@elyseea
Former educator, prof, and national nonprofit director. Retired, married, dog lover. Pro-democracy; anti-oligarchy; pretty damn pissed off right now. Trust me, folks, it’s really not fun to live under fascism. Also at Threads as "elyseea". No DMs.💙🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🇲🇽
Reminder that the US military budget is larger than the military spending of the next nine largest countries combined.
Over half goes to private defense contractors.
This is the military-industrial complex Eisenhower warned of — on steroids.
the gambling epidemic is genuinely so real like sports are entirely gambling now video games are gambling toys are gambling they're still trying to push crypto somehow which is like if money was gambling
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.
Or, if you can't get to the Wired article (which I recommend as it explains what you're looking at), go here:
www.worldmonitor.app
This is really something. Read about this project and find the link in the article: www.wired.com/story/world-...
The Federal Book Ban bill uses funding threats to pressure schools to remove books.
Federal control over local policy - and federal control of reading, writing, and publishing - is unacceptable.
Sign the petition to stop it. action.everylibrary.org/hr_7661 via @everylibrary.bsky.social
NOEM: Our federal detention centers are held to the highest standards in comparison to other detaining facilities
McBATH: Did you just hear me? He has to crawl through mold and feces and bodily fluids just to take a shower. This is absolute lunacy and you know it.
JUST IN: A federal judge has barred Gov DeSantis from designating CAIR as a terrorist organization and punish those who associate with the group.
“Once again, Florida chooses political posturing over the First Amendment,” Judge Walker writes.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Karoline Leavitt told us the US State Department was helping Americans stranded in the Middle East.
She lied.
One Texas woman in Dubai called the State Department hotline, was scolded for being scared and then hung up on.
This administration is *full* of incompetent, rude people.
One woman who called the State Department helpline looking for help said they told her to "stop ranting and raving" and hung up on her.
Another woman said they asked her how to spell Oman.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/t...
This morning I called James and congratulated him on becoming the Senate nominee. Texas is primed to turn blue and we must remain united because this is bigger than any one person. This is about the future of all 30 million Texans and getting America back on track. With the primary behind us, Democrats must rally around our nominees and win. I'm committed to doing my part and will continue working to elect democrats up and down the ballot.
Jasmine is a class act.
WALZ: What a 'stop payment' meant by what the administration did last week is 400,000 children without healthcare
COMER: We believe that's your fault
WALZ: Our Medicaid error rate is lower than your state
The Department of Justice (DOJ) is attempting to short-circuit state bar ethics investigations into department attorneys through a new and unexpected proposed rule. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
We are starting to see the beginnings of what will likely be a region-wide (and eventually larger) refugee crisis emerge. If we think about the impact of Syrian refugees, for example, we can imagine many long-term unintended consequences, and Syria is small by comparison with Iran and its neighbors.
A database reveals the extent (and confused interpretations) surrounding the administration’s new version of political correctness. Gift article.
wapo.st/4aVrK2g
Seriously, we’ve watched this end-days theology creep across the administration, but it has fully parachuted into the military.
Read:
open.substack.com/pub/jonathan...
DHS using ad data for surveillance and location tracking
www.404media.co/cbp-tapped-i...
This seems to characterize the current age.
The glibness. The indifference. The carelessness. The utter lack of planning for a war against a country of 90M. The sickness of a man who acts on whim that will kill thousands not hundreds. The horror of a regime that enables this sickness. The broken body politic that votes in such malignancy.
"The Peace President."
I'm so old, I can remember when a plotline where a bunch of guys winning money and getting dopamine hits by betting on the human outcomes of things like war, bombings, etc. would be used to characterize the depraved indifference of a decadent society in a dystopian novel.
Funny, huh? So long ago.
As conflict escalates in Iran with knock-on effects across the Middle East, vast swaths of regional airspace have closed or emptied. https://cnn.it/4rV53T9
Every word of this:
Every word of this.
open.substack.com/pub/longmemo...
One day we will look back and won’t believe what this country let Trump get away with. Nothing can ever be the same after this.
How do we fully process the fact that the key message from the political/media “mainstream” now is “Look, we tried not being racist for a few decades, but frankly we weren’t very good at it, so we’re going back to being openly racist, okay?”
Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started
Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started
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