Read this if you are a parent, come back to it because it hurts too much and you can’t take reading it all in at once. Read it if you are not a parent so you might understand even just a sliver of what it means to be a parent when children are bombed.

If we can’t wage war without ensuring this doesn’t happen (and we cannot), we simply must not wage war.

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/mar/28/parents-victims-iran-minab-shajareh-tayyebeh-school-bombing-describe-day

Trump continues to put his name on things, apparently forgetting that everything he touches turns to shit. Most recently, he’s calling it the Strait of Trump, at a time when the waterway is effectively closed, outside of ships whose passage directly benefits Iran.

Which makes it tough to talk 24/7 without just repeating the fact that the US has started a dumb war in the Middle East, that in turn has, very predictably, blown up the world wide economy. Just like every Republican President of my lifetime.
https://newsletter.mattdragon.com/archive/things-im-reading-2026-04-01/

Here there are interviews at the pump, people bemoaning how much it costs them to get to work, or how much their groceries cost. Remember the cost of eggs? Remember when that was a thing we talked about daily? Imagine if we actually experienced the hunger, the inflation, the death and indiscriminate destruction that we’re inflicting on Gaza, Iran, and Cuba, here.

There, they talk about if they will have any food, because the invaders are poisoning the land, the air, and the water with burning oil, or herbicides, or both. There they don’t have jobs anymore because the building has been bombed, or the owner has been killed in an airstrike, or because how do you have a job while the bombs are falling all around you. Your worst day here, is their best day there. We loft the bombs, they catch them.
https://newsletter.mattdragon.com/archive/things-im-reading-2026-03-27/