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Record high support for abolishing ICE in latest YouGov/Economist data

I know everyone is watching what’s happening in Iran, but Ice arrested another set of journalists for reporting on their black bagging of American citizens in Nashville last night.

RFK Jr: Families should make dinner together and that will cure the spiritual crisis in the U.S.

Mom: I would but I have to work two jobs to afford housing.

RFK Jr: I only have one “job” and I’m a millionaire, what’s your problem lazy daisy? I’ve made tens of meals for my kids over decades!

Maybe it suffered too I dunno

...acoustic

Once had to fire Glen Hansard and his autistic guitar out of a radio studio as he was eating into my show (system 7 and other trance bangers)

(The whinge of him)

Gee, Bobby. Bye.

Another terrible monthly jobs report for the Trump Administration and they don’t have a pandemic to blame it on.

92,000 jobs lost in February. One has to wonder how much worse it really is?

Wu Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeei!

Not those sort of adventures

Let adults decide if they want to use ~ anything.

The U.S. Is Launching a Regulatory Assault on Drone Users New restrictions try to shield ICE from being watched from above.

MAGA is trying to claim the sky for itself - which means that other legitimate drone users, including journalists reporting on ICE abuses, are being shut out.

My latest for Foreign Policy:

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UK Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood wearing a black trenchcoat with grey piping that looks like a nazi trenchcoat walks between rows of bunk beds in a drab white room with cement flooring

Jesus fucking Christ. These were PR photos!

I've taken to blocking this sort of nonsense pretty quick ..unless it was a person or issue I'd some interest in

So, are y'all asking for DEI or what?

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photos of a young and old Oliver North under the post 'the guy on the left was arrested and convicted for illegally selling missiles to Iran during the Reagan administration. the guy on the right is a Fox news military analyst who thinks Iran shouldn't have missiles. they're the same guy'

Yup. There’s an awful lot of awful you can commit safely inside the laws of armed conflict.

Of course even if they did breach it

Can't see who would take a case or how it'd be enforced!

Unfortunately (legal position)

Join a football themed #beyondfriday. My posts will probably go something like this.

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The art of any propagandist and agitator consists in his ability to find the best means of influencing any given audience, by presenting a definite truth, in such a way as to make it most convincing, most easy to digest, most graphic, and most strongly impressive.

US grants waiver to allow India to buy Russian oil amid Iran war ‘Stopgap measure’ designed to keep oil flowing into global market as Middle East crisis disrupts crude shipments

'The Kremlin said on Friday that the war in Iran had fuelled demand for Russian energy products, noting that buyers such as China and India were guided by their national interests.'
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Listen folks. Half of this administration says we're at war. The other half says we're not. This kind of recklessness and disorganization is going to cost lives. That's why I, Gavin Nelson, pledge to call it a war when I refuse to deescalate in 3 years.

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

In Flight, by Parry 4 track album

Can there be psychedelic dub stepiness?

Why yes!

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Lift

Trump’s War to Nowhere Intercept senior editor Ali Gharib discusses the human and political toll of the Israel–U.S. war on Iran with Séamus Malekafzali.

Trump’s War to Nowhere
theintercept.com/2026/03/06/p...

The US blockade of Cuba has no legal basis under international law. An island without an air force or modern artillery is not a security threat; it's a neighbour. If the United States genuinely believes otherwise, the UN Security Council exists for exactly that purpose.

And naturally Trump - one of the most vainglorious idiots to hold high office - fell for it. But of course, the Israel hawks didn’t believe it: they wanted the chance to bomb Iran into a Mad Max hellscape that can’t govern itself, let alone meaningfully oppose Israel’s maximal goals for the region.

Trita Parsi on American Prestige here, and yes: clearly, various Israel hawks slithered up to Trump, telling him - You only need to demonstrate your power Sire, then the enemy shall cringe in terror before your magnificence! You shall be the mightiest conqueror, everyone is saying it, more and more