Hansi Munasinghe

People are asking why Trump landed US in an illegal war with Iran.

The answer is that his approval ratings are low.

That's it.

A war allows him to create a shared enemy (which boosts in-group solidarity), a distraction from his domestic disasters, and a pretense for declaring emergency powers.

It doesn't need to be slipped in. Already women experiencing miscarriages are being put in handcuffs, cos a miscarriage is a spontaneous abortion.

I agree with the general sentiment that the US healthcare system is deeply flawed but I think we should be careful making him some kind of case study for it cos his story seems to be complicated. In fact, we don't need a millionaire to be the face of this problem when most of us know first hand.

I've also heard that he decided to forgo conventional treatment and instead went for alternative therapies which are not covered by insurance.

Incredible opinion. It holds that the common ICE tactic of jumping out of an unidentified rental vehicle and seizing suspected noncitizens while masked violates the Fourth Amendment because the *manner* of the seizure is incompatible with a free society governed by the rule of law.

look at my country man, we’re getting out-No Kings’d by the fuckin’ british

Maryland health officials warn providers about an upsurge in mumps cases Maryland health officials are warning about an uptick in cases of mumps.

Measles is a bellwether. Because it’s the most contagious vaccine-preventable disease, when vaccination rates drop, it’s the first to start spreading.

Now we’ve got mumps rolling up.

Expect more.

This is just the beginning of RFK Jr.’s successful infectious disease reintroduction plan.

Disabled people deserve safety.

Caregivers must be considered a critical part of our survival and never ripped away unnecessarily.

We often have no contingency plan. No one comes to save us.

Protect caregivers at all costs and help us advocate for better social supports.

With Ring, American Consumers Built a Surveillance Dragnet Ring's 'Search Party' is dystopian surveillance accelerationism.

Unlike, say, data analytics giant Palantir or some other high-profile surveillance companies, Ring is a surveillance network that homeowners have by and large deployed themselves, powered by fear mongering against our neighbors and unfettered consumerism.

No crypto in Canton: Town blocks data centers and crypto mining operations Canton’s makeshift town hall in a tiny trailer was bursting at the seams Wednesday night with citizens united against data centers and cryptocurrency mining.

For my money, the way thousands of regular people are self-organizing to resist data centers is one of the most cautiously hopeful stories going right now.

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Amazon's Ring cancels Flock partnership amid Super Bowl ad backlash Ring's decision to cancel its partnership with Flock comes as tech companies face growing pressure to reexamine their work with federal agencies.

Amazon made a choice to partner with Flock and feed data to ICE.

They chose to allow their popular ring cameras to spy on people’s neighbours for the purpose of sending them to camps.

The damage is done.

Don’t buy a Ring camera and don’t support Amazon.

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You need to understand that for every store that gets out, there are easily 5 more. There are segments of la frontera that are known as death valleys because of the difficulty of maintaining hydration and CBP‘s institutionalized culture of destroying water sources left behind by crossers & activists

Part of me wonders if this public announcement is a strategy Moderna leadership is using to put pressure on the administration. If that's the case, thank you for bringing attention to this!

Seems like a short sighted investment decision given that we will (hopefully) reverse this dogmatic admin in the next 1-3 years? Also, if these cures are available and approved in the EU and elsewhere, isn't there a good chance the public pressure will mount towards approving them in the US too?

