#Via Katie Mack
@AstroKatie
7:15 AM · Feb 28, 2026

"In case you’re just waking up, the U.S. has teamed up with Israel overnight to start an illegal war of regime change, apparently on a presidential whim with no involvement of Congress, and they are already committing horrific atrocities."

#Via Negin Owliaei / neginowl
6:35 AM · Feb 28, 2026

"The first deaths announced from the US-Israeli strikes on Iran: dozens of school girls. They hit an elementary school in Hormozgan."

https://aje.news/p4rw7y?update=434574

US, Israel attack Iran updates: Khamenei, top security officials killed

Iran declares 40 days of mourning and launches attacks after supreme leader’s killing; Israel strikes Tehran.

Al Jazeera

#Via Max Berger
@maxberger
2:36 AM · Feb 28, 2026

"If Trump can declare war without congressional authorization, then Congress has effectively disbanded itself."

#Via Leah McElrath
@leahmcelrath
2:31 AM · Feb 28, 2026

"The timing of the initial strikes is unusual.

Often you see these types of operations launched in the pre-dawn hours at the target site partly to limit civilian casualties.

This operation began at the beginning of a work and school day, with millions of adult civilians and children in harms way."

#Via Andy Scollick / andyscollick
5:56 AM · Feb 28, 2026

"Throughout the entire Cold War, 'peace talks in Geneva' used to mean something.

Those days are now over.

The United States used the Geneva talks as cover to finalise military operational planning for an all-out offensive attack. Nothing but a cynical charade. An illegal war.

21st century hell."

#Via Ray Radlein / radlein
7:00 AM · Feb 28, 2026

"Worth noting that Japan using peace talks with Washington as cover for their sneak attack on Pearl Harbor is one of the reasons we were so fucking furious at them on December 8, 1941.

It's WHY FDR called it a Day of Infamy."

#Via southpaw / nycsouthpaw
6:58 AM · Feb 28, 2026

"The state of the union address was like 72 hours before the US and Israel chose to attack Iran’s capital and call for regime change, and Trump did not even mention his policy toward Iran before Congress, much less ask for a declaration of war."

#Via Mark Chadbourn
@Chadbourn
6:22 AM · Feb 28, 2026

"CNN is saying the Iranian attack happened after Trump 'lost patience with negotiations'.

I don’t believe it. The negotiations were cover. This was always the plan. The scale of the military buildup showed that."

#Via Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌
@chanda
7:54 AM · Feb 28, 2026

"if the media had any integrity — and it doesn’t anymore — they’d be pointing out on a loop that Obama made a deal with Iran, Trump cancelled it because Obama is Black, and then Trump started a war on the pretense there is no deal."

#Via Andrew Lawrence / ndrew
9:17 AM · Feb 28, 2026

"the former host of celebrity apprentice and the former host of fox & friends weekend are launching bombs and destabilizing the world for generations all because voters decided their biggest issue was a trans kid playing jv tennis with their friends 4 states over.

you let them get away with racist lies like 'theyre eating the pets' and now here we are."

#Via Andrew Lawrence / ndrew
9:20 AM · Feb 28, 2026

"things every single republican president of your lifetime has done

- started a war in the middle east
- completely destroyed the economy"

#Via Tim Onion / bencollins
11:00 AM · Feb 28, 2026

"We killed 85 schoolgirls. We are not the good guys."

https://www.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20260228-us-israeli-strike-on-iranian-school-kills-more-than-50-students-state-media-says

US-Israeli strike on Iranian school kills more than 50 students, state media says

More than 50 students have been killed and some 60 more wounded in US-Israeli strikes that hit an Iranian girls' school in  Hormozgan province, state media reported, citing a local official. Washington has not commented on the reported strike. 

FRANCE 24

#Via Christopher Webb
@cwebbonline
12:03 PM · Feb 28, 2026

"Several eyewitness reports are coming in that the Palms was struck in Dubai.

UPDATE: It’s the Fairmont Hotel in the Palms area of Dubai."

#Via Megan O’Toole / meganotoole
3:21 PM · Feb 28, 2026

"Senior Israeli official tells Reuters Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei is dead and his body has been found."

https://www.reuters.com/world/iran-crisis-live-explosions-tehran-israel-announces-strike-2026-02-28/

#Via Dan O’Sullivan
@osullyville
3:25 PM · Feb 28, 2026

"Interesting precedent to establish. Here's the important thing: it will never come back to haunt anyone in any way."

#Via Mark Chadbourn
@Chadbourn
3:08 PM · Feb 28, 2026

"Khamenei’s son Mojtaba Khamenei, his likely successor, has also been killed. (Kan)"

#Via Megan O’Toole / meganotoole
1:06 PM · Feb 28, 2026

"US and Israeli attacks have hit 24 of Iran’s provinces, killing more than 200 people, according to the Red Crescent Society."
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2026/2/28/live-israel-launches-attacks-on-iran-multiple-explosions-heard-in-tehran

US, Israel attack Iran updates: Khamenei, top security officials killed

Iran declares 40 days of mourning and launches attacks after supreme leader’s killing; Israel strikes Tehran.

Al Jazeera

#Via Marisa Kabas
@marisakabas
6:01 PM · Feb 28, 2026

"sure the pedophile felon president just illegally bombed a country that may have nukes while federal forces under his command murder and harass people in america and immigrants are tortured and he moves forward with plans to build concentration camps and sorry idk where i was going fuck all of this"

#Via Anonymous
@YourAnonNews
12:12 AM · Mar 1, 2026

"It goes without saying that for the foreseeable future you should not go near any US government buildings, outposts, military bases, or any Trump related establishments or buildings. As a precaution until things blow over."

