i would be too 🫡

The federal government – ICE, FBI, and more – is spying on you without a warrant.

This week, Congress will decide whether Kash Patel, Stephen Miller and Trump can keep spying on Americans. If that scares you (it should) this thread is for you.

SFUSD Employee Retirement Accounts Are Likely Missing Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars School employees discovered the problem months ago. The district and pension system say don’t worry, the money’s in a trust fund.

at this point SFUSD employees may have the skills to become very niche personal finance influencers. via @thefrisc.bsky.social thefrisc.com/sfusd-employ...

Millions of people in Sudan surviving on one meal a day as food crisis deepens, NGOs say Millions of people in Sudan are surviving on just one meal a day, as the country's food crisis deepens and threatens to spread, according to ​a report published on Monday by a group of non-governmental organisations.

Millions of people in Sudan surviving on one meal a day as food crisis deepens, NGOs say reut.rs/4tHekP6

Wrote a tribute to the Church of Total SF 🌁 🍿 ❤️

Home of soooo many epic San Francisco movie nights with @heatherknightsf.bsky.social

Happy 100th birthday Balboa Theater!

Gift link 🎁 ⬇️

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great tribute! coming home on a foggy night to this view never gets old 💙 (haven't seen that glow with the new coat of blue paint yet though)

Health care workers in Lebanon face Israel's illegal attacks Health care workers warn the attacks put a strain on Lebanon’s medical infrastructure, similar to how Israel targets Gaza’s health care system

Health care workers in Lebanon face Israel’s illegal attacks, Neha Madhira reports.

As Israel’s illegal invasion & ground siege continues in Lebanon, 500,000+ residents fled at once in March. Pregnant women were forced to give birth on the side of the road & 55+ clinics were shut down or attacked.

Nothing speaks to the fact that sexual abuse is so often about power that people who have, allegedly, done sexual abuse seek political power.

Hello, I made you a feed of your cats watching the Artemis II splashdown bsky.app/profile/did:...

A government service does not “lose money” but also: the war is costing us $2 billion daily.

There are so many talented, curious, hardworking people who want to be journalists and can’t be, and it really puzzles me that so many of the very few remaining jobs in this industry go to people who seem completely averse to actually writing and reporting.

Trump calling the war already won is “mostly hyperbole,” said a senior White House official granted anonymity to speak candidly about the administration’s thinking. “It’s part [of Trump] just wanting to declare victory and move on.” That impulse, the official said, has become more pronounced in recent days. “[Trump] is getting a little bored with Iran,” the official said. “Not that he regrets it or something — he’s just bored and wants to move on.” A second White House official who was granted anonymity for the same reason told MS NOW that Trump has begun to “move on” from the conflict and has started shifting conversations and personal focus towards the economy, domestic issues and the upcoming midterm elections.

good piece on MS-NOW confirming the WSJ report from two days ago

Trump has lost interest in his war

but unlike with the tariffs, that alone doesn't end the war or fix the crisis www.ms.now/news/trump-i...

“We all need to be out and about and seeing what our small-business owners are going through and what our families and our children are going through,” Lurie told the San Francisco Chronicle on Wednesday (opens in new tab). “Our elders have to walk down those streets, too. “It is my job to lean in,” he added. “If I’m not doing it, how can I expect my department heads and [SFPD] and sheriff and park rangers to interact with people that are of concern?”

noticing that this quote is more about how everyone ~but~ homeless people are doing. and genuine question, what kind of trauma-informed training has he gone through to approach people on the street? my guess is not nearly enough sfstandard.com/2026/03/12/m...

The U.S. Built a Blueprint to Avoid Civilian War Casualties. Trump Officials Scrapped It. The Pentagon dismantled its civilian protection mission as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made “lethality” a top priority and the Trump administration reorganized national security around two principl...

Just out @propublica.org: How did the Pentagon make the horrible mistake that left more than 150 school children dead? Perhaps because it cancelled an effort to limit such harm in favor of Hegseth’s lust for “lethality.”
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NYT NEWS ANALYSIS How Trump's War in Iran Has Echoes of Putin and Ukraine The many similarities between the White Houses justification for war in Iran and Russias messaging on Ukraine underscore the risks of a vaguely defined, open-ended war.

