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(They/them/y'all) 🌱Behavioral ecologist and 📚 educator. #Arkansas. CPTSD/neuro🌶. 🏳️🌈/NB. #Exvangelical and #ChurchAbuseSurvivors. Decolonizing. Knowledge gremlin (I read a lot of news). Brown Ajah. 👁
“.. Nearly seven months ago, Ukrainian officials tried to sell the U.S. their battle-proven technology for downing Iranian-made attack drones .. The Trump administration dismissed the Ukrainians ..”
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B of A: ".. The market response to the oil price spike has been mostly hawkish .. But when Russia invaded Ukraine, the u-rate was below 4%, core PCE inflation was over 5%, payrolls were running at 500k/month and consumers were flush with Covid stimulus cash."
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Military funerals in UAE:
“.. off limits to the public.”
WSJ: “.. Trump has at times been surprised that Tehran won’t cave despite the unrelenting joint U.S.-Israeli military campaign, according to people familiar with his thinking.”
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“1979.” 🕺🏻
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New raffle to help the Ukrainian war effort.
* HEGSETH: TODAY WILL BE MOST INTENSE DAY OF STRIKES
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"You want some Cuba? Why you've barely finished your Iran and Venezuela."
EU Council President Antonio Costa said Russia has emerged as “the only winner” from the Iran War.
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“.. a show of support on Monday at Enghelab Square in Tehran for Iran’s new supreme leader ..”
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"[Cook County State's Attorney] O’Neill Burke rebuked the call for a special prosecutor...
'Yet there has been no federal or state investigation or prosecution of any [of] the individuals who perpetrated these offenses,” the firm said."
* ASKED WHETHER ANY NAVAL ESCORT WILL RESOLVE ISSUE OF TRANSIT IN HORMUZ, QATAR FOREIGN MINISTRY SPOKESPERSON SAYS A VIABLE SOLUTION WOULD BE TO STOP ATTACKS ON OUR ENERGY FACILITIES
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - A top Iranian security official tells Trump: 'Be careful not to get eliminated yourself.'
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(Bloomberg) - Iran said it’s “absolutely” not seeking a ceasefire in the war as it launched a new wave of missiles at Israel territories including Tel Aviv.
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The Pentagon calculated it was spending $1 billion a day on Trump and Netanyahu’s war. The truth? It was $3 billion…and that’s just for munitions.
Plus they’ve alarmed everyone by burning through scarce munitions in a matter of days.
Screeching 180 from Reform leader Farage who’s gone from Trumpian “Bomb the Islamists” to “We cannot get involved directly in another foreign war, we don’t have a Navy, we can’t even defend our own military base in Cyprus” overnight.
He’s seen the polling showing the public don’t support the war.
Religious zealots in the world's most powerful military – our worst nightmare.
Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen "O’Neill Burke rebuked the call for a special prosecutor, slamming any petition as 'frivolous [and] contrary to centuries of legal precedent and court rulings.'"
Researchers in the US live in "pervasive fear" of immigration enforcement.
It has “chilling effects" on independent research and advocacy.
Now the researchers are suing 💪🏽
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AUTHERS: “.. all the last week has done is bring the rest of the world to heel somewhat. Asia and Europe have still outperformed the US since the election of Trump in November 2024.”
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“.. Futures are still pricing oil to be just around $80 in six months’ time (about 10% above its $72 price on the eve of the conflict) — which would be significant, but not the economic game-changer that $120 oil would be.”
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JPM DESK: “.. Did Trump give the All Clear? .. keep in mind a new batch of B-2 Bombers landed in the UK yesterday .. it is unclear if Israel is ready to walk away. .. Todays’ moves may prove to be premature as oil production curtailments expands and with unknown Iranian, and Israeli, responses.”
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Iran launched new attacks on Tuesday at Israel and Gulf Arab countries as it kept up pressure on the Middle East in a war that has impacted the region and beyond, sent oil prices surging and stunned global economies.
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HONG KONG (AP) - China reports its exports jumped nearly 22% year-on-year in January to February, while shipments to the US fell 11%.
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Worth watching. Whitehouse does an excellent job summarizing 1-2% of the evidence that Trump is a Russian asset and the Trump-Epstein Scandal is connected to that. One of the other sources you can turn to is the bestselling Proof Series—now on its seventh book. See the link to my Substack in my bio.
