Chris Lombardi

Chris Lombardi

@chrisblue.bsky.social

Bronx-born Philadelphian. #Journalist. #Author of 'brilliant but disturbing' books from The New Press and Mumblers Press. No longer on Substack; find me on Medium, WagingNonviolence.org, On Watch, and an oped near you. #Disabled from 40 yrs of MS.

4,730 Followers 7,962 Following 7,379 Posts Joined Jul 2023
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Pentagon Report: U.S. Military Fired Missile at Elementary School in Iran A U.S. military “targeting error” triggered the killing of at least 175 at a school in Iran, the highest civilian death toll in Trump’s war.

Even Hegseth's own people confirmed it was our fault
Pentagon Report: U.S. Military Fired Missile at Elementary School in Iran theintercept.com/2026/03/11/i...

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Coalition Demands Schumer, Jeffries Step Down Over Failure to Fight 'War-Crazed' Trump | Common Dreams "Schumer and Jeffries have shown that they cannot be trusted to prevent more wars, more threats of wars, or the transfer of another half a trillion dollars a year into the war machine."

Coalition Demands Schumer, Jeffries Step Down Over Failure to Fight 'War-Crazed' Trump www.commondreams.org/news/schumer...

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Jaw-Dropping Scale of Troops Wounded by Trump’s War is Leaked Scores of U.S. soldiers were gravely injured—but the Pentagon has not been upfront about it.

www.thedailybeast.com/military-hos... "More than 30 military personnel remained hospitalized at Landstuhl and other military hospitals following the strike on a tactical operations center at the Shuaiba port outside Kuwait City on March 1.."

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Ret. Maj. Gen. Neil McCasland.
Executive Secretary. Every classified program America has.

Missing 12 days.
No phone. No watch.
FBI called in.
Disappeared one week after Trump ordered UFO file release.
No conclusions.

Just questions nobody is asking loudly enough.

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18 hours ago

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1 hour ago
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It only took 2 weeks for the Iran war to cause a draft scare The U.S. has not had a draft in more than five decades, and there are a lot of measures the military could take before it gets to that point.

Note the date on the article; it was passed last Christmas, not sched till the end of 2026. And an actual draft wd require too much to make it likely: taskandpurpose.com/news/iran-wa...

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4 hours ago

what do you MEAN they're proposing Rolling Thunder on steroids

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The Iranian drone attack in Kuwait that killed U.S. service members was more severe than previously known. Dozens were injured with brain trauma, shrapnel wounds and burns, with over 30 still hospitalized, including about 25 at Landstuhl in Germany. -CBS News

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4 hours ago
This screenshot captures an official tweet from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), posted on March 11, 2026.

The tweet includes a high-angle, wide-shot photograph of a massive, modern industrial warehouse complex surrounded by a large parking lot and green fields. The text of the tweet reads:

    "DHS and ICE are moving fast to secure the infrastructure needed for a safer America. Today we finalized the purchase of our 12th primary warehouse facility. This $38B investment in our new 'Reengineering Initiative' ensures we own our facilities outright—cutting out the middleman and speeding up removals. #SecureTheBorder #DHS #ICE"

The image also shows a "DHS.gov" watermark in the corner and typical social media metrics, including thousands of retweets and likes.

By "innovative" "end-to-end operational hubs," it sounds like ICE are trying to CONCENTRATE their operations in a CAMP-like environment, no?

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23 hours ago
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This press conference gave me chills. And not the good kind.

It’s not the Save America Act, it’s the Stop Americans Voting Act.

QUESTION: What the hell does “no men in women’s sports” have to do with voting?

ANSWER: Absolutely nothing. Republicans are trying to force Dems into bad optics.

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6 hours ago
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Chuck Schumer: Man of Peace - World BEYOND War For many years, Senator Charles Schumer demanded tougher and tougher sanctions on the people of Iran, as he shamelessly documents on his own website. He insisted on a Cuba-like blockade. #WorldBEYONDW...

David Swanson is being sarcastic,, of course
Chuck Schumer: Man of Peace worldbeyondwar.org/chuck-schume...

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7 hours ago

The coalition includes nearly every org I've ever been associated with. The need is so urgent

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7 hours ago

Trump is only capable of 2 things:

1) quitting and declaring victory
2) doubling down on violence

Both are guaranteed disasters.

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7 hours ago

Messaging in reply so it's less weird

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1 day ago

I hate this so much because there is no, and has never been any, demand to impose sharia law in this country.

On the other hand, we do have religious extremists currently stealing our freedom and those guys should stop.

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17 hours ago

You and I haven't spoken awhile, but there are SO many lovely books in our new house....

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21 hours ago

If you're in line to vote when polls close in Georgia and Mississippi tonight, stay in line and vote.

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21 hours ago

Not only am I now the first tenured Latina law prof at Tulane, I am also its first full Latina law prof.

And there will be more, I promise.

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22 hours ago

They seem somewhat tolerant of retaliation

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22 hours ago

He knew. The Marines told him what it was in 2009. He could have decided to cover it up to get back into active duty service, but he didn’t.

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US and Iran dig in and ramp up threats as war rages with no end in sight Iran’s attacks on regional oil infrastructure and pledges to choke off a vital waterway left markets on edge as the United States promised blistering new strikes.

apnews.com/article/iran...

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3rd-century citadels. 17th-century palaces. A girls' school. 150 children. The Blue Shield markers were visible. The Hague Convention was clear. Trump said in 2020 he didn't care. He wasn't lying then either.

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160 children dead in their school. The 17th-century Chehel Sotoun Palace in Isfahan renowned for its irreplaceable frescoes depicting Persian mythology was damaged. The third-century Falak-ol-Aflak

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There's probably an argument to be made that Israel's systematic fuel depot strikes — which blanketed a densely populated city of 10 million people in smoke, and caused toxic, carcinogenic black rain — amount to chemical warfare.

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22 hours ago

That's my refrain with the "both sides" journo types

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1 day ago

Again, we are pretty unequivocally heading for a boots on the ground invasion of Iran, AFAICT

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We killed 160 girls in a school on Day One and called it investigation-worthy. There is no euphemism available. No framework sufficient. We did this. With our money. In our name. That's not strategy. That's shame. I'm appalled with our country. Donald Trump is a war criminal.

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Unicorn Riot (@UnicornRiot@mastodon.social) In Dec. we covered an event highlighting legal slavery in MN. Formerly incarcerated organizers are putting pressure on the state and private businesses to end the practice of paying prison laborers ne...

mastodon.social/@UnicornRiot...

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23 hours ago

It seems pretty apparent that America isn’t going to get out of this national nightmare without fully rebooting its entire system of information and data practices, policies, and industries.

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