Just announced: Iceland has urgently moved up its referendum to join the European Union - to 29 August.
A reminder: 🇮🇸 is in many ways already a non-voting 🇪🇺 member because of the EEA. This would give them voting power to shape the laws they have to follow.
The conflict has choked air and sea transport corridors through the Middle East. Shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, conduit for one-fifth of the world's oil, slowed to a near-halt. Busy air transit routes in the Gulf have gone dark.- www.reuters.com/world/europe...
I just don’t think the remedy for making sure students are actually writing is more and more surveillance. To an extent, we just have to trust them. Sorry. 😬
Inter Miami gave President Trump a jeweled soccer ball with Trump’s signature in it. (Reuters photo)
If a U.S. role were to be confirmed, the strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the Middle East.
This is honestly one of the most anti-Jewish things I’ve ever seen from the United States government.
Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike - www.reuters.com/world/middle...
It is so funny that so many of you take this statement of fact as a criticism. Why do you think that’s a criticism? It could be an asset. My husband teaches at community college and loves many of his students.
Mullin would be the first cabinet member since the 1950s without at least a bachelors degree.
It'll be interesting to see whether Mullin confidently resigns his Senate seat or nervously waits to see how confirmation hearings go.
“.. Johnson, 45, tried to keep the children quiet by telling them he would share millions of dollars in restitution money he expected to receive from the Trump administration in connection with his Jan. 6 case.”
@npr.org
www.npr.org/2026/03/05/n...
Notable - Trump's pick to be DHS secretary, MarkWayne Mullin is the only serving U.S. senator without at least a bachelor's degree. In 1997, at age 20, Mullin took over his father's business, Mullin Plumbing, when his father fell ill.
Under the war powers act - and I know I know there are so many rules that just don't ... exist in this climate - Trump has to either end the Iran war in 60 days (so late April) or come to Congress for authorization.
All the best people
New: ProPublica is releasing a trove of disclosure records that detail the finances of more than 1,500 Trump appointees, including former lobbyists, industry executives and at least a dozen officials who declined to identify former clients.
Starmer says UK's relationship with US still special after Trump criticism reut.rs/4aUgrbS
It does start to all feel a bit like - Iran, an "imminent threat" to America since 1979.
I keep seeing the "OUR 50 YEAR WAR WITH IRAN" headlines and think, dang, really? Then maybe we should've come down harder on those Reagan administration guys for selling arms to Iran and using the proceeds to seed an illegal slush fund for far-right counterrevolutionaries in Central America
The video of a United States Senator joining the violent removal of U.S. marine from a hearing and hideously breaking his arm in a door is an example of what has been unleashed in this country. They’re tapping in to get in on the violence.
And then he bragged about it on X later.
From NRO's Audrey Fahlberg: SCOOP: Trump's furious that Noem said under oath in her Senate Judiciary hearing that the he had advance knowledge of the $220M DHS ad campaign & approved its release He's privately floated Markwayne Mullin as prospective replacement, @NRO has learned
Looks like DHS isn't getting more trustworthy any time soon. This does explain Mullin's TV tour — or maybe the tour explains Trump's interest in him.
So in theory, it would take an act of Congress to reinstate the draft, but since in theory it also takes an act of Congress to do many things that have been done without Congress …
www.sss.gov/about/return...
Looking up whether the draft can be restarted via executive order - www.reuters.com/world/us/ira...
And meanwhile in the House.
Iran launched a wave of missiles at Israel early on March 5, sending millions of residents into bomb shelters as the US-Israel war with Iran entered its sixth day and just hours after moves to halt the US air assault were blocked in Washington reut.rs/3Pi9EjJ
US Senate backs Trump on Iran strikes, blocks bid to limit his war powers - www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
Moskowitz: I want to end on a happy note. I got you a new Coast Guard blankie, the one you lost.
Not the first Jan 6 participant to be arrested for something else, but this might be the weirdest one:
www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/c...
Syria - which has already been through so much.
Iran's Revolutionary Guards take wartime lead, ensuring harder line, sources say - www.reuters.com/world/middle...
The CIA track record on stuff like this is … not great. www.cnn.com/2026/03/03/p...
