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The Paradox of Trump’s Iran Attack When his fantasies unravel, Trump has a habit of abusing power to force his will upon an uncooperative world. By David Frum

Ah yes, a "paradox"
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"Mr President please provide a detailed account of your strategic considerations and timeline for withdrawal" my dude he just invaded an American city for a month because of a youtube video

Everybody hates this messaging except journalists and some other Democratic elected officials. There is literally no audience for this rhetoric beyond that. The fact that they’ve been sticking with it for 30 years says a lot about whose opinions they do and do not care about!

I remember when someone told me two and a half weeks ago that the US and Israel would never indiscriminately bomb Iran

what a crazy night for sam altman to be like "yeah we got that dept of war deal, and there's no moral concerns here"

These strikes actually were “preemptive” in so far as they preempted Congress being able to vote on the Khanna-Massie War Powers Resolution

Within hours of Oman's Foreign Minister saying "Iran agreed to zero enriched uranium stockpiling", Israel immediately bombs Tehran & the US promptly joins

This can only mean it was NEVER about nuclear weapons & Trump is either compromised by Netanyahu or is using war to shape the midterm elections

Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started

Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started

i love this because normies have no idea who bari weiss is or that ownership changed hands they just know cbs evening news sucks now

A Rohingya refugee wanted freedom. America left him for dead in frigid Buffalo. | Will Bunch U.S. Border Patrol abandoned a blind, disabled man at a doughnut shop, miles from his home — a new low for the Trump regime.

The family of Nurul Amin Shah Alam waited for hours at the county jail, expecting a joyful reunion with the Rohingya refugee unjustly locked up for a year

No one told them CBP had arrested him, then dumped him at a closed donut shop to die

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Five corporations control 90% of the US media market.

Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today.

Four giants control 80% of meat processing.

The evidence of corporate consolidation is everywhere.

It means more power for them and less freedom for you.

Every stage of this process - his arrest, spending a year in jail, being dumped on the streets to die - would be deeply shameful in a society that actually valued human life.

People are always like what’s something you miss from the past and one of mine is antitrust laws

A major shift, via Gallup. More from @joshuakeating.bsky.social www.vox.com/politics/480...

The Scent of Iranian Lavender The U.S. and Israel are gearing up for war with Iran while the Pentagon demands an AI company drop its "safeguards." Hmm. But yes: abuse the Defense Production Act!

The Pentagon’s ultimatum to Anthropic might signal an Iran war, enabled by AI for generating targets at scale, that looks more like Gaza than it does last June’s Twelve Days.

Seized Art, Eavesdropping Guards: Parents Describe a Clampdown at Dilley Detention Center as Kids Shared Their Stories Detainees told ProPublica that art supplies have been removed in room searches, immigrants have lost access to Gmail and staff hover within earshot during video calls.

NEW: Guards have taken away crayons, colored pencils & paper during recent room searches at Dilley, according to detainees and others. After one inspection, the children just “cried and cried and cried,” a mother said. The facility denies the claims.

By @mckenziefunk.com @micarosenberg.bsky.social

Every New York Times column & Atlantic thinkpiece, every Guardian broadside led us here. Jesse Singal and Ben Ryan and all the others "just asking questions" led us here.

Every bit of coverage that's treated us as suspicious outsiders and punching bags helped speed this day.

You are responsible.

Demanding people surrender their drivers licenses because the state decided to discriminate against them as a class, and threatening jail time if they're caught driving without a legitimate license—because the state revoked them discriminatorily—is a wholly unjustified, cruel, bigoted action.
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This is a Nazi move. Stripping people of rights, invalidating their IDs, setting them up for criminalization and imprisonment.

If you don't support trans rights, you support fascism.

“We are taking back your papers, you have no papers now” is even more chilling than “show us your papers”

In competitive authoritarianism (US right now) there's often a "loyal opposition" that's essential to the regime. They are so wedded to "decorum," they go along with rites & rituals that help regime prop up veneer of normalcy, undermining clear view of regimes actions & aims.

Fact Check: Jesse Singal Lies About Trans Care At The New York Times The New York Times spreads misinformation about transgender people yet again.

And the "position paper" he's touting as a "break in the consensus" is no such thing, and was put out without the knowledge or consent of the actual scientific panel open.substack.com/pub/erininth...

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.

DoJ cases against protesters keep collapsing as officers’ lies are exposed in court String of embarrassing defeats for prosecutors as experts condemn DoJ effort to cast people as ‘violent perpetrators’

A MN protester accused of assaulting ICE officer had case dropped after vids showed no assault.

LA protester accused of assaulting ICE w/ “hat” had case dropped; judge said govt acted in “bad faith”

In Chicago, 92 ppl were arrested for assault/impeding ICE; 0 convicted

DOJ keeps lying and losing:

When you put it like this, a $75 million bribe to Melania and gutting the Washington Post seems like a small price to pay.

YouTube video by Olympics Alysa Liu wins the Olympic gold medal for the United States

I urge you to stop what you're doing and watch Alysa Liu's free skate from yesterday. I have never seen anything like this. I understand why sports writers are born now. I have never seen anyone as free from the burdens of this world as this pierced Oakland girl spinning to Donna Summers.

"Nazis were just regular people" is not a statement meant to evoke empathy or to excuse their crimes. It is a statement of warning.

The capacity to be part of and perpetrate atrocities is not limited to "monsters," it is wholly human. It is what we must always be aware of.

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