I spent 45 minutes trying and failing to convince a full bird Colonel with multiple Afghanistan and Iraq deployments that Afghanistan is not an Arabic speaking country. I was helped in this discussion (to no avail) by two Afghan interpreters who were more polite than I was.
She’s waiting until after the primary to tack right again
Noem's one-minute $220 million ad cost more than nearly every film nominated for Best Picture at the upcoming 2026 Academy Awards:
* Frankenstein
* Marty Supreme
* Sinners
* Bugonia
* Hamnet
* Train Dreams
* Sentimental Value
* The Secret Agent
I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public.
I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are.
1/ Here's what I can share:
“An open room with 70 people breathing the same stale air. The lights that never quite dim. The strange intimacy of strangers forced to share space, each person trying to carve out a fragment of dignity where none could be found.”
Even this list of Mamdani-focused articles doesn't give a real perspective. 7 of this guy's last 11 pieces are about the mayor.
Which raises a question: what's the editorial decision making here?
Did an editor decide they needed a "Mamdani might be bad, actually" column?
Mamdani acting like a traditional politician in the face of an alleged terrorist attack is a problem for the NYT? He puts out a measured statement & does a serious press conference & that's somehow bad now? I'm so sorry but what the hell?
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/n...
One day the NYT's editors will read these stories again and be ashamed of themselves. Mamdani called the attack "heinous," "criminal," "reprehensible," "terrorism," and "the antithesis of who we are." The insinuation that he's conflicted about this is disgraceful. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/n...
Brooklyn has been graced with the appearance of a swan so rare that experts say there have been no recorded sightings of the bird in New York City—until now.
Pope Leo XIV’s Vatican newspaper is the only publication in the Western world to run the photograph of 150 Iranian girls' graves — killed in President Trump's military strikes — on its front page.
I live in NJ. The state of NJ, in both percentage and absolute terms, lost more manufacturing jobs than any other state in the union and it's not even close. Every single NJ county lost more jobs than the US average, and most lost >58% of jobs
And yet, nobody interviews "the forgotten man" here.
More evidence for this: reading yesterday's big NYTimes article on last fall's AI-faciliated NEH cuts, and following through the attendant legal filings, I'm reasonably certain that the reason the TEAMS Middle English Text Series grant got flagged as DEI is because they produce "critical editions"
Library and Archives Canada has been hobbled by underfunding for decades, as anyone trying to use their online tools knows. This will effectively be a death-blow to its basic functionality.
A country facing multiple credible threats to its sovereignty but that also cares this little about its own history isn't long for this world.
The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribe’s approach to water management is helping to integrate sovereignty and conservation into water policy in Montana.
[October 31st, 1980] The U.S. assured Iran it recognizes Khomeini's regime and would lift sanctions if Americans held hostage are released. Officials denied any imminent breakthrough in the hostage crisis and reaffirmed support for Iran's current government, not the exiled Shah's son.
me, poking at the second trump presidency: "want to see a (soon to be) dead body?" youtu.be/ozvWGx_Re9A
love how we killed the old, frail anti-nuke ayatollah just to have him replaced with his young, healthy son who wants nukes and who just had his father, mother, wife, and child murdered on the same day by his mortal enemy. surely this will bring peace to the region
Breaking News: New video adds to evidence that a U.S. missile likely hit an Iranian school where 175 people, many of them children, were reportedly killed.
This directly contradicts Trump and Hegseth’s claims that Iran bombed the area where the Iranian school was hit. We knew it, but it’s good to have the video.
I wonder what percentage of Americans knows that the CIA helped overthrow a democracy in Iran in 1953, installing a brutal dictator who tortured and murdered people. Republicans keep citing the 1979 Islamic Revolution as if that was the start of U.S.-Iran hostilities. Go back 26 years earlier.
Feels so weird that I am an Iranologist and that Iran as a country might no longer exist. I know the culture goes way beyond the nation-state, & that I work on the pre-modern period, but it still is a bit odd to be a specialist of a land that everyone seems to hate & gleefully watch being destroyed…
I was there during Nowruz
I was in Tehran this time last year. I want you to see how beautiful my city is. I want you to see the city the US/Israel is trying to wipe off the face of the earth
[March 8th, 1986] Sheila E. performed a notable concert at The Warfield in San Francisco, California, as part of her Romance 1600 tour
The essential read for this Sunday is supplied by Cardinal Cupich in Chicago. www.archchicago.org/statement/-/...
“On International Women's Day, salute to the revolutionary Syrian mother, wife and daughter.” - Aleppo, Syria
#tdih 1971
A cab driver, day care provider, and two professors broke into FBI office in Media, Penn.
They removed docs that exposed COINTELPRO campaign to disrupt & destroy a wide range of activist groups, especially civil rights orgs.
Read⬇️ 🧵#TeachTruth
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/co...
They have turned this beautiful city into a wasteland. Those who do don’t die from bombs will succumb to unspeakable illness. Most of my close family is in Tehran
