Dreaming Beetle

Saoirse-Monica Jackson in a crazypants getup eating an ice cream in front of a mural of the five Derry Girls. Her face is next to her mural face.

The mural of the five Derry Girls characters.

Marvelous moment in Lisa (Derry Girls) McGee’s new show, How To Get To Heaven From Belfast.
Actress Saoirse-Monica Jackson, who played Erin in Derry Girls, filmed against a background mural of herself in the earlier show.

Democratic voters in Texas scramble to find polling place amid precinct voting switch Early voting had been countywide and saw record Democratic turnout, but the switch to precinct-only locations left many voters showing up at the wrong spot and being turned away.

🚨BREAKING: Hundreds of Democratic voters in Dallas and Williamson Counties, Texas scrambled to find their polling places Tuesday after the local Republican parties refused to hold a joint primary — ending more than a decade of convenient countywide voting. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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…

This really ought to be terrifying. We literally have people making decisions to drop bombs in the grips of apocalyptic fantasies.

All the planes being forced to fly around nearly the entire Middle East

Dubai Police Threaten Arrest for Social-Media Posts Contradicting Officials The police force of Dubai, an emirate known for its population of social-media influencers and adoption of the Western lifestyle, is threatening jail time for sharing content that contradicts official...

Dubai police are threatening jail time for "any content that contradicts official announcements."

fuck, I’m sorry, I can’t compete with this

Scenes from a personalist regime

Sen Mark Warner stunning words after briefing from Trump regime: "Let's bc clear. There was no imminent threat to the United States by the Iranians. There was a threat to Israel. If we equate a threat to Israel as the equivalent of an imminent threat to the US, then we are in uncharted territory."

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Breaking - US consulate in Dubai has been hit and is on fire
@cnn.com

CBP Tapped Into the Online Advertising Ecosystem To Track Peoples’ Movements An internal DHS document obtained by 404 Media shows for the first time CBP used location data sourced from the online advertising industry to track phone locations. ICE has bought access to similar t...

SCOOP: An internal DHS document obtained by 404 Media shows for the first time CBP used location data sourced from the online advertising industry to track phone locations.

This surveillance can happen through all sorts of apps, such as video games, news apps, weather trackers, and dating apps.

Americans Stranded in the Middle East Aren’t Getting Help from the State Department “Please do not rely on the U.S. government for assisted departure or evacuation,” a State department hotline said when NOTUS called Tuesday afternoon.

NEWS: Americans were told to evacuate the Middle East — but the State Dept is not helping them do it.

We called the State hotline. First thing you hear is an automated message: "Do not rely on the U.S. government for assisted departure or evacuation."

“I’m giving you a performance evaluation here, I’m not looking for a response.”

Tillis is a Republican Senator.

A oil prices have conveniently skyrocketed and no one can trace the money because its in a Qatari bank account.

You can see the smile creeping on his face as he's talking because he's so proud that he's getting away with something so corrupt.

WELCH: Mr. Yoho is also the husband of your former spokesperson, Tricia McLaughlin?

NOEM: Yes

WELCH: So your former assistant and her husband are the ones that got the DHS no bid contract for $143m. Any dispute about that?

NOEM: No.

At least Carlin isn’t alive to see this.

Top Questions the Trump Administration Needs to Answer on War with Iran Congress and journalists should demand answers to these questions, many of which should have been answered prior to the war beginning

With senior US officials briefing Congress on Tuesday about Iran war plans.

I teamed up with @tessbridgeman.bsky.social @k8brannen.bsky.social

Top Questions the Trump Administration Needs to Answer on War with Iran

Also plenty of questions for journalists (and the public) here.

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She’d Never Changed Her Gender Marker. Kansas Invalidated Her License Anyway. — Assigned A trans Kansas resident recently changed her name but not her gender marker on her license, fearing what Kansas may do if she did. The Kansas DMV still flagged her ID.

This story, from @natezuke.bsky.social, is absolutely wild. A trans woman who never changed her gender marker was issued a letter invalidating her license. At the DMV they cut up her license, which had an "M" marker.

www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

Operation Allies Refuge moved ~125K people out of AFG in 2021. To move 300-400K AMCITs and families out of the Middle East, commercial air will not suffice. The US would need to perform one of the largest non-combatant evacuation operations ever attempted--during an air war. There's a plan, right?

Just a reminder that Trump didn't just bumble us into an unnecessary war -- he deliberately created the conditions that he's now screaming about

White House's "War Powers Report" to Congress for attack on Iran.⬇️

Two conspicuous absences:

1. The word "imminent" appears nowhere. There is thus no justification in the Report for proceeding without prior congressional authorization.

2. No reference to wellbeing/protection of Iranian people.

He’s currently suing The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, his DOJ seized devices from a Washington Post reporter, he’s said that the broadcast nets should lose their licenses and called for the firings of various journalists, what are we doing here?

… Speaker Johnson now also with the ‘Bibi made him do it’ line

Haha! They’re throwing Vance under the bus.

Trump’s Case for War With Iran Faces Growing Scrutiny U.S. intelligence showed threats from Iran loomed, as they had for years. But they were not imminent.

"U.S. officials and lawmakers with access to classified information ... say the administration’s assertions are incomplete, unsubstantiated, or flat-out wrong."

- Wall Street Journal

The massive redeployment of these aircrafts comes on the same day that Trump promised that "the big wave" of US attacks on Iran was yet to come.

www.cnn.com/2026/03/02/p...

Trump/Hegseth operational security: at Joe’s Stone Crab, a restaurant a 2-minute walk from the White House, someone was having a conversation about the attacks on Iran that were going to start in 6 hours. Loud enough for the founder of @TMZ.com to recount it in real time with his podcast cohost.

The liberal justices call out the *rank* hypocrisy of their Republican colleagues on the Court