When the media covers war, every other topic fades Trump will do anything to distract from the political damage of the Epstein files

Have posted this before but thought I'd repost the article by @sulliview.bsky.social, as there's more going on than the illegal war in Iran - though some would prefer you don't focus on too much else.

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Madman out of control, surrounded by a bunch of grinning buffoons.

Amazon withdraws from Paris Book Festival following boycott

Amazon has withdrawn from the Paris Book Festival, due to be held from 17th to 19th April 👇 #BookSky

Rigging the Vote: Trump’s Threats to Elections Marc Elias joins Sue Halpern for a wide-ranging discussion of voting rights, campaign financing, and threats to election integrity.

Sue Halpern (full disclosure my beautiful and sagacious wife) talks with @marcelias.bsky.social live tomorrow on the somewhat important topic of how to make sure we have an election later this year
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Nah, we’d rather blow through billions of taxpayer dollars doing it the dumb way because we know more than anyone about everything and Trump has a blank check from Congress.

Imagine serving as a Marine and then being injured at home, on purpose, by a sitting Senator while exercising your constitutionally-protected rights.

😂

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…

The most reckless, most corrupt, most ignorant, most mentally and morally unfit, most badly advised, least inclined to take advice president in our history is also the most inclined to use military force at home and abroad. And he’s the one we have now. He’s the biggest threat we and the world face.

The Texture of Wartime Monet Going Through Old Notebooks Part 28: "Madame, you are standing too close to the paintings."

"Monet’s famous waterlilies were made during the war, and more people should know that. This is what I wanted to say, but couldn’t find the words. Look and you can see beneath the surface of the water: that dread, that waiting. Would it be destroyed, the garden in Normandy, like so many others?"

"Living in a land of such obscene cruelty demands of us deep compassion. A ballast to the bellicose & brutal reality imposed upon us by America’s most broken man. We must not shrink from their criminality, but counter it with truth & empathy. The world needs the light that exists within all of us."

Trump’s attack on Iran and the plot against your vote Donald Trump is planning to use his attack on Iran to justify a power grab over voting in the 2026 midterms.

Trump is setting the stage to claim extraordinary powers to take over the 2026 elections — from banning mail-in voting to imposing new obstacles to voter registration. All of this will be justified on the grounds of national security. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/trum...

A big part of the authoritarian playbook is war. War takes over the news. War blots out criticism. War divides a nation’s people, subjecting those against it to being called unpatriotic. War grants leaders all sorts of emergency powers. War consumes everything else.

We mustn’t let this war do so.

Community members, public officials push back against ICE expansion into metro Detroit - WDET 101.9 FM The Southfield office and planned detention center in Romulus come as the Trump administration massively increases the budget for ICE.

“Cut the utilities, condemn the building, demo it, take it under eminent domain, whatever you can do. Make it impossible for them to use our neighborhood for a concentration camp,” he said.

“This will not be solved by a harshly worded letter or resolution. We need action.”

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so great.

Woohoo! @orionmagazine.bsky.social is a finalist for the #ASME awards! Best single-topic issue, about queer ecology!

Decades of observations collected from all corners of the continent show that many of North America’s birds are in a state of accelerating decline.

Of 122 species with declining populations, more than half were dying out at an ever-faster rate. https://wapo.st/4tY6T76

It’s not supporting the troops to send them off to kill and die in an illegal war of aggression whose purpose is to make sure that their votes don’t count.

As Trump gets less popular and less powerful, he leans into presidential prerogative powers were his powers have few real limits. Trump's character predicts it. It's a form of compensation and presidential self-care.

The GOP Congress will not hold Donald Trump accountable for THIS unconstitutional crime, as they‘ve refused to hold him accountable for ANY of the unconstitutional crimes he’s committed, because the GOP Congress believes he will steal the midterms for them & prevent US from holding THEM accountable.

good morning to everyone except the united states of america you can choke

This is an impeachable act.

Hate to lib out here, but even if there was some sort of clear, strategic goal, this would still be highly illegal and the president should be impeached and removed from office immediately.

Opinion | Trump’s Attack on Iran Is Reckless

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/o... Better than nothing from the formerly Gray Lady.

He's a monster assembling his own axis of evil who want to kill babies in their quest for wars of real estate. He needs to be impeached the second you can do it.

We all to thank our Dems in Congress for this.

They enabled this kind of GOP media hegemony in return for campaign contributions.

Absurdly short-sighted.

That’s why we need new Dems in power. The ones we have now are too weak and too compromised to be worth a damn.

Well, this fucking sucks.

How come, that the military followed unconstitutional orders?