@geoffmcgivern.bsky.social

Picturing a veteran Coast Guard pilot quietly chuckling to himself this afternoon.

What an idiot.

New Ayatollah just dropped.

Republicans are using kids as a smokescreen for what Big Tech lobbyists want: a national surveillance program to harvest our data with zero protections for people and their privacy.

We must fight this dangerous expansion of surveillance technology.

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Fiona Hill: We are heading into absolute chaos and brutal slaughter The former Donald Trump adviser on an escalating crisis and the prospect of world war

Fiona Hill: We are heading into absolute chaos and brutal slaughter

The former Donald Trump adviser on an escalating crisis and the prospect of world war

By @MeganJGibson.bsky.social

The ayatollahs could issue the funniest statement ever today:

"Wait. He just appointed the second-most deadbrained Senator to head homeland security and he gave the dog-shooting Barbie some made-up job defending the Western Hemisphere. And now he wants to name our Supreme Leader? The fuck you say."

It’s important to note that neither Hegseth nor any of the other imposters play acting at national leadership have the slightest inkling of why Europeans came to this continent in the first place, or the creedal principles they chose to detail in our founding documents.

Rep. Tony Gonzales admits to affair with staffer who died by suicide Texas Republican Rep. Tony Gonzales has come under fire for allegedly having a romantic relationship with a staffer who died by suicide last year

So for weeks Gonzales has been lying. Why is he even allowed to run? Texans seem to love the lowest common denominator.

Rep. Tony Gonzales admits to affair with staffer who died by suicide www.cnbc.com/2026/03/04/h...

does anyone ever ask him how many innocent civilians have been killed?

"I hope you are impressed," he said to me. "How do you like the performance? I mean, Venezuela is obvious. This might be even better. How do you like the performance?"

"I hope you are impressed," he said to me. "How do you like the performance? I mean, Venezuela is obvious. This might be even better. How do you like the performance?"

"How do you like the performance?"

An illegal war for the sake of spectacle and the amusement of POTUS.

congress needs to stop this madman

TV entertainer and inexplicably Secretary of Defense/War/whatevs Pete Hegseth is again running in the opposite direction from the truth.

“We got no shortage of munitions. Our stockpiles of defensive and offensive weapons allow us to sustain this campaign as long as we need to.

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The media's thirst for "blunt truth-tellers" pointing their fire at Democrats and a complete absence of any appetite for the equivalent on the Republican side would be laughable if it wasn't so consequential. NO ONE is asking for Rahm Emanuel except people writing columns or running Third Way

‘This is a needless war’: Americans share their thoughts on the US-Israel attacks on Iran The Guardian asked US readers about the military action in Iran – their responses were largely disapproving As hundreds of civilians and some US service members have been killed in the aftermath of the 28 February strike against Iran by the United States and Israel, the Guardian asked readers in the US what their thoughts are on the latest military action in Iran. Their responses were largely disapproving, with some acknowledging that the Iranian regime needed to be toppled, even with a high cost. Continue reading...

‘This is a needless war’: Americans share their thoughts on the US-Israel attacks on Iran

Emanuel (Mannie) Fa... & X.com @manniefabian The IDF issues an "urgent warning" to residents of Beirut's southern suburbs, a Hezbollah stronghold, ahead of planned strikes against the terror group. "Residents of the neighborhoods of Bourj el-Barajneh and Hadath, move east toward Mount Lebanon on the Beirut-Damascus road. Residents of the neighborhoods of Haret Hreik and Shiyyah, move north toward Tripoli on the Beirut-Tripoli road, and also east toward Mount Lebanon via the Metn Expressway," says army spokesman Col. Avichay Adraee.

"Save your lives and evacuate your homes immediately," he says. "It is forbidden to move south. Any movement southward may endanger your lives. We will notify you when it is safe to return to your homes," Adraee adds. [map of Beirut] 6:42 AM • 3/5/26 • 72K Views

⚠️ In an unprecedented move, the IDF has issued an evacuation warning for the entirety of southern Beirut in Lebanon.

