Roger Sollenberger

The NYT interview is even worse www.nytimes.com/2026/03/01/u...

“It’s not going to be anybody that we were thinking of because they are all dead.”

NEW: Four federal judges have formed a firewall against ICE in West Virginia — and say they’ll punish state and federal officials of they continue detaining people in ways they have ruled illegal and unconstitutional.

www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

Man it was so much fun

Might not be terrorism, for sure, but worth recognizing the potential risks Trump created. Lone gunman, random, the night after Trump broke international law & assassinated the theocratic leader of a Muslim country. In any event we can’t let this admin hijack excuses for mass surveillance state etc

Totally fair, and we should, but it’s also a wildly different context than if this had happened on, say, Friday night

We just assassinated the theocratic leader of a Muslim country

Same bar where I played Free Bird (yes sorry) with my brother not long ago, one of the happiest moments of my life

'Potential nexus to terrorism': FBI, APD give update on 6th Street mass shooting Three people are dead and 14 others were injured in a mass shooting early Sunday outside Buford’s bar on West Sixth Street. Among the dead was the suspected gunman who was shot by officers.

The FBI is investigating a “potential nexus to terrorism” after a deadly mass shooting outside a bar in downtown Austin late last night
www.statesman.com/news/local/a...

Deadly anti-U.S. protests outside the American consulate in Karachi. This is going great.
www.nbcnews.com/world/iran/l...

Thankfully, we can be confident the President of the United States does indeed remember that the world has seen nukes before, so he can’t mean that

Remember how Trump's SOTU included a line about how he'd stopped eight wars, including Israel v. Iran?

Wouldn’t be the first time

“Yeah, so just reassure the ayatollah and everyone that Huck’s just bluffing, we’ve gotta flex a bit to keep the Saudis happy, and you can confidently carry on with your scheduled internal discussions about trying to reach a nuclear deal with us”

Fairly good point here that identifying insider prediction market trades in real time would be a real coup for foreign intelligence

Yeah, they’ve got no skin in it — but man the AI scanner idea would be a hell of a resource for reporters

Someone should build an AI program that scans prediction markets and flags surges in unusual activity

This Trump post is mental and he also genuinely does not seem to care about managing the war he started, which I’m sure inspires faith in governments and businesses around the world

Dozens dead in Iran school blast blamed on US and Israel strikes There is no confirmation by the US or Israel of the strike on the school located near elite military troops.

108 schoolchildren killed in the strikes, per BBC (citing a local source, not yet confirmed by U.S. officials)
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Trump has been building up military presence in the Gulf for several weeks, but I’m definitely interested to learn when he decided to greenlight the assassination

For Trump, the Iran Attack Is the Ultimate War of Choice

Trump decided to launch a war of choice against Iran not because it posed an imminent threat but because it didn't. With Iran weaker than in years, a window of opportunity opened. @sangernyt.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/u...

Meanwhile Trump’s DOJ is still withholding records of a woman the FBI wanted to cooperate with for a criminal investigation into whether Trump raped her when she was a child

Exclusive: Trump floats "off ramps" after attacking Iran "I can go long and take over the whole thing, or end it in two or three days..."

With the assassination of the ayatollah (!) it sure seems like Bibi and Trump — now openly calling for urgent regime change — are forcing the Iranian people into a civil war, whether they’re ready for it or not. Unless of course we’re going in to secure the country www.axios.com/2026/02/28/t...

They tried to assassinate Khamenei?

apnews.com/article/iran...

Ah
www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Looks like a couple commercial jets just turned around from their scheduled landing in Tel Aviv

Trump just made it clear that (at least as of his interests today) that he won’t bail Howard Lutnick out of testifying about Epstein. To the lions.

“Howard would go in and do whatever he has to say. He’s a very innocent guy, doing a good job.”

4/4 what the fuck

*not a rating

Paramount + WBD may not be the slam dunk you think it is. It's a great bet that this is not on most people's radars in Hollywood. But they might want to pay attention.

A worthwhile piece on Warner.

"So Paramount, w/a $12 bil market cap, is doing a $111 bil acquisition, $33 billion of which is debt, $40 bil which is equity backed by Larry, whose wealth is tied to Oracle, which is leveraged to the gills. What could go wrong?"

jmarie89.substack.com/p/paramount-...

How Todd Blanche Gave Ghislaine Maxwell Blackmail over Donald Trump - emptywheel Among the implications of DOJ's attempt to bury Epstein files implicating Trump are that Ghislaine Maxwell has blackmail material over Trump.

Reupping my piece on missing Epstein docs, which I stand by.

I note in it that substance of allegation is not salient until we get missing docs. What it does, for now, is prove DOJ is improperly withholding docs.

Their claim docs are duplicative is patent bullshit.

emptywheel.net/how-todd-bla...