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Damn: this is quite the thread from a policymaker with first-hand knowledge of the Trump admin's thinking (and lack thereof) when it comes to Iran.

For your files, if (when) you feel the need to educate someone about this horrendous law.

The numbers are shifting, but let’s be honest. A huge chunk of CA voters still have no idea who most of these candidates are.

That 24% undecided is the real story. It could flip this race overnight.

Dems stuck in single digits are not expanding the field, they’re diluting it and need to drop out.

at some point, you have to stop calling civil rights violations bait or dismissing it all as a distraction. you do, in fact, have to take the bait because that’s where the action is.

Top Arizona officials warn FBI may use election probe to seize voter rolls sought by DOJ "I think this investigation is an end-around by the Department of Justice," Arizona's secretary of state said.

NEW: Top Democrats in Arizona said the FBI’s Maricopa County election probe might be an attempt to obtain the state’s full unredacted voter rolls, which the DOJ is seeking through a lawsuit.

“We cannot overstate the importance of protecting voters’ private data,” they wrote.

A painting of a bird beside the text "i'm not sure that this could be any more fucked up"

This Republican put a nail in the coffin for Noem. His next target: Stephen Miller Thom Tillis may be on his way out. But, writes Eric Garcia, he’s not leaving quietly and has taken on Trump by going on the attack against members of his White House

There is a moment in politics when the silence inside a party breaks.

Not the polite disagreement that lives behind closed doors. Not the carefully phrased “concerns.” But the moment when someone from inside the tribe stands up and says the obvious out loud.

Big arms sale to Israel announced, including nearly $4 billion worth of attack helicopters.

After the kidnapping of Nicolas Maduro, and now in the strangulation of Cuba and the seemingly imminent move against Teheran, the far-right imagination is running wild. Rubio's speech is in one sense full of euphemism, leaving unsaid just what the implications are of an unapologetic U.S.-European hegemony, but in another sense it's obvious for those who are willing to look Rubio's agenda in the face. The Europeans should join MAGA in "not maintain[ing] the polite pretense that our way of life is just one among many," but rather insisting that it is superior, and ought to command the lower orders of the world. I doubt this man, this man who would tell foreign-policy elites in Munich that they belong to a heritage of superior beings, uses a bidet.

Such as

The Meaning of Marco Rubio's Munich Speech Is Found in The 'Board of Peace' A new institution is being born. In Munich, Marco Rubio outlined a certain purpose. When will the two join up?

Some thoughts on the world order the Trumpists are attempting to create.

We must never lose sight of how absolutely fucking hallucinatorily batshit this is. The other guy says when you surrender now? That means *you* are the one suing for peace

The No World Order Meir Kahane, Netanyahu, Trump, and the war beyond Iran.

"One cannot understand the Iran War without understanding the Kahanists. But I rarely see analysts mention them. Maybe they did, and it was behind a paywall. If a war crime is subscription-only, does it make a sound? Is that sound a stifled scream?"
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-no-wor...

Mt. Hood. Dark green conifers, snow covered mountaintop, blue sky above.

Mt. Hood looking pretty in the afternoon sun. Feb 27. 🏔️🩵🤍

@colorado.gov
WTF is wrong with you?
Any excuse is a good excuse!!!
You’ll never be President!!

Thank you @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social and also my wonderful representative @sarajacobs.house.gov for freeing this all-American family from two hellhole #TrumpPrisonCamps. And yes, I very much mean "all-American." #NoFascistUSA #AbolishICE #AbolishDHS

More details about #TrumpsWar than I’ve seen yet.

Great thread by Stancil and astute point by Roberts about why the media class continuously lets him get away with it.

Insurrectionist Brunch: Trumpists plotted to deploy military on U.S. soil Before the 2024 election, a cadre of MAGA loyalists met over brunch to plot ways for Trump to use the military domestically.

This is just astonishingly great reporting.

All of the crises the White House has claimed over the last 14 months were planned in advance. All of them.

And however much contempt you have for media outlets who reverently relayed Trump's claim to have no relation to Project 2025, it isn't enough.

A photo of the Chicago skyline at night with a tangle of bright lighting lignite gap the night sky during a thunderstorm

Boom! Had a great ight show over the skyline tonight. Here’s my first big lightning shot of the season.

This is a 2-frame composite. Best as I can tell, two large, branching bolts struck the eastern antenna mast of the Hancock. #wxsky #ilwx

#EndCitizensUnited

Fuck them and their pans of cheese.

This is one reason why everyone with a bar license should be lining up to do pro bono habeas petitions for detainees right now.

I know so many people who are doing this. A few hours of training and you will save lives and families.

CNN airs compilation of JD Vance on the campaign trail saying he would keep the U.S. out of war in the Middle East. "We're going to stop sending our young people to far away lands. We are not the policemen of the world. Our interests are very much in not going to war with Iran." #IranWar

At ~$1 billion/day, the US has spent as much on the war in Iran in ten days as the entire FY25 budget for the National Science Foundation ($10 billion).

Trump's FY26 budget request for the agency declined to $3.9 billion, due to a "realignment of resources in a constrained fiscal environment."

Collage of stills and posters featuring women in Science Fiction film and TV. Claudia Christian in Babylon 5; Linda Hamilton in Terminator 2; Mary McDonnell in Battlestar Galactica; Nichelle Nicols in Star Trek; Katee Sackhoff in Battlestar Galactica; Charlize Theron in Mad Max: Fury Road; Sigourney Weaver in Alien 3.

Happy #SF #InternationalWomensDay!

Y'all, celebrate me! I sent out my randomly timed newsletter.

Want pictures from Ireland, short stories, and book recommendations?

#Newsletter #ReadingRecommendations #IrelandPhotos

The Trump regime is an illegitimate, evil, corrupt, fascist enterprise.

Its supporters are hateful, cowardly, or deceived, but are all responsible.

I will speak out against the regime every single day until they are held accountable.

bit.ly/StandNow

It's hard to put into words how much of a difference you can make to someone's day simply by reading a story they wrote, sharing it, and telling them that you liked it. Not only is the reading itself a worthwhile pleasure, it's also just a wonderful gift. It's so worth doing

John Oliver (on right) gestures with his hands as he speaks. On left, a ProPublica headline from December 15, 2025 reads: “Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.” An article excerpt below says: "... turning rows red, yellow or green every few seconds, never asking a single question.”

1/ On yesterday’s @lastweektonight.com about USAID, John Oliver cited several of our investigations.

First up was our reporting about how DOGE operatives had arbitrarily cut aid programs, in some cases by literally clicking through a spreadsheet: propub.li/4cCsSKP