So far the war in Iran has cost an estimated $5.5 billion.
That's roughly $1 billion per day.
$41,666,667 per hour.
$11,574 per second.
People do not want this.
They want a living wage. They want healthcare. They want to be able to afford a home. They want their basic needs met.
Temporary win for Rep Joe Neguse (D-CO) and other Democrats in Congress trying to conduct oversight of ICE facilities
02.03.2026 19:35 — 👍 468 🔁 124 💬 8 📌 3"It is fraud" -- Neguse nails Kristi Noem for lying during her testimony yesterday when she told the Senate that DHS's $220m ad campaign starring her "went out to a competitive bid" (it did not), and tells her "I think there's gonna be accountability" (1/2)
04.03.2026 18:03 — 👍 13093 🔁 3917 💬 403 📌 260Secretary Noem must be impeached.
05.03.2026 13:53 — 👍 412 🔁 136 💬 29 📌 19
Five years ago — nearly to the day — I delivered our closing arguments in Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial.
Our warning to the country remains as imperative today as it was then.
www.hrw.org/news/2023/07...
Texas laws rewriting election rules in Harris County, which includes Houston, create unnecessary barriers for voters and improperly single out the state’s largest Black population, Human Rights Watch said.
BREAKING: House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) calls on Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-TX) to withdraw from re-election after the Texas Rep. admitted to an affair with a staffer.
MS NOW's Kevin Frey has the latest:
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has opened an internal investigation into whether the one-time architect of President Donald Trump’s large-scale immigration crackdown made disparaging comments about the Jewish faith while criticizing the U.S. attorney for Minnesota.
05.03.2026 18:38 — 👍 74 🔁 36 💬 3 📌 4
BREAKING: President Donald Trump has fired Secretary Kristi Noem, tapping Oklahoma Senator Markwayne Mullin as her potential replacement.
05.03.2026 19:01 — 👍 144 🔁 26 💬 28 📌 22
A reminder that Senator Markwayne Mullin, the guy Donald Trump has tapped to replace Kristi Noem as DHS Secretary, babbled about the smell of war (he’s not a veteran) and kept calling Pete Hegseth the president.
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Remember this when Donald Trump tells you we can’t afford health care.
05.03.2026 18:44 — 👍 1456 🔁 570 💬 69 📌 16
UPDATE:
Apparently Donald Trump watched this hearing too. And fired her the very next day.
Donald Trump has fired Kristi Noem, possibly the most incompetent Secretary of Homeland Security in American history
05.03.2026 19:16 — 👍 380 🔁 44 💬 96 📌 9
If I hear one more Evangelical claim that God anointed Donald Trump, I swear I’m gonna rapture myself.
It’s sinful.
It’s blasphemous.
It’s lousy evangelism.
It’s terrible theology.
It’s also just plain asinine...
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/umm-no-god...
BREAKING: Trump insists "I have to be involved in the appointment" of new Iranian leader in interview with Axios.
05.03.2026 18:22 — 👍 97 🔁 43 💬 50 📌 16
“Lies after lies.” “Did we come to the Gulf of Mexico to target Los Angeles and other U.S. cities? Or did they come 6,500 miles away to Iranian shores?” Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Esmail Baghaei rejected President Donald Trump’s claim that Iran posed any imminent threat and that the U.S. went to war because Tehran was “going to attack first,” calling the justification a “big lie.” “There was no intention on the part of Iran to attack the United States,” Baghaei told Drop Site. @IRIMFA_SPOX | @JeremyScahill
“Lies after lies.”
“Did we come to the Gulf of Mexico to target Los Angeles and other U.S. cities? Or did they come 6,500 miles away to Iranian shores?”
Iranian Dep. Foreign Min. Esmail Baghaei rejected Pres. Trump’s claim that Iran posed any imminent threat & that the US went to war b/c Tehran...
“…having one more attender at a demonstration rallies more support for a political cause than acquiring one more vote during an election does.”
@owasow.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The Happy Newspaper @thehappynewspaper.bsky.social , Nonviolence News @nonviolencenews.bsky.social and Positive News www.positive.news are, in my opinion, a few of the ONLY news outlets that deserve subscriptions 🗞 The people running them are doing great work especially in today's world 🫶
05.03.2026 08:16 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
"The tyrants always fall, always."
Inspiration from @riverasun.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMQh...
"IT WON'T BE THE BILLIONAIRE CHILDREN OF DONALD TRUMP AND HIS BUDDIES THAT DIE. IT'S GOING TO BE THE CHILDREN OF MIDDLE CLASS AND POOR FAMILIES ALL ACROSS THIS COUNTRY THAT ARE GONNA DIE FOR A WAR OF CHOICE, A WAR OF VANITY AN ILLEGAL WAR." SENATOR CHRIS MURPHY
Trump can do essentially everything that Putin does now with zero buy in or support from anyone in his country. He is also in a position to make or break oligarchs under his thumb and tech world with his war machine contracts.
What an ugly/brutal end to the late stage capitalistic America.
“Americans need affordable health care, groceries and lower gas prices, not a war that costs $220 million a day and puts our troop in danger."
-Rep. James Walkinshaw (VA) on “Trump’s illegal, unconstitutional, and reckless war in Iran.”
Why does this read so very much like a particularly deranged brand of AI-speak
05.03.2026 01:51 — 👍 112 🔁 15 💬 17 📌 1
Pete Hegseth:
“We have only just begun to fight.”
Someone needs to remind this arrogant thespian that he’s dealing with real lives here. This isn’t an action movie.
This Saturday - looking forward to International Women’s Day with @amnestyfeminist.bsky.social 1 - 6pm at 1 Easton Street, London
www.amnesty.org.uk/get-involved...
So vibes then.
04.03.2026 19:14 — 👍 7916 🔁 1595 💬 1109 📌 246I’m not law enforcement but I am pretty sure they don’t like a civilian jumping into a use of force.
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So we're bribing him too now? We're not better than the Qataris. Should try giving him a plane next time
#auspol
Graham Platner for Senate is the kind of fighter Maine has been waiting for. He tells it like it is, doesn’t answer to special interests, and shows up every day for working families. A Marine who embodies Maine’s grit and independence. Proud to endorse him.
02.03.2026 14:02 — 👍 39 🔁 13 💬 410 📌 132🦄
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