Jen Taub

Ladies, gentlemen, and everyone in between, THIS is how you do alt text.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez doing what UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has chosen not to do, criticise the US and Israel for their attack on Iran which breached international law

MOE: +/ - 2.5 PTS FEBRUARY 25-27, 2026 OCBS NEWS POLL | YouGov HOW SHOULD THE U.S. APPROACH IRAN'S CURRENT LEADERSHIP? PRIOR TO START OF CONFLICT NEGOTIATE WITH THEM THROUGH DIPLOMACY PRESSURE THEM WITH SANCTIONS NOT GET INVOLVED REMOVE THEM FROM POWER WITH FORCE 38% 22% 22% 18%

MOE: +/- 2.5 PTS| FEBRUARY 25-27, 2026 @CBS NEWS POLL | YouGov TRUMP NEED APPROVAL FROM CONGRESS FOR MILITARY ACTION AGAINST IRAN? PRIOR TO START OF CONFLICT 74% NEEDS APPROVAL 26% DOES NOT NEED APPROVAL

CBS News conducts a poll.

It finds that only 18% of Americans advocate removing Iran's leadership "by force," and 74% say Trump needs congressional approval before starting a war.

So their headline is, "CBS News poll on Americans' views on Iran prior to conflict."

www.cbsnews.com/news/cbs-new...

I'm confused -- traditionally it's the villain who issues videotaped monologues from the bunker, right?

this is fucking shocking, and while i know politics journalists think it's cliché to point this out, a democratic president would be impeached for delivering this speech in this way, and rightly so.

A big part of the authoritarian playbook is war. War takes over the news. War blots out criticism. War divides a nation’s people, subjecting those against it to being called unpatriotic. War grants leaders all sorts of emergency powers. War consumes everything else.

We mustn’t let this war do so.

Ranking Member of the House Armed Services:

"I ... still have not heard from anybody from the Department of Defense -- nor has Chairman Mike Rogers, the Republican Chairman of my committee or in the Senate."

(hat tip: @acyn.bsky.social)

Screenshot of X tweet reading, "Bubba Hearn @HearnBubba · 6h Replying to @CatoInstitute and @katherinet57 I did not see the Cato institute react like this when obama bombed 7+ countries, hypocrite much?"

Chowderheads keep trying to whatabout Cato on its criticism of the war but don't get far:

"I did not see the Cato institute react like this when obama bombed 7+ countries, hypocrite much?" -- Bubba [!]

A quick search of "Obama + bomb" on Cato yields 100s of hits:

www.cato.org/search?query... /1

A large group of people, mostly men, standing in the rubble of a collapsed building. A headline reads: "Strike on Girls’ School Kills 115, Iranian State Media Says" Photo by Mehr News Agency

At least 115 people, most of them likely children, were killed in a strike on a girls’ elementary school in Iran on Saturday, health officials and state media said. It was not immediately clear which country hit the school. Our reporters are trying to confirm details of the attack. trib.al/HxXybV9

Yes! I will go to my deathbed trying to get people to stop conflating nonjusticiable with legal.

Thank you.

This is very well done

US military says three of its troops killed in first Iran operation casualties Three U.S. service members have been killed and another five have been seriously wounded, in the first casualties of the unfolding U.S. operations against Iran, the U.S. military said on Sunday.

Reports indicate at least 100 children have already been killed in strikes on schools. That is unconscionable.

Three U.S. service members are dead as a result of this entirely preventable war of choice.

The blood of these service members, these children, and every civilian rests in Trump’s hands.

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I missed

A courageous and righteous statement from the first Iranian-American Democratic Congresswoman.

Epstein’s New Mexico Ranch Gets Scrutiny at Last. It May Be Too Late.

Epstein's ranch. (Gift Link.) www.nytimes.com/2026/03/01/u...

Mark Warner: "I saw no intelligence that Iran was on the verge of launching any kind of preemptive strike against the United States. None."

Scholar’s Note: The First Amendment, Government Regulation, and No Kings Almost no feature of the City of Santa’s permitting scheme for political speech in streets and parks is constitutional.

New blog post on our website: "Scholar’s Note: The First Amendment, Government Regulation, and No Kings" by @heidilifeldman.bsky.social. indivisiblesantafe.org/scholars-not...

West valley sushi shop owner released from ICE detention after eight months A federal judge has granted Kelly Yu temporary freedom after she filed a habius corpus petition.

"Her release follows months of advocacy from community members and political leaders of both parties.

Yu has operated her two West Valley restaurants for years, building a reputation for greeting customers with humor and kindness. She has no criminal record."

www.12news.com/article/news...

Let’s all call Massie today and get him to switch parties. Then force Gonzalez to resign. Then get the gavel, issue some subpoenas, and impeach some motherfuckers

Jen Taub LIVE - Operation Epstein Fury! YouTube video by Jen Taub

Trump and Netanyahu wage an illegal war against Iran with no exit plan

Credit to @bcdreyer.social for the title of tomorrow's livestream. Operation Epstein Fury

www.youtube.com/live/M3lZQZ4...

Do not miss Ali Velshi’s brilliant opening monologue today on the US relationship with Iran . He concludes that history is not the background, but “history is the battleground.”

@velshi.com

See, it's easy to denounce this straight up instead of politely asking the administration to pretty please give the American people an explanation when they have a sec

The president didn't bother to make the case for war in a marathon State of the Union address and then he fucked off to his sweaty gilded country club so he could literally phone in an unconstitutional war.

Every single Democrat needs to be screaming about this at full volume.

Okay *cracks knuckles*. Here’s a non-exhaustive list of things I’m doing.

1. Suing DoJ for Epstein training videos
2. Suing DOGE for documents
4. FOIA request for DHS OHC memo authorizing warrantless home entry
5. FOIA for kids’ letters confiscated by ICE at Dilley
6. FOIA for USAID docs 1/

Push from Saudis, Israel helped move Trump to attack Iran President Trump launched a wide-ranging attack on Iran after weeks-long lobbying by an unusual pair of U.S. allies in the Middle East: Israel and Saudi Arabia.

According to WaPo, Saudi Crown Prince MBS, who has invested in excess of $3 bn in Trump family businesses, made multiple private phone calls to Trump over the past month advocating a US attack on Iran, despite his public support for a diplomatic solution. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

“They make a desert and call it peace.”