A Saturday scoop from @schuylermitchell.bsky.social: Previously unreported documents show that DHS wants to build a tool that would track personal travel data, including passenger names and their itineraries. Last year, a similar program was shuttered over public outcry.
This photo, released by the Iranian government's foreign media department and distributed by the AP without changes, shows graves being prepared for the victims, mostly children, of a Feb. 28 Israeli–U.S. strike at a girls’ elementary school in Minab, Iran, seen on March 2, 2026, overlaid with the headline, "Sources Briefed on Iran War Say U.S. Has No Plans for What Comes Next."
Ah yes, another forever war. interc.pt/46LuxKj
Kristi Noem appears with Trump in new ‘Shield of the Americas’ role - days after he fired her from DHS
Data shows Gaza protesters faced harsher punishments than Black Lives Matter protesters did just a few years ago. Experts tell Mondoweiss this is the result of pro-Israel bias and a backlash against protest movements that has been building for years.
mondoweiss.net/2026/02/the-...
Doctors in a hospital in Gaza try to save the life of a Palestinian girl who sustained severe injuries in an Israeli attack that hit her and killed her father on their way to her preschool.
Israel's attacks on Palestinians in Gaza have continued despite the ceasefire agreement.
President Masoud Pezeshkian said Saturday that a demand by the U.S. for an unconditional surrender is a "dream that they should take to their grave." He also apologized for Iran's attacks on regional countries. n.pr/4ueThEP
Graphic with bold text reading: “We can only win the fight ahead if we all get the information we need to cut through the noise. Help us fight back.” A smartphone mock-up shows a QueerAF newsletter
Censorship of queer lives is rising - from algorithms burying stories to AI-driven misinformation 🏳️🌈
That’s why we’ve pledged to improve access to LGBTQIA+ journalism - but we can’t do it alone.
🚨 And right now, your donation is doubled thanks to matchfunding!
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/queeraf202...
Trump shouldn’t ease Russia sanctions – they are choking its economy
State abortion restrictions in the US are creating risks to pregnant people nationwide.
Women are dying preventable deaths because abortion care is denied or delayed.
Almost 1,700 Chicago Public Schools support staffers have joined the Service Employees International Union after the school district dropped an objection to their organizing campaign.
"Moments after Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said in an apparently prerecorded statement that Tehran would halt attacks on its Gulf neighbors under certain conditions, several reported new strikes," writes CNN's Mostafa Salem | Analysis https://cnn.it/4lirXBl
A New York judge has tossed out Columbia University's unprecedentedly harsh discipline against students accused of occupying Hamilton Hall during the 2024 Gaza protests, calling it arbitrary and capricious:
Over twenty years ago, a court ruled that forcing trans people to live “in an intermediate zone as not quite one gender or the other is no longer sustainable”.
That decision became the foundation for the UK’s Gender Recognition Act
www.wearequeeraf.com/the-historic...
"The framing by which I came to understand the struggle for Black liberation and equality in America — and the ways to address it — was shaped, in part, by Jackson’s voice and his actions," Alden Loury writes of the Rev. Jesse Jackson.
Low paid workers in the global south are using AI translation to generate Wikipedia articles that, surprising no one, include errors and hallucinations.
404media.co/ai-translati...
If governors opt in, tax dollars will go toward private school tuition for children, something many Democrats are uncomfortable with.
But if they say no, their states will lose out on federal cash that could help public school students, too. https://wapo.st/4uczHZB
“I Don’t Blame Trump”: 2024 Voter Calls For End To ICE “Abuse And Impunity” After Son’s Fatal Shooting [Video]
Zelensky called on foreign partners to respond to the brutal strikes on Ukraine, from which the international community's attention has been diverted by the war in Iran.
⚡️Ukraine hits Russian Shahed-type drone storage in Donetsk with SCALP, ATACMS missiles, military says.
After police funding initiative passed, Colorado lawmakers want voters to know the cost of some ballot questions
A Democratic senator has said he will open a perjury investigation into her alleged lies.
Ah, more vengeance.
Commentary: Psychologists now know that adverse childhood experiences, like the sort experienced by students in New Orleans and in Minnesota now, increase the risk of a variety of negative outcomes later in life, ranging from unemployment to chronic disease. minnesotareformer.com/2026/03/06/s...
But the Dow…..
#SheShed
#DefendersofDemocracy
Why does he think he should get a day in who runs Iran? THIS.IS.NOT.NORMAL !!!
Trump is a fucking disaster in every area of presidential responsibility.
ICE arrested an Oregon shop owner who had her green card in her pocket: ‘They didn’t care’ Juanita Avila later helped expose ICE’s ‘arrest first, justify later’ tactics in a lawsuit that won a major victory for immigrants’ rights ...
In this Tech Policy piece, I criticize how framings of Anthropic’s & OpenAI’s negotiations with the US’s DoW overindex on myopic interpretations of human oversight, papering over what should be the real target of our scrutiny: that generative AI algorithms are a flawed and inaccurate technology.
Ambassador @bridgetbrink.com was Biden’s chief diplomat in Ukraine and the first woman to serve as ambassador in a war zone.
At 10am we’re going live to talk about Trump’s war in Iran, the ongoing crisis in Ukraine, and why she moved home to Michigan to run for Congress.
