What Americans think they know about Iran What Iranians know about the US: 1953 CIA topples elected leader of Iran. 1950s 60s 70s US spends billions propping up a repressive puppet, the Shah. 1980s US support Saddam Hussein's war with Iran with Intel and weapons even chemicals. 1988 US warship blows civilian airliner out of the sky mistake kills 290 Iranians. 2007 presidential candidate sings about bombing Iran. What some Americans think they know about negotiating with Iran "they can't be trusted." bagley@bsky

What Americans think they know about Iran ...

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This Is Ground Zero in the Conservative Quest for More Patriotic and Christian Public Schools Oklahoma has spent years reshaping public schools to integrate lessons about Jesus and encourage pride in America’s history. By the time the second Trump administration began espousing its “America Fi...

“You starve your public schools to feed your private schools and charter schools,” said one superintendent about the state’s efforts to grow charter schools. “Our foundation was set up for a free and appropriate education for all kids. All kids!”

(Published Oct. 2025)

Why We’re Removing Our Programmatic Ads - The American Prospect Online advertising is bad for users, publishers, and even advertisers. The only beneficiaries are the Big Tech platforms. We’re doing something about it.

Ads slow down our site, create security vulnerabilities for readers, and interrupt the reading process. That ends today. Starting April 6, 2026, The American Prospect is removing all programmatic advertising from our website.

When you think about it, there really can be no more perfect representative of today's GOP:
* wildly entitled, yet ...
* utterly dependent on & enriched by gov't policy that protects ...
* their shitty, misery-producing, anti-social business model, and yet ...
* endlessly whiny & resentful.

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We need to call this what it is: a crime against humanity

A comic strip titled The Amazing World of Tomorrow. A food delivery robot cooler drives down a sidewalk. It crashes into a rental scooter. It backs up. It crashes into the rental scooter again. The scooter wobbles. The scooter falls to the ground as the food delivery robot backs up again. A driverless taxi crashes into both the scooter and the food delivery robot sending them flying.

The Amazing World of Tomorrow

⬇️ For your consideration: Watch to learn about the $220M taxpayer-funded ad campaign that's tied to a mysterious Delaware LLC and a horse named Gill.

More details: propub.li/4uoc28E

Key Details of 13-Year-Old Trump Accuser’s Accounts Are Verified The newly corroborated details suggest the woman was truthful about numerous aspects of her life.

There is apparently credible evidence that the president of the United States is a pedophile. The comforting phrase “accused him without evidence” no longer fits this situation, and journalists must resort to the more perfunctory “hasn’t been formally charged.” www.thedailybeast.com/key-details-...

'Punching them while they're down': US & Israel bomb Iran's schools & hospitals, with 'no stupid rules of engagement' - Geopolitical Economy Report US and Israel bombed 20 schools and 13 hospitals in Iran in one week. War Secretary Pete Hegseth boasted of "death and destruction" to push collapse: "We are punching them while they’re down".

The US and Israel bombed 20 schools and 13 hospitals in Iran in one week, according to UNICEF.

War Secretary Pete Hegseth boasted of unleashing “death and destruction” to provoke societal collapse.

Hegseth bragged there are “no stupid rules of engagement”.

geopoliticaleconomy.com/2026/03/08/u...

The prompt was simple: “Does the following relate at all to D.E.I.? Respond factually in less than 120 characters. Begin with ‘Yes’ or ‘No.’” The results were sweeping, and sometimes bizarre. Building improvements at an Indigenous languages archive in Alaska risked “promoting inclusion and diverse perspectives.” Renewal of a longstanding grant to digitize Black newspapers and add them to a historical database was “D.E.I.” So was work on a 40-volume scholarly series on the history of American music.

"The DOGE employees did not appear to question ChatGPT’s judgments, and continued hunting for unacceptable projects."

Jan. 6 rioter pardoned by Trump gets life sentence for molesting 2 children A Florida handyman who was sentenced on Thursday to life in prison for molesting two children had been convicted of storming the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, but was pardoned by President Donald Trump.…

Jan. 6 rioter pardoned by Trump gets life sentence for molesting 2 children

Trump’s Orwellian Board of Peace Consists Entirely of Human Rights Abusers An Intercept analysis finds that every single Board of Peace member state has been rebuked for human rights violations.

Trump’s Orwellian Board of Peace Consists Entirely of Human Rights Abusers

But the greatest offender to peace on the Board is the United States.

🧵mega-thread🧵

theintercept.com/2026/03/02/t...

‘Nazi heaven’: Inside Miami campus Republicans’ racist group chat The chat is the subject of a Florida International University police investigation.

Weird how this keeps happening! www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

The Constitution clearly gives Congress the power to spend taxpayer funds, and no law allows the president to halt if he feels some US states aren’t being “good stewards” of the money.

In case there’s any confusion on this, the Impoundment Control Act forbids it.

Taxation without representation.

The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll

Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."

Mamdani Teaches Us How to Speak the Language of Illegitimacy How should the next Democratic government act on the belief that Trump's second term was lawless and illegitimate?

'all a tyrant's acts are void' is an ancient (& good) principle

i'd apply this to the supreme court - after reform/packing a blanket overturn of every trump era decision

www.liberalcurrents.com/mamdani-teac...

can't help but think there is probably a corrosive effect of having sex trafficker-elite emails unveiled for months on end as one of the biggest cultural/news stories of the last year— unearthing an inexcusable moral rot in the upper echelons of power—but without any real accountability/justice

Mamdani: "I speak of Renee Good, whose final words to the man who murdered her were, 'I'm not mad at you.' I speak of Alex Pretti who died as he lived, caring for the stranger. ICE shot him bc he did something they could never fathom ... let us offer a new path: one of defiance through compassion."

This is some sick psychotic shit

March for Billionaires — San Francisco, Feb 7 Stand up for the entrepreneurs, innovators, and risk-takers who build our economy. February 7, 2026.

This is actually real: marchforbillionaires.org

Trump Lawsuit Against IRS Puts Him on Both Sides of the Same Case President Trump’s lawsuit against the government that he runs presents a mind-bending minefield of conflicts that could end with his appointees approving a federal payout to him.

Trump paid $750 in federal income taxes in 2016 and 2017 and now wants $10 billion because a leaker pointed that out www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raym...

BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

The nexus between pedophilia and right wing authoritarianism seems to be based on the idea that there is a ruling class that gets to do what they want with no consequences.