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Live Ticker: Cost of the Iran War in U.S. taxpayer dollars, updated in real time. 💰
iran-cost-ticker.com

US launches military operations in Ecuador The joint military operation with Ecuador targeted what the U.S. called "designated terrorist organizations" in the country.

The U.S. has launched military operations in Ecuador.

The joint military operation with Ecuador targeted what the U.S. called "designated terrorist organizations" in the country.

“Many of their commanders are especially delighted with how graphic this battle will be zeroing in on how bloody all of this must become in order to fulfill and be in 100% accordance with fundamentalist Christian end of the world eschatology.”

23. Petromasculinity: One More Reason the Right Hates Progressive Women, Especially Gen Z Understanding the Link Between Warmongering, Anti-Feminist Backlash, and Fossil Fuel Regimes

open.substack.com/pub/sorayach...

That's right. Worse than Pointless
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/o...

An official letter from the Kansas Division of Vehicles dated February 23, 2026, with a redacted recipient address. The letter notifies the recipient that due to the enactment of Senate Bill 244, all Kansas driver's licenses and IDs must reflect the holder's sex at birth. It states that the recipient's current credential will become invalid immediately upon the law's publication on February 26, 2026, with no grace period. The recipient is directed to surrender their current ID to receive a new one matching their sex assigned at birth. The document concludes with instructions on how to appeal the notice if received in error, along with contact information for the department.

Kansas is sending letters to trans people telling them that their licenses will be revoked as of tomorrow and that they risk arrest for driving on a suspended license.

This is pure cruelty.

www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...

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🇺🇦 The world shows support for Ukraine: international buildings lit up in blue and yellow colors

🔹The Eiffel Tower in Paris.

Supreme Court strikes down Trump’s tariffs It’s a rare loss for the president from a conservative-led court and a major rebuke of his economic program.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court struck down Trump’s sweeping tariffs — a major repudiation of a core piece of the president's economic program.

The 6-3 decision was a rare instance of the court reining in Trump’s expansive use of executive power.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Lucretia Mott

On this day in 1921, Congress reluctantly accepted a sculpture memorializing women’s 19th A victory. Congress relegated the memorial to the Capitol’s crypt & painted over the feminist inscription. The statue stayed entombed in the crypt for 76 years. The inscription is still not restored. #WeTheMen

The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering

The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

Agreed. Perhaps it is time American women stop taking their partners' names in marriage and give their children their family names instead of the fathers' family names.

ICE to begin detaining immigrants inside Social Circle warehouse in April Homeland Security plans to build warehouse detention facilities in other cities being met with opposition.

ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps.

If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

Forget Abundance. This is Scorched Earth.

Some really striking numbers in this new survey showing the flip in European public opinion about America.

But bear in mind this is only Western Europe. In Eastern Europe, it has been harder to take the blinders off peoples' eyes.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

Alumni gather to showcase “superpower” of a Sociology degree – The Arbiter Alumni gather to showcase “superpower” of a Sociology degree

"Sociology is a 'superpower' that allows people to understand how organizations and people operate on a deeper level." Careers panel showcases sociologists working as a city housing director, an international aid worker, journalist, lawyer, and market researcher. arbiteronline.com/20... #sociology

"Education and work are the levers to uplift a people."
-W.E.B. Du Bois

I am content with my place in sociology and on the right side of history. ✊

The Board of Governors decided, unilaterally, that no published textbook in the field of sociology could be used in compliance with the law for an Intro to Sociology class. None. Victor: There's not a single existing textbook on the market that could be used that would qualify under state law? Zachary: Correct. Victor: I'm sorry, that's kind of funny. Like, the absurdity of not a single sociology textbook getting past the censors. I mean, it makes me kind of proud of our colleagues, but...

I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors.

Great work everyone.

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

Also, "underage women" isn't a thing. If they're under age, they're not women. That's what under age literally means.

Trump scolds CNN reporter Kaitlan Collins for not smiling as she asks about Epstein abuse survivors – live President replied to Collins’ persistent questions about Epstein files by accusing her of not smiling ‘because you know you’re not telling the truth’ * Tulsi Gabbard running solo 2020 election inquiry * Trump suggests Republicans should ‘take over’ elections Donald Trump has continued to sow doubt in the election system. While appearing on former deputy FBI director Dan Bongino’s podcast on Monday, the president called on Republicans to “nationalize the voting,” in at least “15 places”, although he did not clarify which ones. “The Republicans should say, ‘we want to take over’,” Trump said in the interview. Continue reading...

Trump scolds CNN reporter Kaitlan Collins for not smiling as she asks about Epstein abuse survivors – live

Thousands of union members staged a nonviolent march today. iCE gassed the crowd of nurses and teaches. The neighborhood is in a cloud. Flash bangs are being fired.

😭

There are 3,800 kids in ICE custody.

Risk of maternal death during pregnancy greatly underestimated, study finds A new study comparing deaths of pregnant people and of those who have an abortion show that risk of death due to pregnancy is three times higher than previously estimated.

"Our new analysis shows that it is far more dangerous to be pregnant than to have an abortion, and this gap in mortality risk is even larger than previously recognized.” - lead study author Maria Steenland.
In fact, the mortality risk of pregnancy is 44 to 70 times higher than from abortion.

Personally I think this is too much money for Donald trumps untrained heavily armed militia

Trump: "With that being said, you can't have guns. You can't walk in with guns. You just can't. You can't walk in with guns. You can't do that. But it's just a very unfortunate incident."

First they came for California
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Californian
Then they came for Minnesota
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Minnesotan
Then they came for Maine
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Mainer
Then they came for my state...

Wise words from WEB DuBois to gird us today: "It would be shame and cowardice to surrender this glorious land and its opportunities for civilization and humanity to the thugs and lynchers, the mobs and profiteers, the monopolists & gamblers who today choke its soul and steal its resources."