Samira Ahmed

Sun Tzu (D-NY) - “When your enemy is making a mistake, fix it for him at great cost to yourself.”

I’m so old I remember when Reagan proudly said that what distinguished America was that anyone could become equally an American, regardless of where they had been born.

Gonna check her out! Thanks you!

Beauty Queens is a great one! Lord of the Flies but has some of those elements I'm looking for!!

Another tough day for team “there’s no point in complaining about AI, just accept it.”

goddammit

I love these comps!

Report: President Donald Trump Is Giving 'All The Boys' Dress Shoes That Don't Fit Right | Defector It goes without saying that there is a great deal of Psychology going on in Donald Trump’s second term. None of it is especially complicated, because the people involved are without exception clammy, ...

Very excited that we're somehow getting another day of discourse out of The Florsheim Affair, one of the most delightful stories of this awful last year and change. Keep on clompin' boys! defector.com/report-presi...

He’s going to declare victory and leave.

This is why the US engaging in a regime change operation is almost always a bad idea, but particularly under this administration.

Taking his ball and going home now will create another insurgency in the Middle East.

It definitely was! And there are highly problematic elements. I'm a Gen Xer so none of that is lost on me. But the political commentary still holds.

The U.S. Built a Blueprint to Avoid Civilian War Casualties. Trump Officials Scrapped It. The Pentagon dismantled its civilian protection mission as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made “lethality” a top priority and the Trump administration reorganized national security around two principl...

Here’s the reason the United States bombed the Children’s school in Iran.

And yes, it’s Trumps fault.

www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Book Rec request!

Are there any YA books that are like Heathers? With the political commentary and dark comedy/satire, not just a mean girls story.

Looking for actual young adult books here, not adult books with teen characters.

Help me out?

Hey Wisconsin! A pretty bad bill passed the House and is now being considered in the Senate. WI-AB961 would require bookselling websites to put warning labels on books whose content is considered to meet certain arbitrary criteria. The American Booksellers Association has created a resource to help

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Something I want to put on everyone’s radar, ESPECIALLY if you live in Virginia.

Data suggests that *Republicans* are out early-voting Democrats in the Virginia redistricting referendum.

When it comes to Virginia, Chaz knows his stuff.

DO NOT SLEEP ON THIS ELECTION, VIRGINIA DEMS!!!

4th Circuit Rules That States Can Compel Trans Adults To "Appreciate Their Sex" Via Care Bans They ruled that states "encouraging citizens to appreciate their sex" through care bans is a constitutional goal, affirming West Virginia's Medicaid ban for trans adults.

1. Horrifying ruling out of the 4th Circuit.

An all-Republican 4th Circuit panel has just ruled that states can compel trans adults to "appreciate their sex" by enacting care bans.

It even directly says that trans adult care bans are legal in the ruling.

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Jeffrey Epstein’s accountant testifies before House committee Richard Kahn is also an executor of the sex offender and financier’s estate. He denies wrongdoing and knowledge of Epstein’s crimes.

Jeffrey Epstein's accountant is testifying before the House Oversight Committee.

Richard Kahn began working as Epstein’s in-house accountant in 2005 & is now an executor of his estate — a role victims say creates a conflict of interest.

Here's what to know @ms.now:

americans would be terrified if we knew what a "litre" was

How can that be you when you take money from MAGA donors and Modi supporters? Be serious.

Raja is terrible for IL and for America. He's a corporate DINO who cannot even be counted on to oppose white supremacy and Islamophobia. In fact, racists and Islamophobes are exactly who he is courting.

A fiasco.

The shoe thing is low on the "important global matters" scale, but HIGH on the "I'll take things a deranged Roman emperor would do for $500, Alex" chart.

Bro, that's just your face.

The reporters who remain at the post after the Bezos Purge continue to show up and do the work... especially the team covering the Pentagon.

Israel has lost Rahm Emanuel of all people.

Haiti: Drone Strikes Put Residents at Risk Haitian security forces and private contractors working with them have conducted extensive and apparently unlawful lethal drone strikes.

"According to data reviewed by Human Rights Watch, at least 1,243 people in Haiti were killed by drone strikes in 141 operations between March 1, 2025, and January 21, 2026, including 17 children."

www.hrw.org/news/2026/03...

Choose your own adventure!!!! OMGGGGGG

kind of goes without saying but the punctuation in Cormac McCarthy is not a mistake

I've never used grammarly but if you have an account, I'd throw it in the trash and set it on fire because what the actual fuck

LOL A world without Trump is literally all I think about.