Dr K

Wait. They are releasing Epstein files to distract Americans from the war in Iran now?

Our troops are dying this isn’t a video game. The White House is posting so-called “hype” videos that mix real footage from the war in Iran with clips from movies and video games like Call of Duty. It’s an absolute disgrace.

Pretty difficult to refute a single thing in this perfect assessment of where the f**k we are, from @iandunt.bsky.social:

Reverend Jesse Jackson called on each of us to be heralds of change, to be messengers of hope; to step forward and say “Send me” wherever we have a chance to make an impact.

How fortunate we were that Jesse Jackson answered that call. What a great debt we owe to him.

This is who our President is...

Bernard LaFayette, Selma voting rights organizer, dies at 85 Bernard LaFayette, who died Thursday, laid the foundations of the Selma, Alabama, campaign that culminated in the passage of the Voting Rights Act. He was a Freedom Rider and helped found the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.

Bernard LaFayette, who died Thursday, laid the foundations of the Selma, Alabama, campaign that culminated in the passage of the Voting Rights Act. He was a Freedom Rider and helped found the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. n.pr/4csIbWh

It’s almost like he’s hoping for it so that he can have an excuse to use “emergency powers”

Yes. And we have to talk about this now, because talking about it is the first step to making it seem like a callous crime rather than a surprising emergency.

gramps is banged up

This should be shocking: Always defending Putin. It is the prime directive of the Trump Administration. Even when he is actively aiding our enemies in ways that will put our military and embassy personnel and allies at risk. Does anyone doubt where his loyalties actually lie?

Q: Why aren't there any student athletes in the room?

TRUMP: ... Do you want to answer that question, Randy?

RANDY: We have agents here. There's limited room.

Trump wanders away

He's yelling at the dumbass Fox News guy. Definitely starting to feel the heat. Will it matter? Who knows, but he's not comfy right now and that makes me feel good.

Trump: "A lot of our people were walking around without legs"

"We have to understand him not as a fascist, though he is, but as a crazy person — a genuinely crazy person who wakes up every day & you never know what he's going to do bc he doesn't know"

New ep of @davidnir.com & Rupar on Trump's illegal war of choice is live: www.publicnotice.co/p/trumps-ill...

WATCH: Obama calls on Americans to 'step up' like Jesse Jackson for a better future “We are living in a time when it can be hard to hope,” Obama said Friday at the final public tribute to Rev. Jesse Jackson. “Each day we wake up to some new assault to our democratic institutions. Ano...

Former President Barack Obama took a swipe at President Donald Trump, without mentioning him by name, at the final public tribute to the late civil rights leader, the Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr.
https://to.pbs.org/4rkVjk6

Trump has privately shown serious interest in U.S. ground troops in Iran The president’s private comments have not focused on a large-scale ground invasion of Iran, but rather on the idea of a small contingent of U.S. troops that would be used for specific strategic purpos...

The thought of troops on the ground is no big whoop to a draft dodging Commander-in-Chief who thinks soldiers are suckers and losers.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...

Buttigieg: You’ve got money from the Middle East going into the Trump family crypto fund while you have Americans going to the Middle East for Donald Trump’s war.

Mississippi’s Black Voters Brace for SCOTUS to Gut Their Political Clout Black Mississippians won a key ruling last year in a case that challenges how the state elects supreme court justices. But the U.S. Supreme Court may soon weaken the Voting Rights Act and erase their victory.

Mississippi has the highest Black population share of any state but there have only ever been four Black justices in the state’s history, and none of them have ever served at the same time. A judge recently took issue with the state’s “bleak” history.

The killing of Iranian children during an illegal war is an impeachable offense (not to mention a grave crime) and Congress should really act like it.

15 Republicans in the Senate could end this nightmare before it somehow gets even worse.

In the last few hours we have CA GOP Rep. Darrell Issa telling people he won’t run for reelection and CA GOP Rep. Kevin Kiley saying that he is running for reelection as an Independent.

The Republican exodus continues.

incredible ineptitude: "Unprepared for Iranian drones, U.S. and partners seek Ukraine’s help"... and NOW they want Ukraine to help

I made “sun dried” tomatoes in my dehydrator today. 3 pounds of Roma tomatoes fits into this pint jar.

(These are things I do when Trump is fucking things up and making me anxious.)

Trump thinks his little roundtable today is going to come up with a "salary cap" system that will go into effect for the upcoming college football season

Economists expected +55,000 jobs. Trump delivered -92,000. That’s not underperforming, that’s a 147,000-job face plant. He promised to be the greatest jobs president ever. Instead he’s torching the economy ＆ calling it winning. We’re not winning. #TrumpsJobsSlump​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Jan. 6 rioter pardoned by Trump gets life sentence for child sex crimes Andrew Paul Johnson promised one of his victims money he expected to receive from the Justice Department, authorities said.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Last 14 months of Biden's term:

+1.74m jobs

First 14 months of Trump's term:

150,000 jobs

(total! for the whole 14 months!)

www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

Judging from the prose, the Pentagon appears to be using AI to announce the death of soldiers. If it’s not AI, it’s a person who simply does not care.

Russia is providing Iran intelligence to target U.S. forces, officials say The targeting information has included the locations of American warships and aircraft in the Middle East, the officials said.

This is interesting. But it is more interesting that Trump is rewarding Moscow for doing this by helping Russia sell oil, repeating Russian propaganda points, and senselessly burning through weapon stocks.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

The hidden surveillance network sending Californians' license plates to Border Patrol California residents are noticing new license plate readers that appear to be operated by the Border Patrol. Some have had confusing encounters with agents.

CalMatters reports on the Border Patrol’s network of hidden surveillance cameras in California: