this is just open and abject corruption, but the way U.S. journalism frames it you'd not really understand that there's anything untoward
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this is just open and abject corruption, but the way U.S. journalism frames it you'd not really understand that there's anything untoward
It's genuinely terrifying that my country is at war and I can't tell the difference between a press conference by the Secretary of Defense and a pro wrestler hyping an upcoming match.
This is not hyperbole. Hegseth is emotionally incapable and intellectually void and that is an important job.
More freedom for Russia from sanctions; more revenue for Russia to slaughter Ukraine.
Whatever Trump/Russia/Epstein is, and whatever Trump/Kushner/Witkoff side deals exist, this is a disgrace.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/u...
On this day in 1956, 19 Senators and 82 Representatives from the 11 Southern states—almost 20% of Congress—released the Southern Manifesto, opposing the Brown v. Board of Education decision.
I love that Trump's toadies are wearing comically large shoes because the boss bought them and they're too chickenshit to mention that he guessed the wrong size.
On this day in 1965, the Rev. James Reeb died after a group of white men opposed to his civil rights work attacked him in Selma. Three men later indicted for Rev. Reeb's murder were acquitted by an all-white jury.
Happy pub week to my Nation colleague Amy Littlefield! Find Killers of Roe wherever books are sold.
https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/amy-littlefield/killers-of-roe/9781538769041/
Former Republican House Speaker John Diehl sentenced to prison for COVID relief fraud
The federal government awarded contracts Sunday to renovate two warehouses, each designed to hold 1,500 people, into immigration detention and processing facilities in Maryland and Arizona, according to contract records. The Maryland facility is scheduled for completion by May.
Here's the first-ever Linkedin message from this company, which seems to be a small company run by two millennials with some background in migrant shelters.
Four months ago they suggest they won a contract to run a "mass care site" in Lexington, KY, but this is their first-ever federal contract.
Screenshot of ProPublica webpage titled “Explore Financial Disclosures From President Trump and 1,500 of His Appointees,” accompanied by this blurb: “Use this database to explore potential conflicts of interest for President Donald Trump and his team. The documents disclose positions officials have held outside government, their assets and their debts, among other things.” A search bar prompts the user to search for a person or financial holding.
THREAD: We just released a tool that allows you to search billions of dollars in wealth, ties to the most powerful companies in the country, and details of the personal finances of President Trump and over 1,500 of his appointees.
Here’s how it works 1/
Uh, so we just have video of the U.S. sinking an Iranian naval ship in international waters, far from the actual conflict zone, for no reason whatsoever and we’re supposed to believe that technically we’re not even at war?
1.Internal emails from Liberty University Law School, obtained by Popular Information, reveal how the Trump admin hires interns.
Students were informed about "exciting" legal internships at Labor Department.
“You MUST be aligned politically with President Trump… GPA is not a strong factor.”
"In total, the V.A. chose not to hire replacements for roughly 14,400 unfilled medical vacancies at its health care division. Those jobs were the equivalent of about 5 percent of the V.A.’s medical staff as of December."
The initial cuts eliminated more than 100 hours dedicated to hands-on instruction and practice scenarios, including half the 56 hours once spent on firearms training, the records show. Fitness training time was almost entirely cut. Also eliminated were dozens of hours of classroom learning on such topics as case processing and deportation officers’ legal authority. With further cuts later that fall, the records show, ICE had eliminated three-quarters of the hours once dedicated to evaluating recruits’ practical skills, including firearms handling. The agency eliminated time for driving tests and cut all 26 hours previously allotted for evaluating recruits’ grasp of skills specific to immigration enforcement and deportation operations.
"The previously undisclosed records obtained by The Post show that, as the whistleblower said, ICE last year removed about 240 hours from its basic training program, or more than 40 percent of instructional time." wapo.st/3OIZUyU
🔥 @grahamformaine.bsky.social : “Watching people who have no idea what any of this looks like or feels like disgusts me… saying we just need to be prepared for more casualties because ‘that’s what happens’ — it’s not what fucking happens to THEM, it’s what happens to US.”
A disturbing and hypocritical ruling on so many levels. Especially the due process holding.
The court JUST said there’s no deeply rooted right for women to control their own bodies. But there is a deeply rooted right for parents to know if their kids question their gender at school? Come on.
BREAKING: Credible whistleblower discloses that FBI forensic experts were ordered to stand down from processing the scene where Renee Good was killed, because Kash Patel did not want Good referenced as a “victim” in the warrant.
“Over the past few weeks we’ve learned that not only is she not doing her job, she’s embroiling the department in scandal and possible criminal activity. It’s frankly embarrassing...”
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/u...
Miller bit him
honestly, this goes in the war crimes prosecution file, a pretty clear declaration that the mission is not guided by rules rooted in the law of armed conflict
You can trace this group -- which fights for oligarchic, low-tax, low-service, exploitative capitalism and uses racism & xenophobia to prevent solidarity among the working class -- more or less to the country's founding. They've been squarely under the GOP banner since at least 1980.
We had a deal with Iran to ensure limits on its nuclear capacities. Trump ended that deal. Now he says that sending our young people off to fight and potentially lose their lives for this country is just a ‘cost of war.’ This is the cost of his broken promises. No war with Iran.
Remember that I predicted a long time ago that President Obama will attack Iran because of his inability to negotiate properly-not skilled!
The Daily Show reminded us in the montage below how Netanyahu has LIED about the "imminent" threat of Iran obtaining nuclear weapons since 1995. Netanyahu has for years wanted US to bomb Iran. Netanyahu simply found in Trump a moron willing to sacrifice Americans for his cause:
My former employer, the Chicago Tribune, was mocked recently for an editorial saying we should be "happy" the Vances are expecting a baby.
This thread recalls odd Tribune editorials of the past – praise for Mussolini, opposition to Black voting, a denunciation of 21-year-old Hillary Clinton. 1/14🧵🧵🧵
This is a fascist, eliminationist project to eradicate trans people from public life. Full stop.
Any Dem - like Newsom - who doesn’t fully unequivocally support trans people at this moment, who doesn’t fight this tooth and fucking nail, needs to be pushed out of power asap. Reddest of lines.
It’s not just Medicaid funding they’re withholding to MN. It’s food assistance, child care assistance, social services, job training, safety testing, public health, disaster relief. SNAP. Free lunch for kids in school.
They hate us for loving our neighbors, and are collectively punishing us for it.
“The EU must, once again, face a fossil-fuel-brandishing strongman who is willing to weaponize European energy supplies in the name of territorial conquest.” www.liberalcurrents.com/carbon-and-t...
