Amy Ringenbach Dawson

NYT: U.S. Opens Military Action in Ecuador Against ‘Terrorist Organizations’

The joint activity with Ecuador appeared to be a major expansion of U.S. strikes against boats that the Trump administration has “accused of carrying drugs”.

We just flipped a statehouse seat in Arkansas, y’all, with a 25 point swing left.

The midterms are going to be a Goddamn rout.

Congratulations to Alex Holliday and the DLCC. Brick by brick we build a better world.

Power doesn’t need truth—only distance. If they can make dead children sound like ‘operations,’ they can make anything sound necessary. The euphemism is the weapon; your silence is the ammunition.

Warner: "There was no imminent threat to the United States by the Iranians. There was a threat to Israel. If we equate a threat to Israel as the equivalent of an imminent threat to the US, then we are in uncharted territory."

Seems like the media should at least express some curiosity about this.

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The glibness. The indifference. The carelessness. The utter lack of planning for a war against a country of 90M. The sickness of a man who acts on whim that will kill thousands not hundreds. The horror of a regime that enables this sickness. The broken body politic that votes in such malignancy.

It’s obscene to have this draft dodger whose children *never* served and whose father never served and whose grandfather was kicked out of Germany for dodging service, wheezing platitudes about the unnecessary deaths he caused to other people’s children who did serve their country.

A photo of the exterior of the Warren E. Burger Federal Building

I'm here at the federal courthouse in St. Paul for the clown car contempt hearing ordered by Judge Jeffrey Bryan over the federal government's conduct in 28 separate habeas cases. He ordered the government to show cause over failure to comply with orders requiring the accounting for of property

see you at Contempt Party tomorrow morning

Guess nobody told Ollie North that.

Screenshot of excerpt from opinion that reads: "Despite this, the New York courts refused to stay the trial court’s order. After that highly questionable injunction was issued, the applicants filed appeals in both the Appellate Division (the State’s intermediate appellate court) and the Court of Appeals (its highest court) challenging the trial court’s order on federal constitutional grounds. At the same time, applicants asked both courts to stay the trial court’s order. The Appellate Division refused to issue a stay, and by order issued on February 11, the Court of Appeals sent the appeal filed in that court to the Appellate Division and dismissed applicants’ motions for a stay."

With nowhere else to turn, the applicants asked us to issue a stay, and we have jurisdiction to entertain their application. Title 28 U. S. C. §1257(a) gives us jurisdiction to review “[f]inal judgments or decrees” that are rendered by a State’s highest court and adjudicate federal constitutional claims, and the Court of Appeals’ February 11 order falls within that category.

1/9: In the New York redistricting case, Justice Alito's justification for why #SCOTUS even had *jurisdiction* to issue a stay is based upon a remarkably misleading portrayal of the state court proceedings.

I realize this is technical, but I wanted to write a short thread to explain the shadiness:

Trump Hit by Damning Leaks on Iran Decision as Polls Turn Brutal Fast As media scrutiny of Trump’s attack on Iran intensifies, the author of a piece on White House lawbreaking explains why his violent “Mad King” public image is already turning people against the war.

The New Republic's Greg Sargent invited me on his podcast to discuss the Trump regime's reckless war of choice:
"What we’re seeing is 11-year-olds with the most powerful military in the entire world, which is a pretty scary thing to see in action."

State looting, personalist regime. Cut your child’s future off at the knees by gutting education policy and funding, make it unsafe to leave the country by starting 10 wars abroad, build a surveillance state that looks for the first excuse to throw you into a camp, and tax cuts for the rich.

"Is it so hard to say you were wrong?" -- under questioning from Durbin, Kristi Noem refuses to retract her statements about Alex Pretti and Renee Good being domestic terrorists, but throws "agents at the scene" under the bus for the fact she said it in the first place

Kansas passes bathroom bounty hunter bill A move reminiscent of slave catcher laws

www.washingtonblade.com/2026/02/28/o...
#LGBTQ

A ring of pedophiles runs our government, they're using warehouses to lock people up, and they've bombed 8 countries in 1 year. Meanwhile, the Kansas legislature has drummed up a panic over trans people using restrooms that makes the 'Reds under the beds' scare in the 50s look tame.

Is now a good time to remind y'all?

No plan. And the rationale and reasoning for getting us into this war has changed hourly.

Security Updates for Americans in the Middle East (Updated March 2, 4pm EST) DEPART NOW VIA COMMERCIAL MEANS DUE TO SERIOUS SAFETY RISKS • Bahrain • Egypt • Iran • Iraq • Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza • Jordan • Kuwait • Lebanon • Oman • Qatar • Saudi Arabia • Syria • United Arab Emirates • Yemen Americans who need State Department assistance arranging to depart via commercial means can call us 24/7: +1-202-501-4444 (from abroad) and +1- 888-407-4747 (from the U.S. and Canada).

Guys, does Rubio not get protocol and advance notice??

How do they leave when there are no flights in Iran, Iraq, Israel, west bank, Jordan, Oman, Qatar, Kuwait, UAE and Bahrain???

Where are arranged U.S. charter flights to get Americans out?!

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#ONEV1
#Pinks 🌸
#Voices4Victory

UK health official recuses himself from puberty blockers trial after bias claims MHRA says Prof Jacob George will no longer be involved after gender-critical social media posts from last year

UK: A health official who reportedly intervened to pause a clinical trial on the use of puberty blockers has been removed from any further involvement due to accusations of bias.

www.theguardian.com/...

#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

Trump returned to the WH and admired new statues installed in the Rose Garden, but won’t answer a reporter’s question about the three U.S. troops who died in combat.

Reporter: “What’s your message to the families of the service members who were killed?”

Trump: walks away.

Priorities noted.

Interesting column in the Sunday @sltrib.com: executive editor Lauren Gustus details how her paper and other outlets (including CNN, Fox, AP, Reuters, NYT and more) are fighting to keep the Tyler Robinson case open to the public and splitting the cost of doing so.

BLM Announces Plan to Fell Oregon's Last Great Forests One billion board feet per year... 30 days to make your voice heard.

EMERGENCY, #oregon forest friends!

Three more weeks to comment. No public hearings scheduled.

Two hands, one Caucasian and one dark- skinned, are cupped together to form a sphere. Each hand is painted to resemble an Earth hemisphere, so the visual effect is that one hand alone does not form our planet. Simply, we share the planet. We need each other. Artist is Guido Daniele. GuidoDaniele.com ❤️ 🕊

Dear Merlin, LOVE this artwork and your message, friend! Just another handshake for all you share. We share the planet. We must help each other. Artwork by Guido Daniele [ guidodaniele.com ]

Yw. Harrowing, hell again. Tears.

Death toll in a strike on girls' school in southern Iran rises to 40, state media say An Israeli and U.S. attack across Iran has killed at least 40 people at a girls’ school and triggered Iranian retaliation across the region. IRNA reports the school strike hits Minab in southern Iran ...

www.wral.com/news/ap/c2f1...
It quotes AP. More reports coming in raises school death toll to 51.

Screenshot grab from a Raleigh TV news outlet.

Live Updates: U.S. and Israel Strike Iran as Trump Calls for Overthrow of Government

Gifting you a 🎁 article, Dr. Dan.
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