Joan Walsh

01 March, 2026 Rerouting of ME11 and MECL Service around the Cape of Good Hope Due to the deteriorating security situation in the Middle East region following the escalating military conflict, we have decided – in close coordination with our security partners – to pause future Trans Suez sailings through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait for the time being. Until further, all sailings on the ME11 (Middle East-India to Mediterranean) and MECL (Middle East-India to East Coast US) services will be rerouted around the Cape of Good Hope. The safety of our crews, vessels and customers’ cargo remains our key priority and we will continue to monitor the situation closely and take all needed actions. We remain committed to minimising the impact on our customers’ supply chains and will continue to keep them updated on the situation. Once the situation stabilises and the security situation again permits, we will continue to prioritise the Trans-Suez route for ME11 and MECL services as it is the fastest, most sustainable and most efficient way for us to serve our customers. Cargo acceptance for the Middle East area remains open. Sailing through the Strait of Hormuz The safety of our crews, vessels and customers’ cargo remains our key priority. We are suspending all vessel crossings in the Strait of Hormuz until further notice. As a result, services calling ports in the Arabian Gulf may experience delays, rerouting, or schedule adjustments.

About those core interests (this is presumably temporary, but will elicit greater escalation).

www.maersk.com/stay-ahead

Elite Doctors Served Jeffrey Epstein While Treating His ‘Girls’

Just wanted to make sure this wasn't lost.

The connection between Epstein, the Dubins, and Mount Sinai Hospital.

Vile stuff.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/u...

I needed that reminder. Thanks.

‘I Just Stood Up’: The Stunning Arrest Of Aliya Rahman At The State Of The Union Rahman, who was Rep. Ilhan Omar’s guest, suspects she was targeted after testifying to Congress about her brutal ICE detention in Minneapolis.

NEW, from me: I talked to Aliya Rahman, who was dragged out of Tuesday's State of the Union + arrested for... standing up.

Really.

Rahman, who is autistic and has disabilities, was a guest of Rep. Ilhan Omar + was previously brutally detained by ICE in Minneapolis. www.huffpost.com/entry/aliya-...

They want to cut suicide prevention among veterans even as they drag us into another war.

> @jimlaporta.bsky.social

Clean af on opsec yet again

Send their kids for a change.

This is so fucking sick.

Paul Noth, The New Yorker

I have to stop myself from flaming every idiot who criticized Kamala or Hillary for being "hawks." I want a Game of Thrones level of "Shame, shame, shame." (God I love Hannah Waddingham.)

I'd either apologize publicly, or throw myself in front of a train.

As I scroll through triumphal pro-war tweets, thinking about this image a lot today:

“Mr President, the bombings have begun in Tehran and also customers are complaining we have run out of shrimp at the pool buffet.”

Susie Wiles is wearing an Apple Watch during a highly classified meeting on Iran.

Unreal.

Everyone gets like that on a bender...

MSNOW was toggling back and forth between "Trump: Iran's Supreme Leader Is Dead" and the regime's denial as its chyrons. Now Trump's claim has held for about 15 minutes. This is where we are, folks. Who knows?

Don’t worry everybody, Thomas is on the job

www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Trump in dopey USA baseball cap, posed at the head of a table full of crisis actor White House staffer flown into Perv-A-Lago for the “war” photo op, in a black-draped section of his club, which is supposed to make it look like a high security “situation room,” but doesn’t.

Cropped version on the previous photo, showing aires peeking in through the high security, top secret curtains.

Pipe and draping does not make it a SCIF. And DEFINITELY not a SCIF if you can just peek your head in from outside.

This is one of the videos the NYT has verified and links to in their reporting.

NYT: "Video verified by [NYT] showed ... rescuers digging through the rubble with building cranes and shovels, and piles of bloodied, dusty backpacks."

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/w...

Amazingly, she restrains herself from saying “Are you sorry now that you didn’t vote for me, you incredibly stupid f*cks?”

In a just world, every bad faith git with a platform who called Trump an anti-war president would be driving DoorDash for the next ten years. It was always such transparently false bullshit.

Draft-dodging chicken-hawks love to talk tough (from their fancy, gold-plated beach resorts). But they have NO CLUE what war is really about.

We need a War Powers vote NOW.

You deserve to know who wants to send your kids to war to fight for Trump's lies.

This is a crisis moment, and any Democratic leader who won’t step up should be asking why they’re in the role. The rest of us should be asking why we let them stay there.

We wake up this morning to learn that Trump has launched a reckless, illegal war.

We can support the democracy movement and the people of Iran without risking the lives of our brave troops.

I had to turn off NYT alerts on my phone because of that. But Apple still pushes its garbage and that's how I found out this a.m.

@nytpitchbot.bsky.social nutshells it.

Well well well

#EnlistBarron