“When President Trump says that Iran is in a place of unconditional surrender, he’s not claiming the Iranian regime is going to come out and say that themselves.” -- Karoline Leavitt
That's not how this works. That's not how any of this works.
Mark Kelly: We would have to fight a ground war to "totally obliterate" Iran's nuclear capability - we're in this war because one person, Trump, ripped up the Nuclear Deal.
The stupidity is endless, isn’t it. Iran now holds the world energy economy to ransom and our idiot government didn’t prepare for that at all. And they were going to replace the terrible leader, and they replaced him with a younger version of him who hates us more because Trump killed his family.
Polish PM Office at UNHQ: “Poland’s support for Ukraine has been more than financial assistance - it’s been recognition of values.”
Perhaps the real feeling is that nothing feels very grounded. Everything feels like it can be manipulated/uprooted. That there are very few consequences and whatever happens, no matter how bad, it will be buried in an avalanche of the next thing that is happening. Too much, too fast and no rules
also something happening here (you can see it w/ the price of oil today) that ties into my larger feeling of *too much happening and too fast.* struggling to explain it but it feels like the dynamics of the physical world have been replaced by online ones. you get trump trying to ctrl-z the economy
CNN airs compilation of JD Vance on the campaign trail saying he would keep the U.S. out of war in the Middle East
A metal bird and a real bird on the edge of a small bird bath
My bird bath has these little metal birds on it, and the chickadees always try to make friends.
“I think [Governor] Murphy had the power to protect immigrants on his last day, and he chose not to use it, and it’s a failure of leadership when we need it the most,” says a New Jersey immigrant rights advocate.
www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/...
"The decision to rely on a US provider for sovereign defence work is something that unsettles many analysts" | Palantir embedding staff in Defence and mining Australian data under contract with Trump-aligned company www.crikey.com.au/2026/03/09/p... @openpolicy.bsky.social
“I didn’t vote for THIS,” say the manosphere podcasters who simply had no way of knowing that Trump would lie about being a populist to get into office and then govern like a autocratic lunatic once in power, other than the fact that he did it for 4 entire years before that.
Stephen Miller is the architect of America's mass deportation machine.
He sets the ICE arrest quotas.
He decides who gets swept up.
He runs the whole operation from the West Wing.
He also owns between $100,000 and $250,000 in stock in
who's up for some sparkling stagflation
Yesterday I filmed several baby birds walking across a street directly at my camera and asked Bluesky to suggest music
Several dozen folks did
Some even dubbed music over the original clip.
I haven't been able to get this out of my head.
So I give you
A Bluesky exclusive:
Reservoir Ducks
🐣 🪶
Australian TV news: "And notice which country is not on the buy side of that chart. The United States, they don't need it. They've got their own oil. They're fine. But you won't see any of those countries that are on the buy side of that chart bombing Iran, so they close those straits."
Word is the administration is trying to force the takedown of these videos.
Happy #InternationalWomensDay 🪶
Who me? Are you talking to me? 😂 #Birds #Nature Lesser Goldfinch 🥰
Six months ago, September 8, was in the peak of Hummingbird migration. 🪶
If I had a nickel for every time Kari Lake pretended she was actually in charge of something that she wasn’t, I’d have 3 nickels, which isn’t a lot but it’s weird it happened thrice.
This dystopian future is here now.
"Emily, who NPR is only identifying by her first name because she fears retribution from the federal government, says she followed an ICE vehicle at a safe distance into a parking lot.
www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/npr/nx-...
A fed-up judge comes down hard on ICE stealing/losing detainees’ personal property.
open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
the nuremberg trials we have for ICE are going to have to include a lot of the US military too
A man who was held at an ICE detention facility in Texas before being deported to the Netherlands told the AP that he heard a guard talking about a staff betting pool on which detainee would be next to commit suicide
A federal judge ordered the Department of Homeland Security to return or replace property taken from unlawfully arrested ICE detainees and released without their belongings, giving the government 30 days to comply.
I'm never going to forget the lessons of ICE in the twin cities. It began before Metro Surge and it still continues.
But the lesson is that when we're under threat you stand with the most vulnerable and you come together and fight back. Everyone who participated should be proud
These victims shot by ICE were helpers....
"After months of high-profile, militarized immigration raids in major American cities, the Trump administration has scaled back its deportation strategy, leading to a dip in arrests last month, according to three federal officials and internal government data. In recent weeks, immigration agents have focused on conducting more targeted enforcement operations, rather than indiscriminate street sweeps, said the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal strategy. Those arrests have been less visible and chaotic than the campaign that led to violent clashes with protesters — including the fatal shootings of two American citizens in January — and generated intense political blowback against President Trump. The retreat from some of its most aggressive enforcement efforts underscores the challenges the administration faces in meeting its goal of deporting millions of undocumented immigrants."
Record ICE kidnapping and disappearing continue
The Trump regime's daily ICE snatchings are four times higher than they were a year ago. But the @nytimes.com says the regime has "scaled back its deportation strategy". This is like the "pause" in global warming, anyone remember that?
