The war could further amplify regional tensions by damaging food and water infrastructure, raising global commodity prices that hit vulnerable populations, and reinforcing the regime’s isolation and repressive policies.
⬇️ Read CCS's analysis on Iran's complex water, food, and stability crisis:
The Trump WH is starting to reap what it has sown in terms of screwing over counterparties:
-Iran can't trust a negotiated settlement so why reach one?
-Ds in Congress can't trust Trump to follow the law so why bargain w/him?
-Universities see past deals leading to future shakedowns so why make one?
New post on Iran’s targets during its initial retaliation on Feb. 28. It examines the targeting logic behind three parallel campaigns: striking U.S. C2/ISR infrastructure, imposing costs on the GCC states, and pressuring Israeli civilian centers. www.axesandatoms.com/p/irans-febr...
not the onion
Finally, before we waste any political capital on taxing the thousandaires, let’s put the full lobbying force of these big orgs like CBPP and CAP behind taxing billionaires on their wealth (or at least their unrealized gains). Cause sometimes I feel like I’m out here by my little ol’ fucking self.
A painting of a bird beside the text "I'll meet you somewhere that has tons of fuckin booze"
I love the idea that *this* US government, which has been nabbing landscapers and five year olds knows where Iranian sleeper cells are but just hasn’t gotten around to doing anything about it yet.
Three more foreign ships were struck in the Persian Gulf overnight, authorities said, as attacks intensify on vessels sailing through or near the strategically vital Strait of Hormuz.
Full details: cnb.cx/4rsP4L1
It is problematic that our legislators carry on like clowns in serious public discourse on our national security. This is beyond partisan, it is silliness. Yet you cannot walk past it for the gravity of our context and crisis.
There is no way to run a government with this Bullshit in play.
The solution to Hormuz is external political pressure on the US and Israel, then Iran.
And let's be clear: we are approaching a point where China is merely big or a global power. It can't sit on the sidelines of International Politics yet be reckoned in global leadership. Size isn't everything.
ffs
*paying $5 a gallon for gas*
I'm making money!
Covering sessions daily at the Commission on the Status of Women this week, one question keeps coming up for me: How can responsible media better amplify the institutions trying to address global crises? Too often we are not meeting the moment — we are being entertained by it. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus & @DrTed...• 6h Global military expenditure just hit $2.7 trillion - in a single year. According to @UN estimates, ending world hunger by 2030 would require $93 billion annually. That means we spend almost 30 times more every year on killing each other than on making sure everyone eats.
This is Director of WHO. And that’s exactly the point I’m trying to make all day every day this week.
we could've ended World War 2 in a month with this knowledge
Ladies and gentlemen, the meritocracy
Congress should take another stab at campaign finance limits. If SCOTUS has any integrity, it would find that preventing billionaires from stealing democracy is a compelling governmental interest that is narrowly tailored to satisfy First Amendment concerns.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/u...
A potentially strong El Niño weather pattern will likely emerge this summer and persist through the rest of the year. The hottest years on record generally occur in years when El Niño is active. n.pr/4upfr7p
Look, I'm no international relations expert, but I'm starting to think starting a war with Iran was a really fucking stupid thing to do.
Video from the Bahrain National Communications Center shows firefighters battling huge flames at a fuel storage facility in Muharraq following an Iranian strike. Follow live updates here: https://cnn.it/4cIT0DI
This is it.
Every time I see people describe Janet Mills as a centrist I realize there is an imaginary Janet Mills that exists in people's brains that they've invented out of whole cloth in order to justify supporting Platner, and then when Platner was exposed as a Nazi they just refused to update their priors.
Here we go again.
Reminder that the CEO of Nike routinely tries to rig Oregon's gubernatorial elections to get Republicans elected.
The 2026 National Science Foundation budget is $8.75 Billion.
Big part of my deal is reminding liberals our media habits are very different from the average non political person. And I don’t mean that in a value judgement way, I watch garbage tv too. But it means people simply aren’t aware of 99.9% of the stuff we think is “everywhere.”
After a series of fatal strikes involving civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan, Congress directed the Pentagon to reduce civilian casualties as part of a 2019 law. During the Biden administration, the Defense Department created the Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response initiative. The civilian mitigation teams – cut by 90% by Hegseth – work with military commanders on target planning, and making sure that targets are actually military sites. The teams help come up with "no strike" lists, including religious and cultural sites and schools
I knew that the Department of War shot a missile into a school & killed 175 civilians, mostly children.
This is learned today:
Secretary of War Hegseth had cut the teams assigned to prevent such tragedies by 90%.
www.npr.org/2026/03/11/n...
$11.3 billion could cover any of the following for a full year:
-1.4 million people on Medicaid
-19 million kids getting free school lunches
-1.4 million people getting affordable housing
-1.1 million hungry seniors fed
-0.8 million children given free child care
wait, we had to ask *THE BRITISH* to evac US personnel? holy christ these people are incompetent abcnews.com/Internationa...
ICE is still acting like ICE. Abolish ICE.
What part of 'the stove will be hot' was confusing
