Mary Joan Koch

Are you even a New Yorker if you haven’t spent a ridiculous amount of time thinking about what you would say to Kareem if you were interviewed for Subway Takes?

Unraveling the Corporate Ties to DHS's “Big, Beautiful Jet” The luxury 737 that recently ousted DHS Secretary Kristi Noem flew on is connected to a DHS contractor who received “an appearance of favoritism.”

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Trump’s Presidency Is Now in Iran’s Hands The U.S. has launched combat operations despite little public support and widespread fears among allies.

Trump is pursuing war in Iran without congressional approval, with little appetite among his base for another regime-change operation in the Middle East, and with allies in the region having discouraged it, @nancyayoussef.bsky.social and @jonlemire.bsky.social report:

War powers debate intensifies after Trump orders attack on Iran without approval by Congress Key members of Congress are demanding a swift vote on a war powers resolution that would restrain President Donald Trump’s military attack on Iran.

War Powers debate intensifies after Trump orders attack on Iran without approval by Congress

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Iran Things that Got Memory Holed, Including the So-Called Negotiators, Steve and Jared - emptywheel There are a number of facts about Iran that are being memory holed by significant swaths of the public. There’s the fact that Iran’s conflict with the west doesn’t just go back 47 years, to 1979, when...

Iran Things that Got Memory Holed, Including the So-Called Negotiators, Steve and Jared

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We need to listen to those who oppose both the Islamic Republic’s authoritarianism and foreign military escalation. https://bit.ly/402IgbS

Europe's worries about Trump in spotlight as Macron heads to French nuclear sub base French President Emmanuel Macron, the person with the power to unleash France’s nuclear arsenal, will on Monday update French thinking on the potential use of warheads carried on submarines and planes...

French President Emmanuel Macron, the person with the power to unleash France's nuclear arsenal, will on Monday update French thinking on the potential use of warheads carried on submarines and planes. https://to.pbs.org/4rNWoSC

Can State Law Remedy Constitutional Violations by Federal Officers? So-called converse 1983 statutes are percolating in statehouses across the country and could fill a critical constitutional gap.

As ICE operations expand in cities across the country, state legislators have turned to so-called converse 1983 statutes which would authorize suits against federal officials if they violate constitutional rights. @harrisonstark.bsky.social explains how these statutes would work in practice.

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

This is so deeply corrupt

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/01/u...

Baltimore is the next Minneapolis

Prepare!

did you use a trainer to get you started? I tried this half assedly with adjustable dumbbells and have wondered about a real gym with spotting etc

Blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol dies in Buffalo. A nearly blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol miles from his home dies in Buffalo after having been missing for nearly a week.

This is so awful, and yet not entirely atypical for Border Patrol--typically they would dump vulnerable, border crossers they viewed as expendable on the Mexico side of the border, not within the United States. www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/25/b...

Acrylic paint/dried paint collage on board, 5 x 7, copper & blue betta fish with green plants and red gravel

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12 x 12, acrylic landscape, trees and trunks in foreground, ocean and cliffs in background

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Mixed media/collage on paper, 11 x 14, a single rainbow colored beach umbrella, sand, sea and sky

Back from leave. Recent artwork:

I would love some/much of your artwork

This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t George W. Bush may think that a war against Iraq is the solution to our problems, but the reality is, it will only serve to create far more.

My employer @pogo.org has good official comment on war with Iran. Personally I can only repost this. theonion.com/this-war-wil...

The FBI being on high alert for terrorist actions is important right now.

Too bad they fired and gutted their counterterrorism capacity

"The Iranians and their Russian allies had four years of target practice on Ukrainian cities to improve their Shahed drones. And most of the world smiled politely and thought it is just the Ukrainians’ unfortunate problem."
@yarotrof.bsky.social

Really concerned to hear the Defence Secretary refuse to rule out UK's involvement in future strikes on Iran.

Iraq lessons must be learned.
Further escalation in the Middle East makes us all less safe.

Starmer must rule out UK involvement immediately.

It is possible to recognise the Iranian regime is hideous, murdering their own citizens, and ideally would be replaced by a more democratic government, and that the US bombing a city of millions is a bad thing and starting an illegal war is really bad. You don't have to support either government. 1/

Via @osinttechnical.bsky.social on X "Footage of an Iranian ballistic missile slamming into the headquarters of the US Navy's 5th Fleet at Naval Support Activity (NSA) Bahrain earlier today."
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ONLY IN CHUMPLANDIA.......
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Operation Epic Fury Over His Low Polls

Gonna tell the kids World War 3 was started by one of the cast members of Home Alone 2.

BREAKING: Adolescent teenage boys have taken over the Pentagon.

Opinion | Why Have You Started This War, Mr. President?

Every word of this: “Why Have You Started This War, Mr. President? www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/o...

Thou Shalt Not Start A War Because Everyone Hates You

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