David Rotenstein

Pentagon tells Congress no sign that Iran was going to attack US first, sources say Trump administration officials acknowledged in closed-door briefings with congressional staff on Sunday that there was no intelligence suggesting Iran planned to attack U.S. forces first, two people f...

we reached the “no WMDs” phase in two days.

The irrational strongman we’ve been warned about is here His name is Donald J. Trump.

US leaders have warned about an irrational strongman with atomic weapons for decades. Then he ran for president and we gave him the nuclear codes. www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-iran...

Trump in 2011: "Our president will start a war with Iran because he has absolutely no ability to negotiate. He's weak and ineffective."

After mentioning four dead US servicemen Trump starts talking about his ballroom.

In a competitive field, this may be one of the most offensive things he has ever done.

HEGSETH: *points to general's ribbon bars* "What'd you get that one for? Fucking your mother?"

GENERAL: *sternly* killing vietnamese children

we have a psychotic, murderous, christian nationalist as secretary of defense

Minnesota would like a word.

Those three downed jets run around $90 million each.

It cost $20 million a year to operate the food kitchens serving 816,000 people in Sudan.

I saw this and at first thought "no, there's no way 'we definitely had alternative leadership in mind for Iran but I blew them up alongside the schoolgirls using AI' is what the White House is actually saying, that's too clueless and evil to be real"

You know who else did medical experiments on prisoners?

Needs a soundtrack other than Fleetwood Mac's "Monday Morning" — that's too positive.

Really useful just in case someone is looking for stories about "certified therapy cats" vs. rogue/bootleg therapy cats.

Some of the best news stories start with a public records request - Poynter Student reporters at Michigan State explain how public records helped them uncover misconduct, investigations and hidden decisions.

Poynter: Some of the best news stories start with a public records request.
www.poynter.org/reporting-ed...

Today marks the first day of Women's History Month; yesterday was the last day of Black History Month.

Every day is for women's history and Black history and Black women's history.

Because these are not histories that are separate from histories of war and economy.

Disturbance at trial of Hennessy assassins News, notes, articles and book excerpts from authors of crime history.

#OTD (March 2) in 1891, a trial of the nine accused #Mafia assassins of #NewOrleans Police Chief David #Hennessy is interrupted by an outburst from defendant Manuel #Polizzi.

#MafiaHistory 🗃️ #Skystorians

There's a very unusual double-pen "stick" house (facade, really) on the Ohio River bank opposite Cincinnati. Somebody's architectural studio project?

Kentucky historian discovers early 19th century pocket of hip-hop/metal mashup style.

It’s obscene to have this draft dodger whose children *never* served and whose father never served and whose grandfather was kicked out of Germany for dodging service, wheezing platitudes about the unnecessary deaths he caused to other people’s children who did serve their country.

The U.S. Released the Epstein Files. The Arrests Are Overseas.

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...

The chairman of the Board of Peace bombed the Gandhi hospital. Process that.

On the first day of Women’s History Month, I had the honor of standing in Pittsburgh as my friend Roxanne Brown made history — becoming the first woman and the first person of color elected International President of the United Steelworkers.

Another glass ceiling shattered. Many more to go.

It’s really crazy how much I’ve been agreeing with Rep. Thomas Massie recently!

Crews triptych.

Optics.

@thedailybeast.bsky.social
www.thedailybeast.com/trump-hosts-...

Currently trending on X.

Crews had had enough of this bullshit & he’s hiding his face in a pillow. If only it were so simple for humans.

Scouts Will Abandon D.E.I. Policies Under Agreement With Pentagon, Hegseth Says

Eagle Scout here. (Troop 6, Grayback Council, Southern Calif.)

No evidence I'm aware of that *any* Trump—or Vance, Hegseth, Rubio, Patel, Miller, Thune, M Johnson, S Miller, etc—ever had any involvement whatsoever in Scouting.

Mind your own damn business.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/u...

H/T @thegoodliars.bsky.social

I propose a new kind of draft: it’s called “Send a Trump to the Frontline.” Sen. Mark Kelly’s video takedown of President Bone Spurs & his entire family seems particularly relevant right now.