New update from the @npr.org Congressional retirement tracker:
With Rep. Darrell Issa's announcement, we're at 68 members of Congress who don't plan to return to their seat –– 1 in 8 lawmakers.
We're tied for the most House R's retiring in a century + it's already the most Senate Rs in one cycle.
Simon, the Western world should be unified in achieving the goal of regime change in Iran. That horrific regime cannot be negotiated with, cannot be bought off, and should have been toppled decades ago. And Qatar is no friend to the USA.
The portrait is out of the attic.
If you’re willing to excuse this shit, you have lost the MFing plot.👇
Damn
Y’all keep playing patty cake with the DSA and it’s candidates. Read their statement, they don’t stand with the people of Iran. They stand with the regime who controls Iran They see this nation as an imperialist threat to the world. www.dsausa.org/statements/d...
"I get to speak over the actual Iranians, because I know best how they SHOULD feel, and they shouldn't be happy about the death of Khamenei, who just slaughtered 40,000 of their kids in cold blood on the streets" is an insane thing to argue.
The regime in Iran has attacked both the U.S. and Israel directly or via proxies repeatedly over the years. They are an evil, dangerous regime. I’m no fan of either Trump or Bibi, but I am glad they’ve taken steps to try to liberate the Iranian people (and everyone else) from their reign of terror.
You get your news from The Guardian, which transcribes reports from the Iranian regime.
An Instagram influencer is more credible than the regime, yet The Guardian prints what the regime says.
I don’t believe the regime, but you do you.
Oh, about that: www.instagram.com/reel/DVT6P7T...
The innocent people in Iran, including children, are cheering them on.
They want this regime destroyed.
Inflation is up to 3.6% year over year. This means it's up since Trump took over, and higher than where Biden held it dating back to June 2023. Trump's promise to immediately lower prices has completely failed, yet he insists it's all fixed.
Trump famously made/kept a bunch of money by simply refusing to pay people he owed it to, and now under Republican control that’s the ethos of the federal government. It cannot help but fray the bonds that unite us, and it’s in some sense *the* fundamental problem we have to solve.
Martin Short’s only daughter, Katherine, has died by suicide.
She was 42.
This heartbreaking news comes just two months after Martin’s very close friends, Rob and Michele Reiner, were murdered.
Via TMZ
"Russia soldiers tell BBC they saw fellow troops in Ukraine war executed on commanders' orders" -- www.bbc.com/news/article...
The Basij, the regime in Iran's voluntary militia, has been attacking student protestors at the Beheshti University in Tehran today.
Iranian media shows screaming and chaos as protestors are brutally shut down.
Can the world pay attention now, or is it still "not enough"?
NEW from @julialurie.bsky.social: Immigrants in Minnesota are being released from ICE detention without the work permits, Social Security cards, licenses, and other documents that prove their status
Join us as we honor the life and career of the late Robert Duvall with an evening of his films on March 10th beginning with his Oscar-winning performance in TENDER MERCIES, followed by THE GREAT SANTINI and APOCALYPSE NOW.
This is pathetic. We are producing a generation of snowflakes.
Does she know who was President at the time, and in charge of all federal prisons?
Ossoff: "If you live in a major democracy, and the nation's spy chief is showing up at raids on sensitive election sites, something has gone wrong."
We have bad leaders to thank for this, especially Trump.
Tucker Carlson is many things; a journalist is not one of them.
Well, if someone who was trying to destroy YOUR country wanted to visit, would you want YOUR government to roll out the red carpet for him?
Tucker Carlson is a liar, a conspiracy theorist, and a grifter.
Yes, all this and more, including the wonton destruction of CDC's Office of Smoking and Health.
Harris knows the answer. Bartiroma doesn't even need to ask it because she know the answer too. Trump can create whatever EO he wants and has. He's routinely issued EOs that are patently unenforceable. EO's are not the law. Liars. Flat out liars. Hucksters. All of them.
How does this bring about affordability, free and faster bus service, freezing rents on stabilized apartments? Someone break it down like I’m a 3 yr old
Today, the Trump administration repealed the endangerment finding: the ruling that served as the basis for limits on tailpipe emissions and power plant rules. Without it, we’ll be less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate change—all so the fossil fuel industry can make even more money.
If AI eliminates a massive number of jobs, the consequences won’t stop at the economy—they will “test political institutions that have already shown how brittle they can be,” Josh Tyrangiel reports: theatln.tc/dJ29sokd