But Dmytro Kuleba, the Ukrainian foreign minister at the time of Russia’s invasion, said that given the expansive U.S. goals, the Trump administration may be suffering from the same overconfidence that doomed Russia’s initial war plan. “American commentators are again talking about a ‘short war,’” Mr. Kuleba posted on social media on Friday. “They said the same about Russia’s war against Ukraine. It will be short only if Washington quietly scales down its goals, gives up on regime change in Iran, and sells a much smaller outcome as victory.”

the similar rhetoric all pointing to vast overconfidence is uncanny www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/u...

Hegseth: "The only ones who need to be worried right now are Iranians who think they're going to live"

Bari Weiss reposing a CBS News stories that says the current war with Iran stretches back to 1979

Story at the The Free Press: Our 50 Year War with Iran

Bari Weiss is pushing the “50 year war” narrative at both the Free Press and CBS. The erases both American culpability for the current war (since Iran started in 1979!) and the reasons why a theocratic anti-American regime took power in the first place.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-reason...

In just four days.

U.S. Troops Were Told Iran War Is for “Armageddon,” Return of Jesus Advocacy group reports commanders giving similar messages at more than 30 installations in every branch of the military

EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war.

The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been “inundated” with more than 110 complaints.

One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus…

A displaced family fleeing Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon arrives in the southern port city of Sidon, early Monday. [Mohammed Zaatari/AP Photo]

Debris covers a street beside an apartment building hit by an Israeli air strike in Dahiyeh, Beirut's southern suburb. [Hussein Malla/AP Photo]

A girl sits in a van as displaced families fleeing Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon arrive in the southern port city of Sidon. [Mohammed Zaatari/AP Photo]

Tens of thousands of Lebanese civilians are leaving areas in Beirut following Israeli strikes and forced displacement orders. [Mohammed Zaatari/AP Photo]

Lebanese civilians flee amid deadly Israeli strikes on Beirut suburbs https://aje.news/gzjdfs

also said in the call that bombing iran is expected go 4 or 5 weeks, could be shorter could be longer ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Thousands flee Beirut and southern Lebanon amid Israeli strikes: what we know so far on day three of the Iran war Middle East conflict spreads as Hezbollah attacks Israel, prompting strikes on Beirut; oil prices soar; drone hits UK base in Cyprus

Israel strikes Beirut. Many roads gridlocked with people trying to flee. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Exclusive: Prior to Iran attacks, CIA assessed Khamenei could be replaced by hardline IRGC elements if killed, sources say In the run-up to the U.S. and Israeli attacks on Saturday, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency assessed that even if Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in the operation, he would...

related: www.reuters.com/world/middle...

this is a good breakdown of how embedded the regime structure of Iran is, why many are so invested in keeping it going regardless of who is alive or in charge & making it super complicated to dismantle www.instagram.com/reel/DVRQ6TV...

2) US conservatives have been angling for this for DECADES. like with roe v wade, they eventually got their way. remember they take the long view and without a long view counter-strategy, they will keep getting their way

Iran: Tsunami of Arbitrary Arrests, Enforced Disappearances Iran’s authorities have waged a brutal campaign to terrorize the population through mass arbitrary detentions, torture, and enforced disappearances in the aftermath countrywide massacres of protesters...

..and their regular food, to do so in further inflated war time costs while seeking safety is unimaginable.

if you're talking about iran w/out talking about the massacre, you're missing a crucial element. NONE of these governments, us, israel iran are good actors here www.hrw.org/news/2026/02...

couple thoughts from an iranian american: 1) iranians in iran are being hit on all sides. their government has just killed them by the thousands, leaving them shellshocked and trying to save tens of thousands from being executed in the aftermath. many already couldn't afford everyday life..

As Trump frames himself as a savior for Iranians & asks them to fight for freedom, note he has banned nearly all of them from travel to the US, heavily pressured ordinary people thru sanctions (hitting material including vital medical goods) & tied his operation closely to Israel—deeply mistrusted.

the 12 day war gave the regime cover to be even more repressive under the guise of finding spies. and that was before the protests that killed several thousand under the darkness of internet cutoffs. so for Iranians, surviving bombs by the US and Iran will mean walking on eggshells like no other

Opinion | 40 Iranian Doctors and Nurses Describe a Massacre We surveyed medical workers across 14 cities and 11 provinces in Iran about their experiences treating wounded protesters.

This is so well done

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...