Screen shot of introduction of case: Michael H. Simon, District Judge. In a well-functioning constitutional democratic republic, free speech, courageous newsgathering, and nonviolent protest are all permitted, respected, and even celebrated. In an authoritarian regime, that is not the case. Indeed, a democracy is only as strong as its tolerance for dissent. As Benjamin Franklin wrote: Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government; when this support is taken away, the constitution of a free society is dissolved, and tyranny is erected on its ruins.' Our nation is now at a crossroads. We have been here before and have previously returned to the right path, notwithstanding an occasional detour. In helping our nation find its constitutional compass, an impartial and independent judiciary, operating under the rule of law, has a responsibility that it may not shirk. ' Benjamin Franklin, "On Freedom of Speech and the Press," Pennsylvania Gazette, Nov. 17, 1737. Fifteen years earlier, Dr. Franklin wrote: "Whoever would overthrow the Liberty of a Nation, must begin by subduing the Freedom of Speech." Benjamin Franklin, Silence Dogood, No. 8, as printed in The New England Courant, July 9, 1722.
otherwise, it is HEREBY ORDERED THAT: 1. The Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and all agents and employees of that Department, including all persons acting under the direction of or in active concert or participation with the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security or any of its agents or employees (collectively, the "Enjoined Persons") are hereby prohibited and enjoined from engaging in, directing, or encouraging others to engage in or direct any of the following actions at or in the vicinity of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement ("ICE") building located at 4310S. Macadam Avenue, near the corner of Southwest Moody Avenue and Southwest Bancroft Street in Portland, Oregon ("Portland ICE Building"): No Enjoined Person may direct or use chemical or projectile munitions, including but not limited to kinetic impact projectiles, pepper ball or paintball guns, tear gas or other chemical irritants, soft nose rounds, 40mm or 37mm launchers, less lethal shotguns, and flashbang, Stinger, or rubber ball grenades, unless the specific target of such a weapon or device poses an imminent threat of physical harm to a law enforcement officer or other person. No Enjoined Person may fire any munitions or use any weapons described in subsection (a) at the head, neck, or torso of any person, unless the officer is legally justified in using deadly force against that person.
No Enjoined Person may use pepper spray, oleoresin capsicum spray, or other aerosol restraint spray (collectively, "OC Spray"), unless the specific target of that weapon exhibits, at a minimum, active resistance. For purposes of this Order, and by way of example and illustration only, trespassing, refusing to move, refusing to obey an order to disperse, and "going limp" (or "going dead weight") are merely acts of passive resistance, not active resistance. In addition, no Enjoined Person may use OC Spray indiscriminately against groups of people where bystanders foreseeably would be affected. OC Spray, however, may be used against specific individuals actively engaged in violent unlawful conduct, actively resisting arrest, or as reasonably necessary in a defensive capacity.
2. Nothing in this Order shall prevent an Enjoined Person from making an otherwise lawful arrest if there is probable cause to believe that a crime has been committed and that the person being arrested has committed that crime. 3. Nothing in this Order shall prevent an Enjoined Person from using proportional force, including less lethal weapons, on any individual who poses an imminent threat of physical harm to a law enforcement officer or other person. 4. Defendants shall not be liable for violating this Preliminary Injunction if a person is incidentally exposed to a crowd-control device, provided that such a device is deployed in a manner that is fully consistent with this Order of Preliminary Injunction. The parties shall promptly confer regarding how the Enjoined Persons who perform duties at or in the vicinity of the Portland ICE Building can place conspicuous and unique identifying markings (using numbers and/or letters) on the uniforms, vests, and/or helmets of the officers and agents deployed at the Portland ICE Building so that they can be identified at a reasonable distance and without unreasonably interfering with the legitimate law enforcement needs of these personnel. If the parties agree on a method of marking, they shall submit the terms of their agreement in writing to the Court, and the Court will then issue a Supplemental Order of Preliminary Injunction that incorporates the parties agreement. If the
Preliminary Injunction granted in the Portland, Oregon-based lawsuit against the Fed's brutal response to non-violent protests at the ICE facility.
Israel’s assault has killed 394 people in Lebanon, including 83 children, 42 women and nine rescue workers. Meanwhile, Human Rights Watch warns Israel’s military has once again used white phosphorus munitions in residential areas in southern Lebanon — a violation of international humanitarian law.
Iran is finalizing plans to impose “security duties” in the Persian Gulf on oil tankers and commercial ships that belong to countries allied with the US, an Iranian source with knowledge of the leadership’s strategy told CNN. The source insisted that the Strait of Hormuz is “closed” even if US President Donald Trump says it is open. “We hold the screw of the global oil price in our hands and for a long time the US will have to wait for our actions to control the price. Energy prices have become unstable and we will continue to fight until Trump declares defeat,” the source said.
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