Dave Underwood

"It could last six days, six weeks. I doubt six months."

— Donald Rumsfeld on the Iraq War (7 Feb 2003).

This. Shit. Needs. To. Stop.

DHS nominee Markwayne Mullin is one of the most active stock-traders in the Senate — and violated the STOCK Act against insider trading as recently as last August.

He currently holds stock in L3Harris, which has millions in contracts with ICE and FEMA.

The grift continues.

kevinrkirk 2d @ Threads Why are we bothering with the Strait of Hormuz when we could simply do this? Explain it to me like l'm 5. (Drawing of chopping of part of land) suahuatica 2d MOUNTAIN HARD AND BIG, WATER NO UP. MANY MANY DIG DIG.

Happy Friday. Don’t skip school.

And just like that we’re back to “Department of Defense”

Oh, just the business vehicle of Nigel Farage masquerading as a political party breaching its obligations at Companies House.

I'm late Gen X and all I'm saying is Millennials got fucked harder than anyone else. They were raised on post 9/11 American media and government and it's just been an endless stream of shit. And I'm not even talking about the 09 collapse. The wars, watching guns shred schools, social media insanity

At least 13 hospitals and health facilities hit during attacks on Iran, WHO says Global health body investigating reports that four medics are among the 1,230 people killed in Iran since start of war

More than 1200 people have been killed across Iran, with many more injured and hospitals under attack.

No nation should be able to break intl law with impunity - civilians and healthcare facilities must be protected and those responsible for illegal attacks held to account.

Israel launches huge strikes against south Beirut after mass evacuation order Residents fled Lebanese capital in panic before assaults on claimed Hezbollah targets while Tehran continues to launch retaliatory attacks

Israeli forces launching massive airstrikes in southern Beirut only hours after issuing an evacuation order for the over 500,000 people living there displays an utter disregard for civilian lives. We saw these patterns in Gaza - it cannot happen again in Lebanon.
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Barbarism in El Paso

DHS says it's closing Camp East Montana, the country's largest ICE detention facility, soon.

Here's what it's like inside.

#AbolishICE #DefundDHS #ThisIsAmerica

Kristi Noem has done a stunning amount of damage and it’s good she’s gone.

But this doesn’t change the fact that we need a complete overhaul of DHS, impartial investigations into the killings of two American citizens, and information on children that were taken from Minnesota.

Rally is being held around Parkman Bandstand off of Tremont St.

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Kelly: "You could pick a random group of people off the street tonight here in DC and they could probably do a better job than our government is doing right now. They don't have a goal, there's no strategic plan. And what this is likely to lead to is, again, a long war with a lot of dead Americans."

GREAT new resource from us:

You can now flip through the financial disclosures of Trump officials.

See what they own --and how much they're worth.

See who's worked where-- and how much they banked.

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🚨 "The government's refusal to look at Proportional Representation
is dangerously short-sighted."

💬 Brendan O’Hara MP speaks during this week's Representation of the People Bill debate 👇

❗️Increasing political fragmentation means the case for electoral reform is now stronger than ever.

Quit ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism | Rutger Bregman As a historian, I’ve studied the major consumer boycotts of history. We can take down ChatGPT and send a powerful signal to Silicon Valley, says author and historian Rutger Bregman

"The most effective consumer boycotts in history share two qualities: they are narrow and they are easy," writes @rutgerbregman.com

According to the US and Israeli right wings, Iran has been in the last mile of their nuclear weapons program for my entire adult life.

Netanyahu drew his red line at the UN nearly 14 years ago.

Spanish PM Sánchez responds to Trump:

"Spain is against this disaster... Govts are here to improve people's lives... It is absolutely unacceptable that those leaders who are unable to fulfill that mission use the smoke of war to hide their failure, and in the process, fill the pockets of a few."

If I was @zackpolanski.bsky.social, I would be pointing out to the BBC that whatever model they use to justify giving Farage & his boot-lickers season tickets for every BBC show under the sun must surely now treat Green Party politicians in exactly the same way. Might even be one for the lawyers...

a man in a hat stands in front of a lake with the words well there goes that dream below him ALT: a man in a hat stands in front of a lake with the words well there goes that dream below him

MAGA looking at an end to foreign wars-

Spare a moment for all those Fox hosts who suddenly have to learn about Iran, and also pretend they always cared.

Reform are denying me access to the Welsh manifesto launch...

Remember a few weeks ago when Reform UK threatened to defund Bangor University in the name of "free speech"?

Well despite repeated requests, Reform are not allowing me to attend their manifesto launch.

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i'm taking a brave stance that may get me canceled: there is no reason for the pervert glasses to exist

The Met police arrested three men on suspicion of spying for China – one of the men arrested is the partner of Scottish Labour MP Joani Reid. In a statement, Reid said she is “not part of my husband’s business activities.”

What your Meta smart glasses record doesn’t stay on your smart glasses, ‘data labeling’ contractors say Meta contractors say they’ve been tasked with reviewing highly sensitive videos captured by the company’s smart glasses.

NEW: Contractors for Meta say they've been tasked with reviewing smart glasses footage in order to train the company's AI.

The contractors say they've seen videos showing wearers having sex, undressing & using the bathroom.

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At CBS News, where staffers are apparently barred from reading history books, the hostilities between Iran and the US don’t begin until 1979.

Wrestling with words The Torments of Creative Work by Leonid Pasternak (1862–1945) Back when I grew up online, there was a word that I worried would be used against me. It was ‘source?’ Source? meant &#8220…

Is it weird to still be blogging in my 40s? I ponder this … in a blog post: oblivionwithbells.com/2026/03/04/w...

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Dairy versus plant-based milk: what are the environmental impacts? Environmental footprints of dairy and plant-based milks, per liter. Based on a meta-analysis of food system impact studies across the supply chain, which includes land use change, on-farm production, processing, transport, and packaging. Land use Dairy milk: 8.95 m² Oat milk: 0.76 m² Soy milk: 0.66 m² Almond milk: 0.5 m² Rice milk: 0.34 m² Greenhouse gas emissions Dairy milk: 3.15 kg Rice milk: 1.18 kg Soy milk: 0.98 kg Oat milk: 0.9 kg Almond milk: 0.7 kg Freshwater use Dairy milk: 628.2 L Almond milk: 371.46 L Rice milk: 269.81 L Oat milk: 48.24 L Soy milk: 27.8 L Eutrophication* Dairy milk: 10.65 g Rice milk: 4.69 g Oat milk: 1.62 g Almond milk: 1.5 g Soy milk: 1.06 g *Eutrophication is the pollution of ecosystems with excess nutrients. Data source: Joseph Poore and Thomas Nemecek (2018) License: CC BY

The more you know

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