Yoshiko Herrera

It’s insane this is legal. People around Trump are profiting off war and death. I’m introducing legislation ASAP to ban this.

When you think about it for more than 5 seconds, it really is both insane and outrageous that *HILLARY CLINTON* - a woman who apparently has never met with nor corresponded with Jeffrey Epstein was one of the first people deposed.

Netflix Backs Out of Bid for Warner Bros., Paving Way for an Ellison Takeover

The richest man owns X.

The second and third richest men control Google.

The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post.

And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros.

See the problem here?

The new abnormal After four years on high-level alert, defence against invasion becomes a gruelling routine. But could the normalization of war in Ukraine be positive for long-term planning, the public good and the so...

This must-read will make you re-think the end of the Russo-Ukrainian war. Esp those who identify as "anti-war" should read it. For most Ukrainians, what matters more is not when the war ends but how, many have adapted to the realization that the end is not in sight www.eurozine.com/the-new-abno...

A White House Staffer Appears to Run Massive Pro-Trump X Account A popular right-wing account that called a video depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes "a masterpiece" appears to be run by a White House staffer, according to records reviewed by WIRED.

Throughout the Trump admin, American taxpayers are paying the salaries and federal benefits of right-wing social media trolls who spend all day attacking Democrats online on our dime. www.wired.com/story/a-whit...

As Peace Talks Stall, Russia and Ukraine Share One Aim: Keep Trump Happy U.S. officials warn that he could lose interest as the midterm elections approach.

Very good overview of the state of peace talks. Key point: Team Trump fails to accept Putin means what he says.

"Russia wants all of Donbas, but also a rewiring of Ukraine’s government, military, media, religion and identity, amounting to the restoration of Russian sway over the country."

This. Today's ruling is primarily a multidimensional failure of the judicial branch, not really its robustness in the face of authoritarianism. This should never have been a SCOTUS case in the first place, & it shouldn't have taken over a year to get here.

According to TPM, it's not a problem for Lutnick: "Lutnick Family Angling To Make Astronomical Sums Off Court Nixing Tariffs" talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/lutni...

My grandparents were there. Santa Anita Assembly Center, was a race track with stalls for horses. At it's peak it housed 18,719 Japanese Americans

Wow, I guess there's not enough illegal hate speech, terrorist propaganda or harmful disinformation out there, so we need to break other countries' laws to disseminate more of it on a US govt site

Wow.

🎁 link: wapo.st/46aspLO

Also see this great essay by @owasow.bsky.social from the day after 1/6/21. I assign it in class. And it’s always a good day to read anything by Rogers Smith.

www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021...

There is not a single power plant in Ukraine that has not been damaged by Russian strikes, Zelensky said.

The president also demonstrated in Munich how Russia is massively striking Ukraine.

"The air defense missiles that were delivered to us on Sunday were already used on Thursday," he explained.

Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn’t stopped. The decisions amount to a huge legal rebuke, but the administration has continued jailing people indefinitely.

Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn’t stopped.
www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Hegseth has radicalized Richard Leon, the most conservative partisanly Republican judge not appointed by Trump I've ever met.

A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years

Same faces. Different lives.

Ukrainian defenders are sharing “before and after” photos—who they were before russia’s invasion, and who they had to become to protect home. Behind every uniform is a job left behind, a family, a normal life put on pause.

This is what resilience looks like.

‼️🇪🇺 EU plans to impose sanctions against third-country ports serving Russia's "shadow fleet" for the first time — Sky News

The 20th package of EU sanctions includes the ports of Kulevi in ​​Georgia and Karimun in Indonesia. There are also proposals to add banks from Laos, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan.

What this ad doesn’t show: Ring also rolled out facial recognition for humans. I wrote to them months ago about this. Their answer? They won’t ask for your consent.

This definitely isn’t about dogs—it’s about mass surveillance.
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Wow - turns out that Bad Bunny worked with @uwmadison.bsky.social Prof. Meléndez-Badillo @jmelendezbadillo.bsky.social on aspects of Puerto Rican history for his show!

Pop star Bad Bunny needed a Puerto Rican history scholar. UW–Madison had just the one. Bad Bunny collaborated with UW–Madison history professor Jorell Meléndez-Badillo on Puerto Rican narratives that accompany the new album “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS.”

Not at all surprised to learn that Bad Bunny has a historical adviser. His halftime show was a reminder that our history and culture are deeply intertwined with the rest of the western hemisphere. We should think of his performance as part of #America250. #SuperBowl
news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...

lol

Russia's hybrid warfare is a real threat:

Every day, an unprecedented corruption scandal that would immediately end any chief executive's tenure in any actual democracy, let alone any presidency since Truman.

look, I will admit that I had not heard a Bad Bunny track in its entirety until this evening and that my own tastes generally run closer to “din that will empty a room in 5 minutes,” but I am just happy that the show seems to have effectively offended the kind of people who are incapable of producing culture themselves and who spend an inordinate amount of time resenting those who can

Again, we just cut all of the federal funding for area & foreign language studies at universities across the country to "save" $86 million. What an unbelievably unserious administration.

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208. The Fifth Circuit Jumps the Immigration Detention Shark Late Friday, two of the nation's most right-wing circuit judges adopted an odious legal claim that district court judges from across the country (and ideological spectrum) have overwhelmingly rejected

“Late Friday night, the Fifth Circuit adopted the extreme minority view—that the government can indefinitely detain without bond millions of non-citizens who have been here for generations; who have never committed a crime; and who pose neither a risk of flight nor any threat to public safety.”

Yup. Witkoff and Kushner are using cheap Russian humiliation tactics. But let it be known that the whole "peace process" is as much of a useless joke as these two clowns.