@ayallgood.bsky.social
Liberal boomer near Washington DC, retired from higher ed. Dad and husband were both USAF fighter pilots: I moved 26 times in 41 years. Please don't add me to any lists. Thank you. 💙 #RESIST!
1/9. In 2020 Iran did try to interfere with the presidential election.
01.03.2026 02:33 — 👍 2193 🔁 1054 💬 50 📌 182
Reup, on the forgotten claim that Jared and Steve were purportedly seeking peace.
emptywheel.net/iran-things-...
Modern tyranny is terror management.
I wrote this essay in April 2025 and updated it in November. I'm posting it again now because my fear of this scenario has continued to grow.
"The Next Terrorist Attack: And What Comes After"
snyder.substack.com/p/the-next-t...
I spoke with @phillipspobrien.bsky.social about the political implications of Trump's attack on Iran.
snyder.substack.com/p/making-sen...
This article should have made the basic point that other countries are governed by the rule of law. It’s not about “eagerness” to prosecute and it’s not a puzzle. It’s a marker of a deep US problem.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/01/w...
The “big picture” here, to use Axios lingo, is that for a year team Trump has destroyed important counter-terror tools and diverted counter-terror personnel to immigration enforcement.
And that Patel, Noem, & Gabbard have no qualifications and are riotously incompetent.
www.axios.com/2026/03/02/i...
He’s doing that
02.03.2026 01:09 — 👍 99 🔁 33 💬 3 📌 1
The judges in WV have seen enough.
They say that if the ICE continues detaining people in ways they have unanimously deemed illegal they will start issuing civil fines and contempt findings — including against state officials who help them carry it out.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
One reason they’re ordering release of detainees — rather than bond hearings: Berger and Johnston say the hearings are increasingly a pre-cooked sham, resulting in detention without a genuine chance for bond. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
01.03.2026 12:58 — 👍 539 🔁 124 💬 3 📌 4
As we kick off Women's History Month, Donald Trump is hell-bent on eroding the advancements that generations of women have made.
We're making it clear to the President that we won't go back in time in Illinois — we're fighting for a future that moves us forward.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders appointed 2 supreme court justices to "cement" court's conservative majority.
Arkansas' constitution banned them from seeking a full term for their own seat. They decided to circumvent that by... running for each other.
This Tuesday, one of them faces challenger John Adams:
Former New Mexico Attorney General Balderas details how the FBI forcefully shut down New Mexico's criminal probe into what was up at Epstein's Zorro Ranch in Santa Fe Co. The feds insisted that they were running their own criminal probe and that NM's involvement would not be tolerated. It was a lie.
01.03.2026 19:56 — 👍 1169 🔁 640 💬 29 📌 36
Sen Chris Murphy (D-CT) to Face the Nation:
“I don't have any obligation to fund a Department of Homeland Security that is violating the law every day, just like I don't have any obligation to support this war that is illegal as well.”
On the first day of Women’s History Month, I had the honor of standing in Pittsburgh as my friend Roxanne Brown made history — becoming the first woman and the first person of color elected International President of the United Steelworkers.
Another glass ceiling shattered. Many more to go.
“.. “100+ oil per barrel soon,” Kremlin envoy Kirill Dmitriev gloated on X Saturday evening.
@politico.com
www.politico.eu/article/russ...
Oil market opening
First 12 min
U.S. crude oil futures rose more than 7% to $72.11 per barrel. Global benchmark Brent jumped about 11% to more than $81 per barrel.
NEWS: In 2019, the Trump DOJ took over New Mexico’s investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s Zorro Ranch — telling the state to stand down and turn over its findings. According to officials and newly unsealed records, the probe soon fizzled after the federal takeover. Link to NYT reporting in reply.
01.03.2026 23:03 — 👍 3311 🔁 1531 💬 134 📌 95Clashes between Bahrain’s dictatorship and protesters. Angry crowds are calling for the removal of US bases and troops from the country.
02.03.2026 00:25 — 👍 520 🔁 214 💬 28 📌 15This is A+ activism.
01.03.2026 02:22 — 👍 159 🔁 57 💬 9 📌 7
"Her release follows months of advocacy from community members and political leaders of both parties.
Yu has operated her two West Valley restaurants for years, building a reputation for greeting customers with humor and kindness. She has no criminal record."
www.12news.com/article/news...
In St. Paul, Minnesota, Hennepin County deputies brutally assaulted peaceful anti-ICE protesters.
02.03.2026 00:59 — 👍 553 🔁 418 💬 73 📌 63
On
Man of Peace? No a man of destruction.
02.03.2026 01:33 — 👍 34 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0
a fucking toddler being played like a two-bit piccolo by the three of them
02.03.2026 01:42 — 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
Siding with the Constitution isn't siding with Iran.
02.03.2026 00:00 — 👍 1703 🔁 283 💬 65 📌 43
You can say the same about most of this admin & maga republicans - Hegseth, Miller, Noem, etc., & all the wimpy-ass little bitches in Congress who won't stand up to trump.
A whole lot of greed & small-dick-energy inferiority complexes.
Oh swell.😳
"U.S. troops are racing to destroy Iran's ballistic and nuclear missile facilities before they run out of interceptors to defend from Iranian retaliatory strikes ... The stockpile has been diminished after repeated conflicts in the region."
www.rawstory.com/trump-iran-2...
Same.
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My bet is he bombs Iran for a few weeks, declares “mission accomplished,” and leaves the mess behind.
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