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Not regime change- societal collapse

BBC: US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency (Hrana) has reported that 1,168 civilians have been killed in Iran since the war began, including 194 children.

"I hope you are impressed," he said to me. "How do you like the performance? I mean, Venezuela is obvious. This might be even better. How do you like the performance?"

"I hope you are impressed," he said to me. "How do you like the performance? I mean, Venezuela is obvious. This might be even better. How do you like the performance?"

"How do you like the performance?"

An illegal war for the sake of spectacle and the amusement of POTUS.

A Running Count of How Many People ICE Has Killed and Injured - The American Prospect ICE is not required to report any use-of-force incidents against the public. So The American Prospect created our own running tally.

We updated our record of people immigration agents have killed or caused to die since Trump took office in January 2025.

As of today, agents have killed at least 28 people in the field and 48 people in custody.

It’s all so fucking stupid and shameful

U.S. Southern Command @Southcom X.com On March 3, Ecuadorian and U.S. military forces launched operations against Designated Terrorist Organizations in Ecuador. The operations are a powerful example of the commitment of partners in Latin America and the Caribbean to combat the scourge of narco-terrorism. Together, we are taking decisive action to confront narco-terrorists who have long inflicted terror, violence, and corruption on citizens throughout the hemisphere. "We commend the men and women of the Ecuadorian armed forces for their unwavering commitment to this fight, demonstrating courage and resolve through continued actions against narco-terrorists in their country." - #SOUTHCOM Commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan. @USembassyEc @DeptofWar #OpSouthernSpear #SOUTHCOM UNCLASSIFIED

New tweet from U.S. Southern Command: “On March 3, Ecuadorian and U.S. military forces launched operations against Designated Terrorist Organizations in Ecuador.”

U.S. Southern Command announces U.S. and Ecuadorian forces launch operations in Ecuador On Tuesday, the U.S. Southern Command announced that U.S. and Ecuadorian forces launched a military operation against Designated Terrorist Organizations.

U.S. Southern Command announces U.S. and Ecuadorian forces launch operations in Ecuador

US launches military operations in Ecuador The joint military operation with Ecuador targeted what the U.S. called "designated terrorist organizations" in the country.

The U.S. has launched military operations in Ecuador.

The joint military operation with Ecuador targeted what the U.S. called "designated terrorist organizations" in the country.

Minnesota sues to block Trump administration's withholding of $243 million in Medicaid funds Minnesota's attorney general says his office has a strong track record of fighting Medicaid fraud.

Trump cutting off Medicaid in Minnesota for political purposes is deliberately denying medical care and imposing collective punishment on a civilian population. Policies that intentionally deprive people of essential healthcare are a crime against humanity. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

Happening now in Chicago's federal plaza:

A rally is underway in solidarity with trans people in Kansas whose drivers' licenses were suddenly invalidated last week, due to the enactment of a new state law that requires a person's gender on their license to match their assigned sex at birth.

It's ultimately just "they're recruiting your kids!" over and over again forever

This is weirdly consistent for The Atlantic! Jesse Singal's 2018 article about kids being rushed into transition starts with an anecdote about someone *not* being rushed into transition. Literally nothing happened!

There is no other issue in prestige media that has editorial standards this low.

Activists attempt to impose social costs on people who voice reasonable misgivings about youth gender medicine. Someone added me to an online blacklist, so now when someone Googles me, one of the first hits is a page titled, “Ben Appel vs. Transgender People.” It includes personal details not only about me but also about my family members. It states falsely that I’m associated with an “anti-trans hate group.” To support my writing, I work in sales. At my former job, someone who disagreed with me on pediatric gender medicine contacted my employer’s CEO to report my journalistic work. This wasn’t a great way to meet the boss, but thankfully, my antagonist failed to get me fired.

Ben Appel is the author of Cis White Gay: The Making of a Gender Heretic.

And of course we get the obligatory whining about how trans people are mean. Gee I wonder why they think you don't like them, Ben!

It was in those spaces, in the late 2010s, that I realized that the fundamentalist Christians I’d grown up with weren’t the only people enforcing rigid ideas about how others should think. After arriving in New York with mainstream Democratic views, I took classes heavy on critical theories that fixated on identity categories and reflexively decried capitalism and the West. Within influential LGBTQ organizations, gay rights had given way to radical queer politics, and academic theories about sex and gender had hardened into doctrine. Widespread revulsion toward Donald Trump had narrowed the boundaries of permissible discussion on the left. The more Trump and his followers opposed something, the more we were supposed to support it. The prevailing view was that any debate within our side would become ammunition for the right.

For a long time, I feared that if I didn’t keep my thoughts to myself, I would lose the only community I’d ever really belonged in. As controversy flared up nationally about pediatric gender medicine, though, I started voicing concerns, rooted in my own experiences, over what looked to me like a rush to medical treatment. For all the sloganeering about protecting trans kids, I heard no discussion about protecting effeminate gay boys from unnecessary medicalization. When I and others asked whether progressive norms might be nudging effeminate gay boys to think of themselves as girls, no one wanted to hear it. Instead of answers, we were given the LGBTQ community’s official line. “Gender identity and sexual orientation are two different things,” the Human Rights Campaign asserts. But the confidence with which people claim that the two have nothing to do with each other is hard to square with research findings: According to data collected mostly before the recent surge in pediatric-dysphoria diagnoses, most prepubescent children who experienced gender distress went on to experience same-sex attraction and ultimately did not pursue a gender transition. Of 70 adolescents whom Dutch clinicians subjected to puberty suppression from 2000 to 2008, the overwhelming majority were attracted exclusively to people of their biological sex.

