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He seems pretty sensitive whenever someone confronts him with evidence that Putin might not be our friend. Even when Fox brings it up.

ICE Wants to Buy Warehouses for Mass Detention. Communities Are Fighting Back. People across the political spectrum are realizing these federal detention warehouses will harm their communities.

The overdue firing of Kristi Noem will have no bearing on the continued plans for unwanted warehousing of human beings across the country.
The spotlight should focus on these warehouses (de facto concentration camps) during Markwayne Mullin's confirmation hearing.
truthout.org/articles/ice...

KKKLeavitt on reports that Russia is sharing intelligence with Iran
helping them to target US assets: "Whether or not this happened, frankly, it does not really matter"

We all know Russia, Russia, Russia wasn’t a hoax, Trump and his minions are compromised….

And just like that we’re back to “Department of Defense”

Oil up by $12 a barrel in less than 12 hours.

Gas prices skyrocketing.

Almost 100,000 jobs lost last month.

Another war in the Middle East.

Are we great again yet?

All of our living presidents who still have a sense of decency gathered to honor Rev. Jesse Jackson.

Respect recognizes respect.

Yes, that. And also the implication that teaching is in need of “the few, the proud”— an elite fighting force. Who are we fighting in the classroom, a place where we are civilized not to fight, but to learn? Sigh.

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.

Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs

Obama: "We are living in a time where it can be hard to hope. Each day we wake up to some new assault on our democratic institutions. Another setback to the idea of the rule of law ... but this man - Rev. Jesse Jackson - inspires us to take a harder path ... bc if we don't step up, nobody else will"

Buried in the "fog of war" are reports that 47,635 files were removed from the Epstein files that were made public by the Justice Department in accordance with the Transparency Act..

Noem is gone, sort of, but there are lessons to be learned from her tenure, how she was fired, and why it didn’t happen earlier, why the Senate confirmed her in the first place, that we can”t afford to ignore joycevance.substack.com/p/fired-but-...

The lack of media coverage about the bombing of the girls elementary schools is shocking.

Are Democrats About to Pull Nearly $250 Billion in Public Money from the Companies Dismantling Democracy? Somewhere in your state’s pension fund, right now, there are shares in a company called Palantir Technologies.

ICE paid Palantir $30 mil to build platform called ImmigrationOS, which tracks people in near-real-time, prioritizes them for arrest. Palantir’s fed contracts now $970.5 million. Stephen Miller holds a financial stake.

Your tax $s own a piece of that. cmarmitage.substack.com/p/are-democr...

“History does not always repeat itself cleanly. But it does offer warnings. And when the desire for liberation outruns memory, we risk trading one form of unaccountable power for another.”

— Reza Aslan, a writer and scholar of religions

And those are people who would be inclined to support it, since they chose to do it. I know folks like that, too. It's the people who think TFA is the "Marine Corps of teaching" (Detroit News quote) who worry me.

Trump Slashed Billions for Education in 2025. See Our List of Affected Grants We've tabulated the grant programs that have had awards terminated over the past year. See our list.

For more than 30 Ed Dept programs, we’ve documented more than 730 in-progress grants, collectively worth more than $2 billion, that were discontinued/terminated. Where possible, we’ve noted instances in which Trump adm has reallocated the money it clawed back. www.edweek.org/policy-polit...

Sentence of the Day: 'Apparently unaware she was fired, Noem proceeded to give a speech in which she recited a false quotation from George Orwell.'
(Heather Cox Richardson)

Kind of says it all.

Teach For Awhile For America Wendy Kopp, the woman who hatched Teach for America, popped up in The Atlantic with an odd reflection on “first jobs” and teaching, and, well, there’s a lot of subtext to unpack.

Plenty has been said abt TFA’s disrespect for career teachers (”Step aside, Grandma and let me show you how we smart Ivy Leaguers get the job done”) & the absurd condescension of insisting a top college kid can pretty much master the work in 5-wk training curmudgucation.substack.com/p/teach-for-...

"[Trump's] calling it a war... [Republicans are] afraid that it makes them look even tinier than they already are.”

Rep. @ericswalwell.bsky.social says Republicans are afraid of looking “even tinier than they already are” as they try to claim the US is not at war when Trump is saying it out loud.

Massie on Newsmax: "We're not getting the answers we need from Pam Bondi. I just spent 3 hours at the DOJ this week looking at the unredacted files. And I'm finding evidence of files they haven't released yet." (Note that the Newsmax anchor agrees with him!)

Kristi Noem has done a stunning amount of damage and it’s good she’s gone.

But this doesn’t change the fact that we need a complete overhaul of DHS, impartial investigations into the killings of two American citizens, and information on children that were taken from Minnesota.

This is not good.

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.

Dear MAGA Voter: He Played You — The Swamp Wasn’t Drained, It Was Sold to Billionaires A quick note to my MAGA acquaintance...

Your grandchildren will spend their lives paying off Trump’s tax cuts for people who summer in the Hamptons. This isn’t fiscal conservatism: it’s looting dressed up in a red hat. hartmannreport.com/p/dear-maga-...

Thou shalt arrest Kristi Noem and put her in a detention center indefinitely so she can “await processing.”

A couple things…

The “conflict“ in Iran *IS* a war.
It is a war of choice.
It is warfare without conscious.
It was unprovoked.

And I’m sick and tired of people suggesting & implying the only tragedies herein are that US Service Members have died. The people of Iran are innocents in this conflict!

Blumenthal: "I have emerged from classified briefings deeply concerned and very fearful that we're on the precipice not only of an escalating conflict that in region, but also putting troops on the ground b/c that is almost inevitably the path the admin has chosen by its current tactical approach"

There Is More Than One Way to Kill Mail-in Voting On Tuesday in Texas, Democratic voters in Dallas and Williamson Counties, Texas, had their work cut out for them if they wanted to vote.

Last Night In Texas We Saw The Future: More Voter Suppression. Here's what we're going to do about it. #Goodread joycevance.substack.com/p/last-night...