Jonathan Massaquoi

Decline is a choice, Gov. Cox, but after you posed at the cemetery with Donald Trump what would you expect you had to do to stay in the good graces of these Jabronis?

Stuff like this.

“We‘ve wiped every single force in Iran out very completely.”
Really?

one of the core problems with trying to predict the course of this stupid fucking war is that there's no alignment on strategy between Israel and the US, in great part because the US doesn't have a strategy in the first place, and so the various parties to the war just kinda say stuff

dementia don. no longer has a filter. putting us soldiers in grave danger in order to gloat about murdering unarmed sailors

BREAKING: Judge Brann has ejected the new leaders of the NJ U.S. attorney's office, once again finding the Trump administration is illegally attempting to circumvent Senate confirmation.

He says this could result in dismissals of indictments.

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GOP member becomes an independent, narrowing House Republicans’ edge again With Rep. Kevin Kiley going independent, the House GOP majority is down to 217 votes — in a chamber where 218 is a majority.

👀 “with Kiley becoming an independent, the House Republican majority is now down to 217 votes — in a chamber where 218 is a majority.”

This headline reminds me of October 2016 when candidate Trump said about Clinton that "some 2nd Amendment person" might have to take care of the situation if she got elected. Might have merited a headline that read "Trump Open to Clinton Being Killed if She Doesn't Cede to the NRA's Demands."

Doubt

They may declare victory, but it won't matter; they don't even have a Maduro to frog-march into court. Just a bump in gas prices and another unpopular foreign adventure—assuming everything cools down immediately.

I think this is true but also in a strategic sense, pretty clearly an Iranian victory: we threw everything at them and proved we could not dislodge them.

The question will be if the administration can succeed at spinning it as a success, rather than the defeat it is (I kinda suspect yes?)

Not gonna claim that I'm some big IR expert, but if a bunch of countries within the span of a week come to me begging to open the Strait of Hormuz, my immediate take away would be "the pain is working, time to maximize leverage"

From all I've heard so far, Toni is a terrific choice for an interim CEO: he has a deep background in open platforms like WordPress and is committed to Bluesky's principles of user choice and control.

One of the reasons I keep saying: don’t fund ICE or CPB is the Democrats have to get out of the business of enabling the Republican’s disastrous mistakes. We have this insane agency because George W. Bush ignored a quite evident terrorist attack.

The war that is not a war that is just getting started and might last until September is pretty much done and we’re also going to seize a strait we don’t control and maybe kill more leaders if we don’t like them

"Stacked bar chart showing support for the war in Iran among Jewish and Arab respondents. Among Jews, 93% support the war (74% strongly, 19% somewhat), with only 4% opposed and 3% unsure. Among Arabs, 26% support the war (15% strongly, 11% somewhat), while 60% oppose it (18% somewhat, 42% strongly), and 14% don't know."

According to a recent survey, 93% of Jewish Israelis support the war. 74% strongly support.

Wild.

Link: en.idi.org.il/articles/63617

Apparently Wall Street didn't bother to read Weijia's second tweet? Which lines up with what he was telling the his aides per the WSJ, fwiw -- bsky.app/profile/mich...

It is kinda funny that “taking over” Hormuz has become the get out of jail free card, the strait is merely the shortest part of the gulf, there is still hundreds of miles of coastline that Iran can lob drones and missiles from

I'm just gonna say it: Booker's proposal to end income taxes below $75k is idiotic. We've just crippled our state capacity and your response is a tax cut? Come on man

What's the GOP majority now?

Bluesky CEO Jay Graber Is Stepping Down Venture capitalist Toni Schneider will take over as interim CEO as Bluesky’s board of directors hunts for a permanent replacement.

Exclusive: Jay Graber is stepping down as head of Bluesky. Venture capitalist Toni Schneider will be the interim CEO until a permanent replacement is found.

Federal Judge Rules Aetna's Blanket Denial Of Facial Surgery For Trans Women Is Sex Discrimination The landmark ruling could lead to broader FFS coverage in the future.

1. Big ruling out of Connecticut. A federal judge has ruled that blanket denials for FFS violate the affordable care act.

Though it only applies to two plaintiffs, class certification is pending, and it will provide strong legal rationale for challenges.

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Just a reminder it’s been two days since reports came out, later acknowledged by Trump and his Administration, that Russia has been helping Iran to try and kill US military personnel.

And the Trump response so far has been...drum roll please...to reduce sanctions on Russia!

If this is actually the new set of strategic goals, the Trump administration is admitting that they have strategically failed and this has been a disaster.

The U.S. and Europe have to someday realize that what the Israeli government envisions for Iran is the largest humanitarian catastrophe of the century so far

John Oliver: USAID John Oliver discusses the United States Agency for International Development, why the Trump Administration has gutted it, who is being impacted, and how the Cha Cha Slide can help us get to the bottom of this.

