Kevin Cashman

The US–Israeli attack on Iran will deepen the cost of living crisis.

The last energy shock cost Europe $1.8tn. Europe’s leaders have backed the illegal war that may cause the next shock.

The transatlantic alliance is Europe’s trillion dollar bill. 🧵

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The U.S. torpedoed a ship w/ 180 crew that was 2k miles from Iran

It had just been in a joint exercise that....the US had also been in.

The ship “thought it was safe in international waters,” said Hegseth, “instead, it was sunk by a torpedo,”

Just 32 survivors.

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/w...

It's worth noting that Iran, Cuba, Venezuela, and Denmark, facing aggression, all negotiated with the US and made extraordinary concessions.

Nevertheless, the US attacked Venezuela and Iran and is blockading Cuba.

The US wants control, not concessions.

Next week, Reps. Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie will force a vote to stop Trump’s march to an illegal, disastrous war with Iran.

Call 1-833-STOP-WAR (1-833-786-7927) to connect with your Reps to urge them to vote YES on the Khanna-Massie War Powers Resolution.

“As a Palestinian, the best moment of my life was being on top of an Israeli weapons factory with a sledgehammer being able to destroy that site. And knowing, that just that by being there and causing damage, they would have to shut down. Not just while I was there, but for weeks after.”

Huda...

The Secretary General’s spokesman, for a second day, failed to speak clearly or defend UN’s Albanese against a manufactured misinformation campaign:

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The NYC Policy Forum is a very exciting new project which I am thrilled to be part of.

New definition of sovereignty dropped

Rep. Thomas Massie and I have requested a meeting with Todd Blanche to ask why the senders of these emails have been redacted.

Concealing the reputations of these powerful men is a blatant violation of the Epstein Transparency Act we passed.

This is just insane. It’s only a matter of time before DHS kills another innocent person here.

(clip via MPR and @davidjbier.bsky.social on X)

The staff reported seeing a human femur and other bones on the roads, dead bodies abandoned in cars and “catastrophic human needs, particularly for food and safe drinking water.” But the U.S. ambassador to Jerusalem, Jack Lew, and his deputy, Stephanie Hallett, blocked the cable from wider distribution within the United States government because they believed it lacked balance, according to interviews with four former officials and documents seen by Reuters.

Everybody who perpetrated this while covering it up should be in the Hague

www.reuters.com/world/early-...

The earlier incident started when he stopped his car after observing ICE agents chasing what he described as a family on foot, and began shouting and blowing his whistle, according to a source who asked not to be named out of fear of retribution. Pretti later told the source that five agents tackled him and one leaned on his back – an encounter that left him with a broken rib. The agents quickly released him at the scene. “That day, he thought he was going to die,” said the source.

My gosh. Alex Pretti was notifying neighbors that Trump and Vance's agents were chasing a family. A mob of agents then tackled him and broke his rib.

He thought he was going to die.

Then the very next week, he came back out to support his neighbors.

And a mob of agents killed him.

🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional!

ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.

This line graph illustrates the percentage change in agency staff levels from the previous year for nine major U.S. federal scientific and health organizations between the fiscal years 2016 and 2025. The agencies tracked include the CDC, Department of Energy, EPA, FDA, NASA, NIH, NIST, NOAA, and NSF. For the majority of the timeline between 2016 and 2023, the agencies show relatively stable fluctuations, generally staying within a range of +5% to -5% change per year. However, there is a dramatic and uniform plummet starting in the 2024–25 period. Every agency depicted shows a sharp downward trajectory, with staffing losses ranging from approximately -15% to over -25%. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shows the most significant decline, dropping to roughly -26%, while the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) shows the least severe but still substantial drop at approximately -15%.

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.

www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

I'm sorry, this is just fan fiction. There's no way you can look at the United States' record of intervention and flagrant violation of international law and write this sentence.

The Wrath of Stephen Miller The man who turns President Trump’s most incendiary impulses into policy

i think it is simply true that for all intents and purposes stephen miller is the president of the united states

It's cool that these guys just use pepper spray casually now, against people who are wholly within their rights, without a moment's hesitation. Several shots of them using it as they climb into their cars and drive away, not even a pretense of urgency or need. Just a parting "fuck you" to them.

Sunday, at least 7 ICE agents stormed a house and took an elderly man out into the freezing cold, wearing only his underwear and a blanket.

He was a member of the Hmong community, which came to the area from Laos in the 1970s after siding with the US in the Vietnam War.

Notice the suppressors
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CUT MY LIFE INTO PIECES

Pretty amazing.

While leading “Columbians for Academic Freedom,” Bari Weiss sought to get pro-Palestine Columbia professors fired.

While leading “The Free Press,” Weiss is spiking stories to cover for a president who’s sought to get pro-Palestine Columbia students deported.

CPC Deputy Chair @repilhan.bsky.social and Whip @chuygarcia.house.gov along with the Progressive Caucus are supporting two resolutions to end Trump’s brutal military campaign in Venezuela that has killed 87 people.

It has become received wisdom in Brussels and Washington that there is a new “euro-sclerosis”: that the EU economy is lagging the US

This view is wrong

A little primer on the measurement of productivity – and why reports of the economic death of Europe are greatly exaggerated🧵

On Dec. 4, at the direction of @SecWar Pete Hegseth, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel in international waters operated by a Designated Terrorist Organization. Intelligence confirmed that the vessel was carrying illicit narcotics and transiting along a known narco-trafficking route in the Eastern Pacific. Four male narco-terrorists aboard the vessel were killed. #OpSouthernSpear

The U.S. government continues to kill people for the amusement of the President and other members of his administration.

The UN just held a vote on ending torture, in which three countries voted against ending torture.

🔍 Zoom in…

New from our @dylangyauchl.bsky.social. Larry Summers' banishment from positions of influence should be permanent.

let's simulate a nuclear winter to control climate change --- The EcONoMiST

let's simulate a nuclear winter to control climate change --- The EcONoMiST

This is the Argentinean Chief of Staff (and main/only political operator in the government with good multi-party relationships) saying "I don't believe that part of the agreement with the US involves excluding China."

'I want his name to be known': Wife of immigrant injured at ICE facility shooting speaks out Stephany Gauffeny says she wants the world to know that her husband, Miguel Angel Garcia-Hernandez, is more than "just an immigrant or a detainee, or a criminal."

A victim of the shooting at the ICE facility is UNCONSCIOUS, in critical care, may not survive, his wife is about to give birth, and ICE IS KEEPING HIM SHACKLED TO HIS HOSPITAL BED:

I just unlocked a new level of rage.

www.npr.org/2025/09/27/n...

Oh no, Iran has an economy and is engaging in trade! What will they do next!?

JUST IN: IRANIAN sleeper cell EXPOSED