Trump's Iran quagmire is getting worse. Striking pattern:
*Leavitt/Hegseth berating media for making Trump "look bad"
*Rs privately say they don't want ownership of Iran attack
*GOP avoiding using word "war"
On the pod @teotten1.bsky.social and I dig into all of it:
newrepublic.com/article/2074...
This is the type of hater energy that will fuel us in the years ahead.
The White House social media account is currently one of the most hateful things I've seen in my lifetime and I can't believe we have to pretend it's normal
The IDF surrounded, beat, and choked US labor leader Chris Smalls after boarding an aid ship.
"Smalls was the only Black person on the flotilla and was punished much more severely than any of the other 20 members," @malcolmferguson.bsky.social writes for @newrepublic.com
tinyurl.com/wxt9h3yv
Forcing the Black woman who painted the portrait of the Obamas to cancel for NOT erasing Black Transgender people …..
About to have some split loyalties (I can't not support TOTTENham, are you kidding me?)
oh my gosh
File photo shows AFP journalist Youssef Hassouna posing for a picture in the Gaza Strip on January 8, 2024
With fuel prices exorbitant and road travel treacherous in war-battered Gaza, AFP video journalist Youssef Hassouna has to walk for hours in the searing heat every day to document the news: "This morning, I walked about a 25-kilometre round trip in search of information." ➡️ u.afp.com/Sgin
"Since AFP was founded in August 1944, we have lost journalists in conflicts, we have had the wounded and prisoners in our ranks, but none of us can remember having seen a colleague die of hunger."
"We've learned from their brief messages that they can't hold on much longer, and their courage, dedicated for many months to informing the whole world, won't help them survive."
I don't mean to sound hysterical but there are some pretty clear historical examples of "force the urban-dwellers to the farms," and none of them are great.
from “student debt forgiveness is tyranny” to “the president is allowed to point at someone and have them summarily executed on the spot” in 2 years
If the Supreme Court thinks universal injunctions are unconstitutional, to wait until *now* to say that, in this of all cases, with this of all presidents, is a devastating indictment of both its impartiality and its prudence.
wow a concentration camp with showers?
I want to reiterate that countless conservative judges issued universal injunctions against the Biden administration, and the Supreme Court never halted the practice. Now, barely five months into Trump's second term, the court puts an end to these injunctions. A brazen double standard.
The Supreme Court's conservative supermajority just took away lower courts' single most powerful tool for reining in the Trump administration's lawless excesses, stripping them of authority to issue universal injunctions that block illegal policies nationwide. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
Christ it's bad. NO UNIVERSAL INJUCTIONS.
Love this totally legitimate and real functioning democracy, where every June our nine wizard-kings descend from the mountain to tell us which laws aren’t real anymore
The freakout about the Zohran government possibly opening some groceries store in food deserts is fascinating because the simplest way for capital to route around it would be for businesses just open up there and obviate the need but they appear unwilling/uninterested in doing so, so govt steps in.
Short read on today at SCOTUS: Good day for inmates. Immigrants stay losing always. Worst day for women since Dobbs.
Punchbowl reports Robert Garcia wins handily, defeating Stephen Lynch 150-63.
Robert Garcia will be the top House Dem on the Oversight Committee
An act of war weeks in planning but unauthorized by Congress against a country that Trump's own director of intelligence testified under oath was not close to getting a nuclear weapon.
Judge Farbiarz finds there are extraordinary circumstances here, and no flight risk or danger to community. Also the punishment claim is substantial enough to justify release. He orders Mahmoud Khalil RELEASED ON BAIL.
Hey Chuck, this decision rips health care away from Americans
It's not hyperbole to say that corpses have more rights than pregnant women in many US states.
Liz Bruenig really said "brain dead people are incubators too"
"Three dozen horses, 28 Abrams tanks, 6,700 soldiers, and millions of taxpayer dollars later, and Donald Trump’s military birthday parade was still a flop at best."
tinyurl.com/3mdybh3y by @malcolmferguson.bsky.social for @newrepublic.com
Hot pink chairs and benches stacked up in a protest with protesters hiding behind them as law enforcement fires upon the barricades with rubber bullets and tear gas
RIOS rios.imagines RIOS rios.imagines Images of the bright pink Civic furniture line that we designed for@grandpark_la "The Park for Everyone," being used by LA protesters stopped us in our tracks. These pieces were designed to move, adapt, welcome, connect - and now protect. We stand in solidarity with our city during moments of civic expression in support of unjust treatment, and we are reminded of why we design: for our community, diversity, and a sense of belonging. Photo by: David Ryder-AFP/Getty Images
Everyone saw Grand Park's hot pink benches being stacked into a barricade on Sunday. What an exceptional statement from RIOS, the benches' designers instagram.com/rios.imagines
"These pieces were designed to move, adapt, welcome, connect — and now protect"
Yesterday I met Assane II, so-called "King of the Corniche," the main highway here in Dakar.
"Noble, imposing and perfectly built," he's rumored to be the most expensive ram (2.5 mn XOF / $4,350) ahead of Tabaski (Eid al-Adha), when the animals are sacrificed for a family feast
Missouri voters secured a historic victory for abortion rights in November. The state Supreme Court just ripped it away.
tinyurl.com/m26t63nu by @melissagiragrant.com for @newrepublic.com
Getting today's tight two ready as we speak. And by tight I mean "tenuously related to time as we know it"
