"... it is not enough to make cogent arguments about strategy, politics, and priorities (though we should). We must also not be afraid to make moral arguments. Otherwise, we risk losing ourselves."
04.03.2026 01:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0"... it is not enough to make cogent arguments about strategy, politics, and priorities (though we should). We must also not be afraid to make moral arguments. Otherwise, we risk losing ourselves."
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From @benrhodes.bsky.social
"Democrats should be the anti-war party. That is what most Americans believe. That is the right thing to be. When faced with an existential challenge to American democracy and global order like Donald Trump,...
open.substack.com/pub/benrhode...
U.S. State Department notice for Americans to leave 13 Middle Eastern countries
Image of current flights in the air over the Middle East
The U.S. State Department issued a notice yesterday for Americans to evacuate more than a dozen Middle Eastern countries "via commercial means due to serious safety risks."
The catch?
Air space is closed. There are no flights leaving 10 of the 13 countries.
Many of the scientists Jeffrey Epstein courted were already well-established and well-funded. So why didn’t they all just say no? Science talked with three who did just that.
Here’s how Epstein approached them, and why they refused to have anything to do with him. ⬇️ https://scim.ag/40qbXnv
From @sulliview.bsky.social
"It’s hard not to think of the movie 'Wag the Dog,' in which a manufactured war was dreamed up to distract from encroaching political disaster."
When the media covers war, every other topic fades
open.substack.com/pub/margaret...
This is news?
03.03.2026 01:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Secretary Rubio's remarks indicate that Israel put U.S. forces in harm's way by insisting on attacking Iran. And the administration was complicit—joining their war instead of talking them down.
This is unacceptable of the President, and unacceptable of a country that calls itself our ally.
"... His hubris resembles that of the neocons — like them, he believes in American supremacy and is fascinated by the overwhelming power of the U.S. military — but he shares none of their idealism. His only commitment is to himself."
02.03.2026 19:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0"...such as Voice of America and Radio Farda, that could have communicated with the Iranian people during this crisis. Having done more than any president in our lifetime to destroy democracy at home, Trump has no interest in making it flourish abroad...
02.03.2026 19:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0"...Democracy can’t be installed — it has to grow from within, over time, under delicate conditions. The U.S. can help support it, but last year Trump shut down every U.S. agency and bureau that promoted democracy and human rights, and defunded government media,...
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From George Packer
"But if recent decades have taught anything, it’s that the absence of tyranny is not freedom but chaos; that war is a likelier agent of disintegration than of renewal; that America knows how to destroy regimes but not remake societies...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
ICYMI over the weekend: My colleagues and I reviewed 15,000 documents to put together a detailed account of how Jeffrey Epstein leveraged medical care to manipulate and control victims, and how some doctors enabled that. Gift link:
02.03.2026 18:30 — 👍 383 🔁 210 💬 20 📌 19
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.”
— President Eisenhower, 1953.
By @timothysnyder.bsky.social
"The emperor has no clothes, and is standing in front of the mirror, asking who is the fairest of them all. The answer might be unexpected. War can create opportunities for the liar, but it can also expose the shabbiness of the lie."
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
He told them to follow the Constitution even though the president hasn’t.
02.03.2026 13:18 — 👍 16 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Witness definitively.
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Whether you’re represented by Democrats or Republicans, it’s extra important for your Members of Congress to hear from you right now.
Urge your elected officials to use every lever in their toolbox to put an immediate stop to Trump’s illegal war with Iran.
Donald Trump is planning to use his attack on Iran to justify a power grab over voting in the 2026 midterms. The fact that the attack violates the Constitution won’t stop him from trying. It is our job to expose this plot and ensure that it does not succeed. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/trum...
01.03.2026 22:43 — 👍 2821 🔁 1219 💬 81 📌 51The Secret Agent
02.03.2026 01:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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.
This article should have made the basic point that other countries are governed by the rule of law. It’s not about “eagerness” to prosecute and it’s not a puzzle. It’s a marker of a deep US problem.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/01/w...
from Ian Buruma
"...What was unthinkable only yesterday we now take in stride, and we wait for that moment when things really have gone too far this time, when the fever breaks and things will revert to normal...But that moment probably won’t come..."
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/22/o...
They went to war with Iran (which nobody in America was asking for) so they could conjure an excuse to allow ICE to keep murdering Americans and teargassing schools here at home with impunity (which nobody in America was asking for).
01.03.2026 15:06 — 👍 19372 🔁 6063 💬 1663 📌 475
LINDSEY GRAHAM: Our goal is to make sure Iran cannot become again the largest state sponsor of terrorism.
WELKER: Does the the president have a plan to guarantee that happens?
GRAHAM: No. It's not his job.
Totally agree.
01.03.2026 16:20 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Trump administration is using billions of dollars in ICE funding to put more immigrants behind bars than ever before, often in inhumane conditions with little or no oversight. It’s a recipe for a human rights disaster. bit.ly/4qWSVQ4
01.03.2026 16:18 — 👍 114 🔁 63 💬 3 📌 4
White text: "Tell Congress: No unconstitutional war with Iran". ACLU logo. Photos of the Capitol and military troops. Dark red background.
Tell your members of Congress: Vote YES on the Khanna-Massie War Powers Resolution and end President Trump’s unconstitutional and unauthorized use of military force against Iran.
Send your message now at aclu.org/war-on-iran-
Roughly 100 ICE vehicles are on their way to a warehouse in Western Maryland, as signs mount of an impending operation here.
28.02.2026 17:52 — 👍 721 🔁 538 💬 39 📌 89😱
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No wonder Trump went to war with Iran in the dead of night, with the Capitol empty, most Americans soundly asleep
This war is illegal. Full stop. The worst abuse of presidential power in American history aims to cement a dictatorship on U.S. soil
My instant column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...
