Iran Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi: "We never asked for a ceasefire or negotiations. We are really to defend ourselves as long as it takes until President Trump comes to the point that this is an illegal war. There are people being killed only because President Trump wants to have fun."
The future is subscription-tiered citizenship, where your access to resources and the freedoms they provide is throttled and woe to those who canโt afford them.
โThe job listing calls for people with a background in acting, improv, sketch, or theater work of any kindโฆโ
โโฆitโs looking for people who can essentially โtest the limits of the worldโs top LLMsโ understandingโ by teaching the models how to recognize or replicate human tone and emotionsโ
Pakistan strikes Afghan base after its president warns โred lineโ crossed https://aje.news/ssqooy
I'm sorry, "carries a custom pager gifted to him by Netanyahu and senior Mossad officials"? Does the Special Envoy to the Middle East not even read headlines relevant to his ostensible job?
A few of the children killed by Israel/US in the last day across Iran, Lebanon, and Palestine
Beautiful statement from Ayman Odeh, Palestinian MK and head of Hadash-Taal. For those who do not read Hebrew, I will translate:
For those who don't recall, Obama dispatched Kerry in 2014 to ensure that the European powers would not support a UNSCR that would offer immediate recognition to the State of Palestine, and to also ward off a second UNSCR crafted by France that would have offered merely provisional recognition.
well that's because they're doing so well, see, you only crack down when it's going super super well
www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/...
โStop Using Our Airports to Bomb Iranโ โ front page of @scotnational.bsky.social
When a federal judge (finally) put ICE officers under oath, they admitted that they are given daily detention quotas and rely heavily on a Palantir-supplied AI tool to select targets, without warrants and without enough evidence to obtain one. They simply go into neighborhoods and round people up.
A week after FIU college republicans were exposed for celebrating Himmler's concept of a "Nazi heaven," UF college republicans are disbanded for doing Hitler salutes.
Interesting supplement to this reporting, from a local critic of the solar project. Not the sole reason for local opposition but the part about the connection to Meta is telling. alabamareflector.com/2026/02/27/p...
Corruption. Soliciting cash on the backs of the power built and created by the American people www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/b...
If you missed the chance to see DOGE's Justin Fox stonewall on the definition of DEI during a deposition, here you go:
Snowflakes
Letโs have a Shah vs Mamdani rap battle
Imagine if this happened to a U.S. airline
Oman's foreign minister, who attempted to shame the US into not entering a war of aggression, says that the goals of US-Israeli war on Iran are not limited to weakening Iran, but also the Gulf states and anyone supportive of Palestinians.
Calls on GCC to reconsider security arrangements.
Why aren't Iranians rising up to challenge their regime, as they did in January? Many answers here in this insightful report by the FT's Teheran correspondent Najmeh Bozorgmehr as.ft.com/r/6e31d260-f...
AI is reshaping how the US military makes decisions in war โ a shift clear in Iran, where the Pentagon says it struck more than 2,000 targets in just four days.
www.ft.com/content/fedb...
Meanwhile, one-third of Americans are being forced to skip meals or other needs in order to afford health care.
โFifteen percent said they had borrowed money or prolonged a current drug prescription.โ
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...
MAGA's rhetoric of western civilizational emergency is so weird. They look at ICE arresting grandmothers and they see the ancient Greeks defeating the Persians or the Franks stopping the Islamic invaders in 732.
Everyone else sees ICE arresting grandmothers.
newrepublic.com/article/2076...
Muslim nations criticise Israel for Al-Aqsa Mosque Ramadan closure - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/muslim-nations-criticise-israel-al-aqsa-mosque-ramadan-closure
I love the idea that *this* US government, which has been nabbing landscapers and five year olds knows where Iranian sleeper cells are but just hasnโt gotten around to doing anything about it yet.
There are 238 days until the Midterms, 973 days until the next theoretical Presidential Election, and 1047 days until the next optional Inauguration Day.
Midterms progress:
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Presidency/Regime progress:
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Until Next Inauguration :
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I understand that there are a lot of folks on the left who instinctively recoil from religious language, and with good reason given its use by the right.
But please listen to this, and focus on how he's trying to realign "Christian values" so they align with and advance progressive policy goals.
Third Way and other "moderate" Democratic groups and elites constantly bash progressive politicians and ideas. But moderate Democratic VOTERS really like raising taxes on the wealthy and corporations, Medicare-for-all, and Bernie Sanders. newrepublic.com/article/2074...