"Moderna's CEO announced the company will no longer invest in new Phase 3 vaccine trials for infectious diseases: 'You cannot make a return on investment if you don't have access to the U.S. market. Vaccines for Epstein-Barr virus, herpes, and shingles have been shelved.” 9:12 AM Feb 12, 2026 604.8K Views

In terms of what cures are being lost:

- Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis
- herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis
- shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease

Page 1 of a child’s handwritten letter, written in pencil in Spanish. Colorful doodles of a rainbow and hearts are found throughout the page. Translation: “I am Maria Antonia Guerra Montoya and I have been 113 days in detention I miss my friends and I feel they are going to forget me. I am bored here. I already miss my country and my house, I came on vacation for 10 Days and they took me into an ice office an officer interrogated me 2 hours without my mom, I was traveling with flight attendant because my mom lives in new york, they only wanted to arrest my mom, because my mom didn’t have documents to live in U.S.A., I always traveled with my tourist visa but ice used me to catch my mom and now I am in a jail and I am sad and I have fainted 2 times here inside. When I arrived every night I cried and now I don’t sleep well, I felt that being here was my fault and I only wanted to be on vacation like a normal family.”

Page 2 of a child’s handwritten letter, written in pencil in Spanish. Translation: “They don’t give me my diet I am vegetarian, I don’t eat well, there is no good education and I miss my best friend julieta and my grandmother and my school I already want to get to my house. Me in dilei [Dilley] am not happy please get me out of here to colombia.” Below the text is a drawing of the girl and her mother in the government-issued gray sweatsuits of the detention center.

6/ “When I arrived every night I cried and now I don’t sleep well, I felt that being here was my fault and I only wanted to be on vacation like a normal family.”

9-year-old Maria Antonia Guerra Montoya, detained on her way to Disney World, spent 113+ days at Dilley.

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.

Hundreds of kids are still detained.

We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

Close up of a tortie cat (mostly black except for a caramel streak on her cheek and chest) with greenish eyes. Twinkle lights visible in the background.

I have a girl who looks a bit like yours and I'm similarly pondering if she would like a sibling or a friend in her life

Trump lawyers aim to deport five-year-old boy after judge ordered his release Liam Conejo Ramos and his father were seized by ICE in Minneapolis last month before a judge ordered their release

It wasn’t Liam Ramos with Bad Bunny at the Super Bowl halftime show

He hasn’t had a happy ending & sharing a false story could hurt his family

The DoJ is moving to expedite his deportation

They want to punish Liam for capturing the hearts of the nation

His happy ending is still a long way away:

U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.

What it was like to be a bush at Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl performance The bushes on the field during the halftime show became a meme after the internet found out they were actually human performers.

Now THIS is service journalism

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

I tell you what, Ring figured out exactly how to weaponize white people’s empathy in service to a corporately controlled surveillance state.

Tell them it will find your dog.

OK "god bless america" and then naming every country in the americas from south to north is absolute king shit

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Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries.

One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home.

Abolish the billionaire class:

Transplant recipient arrested by federal agents in Rochester needs medicine, state representative says State Rep. Kim Hicks told MPR News she drove to the Whipple Federal Building near Ft. Snelling Thursday night to give the man his medication but authorities wouldn't take it without a doctor's note. S...

A man taken into custody in Rochester Thursday by federal immigration agents and now held at the Whipple Federal Building in the Twin Cities is a recent organ transplant recipient who is without his needed anti-rejection medication, state Rep. Kim Hicks tells MPR News.

Note: Just like Mohsen Mahdawi, ICE snatched Leqaa at what she thought was a routine immigration check-in, after she protested Israel’s genocide of Gaza.

They then took her from New Jersey to Texas—where she’s been detained for nearly a year.

Now she’s hospitalized and her whereabouts are unknown.

Thank you for this reference. I've been pondering this question for months now, and as a sociologist who exited for industry work and off Twitter, I didn't even know whom to ask. Sincerely appreciate you for sharing this and BlueSky for hopefully becoming a source of learning!

“It’s worse than people think,” said attorney Eric Lee, who tried to visit clients at Dilley on Saturday. “The water is putrid. They have to mix baby formula with water that nobody wants to even smell. The food has bugs in it. The food has dirt in it.”

Note the complete absence of trans people and drag queens from the files. No Hillary, no Huma. Meanwhile QAnon messiah Trump was seemingly Jeffrey Epstein’s best friend.