Mark London Williams

Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.

Iran retaliated with missile and drone bombardments against U.S. bases and allied territory, targeting military facilities across the Gulf, including Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar. One Iranian drone killed six American service members at a U.S. command center in Kuwait. Asked whether Americans should be worried about retaliatory attacks at home, Trump acknowledges the possibility. “I guess,” he says. “But I think they’re worried about that all the time. We think about it all the time. We plan for it. But yeah, you know, we expect some things. Like I said, some people will die. When you go to war, some people will die."

Donald Trump’s White House is blocking top US intelligence agencies from warning law enforcement across the country about rising threats to the homeland tied to his war with Iran, the Daily Mail can reveal. The FBI, Homeland Security, and the National Counterterrorism Center were preparing to put out a joint intelligence statement on Friday to state and local authorities alerting them of a heightened threat due to the ongoing war in Iran, a senior DHS official said. The bulletin, which was reviewed by the Daily Mail, details 'elevated threats by the government of Iran to US military and government personnel and facilities, Jewish and Israeli institutions and their perceived supporters, and Iranian dissidents and other anti-regime activists in the United States.' 'Radicalized individuals with a variety of ideological backgrounds also may see this conflict or other geopolitical events as a justification for violence,' the report continues. The five-page bulletin blocked by the White House provides specific details on how Iranian proxies may carry out attacks across the country. One section explains how local law enforcement can respond to this type of violence. The official title is 'A Public Safety Awareness Report: Elevated threat in the United States during US-Iran conflict'. Homeland Security broke protocol and gave the White House a heads-up about the nationwide bulletin hours before it was set to be released. Top Trump officials ordered it placed on ‘hold’. The White House did not deny blocking the terror bulletin in a statement to the Daily Mail.

Time: Asked if Americans should be worried abt attacks at home: I guess.

Daily Mail: The White House blocked release of FBI/NCTC warning of elevated risks.

This is always the problem of thinking of it as "the cloud" -- a term that really just means "someone else's servers, dependent on a power grid somewhere." Would thinking of it as "the network" remind us of "the cloud's" all-too-real terrestrial vulnerabilities?

Spanish PM Sánchez responds to Trump:

"Spain is against this disaster... Govts are here to improve people's lives... It is absolutely unacceptable that those leaders who are unable to fulfill that mission use the smoke of war to hide their failure, and in the process, fill the pockets of a few."

It's not hyperbole to suggest that today we have a federal government that doesn't so much represent or resemble a federal administration as it does a family crime syndicate.

Every senator who voted to confirm RFK Jr owns this tragedy. Every single one.

This man was murdered by the federal immigration authorities as surely as Renee Good and Alex Pretti were

Newspapers Did Not Kill Themselves - The American Prospect New docs say Jeffrey Epstein collaborated with the Russian mob to loot the New York Daily News, then tried to help Mort Zuckerman discard it when reporting became inconvenient.

Jeffrey Epstein killed everything

Even newspapers

Amazing story by an old Philly pal, Maureen Tkacik prospect.org/2026/02/26/n...

Lindsey Graham brings Ellison to the SOTU

If you don't think complete capture of the media is top priority for this administration, I don't know what to tell you. It matters a great deal to them.

As opposed to when you might actually fall asleep? ;-) (But have fun out on the trail!)

I wonder that you will still be talking, Signior Benedick, nobody marks you.

Empathy is what stops the law from becoming a weapon

Authority knows if they can drain empathy from society, they can hollow us out.

The most dangerous moment is not when the law is broken loudly, but when it is broken quietly

@asharangappa.bsky.social on the State of the Swamp on now

A still from the Oscar nominated short films, All The Empty Rooms.

I watched a couple of nominated short films with @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social and this one stood out for me. I went in knowing nothing, and decided to stay bc it is important to not turn away from things going on around us. I do not regret watching this short film.

That ought to make housing more affordable.

Preach it Kay Hanley

A stack of thin pink books that say OBSTETRIX * Naomi Kritzer on the spine.

HEY, I AM DOING ANOTHER FUNDRAISER FOR MINNESOTA RENT FUNDS! AND GIVING AWAY ANOTHER SIGNED ARC (Advance Review Copy) OF OBSTETRIX!!!

YOU COULD GET TO READ IT EARLY (it doesn't come out until June) AND HELP MINNESOTA FAMILIES STAY HOUSED!!!!

A recreation of a basketball hoop at Manzanar, with the Sierra Nevada mountains in the background

A park ranger holding up a photo of gardens at Manzanar during WWII, up against where the gardens would have been

A view from camp, with huge, snowy mountains overlooking Manzanar

The Manzanar monument to those that died at camp, just beyond the camp grounds. Barbed wire is in the foreground of the photo.

In 2019 I had the incredible opportunity to visit Manzanar concentration camp with other young Japanese Americans. Feb 19th marks the day FDR issued orders removing and imprisoning 120,000 Japanese Americans, and my trip is especially top of mind today. I took these photos—more details in alt text.

If a member of your family in the US military gets killed in Iran soon, you can console yourself by knowing that they died to distract from their Commander-in-Chief's pedophilia.

‪Doctors say that vaccines protect children from dangerous diseases. A nepo baby who barbecues dogs and snorts cocaine off toilet seats says that vaccines make children vulnerable to 5G radiation. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.

We are entering the “falling out of windows” phase.

This is right wing media in a nutshell. Fear sells, especially to ignorant white people. May I live to see the day Fox News goes down in flames.

Really, along with bicycles, the apex of mechanical human transportation.

the fact that they’re taking down and censoring jd vance getting boo’d on twitter lol

How Jeff Bezos Brought Down the Washington Post The Amazon founder bought the paper to save it. Instead, with a mass layoff, he’s forced it into severe decline.

@ruthmarcus.bsky.social writes about mass layoffs at the Washington Post—where she spent more than 40 years as a reporter, an editor, an editorial writer, and a columnist—and the paper’s decline under Jeff Bezos. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/hsbIts

If you campaigned for the presidency on a promise to destroy these assholes, you would win a landslide the size of FDR in 1936, when he campaigned on a promise to destroy these assholes.

The president
Sent armed men
In masks
Into American cities
And they killed Americans

Treason
No question

He attacked his own country

Period

How is there any debate about this?

"Finding things on their way to collapse, was much easier than finding the next bargain."
amazing line, in apparently a 2016 email from #JeffreyEpstein to #PeterThiel. A maxim or Zeitgeist-note for the ages, from an iconic villain of the epoch.
bsky.app/profile/timo...

I just tried to phone in a book order to DreamHaven & spoke to Greg, he's swamped with orders (book people are THE BEST) but the website's still down. If you're local and web-savvy and available to work with them to address the shop's web woes, give them a call—they could use some help!