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U.S. and Israel say Iran supreme leader Khamenei is dead His death could accelerate the collapse of Iran's regime.

JUST IN: Iranian state media confirms Khamenei’s death

Israel, US say Khamenei killed in strikes, 'most' of Iran leadership 'gone' Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other top officials claimed that Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was killed in joint Israeli-U.S. strikes on Feb. 28. Tehran denied the cla...

⚡️Update: Israel, US say Khamenei killed in strikes, 'most' of Iran leadership 'gone.'

In an interview with NBC News, U.S. President Donald Trump called the military strikes in Iran a "success" and said reports of Khamenei's death were "correct."

WOW. 19 people, all who were imprisoned and mistreated in a foreign prison at the direct command of the United States, are brave enough to say “We are innocent, and we will endure more time imprisoned to prove that.”

I can only admire the enormous courage such a move takes.

i am distracted from the bombing of children by the raping of children, and from that by the kidnapping and caging of children, and then from that by the bombing of children and on and on "distracted" until there are no children left

The judges in WV have seen enough.

They say that if the ICE continues detaining people in ways they have unanimously deemed illegal they will start issuing civil fines and contempt findings — including against state officials who help them carry it out.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Operation Epstein Fury

Operation Poll Bump has begun

Trump Iranian missile claim unsupported by U.S. intelligence, say sources Trump’s claim that Iran will soon have a missile that can hit the U.S. is not backed by intelligence reports, and appears to be exaggerated, sources say.

🚨 "Trump’s claim that Iran will soon have a missile that can hit the United States is not backed by U.S. intelligence reports, and appears to be exaggerated, according to three sources familiar with the reports, casting doubt on part of his case" for attacking Iran.

www.reuters.com/business/aer...

In its Friday blog post, Anthropic said a supply chain risk designation, under the authority 10 USC 3252, only applies to Department of Defense contracts directly with suppliers, and doesn’t cover how contractors use its Claude AI software to serve other customers. Three experts in federal contracts say it’s impossible at this point to determine which Anthropic customers, if any, must now cut ties with the company. Hegseth’s announcement “is not mired in any law we can divine right now,” says Alex Major, a partner at the law firm McCarter & English, which works with tech companies.

The government wants to Huawei any company that pursues a radical woke ideology like "no domestic mass surveillance" except it has no legal basis to do so and its rules for compliance are gobbledygook

www.wired.com/story/anthro...

So let’s think about this.

A private company refused - on principle - to yield to the government’s demands.

The government then cancelled its contracts with the company and has set about destroying it

Everything the Ellison family could own if Paramount buys Warner Bros:

Paramount+
CBS
CNN
Showtime
HBO
Warner Bros
TNT
TBS
MTV
DC Studios
Nickelodeon
Comedy Central
Cartoon Network
And more...

This is a rotten deal that the Trump regime has rubber stamped.

State AGs must step in and block it.

Make America Dumb Again.

BTW...

Hegesth went to Princeton and Harvard.
Trump went to University of Pennsylvania
Bessent went to Yale
JD Vance went to Yale Law
RFK Jr. went to Harvard
Burgum went to Stanford
Wright went to MIT

How Kansas Republicans weaponized the law to target 300 trans driver's license holders SB 244 was put into effect virtually overnight, causing chaos, panic and fear in the trans community.

New — I spoke to eight trans people in Kansas about the new state law that invalidated their driver’s licenses overnight, what’s it’s like to live there right now, plus details of two DMV emails exclusively obtained by The Handbasket that shed light on the law’s chaotic and cruel rollout:

if you believe in any form of free enterprise at all, the idea that the Pentagon can not only cut off your contract but designate you a supply chain risk and prevent other companies from buying from you just because you won't build killbots for the government should be terrifying

SecDef Hegseth Announces Trans Scouts In Scouting America Will Be Outed, Segregated The policy is the latest in a trend of organizations capitulating to Trump over transgender people.

1. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has announced that under a new deal with Scouting America, formerly Boy Scouts of America, trans scouts will be forcibly outed and segregated from peers of their gender.

The policy is the latest cruel capitulation.

www.erininthemorning.com/p/secdef-heg...

amazing scoop and also i have a headache

This week's cover @thelancet.com

Pakistan’s defense minister says that there is now 'open war' with Afghanistan after latest strikes Pakistan’s defense minister says his country has run out of “patience” and considers that there is now an “open war” with Afghanistan, after both countries launched strikes following an Afghan cross-border attack.

Pakistan’s defense minister says his country has run out of patience and considers that there is now an “open war” with Afghanistan, after both countries launched strikes following an Afghan cross-border attack.

Yeah BIG surprise www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Breaking: Trans inmate's lawyers claim "egregious retaliation" in violation of court order Trans woman involved in a lawsuit challenging anti-trans policies says federal prison official told her on Feb. 22: “I don’t give a fuck what that judge says, I do what I want.”

BREAKING: Trans inmate's lawyers claim "egregious retaliation" in violation of court order.

Trans woman involved in a lawsuit challenging anti-trans policies says federal prison official told her on Feb. 22: “I don’t give a fuck what that judge says, I do what I want.”

Federal courthouse in Nashville

HAPPENING NOW: Good morning from the federal courthouse in Nashville, Tennessee.

A federal judge is set to preside over an evidentiary hearing on whether the United States government is vindictively prosecuting Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

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ICE’s Detention of Pregnant People Continues a Disgraceful American Tradition We are seeing yet another example of state-sanctioned violence against the reproductive futures of those deemed outside the national body.

ICE has ramped up its detention of pregnant women. As Ira Memaj writes, it's part of a long history of violence against the reproductive futures of those deemed unworthy by the state.
https://bit.ly/4u2ey4A

ALT LEDE: Kash Patel not yet fired for gross misuse of government planes for personal use

Screenshot of an X post by Acyn quoting an exchange in which McBride says Tony Gonzales should resign and criticizes Republicans for not holding themselves accountable after years of Trump. The embedded image shows a woman in a green blazer speaking to a reporter in a hallway lined with framed artwork, with a MeidasTouch Network logo visible.

Truer words have rarely been spoken.

Anthropic, a company founded by OpenAI exiles worried about the dangers of AI, is loosening its core safety principle in response to competition. https://cnn.it/4aS4UIO

Trump Administration Moves to Allow Intelligence Agencies Easier Access to Law Enforcement Files “None of this has been thought through very carefully,” one official said of the plans, which upend long-standing restrictions meant to protect Americans’ privacy.

The CIA should not have, and does not need, access to a database with 770 million records, many concerning US citizens.

In other words, the CIA might be spying on Americans - again.

Prices up.
Health insurance up.
Violence and cruelty on our streets.

This is the state of the union under Donald Trump.

2 hours of rambling and lies do not change that reality.