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"... people here are living with so many warning sirens, incoming missile fire, you've got schools closed, most businesses closed, normal life on hold once again for people in Israel after 2 years of the Gaza war"

Won't somebody please think of the genocidaires!

BREAKING: DOJ confirms that 47,635 Epstein files have been removed, per The Independent.

PEPFAR, the program to stop hundreds of thousands of children and adults from dying of HIV/AIDS, was $6.5 billion a year.

Pay attention to the verbs. Pay attention to who gets named. Pay attention to who “says” and who “did.”

That’s how perception is shaped - not with blatant lies, but with careful framing.

Lieu: “Did Liam [Ramos] commit a crime?”

Noem: “Liam was not detained. His father was, and his father abandoned him.”

Lieu: “You're not telling the truth.”

Most anti-LGBTQ bills
Strictest abortion ban
medical marijuana banned
Most medical bankruptcies
Books banned
High Gun violence
High poverty
Low per pupil spending
Immigrants living in fear
Most disenfranchised Black folks

“Freest” for who, @MarshaBlackburn?

Rep. Jamie Raskin referenced our investigation during the House Judiciary Committee's questioning of Sec. Kristi Noem today. Link to this story: propub.li/3PgciXd 👇

NEGUSE: “Where is Safe America Media headquartered?”

NOEM: “I don’t know.” 🤷🏼‍♀️

@neguse.house.gov grills @KristiNoem on an INSANELY CORRUPT $143 MILLION CONTRACT going to a shady new company tied to her allies with no previous experience… as she blocks investigations.🤔

CNN: More than 1,000 civilians killed in Iran since war began, rights group reports By Helen Regan More than 1,000 people, including children, have been killed in Iran since the war began on Saturday, according to US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA). The rights group said as of Tuesday afternoon ET, at least 1,097 civilians had been killed, including 181 children. More than 5,400 civilians, including 100 children, have been injured, HRANA reported. The group said its report is preliminary and is veritying hundreds more reported deaths.

At least 1,097 civilians had been killed in Iran so far, including 181 children.

In the last 4 days one of my senators broke a Marine’s arm, the other one announced he wasn’t running minutes before the filing deadline so his hand-picked successor could take his place without a primary and my rep announced he was giving up his seat as well.

How’s y’all’s congresspeople doing?

As I wrote in @thebaffler.com a year later, King's willful cruelty presaged Trump's family separation policy

"A country that would not only rip children from the arms of their parents, but then intentionally orphan and exile them just to “send a message,” risks not only losing them, but itself."

Post from AJ+ - YouTube The U.S. and Israel have a history of claiming they’re negotiating ... and using that as a cover to attack the country they were in talks with.

This is not American patriotism. This is unmitigated murder. These are crimes against humanity. Unprovoked war, by criminal who lack morality and are devoid of humanity. It's time for Baron Trump to suit up!

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The Massachusetts Department of Correction has been fighting me for months, trying to withhold data about its collaboration with ICE.

Yesterday, I won that fight, and obtained records showing that the state has transferred more than 2,000 people into ICE custody since 2009.

A quick thread:

A man asked me last night what publishing needs to do for literary fiction to begin appealing to men again. I said, as nicely as I could, that, with over 2,000 books published every Tuesday, of which many would appeal to men, it’s not a publishing problem, it’s a men problem.

It reminds me of Charles Sumner being beaten almost to death by a pro-slavery traitor. Sumner enraged the Rep by using his Free Speech to speak moral truth. In the end, history proved him right and no one remembers the Rep's name. They use violence to silence because they lost the morality.

Shout out to Boston

A cartoon from the 1950’s that’s more relevant than ever 💔

"Operation Epic Fury has delivered twice the air power of Shock and Awe of Iraq in 2003."

Yeah that's where the Iraq War went wrong. Not enough bombs.

“There’s no Somali folks in the Epstein Files”

Welp

It is so damning of US news media that so many outlets refuse to just straight up say that Senator Tim Sheehy assaulted an activist.

