Marc Edelman

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‘Designed to Wreak Havoc’: The Cheap Drones Shaping the War With Iran

For the Pentagon, "low cost" = $35,000.

The human cost in destruction, death, and deferred spending on social needs makes these drones super expensive.

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How Good Intentions Helped Pave Trump’s Road to Iran

"The world’s civilians, increasingly, are on their own."

R2P - Responsibility to Protect - is a "zombie norm."

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US preparing system to process refunds on billions in illegal Trump tariffs Top official at customs agency says in filing that total sum held in relation to such tariffs is estimated to be about $166bn

So, corporations and the states will get illegal tariff payments refunded.

We consumers have been paying higher prices for everything.

Nobody's talking about when we're going to get our refunds.

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Florida Has Deemed All Existing Intro to Sociology Textbooks Illegal and Produced Its Own The Board of Governors overseeing the new curricula includes roofing contractors, insurance execs, and no professors.

In Florida, insurance executives and roofing contractors are dictating how sociology professors must teach their courses and are mandating state-produced propaganda textbooks.

The regime doesn't want anyone to understand the society they live in.

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Five Seismic Shocks to the Military in 2025 Today’s military is more diverse than ever. A year into the Trump administration, service members say they are facing more threats to their freedoms than ever.

"I fear that the Christian Nationalists will initiate a nuclear exchange because this will serve as a handy lubricant or accelerant for them to bring about the ‘end days’ as they view them in their twisted version of Christianity through the lens of the Book of Revelation."

How a DHS shooting of a third U.S. citizen went unnoticed for months No state or federal agency disclosed that a Homeland Security Investigations agent had killed Ruben Ray Martinez until it was revealed in a public records request.

First they killed Martinez. Then Good and Pretti.

Why didn't we hear about Martinez before?

Because he was a Martinez and not a Good and not a Pretti?

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Trump ousts DHS secretary Kristi Noem and replaces her with Republican senator Noem’s tenure was marked by killings of US citizens by federal agents, a rumored affair and $220m spent on ads

Bring her back when this odious regime's leaders are put on trial.

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Local and State Police Can Investigate Federal Agents, But Rarely Do It doesn’t happen often, but local law enforcement can arrest and charge federal agents. Legal experts say there’s a moral obligation to at least try to hold federal immigration officers accountable…

For more, read our full investigation here: propub.li/4u57p3c

15 years ago if you complained about how the extraction class wanted to buy up the entirety of media and befuddle the electorate with right wing agitprop you'd be tsk-tsked by professional tutscolds who treated you like a toddler who just took a dookie on the wedding dance floor

Whoops! The very stable genius should have thought of that before firing from the hip.

MAGA Unreality vs the World The U.S. government is in the hands of people who are fully detached from reality. That is a major weakness for the regime – but also a source of further radicalization.

MAGA Unreality vs the World

The U.S. government is in the hands of people who are fully detached from reality. That is a major weakness for the regime – but also a source of further radicalization.

Some thoughts from my new piece:

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Trump is now planning to invade a country that is nearly four times larger than Iraq with twice as many people.

A split-screen graphic. Left side: Two large bombs on an aircraft carrier with the text "War is costly." Right side: Gallons of milk on a grocery shelf stating that four days of "Operation Epic Fury" could fund SNAP benefits for 2 million Americans for a year.

President Trump has done what he promised not to do—start a new overseas conflict—and it's already costing the American taxpayer over $5 billion.

Melania Trump urges protecting children’s education at UN after Iran school strike The first lady’s UN security council speech came days after Iranian media reported an airstrike killed 165 people and injured 96 others at girls’ school

Anybody remember when Melania donned a jacket emblazoned with "I really don't care, do you?" during a trip to a migrant child detention center?

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Hypocrisy of Roberts Court is astounding: they’re inventing one set of rules to uphold gerrymandered maps that benefit white voters & Republicans in states like Texas while using a completely different set of rules to strike down maps that benefit racial minorities & Democrats

White text: "Over 4,400. The number of times federal courts have found that ICE illegally detained people since October 2025." Red ACLU logo. Tinted red photo of immigration and law enforcement in helmets.

A report by Reuters found that courts ruled ICE illegally jailed people more than 4,400 times. The Trump administration's unlawful, anti-immigrant rampage must be checked.

Tell Congress at aclu.org/stop_ice_attacks- to hold the line and rein in ICE's abuses now.

Since President Trump returned to office in 2025, his family’s wealth has grown by 70%. Let that sink in.

This is the price of corruption: putting personal profit over the needs of the American people.

I would guess 80 percent of American public has no understanding that Iran had a democratic government in the early 1950s - and the US installed a dictatorship so our corporations could control te country's oil

However bad Iran's current regime is, good reason Iran's people hated the US

How to Tax Billionaires - The American Prospect The details are complicated. The politics should be simple.

There is widespread public misunderstanding about the severity of wealth concentration in the U.S., and how little the very rich actually pay pay in taxes. Successfully taxing billionaires will mean getting to the heart of this confusion.

The US bombed the sh1t out of Cambodia and got the Khmer Rouge

The Soviets & then the US bombed the sh1t out of Afghanistan and got the Taliban

The US & Israel bomb the sh1t out of #Iran. Democratically minded pacifists will seize power.

Right?

Here is a table breaking down the votes. Date Chamber Topic Vote Voted With Other Party Majority 2025-10-08 Senate Boat Strikes 48-51 Murkowski (R), Paul (R), Fetterman (D) 2025-11-06 Senate Venezuela 49-51 Murkowski (R), Paul (R) 2025-12-17 House Boat Strikes 210-216 Bacon (R), Massie (R), Cuellar (D), Gonzalez (D) 2025-12-17 House Venezuela 211-213 Bacon (R), Greene (R), Massie (R), Cuellar (D) 2026-01-08 Senate Venezuela 52-47 Collins (R), Hawley (R), Murkowski (R), Paul (R), Young (R) 2026-01-14 Senate Venezuela 50-51 Collins (R), Murkowski (R), Paul (R) 2026-01-22 House Venezuela 215-215 Bacon (R), Massie (R)

If just 1 or 2 Republican senators had voted to assert congressional war powers on "lethal boat strikes" and Venezuela, this White House wouldn't have taken it as a green light to start a new war today on the president's whim.

Good morning, folks! Have some coffee. Hug your dogs. Take a brisk walk. Don't look at the news yet.

It was a Friday night. Trump always plans his regime changes for Friday nights.

Wake up, Congress! He did it again. You failed to stop him... again.

Thank you for your attention to this matter!

Shocking evidence of the scale of land-based inequalities in the world, in a first-time report from @fao.org: "The status of land tenure and governance." Congratulations to the Land Tenure Team for their diligent collation of the evidence #ICARRD+20

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Why I’m not watching the State of the Union – and you shouldn’t either | Robert Reich Trump doesn’t deserve our attention. And we already know the state of the union – it sucks

"If he doesn’t believe he’s my president, why should I treat him as my president and watch his State of the Union?

I already know the real state of the union. It sucks."

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Donald Trump’s AI push fuels revolt in Maga heartlands Republicans fear backlash against White House agenda could undermine support in this year’s midterm elections

Along with ICE warehouses, AI data centers are another potential wedge issue for Dems, if they're paying attention.

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Serial killers.