Ioannis Ziogas

Formula 1: Bahrain and Saudi Arabia races under threat because of conflict in Middle East The Bahrain and Saudi Arabia Grands Prix are under threat as a consequence of the US-Israel war with Iran.

Unfortunately, it seems they might get cancelled.

www.bbc.com/sport/formul...

US taxpayers will now have to pay $700 million a month in interest for every month Trump refuses to refund tariffs under the Supreme Court ruling. So much winning.

Good thing we cut down on cancer research, education, and food assistance programs.

JF was all the rage when he was running for Senate.

"The authentic working class Democrat" the media called him.

Dude turned out to be a buffoon and a bigot.

Maybe it was the stroke. Maybe he always was like that. One thing's for sure: PA needs a new Senator.

It seems that the Trump admin defines "war" as "a country doesn't like us" -- in which case we are at "war" with pretty much the whole world.

I still have not heard a convincing justification for attacking Iran, particularly since *they were negotiating*.

Gonna start pretending I’m Canadian overseas.

Mojtaba Khamenei’s wife, Zahra Adel; his mother, Mansoureh Khojasteh Bagherzadeh, and a son were killed alongside his father in strikes on Saturday, the Iranian government said.

Good luck normalizing relations or getting Iran to abandon its nuclear aspirations.

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/w...

Some would call it just a "fatal MID"...

'UNIMAGINABLE CRUELTY': Judge Gary Brown, a Trump appointeee from NY, thrashes DHS' treatment of a man who came to the US at 9 as an abuse/neglect victim, has no criminal record and became a college grad.

"The laws of decency condemn such villainy." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Screenshot of excerpt from opinion that reads: "Despite this, the New York courts refused to stay the trial court’s order. After that highly questionable injunction was issued, the applicants filed appeals in both the Appellate Division (the State’s intermediate appellate court) and the Court of Appeals (its highest court) challenging the trial court’s order on federal constitutional grounds. At the same time, applicants asked both courts to stay the trial court’s order. The Appellate Division refused to issue a stay, and by order issued on February 11, the Court of Appeals sent the appeal filed in that court to the Appellate Division and dismissed applicants’ motions for a stay."

With nowhere else to turn, the applicants asked us to issue a stay, and we have jurisdiction to entertain their application. Title 28 U. S. C. §1257(a) gives us jurisdiction to review “[f]inal judgments or decrees” that are rendered by a State’s highest court and adjudicate federal constitutional claims, and the Court of Appeals’ February 11 order falls within that category.

1/9: In the New York redistricting case, Justice Alito's justification for why #SCOTUS even had *jurisdiction* to issue a stay is based upon a remarkably misleading portrayal of the state court proceedings.

I realize this is technical, but I wanted to write a short thread to explain the shadiness:

Just a reminder that Trump didn't just bumble us into an unnecessary war -- he deliberately created the conditions that he's now screaming about

All you need is the willingness to follow orders; being actually smart or good at the law is irrelevant.

Rubio's core argument:

- "I punched a rando on the street in self defense."

- "Was he about to attack you?"

- "No, but he would have returned my sucker punch, so my sucker punch was self defense."

Let me see if I get this right: we bombed Iran, killed 150 schoolchildren, wreaked havoc in the ME, violated IL, and abandoned 10,000s of US citizens in the region because Trump and Hegseth want a literal crusade?

There are at least 10,000 Amcits in Qatar alone, and the US government is saying we are on our own

Trump warns of more US casualties in war with Iran, Hezbollah joins conflict | CNN There could be more US casualties as part of the military operations against Iran, President Donald Trump acknowledged Sunday. Three American troops have been killed so far, according to the US milita...

Pentagon briefers acknowledged to congressional staff in a briefing Sunday that Iran was not planning to strike US forces or bases in the Middle East unless Israel attacked Iran 1st. It undercuts Trump’s argument that Iran was planning to potentially strike US preemptively & posed imminent threat.

“Americans are very lucky because, wherever they go to export freedom, they find oil.” Michele Serra

She is infuriatingly stupid.

No matter how angry I was at my regime, if you killed my daughter, I would be eternally bound to destroy you.

Amidst weeks of negotiation, Trump launched a massive surprise attack against Iran.

Hegseth says "we didn't start it."

Spoken like a true bully.

Opinion | Trump and Netanyahu Are Doing the Free World a Favor

If the stance was a principled one -- liberation, freedom, democracy -- instead of "let's grab their oil", Trump would not have been buddies with the likes of Orban, Erdogan, and MBS.

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/01/o...

I don't expect republican voters will not appreciate the upcoming oil price spikes.

Putting the picture of a christofascist bigot next to Booker Washington is sacrilegious.

My MAGA neighbors are surprised by the conflict intensifying and spreading in the gulf.

A particular neighbor (former JSOC operator) thought Iran would kneel after a day of strikes.

Altman's response is chatgpt generated. All the telltale signs are there.

If America still had the rule of law, this would be the easiest prosecution ever, but we all know absolutely nothing will happen.

No matter how you feel about leaders, targeting their families, kids, and grandchildren is a new level of moral depravity.

As someone who's been giving Middle East geography quizzes to young Americans in college for about 13 years now, I can tell you that this is accurate (at the start of my classes)