@larryjsimon
Historian, teacher, editor; Antifascist, book lover, 3-chord strummer; Fan of Americana, Blues, Country, Dylan, Earle, FCBarcelona; UCLA Ph.D.; Southwesterner in Midwestern Exile. Not here for day job or to promote career. Opinions mine; not my employer’s.
Another tragic example of how Trump’s indiscriminate immigration raids are targeting the most vulnerable among us, including the family of a deaf child seeking asylum.
The cruelty is astounding.
Will do all I can to try to reverse this. www.latimes.com/california/s...
Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.
There's something deeply obscene and broken about the fact that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are bombing elementary schools in an illegal war of aggression, and there's still a sense among the opposition that it has to be explained in terms of gas prices in order to get American voters to care.
Hey @billmaher @MarshaBlackburn is this the “liberation” and “happiness” they should be grateful for?
“On an average day the facility holds around 3,000 detainees who are living in harsh conditions: They lack sufficient food and often go without proper medical care, according to AP’s review of 130 calls made to 911.”
U.S. has lost its way if it allows the Trump Administration’s concentration camps.
What AI skills need to be developed exactly? How to copy and paste a question prompt? How to write a more precise command or inquiry? How to better disguise and humanize the resulting AI essay?
These are hardly "critical" skills. And none of this is "education."
Multiple news outlets are reporting a US attack on an Iranian #desalination plant.
If verified, this violates international law protecting #water systems during wars, and it sets a dangerous precedent, given intense dependence of Gulf countries on desalination.
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Fact Check: An immigrant doesn’t stand between you and a good job.
A billionaire does. Pass it the hell on.
Live from the Boca Raton himself:
Tragedy and farce, at the same time.
Our database paints a detailed financial picture for President Donald Trump and hundreds of his political appointees, some of whom have ties to the industries they regulate.
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You can view all the clips from the DOGE raid on USIP that I uploaded—which were obtained via my FOIA lawsuit against DC Metropolitan Police—here: www.youtube.com/@marisa_kabas
Nonsense. The principles of classical rhetoric? The art of public oratory? They’ve been known for 2300 years and taught for as long. We no longer choose to teach people to speak correctly much less effectively, but you can learn. Listen to early MLK Jr and Obama; they became glorious speakers.
6 mins in and UCLA has as many turnovers as points. Pathetic.
My school district is being forced to lay off several educators and a librarian because of a $500,000 budget gap, or roughly the amount spent on the war while I was typing this post.
Noem’s been replaced by the village idiot.
She cannot get her own shot: she benefited from UCLA’s inside out play,
She would’ve seen a lot of bench time had she stayed at UCLA, but her playing time will diminish with Juju’s return next year. She needs to flip back to UCLA.
Reuters Exclusive
"U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school."
"The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the Middle East."
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.
Secretary Noem's legacy is one of racial profiling, abuse by ICE and CBP, free speech violations, and more.
While she is leaving DHS, the anti-immigrant policies devised by White House aide Stephen Miller aren't. Congress must remain firm and deny funding to DHS until they truly rein in ICE.
$1.5T defense budget
$170B on ICE & Border Patrol
$100B on tax cuts for the 1%
$20B from Treasury for Argentina
$1B to refurbish Trump's Qatar jet
$300M on Kristi Noem's jets
$100M+ for Trump to golf
$75k+ for Kash Patel's Olympic trip
And now $50B in emergency funding for war in Iran?
Priorities.
Trying to listen for tears shed on the Hill for Kristi Noem, but I just hear Crickets
Kristi Noem has used $200M+ in taxpayer funds to pay firms with close ties to her top aides to make anti-immigrant PSAs.
Her luxury jets will cost taxpayers nearly $300M.
Trump's lackeys rail against "government waste," but are happy to pilfer taxpayer funds for themselves.
The US and Iran have obviously not been at war for 47 years, as regime propagandists tell us. What has been going on for 47 years is the Saudi-Iranian regional proxy war. So the propaganda defines us as a Saudi proxy state.
His nose is longer than a telephone wire.
I suspect Trump could make bad things happen even without the nuclear weapons.
World book day
Lily Tomlin once slipped a $5 bill into my right front pants pocket.
This little spigot of bigotry is a disgrace.
We'll put him in a long boat 'til he's sober//
Shave his belly with a rusty razor//
Put him in bed with the President’s daughter
Early in the mornin'//
Way hay and up she rises
Early in the mornin'//
That's what we do with a drunken sailor
That's what we do with a drunken crusader
Sooner or later
At CBS News, where staffers are apparently barred from reading history books, the hostilities between Iran and the US don’t begin until 1979.