He did not "help" Capitol police. They did not need his help. He wanted to assault the guy and did. He should resign.

Senator John Fetterman’s response to @premthakker.bsky.social when asked about the illegal US strike on an Iranian Naval ship in international waters:

“I want to offer condolences to your boss [Mehdi]. I know he’s all broke up about the Ayatollah.”

NANCY MACE: What is a woman? Have you learned that lesson?

WALZ: I'm the governor of Minnesota. I'm not here to be a prop for your obsession.

🚨Lebanon’s Health Ministry says 50 people have been killed and 335 wounded in Israeli strikes over the past two days, including at least seven children. The toll follows Israel’s bombardment of southern Lebanon and Beirut’s southern suburbs after Hezbollah launched missiles toward Israel on Monday for the first time in more than a year. No casualties have been reported in Israel from the Hezbollah attacks.

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🚨Lebanon’s Health Min. says 50 people have been killed & 335 wounded in Israeli strikes over the past 2 days, including at least 7 children.

The toll follows Israel’s bombardment of southern Lebanon & Beirut’s southern suburbs after Hezbollah launched missiles toward Israel on Mon. for the 1st...

ICE’s deployment of tech tools should be a wake-up call "For decades, we’ve been sold a single story about technology: It is smart, neutral, innovative and designed to improve our lives," writes Sarah Young Goldberg. "In reality, these tools are built to s...

This is a great read from one of my fellow PhD students at Heller in the Institute for Economic and Racial Equity.

Sarah is an expert in the emerging field of "Technoconsciousness," and has this amazing ending reminding us that progress comes not from inevitability but from creating the possible

When we talk about Baby Boomers not getting off the stage: In 1997, the US president was born in 1946.

In 2007, the US president was born in 1946.

In 2017, the US president was born in 1946.

And next year in 2027? The US president will have been born in 1946.

Under MA state law, Secretary Galvin helps Nominate the director of OCPF.

The Treasurer of Secretary Galvin’s fundraising committee, Patrick Galvin, has been delinquent on their state mandated training for an undefined period of time.

Secretary Galvin has run our elections since before most voters were born! Wonder why we hold our statewide primaries on the Tuesday after Labor Day? Is it so that anyone who has chosen to have children is distracted by back to school shopping? Is it so that gubernatorial debates are televised at 5:30 in the morning on a Sunday during Labor Day weekend (ask me! I know!)? Or is lower turnout just a courtesy to election staff across the Commonwealth so they’ll have to do less really-very-tedious counting? Only Secretary Galvin knows for sure!

Image of the original papyrus on which Secretary Galvin’s committee completed their statement of organization in 1975 AD. Perhaps Secretary Galvin’s Treasurer is unaware of the training requirements having become a treasurer in advance of the committee’s formation? Or maybe they did have treasurer training back then and he was still a little distracted by Watergate? Or maybe he received a notice of the training and the document has since disintegrated with age? Thinking about prior eras is fascinating, no?

Looks like the Treasurer for Secretary Galvin’s fundraising committee is delinquent on their state mandated training. MA Office of Campaign & Political Finance oughta look into that—I know they’re pretty strict! Wonder if Director of OCPF has had any dealings w/Sec Galvin?

Oh, that’s right…
#mapoli

32y of Galvin let MA fall further & further behind on measures of access to democracy like transparency, public records, voting access…He’s repeatedly failed to evolve to meet demands of office—now he’s stopped even trying to enforce laws he’s charged with upholding. Still fundraising, tho. #mapoli

The Secretary of State's office is charged with handling #FOIA appeals, but has to rely on the Attorney General's office to enforce any orders. The Secretary of State's office stopped making referrals 3 years ago. @nefac.bsky.social

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts has given up enforcing the state public records law. #FOIA @bostonglobe.com www.bostonglobe.com/2026/03/04/m...

What a bunch of lying monsters. They should all be tried in The Hague