The student loans crisis is spiralling
A long neglected social injustice is threatening to explode
By @rmcunliffe.bsky.social
Explain it to me like I’m five… 🤬
Warships deployed from Japan, where the Marines are currently located, can take roughly two weeks to reach the Middle East.
From week ago zeteo.com/p/trump-send...
Yesterday a federal jury convicted 9 anti-ICE protesters on terrorism charges — the first domestic terror prosecution targeting alleged ‘antifa’ under Trump.
This is exactly what I wrote about this week: how the terrorism label is used as a tool for repression zeitzoff.substack.com/p/what-happe...
"You might think, given the subject,...the podcast bros would have invited on a woman or two. After all, it was women–Julie K. Brown, Tina Brown, Vicky Ward, Tara Palmeri–who broke and pursued the story. Yet Alastair Campbell, Rory Stewart and the rest waded in and manfully explained Epstein to me".
Leadership shake-ups. Staff cuts. A push for the newsroom to double productivity with half its budget. Here is the inside story of how Jeff Bezos upended the Washington Post. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/14/b...
Literally this
Pete Hegseth is hoping the administration’s friends in the media “crack down on reporting that casts an unflattering light on the administration’s behavior”—but that’s not the point they’d emphasize if the war were going smoothly, @jonathanbchait.bsky.social argues:
Regardless of how the war ends, the Revolutionary Guard will be central to what comes next. But both its military capabilities and its business empire are damaged
‘You live in Dubai, aren’t you scared?’
Bryony Gooch reports on the jarring contrast between footage of drones hitting the emirate while the Iran war rages, with social media influencers and expats claiming it’s business as usual in Dubai
His anti-Muslim and pro-mass-deportation videos have gone viral with millions of views. Advance UK, the far-right party led by Ben Habib, paid the anonymous group behind him to produce a range of propaganda pieces. But English-Nationalist “rapper” Danny Bones doesn't actually exist @tbij.bsky.social
When a federal judge (finally) put ICE officers under oath, they admitted that they are given daily detention quotas and rely heavily on a Palantir-supplied AI tool to select targets, without warrants and without enough evidence to obtain one. They simply go into neighborhoods and round people up.
Moments after calling CNN "fake news" for reporting that the administration had not planned for Iran to shut down the Strait of Hormuz, Hegseth basically confirms that they didn't plan for it.
"President Donald Trump is heading toward a vexing crossroads in Iran," writes Stephen Collinson | Analysis https://cnn.it/3NeK0Mm
When my colleague David Bier at a Senate hearing yesterday defended his statement that DHS has promoted ethnic cleansing, some conservatives reacted with anger. But Stephen Miller's deportation plan does indeed fit the description of ethnic cleansing, argues Kyle Varner at @theunpopulist.net. /1
Donald Trump said Iran are welcome to the World Cup but that he does not believe it is appropriate that they be there ‘for their own life and safety’
"Jeffrey was just one human. There's no way that he would have been able to keep up with all this on his own. We always say, follow the money, right? If you follow the money, you can understand a lot about how this operation ran."
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I hope this is one of the most consequential pieces I will have ever written.
Epstein and His Co-Conspirators’ New York Crimes: What NY officials can now do
I used to work for the government. In order to justify budgets, bad actors overspend at the end of the fiscal year. So the administration spent $93B on bullshit to justify massive Pentagon budget proposals, all while gutting health care and food assistance. www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...
The US military accidentally struck an Iranian elementary school, in an attack that state media said killed at least 168 children and 14 teachers, likely due to outdated information about a nearby naval base, according to two sources. https://cnn.it/4bzFnFT
"If the new inquiry does not examine decision-making at senior government level, it will struggle to answer the question of whether collusion was the work of rogue agents, or the product of policy."
I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public.
I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are.
1/ Here's what I can share:
L’ampleur exacte du phénomène ne se dessinera qu’a posteriori. Peut-être à l’occasion du contrôle sur les comptes de campagne. Ou quand les faux nez de certains candidats « sans étiquette » tomberont…
Enquête @humanite.fr sur l’ingérence de Stérin aux municipales :
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🟨 Print Edition — Nazir Afzal: ‘Class Discrimination Isn’t a Complex Mystery – It’s a Structural Issue Quietly Enforced, Politely Denied, Endlessly Deferred’
The Chancellor of Manchester University has co-authored a new report, ‘Class Ceiling…
KENNEDY: You said, 'Republicans think can troll their way to ethnic cleansing.' Did I read that correctly?
BIER: DHS tweeted for 100m deportations. That would be ethnic cleansing!
K: You don't think it's hyperbolic?
B: I think advocating 100m deportations is ethnic cleansing. Yes. Your time is up
"Once universities and their allies recovered from their shock and challenged Trump, they were able to block many, if not most, of the White House’s moves in court. Trump has certainly left his mark on America’s universities. But he has not broken them."
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