It is official, 39 out of 47 Democratic senators have voted to block weapons to Israel, specifically $300 million in armed bulldozers

tbh the pope is just one of the roughly 8.3 billion people alive on earth today who don't need to read Michael Walzer.

Mike Johnson thinks "just war doctrine" means doing war and nothing else.

Selling off assets to cover a current accounts deficit: not great.

That covid dropoff is nasty. They're in the black or very close to it every year beforehand.

Everyone who wrote "sure Gaza is bad, but the war has massively improved Israel's strategic position" pieces in 2024 should a) donate any earnings from that piece to WFP and b) shut up forever.

Campus can't divest from the US, and Trump is immovable, so protesters are leaving campus and joining No Kings to get Trump out! It's not rocket science!

Imagine writing a "where are the protesters?" piece in the midst of the largest national protests in US history smdh.

These objections are 100% correct, and also the protesters are making a strategic choice! Gaza protests had clear demands about campus divestment from Israel, and there was a theory that the Biden admin was moveable on the issue. (1/2)

You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.

"This is a distraction" is just a lie. "They are taking your money and using it to commit criminal acts beyond our comprehension" is 100% true. I think we should tell the truth and not the lie. The latter also has the benefit of at least somewhat centering the issue of atrocities.

Trump’s Pentagon Budget is a human, economic, and environmental disaster The new $1.5 trillion request implies 267 megatons of carbon emissions, and could fund massive social spending instead

Trump's $1.5 trillion Pentagon budget will enable more idiotic wars in the short term & be a social + environmental disaster in the long term. $1.5 trillion for the military industrial complex would make the Pentagon's climate pollution about the same as the entire country of Spain.

If this is going on with business schools — say it with me — policy schools are in deep shit.

Iranian President Sayyid Mohammad Khatami

Bombing To Win, which I am sure most American foreign policy experts have read

i'm glad i'm not a lawyer so i don't have to pretend banning child torture and speech are in any way related

The word blurb was coined in 1906 by American humorist Gelett Burgess (1866–1951).[2] The October 1906 first edition of his short book Are You a Bromide? was presented in a limited edition to an annual trade association dinner. The custom at such events was to have a dust jacket promoting the work and with, as Burgess' publisher B. W. Huebsch described it, "the picture of a damsel—languishing, heroic, or coquettish—anyhow, a damsel on the jacket of every novel". In this case, the jacket proclaimed "YES, this is a 'BLURB'!" and the picture was of a (fictitious) young woman "Miss Belinda Blurb" shown calling out, described as "in the act of blurbing." The name and term stuck for any publisher's contents on a book's back cover, even after the picture was dropped and only the text remained.

The original Belinda Blurb

It brings me great pleasure to inform you the word "blurb" is named after a made-up woman named Belinda Blurb whose job is to tell everyone how great a book is

Insurgency is when you fire off sophisticated ballistic missiles but Islamically

For what it’s worth a lot of the people (normies) we spoke to today in St. Paul explicitly connected what trump has done to them and Minnesota with what the administration is doing to Iranians today

it’s really shocking not to hear more against the war from so called climate groups. Not the most important reason, obviously, but if you can’t be against mass death, you should be against the carbon cost of war. Grateful for this analysis

Naked expansionism by nuclear-armed states is such an underdiscussed development of our time

Mueller’s FBI persecuted Muslims nationwide. He was responsible for one of the most egregious, systemic violations of civil rights in the history of the FBI, which is saying a whole lot.

This was Mueller’s FBI:

Do these people hear themselves speak?

Trump Wants $200 Billion For His Disastrous War Washington – In response to reports that the Pentagon is seeking $200 billion in supplemental funding for President Trump’s war with Iran, Win Without War Policy Director Sam Ratner released the following statement: “Today is the 23rd anniversary of the start of the Iraq War, a generational disaster that killed thousands of U.S. troops, hundreds of thousands of civilians, and gobbled up trillions of taxpayer dollars. When George W. Bush first sought extra money to fund that illegal war of choice, the supplemental appropriation for the war came to an eye-popping $54.4 billion – a little under $100 billion in today’s dollars. Today, Donald Trump wants to see Bush’s bad bet and double it, wasting $200 billion of taxpayer money on a criminal Middle East war that no one wants. Congress shouldn’t give him a dime. “Trump’s war with Iran is already a disaster. 13 U.S. servicemembers dead. Thousands of Iranians killed, including over 160 schoolchildren, teachers, and parents in a school struck by a U.S. missile. Bombs falling on a dozen countries in the region. Gas prices through the roof. All with no end in sight. And now, the Pentagon is saying that it needs $200 billion more in taxpayer money to continue a war Trump never should have started in the first place. “That money could reverse many of the brutal cuts Trump has inflicted on our communities, covering Medicaid for some 25 million Americans or constructing roughly 800,000 units of affordable housing. Instead, Trump wants to use it to line the pockets of weapons makers and continue a catastrophic war. “Donald Trump started an illegal war, and now he wants $1,500 from every household in the United States to pay for it. Congress needs to tell him no.”

Our statement on news that Donald Trump wants $200 billion of taxpayer money for his disastrous war in Iran:

Hell yeah

We’re told there’s no money for universal healthcare or to end hunger in this country. But somehow $200 billion more for war will likely move through Congress without question. 

Not another penny for another endless war.

"If solidarity has been so often withheld from the Irish, it has never been withheld by the Irish"

Look, we were told there would be consequences to electing Mahmood Mamdani’s son, and

Professors Are Changing What They Teach, Even Far From Trump’s Gaze

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/u... I don't actually know Professor Trisko Darden personally and I don't know if she's on here but as a fellow political scientist I want her to know she can go stick her head in a bucket if she feels she was constrained by other people providing their pronouns to her

A lot of the people Akbar writes about in this are staking their careers on the hope that no one remembers the work they did to abet a genocide. Akbar's book is a vital part of the effort to ensure that no one forgets.

News from Iran & Lebanon increasingly resembles years of bloodshed in Gaza—civilian areas pummeled, international law ignored & a spiral of war endangering millions. Understanding why means understanding the US-Israel dynamic in one key period: under President Joe Biden, after October 7, 2023

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This is no different from Putin saying MH17 was shot down by Ukraine or Assad saying rebels gassed themselves.