Iran has systematically destroyed U.S. missile defense systems across the Middle East over the last 13 days, opting to surgically dismantle the eyes and ears of America’s regional defense systems rather than go toe-to-toe with the country’s raw firepower.
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A mugshot registration photograph from Auschwitz. A woman wearing a uniform photographed in three positions (profile and front with a bare head and a photo with a slightly turned head with a headscarf on). The prisoner number is visible on a marking board on the left.
12 March 1926 | A Polish Roma woman, Wanda Ferko-Pawłowska, was born in Zabrzeg.
In #Auschwitz from 29 July 1942.
No. 10570
She was transferred to KL Ravensbrück and liberated there.
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The Roma and Sinti in Auschwitz:
🎧 Podcast: https://bit.ly/4pIRyEJ
📖 Lesson: https://bit.ly/44EVuxY
President Trump’s pick for homeland security secretary, Sen. Markwayne Mullin, once employed a felon who illegally stored weapons at Mullin’s family business, according to court records.
How much Mullin knew is in dispute. https://wapo.st/40YM3an
* Gulf states to reassess relationship with US and seek to diversify foreign partnerships following Trump’s decision to go to war with Iran. — Reuters
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There appears to be a fire at Temple Israel.
There are reports that the shooter rammed their car into the building.
Congress failed to pass the SAVE Act last year for good reason: it’s an anti-voter bill. But now lawmakers have revived it despite overwhelming public opposition. Tell your senators to reject the SAVE Act: bit.ly/4tmVIor
Gaza is more than 1000 miles from Iran, but that hasn’t stopped Israel from taking advantage of the war to re-seal the borders to Gaza and shut down the flow of food and aid. For Palestinians, as Hassan Herzallah writes, war abroad means hunger at home.
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Turning the world over to madmen. That is what is happening. Madmen.
Gave up all of the currency and promise of the “idea” of America (however flawed), in exchange for “we kill people. We kill lots of people.”
Iran war is the largest oil supply disruption in history, report finds
Sir, they already said they’re not coming. Stop trying to break up with them after they already broke up with you.
What a joke. FBI agents are not street brawlers. They interview witnesses, uncover documents, analyze intelligence, and testify in court, usually while wearing a suit and tie. Just one more frolic for Kash at taxpayer expense.
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When Trump says "we make a lot of money," he's talking about his Big Oil donors.
They spent spent nearly $100M to get Trump elected in 2024, and the investment is paying off quite well for them.
Oligarchy in action.
"We have seen industrial-scale government corruption unlike anything in our nation’s history. And here’s the thing: The public has basically accepted it. So why would any future administration act differently?"
And so the American experiment with democracy is transformed from Lincoln's "the last best hope of earth...The way is plain, peaceful, generous, just—a way which if followed the world will forever applaud and God must forever bless..."
...becomes "We are really good at killing people."
Tech brain.
Russia rakes in $150mn a day in extra revenue from surging oil prices ft.trib.al/LcDFmtH
Good Slotkin
Jeffrey Epstein reportedly paid a settlement to a woman who also accused Donald Trump of sexually abusing her.
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The US is in the market for friends again.
Remind me what military branch this super-soldier served in?
This is true, but Rogan is still very much a Trump guy. He spent 5-10 minutes on Iran in his last few pods, in which he also promoted the SAVE act, said Minneapolis ICE resisters are paid protesters, and suggested there’s no difference between a king and a president www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/u...
Yesterday, a lot of folks clocked this as market manipulation by screenshot and backspace.
Looks like someone in the White House made billions.
What. The fuck.
Trump wants to institutionalize homeless veterans. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/u...
Needless to say, Sarah does a masterful job here interpreting public sentiment on the war in Iran, and also explaining the attraction of conspiracy theories. I add a few thoughts.
Also let me say: Democracy is the best form of government...but Vox Populi ≠ Vox Dei.
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The cost of war is rarely paid by those calling the shots.
‼️ Russia recruits thousands of mercenaries from Africa to fight Ukraine, European Parliament says
She wasn’t attracted to the right by the romanticized aesthetic of “traditional America” — big beautiful houses and bread-making and families with half a dozen children. Rather, she says, “I was in love with the frisson of transgression.” The online right had begun to engage more explicitly with forbidden subjects: nativism, race science, and gender essentialism drawn from evolutionary psychology. “There was an element of gnosticism to it,” she says, “the sense that you know secret things that other people don’t know.” After college, in the waning years of Trump’s first term, Anna wrote for popular right-wing outlets, worked for conservative institutions, and attended movement conferences. She fell in socially with the young firebrands of the New Right; she remembers it as partially happenstance. “You kind of meet people and proceed on and then suddenly you find yourself being a part of this thing,” she tells me. A portion of her early writing was about feminism and gender: “I was doing the typical right-wing female thing where all these men will kind of pat you on your head for saying the edgy thing — about women, as a woman — and they need you to be their mouthpiece.”
Usually, she silently endured her peers’ soliloquies on women’s deviance and the urgent need to curtail their rights. When she did manage a retort, it was not well received. On one occasion, at a professional dinner, a male acquaintance spewed out some “really gross” things about women (she declines to share details for fear of being identified), and she gently pushed back. “He freaked out,” she says. “He was banging on the table, screaming at me, saying, ‘Nobody cares what you think, woman’ — using the word woman as an invective.” She worried he would become violent. No one at the table came to her defense, men or women. “You almost don’t realize what’s happening until five years later,” Anna says, “when you look back and you’re like, Oh gosh, I was being used.” She also blames herself: “I was too frivolous with ideas.”
More seriously: when you get people who speak honestly -- as I do think this person is doing -- what you see is that a lot of the people who get involved with this stuff really do so for basically frivolous reasons. it's a game, then it's a livelihood, then suddenly it's Real and not funny anymore
Yet another example of Trump‘s incredible incompetence: starting a war where oil supply would be at risk and not having a fourth thought to fill our stockpiles first. www.axios.com/2026/03/12/o...
A mugshot registration photograph from Auschwitz. A man with a shaved head wearing a striped uniform photographed in three positions (profile and front with bare head and a photo with a slightly turned head with a hat on). The prisoner number is visible on a marking board on the left.
12 March 1903 | A Slovenian, Josef Sitter, was born in Šentjakob. A car mechanic.
In #Auschwitz from 28 September 1941.
No. 21141
He perished in the camp on 24 February 1942.
Forgoing food. Cutting back on utilities. Driving less. Borrowing money.
These are the sacrifices that tens of millions of people are making to afford their health care expenses, according to a West Health-Gallup Center on Healthcare in America survey released. https://cnn.it/4rx5Ys3
