These are war crimes, violations of the Geneva Conventions.
Increasingly I think we should turn the whole Trump cabinet over to the ICC to be tried at The Hague.
Even if it takes years, we have to bring EVERYONE who made this happen to justice. No moving on, no letting this go.
Revenge is good enough motivation for me personally, but the nobler and important reason is to ensure that anyone who thinks of doing this again knows they’ll rot in prison for it.
I read recently that fascists intentionally put marginally competent people in subordinate positions, and it explains a lot
The lovely, frozen lanes of Killeshandra
Guessing that many of them use "arab" with as much rigour as they use "communist"
In which writer Nancy Friedman [@fritinancy.bsky.social] talks about, among other things, the globalisation of the glo'll stop fritinancy.substack.com/p/a-name-tha...
It is so damning of US news media that so many outlets refuse to just straight up say that Senator Tim Sheehy assaulted an activist.
He did not "help" Capitol police. They did not need his help. He wanted to assault the guy and did. He should resign.
Footage emerging entirely on its own, like a wasp larva from an egg. Nature is amazing.
This was a fight vs no-fight Democratic primary and the fight candidate won by almost fifty points.
Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries should be shaking in their boots.
We, the American people, are coming for their no-fight caucus members— and we will take their leadership positions away.
The girls’ school in Iran, where 165 people were killed by an apparent US-Israeli attack, was hit with two strikes, with the second missile killing sheltering survivors, two first responders and the parent of a slain child have told Middle East Eye.
This will go down in history with My Lai, Kent State, and Czechoslovakia 1968.
Killing little girls at a school in our name. What a dirty and war criminal government we have. They must face consequences. We must work to make them face consequences.
🎵 ... werewolves of Minneapolis 🎵 (and Saint Paul)
this one fucked me up so much. guy turns his life around after a drug conviction, becomes a happy, beloved, pet rescuing houseboat dad who undersells his mechanic services so poor folks can afford them. ICE grabs him one day out of the hospital for heart problems which then kill him. horrifying
Hannah Arendt spent years arguing that authoritarians put personal loyalty above merit, and in fact prefer appointing mediocrities, since their incompetence helps guarantee their loyalty and serves authoritarian goals by further hollowing out institutions, and Liberty U. Law made it career advice.
“If you want to know how it feels to have slaves, in the modern world – and not be blamed openly for this desire – visit Dubai.”
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Sneak preview of 2026 and 2028 elections. Republicans will cheat.
They will fight harder against progressives than they will fascists because they see the former as an existential threat and the latter as having aligned interests.
Trump/Hegseth operational security: at Joe’s Stone Crab, a restaurant a 2-minute walk from the White House, someone was having a conversation about the attacks on Iran that were going to start in 6 hours. Loud enough for the founder of @TMZ.com to recount it in real time with his podcast cohost.
so far i think in the last 48 hours trump has called
- michael scherer at the atlantic
- jonathan karl, abc
- jake tapper, cnn
- axios
- bret baier, fox news
- the new york times
- the washington post
just noting that when he wants to sell a war, suddenly theyre not "fake news" anymore
We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.
Yesterday, The Sheriffs, MPD and law enforcement brutally put down a peaceful anti-ICE protest outside of the Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis.
There has been little to no coverage of what is happening in Minneapolis since Trump's supposed stand down, which is why we need to spread the word.
LinkedIn routinely posts birthday and anniversary notifications for its users, even when those users have been dead for years. They should do better. www.cdelaney.com/blog/decease...
A big part of the authoritarian playbook is war. War takes over the news. War blots out criticism. War divides a nation’s people, subjecting those against it to being called unpatriotic. War grants leaders all sorts of emergency powers. War consumes everything else.
We mustn’t let this war do so.
Just resharing this.
BREAKING — 51 Iranian children are dead after a strike hits Minab girls elementary school in Iran.
Today’s military strikes on Iran — carried out by the United States and Israel — mark a catastrophic escalation in an illegal war of aggression. Bombing cities. Killing civilians. Opening a new theater of war.
one of the things making me more left wing is that there are few spheres of american life that arent dominated by one rentier class or another.
That an *AI company* is willing to die for an ethical stance is messing with my head
Reason 9473 not to hear from Swamp Nosferatu ever again
