Sarah Burnes

Video appears to show U.S. cruise missile striking Iranian school compound The seven-second video was released by Iranian state media and directly contradicts statements made by President Trump, who said Iran was responsible for the strike.

The Iranian girls’ school was hit by a US tomahawk cruise missile. NPR has confirmed the footage.

We ALL need more sea monsters. 🪼

This checks out.

Guess What Moderate Democratic Voters Aren’t Anymore? Moderate. Two new polls suggest that moderate Democrats, too, want higher taxes on the rich and some measure of economic populism. Moderate isn’t what it was in 1992.

Third Way and other "moderate" Democratic groups and elites constantly bash progressive politicians and ideas. But moderate Democratic VOTERS really like raising taxes on the wealthy and corporations, Medicare-for-all, and Bernie Sanders. newrepublic.com/article/2074...

This is amazing. A lesson in how to stand up for yourself. Go, @marisakabas.bsky.social!

Ar I, Sec. 8, Cl. 11:
The Congress shall have Power . . . To declare War.

Is this a war?
Obviously.

Has Congress declared it?
Obviously not.

Is it illegal?
Gosh, no one has Art III standing, so the answer is unknowable.

(Correct answer: something is obviously wrong with standing doctrine).

OK, then. It's illegal.

The Post and Courier, which is leading the investigative work on the woman who accused Trump of sexually assaulting her when she was a child, looks into the woman’s FBI interview and substantiates many details through public records

Take a look at this dope in his baseball hat.

man that’s crazy that the US missile did that of its own accord

HELPFUL FLOWCHART

Are you a dude who is about to reply guy mansplain an expert woman on Bluesky?

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“Throughout history, women have been taught to stay quiet and shrink our power. The longer they hold me [in ICE detention], the more I am reminded how important my story is.”

On International Women’s Day, Leqaa Kordia reflects on solidarity among women in U.S. immigration detention.

I think this literally every single day. Imagine!

This is what ecocide looks like.

Constantly reminded of Frank Capra to Bill Moyers: "Hitler looked like Charlie Chaplin … [t]o the people that saw him, a lot of people laughed. And when Mussolini did his big, big stuff, well, he too was a clown. … If it weren't so evil, if it weren't so many people getting killed, it was a comedy."

When DOGE Unleashed ChatGPT on the Humanities

“While the cancellations were sweeping, the filing argues, they were driven by a campaign against D.E.I. that discriminated on the basis of race, ethnicity, gender and other characteristics.”

Such a simple and profound point! THIS IS ALL DISCRIMINATION!
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/a...

The constituency of Americans who see DEI as detrimental to the country is vanishingly small, the sort of constituency that can easily be ignored if politicians want to ignore it.

“The Wall Street Journal found that the Department of Homeland Security, created in 2002 to protect Americans, has turned its force against citizens.”

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

Trump Wants to ‘Take Over’ Elections. These States are Prime Targets.

“a map of potential targets may be coming into focus and includes the swing states Michigan, Georgia, North Carolina and Arizona.”

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/u...

It was going on one, two in the morning, and we were shooting what I felt was an important scene for me, when he makes an attempt to be quote-unquote straight, in a suit, and at the end of it he gets emotional and locks himself in the other room. And I felt like, I’m not getting what I want—I’m not happy with it. Mike was happy with it. He called me the next day and said, “I know you weren’t happy with the scene last night. Believe me, we wouldn’t have gone home if I had felt we weren’t getting it.” And then he sort of became my psychiatrist and said, “You find it difficult to be happy, don’t you? You find it difficult to enjoy things.” And I said, “Well, sometimes. Last night was about feeling too tired and not feeling I was reaching what I needed to reach for the scene.” He talked to me then about when he was making, I don’t know whether it was Virginia Woolf or The Graduate. He said, “I didn’t enjoy it for a second. I was worried about so many things.” And then he said, “You know, this is never going to happen again quite this way. You should try to allow yourself to enjoy this more. Take a minute a day, and then add a minute the next day, and another minute. Pretty soon, you’ll have hours of happiness.”

The Birdcage opened thirty years ago today, so in its honor, I want to share one of my favorite stories about Mike Nichols that didn't make it into my biography. This is from an interview I did with Nathan Lane.

Remember when Jamie Dimon said he could work with any administration? That it didn't matter to him or to JP Morgan Chase who won the election?

Yeah. Elections matter.

"Best money ever spent" -- I can think of a LOT of other things this money could be spent on, Senator.

The South ending Reconstruction and plunging their populations into a backward looking culture and economy until it was forced to modernize by the Civil Rights movement is imo a very clean parallel.

The Ellisons’ new Paramount/Warner Bros mega-media monopoly would never pass muster if America still had antitrust enforcers.

So who can stop this? State attorneys general. Here's how. ⬇️

https://actionnetwork.org/letters/stop-paramount-mega-media-monopoly/?source=group-ShortText

There's something deeply obscene and broken about the fact that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are bombing elementary schools in an illegal war of aggression, and there's still a sense among the opposition that it has to be explained in terms of gas prices in order to get American voters to care.

This is no different from Putin saying MH17 was shot down by Ukraine or Assad saying rebels gassed themselves.

@covie93.bsky.social

Lindsey Graham’s Quest to Sell Trump on Striking Iran Few others in the president’s ear argued for the attack as effectively as South Carolina’s senior senator.

One lesson of all of this is how dangerous just one person can be.

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

There are a lot of posts out there with the close-up visual of Markwayne Mullin on January 6, but this is a better perspective.

He’s not protecting others; he’s protecting himself and hiding. You can see plenty of people at the entry door, ready to take on the insurrectionists, but not Markwayne.