Sapana

Agree, it’s stunning

A long time ago, I used to know a lot about foreign-imposed regime change (FIRC) and study them.

I guess that makes me qualified to write a thread about them, especially in wake of Trump bombing Iran.

So here goes nothing. 🧵

Can’t help but feel like these brazen, unjustified, and violent assaults on other countries are signs that he’s got limited time left and his cabinet and neocon cronies are trying to speed run their wildest foreign policy ambitions before he’s gone.

I've made a new starter pack of people to follow for news and commentary on Iran.

Got the idea from a request by @kakape.bsky.social

An Unpopular, Doomed, Bloody War People will die and nothing will be accomplished

From Paul Musgrave, who is in Qatar.

Like so many of the people here, my formative years were spent in the Bush era, shaped by that disastrous presidency and its disastrous overseas wars. It shaped my priors around overseas wars and my skepticism.

This will not work out well and will instead just lead to needless death of innocents.

In the before times I’d probably be relying quite a bit on Twitter right now and checking expert lists curated by people like @joshtpm.bsky.social. Any recommendations on experts and journalists to follow here on bluesky as events unfold in Iran? Please spread widely and recommend broadly…

Trump might start a war with Iran. Can anyone stop him? Trump might start a war with Iran. Can anyone stop him? Congress, public opinion, and administration insiders aren’t reliable constraints on Trump’s foreign policy decisions.

Quick reactions after learning that no, nobody could stop him. 1/ goodauthority.org/news/trump-m... 1/

Science of sex and gender being misrepresented by Trump officials, experts warn Scientists say crackdown on gender-affirming care could have impact on healthcare of all Americans

Trump is screwing up the science of sex -- and that has implications for everyone's health care. My latest:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Came across the phrase "cognitive DDOS" to describe our present culture.

Understood instantly what it meant.

Hah, right? Can’t wait to tell all the ELBIs next week 😉

Yay! Tell your students too lol

Thank you!

Don’t have plans for the evening of March 10? Then tune into Jeopardy! to watch yours truly compete :)

my local park is full of hundreds of snow sculptures and someone has been adding museum labels

I mean just look at this

In honor of Black History Month, here's a thread with one book recommendation a day.

Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦🔱

Four years have passed since Russia's full scale invasion of Ukraine. Russia was supposed to win in three days. Instead, Ukraine reinvented modern warfare, built a drone industry, and can destroy a thousand Russian soldiers in a day. Ukraine can win.

It’s great (derogatory) that you can work very hard to find out something incredibly important, and the main response you will get is a derisive “Gee, I’m shocked.”

Somebody has to ACTUALLY DO THIS WORK! You can’t pursue justice by going “Your honor: I mean, duh.”

Regardless of your politics this is an insane headline. In other words:

“President of the United States (country with 2nd largest nuclear weapons arsenal) will base missile attack orders on adversarial nation of 80+ million people per the counsel of his son-in-law and a real estate investor.”

a man in a suit and tie is wearing a crown and saying yeah boyy ! Alt: Flavor Flav says YEAH BOOYYYEEEE,!!!

If the USA Women’s Hockey team wants a real celebration and invite ,,, I’ll host them in Las Vegas. Do some nice dinners and shows and good times.

I’m sure I can get a hotel and airline to help me out here and celebrate these women for real for real. 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

Another reason why the Olympics ice skating exhibition gala is so amazing

I’m supposed to make a vegetarian sandwich for a work colleague and want to know, what’s the best vegetarian sandwich you’ve ever had?

Only thing better would be seeing one of DC’s black squirrels doing this

Omg I love this

If this is your dream, may I suggest you watch this year's Olympic Exhibition Gala. We've already seen Tubthumping and Welcome to the Jungle :)

YouTube video by 3Axel1996 Aleksei Yagudin (RUS) - 2002 Salt Lake City, Figure Skating, Exhibitions

Or this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFcj... (especially starting at the 3:50 mark)

YouTube video by shiu Elena Berezhnaya & Anton Sikharulidze - The Kid.

Like, just watch this: youtu.be/EAtOrzrl1dk?...

If only all Olympic figure skating could demonstrate the joy, fun, creativity, and talent the exhibition event does. It's wonderful watching these incredible athletes skate with no pressure and pure exuberance.