So Israel is launching a "preventive" strike on Iran and also announcing a state of emergency, because they expect Iran to respond to their "preventive" strike by launching missiles. So like... what's being prevented here?

Channel 12 says this is a joint attack

"preemptive strikes" WAR OF AGGRESSION

I will say one goddamn thing, because it's relevant to the preliminaries: every news service saying this is an "Israeli" attack after it was clearly reported that we were begging Israel to strike first to give us cover is a disgrace upon disgrace.

Every single outlet that uncritically recites Israel's self-designation of "preemptive strikes" should be permanently shut down for good. Straight up. Definitionally no such thing as a "preemptive" attack when the country being attacked had no plan nor indication of planning to attack first.

Few patients appeal a health insurance denial, but a little-known process that requires insurers and plans to seek an independent opinion can force insurers to pay for what can be lifesaving treatment. Here’s what experts say you need to know.

Not blocking a road, not marching. Just performing sunset prayers they were a little late observing There was no justification for NSW Police's "unhinged and aggressive" violence (see for yourself in the clip below) At a minimum, NSW Premier Chris Minns should apologise #AntiGenocideHerzogProtest

Put some respect on her name.

“I’m writing this letter so that you can hear my story. I need you to help us... I cry a lot I want to get out of here go back to my school they don’t treat us Well here there are many children we are kidnapped help!” - Mathias Bermeo, Dilley detainee, 7yo www.propublica.org/article/dill...

Cops understand that the process *is* punishment. So beating the rap is nice, but it fucks you up, though theoretically you’re not being punished unless and until you’re convicted.

NBC with a powerful story on the nightmare at America's concentration camp for children. “I’m calling from the Dilley immigration center in Dilley, Texas. I’m calling for a little kid going through respiratory distress.” “He’s a 6-year-old male.” “Sixty?” “Six-year-old.”

This is very good, focusing on the specific components of ICE’s capacity, and how people can counter it. Don’t forget: the regime’s desire for authoritarian domination is bottomless, but its capacity to impose that is limited. And in some ways, it’s decreasing. Eventually, that is how it falls.

the blind guy who spoke only Rohingya “showed no signs of mobility issues, distress, or disabilities that required any special assistance”

Twelve years later, the NYPD is still not in compliance with the court orders from Floyd v. New York, the lawsuit that found the city's stop-and-frisk practices unconstitutional (by @reuvenblau.bsky.social, @thecity.nyc) www.thecity.nyc/2026/02/26/n...

this is a great brief and it appropriately ends with a killshot: the simple observation that if trump's meaning held, the birthright clause would not have overturned dred scott, the one thing it was absolutely meant to do.

The entire Democratic strategy debate — "moderate" or move left? fight or compromise? — is based on a misreading of data. Voters don't think Dems are too progressive; they think Dems are weak. The actual math on what to do about this isn't even close! New: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-poll-d...

a sombre morning for british columnists as they move their "The electorate has spoken, we must listen" articles to the recycling bin and upload their "the greens victory shows just how far the west has fallen" articles instead

We should have extradited Kissinger to Argentina (or several other countries)

Haaretz @haaretzcom.bsky.social with Akevot @akevabanshee.bsky.social report on a trove of archival documents, with granular detail on atrocities committed in the 1948 Nakba. Ground level documentation by soldiers demonstrate the pervasive nature of murder and expulsion of Palestinian civilians.

There is a rationale for this campaign of harassment and terrorising. The plan is to push Palestinians into an uprising, and then use that as an excuse for large scale ethnic cleansing.

Settler pogroms in the West Bank. Every night, every day. Trespassing, threatening. Beating people up, shooting at them. Killing livestock. Torching houses and mosques. Every day. Every night.

In some parts of the world, a rich person using their wealth to undermine a media outlet for ideological reasons would be considered a bad thing, but here it is a “masterstroke” archive.ph/kBPiZ

This is one of the the articles that will be printed out and displayed in a museum next to the room with the pile of shoes

Nick Shirley is the anti-semite that Minnesota Rep Pete Stauber brought to the State of the Union as his honored guest.

Like the problem is only that Kansas retroactively canceled people’s licenses. Like if they’d just blocked future changes, or forced people to “correct” their documents at renewal, that would’ve been fine. It wouldn’t be fine.

This is getting a lot of attention because it’s so extreme, and it deserves that attention. But I worry some people will walk away with the wrong takeaway.

Kansas just invalidated the drivers licenses of every trans person in the state. They’re being told to surrender their current licenses and get new ones listing their birth sex. No grace period. Get caught driving with your now-invalid license and you’re looking at jail and a fine.

It sounds crazy but this is just a cold factual description of what’s going on

stop calling us nazis just because we are invalidating IDs and rounding people up based on their skin color and putting them in concentration camps and sending them off to foreign gulags and using all that nazi imagery and banning books and dont forget about all the pedophilia. so just stop alright

“I’m writing this letter so that you can hear my story,” a 7-year-old wrote in another of the letters. “I need you to help us … I cry a lot. I want to get out of here go back to my school.”

Not to be dramatic but the people behind this need to go to prison for a long, long time gothamist.com/news/fake-im...

They beat a blind refugee who speaks no English for failing to obey police commands he could not understand. Then instead of apologizing, they charged him with possession of a “weapon”—HIS WALKING STICK. Then they dumped him miles from home without notifying anyone, after which he was found dead.

What the BBC did here is legitimately evil.

You can't really understand US policy consensus on Palestine unless you internalize that basically every single person, save a few, who calls themself a two-stater in DC is actually a one-stater.

I said this on my blog, but I will say it again here just in case any of you are confused where I stand on things. These laws in Kansas are simply about being cruel to trans people until they all just die, get killed, or flee to another state. balloon-juice.com/2026/02/25/w...

Wow

Yeah it is funny to see a bunch of people say there was a ceasefire on Oct 6th 2023 when a 21st century record number of Palestinians had already been killed by the army and the settlers in the oPt from January 1st 2023 to that day.

The underlying political consensus prior to Oct 2023 in the US was that Palestine was an internal issue which the Israelis were entitled to managing for the indefinite future. This was the view of all in DC but literally just a handful. The divide was on the *preference* for *how* Israel managed it.

The entire Zionist political spectrum in Israel are slavering fascist conquerors.

If it weren't for activists, we wouldn't know most of what's going on in our country.

Lol, those new nature laws and a nature-positive agenda are going SO well. "Murray Watt, has given the green light for the bulldozing of nearly 3,000 hectares of tropical savanna in the Northern Territory without an assessment under Australia’s nature laws." www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

democrats should internalize that this is what their colleagues think of them and act accordingly

mf gonna bring back smallpox by 2027

IMHO, it is important that Woke 2 be deemed "excessive" by historians, "sweeping too broadly" with "punishments too severe." It cannot be merely a course correction, it must be an overcorrection. Nothing less will serve as an adequate deterrent against the fascists and their collaborators.

This is a "papers please" "English is the official language" "eat slop and be grateful" "disappear the unhoused" "women are second class" "don't learn real history" "local FBI office" government and we really cannot afford to be smug about other countries' slide to open fascism, Aotearoa

Australia’s “fortuitously loose” regulations let local companies train AI for foreign militaries without letting its workers know, one researcher tells Crikey. www.crikey.com.au/2026/02/25/a...

NEW: The USPS changed its rules on how it postmarks ballots. This may affect elections at every stage at which there's a mail deadline. An underplayed one: VOTER REGISTRATION. Many voters who send in their registration forms by mail could be postmarked late, missing out without realizing it.