@_L1vY_ @marisakabas
Yes. You re right.
And on the other hand Iranians are dancing. Dancing is absolutely illegal in Iran. They are dancing in the streets.

#Via Yashar Ali 🐘 / yasharali
10:24 PM · Feb 28, 2026

"Islamic Republic state media says the following three officials will act collectively as a temporary leadership council exercising the powers of the Supreme Leader.

- President Masoud Pezeshkian

- Judiciary chief Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei

- A jurist from the Guardian Council"

#Via Shipwreck / shipwreck75
9:48 PM · Mar 1, 2026

"Trump says his potential candidates to lead Iran have been killed. - ABC"

#Via Jonathan Karl / jonkarl
9:40 PM, Mar 1, 2026

"Pres Trump told me tonight the US had identified possible candidates to take over Iran, but they were killed in the initial attack.

'The attack was so successful it knocked out most of the candidates,' Trump told me. 'It's not going to be anybody that we were thinking of because they are all dead. Second or third place is dead.' "

#Via Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò / olufemiotaiwo
10:14 PM · Mar 1, 2026

"I saw this and at first thought "no, there's no way 'we definitely had alternative leadership in mind for Iran but I blew them up alongside the schoolgirls using AI' is what the White House is actually saying, that's too clueless and evil to be real."

#Via ‪Leah McElrath‬
@leahmcelrath
11:49 AM · Mar 1, 2026

"Iran's top national security official, Ali Larijani, could be emerging to fill the power vacuum in Iran created by the assassination of Khamenei.

Larijani oversaw the brutal crackdown on the Iran protests which killed tens of thousands.

Live Iran updates gift link:"

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03/01/world/iran-attack-khamenei-trump?unlocked_article_code=1.P1A.Pd_-.43u1yz9pmrz2&smid=url-share

Israel Strikes Hezbollah in Lebanon as War With Iran Escalates

The explosions outside Beirut ended a yearlong cease-fire and threatened to expand the conflict. In an interview with The New York Times, President Trump said the U.S. plans to keep up the assault on Iran for “four or five weeks.”

The New York Times

#Via ‪Leah McElrath‬
@leahmcelrath
11:50 PM · Mar 1, 2026

"Larijani says Iran is not negotiating with the US:

'Trump plunged the region into chaos with his "delusional fantasies" and now fears more American troop casualties.' "

@_L1vY_ He truly does not give a single shit. To him these are not humans.

#Via Adam Schwarz / adamjschwarz
4:53 PM · Feb 28, 2026

"Dubai International Airport has been struck by Iranian projectiles. Projectiles struck Terminal 3.

Casualties have been reported.

Authorities are evacuating."

#Via Shipwreck / shipwreck75
11:47 PM · Feb 28, 2026

"This is one of largest waves so far today.

Iranian state media says the 'sixth wave of True Promise 4' was launched, with confirmed strikes or interceptions in Qatar, Bahrain, Israel, Kuwait, and the UAE.

Confirmed hits in Bahrain, UAE, Kuwait so far."

@_L1vY_

I think we found out last time that Iranian strikes in Israel are covered up by the Israel government to keep Israelis in the dark about what is happening so they'll be dependent on government propaganda for info about what's happening in their country.

So there may be strikes inside Israel too IMO.

@_L1vY_ @cwebbonline I wonder if the US getting bombed would even change anything at this point.
@FlashMobOfOne I have wondered the same thing 😶
@_L1vY_ @BrandonFriedman I'm sure someone actually running the show expects that target to be bombed, and wants the White House to still be usable for the next administration. trump's usefulness is coming to a rapid end...
@hyc I don't think they care tbh. It's just the usual incompetence / malice overlap.
@_L1vY_ This is so true. JFC
@_L1vY_ @chanda Mafia Fuhrer always breaks it then fixes just enough to keep looting the Treasury and build the Fourth Reich.

@_L1vY_ Technically, Japan planned on declaring War on the US by 7:30 am Dec 7, 1941, 30 minutes before their attack on Pearl Harbor, but the Japanese Embassy took too long to decode the 5,000 word declaration, and the US Embassy staff made the Japanese Ambassador wait because it was Sunday and understaffed. So Japan's sneak attack was less deliberate that Trump's sneak attack.

Notice to the World: If Jared shows up for Peace Talks, it's just cover for a duplicitous coming sneak attack. He's the tell.

@_L1vY_ The OP should be aware that it was December 7, not 8, but they are absolutely right. The sneak attack during peace negotiations infuriated Americans enough to get us into the war, which people opposed before then

@lawyersgunsnmoney
Yes, the attack happened on December 7th, but FDR made the "Day of Infamy" speech on December 8th.

@_L1vY_

@nikatjef @_L1vY_ yes that is correct
@_L1vY_ You speak the absolute truth, @_L1vY_ . Those days are truly over now…
@_L1vY_ And, have a great weekend.
@_L1vY_ @maxberger Congress did that by leaving active the AUMF from 2001.

@Lightfighter

Did they?

Has anyone ever suggested Iran had anything to do with 9/11?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authorization_for_Use_of_Military_Force_of_2001

@_L1vY_ @maxberger

Authorization for Use of Military Force of 2001 - Wikipedia

@joeinwynnewood @_L1vY_ @maxberger By "they" I was referring to the Iranians, and I think they probably have.

And no, I don't think any rational person would see this war as authorized under that AUMF. The mere fact that is still active is a glaringly obvious sign that Congress has abdicated their authority.