Emma Steiner

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Follow closely this welcome and really important new lawsuit challenging the Trump administration's policy punishing social media misinformation and hate researchers with immigration consequences.

U.S. Tomahawk Hit Naval Base Beside Iranian School, Video Shows The evidence contradicts President Trump’s claim that Iran was responsible for a strike at the school that killed 175 people, most of them children.

Breaking News: New video adds to evidence that a U.S. missile likely hit an Iranian school where 175 people, many of them children, were reportedly killed.

‘Dark, like our future’: Iranians describe scenes of catastrophe after Tehran’s oil depots bombed Residents report terror of smoke-filled city, from potentially toxic rain, air and water to food scarcity and difficulty of escape

“Tehran is burning. And smoke has filled the streets. It’s impossible to drive out of the city right now and even with the windows closed, heavy smoke is making its way inside."

Read every word.

I earnestly love International Women's Day, but this year it just feels like another reminder of the unfulfilled promise of a world that is safe, just, and kind to women and girls

U.S. May Have Committed War Crime In Sinking Of Iranian Ship The Geneva Conventions say nations have a duty to “take all possible measures” to help rescue victims of shipwrecks. A U.S. submarine left that to Sri Lanka.

“The 312-foot Dena and its 130-member crew, many of them musicians in the Iranian navy band, had just finished participating in an Indian government naval exercise and cultural exchange that the U.S. Navy had also participated in and were on the way home on Wednesday.”

how it feels taking public transit rn

Another 🚨 @fieldnotes.co investigation is out in the wild.

This one reveals how an obscure nonprofit founded by oil & gas lawyers and funded by right-wing ideologues—and registered at a suburban Texas strip mall—has played an outsized role in Donald Trump’s assault on climate /enviro policy. 🧵

Bernard LaFayette, Selma voting rights organizer, has died Voting rights organizer Bernard LaFayette has died. LaFayette's son says his father died Thursday morning of a heart attack. He was 85.

Bernard LaFayette, the advance man who did the risky groundwork for the voter registration campaign in Selma, Alabama, that culminated in the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, has died.

Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say Military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday, two U.S. officials told Reu...

Reuters Exclusive

"U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school."

"The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the ​Middle East."

CLC Calls for Inquiry Into Multiple Trips by FBI Director Kash Patel On March 4, 2026, Campaign Legal Center (CLC) filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) requesting an investigation into whether FBI Director Ka...

BREAKING: FBI Director Kash Patel appears to have abused government funds for personal travel unrelated to his official duties at least 10 times, including a recent trip to the Olympics. We filed a complaint and are demanding an investigation.

Explore Financial Disclosures From President Trump and 1,500 of His Appointees - ProPublica Use this database to explore potential conflicts of interest for President Donald Trump and his team. The documents disclose positions officials have held outside government, their assets and their de...

NEW: Over the past year, we've been collecting thousands of financial disclosure documents from across the Trump administration. Now we're making them searchable. Look up names, assets, former employers across 1,500+ Trump appointees and 3,000+ ethics documents.

No Help and Few Options for Travelers Stranded by Mideast Conflict

One woman who called the State Department helpline looking for help said they told her to "stop ranting and raving" and hung up on her.

Another woman said they asked her how to spell Oman.

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/t...

Polymarket tweet that says JUST IN: White House officials clarify Operation Epic Fury isn't a war, but a special "combat operation"

the way this hits if you're a russia person....................

Live updates: Trump says U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran could take four to five weeks Six American service members have been killed. Trump doesn’t rule out ground troops to Iran if ‘necessary.’

U.S. and Israeli strikes have killed 555 people in Iran, according to the Iranian Red Crescent society.

The deadliest attack appears to be the strike on a school where over 150 people — many children — were killed, according to Iran’s mission to the U.N.

Trump Says He Brought 'Justice' To Iran. His War Boosts Fears The U.S. Has Gone Rogue. The administration’s latest escalation is boosting the global view of the U.S. as a rogue actor, fueling instability, acting illogically and illegally and risking innocent lives.

NEW– Trump's war on Iran boosts the global view of the US as a rogue actor, fueling instability, acting illogically+illegally & risking innocent lives

Combined with his broader agenda + US record from Gaza to Iraq, international wariness of America is at new heights
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

The same people who tried to overturn the 2020 election have only grown better organized and are now embedded in the machinery of government.

It raises concern that the administration is laying the groundwork to improperly reshape elections or even overturn the will of voters.

WOW. 19 people, all who were imprisoned and mistreated in a foreign prison at the direct command of the United States, are brave enough to say “We are innocent, and we will endure more time imprisoned to prove that.”

I can only admire the enormous courage such a move takes.

Trump Officials Attended a Summit of Election Deniers Who Want the President to Take Over the Midterms The meeting’s participants included Kurt Olsen, a White House lawyer charged with reinvestigating the 2020 election, and Heather Honey, the Department of Homeland Security official in charge of electi...

NEW: Several high-ranking federal election officials attended a summit last week at which prominent activists who worked to overturn Trump’s loss in the 2020 election pressed for the president to declare a national emergency to take over the midterms.

Houston LULAC council cancels 2026 Cinco de Mayo parade over ICE concerns LULAC District VIII, which puts on the annual parade, said the cancellation applies to this year’s event only and that the organization looks forward to bringing the parade back next year.

A Houston council of the League of United Latin American Citizens announced Friday that it canceled this year's Cinco de Mayo parade due to “growing concerns" surrounding federal immigration enforcement.

Manufacturing a “national emergency” wouldn’t unlock a damn thing. The President cannot take over elections or change the rules—an if he tries, we will stop him.

Kansas informs trans residents their driver’s licenses become invalid on Thursday Some transgender Kansans said they had received the letters from the Department of Revenue. Others hadn’t by Wednesday evening.

“‘The persecution is the point,’ said Rep. Abi Boatman, a Wichita Democrat and the only transgender member of the Legislature, who received the [Kansas Dept of Revenue] notice on Wednesday.” To underscore that: a Kansas state legislator is among those whose driver’s license will be voided. (🎁 link:)

This book was indispensable for grad school Russian (many belated realizations!) The series has a Latin version that students may find helpful.

Armed ICE officer in Portland called 911 during confrontation: ‘I’m going to have to shoot this kid.’ Dispatch records and a police report obtained by OPB describe the previously unreported incident last fall.

In a 5-minute phone call to dispatchers, a federal immigration officer requests police backup last October to help with a kid tailing him on a motorized bicycle. "I need someone here now, or else I'm going to have to shoot this kid," the officer said on a recording of the call obtained by OPB.

the extent to which all cats are just cats is really incredible

I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.

Congrats! Very exciting.

With today's strike, the United States has now killed more than 150 individuals in maritime strikes in the Eastern Pacific and Caribbean since September 2025.

Tracking by civilian harm monitor @airwars.bsky.social

airwars.org/conflict/u-s...

Youtube user BasedProkopios uploading a video to his channel Secret History entitled “Were these Roman rulers DEMONS?”

Who did you root for 😂