stores have no idea how much shoplifting takes place, they only know when stock doesn't match records. how much is due to human error, incorrect shipments, breakage, and theft is a guess. literally cannot know if shoplifting is on the rise.
this was a radicalizing discovery for me.
"I wish you could know the way people in prison light up at the sight of animals."
Nobody hates living veterans more than Republicans. Dead veterans they can exploit in videos. But living veterans with opinions and medical needs are literally offensive to conservatives.
Too bad there aren't any rich people who could run ads with this information on every social media and regular media channel.
Trump is spending unprecedented sums on military-grade equipment at the southern border.
“53 billion dollars for the current fiscal year, with another 20 billion available in its “operations and support” budget—
major increase from the usual 3 billion a year
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
Kansas invalidated a trans woman's license even though she never changed her gender marker.
It's not about the gender marker. It's about targeting trans people and making their lives unlivable.
The same way you don't want people bombing you and your loved ones is the same exact thing that other people feel where they live.
Islamophobia like anti vaccine and anti trans sentiment is an almost indelible marker for fascism and neoreactionary beliefs.
This is the language of American fascism and brutalization, subjugation
Spain has denied the use of its military bases to U.S. forces involved in the joint U.S.-Israel war on Iran, including for refueling, objecting to unprovoked attacks that Spanish officials say are a violation of international law.
MPD body cam footage from DOGE raid on US Institute of Peace RECEIVED 😎
I'll be watching and sharing news and takeaways in the coming days. Stay tuned!
Call if you possibly can.
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Underrated just how much the US and Israel have been desecrating the very idea of diplomatic engagement by doing these obvious bait and switches.
This is the third time now that negotiations were used as cover to prepare for a war already decided. The lesson is to never speak to the US.
This is one of the videos the NYT has verified and links to in their reporting.
NYT: "Video verified by [NYT] showed ... rescuers digging through the rubble with building cranes and shovels, and piles of bloodied, dusty backpacks."
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/w...
NEW: AIPAC is lobbying against a new bill that would stop the transfer of some weapons to Israel if it violates the ceasefire.
But some anti-war and pro-Palestine Democrats are not necessarily in support of the bill either.
Inside a brewing debate within Congress:
Well, I’m reassured that components of DHS should be blazing away at the sky with anti-drone lasers.
The state can no longer saddle defendants with court fees when charges are dismissed. Prosecutors are backing legislation to restore them.
Undiluted sadism.
I'm so sorry but "me being me" did really make me laugh here
Demonstrators risk arrest if they join a pro-Palestine march from Sydney Town Hall to New South Wales Parliament.
"The deputy marshal’s action was not done with malice,” they wrote in a statement. “It was a last-resort, split-second action taken by a law enforcement officer to control the environment." trib.al/hXYeARa
Reminder that ICE was invented after 9/11 to terrorize people on US soil.
W’s “war on terror” incl mass surveillance, even more racial profiling & aggressive policing & treating immigration as a security issue. Muslims & Brown folk perceived as such can tell you how that went.
Abolish.
Woman with legal status taken from her family home in St Paul by ICE, flown to Texas, held for two weeks before being ordered released by a judge. She lost her job. She's afraid to go outside because agents keep coming to her home.
www.kare11.com/article/news...
I was a White House ethics lawyer.
I used to advise people not to even accept a free cup of coffee from someone who had interests before them. And staff followed those rules.
I can’t even find the words to describe the scale of Trump’s corruption here.
Just to close the loop here. A cozy club of just the very worst people.
People all over Portland, Oregon were impacted by the chemical warfare deployed by the feds tonight. Here’s a thread of some Portlanders experiences who weren’t even at the protest:
Read the full statement here: movement-media.org/statement-fr...
There is nothing shocking about class solidarity among the ruling class. They were, in fact, cynical and ruthless about protecting the power structure.
btw the civility panic a few years ago was about precisely this: the ability to have polite conversations about how black people are racially inferior in public without criticism or backlash bsky.app/profile/hann...
They said "free speech" and "academic freedom" but never believed in either and now in texas you need a permission slip to mention race in class and they're fine with it. Might not have worked if people with large platforms weren't furious about marginal increases of black people in their offices
