Alina B Baciu

“Eight months ago, Donald Trump lied to the country when he claimed U.S. air strikes had ‘obliterated’ Iran’s nuclear program. “Now Trump says he’s taken America to war for regime change in Iran. “Trump has launched this regime change war and put American forces at risk without presenting evidence of an imminent threat, without clear objectives, without having exhausted diplomacy, without a plan for the aftermath, and without the consent of Congress. “I oppose yet another regime change war-of-choice in the Middle East. Congress must convene immediately and pass a War Powers Resolution to assert our Constitutional authority over war and peace. “The President has presented no evidence that Iran or its nuclear program — which he falsely claimed to have ‘obliterated’ — pose an imminent threat to the United States, or that diplomacy was exhausted. Iran’s support for terrorism and uranium enrichment have long destabilized the region. But sending American forces into harm’s way should only ever be a last resort. “I pray for the safety of U.S. forces who have been ordered into battle and commend their extraordinary professionalism.”

Sen. Ossoff Statement on Iran.

This is some next-level swiftboating

I’m sitting here watching Molly of Denali with my kids on PBS and I know this is reductive as hell, but I just keep thinking about how we defunded stuff like this to have more money to murder people.

> @covie93.bsky.social

Once again, in actual democracies, people do not need to engage in permanent litigation & political mobilization to retain the basic right to vote, because none of the major political parties make restricting suffrage the central pillar of their policy platform. We also don't have to live like this.

Reminder: Trump is calling to ⬆️ the military budget by ~$550 bn, more than a 50% ⬆️

This is on the heels of the largest cuts to the social safety net in history AND a $150 bn military ⬆️ in OBBBA.

There isn’t enough money to help the hungry and the sick — but somehow there’s always enough for war.

DC’s shawdow congressman repoyedc.bsky.social testifies to city council about our need for leadership like Minneapolis’s.

“Their mayor said ‘ICE get the F out.’Our mayor thanked our federal occupiers.”

He calls attention to the ICE facility going up near his home in SE. 👀

“DC is experiencing an emergency. Masked gangs of federal agents are shooting at, disappearing, and killing people in our communities. DC’s participation in Trump’s task force is literally killing us.”

The DC Council will hear public testimony today on MPD’s performance over the last year. DC has seen too much cooperation between our local police and federal forces this year, and witnesses today will share the impact of this and why it needs to end. #EndTheOccupation #StopCooperation

WE'RE TAKING ACTION FOR INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY March 7 - March 9 Photo excerpts by Kisha Bari, Kristine Jones, Stephanie Keith, Stacy Kaat, Chaz Niell, DaniDigitalPhoto 50501 www.BraveWomen.us

This International Women’s Day, we’re going to remind the world what Brave Women do.

Women’s March calls for a national weekend of direct action from March 7-9. We’re done waiting. We center survivors and take action against the systems that protect abusers and terrorize women, from Epstein to ICE.

we don't yet know why superintendent carvalho had his home raised, but just some context:

The Senate has many reasons to reject Casey Means' nomination as the next Surgeon General.

But even before getting into her dangerous quackery and nonsense woo woo, there's a simple fact: as I showed last May, she's ineligible, statutorily and regulatorily, to hold the job. bsky.app/profile/info...

South Carolina Hospitals Aren’t Required to Disclose Measles-Related Admissions. That Leaves Doctors in the Dark. Physicians across South Carolina, home to the largest measles outbreak in decades, are advising patients without the benefit of real-time data on hospitalizations due to measles-related pneumonia, bra...

"* No Required Reporting: South Carolina doesn’t require hospitals to report when they admit patients with measles-related illnesses....
* Lack of Real-Time Data: [doctors].. lack information about the severity of measles complications as it spreads..." www.propublica.org/article/sout...

Heartland to Close Three Chicago Shelters for Unaccompanied Children, Lay Off About 145 Employees Due to federal funding cuts, the nonprofit Heartland Human Care Services is closing three Chicago shelters that have been used to house unaccompanied minors coming to the U.S.

Due to federal funding cuts, the nonprofit Heartland Human Care Services is closing three Chicago shelters that have been used to house unaccompanied minors coming to the U.S. (via @blairpaddock.bsky.social)

AI Added 'Basically Zero' to US Economic Growth Last Year, Goldman Sachs Says Imported chips and hardware mean the AI investemtns are translating into US GDP growth.

AI Added 'Basically Zero' to US Economic Growth Last Year, Goldman Sachs Says https://gizmodo.com/ai-added-basically-zero-to-us-economic-growth-last-year-goldman-sachs-says-2000725380

epstein and the epstein class were so fucking desperate for validation they funded a cranberry bog of academics to explain why they were the master race, but yeah sure. it's women who only care about being admired

and that, my fellow academics, is one reason not to hire war criminals: so they can't show up years post (their) war arguing in favor of the scaffolding behind their own atrocities with the imprimatur and status of your university

One of the first things we were taught at Quantico was that there is never a moment in which you are not representing the Bureau; but, then again, we earned our place there, and weren’t granted its directorship as a sinecure for partisan malfeasance and a willingness to disregard the constitution.

Yes, US support for Israel enabled genocide in Gaza, but it doesn’t seem truthful to say Harris supported genocide.

ICE is much more active in the suburbs than the city these days and the Minneapolis city rapid responders, far from declaring victory, are desperate to find ways to get out there and protect those people too. Our own little army of freedom

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👀The federal judges in West Virginia, where ICE has been pulling over and detaining people on the freeway, are literally screaming about ICE's tactics.

"It is an assault on the constitutional order," Judge Goodwin says. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

RFK Jr.’s days of going wild on health may be over After letting the health secretary have his way in 2025, Trump is reining him in now that it’s an election year.

"Year two of [RFK] tenure as health secretary is already yielding some wins — but not for [MAHA]...the ... industries he’s long targeted are breathing a sigh of relief as the White House signals it’s reining in Kennedy’s attacks..."
www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

Quakertown parents, groups demand release of students in police clash Civil rights groups and parents gathered in front of the Quakertown Police Department Saturday demanding answers for the violent confrontation Friday.

INBOX: the police chief of Quakertown, Pa., led a group of plainclothes officers to disrupt a peaceful high school student sidewalk protest yesterday.

They threw an underage girl to the ground, choked her, and disconnected all calls to the detention center where she and others are currently held.

A must-read review of Heritage Foundation’s latest, the report “Saving America by Saving the Family”

“When adults do not meet the Heritage Foundation’s criteria – or when life intervenes through illness, job loss, divorce, or immigration status – children pay the price and are targeted for harm.”

In the Fight Against ICE, Kids Are on the Front Lines From tear gas attacks to violent abductions, we are collectively witnessing the mass-scale abuse of children. Young people are fighting back.

"We are collectively witnessing the mass-scale abuse of children."

Texas man was fatally shot by a federal immigration agent last year during a stop, new records show A U.S. citizen was shot and killed by a federal immigration officer during a late-night traffic stop nearly a year ago in a Texas beach town crowded with young people celebrating spring break.

Texas man was fatally shot by a federal immigration agent last year during a stop, new records show

apnews.com/article/texa...

and all these babies and small children have been so sick and hospitalized with measles FOR NO REASON. and the parents don't even regret it. because they believe it. because they've been conned. its hard not to keep my fists clenched so tight.

I was in the hospital once with my middle baby when he was a couple of months old and couldn't breathe from a respiratory infection and I crawled in this little crib thing with him and held him all night and my body remembers how little and helpless he was. how wrong for him to be in that place.