going back in time to civil war China to show John Birch himself this post
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going back in time to civil war China to show John Birch himself this post
Another 🚨 @fieldnotes.co investigation is out in the wild.
This one reveals how an obscure nonprofit founded by oil & gas lawyers and funded by right-wing ideologues—and registered at a suburban Texas strip mall—has played an outsized role in Donald Trump’s assault on climate /enviro policy. 🧵
Bernard LaFayette, the advance man who did the risky groundwork for the voter registration campaign in Selma, Alabama, that culminated in the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, has died.
Reuters Exclusive
"U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school."
"The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the Middle East."
BREAKING: FBI Director Kash Patel appears to have abused government funds for personal travel unrelated to his official duties at least 10 times, including a recent trip to the Olympics. We filed a complaint and are demanding an investigation.
NEW: Over the past year, we've been collecting thousands of financial disclosure documents from across the Trump administration. Now we're making them searchable. Look up names, assets, former employers across 1,500+ Trump appointees and 3,000+ ethics documents.
One woman who called the State Department helpline looking for help said they told her to "stop ranting and raving" and hung up on her.
Another woman said they asked her how to spell Oman.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/t...
Polymarket tweet that says JUST IN: White House officials clarify Operation Epic Fury isn't a war, but a special "combat operation"
the way this hits if you're a russia person....................
U.S. and Israeli strikes have killed 555 people in Iran, according to the Iranian Red Crescent society.
The deadliest attack appears to be the strike on a school where over 150 people — many children — were killed, according to Iran’s mission to the U.N.
NEW– Trump's war on Iran boosts the global view of the US as a rogue actor, fueling instability, acting illogically+illegally & risking innocent lives
Combined with his broader agenda + US record from Gaza to Iraq, international wariness of America is at new heights
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
The same people who tried to overturn the 2020 election have only grown better organized and are now embedded in the machinery of government.
It raises concern that the administration is laying the groundwork to improperly reshape elections or even overturn the will of voters.
WOW. 19 people, all who were imprisoned and mistreated in a foreign prison at the direct command of the United States, are brave enough to say “We are innocent, and we will endure more time imprisoned to prove that.”
I can only admire the enormous courage such a move takes.
NEW: Several high-ranking federal election officials attended a summit last week at which prominent activists who worked to overturn Trump’s loss in the 2020 election pressed for the president to declare a national emergency to take over the midterms.
A Houston council of the League of United Latin American Citizens announced Friday that it canceled this year's Cinco de Mayo parade due to “growing concerns" surrounding federal immigration enforcement.
Manufacturing a “national emergency” wouldn’t unlock a damn thing. The President cannot take over elections or change the rules—an if he tries, we will stop him.
“‘The persecution is the point,’ said Rep. Abi Boatman, a Wichita Democrat and the only transgender member of the Legislature, who received the [Kansas Dept of Revenue] notice on Wednesday.” To underscore that: a Kansas state legislator is among those whose driver’s license will be voided. (🎁 link:)
This book was indispensable for grad school Russian (many belated realizations!) The series has a Latin version that students may find helpful.
In a 5-minute phone call to dispatchers, a federal immigration officer requests police backup last October to help with a kid tailing him on a motorized bicycle. "I need someone here now, or else I'm going to have to shoot this kid," the officer said on a recording of the call obtained by OPB.
the extent to which all cats are just cats is really incredible
I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
Congrats! Very exciting.
With today's strike, the United States has now killed more than 150 individuals in maritime strikes in the Eastern Pacific and Caribbean since September 2025.
Tracking by civilian harm monitor @airwars.bsky.social
airwars.org/conflict/u-s...
Youtube user BasedProkopios uploading a video to his channel Secret History entitled “Were these Roman rulers DEMONS?”
Who did you root for 😂
Deeply upsetting from the school that inspired me to become a professional historian. I can’t imagine what the last decade of my life would have been without UT’s History department. Without the French department, women’s and gender studies, and anthro department, too.
FOUND IT ON ANOTHER SHELF
dithered for a few months on whether to buy this out of print doorstopper of watergate reporting and when I went back it was gone. moral of the story is to buy books on first impulse
Thought it was vaguely familiar (I mostly remember the parts about levitation and demons lol)
What are you reading? 👀
love when there's an article about how life is sustainable in the superheated waters surrounding a hydrothermal volcanic fissure on the ocean floor and then like six paragraphs in you find out the author's parents are chemosynthetic bacteria 🙄