Previous evacuation warnings in Beirut have been for specific buildings only that the IDF has then bombed.

Yet another datapoint confirming what George Stigler said: "regulation is acquired by the industry and is designed and operated primarily for its benefit." chrisdillow.substack.com/p/on-regulat...

We paid an ex-Tory MP to lobby for our fake Chinese firm - and authorities did nothing Investigation finds no rules were broken. It just goes to show how few rules there are.

Last week, UK lobbying regulator closed investigation into ex Tory MP Ben Howlett

We offered Howlett money to work for a fake Chinese investor. He introduced us to a dozen Labour MPs

Regulator didn't even speak to us. Our system is broken

New, by me: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/we-paid-an...

Montana Sen. Sheehy gets in altercation with anti-war protester, veteran, on Capitol Hill • Daily Montanan Montana Sen. Sheehy gets in altercation with veteran anti-war protester

Current context:

dailymontanan.com/2026/03/04/m...

The curious case of Tim Sheehy's gunshot wound The Montana Senate candidate once claimed he accidentally shot himself. Now he says he didn't. He won't release the records that will settle the question.

With Tim Sheehy in the news again, remember this? (2024):

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

He is fundamentally a very lazy man. In his first term, when he had an apparatus to contain him, this was his one good quality. This time, with the likes of Hesgeth and Noem and Miller to use him for their own revolting, mad purposes, it makes him even more dangerous. The "weave" for fuck's sake!

“.. as Iranian missiles deplete stocks of Patriot interceptors that Ukraine needs for its defense.”

@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/world/europe...

Now that Republicans have done Trump's bidding by blocking limits on his war powers, remember that in doing this, they are also relieving *themselves* of the obligation to vote on the enormously consequential decision of whether to go to war. Craven abdication.

newrepublic.com/article/2072...

There are still close to 650 federal agents in Minnesota, which is four times more than Tom Homan said would remain with the closing of Operation Metro Surge. Are we surprised the Trump administration is lying again? I’m not.

Comic panel. A female CO says: PRIVATE MATHY PHILLIPS I'M NOT AT LIBERTY TO TELL YOU WHERE YOU'RE GOING, BUT I CAN TELL YOU THAT YOU WON'T NEED YOUR WOOLENS! Female soldier: IT SOUNDS EXCITING, LIEUTENANT FRAZER!

Morning Bluesky.

"We can all relax now lads - The Minister of Defence is here. That proves there's nothing to worry about"

Was trying to find where I'd posted the link to the 1998 World Book Day book and I'll be honest my summary of it reads a bit different now.

Reform fury as someone else wins by Our By-election Editor Tim Shipsink The losing candidate in the Gorton and Denton by-election, Matt Goodwhinge, has demanded an immediate re-run of the election on the grounds that he lost comprehensively to someone else. "It's totally unfair and rigged," said Goodwhinge. "I shouldn't be required to sit there and suck it up, just because I lost." Mr Goodwhine continued, *I can't believe that all those voters I demonised failed to back me. Especially after I was endorsed by Tommy Robinson and ten million Russian bots on X. "We have clear evidence of family voting, where people voted in order for me to stop deporting their families." Mr Badloser concluded. "I'm the victim of colour prejudice. They didn't vote for me simply because I'm not green." Reform leader Mr Farage, speaking from a sun lounger on a rock near the Chagos Islands said, "It's a tragedy that the people of Manchester won't see Matt in Westminster, but my constituents don't see me in Clacton either." PLUMBER DEFEATS MATT GOODWIN Photo of Hannah Spencer with speech bubble saying… I've stopped the cock

Beautiful from Private Eye on the massive toddler-tantrum that Matt Goodwin and Reform are having, because they got whooped in Gorton and Denton.

taken a wrench, has he? to ease the tension? not sure how seeing him would take one's mind off the next attack.