Andrew Schoenbauer

[jeremy scahill @jeremyscahill]

For more than two months, I have been working on a truly horrific story about one of the gravest war crimes committed by the United States since Vietnam: The bombing of the Shajareh Tayyebeh school in Minab, Iran. It was one of the first targets struck in the opening hours of the war on February 28, 2026.

At least 156 people were killed in the U.S. cruise missile strikes—120 of them were children and 26 were teachers. We spoke to survivors, first responders, parents, doctors, teachers, psychologists, and other witnesses. Some of them had never before shared their experiences of that day.

It would be impossible to do justice to what happened in Minab that day with words alone. In more than 25 years in journalism and reporting on war, I do not believe I have reported on a more heinous single crime.

Massacre at Minab: The School That Became a Grave

https://t.co/6zcGDYIzCC

Please share this story with as many people as you can.

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

judge me by my enemies

[Clash Report @clashreport]

Pentagon probe found that the Feb. 28 US missile strike on an Iranian elementary school in Minab — killing 123 children — resulted from a cascade of failures.

Outdated intelligence that still classified the school as an IRGC facility, compressed timelines as the administration demanded 1,000+ strikes in 24 hours, overreliance on Palantir's Maven AI system (which personnel wrongly expected to flag stale data), and Hegseth's 90% cuts to civilian-harm-mitigation teams.

The site had visibly operated as a school for nearly a decade, was on Google Maps, and had its own website.

UN report this week said the failures "went beyond negligence" and may constitute war crimes.

The Pentagon investigation has been effectively complete for months but remains unreleased.

The administration still hasn't publicly accepted responsibility.

Source: Bloomberg

[Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein]

The government's pre-crime strategy explained here:
https://t.co/OBCH8CB5bS

[Robert Griffin III @RGIII]

Josh Hokit won the biggest fight of his career at the White House and decides to finish his interview by calling Michelle Obama a Man.

What a disgrace.

It takes a really small man to use his biggest moment to attack a woman by calling her a man.

Especially with the history behind calling black women men.

[Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein]

White House counterterrorism czar Sebastian Gorka says: "We're gonna label terrorists as terrorists, whether it's cartels, whether it's jihadis, or whether it's sadly the le — the Americans who are left wing, who are radical, and because they subscribe to some anarchic, anti-fascist, or radically pro-transgender ideology"

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

Minnesota has just become the first state to ban prediction markets.

Gov. Tim Walz has signed a bill that makes operating or advertising prediction markets a felony.

This sets a major precedent for those seeking to regulate or ban Polymarket, Kalshi, and other sites.

[Minnesota Twins @Twins]

Happy birthday to Twins Hall of Famer, 2006 AL MVP and Silver Slugger and current @twinstv broadcaster, Justin Morneau!

🚨 REPOST NOW TO WISH HIM A HAPPY BIRTHDAY AND FOR A CHANCE TO WIN A SIGNED MORNEAU PHOTO

[Secular Talk ([email protected]) @KyleKulinski]

The republican mind is amazing. Zohran has been in the news for:

- balancing the budget without cutting services
- raising taxes on the rich
- cracking down on shitty landlords
- freezing the rent
- universal childcare

what, exactly, is "lunatic" about that? This guy supports a war criminal pedophile rapist con man. That's actual "lunatic" shit.

[Chay Bowes @BowesChay]

My close friend and colleague Steve Sweeney @SweeneySteve is nearly killed by an Israeli strike in Lebanon.

Their vehicles are clearly marked as Press. They wear Press markings.

He's alive. What more can we say.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Insane that these unqualified unvetted kids were deciding on billions of dollars of government grants, based on their ignorance as well as prejudice. Musk has so much to answer for should Dems ever get power again.

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: New video adds to evidence that a U.S. missile likely hit an Iranian school where 175 people, many of them children, were reportedly killed.

https://t.co/Dqo309M8lW

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

If you spent years obsessing over placards on college campuses in search of bigotry and racism, and have nothing to say about this close ally and adviser to the president calling for the rounding up of all Muslims, then maybe you don’t actually care about racism and bigotry.

[Sam Stein @samstein]

"Some 170 students were inside the building attending morning classes when the missile struck. At least 108 people were killed, according to the public prosecutor’s office in Minab, many of them schoolgirls between seven and 12 years old."

[Krystal Ball @krystalball]

Anthropic and Dario deserve credit for standing up for two very basic and obvious principles: no mass surveillance and no autonomous killer robots. Perhaps this is a low bar but it isn’t clear any of the other leading AI companies would put principle above profits in ANY scenario. The Pentagon is sure to make Anthropic pay for daring to defy them.

[sean illing @seanilling]

Just an incredible example of that great Bo Burnham bit about Stadium Country music. A pandering millionaire metrosexual in $3,000 boots using a grab bag of rural nouns and simple adjectives mad libs style.

[Luke Thomas Gets Political (LTGP) @LTGetsPolitical]

No one can say they didn’t know this was coming. He’s flat out going to try to steal the midterms and any election of consequence thereafter.

Not prosecuting his crimes from January 6th has proven to be a catastrophic mistake for our democracy.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🚨🇺🇸 BREAKING: FULL VIDEO SHOWS MINNEAPOLIS SHOOTING FROM CLEARER ANGLE

Newly released footage captures the entire altercation from a closer vantage point, showing events leading up to the moment the suspect is shot.

The video appears to show the suspect jumping onto the back of what may be another protester before being forcibly pulled off during the struggle.

Moments later, shots are fired.

Source: @KimKatieUSA

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

Anyone who defends this is a piece of human garbage.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

"Fucking bitch" he called her after shooting her threw the side window in cold blood.

This is the ICE agent who Trump, Vance, and Noem are going to bat for. Good luck.