Joan Walsh

love how we killed the old, frail anti-nuke ayatollah just to have him replaced with his young, healthy son who wants nukes and who just had his father, mother, wife, and child murdered on the same day by his mortal enemy. surely this will bring peace to the region

This raises the obvious question of what kind of thing the Trump admin might need the National Transportation Safety Board to do that a conscientious Board member would reject.

On March 8, at the direction of #SOUTHCOM commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations. Six male narco-terrorists were killed during this action. No U.S. military forces were harmed. @DeptofWar #OpSouthernSpear UNCLASSIFIED

We’re still murdering people in “drug boats” even as we start a new war in Iran. Six people today.

the president has no idea what he has set in motion. none.

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As a parent, keeping certain comments to myself rn

Where Trump's money comes from (and other mysteries) This week's newsletter covers a range of topics: The president's complex network of companies, how weather has gotten worse, a new tool to visualize the whole world at once. But I did reserve some tim...

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They're stealing the voice of Sinead O'Connor, who risked her own career in 1992 by speaking up about child sexual abuse in the Catholic church, so let's make this theft an occasion to keep talking about Trump in the Epstein files.

So according to the WSJ a US Senator conspired with another country to manipulate the US into starting a war, am I getting this right

‘America Doesn’t Want My Children or Grandchildren’ The Cruz family spent years building a life in New York. Then the risks of staying became too great.

I haven't cried since I visited the Renee Good memorial in Minneapolis. This piece made me sob. How are we letting this happen? www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Trump and Hegseth revel in this.

The first 13 seconds of this are indistinguishable from a Vic Berger edit

Rebecca Solnit Says the Left’s Next Hero Is Already Here

“Everything we can save is worth saving. Everything we can do is worth doing. We’ve already lost a lot, but we don’t have to lose everything. We don’t have to surrender.” 💯

- @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social

gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/m...

You'll regret it About nothing it is hardly worth while to waste a word

My new favorite writer: open.substack.com/pub/samkriss...

SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26

NO - 41%
YES - 38%
UNSURE - 21%

OK, truth. I have been singing “A change gonna come” all day. Just hope. And yes, you know I am watching Reverend Jesse Jackson’s funeral because who am I?

@joanwalsh.bsky.social fyi

By morons for morons

Slurs Filled a Chat Created by a Republican Party Official in Florida

“Slurs Filled a Chat” as if by magic! Who can say how those slurs teleported into that chat! www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/u...

@joanwalsh.bsky.social
Happy 7-year anniversary of the Belafonte taping. Thanks always.
NYT, Mar. 5, 2019, 6 pm.

Chlorine Dioxide, Raw Camel Milk: The FDA No Longer Warns Against These and Other Ineffective Autism Treatments The FDA has taken down a webpage warning about therapies and products making “false claims” of treating autism. It’s part of a series of actions the agency has taken under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy ...

The FDA webpage had a stark warning: Some purported autism “cures” or treatments, including chlorine dioxide and raw camel milk, are dangerous and make misleading claims.

Now, under RFK Jr.’s leadership, that advisory is gone.

Keep saying this: @people.com understand the assignment when it comes to headlines + clarity.

Give them their props!

It’s almost like he’s hoping for it so that he can have an excuse to use “emergency powers”

Sending a message back to 2015 would be something huh.

Hey guys, if you elect this washed-up reality tv star then ten years later People,com will end up leading the resistance against his fascist dictatorship.

Wut?

He exchanged text messages about the stench of Black people. Now he's running for a U.S. House seat in Georgia to support Trump. This morning,I woke up to an Atlanta Journal-Constitution article about Ryan Millsap's GOP bid for an open U.S. House seat. I covered his racist and antisemitic text exchanges in a 2024 investigation.

In 2024, I investigated a powerful film studio/real estate executive and his racist, antisemitic communications.

He exchanged messages about the stench of Black people.

Now he’s running for Congress in Georgia to support Trump. I wrote about it here: open.substack.com/pub/nicolefc...

This is honestly one of the most anti-Jewish things I’ve ever seen from the United States government.

ICE detains reporter Estefany Rodríguez in Nashville - Nashville Banner Reporter Estefany Rodríguez, detained by ICE with no arrest warrant, may face deportation. Her attorneys seek immediate review of the legality of her case.

ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.

They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.

"Kristi [Noem] did a great job of setting us up for success," said Pete Hegseth.
Renee Good and Alex Pretti were unavailable for comment.

Eager to see Senator Wyden seated on the Renee Good and Alex Pretti Truth Commission.

Firewater?