Trump vies for Bush’s crown for worst foreign policy decision in history The US president upended half a century of US foreign policy in an eight-minute video with another attempt at Middle Eastern regime change

Trump vies for Bush’s crown for worst foreign policy decision in history www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

Thank God for the FIFA Peace Prize

Netblocks reports Iran is under a total Internet blackout. It is unclear if this is due to the attacks, cyber warfare, or action by Iranian security to suppress information.

SBU Alpha FPV drone strikes on Russian occupiers. Fighters say over 2,200 killed in the last two weeks alone.

Ok. If you wanted to steelman this — to critique the best argument, most plausibly stated, for this war — who has articulated it?

(I don’t expect it would be anyone in the administration)

what a crazy night for sam altman to be like "yeah we got that dept of war deal, and there's no moral concerns here"

Congress Faces War Powers Votes in Wake of Iran Strikes

After horse escapes, Congress must weigh whether to close barn door.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/u...

Board of Peace launches first war 🫠

Updated:

If they hit civilians will you be calling for prosecution for war crime?

I just want a nearby corner store, not to worry about medical bills, decent schools for every kid, and no octogenarians to be profiting off the deaths of strangers on the other side of the world, is that too much to ask?

Radiohead is demanding that the Trump administration take down a pro-ICE promotional video featuring a version of its song “Let Down” without permission.

Full statement from the band:

JUST IN: A federal judge says the Trump administration has been “terrorizing” refugees — violating the promise America made to them when they fled persecution at home — by locking them up illegally. He blocked the policy for those in MN storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

White House stalls release of approved US science budgets The US Congress rejected sweeping cuts to science agencies. But the NIH, the NSF and NASA have had their spending slowed.

Congress rejected massive cuts to US science budgets for 2026, but much of the money still isn’t flowing to researchers.

The culprit? The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is quietly slow-walking the release of funds. 🧵👇

The Conference of Catholic Bishops is... not playing around in this brief.

www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

NEW: When anti-ICE protesters disrupted a church service, the Trump administration vowed to stop at nothing to protect religious liberty.

But congregations across the country who welcome immigrants say ICE has been violating their rights on a mass scale.
www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

Civil rights stories removed from Border Patrol’s website during Black History Month Historical accounts of women, Black men, and the agency’s deployment against segregationists in the sixties have disappeared from the official Customs and Border Protection (CBP) website.

NEW: As Black History Month comes to a close, CBP appears to have scrubbed stories about Black people and marginalized groups' contributions to the history of the agency from an official page.

Archived versions show the changes happened the first week of February:

Trump’s ICE Is Quietly Stockpiling Weaponry—and It Should Alarm Us All In addition to staffing up at a furious rate, ICE and CPB are acquiring a vast cache of weapons from private contractors, new data reveals. This will not end well—or anytime soon.

👀 "Trump’s ICE Is Quietly Stockpiling Weaponry—and It Should Alarm Us All. In addition to staffing up at a furious rate, ICE and CPB are acquiring a vast cache of weapons from private contractors, new data reveals. This will not end well—or anytime soon." newrepublic.com/article/2069...

Trump’s ‘war on fraud’ announcement recalls plan for assistant attorney general who answers to Vance The proposed position would further subordinate the Justice Department and the rule of law to the White House.

In his State of the Union address Tuesday night, President Donald Trump announced a “war on fraud,” a term that the administration has used in increasingly broad and deceptive ways. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

As I say in the interview, look at the oligarchs and the criminal networks more than at Trump. He'll die eventually. They're planning for that. Where will the money he stole go? Who are they planning to install in his place? Who does that person work for? What's the point of leverage? Start there.

a snippet of a mini-comic, at top - straight line stretches from point A to B. Immediately below, same dot at A, then becomes a curving, meandering line that winds through the page and ends at a point with rays and a question mark emanating from it. Text reads: "Nothing can do this for you - for that robs you of experience and conflates answers with learning. Rather, it's all the decisions you make along the way, the mistakes, struggles, and surprises! These pathways you create - this is learning. https://spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-syllabi/

In case anyone needs it for their syllabi, my statement in gen-Ai from the minicomic I made as a syllabus for class last semester. All online and printable here spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-sy...

Trump’s Latest Deportation Tactic: Targeting Immigrants With Minor Family Court Cases Should a dad be deported for leaving his toddlers alone at home for a half hour 15 years ago? The Trump administration says yes in a pending court case with sweeping implications for both the immigrat...

"Should a dad be deported for leaving his toddlers alone at home for a half hour 15 years ago? The Trump administration says yes in a pending court case with sweeping implications for both the immigration and child welfare systems." www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Fox screengrab interviewing Vance, chyron says "Dems refuse to stand for protecting Americans"

Usually a president rolls out new policy ideas during the State of the Union then he and his administration go on the road to try to talk up the legislation and get it passed. But Trump has no ideas to help people, so the speech is political gimmicks followed by TV hits talking about the gimmicks.

"SLOPPINESS": The Trump administration claimed that a man detained by ICE had a criminal convictions for marijuana possession in 2009.

The judge pointed out that the man was 4 years old at the time.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

a button that says wrap it up is lit up red ALT: a button that says wrap it up is lit up red

come on dude.

Argh. The stupidity of the man is always just stunning. We should impeach him for being stupid, if nothing else.

New election, same old refrain. This is a screenshot of a tweet then Pres. Trump posted in June 2020, claiming the upcoming election would be "rigged" and "the scandal of our times." One difference this time around is that he's started his election denying even earlier -- or he just never stopped.

Trump is lying about making healthcare more affordable – he’s skyrocketed costs for millions of Americans and is making us sicker.

His Big Ugly Bill has already forced tens of thousands of Washingtonians to lose their health insurance.

Fuck this guy.