Jen Taub

Exactly. Blindly hooting for the Buffoon-in-Chief as he unlawfully orders airstrikes without a coherent plan isn't a foreign policy, and isn't patriotic; it's just stupid, and dangerous.

Pres Trump told me tonight the US had identified possible candidates to take over Iran, but they were killed in the initial attack. "The attack was so successful it knocked out most of the candidates," Trump told me. "It's not going to be anybody that we were thinking of because they are all dead. Second or third place is dead."

complete insanity

By Striking Its Neighbors, Iran Has Deepened the Gulf’s Resolve to Fight Back Diplomats and analysts say Tehran miscalculated with its attacks on Dubai, Doha and Bahrain.

“Iran has struck all six of the oil-rich Gulf Arab states, including Oman, which had mediated nuclear talks between Tehran and the Trump administration. It also hit Jordan, Iraq and Israel.”

www.wsj.com/world/middle...

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AYMAN: Can you tell me where Iran killed thousands of Americans in America?

ANNA PAULINA LUNA: I said they are responsible for thousands of Americans being killed

AYMAN: Where?

LUNA: Are you serious right now?

AYMAN: It seems like you don't want to have a good faith conversation

YouTube video by Senator Elizabeth Warren Trump’s war against Iran is illegal and a betrayal of the American people.

Trump’s war against Iran is illegal and a betrayal of the American people.

Congress cannot allow Trump to drag yet another generation into a forever war.

“I am the son of the guy whose secret police force used to terrorize you, please install me or my friends, for democracy” is an amazing pitch from the shah’s son

I get why/that people say this, but dont' underestimate this:

all other social networks are invested in making sure that posts that link to journalism remain buried, or at least never go viral.

BlueSky doesn't do that. That makes it very valuable to a ton of newsrooms righ tnow.

Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on Iran:

“Remember that one can be against a hateful regime, as is the case with the Iranian regime, as is the whole of Spanish society, and at the same time be against an unjustified, dangerous military intervention outside of international law.”

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...