Really well said: "Economic inequality reduces the ability of people to experience others as equals, to have relations with them on equal terms, and hence to function as citizens."
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“The proposed tool appears to be an attempt to rebuild a surveillance pipeline that was recently shuttered amid public backlash.”
NEW (!) — Sources say Trump has been positively receptive to officials & allies privately encouraging him to send troops on the ground into Iran.
Comes amid revelations that Lindsey Graham has gone to Israel and coached Netanyahu on how to persuade Trump to take action in Iran.
@swin24.bsky.social
does anyone know this story?
the corporate form actually dates to ancient Rome, where the idea - of an organisation being treated in law as a single person - gave rise to the creation of universities and colleges, guilds and political parties
“The 312-foot Dena and its 130-member crew, many of them musicians in the Iranian navy band, had just finished participating in an Indian government naval exercise and cultural exchange that the U.S. Navy had also participated in and were on the way home on Wednesday.”
While the surge of federal agents in the Twin Cities grabbed much of the attention the past few months, stories of children hiding at home, crying in class and being detained have quietly gripped some Minnesota small towns since January.
Last job the Pentagon's new AI csar had?
Gutting of the CFPB, during which he also owned prohibited stock:
www.propublica.org/article/cfpb...
What we see here is Donald Trump, acting as he always does, as a global chaos generator.
The further we stand away from that, the better off we will be.
Well said @georgemonbiot.bsky.social 👏
#bbcqt #IranWar
ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.
They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.
In the first year of Trump's second administration, the IRS has referred at most two cases of possible tax evasion by ultrawealthy people or large businesses to its criminal investigators, a sharp drop from previous years, new data obtained by ICIJ shows.
Thinking about the price of grapes this morning.
badfaithtimes.com/the-price-of...
Many of the scientists Jeffrey Epstein courted were already well-established and well-funded. So why didn’t they all just say no? Science talked with three who did just that.
Here’s how Epstein approached them, and why they refused to have anything to do with him. ⬇️ https://scim.ag/40qbXnv
EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war.
The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been “inundated” with more than 110 complaints.
One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus…
Is this too many nested parentheticals? Yes. Is it completely absurd that left-leaning politicians continue to post about horrifying shit on Twitter? Also yes.
Frame from campaign ad by Rep. Dan Goldman. His face full on center frame under which is the caption in all caps “ABOLISH ICE”
Public pressure means something. Primaries can change policies. In NY-10, Dan Goldman has been running ads for months.
Primaried from his left by @bradlander.bsky.social, Goldman’s ads have gone from “Agents should have to carry ID” in January, to big bold graphics this month that say “Abolish ICE.”
The latest from @ymriofficial.bsky.social : What are young men seeing about Epstein on Reddit?
youngmenresearchinitiative.substack.com/p/what-are-y...
Delighted to show off some of YMRI's new social listening tools, with a case example of what young mens' subreddits are saying about Epstein
Scientists in California have created a new way to see inside the body by combining ultrasound with a light-based technique called photoacoustic imaging. The result produces fast 3D images that show both the shape of soft tissues and how blood is flowing.
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#ShareGoodNewsToo
I'd be more inclined to believe that Graham Platner is merely a dumbass if he was making different kinds of "mistakes" instead of one very specific type of "mistake" over and over
A journalist asked me today if the war would make the middle east more safe, given the Iranian regime's belligerence.
I explained that until the root causes of conflict - Israeli warfare & occupation, and Arab authoritarianism - are addressed, even (unlikely) regime change in Iran won't do much.
Each one of those three missiles costs 33% more than the annual budget of the national park where I work.
If Trump can declare war without congressional authorization, then Congress has effectively disbanded itself.
Study finds ChatGPT Health did not recommend a hospital visit when medically necessary in more than half of cases. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Please read this article to the end. Even before ICE got involved, this started because this *blind man who speaks no English and uses a curtain rod as a walking stick* got lost on a walk and some Karen called the police on him and they tasered and beat him bc he didn’t drop the rod. WTF
US CBP murders a refugee by dropping him five miles from his home in freezing conditions.
He was blind, so it sounds like they were having pretty good fun.
Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses "The legislature did not include a grace period." ERIN REED FEB 25, 2026 88 5 21 Share Kansas Sate Capitol // farzinvousoughian
1. Numerous transgender people in Kansas are reporting that the state has sent them a letter demanding the immediate surrender of drivers licenses.
Those driving could be arrested, charged, and see privileges revoked.
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Statement from the Cuban Ministry of the Interior of the event:
"Note from the Ministry of the Interior:
On the morning of February 25, 2026, a violating speedboat was detected within Cuban territorial waters. The vessel, registered in Florida, United States..."
the costco CEO is a 40-year-veteran of the company who rose from being a forklift driver to the top, the firm has made a public point of defying Trump's racism, and by god they will make sure that the hot dogs have ketchup.
www.cnn.com/2026/02/07/b...
An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump. n.pr/4qTItsU
i am so tired of screaming from the rooftops that we have a looming, avoidable crisis of evictions brewing.
everyone knows it, but yet government and philanthropy have no solutions. unpaid volunteers of rent funds are doing the work that the people who control the purse strings refuse to do
