Probs shouldn't have dismantled the national security apparatus and assigned a third of the FBI to mass deportation.
01.03.2026 19:48 β π 1716 π 508 π¬ 77 π 6@jimprall.bsky.social
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Probs shouldn't have dismantled the national security apparatus and assigned a third of the FBI to mass deportation.
01.03.2026 19:48 β π 1716 π 508 π¬ 77 π 6
A few weeks ago, I posted about Hanne Engan a woman with diabetes who almost died of neglect & mistreatment while being wrongly detained in one of Trump's ICE torture concentration camps.
This isn't a one off. Dozens of people have died. People are being tortured, even babies!
#ICELawlessness
βMansβ make s sense here. It would not work to say βjust Spider-Menβ
01.03.2026 22:29 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Thou shalt not kill schoolchildren to distract from your crimes against children.
01.03.2026 20:24 β π 5590 π 1385 π¬ 93 π 34Based in large part on my mega-thread
01.03.2026 14:36 β π 6 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0One year in the federal assault on climate science β a review and prospective
01.03.2026 14:35 β π 132 π 65 π¬ 2 π 4
Spot on, @bobkopp.net.
ββ¦saving American climate scienceβand American science in generalβrequires that the community discard the myth of political neutrality, engage in a concerted defense of liberal democracy, and stand in solidarity with this administrationβs other targets.β
The argument appears to be that everyone can vote for who they like and who best represents their interests.
Unless you're Muslim.
In which case, if you don't vote for the party that calls you dangerous and wants to send you 'back home' on any given day, this must be sectarian votingπ€·ββοΈ
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Make the call. They do keep count of the calls.
01.03.2026 21:48 β π 19 π 15 π¬ 0 π 0Your constitutional rights cannot carry price tags. The SAVE Act attaches price tags anyway. Republicans in Congress are trying to monetize your participation. This commodification corrupts democracy.
01.03.2026 19:50 β π 430 π 238 π¬ 13 π 9The Free Press, a good indicator of Weiss's editorial views, reads like neo-con celebration from the early days of the invasion of Iraq (while also reassuring readers this will not be an Iraq quagmire). They even have John Bolton (below the fold).
28.02.2026 21:30 β π 275 π 38 π¬ 6 π 9If you are an elected official that opposes military strikes on Iran, the head of CBS News will clap back at you. Will be interesting to see if she does this for other objectors, or just Muslim politicians, but it does raise the question how much her views of the Middle East shape the news.
28.02.2026 21:18 β π 2959 π 569 π¬ 43 π 13But the lessons that ought to have followed the electionβlessons about the importance of understanding other Americans, the necessity of resisting tribalism, and the centrality of the free exchange of ideas to a democratic societyβhave not been learned. Instead, a new consensus has emerged in the press, but perhaps especially at this paper: that truth isnβt a process of collective discovery, but an orthodoxy already known to an enlightened few whose job is to inform everyone else. Twitter is not on the masthead of The New York Times. But Twitter has become its ultimate editor. As the ethics and mores of that platform have become those of the paper, the paper itself has increasingly become a kind of performance space. Stories are chosen and told in a way to satisfy the narrowest of audiences, rather than to allow a curious public to read about the world and then draw their own conclusions. I was always taught that journalists were charged with writing the first rough draft of history. Now, history itself is one more ephemeral thing molded to fit the needs of a predetermined narrative.
Weiss has critiqued traditional media for its biases - most famously in her resignation letter from the Times - so it seems reasonable to ask how her views are shaping CBS (and potentially CNN) or is "history itself is one more ephemeral thing molded to fit the needs of a predetermined narrative"?
28.02.2026 21:23 β π 493 π 71 π¬ 5 π 2
"No New Wars" = "No New Wars... that don't Benefit netanyahu or Distract from My Pedophile Associates"πΉ
Peace pledge + illegitimate presidency + foreign puppet strings + unconstitutional war + epstein distraction = Just another Saturday in tRump era. Show your work - there is none!
They went to war with Iran (which nobody in America was asking for) so they could conjure an excuse to allow ICE to keep murdering Americans and teargassing schools here at home with impunity (which nobody in America was asking for).
01.03.2026 15:06 β π 16898 π 5368 π¬ 1508 π 438MOE: +/ - 2.5 PTS FEBRUARY 25-27, 2026 OCBS NEWS POLL | YouGov HOW SHOULD THE U.S. APPROACH IRAN'S CURRENT LEADERSHIP? PRIOR TO START OF CONFLICT NEGOTIATE WITH THEM THROUGH DIPLOMACY PRESSURE THEM WITH SANCTIONS NOT GET INVOLVED REMOVE THEM FROM POWER WITH FORCE 38% 22% 22% 18%
MOE: +/- 2.5 PTS| FEBRUARY 25-27, 2026 @CBS NEWS POLL | YouGov TRUMP NEED APPROVAL FROM CONGRESS FOR MILITARY ACTION AGAINST IRAN? PRIOR TO START OF CONFLICT 74% NEEDS APPROVAL 26% DOES NOT NEED APPROVAL
CBS News conducts a poll.
It finds that only 18% of Americans advocate removing Iran's leadership "by force," and 74% say Trump needs congressional approval before starting a war.
So their headline is, "CBS News poll on Americans' views on Iran prior to conflict."
www.cbsnews.com/news/cbs-new...
The Department of Education has hung a massive banner honoring a racist college dropout who built a lucrative career out of targeting professors for harassment
01.03.2026 15:25 β π 5418 π 1652 π¬ 197 π 69
Everyone knows a civilized nation just pushes its victims out of a high window or poisons them with radiation.
Come on, people, this is Dictatorship 101
"Our interest, I think, very much is in NOT going to war with Iran. βIt would be a huge distraction of resources. It would be massively expensive to our country."
- 10/27/24
I know that everyone here hates the βDonald Trump started a war and jacked up your gas pricesβ messaging but βDonald Trump started a war and jacked up your gas pricesβ is likely the single thing about this nightmare that will most affect the day to day lives of a lot of people in the US
01.03.2026 16:19 β π 2291 π 481 π¬ 33 π 31saying, USA intel and preparation for war is not what it was. If it was it would have supplied it's bases with this Ukrainian tech. Not doing so has run the risk that they run out of air defence missiles.
01.03.2026 21:48 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0
I thought it was worth mentioning that Iran who developed the cheap Shahed and is striking targets everywhere with them right now is burning up the US million(s) dollar air defence missiles.
Ukraine shoots down 1000s of these Shaheds every month with the interceptor drone they developed.
Just...
These guys were selling t-shirts until they needed a war to cover up the intentional damage they did to the economy and the president's involvement in a pedophilia scandal.
01.03.2026 17:01 β π 9749 π 3237 π¬ 235 π 93
Womenβs History Month starts with a reminder from the Obamas.
Progress happens because women refuse to accept limits placed on them.
We celebrate how far weβve come.
And we keep fighting for what still isnβt equal.
The work continues. Always.
Happy Womenβs History Month.
#SheShed #V4V
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@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/u...
Well when you put it THAT way.
01.03.2026 17:26 β π 3088 π 1027 π¬ 109 π 52
shockingly people are capable of simultaneously,
1. Hating their government
2. Hating the people who bomb and sanction their country, making regular life impossible and murdering members of their family, even more