There's something deeply obscene and broken about the fact that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are bombing elementary schools in an illegal war of aggression, and there's still a sense among the opposition that it has to be explained in terms of gas prices in order to get American voters to care.
I can’t believe how stupid everything is
That's not a bold choice, it's a disrespectful one.
This is what Pete Hegseth mocking rules of engagement looks like.
Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.
This is disgusting, but also a tacit admission of just how horrible and indefensible it is.
It's a sign of the times that AI companies are deciding whether or not to allow the military to engage in mass surveillance of US citizens and this is treated as a legitimate debate of two reasonable positions.
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Several agencies were ready to release a joint intelligence statement last week to alert state and local authorities to a heightened threat due to the president’s strikes on Iran.
Last March, two employees from Elon’s DOGE arrived at the agency with the mandate of canceling previously approved grants that ran afoul of President Trump’s agenda. But instead of looking closely at funded projects, they pulled short summaries off the internet and fed them into the A.I. chatbot.
Today in @rollingstone.com: a remarkable profile on the inhumane tactics of ICE in Minnesota’s suburbs — and the incredible ways Minnesotans in Shakopee (including DFL Rep. Brad Tabke) have stood up to protect our communities.
Full article here: archive.is/BBvVQ
BREAKING: Judge rules Kari Lake's appointment was ILLEGAL for many months & a bunch of her actions are void
We & great partners win again!
H/t to my @democracydefendersfund.org colleagues plus AFSCME, AFGE, Emery Celli, Democracy Forward & more. Wow, just wow.
Sen. Markwayne Mullin’s new role could grant him leeway to control how detained immigrants receive reproductive or gender-affirming health care.
A Saturday scoop from @schuylermitchell.bsky.social: Previously unreported documents show that DHS wants to build a tool that would track personal travel data, including passenger names and their itineraries. Last year, a similar program was shuttered over public outcry.
Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.
ProPublica investigation exposes financial conflicts across the Trump administration.
• $175M–$340M in crypto holdings reported by 200+ appointees
• Officials traded stocks before policy announcements that moved markets
• Dozens failed to disclose former clients
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
It's easy to just believe it's true because it's the kind of thing that family does.
I don't know who she is. All I can say is I was about to re-post it and decided I should check the source first. I could not find anything from Tech Times and then googled the topic in general and there are multiple outlets saying there is no known evidence.
I don’t think there’s any evidence this is actually true.
Again. This matters.
Some children in Dilley were so distraught they cut themselves or talked about suicide, parents told ProPublica.
They said kids lost their appetites after finding worms and mold on their food, had trouble sleeping, and were constantly sick.
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.
DHS claimed "an ICE agent had fired 'defensive shots' into Martinez's vehicle after Martinez 'intentionally ran over' another agent."
But body cam video now "shows that Martinez's vehicle, a blue Ford Fusion, was stationary or going at a very low rate of speed when he was fatally shot."
They revel in sadism.
Wait - the corner of Olympic and Cloverfield, Santa Monica? Ladies and Gentlemen, that is almost exactly the location where the old Buffy offices stood. I believe we may owe thanks for this one to the Hellmouth.
If you look at the reaction of the people there, it was the right time and place.
Coup tactics
Bessent says the Trump admin may now lift sanctions on even more Russian oil to try and reduce oil prices during Trump’s war. This would provide a massive injection of cash to fund Putin’s war machine.
As I have said since Feb 2025, Trump is in office to solve Putin's problems. How else are you going to ensure that Putin's failed state becomes prosperous? it is already having to be propped up by China.
From what I can tell, there is no evidence of this.
