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Pete Hegseth’s Worrisome Press Briefing If you want to believe the Iran war is going as planned, don’t listen to the defense secretary.

Pete Hegseth is hoping the administration’s friends in the media “crack down on reporting that casts an unflattering light on the administration’s behavior”—but that’s not the point they’d emphasize if the war were going smoothly, @jonathanbchait.bsky.social argues:

Pete Hegseth Questions What Girls Were Doing In School To Begin With https://theonion.com/pete-hegseth-questions-what-girls-were-doing-in-school-to-begin-with/

“The sooner David Ellison takes over that network, the better.” — Pete Hegseth, war minister, speaking of CNN today. In public.

Orbánization of the media is having a moment because of Hegseth's performance.

Read Greg Sargent's interpretation. bsky.app/profile/greg...

An Oral History of the Day Everything Changed On March 11, 2020, the coronavirus pandemic seemed to crystallize in the national consciousness. Americans look back on the turning point.

Today — March 11th — is the sixth anniversary of the day that kicked off Covid the world over. Tom Hanks, Rudy Gobert and the NBA, and ... Trump.

Read my @wired.com oral history of a day that forever altered our world and ultimately fractured our shared reality: www.wired.com/story/an-ora...

Bill Kurtis retires from 'Wait Wait...' NPR quiz show after 12-year run The 85-year-old former CBS anchorman will lend his sonorous, familiar voice to a final show on May 23.

News: As you might have heard, our Judge and Scorekeeper, with a voice on loan to God, Bill Kurtis, is stepping down from “Wait Wait” at the end of May.

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Everyone - including the flunkies Trump is torturing by buying them the wrong size shoes - seems to be assuming they would anger him by secretly replacing them with ones that fit. But I think he'd admire the chutzpah.

(I'm so sick of psychoanalyzing this monster. But it feels necessary.)

Pentagon today: the war is just getting started!
Their commander in chief, less than an hour later: "the war is very complete"

Jesus Christ, man, have some self respect.

Stalin and Kim Il-sung would be proud

Is he talking about the US or Iran?

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At Largest ICE Detention Camp, Staff Bet on Detainee Suicides, AP Reports Camp East Montana has received several 911 calls in the span of five months about immigrants trying to harm themselves.

Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.

Russia is aiding Iran’s war effort by providing intel on US military targets, sources say | CNN Politics Russia is providing Iran with intelligence about the locations and movements of American troops, ships and aircraft, according to multiple people familiar with US intelligence reporting on the issue, ...

Super shocking. Given that Russia helped our enemies during Vietnam, Korea, and both gulf wars, who could have guessed this would happen. www.cnn.com/2026/03/06/p...

8 Badass Librarians We Need to Celebrate This International Women’s Day In the late Victorian era, Melvil Dewey, inventor of the Dewey Decimal system (and a womanizer) argued that women make excellent librarians because we have “a clear head, strong hand… and great hea…

Stunned to be included on this list of badasses 😳 High praise. Incredible cohort. Honored!

Even if they don’t surrender, we will call that an unconditional surrender and declare victory. bsky.app/profile/atru...

"Everyone is 12" theory remains undefeated.

At this point, I think there might literally be a 7th grade boy running White House comms.

All of our living presidents who still have a sense of decency gathered to honor Rev. Jesse Jackson.

Respect recognizes respect.

Obama: "We are living in a time where it can be hard to hope. Each day we wake up to some new assault on our democratic institutions. Another setback to the idea of the rule of law ... but this man - Rev. Jesse Jackson - inspires us to take a harder path ... bc if we don't step up, nobody else will"

🤣🤣🤣

ICE detains reporter Estefany Rodríguez in Nashville - Nashville Banner Reporter Estefany Rodríguez, detained by ICE with no arrest warrant, may face deportation. Her attorneys seek immediate review of the legality of her case.

ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.

They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.

BREAKING: Babe, wake up. New war just dropped. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/u...

US soldiers who died in Iran war remembered as devoted parents and reservists Four of the six U.S. soldiers killed in the Iran war have been identified by the Pentagon as members of the Army Reserve.

Sgt. 1st Class Nicole Amor was just days away from returning home to her husband and two children when a drone strike at a command center in Kuwait killed her and five other U.S. service members.

Amor was one of four U.S. soldiers killed in the Iran war and identified Tuesday by the Pentagon.

This looks fun

My February 2026 reads are pictured below.

I was really taken with ONE SUMMER IN SAVANNAH by Terah Shelton Harris.

My mind was completely blown by YAGA by Kat Sandler.

Seven of the 8 were new authors for me.

Thanks to the authors & to #BookSky for reading my reviews.

SUPPORT PUBLIC LIBRARIES!📚💙

This is pretty effed up

This is Frankie. She just got a fancy new puffer and thinks she’s better than everyone now. And she is correct. 13/10 (IG: frankielasaucisse)

Harrison Ford: Life Achievement Award Acceptance Speech | 32nd Annual Actor Awards YouTube video by Netflix

When you have the chance, please take the time to watch Harrison Ford's remarkable, beautiful Life Achievement Award acceptance speech. #ActorAwards

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The Pentagon is hanging the White House out to dry.
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That one person can drag us into a war without consulting or even notifying Congress, or our allies, or fully explaining to the American people why this is necessary, is absolutely bonkers.

Reminder that Congress has the power to stop this.