imagine how much carbon this war is emitting; not sure "humanity" is the word; maybe not very bright primate digging own grave
Humanity heating planet faster than ever before, study finds
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
DHS nominee Markwayne Mullin is one of the most active stock-traders in the Senate — and violated the STOCK Act against insider trading as recently as last August.
He currently holds stock in L3Harris, which has millions in contracts with ICE and FEMA.
The grift continues.
So far the war in Iran has cost an estimated $5.5 billion.
That's roughly $1 billion per day.
$41,666,667 per hour.
$11,574 per second.
People do not want this.
They want a living wage. They want healthcare. They want to be able to afford a home. They want their basic needs met.
I feel sick. Some of these people were praying that Trump would come and free them, and instead they get this.
Just when you think US political culture has hit a new low a Republican Senator decides to break the arm of a protesting veteran in the middle of a Senate Committee on Armed Services meeting. To "help out and de-escalate the situation."
The Trump DOJ has been taking down Epstein files.
The massive tranche of files the Justice Department currently maintains is more than 65,000 pages shorter than what the agency initially released, according to a CBS analysis — and the number continues to fluctuate.
Kash Patel fired FBI counterintelligence staffers responsible for monitoring threats from Iran.
He did this just before Trump launched this insane war due to their involvement in the FBI's investigation of Trump's classified documents scandal.
This admin is a threat to our nation’s safety.
This 2020 Trump speech is going viral.
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.
An ICE detainee in Arizona has died of a TOOTH INFECTION after it went untreated for weeks, a local official says. He was a Haitian asylum seeker imprisoned in Florence, Arizona. @emilybregel.bsky.social reports.
tucson.com/news/local/b...
Screenshot of an X post by Senator Tom Cotton saying Iran has been an imminent threat to the United States for 47 years and that the president was right to act. Below is a Fox News segment with Cotton speaking while footage labeled “U.S. Central Command – Unclassified” shows a strike.
“Imminent.” You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
War is not the answer! Congress must act to end this illegal and immoral war.
The House plans to take up this measure as soon as tomorrow - they have an opportunity to do the right thing.
AMERICA BABY WE'LL SHOW YOU WHY WE DON'T HAVE HEALTHCARE
[runs out of war materiel]
Israeli map showing all of southern Lebanon in red with yellow arrows pointing to north of the Litani river
The IDF just ordered the *entirety of south Lebanon* to be forcibly displaced.
They are emptying the land of its population, creating a massive crisis, and will now proceed to further annihilate large parts of Lebanon.
The very nation state of Lebanon is being destroyed.
That frigate was at the international fleet review in India BTW, along with US forces. This amounts to sinking a ship under a flag of truce so it's even worse than it seems
News: Commanders across dozens of U.S. military bases told troops the war on Iran is part of "God's plan" so Trump can bring about "Armageddon"
News: so Trump can bring about "Armageddon." The Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) has been "inundated" with complaints since the U.S. and Israel launched attacks on Iran over the weekend, receiving more than 110 complaints from U.S. military personnel stationed at dozens of sites across the Middle East. Journalist Jonathan Larsen broke the story, sharing specific complaints made by troops. One such complaint made by a noncommissioned officer reported that their commander had "urged us to tell our troops that this was 'all part of God's divine plan' and he specifically referenced numerous citations out of the Book of Revelation referring to Armageddon and the imminent return of Jesus Christ." "He said that 'President Trump has been anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth," the NCO continued. "He had a big grin on his face when he said all of this which made his message seem even more crazy." MRFF told Larsen that over 110 complaints came
The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has received 110+ complaints from US service members across 30+ sites about commanders using religious rhetoric
Including calling the war with Iran "part of God's plan" and Trump "anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon”
As the laid off Middle East News Editor, I concur. Management eliminated the positions of every single staff correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East.
Each one of those three missiles costs 33% more than the annual budget of the national park where I work.
Gee, ya think.
Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on Iran:
“Remember that one can be against a hateful regime, as is the case with the Iranian regime, as is the whole of Spanish society, and at the same time be against an unjustified, dangerous military intervention outside of international law.”
A big part of the authoritarian playbook is war. War takes over the news. War blots out criticism. War divides a nation’s people, subjecting those against it to being called unpatriotic. War grants leaders all sorts of emergency powers. War consumes everything else.
We mustn’t let this war do so.
My @wpr.bsky.social piece with @charlicarpenter.bsky.social centers the heroic civilian self-protection efforts in MN (which continue today), arguing not only are Minnesotans protecting each other, but global human rights norms as well:
TAKE ACTION — Help stop #Ohio from banning and punishing Ranked Choice Voting:
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This stunt where ICE releases people far from home with no proper clothing and no way home should be treated as attempted homicide. In this case, actual homicide. These cases are not accidental or based on misunderstandings. They are deliberate attempts to inflict bodily harm.
No one makes a decision alone
Rotate decision makers
Institute urgency guides
These are some of the strategies developed over decades of accompaniment in violent, repressive political contexts that Zia Kandler & I learned & now share. I hope they're useful. 💜
wagingnonviolence.org/2026/02/how-...
important ideas for US protection organizing based on years of international protective accompaniment experience in Colombia, Honduras, and Guatemala
These are “low enrollment” majors but the classes are regularly at capacity. They changed the funding structure a few years ago here, switching the allocation from course enrollments to majors then blamed these departments for a structural, top-down change. This is entirely a political choice.
A hell of a graphic from the Economic Policy Institute
