🚨BREAKING: Hundreds of Democratic voters in Dallas and Williamson Counties, Texas scrambled to find their polling places Tuesday after the local Republican parties refused to hold a joint primary — ending more than a decade of convenient countywide voting. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
03.03.2026 23:56 — 👍 2331 🔁 1237 💬 165 📌 87
Just a random reminder that over 50 members of Congress collectively own millions of dollars in defense contractor stocks.
They stand to personally profit from wars that enrich these contractors.
Make no mistake, this is legalized corruption.
Watch how they vote this week.
Yes, Thom Tillis is a Republican. But must we always wait 'til a Republican member of congress has announced their retirement before we get this same level of objectivity and 'moral courage'?
03.03.2026 22:16 — 👍 362 🔁 114 💬 19 📌 3
Seems like the media should at least express some curiosity about this.
open.substack.com/pub/jonathan...
Tbf they seem to be dealing with the American evacuation issue by just washing their hands of it entirely.
03.03.2026 22:18 — 👍 63 🔁 12 💬 4 📌 0
So the State Department is forcing everyone to immediately leave the region but is also refusing to help people leave the region.
The strike itself is illegal and disastrous but their lack of readiness for what comes next is unforgivable as well.
Incompetence everywhere.
Back on the Marquee, this time writing about one of my all-time favorite films and why it remains eminently watchable.
Thanks as always to @jasondashbailey.com for the opportunity!
U.S. State Department notice for Americans to leave 13 Middle Eastern countries
Image of current flights in the air over the Middle East
The U.S. State Department issued a notice yesterday for Americans to evacuate more than a dozen Middle Eastern countries "via commercial means due to serious safety risks."
The catch?
Air space is closed. There are no flights leaving 10 of the 13 countries.
'UNIMAGINABLE CRUELTY': Judge Gary Brown, a Trump appointeee from NY, thrashes DHS' treatment of a man who came to the US at 9 as an abuse/neglect victim, has no criminal record and became a college grad.
"The laws of decency condemn such villainy." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
It's good that Dems are forcing a war powers vote. But they can also link it to a larger case that Trump is conducting himself as a maliciously unhinged despot who's wrecking our system of self rule at its very foundations. 6/
newrepublic.com/article/2072...
“Dems don’t need the Trump administration to explain their reasoning. This isn’t a mystery to be solved. We already know all their reasons for war are bullshit.”
-Matt Duss, in this piece. Note skewering of Hegseth claim about Iran's "offensive capabilities." 5/
newrepublic.com/article/2072...
“Dems need to strongly make the point that there was no imminent threat and that this war is a violation of the Constitution—and illegal,” Rep Adam Smith says, noting Trump is “ruling like a king instead of the elected president of a constitutional republic.” 4/
newrepublic.com/article/2072...
Schumer must do better.
03.03.2026 15:50 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Israel used 2,000+ bombs in the first 30 hours of the Iran war; the US struck 1,000+ targets in the first 24 hours. Iran responded with at least 390 missiles and 830 drones in the first two days. Bellingcat has tracked the munitions used by all sides so far: www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03...
03.03.2026 12:50 — 👍 656 🔁 266 💬 11 📌 22Chris Murphy: "It's just so disgusting to listen to the president be waxing poetically about the drapes he's buying while there are six Americans who are dead. There are six families who are about to bury their children because of a war of choice that no one in this country wanted, an illegal war."
03.03.2026 02:17 — 👍 19652 🔁 6201 💬 609 📌 261
John Kennedy got Kristi Noem to admit she has to approve contracts over $10M. (Her deputies can approve up to $5M.)
Then he asked about her $220M propaganda campaign.
www.propublica.org/article/kris...
for the youths who werent around for the iraq installment
- dont believe anything the govt says about progress
- no the democrats dont have to say getting rid of the baddie was good and therefore they have to support the war
- the war needs to be ended
- the media is not your ally and they love war
Okay if fucking Trump outlasts Bruce Campbell I'm fighting god barefoot in a Waffle House parking lot.
03.03.2026 01:25 — 👍 913 🔁 242 💬 17 📌 9Holy shit.
03.03.2026 08:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Warner: "There was no imminent threat to the United States by the Iranians. There was a threat to Israel. If we equate a threat to Israel as the equivalent of an imminent threat to the US, then we are in uncharted territory."
02.03.2026 22:47 — 👍 8192 🔁 2312 💬 260 📌 174It ain’t me, I’m no 6’9 son
03.03.2026 08:13 — 👍 43 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
Extraordinary crowds as a mass funeral procession begins in Minab, Iran for the 165 school girls & teachers killed in the US/Israeli school strike on Saturday.
Many outcomes of this war are uncertain. But a renewed generation of hatred towards the West is now baked in.
(🎥 Alireza Akbari)
They're calling it SuperBenghazi.
03.03.2026 01:13 — 👍 5153 🔁 1025 💬 153 📌 28
The myth of JD Vance as a serious intellectual steward of some sort of right-populist anti-elite noninterventionist ethos keeps collapsing.
These new details from NYT are really something:
The FBI director gutted a specialized, global espionage unit of counterintelligence agents, just days before Operation Epic Fury.
Kash Patel’s latest firings ousted agents with expertise in Iran
www.ms.now/news/kash-pa...
EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war.
The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been “inundated” with more than 110 complaints.
One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus…
On the 6 US troops who died at Shuaiba port in Kuwait: Troops asked for more drone defeat capabilities, none came. It was recommended that the makeshift tactical operations center not be used because it was hard to defend and concentrated too many troops in one place. www.cbsnews.com/news/iran-st...
03.03.2026 05:17 — 👍 1009 🔁 486 💬 60 📌 73
"Trump's attack on Iran is terrifying in part because it's so untethered from policy goals and logic. He offered a range of half-hearted explanations for his rush to war, but the conflicting excuses only underlined the obvious truth — he attacked Iran because he felt like it."
03.03.2026 03:39 — 👍 2844 🔁 857 💬 181 📌 46
Here’s a little agit for the never-believer
I'm not sure all these people understand
We’re closer now than light years to go
This part:
“Republican presidents, launching wars, never fail to pledge their friendship to the people they are bombing.” @lawrenceodonnell.bsky.social
