I'll be on @CNN in the 10pm ET hour (starting around 10:15pm ET), discussing the latest developments in the war against Iran, with @abbyphillip00.bsky.social
04.03.2026 01:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I'll be on @CNN in the 10pm ET hour (starting around 10:15pm ET), discussing the latest developments in the war against Iran, with @abbyphillip00.bsky.social
04.03.2026 01:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
My latest: Iran’s revolutionaries overthrew a king. Now they’re preparing to crown a prince.
open.substack.com/pub/bobbygho...
From my CIA memoir, "Long Strange Journey," regarding the abandonment of Iraqi Kurds Bush 41 had exhorted to rise up against Saddam's crippled regime: www.amazon.com/Long-Strange...
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NEW from @nytimes: Senior Iranian clerics are close to anointing Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, killed in a US-supported Israeli attack, as the next leader of Iran. He’s the favorite candidate of the IRGC, a powerful military group. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/w...
03.03.2026 23:28 — 👍 48 🔁 31 💬 14 📌 12President Trump on Tuesday acknowledged the deep uncertainty about what comes next in Iran, saying that officials whom the United States had eyed as potential new leaders had been killed in the U.S.-Israeli bombing campaign. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/w...
03.03.2026 23:33 — 👍 72 🔁 31 💬 57 📌 16
For years on my old blog I published the names of servicemembers who died in Iraq & Afghanistan. No other outlets were.
These are the first 4 Americans to die in the Iran War.
Capt. Cody A. Khork, 35
Sgt. 1st Class Noah L. Tietjens, 42
Sgt. 1st Class Nicole M. Amor, 39
Sgt. Declan J. Coady, 20
Scoop: U.S. ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee joked to embassy staff about procreating while sheltering in place on Tuesday in a memo one U.S. official described as “awkward” and “odd.”
03.03.2026 23:29 — 👍 1080 🔁 275 💬 155 📌 190That’s a big mission the Navy probably doesn’t have the force for while offensive operations are ongoing.
03.03.2026 22:48 — 👍 36 🔁 9 💬 5 📌 1
Ah so when they said a limited war confined to airstrikes they meant not that at all
www.cnn.com/2026/03/03/p...
Bad news for the Pahlavi pretender: Trump knows from con-men
03.03.2026 18:51 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
👀 "All told, The Wall Street Journal reports that simply getting all those forces into position cost $630 million, and Anadolu reports that the first 24 hours of the attack cost $779 million.
Then, of course, this operation is going to lead to much more future military spending." @ryanlcooper.com
Portrait of a brain absolutely stewed in disinformation
03.03.2026 18:21 — 👍 62 🔁 23 💬 3 📌 0
Who attacked a girls' school in Iran, and will there be accountability?
www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
Global air travel remained heavily disrupted. The ripple effects were felt far beyond, with thousands of passengers stranded as far away as Bali, Kathmandu and Frankfurt reut.rs/4rUj97u
03.03.2026 17:55 — 👍 16 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 0
LOL: Schiff notes that Kristi Noem's propaganda was more expensive than a lot of movies.
www.propublica.org/article/kris...
NYT’s reporting on the DOD-Anthropic dispute sheds more light on how the Pentagon planned to use Claude for mass surveillance of Americans: by collecting and analyzing commercial bulk data.
So what is this commercial data? And how might Claude be used to collect and analyze it? 🧵 1/
Trump may end up boosting the electric car industry after all www.ft.com/content/459a...
03.03.2026 17:49 — 👍 11 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
Yanar Mohammed, a leading Iraqi feminist and co‑founder of the Organisation of Women’s Freedom in Iraq, was assassinated outside her home in Baghdad on March 2, 2026.
For more than two decades, Yanar was one of Iraq’s most courageous advocates for women’s rights.
When I was posted in Baghdad from 2003-2007, I found that Iranian pilgrims to Najaf, Karbala and other Shia shrines in Iraq were a great source for what was going on in their country. Back then, they were guarded... but not so frightened.
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The BBC World Service has been citing info from a journalist in Tehran, accompanied by a reminder that "international news organizations are often refused visas to Iran, which severely limits their ability to gather information there." www.bbc.com/news/live/cy...
03.03.2026 17:42 — 👍 21 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0A huge tip-of-the-hat to all the journalists covering this war.
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After Warner Bros. deal, Paramount's debt has been downgraded to junk status
Basically, the ratings agency thinks the combined entity faces a ton of competition & there's a risk the entire enterprise fails -- debt attached to it is therefore high-risk
www.wsj.com/business/med...
When protests took off against Qaddafi in Feb 2011, masters students were told they would get their degree immediately if they joined pro-Qaddafi demonstrations.
03.03.2026 14:49 — 👍 13 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0"Is it so hard to say you were wrong?" -- under questioning from Durbin, Kristi Noem refuses to retract her statements about Alex Pretti and Renee Good being domestic terrorists, but throws "agents at the scene" under the bus for the fact she said it in the first place
03.03.2026 14:51 — 👍 2294 🔁 731 💬 131 📌 39Hiring the dregs of Liberty Law School for the DOJ is the legal equivalent of drafting 13-year-olds into the infantry
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🇮🇷 Rubio's remarks were widely interpreted as making the U.S. look subordinate to Israel's interests.
And they inflamed already angry MAGA elites who had spent the day railing against President Trump's decision to go to war.
I know someone whose child works for DHS (not ICE). She said that under the current administration there's a lot of pressure to attend regular church services.
03.03.2026 13:34 — 👍 91 🔁 26 💬 2 📌 2
Russia’s late opposition leader Alexei Navalny famously dubbed Vladimir Putin a “grandad in a bunker” over his alleged palace with a deep network of tunnels.
U.S. strikes on Iran will only have deepened the Russian leader’s paranoia.
🔗 www.politico.eu/article/ayat...
