were arrested at the Krome ICE concentration camp after protesting ICE. History shows that when young people organize themselves, power structures begin to shift. This moment follows that pattern and we will likely only see more young people step up in the future!

Chelsea Walsh needed an operation on her cervix to prevent early labour. She requested a work from home accommodation which was denied. Total Quality Logistics gave her a choice… come to work & risk her pregnancy or lose her job and her healthcare. This company effectively killed her child.

horrific 🧵

These machines are merely mimicking human language. They are not thinking. I know we’re hard wired to equate language with intelligence, but we really need to resist that instinct here.

Anything to suppress the vote.