Casfetera 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇬🇱

this is fucking shocking, and while i know politics journalists think it's cliché to point this out, a democratic president would be impeached for delivering this speech in this way, and rightly so.

In "The Charge of the Light Brigade," Tennyson was writing from the perspective of the soldiers, offering a tribute for their brave sacrifice: "Theirs not to reason why / Theirs but to do and die.”

Trump thinks it's a field manual for political leaders.

“We cannot say that the United States’ actions are against international law, but we condemn Iran’s retaliatory actions as against international law,” is neither a coherent nor a compelling position.

It would appear that European governments will only say the United States is acting against international law when…

…the threat is against a European territory such as Greenland.

Shabana Mahmood to limit refugees to 30 months in UK Shorter asylum period can be renewed under hardline policy aimed at stopping rise of Reform UK

Utterly cruel, pointless and harmful. It does not minimise how bad Conservatives were to say Labour are now the most anti-asylum government in most people's living memory. This prevents people feeling any sense of safety and security after fleeing persecution.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Lou Reed was born on March 2, 1942 #gonebutneverforgotten

Trump Job Approval Polling:

All:
Disapprove: 60%
Approve: 38%

Approve Among:
GOP: 82%
IND: 29%
DEM: 5%

Ipsos / Mar 1, 2026

'Next question, please': Israeli spokesperson blows off Iranian schoolgirl deaths An Israeli spokesperson dismissed the alleged deaths of Iranian schoolgirls and the claim that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was a war criminal.During a press conference near rubble in Tel Aviv on Sunday, reporter Secunder Kermani of Britain's Channel 4 News acknowledged that "Khomeini, the Iran...

An Israeli spokesperson dismissed the alleged deaths of Iranian schoolgirls and the claim that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was a war criminal.

Hace un mes escaso que Trump minimizaba despectivamente la participación de los soldados aliados que lucharon y murieron en la guerra de Afganistán y ya le ha faltado tiempo a Starmer para implicar al Reino Unido en otro conflicto armado que América ha empezado.

Can you imagine what the response from news media would be if literally any other president—but esp a Dem president—responded to the deaths of three soldiers with "thats the way it is"?

West valley sushi shop owner released from ICE detention after eight months A federal judge has granted Kelly Yu temporary freedom after she filed a habius corpus petition.

"Her release follows months of advocacy from community members and political leaders of both parties.

Yu has operated her two West Valley restaurants for years, building a reputation for greeting customers with humor and kindness. She has no criminal record."

www.12news.com/article/news...

Not a single word of condemnation from EU leaders following the Minab school massacre committed by 🇮🇱🇺🇸, with a death toll of 148 civilians, the majority girls. Not even the usual empty calls for restraint. It shows how the Gaza genocide has risen the threshold of the admissible.

Members of Canada's military may have been involved in planning U.S. strikes on Iran, retired general says | CBC News A retired Canadian major-general says personnel on exchange with U.S. Central Command were likely involved in planning and targeting airstrikes on Iran unless Ottawa explicitly barred participation. A...

“It is highly likely that members of the Canadian military, on exchange with the United States, were involved in the planning and co-ordinating of airstrikes on Iran, says a former senior Canadian general”

Got a cab near the Department of Education. Hadn’t seen the Charlie Kirk banner before.

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.

Vaya cáncer para la democracia británica, el cuarto vizconde de Rothermere.

ITV Censors Political Statements At Brit Awards Including “Free Palestine” & “F*** I.C.E” ITV cut out "free Palestine", f*** I.C.E." and a joke about Peter Mandelson from its broadcast of the BRIT Awards.

ITV cut out "free Palestine", f*** I.C.E." and a joke about Peter Mandelson from its broadcast of the BRIT Awards.

RACHMAN: “.. Trump is now committed to a process for which there is no real precedent: regime change brought about by air power alone.”

@gideonrachman.bsky.social @financialtimes.com
www.ft.com/content/4371...

Ursula von der Leyen backs regime change in Iran, saying a “credible transition is urgently needed” after the US strikes.

The transition, she says, must put an end to Iran’s military nuclear programme and destabilising actions.

It’s pretty strange that they went to the effort to specifically target, and reportedly kill, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has had no significant role in Iranian politics to my knowledge since the 2010s. Did they want to stop the weird hip-hop tweets?

As out turns out, the “civilization“ spread by the western powers was always repression, plunder, & mass death disguised under the language of universal rights.

Six suspected insiders made $1.2M betting on a US strike on Iran

these wallets
• were funded in the last 24h
• specifically bet for February 28
• bought "yes" hours before the strikes

this is the only way Trump stops this war

Taiwan Arms Sale Approved by Congress Is Delayed as Trump Plans Visit to Beijing

Setting the stage for what's next after Iran. "Taiwan Arms Sale Approved by Congress Is Delayed as Trump Plans Visit to Beijing.
The package worth billions of dollars & endorsed by lawmakers is stalled at the State Department as the U.S. & China plan an April summit." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/u...

Worth remembering Iran was facing economic collapse and a devastating drought before this attack. Even if the hardliners find some way to survive they’re going to have to deal with that and they couldn’t before (because as a theocracy they’re interested in religion not good governance).

Senators Reveal That Feds Have Secretly Reinterpreted The PATRIOT Act We had mentioned, briefly, the amendment that Senators Ron Wyden and Mark Udall had tried to push for with relation to the renewal of controversial provisions of the PATRIOT Act, however didn&#8217…

The deal Sam signed is the kind of deal someone who doesn't know how the NSA lies by telling you what you want to hear, but then secretly changing their definition of the plain English words in the contract.

www.techdirt.com/2011/05/26/s...

OpenAI posted the terms of the deal. Reveals that it absolutely does allow for domestic surveillance. EO 12333 is how the NSA hides its domestic surveillance by capturing communications by tapping into lines *outside the US* even if it contains info from/on US persons.

openai.com/index/our-ag...

The real story is that foreign govts try to "interfere" all the time. In 2020 and 2024 we had mechanisms to catch them, call them out, & mitigate damage. Now, those mechanims are gone & the Trump admin would prefer to exploit "foreign interference" to justify a federal take-over of elections.