Rick Varco

With today's strike, the United States has now killed more than 150 individuals in maritime strikes in the Eastern Pacific and Caribbean since September 2025.

Tracking by civilian harm monitor @airwars.bsky.social

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Trump spent the last 8 months saying that "the nuclear threat of Iran was totally obliterated" by Operation Midnight Hammer which "set back Iran's ability to develop nuclear weapons for many years to come."

Were they lying then or are they lying now?

‘No one deserves this’: Beaverton father dies after deportation to Mexico A Beaverton family is grieving after the father, who was detained and deported by ICE, has now died.

This 53 year old man who lived in my neighborhood w/no criminal record & who had been in the US for 30 years, was detained and thrown into a cold cell for days, caught pneumonia and COVID there and deported.

He finally died.

I am so angry.
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Revealed: Epstein cultivated relationship with CBP officer, causing US investigation Guardian review of US justice department files reveals Epstein interacted with six CBP officers. The officer investigated denied any knowledge of trafficking underage girls

NEW: Jeffrey Epstein cultivated relationships with CBP officers at the airports he frequented.

Epstein emailed and texted with six CBP officers, invited them to his island, visited with them at the airport, and frequently sought to determine who was going to be on duty when he was traveling

Despite all the attacks on working people and their unions, the number of workers covered under union contracts is at its highest in 16 years. Workers know that the best check on a bad boss is a strong union contract.

Photo of Jesse Jackson on background. Statement on passing.

Jesse Jackson was a giant of the Civil Rights Movement. A force of nature who dedicated his life to ensuring that minorities lived in a better world than the one he himself entered. Our deepest sympathies to Rev. Jackson's Family and Loved Ones on their enormous loss.

A racist tweet by Elon Musk: For a country to survive, there has to be a common culture. Nobody dies to defend a "multicultural economic zone!" American culture, with its English-Scootts-Irish origin, is great and worth fighting for. Some may not realize it, but that's why people come here.

My English-Scots-Irish ancestors didn't die for multiculturalism; they killed for it. Killed Confederates who said shit exactly like this.

Counterpoint: if the Prince of Darkness rises from a fiery portal at the Iowa Caucus and declares his opposition to Donald Trump, I will ride to battle with the host of Hell

Chicago UP is running a HUGE sale, and you can get extremely well-researched hard-bound books about all sorts of topics and all sorts of places for a price of a cheap paperback press.uchicago.edu/resource/Sal...

Particularly hilarious is his claim that 'nobody dies to defend a "multicultural economic zone"' when in fact a lot of US propaganda during WWII stressed that the nation is a multicultural melting pot. That was how we were going to defeat the master race...the one Musk is pining for.

The entire conservative movement is just a mutual aide society for people who want to abandon moral and intellectual standards of any kind. Believe what you want, hurt who you can.

Treat yourself to big greasy meal after you are done. I recommend the pork chop breakfast at Mickey's

Ohio Senator Jon Husted voted to block Epstein files after donation from Leslie Wexner: Report - The Times of India US News: In Washington, timing is everything — especially when campaign donations and controversial votes land on the same calendar.A Republican senator from O.

Turns out Epstein associates were buying Senators for years- including Oho Senator Jon Husted - up for reelection this fall - who has taken more than $116,000 in campaign donations from Leslie Wexner - named as co-conspirator with Epstein.

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get the kid in the brown hoodie a scholarship

This Is How a Child Dies of Measles When your family becomes a data point in an outbreak

My most authoritarian opinion is that the MMR vaccine should be mandatory, with only medical (not religious or floofy) exemptions allowed. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

"Moderna's CEO announced the company will no longer invest in new Phase 3 vaccine trials for infectious diseases: 'You cannot make a return on investment if you don't have access to the U.S. market. Vaccines for Epstein-Barr virus, herpes, and shingles have been shelved.” 9:12 AM Feb 12, 2026 604.8K Views

In terms of what cures are being lost:

- Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis
- herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis
- shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease

my mom died of metastatic colorectal cancer at 59. she died of it because she lost insurance & couldn’t afford colonoscopies or other screening to detect it early. when she was diagnosed, the prognosis was 10 years. she made it 2.

this should never happen to anyone in a supposedly great country.

This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.

jfc the photos of the damage are awful www.reddit.com/r/TwinCities...

You can’t have an abortion but you can kill your grown daughter if she disagrees with you

They crush the local economy, deplete city budgets, illegally withhold congressionally allocated funds. In exchange we get masked Texans running wild in the streets, paid for with tax money that was supposed to be used on our healthcare. Thank you to our federal partners.

British Woman shot by dad in Texas after 'arguing about Donald Trump' Lucy Harrison, 23, was alone in a bedroom at her father's home in Texas when she was shot dead.

A MAGA freak in Texas murdered his own daughter in cold blood after they had an argument about Trump.

A grand jury in the Dallas area then *declined to indict him*, and he has not yet faced charges.

Seems like many Texans believe a man has the right to kill his own child for disobedience.

ICE had the worst of the worst after all. Not in custody, but on payroll.

Put another way, we could get rid of corn ethanol, switch 30% of the freed-up farmland to solar to generate 100% of US electricity, and use the other 70% of the freed-up land for whatever we want.

A union contract is worth its weight in gold.

Multiple measles exposures in DC: Check sites and dates DC Health said Saturday it was notified of multiple people with confirmed cases of measles visited a variety of locations in the District. Officials did not specify exactly how many infected people th...

So, the March for Life appears to have brought Measles to DC.

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Norms between adversaries are usually better maintained by mutual deterrence than by mutual forbearance.

As a real practical question, how could you have normal social relations with the ghouls who do this? How could you accept them as kids sports coaches, for example? I’d never trust a person associated with this.

Lawless thugs all the way down