Rick Brown

The asymmetry of the value placed on human life is so striking. Israel has a goal to recover 40-year-old remains; to do so, it invades a sovereign country, and the lives of 26 Lebanese are an afterthought. Their names not even worth printing in the New York Times.

WATCH — @mehdirhasan.bsky.social to @chrislhayes.bsky.social: “It’s a moral abomination and tactically stupid… Trump doesn’t give a damn about Iranian lives. Have we learned nothing from Iraq or Afghanistan? All we seem to have learned is from Gaza is 🇮🇱 can bomb hospitals & schools with impunity.”

An homage to a panel from the Achewood web comic. Phillipe, a young and eager otter, who is wearing a shirt and tie and a helmet for some reason, is happily singing a song to himself as follows: Born... in the USA! I went to school and I got an... A! I ate a hamburger and said hooray! Maybe it will happen today! The final line is obviously my addition. The art was redrawn by me and is not just a copy of the original panel. Done in black lines and halftone shading on a toned paper background. You do not need to trouble Chris Onstad about this.

61 years ago today at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge, Selma, Alabama.

Trump's "Golden Age of America."

A black and white still photo of a dozen or so of the main characters and others in the episode standing in a group on a sidewalk or driveway looking pensively straight ahead at something offscreen. The men are wearing casual shirts and pants, the women casual dresses. A dark colored station wagon is partially visible in the background at left.

Tonight in 1959, “The Twilight Zone” episode “The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street” (season 1, episode 22)—Rod Serling’s taut and unforgettable Cold War parable depicting the societal consequences of irrational fear and paranoia of communist infiltration—was broadcast for the first time on CBS.

The front page has a headline over a bombed landscape with smoke rising. The headline reads “A war without a strategy”

The front page of tomorrow’s Economist.

So far the war in Iran has cost an estimated $5.5 billion.

That's roughly $1 billion per day.

$41,666,667 per hour.

$11,574 per second.

People do not want this.

They want a living wage. They want healthcare. They want to be able to afford a home. They want their basic needs met.

With West Bank under Israeli closure, settlers seize the moment Israeli settlers have killed two Palestinians and raided countless villages amid the war with Iran, as the army restricts movement and backs up the attackers.

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The UN, though in Manhattan, is on international land, not American. Also a pretty central tenet of diplomacy is “we will not take advantage of proximity to murder your people” for reasons that should be very obvious.

Holy shit. These people shouldn’t be near sharp cutlery, let alone seats of power.

Mullin: “This is war.”

Raju: “You concede this is war?”

Mullin: “We haven’t declared war.”

Reporter: “You just said it’s a war.”

Mullin: *stammer

🔥 🇬🇧 @zarahsultana.bsky.social to Keir starmer : “There was no intelligence indicating an imminent threat— yet we’ve already seen pre-emptive strikes attacking a girls school, killing over 100 children… How much do you enjoy being Trump’s poodle?”

Did sailors take warning?

To add to this apt point; whatever Americans in safety of being thousands of miles away from all this may think, people in Turkey are indeed fearful they are the next. Israel targetting Turkey after Iran is vocally discussed. It is in our news as Israel openly voices it. It is a real threat for us.

Again, neither being Evil nor doing Very Bad Things - in fact, not even actually Iran trying to acquire nuclear weapons - justifies the American president completely violating the UN Charter, the Constitution, & domestic law to start a war.

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See, it's easy to denounce this straight up instead of politely asking the administration to pretty please give the American people an explanation when they have a sec

Today’s military strikes on Iran — carried out by the United States and Israel — mark a catastrophic escalation in an illegal war of aggression. Bombing cities. Killing civilians. Opening a new theater of war.

Our constitution is clear: the decision to take our nation to war rests with Congress. Trump’s reckless & dangerous decision to initiate military action without congressional authorization is clearly unconstitutional.

Congress must reconvene —immediately — for a vote on the War Powers Resolution.

our government combines the impulse control of pete hegseth, the intellectual rigor of rfk jr, and the attention span of donald trump with elon musk’s signature sense of humor

Can we have our hopes this high?

YouTube video by Willie Colón - Topic Apaga La Luz

Celia y Willie

It’s can’t be said enough — this is a wildly corrupt betrayal of the MAHA crowd, and flies in the face of everything RFK JR has ever promised them.

Driven entirely by greed and paying off their big pesticide corporation donors.

UK: Prince Andrew arrested.

South Korea: Former President Yoon sentenced for life.

Brazil: Former President Bolsonaro serving a 27-year sentence.

USA: President Trump demands $10 billion payout from taxpayers.

2.16.26
Presidents Day

Hundreds of people joined Rise and Resist, gathering in front of Trump Tower in NYC to tell Trump to go fuck himself. It was beautiful. The people of New York hate him. Among the chants were "Fuck Trump" + "Lock Him Up!"
Power to the People!

🎥 @recluseastrid.bsky.social

The regime is now dictating what political views are acceptable to air on television and paramount/cbs are collaborating in that censorship bsky.app/profile/ditz...

Ghislaine Maxwell, a convicted child sex trafficker, gets gardening time, sports, therapy dogs, and spa products in prison.

Migrant children in custody are sleeping on concrete floors without enough food or clean water.

Our priorities are so fucked.

This is literally what Ted Bundy did to kidnap his victims.

I became Senior VP at a multi-million dollar company at age 26. My salary was $600k. This was in 2018. How did I do it? Blacked out lines CEO (my dad) promoted me to SVP. There are no gimmicks. There are no shortcuts.

This is blackout poetry to me

NEGUSE: AG Bondi, that man works for you now, right? The man in that video from J6 yelling 'kill them!' at cops. His name is Jared Wise.

BONDI: He does work for us, yes. I believe he was pardoned

NEGUSE: And you expect hard-working police officers to believe you take law enforcement seriously?

that's... not an election?