Ossoff: "The WH put out a video depicting this war as a video game. When service members are returning in flag-draped coffins, & even more have lost limbs or suffered brain injuries or are fighting for their lives, this WH treats war like a game. It's a disgrace. And it speaks to a moral rot."
McGowan: You're saying 46 Americans died, so we should attack this country. Here at home, 68,000 Americans die a year because they don't have health insurance. So, if we're going to spend billions of dollars on something…
Pete Hegseth is openly calling on Trump-friendly oligarchs to take over the media while unshackling the military from the "rules of engagement" he hates so much. What he really wants is a world in which horrors like the school bombing don't ever fully come to light.
newrepublic.com/article/2077...
I have questions…
Why is the U.S. Treasury secretary doing media rounds about Trump’s war in the first place, then suddenly getting summoned into the Situation Room?
Clearly, Scott Bessent comes back looking shook.
If the war strategy is so solid, why yank him out of a live interview?
Those videos of the gents who slashed through the NEH, wielding only a vaporous understanding of a questionable Executive Order?
Thanks to @historians.org, @modernlanguage.bsky.social, and @acls1919.bsky.social for bringing the lawsuit that produced this material in discovery.
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You may have seen that a major update in our lawsuit challenging the dismantling of the National Endowment for the Humanities went a bit viral this week.
Why? Because the outcome of this case affects a lot of people—not just historians.
Here’s what’s going on. 🧵
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Hegseth: "We will keep pushing, keep advancing. No quarter, no mercy for our enemies."
No quarter is the refusal to take prisoners and instead just execute everyone. It's been considered a war crime for over a century.
If you're a service member being ordered to prep for deployment for the War in Iran and you have moral and/or ethical misgivings on all this, remember that you have the right to apply for conscientious objector status.
Call the G.I. Rights hotline: 1-877-447-4487
Search-and-rescue crews were “flying blind” trying to rescue survivors from deadly tornadoes that hit the Midwest last week.
Why? Because Kristi Noem hadn't approved FEMA’s $200,000 contract with a tornado-tracking tool.
But she had time to spend $220 million on anti-immigrant ads. Priorities.
BREAKING: Pete Kegstand IGNORED the CENTCOM chief and the Chair and Vice Chair of the Joint Chiefs opposition to GUTTING offices that limit civilian casualties, calling them "stupid." He fired and replaces all opposed. Politico with the exclusive: www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
this is beyond parody, folks. a complete mockery of the DOJ.
NEW: Boasberg blocks subpoenas in Powell’s case. "A mountain of evidence suggests that the Government served these subpoenas on the Board to pressure its Chair into voting for lower interest rates or resigning.” www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...
Guys, relax - Hegseth says the Strait of Hormuz is wide open for shipping as long as you ignore Iran shooting missiles at you
Cool cool. The tankers trump seized are costing us tens of millions of dollars to maintain, and he can't sell the oil without a judge's permission. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/u...
What a perfect short poem.
From Andrea Cohen's book, Everything: bookshop.org/a/862/9781945588686
#poem #booksky #writing
From Wendy Xu's book, You Are Not Dead: bookshop.org/a/862/9780986025723
#poem #booksky #writing
SUSAN L. LEARY Tulip Ceiling I am chasing an idea because I am no longer chasing anger. I am no longer chasing a comfortable bed from the feathered confines of a box. And the birds asleep inside the bedroom drawer, do they sleep on their sides or their backs? Do they sleep in silence? Where there was once a barrier, do they discern a ceiling built of tulips? Form guarantees language doesn't exhaust itself, but is a dream more image or more language? Once, I held you as I would an eyelash, a line that arrived to me in a dream. A private admission, like the muffled song of two birds caught inside the tiny night garden of a drawer, neither sad nor beautiful. As now, in death, your teeth are still rotting. Am I successful in this moment of clarity? With the birds, you'd claimed, were yellow? Unclutch your hands. Brother this time, tell me, why?
So enjoyed stopping by the Grist table at AWP to pick up my contributor copy of the most recent issue! Thanks to @grrrbinsky.bsky.social and Maggie Rue Hess for including this poem! Love sharing space with some friends here, too! 💙
I can't even find the words to express how repugnant and despicable this post is.
People who spew such Islamophobic bile don't belong in the United States Congress. The job of elected officials is to combat hate, not fan its flames. (1/2)
"Top Trump officials acknowledged to lawmakers during recent classified briefings that they did not plan for the possibility of Iran closing the strait in response to strikes."
www.cnn.com/2026/03/12/p...
I have watched 6 hours of a DOGE bro deposition. The whole thing, start to finish. It's a fascinating, and horrifying, look at the people who caused so much damage, didn't really achieve anything at all, while still being so sure they are right. Here's what they said: www.404media.co/i-watched-6-...
the stink of gender resentment coming off Silicon Valley has been obvious for a while. these men hate women because they hate being told no.
Trump told them very sternly not to do this in a Truth Social post so I’m shocked they would defy him like this. Maybe Iran doesn’t have an account.
I don’t think unconditional surrender is imminent.
me paying $30 in gas to buy imported things that have been hit with tariffs bc joe rogan is learning about politics at age 58
i feel like if i was tasked with not starting a war and bringing back US manufacturing jobs, i could have done a better job than this
I keep seeing people ask about the 25th Amendment.
Guys. His entire Cabinet is walking around in shoes that don’t fit because they’re scared to take them off.
The 25th is never happening.
Ms Rachel talking to Deiver Henao, a 9yo in an immigration detention center
www.instagram.com/reel/DVzUzoz...
What a world
BREAKING
CENTCOM says it has confirmed that four of the six crew members aboard a U.S. refueling aircraft that went down in Iraq are dead.
This brings the total number of U.S. service members killed to 11.
Rescue efforts are continuing.
CENTCOM says crash was not due to friendly or hostile fire.
