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If you're at the airport and Kristi Noem is doing the ominous little message from the TSA screens, you no longer have to do anything she says. Leave your laptop in the case, whatever.
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.
Know someone who needs a visual explainer of why WA's uber-rich are overdue in paying their share in taxes? Check this out. Note: This doesn't take into account the tax break windfall the richest 1% received from Congress. It's time for a #MillionairesTax! #WaLeg
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Huge surprise 😳🙃
FDT
CBS News is just a pro-Trump and pro-Israel war-mongering outlet right now.
The "experts" they have on are straight-up bigots like Douglas Murray.
What a sad downfall.
Let’s level set.
Trump’s justification for war: Iran was just “weeks away” from having a nuclear weapon.
That’s propaganda. He’s lying.
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not. -Dr. Seuss, author and illustrator (2 Mar 1904-1991)
“It’s a choice to ensure zero abortions."
Since July, more than a dozen pregnant children have been moved to a single facility in the small town of San Benito, along the south Texas border. The children kept in Texas are as young as 13, and about half are pregnant because of rape.
"Aside from the internment camps used to incarcerate Japanese Americans in the 1940s, such facilities have no precedent in American history..."
US Conference of Catholic Bishops statement on Trump's new mass prison camps.
Full statement at the link:
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Williamsport, Maryland:
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Lots of tails wagging lots of dogs this week. Trump clearly wants you to forget there are documents about him missing from the Epstein files. But I devote most of this piece to a quiet phenomenon: federal judges, declaring war on ICE open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
To: House and Senate Foreign Relations, Armed Services, and Judiciary Committees:
Time to stand up for Art. I of our Constitution and the representatives of the people deciding when to go to war, not the whims of one man in the White House (or Mar-a-Lago).
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I do actually think there is a serious imbalance on this app. A lot of politics and not enough culture. Some of that has to do with the fact that Black Twitter mostly went to Threads.
Social media created this nonsense idea that not exposing yourself to hatred is isolationist. Choosing to not spend your free time with bigots isn’t living in a bubble. I don’t need to know what’s going on at X. I won’t be smarter or more knowledgeable or empathic by being there. Neither will you.
The morally bankrupt Trump administration has partnered with another morally bankrupt authoritarian to declare an unprovoked war on Iran, already killing scores of civilians.
We need an immediate vote from Congress on a War Powers Resolution. Then articles of impeachment.
Trump may actually believe that he won't engage in "nation building," but the reality is that he'll soon be faced with two stark choices: (1) sit idly by as Iran turns into the world's largest incubator for anti-American terrorists, or (2) put enough boots on the ground to shape a new nation.
History may not repeat itself, but it often rhymes.
Trump's call for the people of Iran to somehow seize control and build a new, peaceful, and democratic state are an obvious echo of George Bush's unshakable belief that the people of Iraq would greet the American military with flowers.
Like in Iraq, there is a brief period when the death of a hated dictator is uniting many people. Soon, however, the reality of the underlying divisions, including the division between those with military force (the revolutionary guards) and those without (the people), will emerge.
I know you are but what am I?
The next Big Lie is to taking shape right in front of us. Donald Trump will try to use this to assert illegal and unconstitutional powers over the 2026 elections.
Oh.
Too soon?
Angry furry - probably pentagon peter
Operation EPIC FURRY
Good thing he got that pesky state of the union address out of the way before he had to explain this bullshit in prime time.
A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It is a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity.
~President Jimmy Carter
