Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s Son Emerges as Leading Choice to Be His Successor If Mojtaba Khamenei is chosen by Iran’s senior clerics, it may signal a victory for hard-liners, an analyst said.
Now I realize this sounds pretty bad, but could it be a lot worse.
It could happen in the US.
By the way, Democrats have now flipped 27 legislative seats in Trump 2.0.
Republicans are still stuck at zero.
Even in 2017-18, the GOP managed to flip a few. This time, just a goose egg, despite several good chances.
“If [wealthy, powerful people] can get us to accept that the future’s already settled, AI is already here, the end is already here, then we will create that for them. My most daring idea is to refuse.” — @tressiemcphd.bsky.social
04.03.2026 03:24 — 👍 2089 🔁 578 💬 45 📌 13
Evidently, I'm not the only one who thinks so.
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wow -- Tillis goes ballistic on Noem, telling her "what we've seen is a disaster under your leadership"
03.03.2026 17:51 — 👍 23792 🔁 6212 💬 1287 📌 760
Photo of Donald Trump in an Oval Office meeting with chin thrust forward, looking a bit like Il Duce, and fists clenched with both thumbs up touching. His dark blue tie is nearly touching the chair in which he sits. An awkward pose.
Working so hard to keep it together...
Photo courtesy of The Guardian. Link below.
Scenes from a personalist regime
03.03.2026 13:45 — 👍 2489 🔁 847 💬 93 📌 137
Absolutely incredible. Weeks of war without any vote in Congress. And the current regime may largely be left in place. This isn't just a war of choice. It's a vanity war. If this is allowed to stand, our country is in real trouble.
02.03.2026 02:01 — 👍 1371 🔁 434 💬 80 📌 36Me, almost every time I am hold with a company in the US. Even without the 13-16 hour time difference, I would probably still do this.
01.03.2026 17:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
It’s insane this is legal. People around Trump are profiting off war and death. I’m introducing legislation ASAP to ban this.
01.03.2026 02:09 — 👍 13977 🔁 4439 💬 473 📌 358
A highly complex website showing two betting accounts earning nearly $500,000 and $120,000 on a minimal number of positions.
In case you were wondering, Polymarket had yet another spate of likely inside traders betting that the US would strike Iran by February 28.
Per the due diligence investigation service Bubblemaps, the wallets used were created 24 hours earlier.
The Pentagon Pizza Index has been replaced.
The people leading the U.S. war on Iran are a former “Fox & Friends” guest and a former “Fox & Friends” host.
28.02.2026 15:31 — 👍 4095 🔁 1058 💬 101 📌 59
Operation Epstein Fury is the most sophisticated military operation in the history of the United States.
by Pete Hegseth
This is the front cover of the new edition of @thelancet.com (thanks to @profstevegriffin.bsky.social for sharing) #HealthPolicy #Science 🧪🧵
27.02.2026 08:36 — 👍 658 🔁 344 💬 18 📌 17Sorry but the craziest and worst regime in the world is North Korea and they have nuclear weapons and Donald Trump wrote what he described as love letters to its dictator.
27.02.2026 14:55 — 👍 3225 🔁 679 💬 297 📌 136
What @flavorflav.bsky.social has done and continues to do is so commendable. Keep clocking it, man.
27.02.2026 14:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
So the Telegraph is taking this well
27.02.2026 07:06 — 👍 5953 🔁 1113 💬 412 📌 289
The Green victory in Denton is the result which will have the biggest effect on Labour, far more so than a Reform win.
The blithe assumption progressives have nowhere else to go has been proved catastrophically wrong.
Can’t help thinking of this quote from a Labour minister, a year ago…
I was so upset by the news coming out of Kansas about the new requirements for driver's licenses that I needed to do something, so I made a small donation to the TCP. Sadly, their service has become more needed than ever, so please help, if you can.
26.02.2026 06:25 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
MAKE AN EMERGENCY DONATION to Trans Continental Pipeline right now.
They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate there and they are overwhelmed with requests. CO borders KS, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out.
GO DONATE.
tcpipeline.org
A wall full of mugs arranged in such a way that it looks like the mugs are repeating themselves, creating an uncomfortable illusion
Woe, wall of astigmatism be upon ye
25.02.2026 20:17 — 👍 7608 🔁 2473 💬 188 📌 173
we finally reached the end of this calendar event i accidentally made 12 years ago
26.02.2026 02:11 — 👍 10172 🔁 1818 💬 128 📌 34
"Today, the Brazilian Supreme Court announced that they had convicted the masterminds behind the assassination of socialist Rio de Janeiro City Councilwoman Marielle Franco guilty on all counts."
massive news in Brazil today, writeup by @mikeelk.bsky.social
paydayreport.com/rio-police-c...
The closure of TX A&M’s program reflects a broader national trend: mounting restrictions on how gender, race + sexuality can be studied + discussed in public higher ed…The elimination of a long-standing academic program…signals how quickly these shifts can take hold.
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I was 22 and working at the NBER when Summers made his whole “women are dumber” speech and I have long long waited for this moment and will be eating it with a spoon for days to come.
25.02.2026 17:15 — 👍 15 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
This is not a hypothetical fear. My piece focused on three countries — Brazil, South Korea, and Poland — where elected authoritarians were too blatant and their opponents did a good job persuading key audiences that the democratic threat was real.
The result, in each case, was authoritarian defeat.
These dogs are having the time of their lives following this week's historic blizzard in the Northeast. Please enjoy. 14/10 for all
25.02.2026 00:53 — 👍 15426 🔁 2723 💬 254 📌 326
Just remembering the time a Tesla owner hit a bump which breached his battery creating a back to the future moment where the car accelerated to 88 miles an hour before hitting a wall & incinerating the screaming owner. All of this was recorded by the car.
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