So much for DOGE saving taxpayers $

Trump fired Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and nominated Senator Markwayne Mullin to replace her.

Thank you to @legalmiga.bsky.social for the Thread on Mullin that inspired this video

Russia is providing Iran intelligence to target U.S. forces, officials say The targeting information has included the locations of American warships and aircraft in the Middle East, the officials said.

Exclusive: Russia is providing Iran with targeting information to attack American forces in the Middle East, the first indication that another major U.S. adversary is participating — even indirectly — in the war.

Pretty difficult to refute a single thing in this perfect assessment of where the f**k we are, from @iandunt.bsky.social:

A few hours after NYT reported that the U.S. bombed an elementary school in Iran, killing many children, the White House last night posted this video mixing airstrike footage with Top Gun, Iron Man, Gladiator, Halo, Breaking Bad, Star Wars, John Wick, Superman, Transformers and Dragon Ball Z

Trump’s “Warflation” Has Just Begun If he were trying to increase prices on purpose, would he be doing anything differently?

Get ready for some "warflation": higher prices for oil, gas, food (lots of fertilizer passes through Hormuz), goods made with petrochemicals (umbrellas, shampoo, toys, etc.), and pretty much anything that needs to be transported anywhere.
Affordability! open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

UK arts must not be sacrificed for speculative AI gains, peers say Ministers urged to abandon plans to let tech firms use work of novelists, artists and writers without permission

The Lords select committee is very clear on where it stands: ‘AI may contribute to our future economic growth, but the UK creative industries create jobs and economic value now’
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say Military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday, two U.S. officials told Reu...

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."

In the meantime MAGA claims it's a false flag operation

All of which has provided grist for your intellectual mill

ICE detains reporter Estefany Rodríguez in Nashville - Nashville Banner Reporter Estefany Rodríguez, detained by ICE with no arrest warrant, may face deportation. Her attorneys seek immediate review of the legality of her case.

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.

Jan. 6 rioter pardoned by Trump in Jan. 6 case gets life sentence for child sex crimes Andrew Paul Johnson, authorities said, tried to keep one of his victims mum by floating the promise of money he was expecting to receive from the Justice Department.

Jan. 6 rioter pardoned by Trump in Jan. 6 case gets life sentence for child sex crimes

Congratulations DHS Secretary Stephen miller on continuing to be DHS Secretary

Some Frenchman (sociologist?) said what had changed his culture was cars, TV, & the 3d escapes my elderly brain

Kristi Noem was a willing and eager participant in the Trump administration’s assault on our constitutional rights and its disregard for human life.
 
Replacing her with Sen. Markwayne Mullin won't change that agenda — it simply puts a new face on it, all but guaranteeing more of the same cruelty.

New Jim Crow

Abolish ICE

Abolish bombs

Not all Americans!

It's a great statement. Why did i hear on public radio that some group of Kurds is standing by to enter Iran? Fog of War?

The costs are so much more than $; America is now the caricature so many people have taken as its essence for decades

🚨🚨🚨 #CulpeperVA

I think the media should quit fanning the flames of anxiety

How the hell does he "know" that God has forgiven him? How does he know where that little voice comes from?

I cannot stand Carville; he has been a pain in the ass for years

From FT comments

Also, Janet Mills shouldn't be running: she is too old (i can say that as i am a little younger). Had she not entered, i surmise a better candidate would have stepped up w/ the support of Run for Something & good media attention

Also Janet Mills shouldn't have decided to run: she is too old (i can say that, being a little younger). The Run for Something group would have supported a strong younger candidate, i surmise, so alas

The regime has been telling most of us we're on our own for months

This sounds like an ad, but it's about murder.