Mark Aldrich

There are porn sets that do a better job of pretending there's a ceiling.

The Department of Education has hung a massive banner honoring a racist college dropout who built a lucrative career out of targeting professors for harassment

Trump Has No Plan for the Iranian People The mere act of bombing Iran will not by itself create a stable regime.

The fate of the Iranian people has never been of great concern to American administrations, and this one is no exception

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Finally got a date for my new sovereign citizen book: April 13, 2026

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

You might have missed this with all the other news happening, but it is Trump giving the Chinese government a massive win and further degrading the value of the US as an ally. This should be a major story. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/u...

If anyone has any emergency fund or mutual aid links or efforts for anyone trying to survive or leave Florida because of this, please let me know so I can boost it.

An old time-y illustration of a Narcissus.

Today is Primidi the 11th of Ventôse in the year 234.
Ventôse is the month of wind.
Today we celebrate narcissus. #JacobinDay

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Just glad congress isn't alive to see all of this

I recently described to a friend in her early 30s how the networks signed off the broadcast day at 3:00 a.m. in the 70s and 80s with an image of the flag and an instrumental of the National Anthem and she said, "That sounds like North Korea."

The FT's Guest Editor this week: the late William Butler Yeats.

There are porn sets that do a better job of pretending there's a ceiling.

I was going to point this out earlier, this is not the "Situation Room" this a ballroom at Mar A Lago. There is literally no OPSEC here at all. Anyone with the right equipment and a grudge can eavesdrop on this.

Just to clear things up… i don’t think the black curtains are there for “security.” They are there to make things look “serious,” and to hide the shitty decor at Mar-A-Lago, so that we don’t mock his terrible interior design and gold-trimmed everything.

notable lack of Republican elected officials on cable news this afternoon

As she is now, in her coffin? Probably.

Hitler was a hypochondriac, which caused him to make panicked decisions, like invading his ally Stalin in World War II. We discuss the fear-filled Nazi mind in our episode on the Nuremberg Trials www.gaslitnationpod.com/episodes-tra...

im not really sure the iranian people are going to put their trust in donald trump backing them if they take to the streets given ya know…his whole deal

If we obliterate an entire country then we don't have to fight a long war with them.

"The Islamists oppose women getting an education," I mutter, as I aim my missile at the girls school

But also without boots on the ground you can't do a regime change.

So what this amounts to is a very expensive campaign that amounts to nothing but pointless death.

More than 80 people including mostly children are now dead but I can't find reporting about how many children were at the bombed schools who survived, how many children were injured, how many children will be permanently disabled, how many children will live with the trauma of being bombed at school

Graph from NetBlocks showing network connectivity in Iran from February 24, 2026, to February 28, 2026. The y-axis represents normalized connectivity, ranging from 0% to 100%, and the x-axis represents the dates. The green line representing Iran's connectivity normal most of the time period, with a sharp drop on the morning of February 28. The drop in connectivity aligns with joint military strikes from the US and Israel. The minimum and current connectivity levels are indicated as 1% and 1%, respectively. The chart has a dark background and includes the NetBlocks logo in the lower left corner.

⚠️ Update: Metrics show #Iran has been offline for 12 hours after the regime imposed a nationwide internet blackout amid US and Israeli military strikes.

While most countries work to stay connected in times of international conflict, Iran has again silenced its own population.

well yeah where else would secretary breakfast gin have 24/7 access to a bar

A crazy time to NOT HAVE FOREIGN CORRESPONDENTS!!!

Differences with 2003:

▪️Trump did not try to get a 🇺🇳 Security Council resolution.
▪️Trump neither got nor has tried to get the Senate's endorsement.
▪️ 🇮🇱🇺🇸 are alone on this. No ‘coalition of the willing' with 49 countries, not even 🇬🇧.
▪️Only air power will be used. No 🇺🇸 troops on the ground.

#Iran

Trump's contribution to American politics is showing that pretense isn't necessary. You don't have to shake your head somberly when you do evil, you can say you're doing it because you want to. Why bother with PR when no one can stop you?

Operation Epic Distraction

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