Straightforward right-wing agitprop. The idea that thousands of kids were pushed into gender-affirming surgeries because the left shuts down debate is a laughable conspiracy theory. The overwhelming social pressure is to be cis, not trans!

This has been part of the trans-kids moral panic for years, gay adults going "If I grew up now, they'd convince me I'm trans."

If your movement had real evidence, you wouldn't be pointing to alternative-universe hypotheticals! Child psychologists know the difference between gay kids and trans kids

In Defense of Effeminate Boys If anyone had suggested that I might really be a girl, I don’t know how I would have responded. By Ben Appel

If medical authorities have a rigorous way of distinguishing effeminate boys from transgender kids—or of distinguishing transgender kids from proto-gay kids—they aren’t saying. I have met a number of detransitioned gay men who tried to live as women for a time because they and their families were so averse to homosexuality. According to a 2019 report in The Times of London, staffers at Britain’s foremost gender-identity clinic joked darkly that, as a result of the facility’s work, “there would be no gay people left.” A statement last month by the American Society of Plastic Surgeons noted that there is no validated way to assess whether a child’s gender distress will persist over time or disappear without medical intervention. A lack of good research and recordkeeping means that we may never know how many patients who would have been considered effeminate gay boys not so long ago have undergone medical treatments for gender dysphoria.

Absolute trash. The author did not speak to a single medical professional and the article does not contain a shred of evidence that effeminate gay boys are being bamboozled into thinking they're trans.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Just read the entire article aloud to 2 women incarcerated in TX. Then the phone call cut off before we could talk about the water in the women's prisons. (Prison calls are only 20 min.)

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Agent Chin on the stand admitted there was never a search warrant for Des’ truck. 4th amendment violations throughout his stop / arrest.

The government is alleging Des was “the money man” which is why they were following him before Mari called him

They also allege that the box contained six incendiary zines, which you can get here to help pay for Des' defense.

detritusbooks.com/des

From Cross‑Burnings to Policy Papers: How old‑school white supremacy re‑brands for the 21st century.

A thread about the modern day KKK, thriving RIGHT NOW, in OUR own communities.🧵

In the early 1920’s, the Klan overwhelmed Oregon politics. In fact, the Klan may have been the single greatest influencer in Oregon’s 1922 election cycle. The Klan used their growing influence to install Klansman into local government, the judiciary, and state legislature while also helping sway the governor’s race and the seat of Portland’s U.S. Congressional district. The Klan became synonymous with Oregon politics. Revived in large part thanks to D.W. Griffith’s film, Birth of a Nation, which painted the Klan as defenders of American identity, the Klan of the 1920’s represented a respectable white supremacy in the American political discourse.

“Respectable white supremacy”

Sound familiar?

Kkk in Portland

KKK march in DC

What happens when you look the other way for too long? Normalizing it means they are allowed to install themselves further into daily society. They are able to recruit and spread their hatred more. They are able to amass wealth and elect politicians who do their bidding.

Kkk members.

The outfit may be different. The hateful fascist ideology is the same. These groups are dangerous and they try to appear as if they are “normal” institutions operating within your communities. They are getting their way. Far too many people look the other way and accept that lie.

Historical photos of the kkk

The KKK may have worn white robes back then. But under the robe? Local business owners, men wearing suites, politicians, landlords, attorneys, financiers, members of the school board. Your local church members. Your state government.

There has been a normalization of these Christian fascists. Americans now see these groups and brush it aside. That is dangerous. They are allowed to form orgs and behave as if what they are doing is normal. It isn’t. It’s fascism. It’s AMERICAN fascism. After all, the KKK were also “Christians”.

Safe Drinking Water Is a Basic Human Right That Texas Prisons Fail to Respect Imprisoned people are forced to drink and bathe with water they describe as over-chlorinated, slimy, and foul-smelling.

Keep in mind that Texas has one of the biggest carceral systems in the world – and it still cannot supply clean drinking water, a basic human right, for folks behind bars.

Read the full story here 👇

Screenshot showing cost of water at the TDCJ commissary. Source: https://www.tdcj.texas.gov/documents/bfd/Commissary_Price_List.pdf

Incarcerated people in one TX prison are warned by some staff & doctors to "drink bottled water" because the tap water is too risky.

...except a water bottle from commissary is completely unaffordable when you make $0 per day, as incarcerated folks in TX do.

Macron says France will increase its nuclear arsenal, allow temporary deployment of nuclear-armed jets to European allies Macron says the new strategy will "provide for the temporary deployment of elements of our strategic air forces to allied countries."

French President Emmanuel Macron announced Monday that France will increase its nuclear arsenal and for the first time allow the temporary deployment of its nuclear-armed aircraft to allied countries, in a new strategy aimed at strengthening Europe's independence. https://to.pbs.org/4rbFhcf