Except didn't it turn out that it was the US who struck the school, not Israel? While there's plenty of evil in this administration, I see it as more the incompetent, chest-thumping kind where people are collateral damage, rather than the obvious war-crime variety you're inferring here.
It's a good thing we have walkable neighborhoods, robust public transport, and high speed trains in the US, otherwise these insane gas prices would be a real problem
It's interesting- I've heard (and often agreed with) this thought a lot, but what if we're getting the cause and effect reversed? What if the loneliness is causing them to seek out these mysogynistic communities, which then brainwash them into extreme patriarchy?
How is the word "clarify" not in sarcastic quotes? Do better, PBS....
Because we do such a good job picking leaders....(looking at you, Pinochet...)
So, all that money we saved on food and vaccines for kids(buh bye, USAid) and all that money we saved by canceling kids' cancer and rare disease research (take that, woke Harvard and the NIH), is going to be spent on the interest incurred by not giving back illegal tariffs.
So. Much. Winning.
If it’s true that the United States bombed an elementary school and killed scores of children it is an unfathomable crime. I have never been more disgusted to be an American.
Not to be pedantic (who am I kidding- I love being pedantic), but if we're counting the Articles of Confederation, John Hanson had the first cabinet in 1781. Still not 1776, though...
All-time good will squanderers:
Curt Schilling
Rudy Giuliani
2026 U.S. Men's Hockey
Charles Lindbergh
Bill Clinton
Who am I missing?
The president, who drones on about protecting women’s sports, publicly mocked the women’s gold-medal hockey team. A reminder this was never about protecting women’s sports and it was always about transphobia and misogyny.
No matter how long I live after we get through this dark chapter, I will never get over the immorality, the amorality, the corruption, the criminality and the cruelty in service to one of the worst humans to ever walk the earth.
Sort of gives away the lie that they're arresting hardened criminals who are drags on society when they're setting up traps to lure in Good Samaritans
U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.
I mean, not to worry- he will definitely continue to post new terrible things, so there will be no mistaking the kind of person he was and is.
the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex
Really nuts how many men were like "Me Too went too far, and I need to email Jeffrey Epstein about it."
Note from the editors: ProPublica is publishing the names of the two federal immigration agents involved in the fatal shooting of Minnesota protester Alex Pretti. We believe there are few investigations that deserve more sunlight and public scrutiny than this one, in which two masked agents fired 10 shots at Pretti as he lay on the ground after being pepper-sprayed. The Department of Justice said it is investigating the incident, but the names of the two agents have been withheld from Congress and from state and local law enforcement. The policy of shielding officers’ identities, particularly after a public shooting, is a stark departure from standard law enforcement protocols, according to lawmakers, state attorneys general and former federal officials. Such secrecy, in our view, deprives the public of the most fundamental tool for accountability.
A note from our editors:
ICE and CBP agents seem to enjoy gratuitously breaking glass—from car windows to store fronts to homes. It’s an expression of unchecked power and dominance: “We’re in charge. We break and shatter what we want.”
And nights of broken glass have been a harbinger of worse to come.
Screenshot of an X.com post by The Associated Press (@AP) stating that dozens of immigrant families protested for better treatment behind fences at a Texas detention facility, where a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his father were sent after being detained in Minnesota. Below is a video thumbnail showing a crowd gathered outdoors along a fenced walkway; many people wear bright blue or red outerwear, and some hold signs.
After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.
I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com
But the important question is, what was she wearing?
Here's the thing, Greg — free speech is still protected by the First Amendment under the Constitution.
If you want folks to stop saying you're the secret police who are kidnapping and killing people, maybe stop acting like the secret police who are kidnapping and killing people.
A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
lol yeah these are the same guys who tweet about how scary the subway is & say they’re being genocided because somebody working the checkout lane said happy holidays and now they are all LARPing as Frank Castle just to get ran outta town by grandmas & people playing fiddles
They call it "pulling a Vatican"
So I'm reading the novel I Must Betray you, about Romania's brutal totalitarian communist regime, and these passages in particular stood out to me.
*oops- wrong passage. This is about the murder of Alex Pretti.
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Honestly, there are far better ways to get rich. Maybe I'm naive, but I tend to think that they are probably just being strategic and trying to figure out how best to fight Trump without alienating independents. People might not agree with that strategy, but I do think that's their motive.