John Oliver: USAID #blogpost

My dating app husband and I just celebrated our 16 year wedding anniversary. But after reading this, I have to wonder: Do I even know who he is?

Street mural of Harriet Tubman reaching toward the viewer with a helping hand. A little girl facing the mural is in the foreground for scale. Artist: Michael Rosato. The mural, painted in 2019, is located behind 424 Race Street in Cambridge, MD on the exterior wall of the Harriet Tubman Museum and Education Center.

Did you know that tomorrow, March 10th marks the National Day of Rest for Black Women, a day created to center rest, reflection, and renewal? It's also the anniversary of Harriet Tubman’s passing, honoring her powerful legacy of courage, resistance, and liberation.

'Nobody Could Have Seen This Coming,' Says Blindfolded Administration The Trump administration can't foresee straight.

All wars create unexpected second and third-order effects. One of the appalling things about the Trump administration is that they don’t seem to have thought through the expected effects either. open.substack.com/pub/danieldr...

Exclusive: Iran is ready for a long war with the US and only economic pain will end it, senior official tells CNN | CNN A top Iranian official has warned that the government is prepared for a long war with the US and signaled that it is willing to continue attacking Gulf countries in an effort to persuade them to convi...

Iran is ready for a long war with the US and only economic pain will end it, senior official tells CNN

www.cnn.com/2026/03/09/m...

My name is Marisa Kabas, and I'm an independent journalist who publishes The Handbasket. I'm reaching out about a matter that involves your team and that continues to trouble me. In June of last year, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and I filed a FOIA lawsuit against the DC Metropolitan Police Department to compel them to release body camera footage from the March 17, 2025 DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace. What followed was months of back and forth with their lawyers, arguing why it was in the public interest to release the un-redacted footage in its entirety. Though tiny segments were handed over, that wasn't enough: We wanted all of it.  On February 18, 2026, a DC judge ruled in our favor, and your reporter Mark Segraves sent a kind note of congratulations that day. Then on Monday, March 2nd, the footage was handed over to me and excitedly announced I'd received it and would be reviewing it in the coming days and sharing what I learned. When Segraves emailed me this past Thursday asking for my phone number, I didn't think much of it. But when he called me just before 2pm on Friday to let me know NBC4 Washington would be airing a segment at 5pm, I grew concerned.  Segraves said he'd obtained some of the footage via a FOIA request that week after he heard the footage had been released to me. He said he'd credit the work of RCFP and me, but it was little comfort. I asked if he'd known the day before when he emailed me for my number, why didn't he tell me then? He didn't have a good answer for that. He acknowledged all the hard work I'd done getting this footage released. I asked him if he could hold the story until Monday, to which he replied that he's "not just a blogger" (implying that that's all I am, presumably) and that he'd have to check with his editor. I said fine. Nearly an hour later he called back to say his editor refused to hold the story, but that they were happy to interview me via Zoom to add to the package, and I said I would.

What followed was two hours of furiously writing and posting clips of the footage to Youtube so I could get something published before the 5pm broadcast, and in the midst of that, recording a quick Zoom interview with a person who was about to take credit for my work. At 4:59pm ET, The Handbasket published a piece titled "Police body cam footage shows DOGE knew Institute of Peace was private property during raid." Then I tuned into NBC4 Washington via your website to catch the broadcast, and my instinct to rush to get something out first was proven right.  "It's a story you're seeing first on News4," your newscast began. "For the first time we're getting an inside look at what happened the day the Trump administration took over the US Institute of Peace. News4 obtained more than four hours of police body camera video from that day." What followed was more than six minutes of clips and commentary from Segraves, but it's not until six minutes and 21 seconds into the piece that he mentions my name (mispronounced though he asked for the correct pronunciation on Zoom), "The Handbasket blog," and the RCFP's foundational role in bringing this footage to light. I was angry, but didn't feel there was much I could do. Then I saw the version NBC4 posted to Instagram and TikTok—the video itself made ZERO mention of the RCFP or my work, only briefly acknowledging it in the written caption on Instagram, and not even bothering to do that on TikTok. An average viewer with no background on the case is lead to believe that this footage was released because of your efforts. When I saw that, I decided I couldn't let this go. It's difficult to explain what it's like to spend nearly a year working on a story only to have another reporter and outlet surreptitiously take credit for it; months of work and personal risk only to have another reporter lying in wait to swoop in. What NBC4 did was immoral, unethical, and to be frank, just truly sucked.

I just sent this email to the news director at NBC4 Washington about the unprofessional and disrespectful way they handled publishing the body camera footage of the DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace that was obtained via my FOIA lawsuit:

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~In Texas, newly released video of the fatal ICE shooting of a U.S. citizen raises questions about the govt's claim that he “intentionally ran over” a federal agent.

~In Minnesota, federal agents lied about why they shot a Venezuelan man before their story fell apart.