"He has no known criminal record.
"But for an entire year, he has remained imprisoned with no access to a lawyer, no contact with his family and no prospect of a trial before a judge...
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Women can't report being raped in Dubai because they face legal consequences for being victims.
“Her brother, Carlo Michel, a Haitian immigrant living legally in Washington County under Temporary Protected Status, found out his sister was dead when a hospital called to ask if he recognized her name.“
I worked in Office of General Counsel at Department of Defense. This by Dan Maurer, former JAG, is spot on.
Hypothetical Legal Advice to SecDef Hegseth on “No Quarter” Statement (from Office of General Counsel)
Warns of criminal liability
Gives legal precedents
Recommends retraction of statement
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And would add to this, when progressive writers are engaged from heartland spaces - my first big op-ed was as a college professor in the midwest warning about right-wing threats to speech - they are easily caricatured as out-of-touch, unlike, say, Ross Douthat.
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Trump doubled down on his comments rebuffing Kyiv's offer on March 14, telling NBC News in a phone interview that "the last person we need help from is Zelensky."
America is a great place to visit and most Americans are very nice, outgoing people. However, if you are considering visiting the US from a foreign country right now, you have rocks in your head.
The is the federal government telling news stations to provide favorable coverage of the war or their licenses will be pulled.
A truly extraordinary moment.
We aren't on the verge of a totalitarian takeover. WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF IT.
Act like it.
When in doubt, pretend linear time works backwards.
The increasing probability of heat extremes, including out of the traditional summer season...
Graph shows shifted distribution of surface air temperature anomalies. Visual by svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5613/
Tucker Carlson is likely lying for attention once again, but he is a true traitor who makes money by working against US interests.
Any case against him would be more than welcome
"The app, he said, is 'kind of like Google Maps' and shows how many individuals with an 'immigration nexus' are believed to be in a certain area. Another officer testified that a 'nexus' could mean any history of contact with immigration officials, which could include a naturalized US citizen."
It’s crystal clear now that Trump has lost control of this war. He badly misjudged Iran’s ability to retaliate. The region is on fire.
1/ I’m going to explain to you in this🧵what I’ve learned - in part from closed door briefings - about the four biggest current crises.
Unbridled sadism. He’s thoroughly enjoying ordering people to commit mass murder. It’s nightmarish.
Donald Trump is surprised at how poorly the Iran War is going — but the news media is covering all of this uncertainty and sham-handedness as if it’s all part and parcel of a normal conflict. Every article needs to start leading with: Trump is lost at sea.
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Insane, stupid, and a very bad sign of what Palantir is up to.
Kind of an insane thing for CEO of a publicly traded company to say?
“This technology disrupts humanities-trained—largely Democratic—voters, and makes their economic power less. And increases the economic power of vocationally trained, working-class, often male, working-class voters,””
Holy shit - this would be very, very bad:
"The databases, called “Numident” and the “Master Death File,” include records for more than 500 million living and dead Americans, including Social Security numbers, places and dates of birth, citizenship, race and ethnicity, and parents’ names."
A DOGE staffer tasked with flagging grants for “DEI” struggled to define the term during a deposition, after documents reportedly revealed that DOGE staff canceled 97% of National Endowment for the Humanities grants in just 22 days. This is incredibly disturbing.
🎥: American Historical Association
I cannot wait to go to the gas pumps and make some money!!!
Imagine if we relied on accurate intelligence. A lot of girls would still be alive.
Meanwhile in Russia: experts explained why Russia is poised to become the main beneficiary of an Iran war, mocked Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth, and predicted that "more and more coffins" will be coming back to America.
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Trump Removes Sanctions on Russia to Help Oil Flow Amid Iran Conflict www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/u...
Oh course he did.
looks like we traded generations of healthcare for 4 days worth of missiles
Moving beyond the failures of the Trump administration, the U.S. will need to embrace a strategy for fighting the climate crisis that prioritizes support for working people and establishes a precedent for international collaboration. https://ampr.gs/4dfNrwG
Note: the phrase "700,000 people" refers to 700,000 actual human beings who have been forced to abandon their homes, flee, live in fear and worse.
Experts on defense spending interviewed by States Newsroom say the cost of weeks of U.S. air bombing Iran will mount into the billions of dollars, and will balloon if ground troops are sent to undertake regime change and if the war extends for months ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/03/11/r...
