That’s not how any of this works

Iran has been at war with the US for 47 years. And we have always been at war with Eastasia.

A painting of a bird beside the text "Someday, somewhere, someone will truly understand just how fucked up this was"

Good morning readers; Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands.

Trump’s war means that the global oil shock has sent prices past $80.

The sharp rise in prices helps Russia fund its war machine.

Dmytro, forced from Luhansk and Kharkiv, sees how the Iran war is Putin’s saving grace.

Christian death cultists celebrating Armageddon while Israeli leaders invoke Amalek in this war against an Islamist theocracy. What century is this?

It’s like there’s a cruelty contest among red states.

I recognize this is a cynical take, but did we just kill 85 little girls in Iran and potentially start WWIII to keep Netanyahu out of prison?

What happens if the president starts a war and the Congress refuses to go along?

Near-blind refugee found dead in Buffalo after release by US Border Patrol A nearly blind refugee from Myanmar missing since his release from a Buffalo jail into the custody of U.S. Border Patrol has been found dead on a downtown street, city authorities said on Wednesday.

This is how the US government treats refugees now. And the world is watching.

It breaks my heart that we need to have an Underground Railroad for trans people in 2026, but here we are. Please consider making a generous donation; these folks are swamped with requests for help right now.

Opinion | What Exactly Is a ‘Concentration Camp’?

If you are not regularly reading Jamelle Bouie, you should be. This is a good place to start.

Wow.

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.

Hundreds of kids are still detained.

We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

Maybe don’t assume that every brown boy is the one you saw on the news.

Part of the joy of the Bad Bunny performance at the Super Bowl is how much it normalized queer lives - I don’t think I’ve seen a single straight person make note of it.

What time is the Bad Bunny show?

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

Don’t Bring Your Fucking Guitar To the Protest March Last Friday I skipped work as part of the National Shutdown, in solidarity with the people of Minneapolis. As part of the shutdown, there were protests scheduled all over the country, and I figured if...

The key to resistance is being part of a crowd, not always the center of attention. Sometimes your part is just showing up.

legislators should be staging sit-ins, they should not leave the fucking chambers until there are votes on impeachment. make your colleagues defend this piece of shit on the record. show history what you fucking did in this moment you god damned cowards

The regime has entered the “arrest the journalists” phase of its fascist evolution. Assume that any media outlet that does not cover this with full-throated outrage has chosen to be complicit.

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

Yes, it’s cold. Yes, you should protect yourself (and others, as you are able). No, I’m not looking forward to a foot or more of snow. But I’m from New England and chose to live in upstate New York. I’ll take the cold over the heat any day.

ICE detains five-year-old Minnesota boy arriving home, say school officials Superintendent says Liam Ramos and his father were taken into custody while in their driveway and sent to Texas

This is the five-year-old who was kidnapped by ICE and transported to Texas for deportation. Because it is well known that you can identify dangerous felons by their blue hats with bunny ears and pompom strings.

I’ve forgotten - which seal in Revelation is broken to cause Sweden to send troops to Greenland as part of a NATO operation against US aggression?

Cover art of The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother). A chipped teacup spills tea against a green background with blue and gold vegetal scrollwork. A thin red ribbon snakes across the image. A gold seal reads, “National Book Award Winner.”

If you are looking for a good book to read that will stay with you, I recommend The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) by Rabih Alameddine. Deeply moving but also darkly funny, sometimes in ways that might not hit you until later.

At this point, any Democratic politician not calling for ICE and CBP to be disbanded and defunded, or at least completely restructured, is a collaborator.

I’m sure they can find a stable for the night

Less than a year into his presidency, Trump announced that, without congressional involvement, he had ordered and carried out the invasion of another country to abduct its president and their spouse and to plunder their resources. His sycophants praised him using openly fascistic language.

When the Magi informed King Herod that a new king had been born, he purportedly ordered the slaughter of all baby boys in the region to eliminate the competition. This caused Joseph to flee to Egypt with Jesus and Mary as refugees from the violence.

For clarity, Herod is not the hero of this story.