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At least 13 hospitals and health facilities hit during attacks on Iran, WHO says Global health body investigating reports that four medics are among the 1,230 people killed in Iran since start of war

The US and Israel have bombed at least 13 hospitals and health facilities in Iran and one in Lebanon.

Florida’s Board of Governors is made up of “political appointees from the business world, from insurance executives to roofing contractors, who are dictating how professors must teach their courses and even providing state-created textbooks for doing so.”

My new piece in @truthout.bsky.social

gettin the band back together

Even Shapiro sees the writing on the wall. Any Democratic nominee for national office going forward is going to have to address tough questions re: their support for Palestinian rights.

There's a huge Palestinian population in his state and he's never done anything but give them the cold shoulder.

Yeah it's somehow still underrated but Biden (and Harris by extension because she was operating under the thesis of no daylight) essentially did everything possible to avoid clamping down on Israel against the trendline of their own party's base and the response from the pro-Israel lobby was scorn.

ICE detains reporter Estefany Rodríguez in Nashville - Nashville Banner Reporter Estefany Rodríguez, detained by ICE with no arrest warrant, may face deportation. Her attorneys seek immediate review of the legality of her case.

ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.

They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.

We celebrate two pro-Palestine victories at the American Psychological Association @@apajournals.bsky.social and American Association of Geographers @geographers.bsky.social!

A Chicago Man Was Charged With Murder Based on a ShotSpotter Alert. Now the City Will Pay Him $500K Michael Williams, then 65, spent nearly a year in jail after being charged with murder, only to have the charges dismissed after prosecutors told a judge they did not have enough evidence to proceed t...

Michael Williams, 65, was kept in jail for a year based on Chicago's now-defunct gunshot detection system Shotspotter. Prosecutors dropped the charges rather than defend doctored Shotspotter data. Now he will receive a mere $500,000 for the year he lost in jail: news.wttw.com/2026/03/04/c...

"only funding defensive weapons" was a line dems used about the palestine too

Is the UK's intervention in Iran war legal? Starmer said Britain would intercept Iranian missiles and allow US to use its bases in defensive action. Does that make the UK complicit in an illegal war?

British PM Starmer says that U.K. bases will only be used for ’defensive’ operations and not ‘offensive’ ops. But how can that be so when they are being used by the aggressor?
Great discussion here with Milanovic, @adhaque.bsky.social @janinadill.bsky.social
www.middleeasteye.net/explainers/u...

The Sitcom (about a Disabled Muslim Woman) that Could Have Been Comedian Maysoon Zayid had a deal to develop a sitcom for ABC. The deal made headlines, but the show never aired. She tells all about the bigotry behind the scenes.

NEW ARTICLE: Comedian Maysoon Zayid had a deal with ABC to produce a TV sitcom inspired by her life, as a Muslim woman with cerebral palsy.

Why was that show never released? Maysoon gives me the inside story. (Hint: bigotry)

justinebarron.substack.com/p/the-sitcom...

i stopped watching america’s funniest home videos a while ago because it seemed like half of the videos are from surveillance cams and ring doorbells.

things like that also definitely helped normalize / soften the image of luxury surveillance.

'It Was Very Creepy': These People Say They Lost Global Entry Just For Watching ICE Agents Two people claim they were punished for acts of protest, and an internal government memo suggests they may not be the last.

I spoke with two ICE watchers who lost their Global Entry after brushes with federal agents. Now an internal memo shows Customs and Border Protection is evaluating cases where people's Global Entry could be revoked based on "encounters" with its officers.
www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-wa...

Adopt A Rent — Stand With Minnesota Adopt the rent of a family impacted by the ICE occupation in Minneapolis

Stand With Minnesota is out of donors for Adopt A Rent, and we currently have way more rent needs than we can cover!

Want to directly support a MN immigrant family in urgent need to help keep them safe and housed?

Fill out our form here: standwithminnesota.com/adoptarent

Thank you! 💐

Safe and Sheltered: How Tenant Organizers Protect Their Neighbors in Minneapolis  — Shelterforce To protect themselves from ICE, many families are staying home; tenant organizers are pushing for eviction moratoriums to keep them safe.

“Tenant organizers [in the Twin Cities] have played a pivotal role in that web of grassroots organizing.”

shelterforce.org/2026/02/27/s...

Via @shelterforce.bsky.social

Newsom likens Israel to ‘apartheid state,’ questions future military support The California governor’s comments came as he promoted his new memoir in Los Angeles.

POLITICO confirms previous post:

Gavin Newsom likened Israel on Tuesday to an “apartheid state” and said its leadership has left the United States no choice but to reconsider military support for its ally in the Middle East.

Justice Department rescinds Biden-era ‘no-knock’ warrant policy Policy launched after the police killing of Breonna Taylor restricted when law enforcement could burst into a home without knocking.

Justice Department Rescinds Biden-Era ‘No-Knock’ wWarrant Policy

By Carol Leonnig

Policy launched after the police killing of Breonna Taylor restricted when law enforcement could burst into a home without knocking. @carolleonnig.bsky.social

This is who will replace Crockett in the House

These lawless immunity rulings are what fascism looks like, kids, brought to us not by a coup or vigilante violence, but by the system WE ALREADY HAD.

a photo of Justice Powell from his time on the Supreme Court

Depending on who you ask, Lewis Powell Jr. is either: an ideological mastermind of the Right who led the corporate counter-revolution OR the Supreme Court’s quintessential “swing justice" upholding liberal positions in some of the Court’s most high-profile cases (from affirmative action to abortion)

Trump's Medicaid work mandates are meant to save money. But first states will have to spend millions New Medicaid work requirements signed into law by President Donald Trump are meant to save money. But states first will have to spend millions of dollars to implement them.

States are going to have to spend over $1 billion just to upgrade their Medicaid in order to comply with Republicans' new work requirements. A windfall for the consulting companies that have a monopoly on this work. apnews.com/article/medi...

Trans Kansans are Right to Distrust Federal Courts Transgender Kansans are challenging a new discriminatory law in state court, refusing to leave their freedom up to an untrustworthy federal judiciary.

Two Kansans are suing in state court over the new law invalidating trans people's licenses & deputizing bathroom bounty hunters

And they're arguing on state law grounds alone

Kansas's anti-trans law violates federal law too, but federal courts can't be trusted

ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/kansa...

I suspect this is why the Shah's heir is back on the scene. One could argue, and might have to as a way out of this mess, that it was this past government that was illegitimate, and reinstituting the old one may be the path to stability (with, of course, democratic reforms).

Idaho considers an 'apocalyptic' choice for disabled people and families Difficult budget decisions in a number of states are threatening vital programs for disabled people at home and caregivers in the workforce.

States have started proposing steep reductions in disability services to cope with Medicaid cuts in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Idaho is the first to suggest scrapping home care altogether — An action with a high human cost. My latest @19thnews.org.

Opinion | The rise of a mad emperor Trump has exhibited a total lack of coherence on why he began a new war — or how it will end.

The Trump administration does not know what it’s doing, and it does not have a plan. Instead, it appears that Trump’s mind is shuffling through various fantasies, unimpeded by any knowledge of Iran, which hold his attention for minutes or hours at a time. www.ms.now/opinion/trum...

Arizona’s voucher system has so little oversight that parents are using the taxpayer funding for personal/intimate products.

Many people’s HSA wouldn’t even cover this.

Reminder: parents have to keep their kids out of public school to be eligible to spend this

The main drawback of this website is and forever will be that as a % it is completely unviable to follow MENA when vast supermajority are just Americans. You can not follow anything about the ongoing developments in Bahrain, Lebanon, Yemen, Iraq on here