Fred Little

Garak: Why, Lieutenant, you've told so many anecdotes about siblings, nephews, a wife... tell me, are any of them true?

Columbo: Mr. Garak, they're all true.

Garak: Even the lies?

Columbo: Especially the lies, sir.

U.S. Troops Were Told Iran War Is for “Armageddon,” Return of Jesus Advocacy group reports commanders giving similar messages at more than 30 installations in every branch of the military

EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war.

The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been “inundated” with more than 110 complaints.

One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus…

What makes the USA the senior security partner here is that the impact to the US economy of hitting the 'off switch' on the Israeli one would be basically nothing.

Likewise, 'losing' Israel does not represent a loss of key strategic basing. The only cost is domestic politics. If that goes..it goes.

Some people are pretty sketch.

Having grown up a white kid in the Jim Crow south, I’d now say that pretty much was slavery, though I didn’t start to understand that until my early teens.

Moved from new suburb Vienna, VA to Martinsville, VA as a ten year old kid in 1966. It was three hundred miles and most of a century between them back then, and I'm still processing to this day.

Real Estate Management & Endowment Management are the First and Second of the Pillars of Higher Education, the third of which is Externally Funded Research. These pillars support a mighty roof, sufficient to shelter an NCAA Division One Intercollegiate Athletics Program.

Do I always agree with Jamelle? No. Do I always know that he cares about the world being better? Yes. Do I always know he’s thinking deeply and reading widely? Yes. Can that be said of any of these childish critics? No

Jamelle Bouie clearly and quite publicly works very hard to be informed and even-handed and anyone talking about him as if he’s not doing either of those things should shut the fuck up and definitely be widely ignored

Another one.

"The U.N. Charter is not ambiguous," says war crimes prosecutor @reedbrody.bsky.social. "President Trump has presumptively committed … the international crime of aggression, as he did in Venezuela and just as Vladimir Putin did in Ukraine."

https://www.democracynow.org/2026/3/2/iran_reed_brody

Good news, we only blew up the area around the parliament

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There’s a movement to draft Barron Trump, but I think a campaign such as this would be more effective if it impacted someone Donald Trump knew personally.

BREAKING: Credible whistleblower discloses that FBI forensic experts were ordered to stand down from processing the scene where Renee Good was killed, because Kash Patel did not want Good referenced as a “victim” in the warrant.

I don't care if Congress authorizes War on Iran. NO WAR ON IRAN. I want people to fucking reclaim their morality.

Hampton University, Stripped of Land Grant Status 100 Years Ago, May Get It Back As Va. lawmakers move to restore a designation lost during the Jim Crow era, students await the resources and opportunities its return could bring.

In 1920, Hampton University was stripped of its land grant status during a wave of segregation-era policies — cutting the university off from decades of potential federal funding.Now, a bill in the Virginia legislature aims to make amends and help the university recoup the money lost.
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The 1980 contest between Carter and Reagan was a clear choice between US power in service of global human rights and an international "rules-based-order" on the one hand, and US power in service of hegemony for its own sake on the other. Hegemony won.

When push comes to shove and I ask someone who is temperamentally pro-Israel what an Israeli government that voluntarily ceases all further settlement activity would look like they usually concede that it isn't possible. I think that alone should tell you what our responsibility in the US is.

Unless of course you just think Israel has the right to do all these things. Which many do.

There is not actually a rational reason for doing this war and not in the way we do it, there is not actually a rational reason for us to support keeping Syria permanently weak and destabilized, not actually a rational reason to keep Palestinians under permanent military dictatorship.

In many ways the US is still totally in lockstep with Israel on ideological grounds and so it isn't accurate to just say that the tail is wagging the dog, but also, well. It kind of just is. The US has not demonstrated the capacity for understanding that Israel's interests are not ipso facto theirs.

"Tell me how this ends...."

—What Ike asked about Laos, Suez

—What JFK was reportedly ready to ask about US troops in Indochina

—What GWHBush asked, in deciding to limit Gulf War to Kuwait

—What GWBush did *not* ask, when going into Iraq

—What seems not to have occurred to Trump, Hegseth et al

We will all pay the price — not just economically, but democratically, if we further enable an imperialist President who believes he is above the law.

The War Powers Act is clear that a President has authority to act when there is an *imminent* threat to our nation. Let’s hope the success of this mission doesn’t embolden the President to continue to take these risks without Congressional oversight.

Oil Prices Jump After Iran Attack, Pointing to Economic Risks

Americans are already facing an affordability crisis, and this war could well make it much worse. We are already seeing surging oil prices; rising gas prices, grocery costs, and soaring utility bills may follow.

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

Marine Insurers Cancel War Risk Cover as Iran Conflict Escalates Marine insurers are canceling war risk coverage for vessels and oil shipping rates are set to surge further after the widening Iran conflict left at least

Marine Insurers Cancel War Risk Cover as Iran Conflict Escalates

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Netanyahu so clearly wanted Trump to win and rejected any attempts at a ceasefire because (1) he wants genocide and (2) he wanted the war going on through the 2024 election.

Democrats need to realize that he wants them to fail. Biden refused to believe it and enabled him instead.