NEW piece from me @goodauth.bsky.social on the disastrous consequences of Trump and Rubio dismantling U.S. diplomacy. Managing the Iran War will be much harder; so will picking up the pieces. Diplomacy is a tool of war AND of peace.
(Loosely based on thread below.)
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Trump can just openly say “I am doing this to bring in a one party state for 50 years” and commentators will hem and haw about the intricacies of carrying off a talking filibuster
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One, they wanted the content.
Two, they wanted to get rid of women and Black people.
Three, they wanted to install loyalists.
Another conservative justice on the Wisconsin Supreme Court, Annette Ziegler, just announced she'll retire ahead of next year's elections.
Her announcement comes just weeks before conservatives are trying to defend a different open seat.
Liberals could emerge with a 6-1 majority by 2027.
Utah Republicans have passed a bill that would let GOP cities secede from the only big blue county, where Dems may gain full control of county govt in 2026.
Salt Lake County has 1/3 of Utah’s residents, but that could drop considerably—unless courts block this for violating the legislative deadline
Post Amy Siskind @amysiskind.com WH press secretary Karoline Leavitt tells Fox News that a military draft is on the table. 4:19 PM • Mar 8, 2026 CEverybody can reply 276 reposts 699 quotes 685 likes 36 saves 184 ① 975 685
This is an irresponsible, misleading post that misrepresents what Leavitt said. There's enough awful stuff happening. Don't confuse people.
08.03.2026 23:18 — 👍 2833 🔁 437 💬 67 📌 0(I watched the clip. She’s asked about a possible draft but when she says all options on the table, she seems to be talking about whether ground troops are going in. Not that I mind her causing a firestorm with her sloppiness.)
08.03.2026 22:46 — 👍 389 🔁 45 💬 11 📌 11I think they think they can just order regime change on DoorDash
08.03.2026 21:28 — 👍 447 🔁 56 💬 7 📌 3Yep. You’re going to say “fuck tha police” one day and a month later you won’t be able to get through TSA.
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“[A] legal permanent resident who spent several weeks at the Camp East Montana detention facility in Texas, told AP that he overheard a security guard talking about a betting pool for which detainee would next die by suicide.”
Just reforming ICE will not stop this kind of monstrosity.
Spent some time in Iowa and went long on Iowa State’s Audi Crooks. Despite her dominance, she deals with a lot of negativity, especially about her body. But no matter what is said about her, Audi Crooks wears a smile. www.espn.com/womens-colle...
08.03.2026 13:23 — 👍 3502 🔁 591 💬 126 📌 49MeToo pushed a few big-name bad actors out of their positions, but it did very little to grapple with the systems and the cultures and the people that empowered those bad actors and allowed them to operate with impunity.
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Prof. Peters teaching at Yale, she stands by a blackboard and is wearing pants and a blazer. She looks to be in her mid 40s but it is hard to say. Picture from Yale law school website obituary.
In honor of international Women's Day I am going to tell you a story about Ellen Ash Peters, the first female professor at Yale Law and the first female Justice on the Connecticut Supreme Court.
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“We are marching through the world, cleaning out the bad guys… he is the greatest commander-in-chief of all time.”
I hope this guy lives to face charges.
Also enough with the goddamn baseball caps, what is wrong with these gross people?
I know what the Western press called it when Iraqis used IEDs against Americans in 2004. It wasn't an "anti-American demo."
08.03.2026 00:23 — 👍 138 🔁 44 💬 3 📌 0Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.
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DHS claimed "an ICE agent had fired 'defensive shots' into Martinez's vehicle after Martinez 'intentionally ran over' another agent."
But body cam video now "shows that Martinez's vehicle, a blue Ford Fusion, was stationary or going at a very low rate of speed when he was fatally shot."
Remarkable: With support for the Iran war tanking, Trump is now throwing away the GOP's advantage on three core issues: Economy, immigration, national security.
A year ago it looked like he might be popular on all three. He lit it all on fire. 1/
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2074...
Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs
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the Austin mass shooter was a Tesla employee who assaulted a coworker during a company-allowed prayer break late last year
the company refused to give the victim her assailant's name so she could press charges, and he went on to become a mass shooter
www.statesman.com/business/art...
We can afford anything we want. The problem is we want all the wrong stuff.
06.03.2026 17:40 — 👍 15 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0“Listen, people knew the risks when they signed up to be an American.”
06.03.2026 03:37 — 👍 43 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0Governor would appoint with an election to fill the seat in November
05.03.2026 19:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Who is Markwayne’s side piece? And will they get an official title?
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BREAKING: Boston Celtics All-NBA star Jayson Tatum will play this season and could make his debut on Friday against the Dallas Mavericks – less than 10 months after surgery for a ruptured Achilles tendon.
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Senate Republicans blocked an effort to rein in Trump’s ability to wage war against Iran without approval from Congress
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As a professor, providing accommodations doesn’t impact me at all, and it helps students out. The fact that anyone cares about this is baffling to me.
But then I remember that the country is currently run by eugenicist freaks and they’ve just found a new group to hound.
