Jeff Edmeades

Trump is an otherworldly hue of orange today

This is such a good hate watch

Indiana bill would eliminate ‘low earning’ degrees The proposal now heads to Republican Gov. Mike Braun’s desk and would take effect July 1 if he signs off on it.

I guess we don't need teachers anymore

Very stable genius strikes again.

I'm not getting the vibe here that he's doing this to liberate women in Iran. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Rubio described instead a war by Israel, for Israel, which the United States chose to join. The threat to US forces from Iran he invoked in bad faith. The negotiations the US had requested with the Iranians — evidently also in bad faith — he did not mention.

Trump on Venezuela: "We've taken out 100 million barrels of oil already. A bit part of that goes to them and a big part goes to us. It's been great. We're gonna be running the oil."

Trump: "We won on tariffs, actually. Somebody said, 'You actually won the case.' We won on tariffs. You had a decision that was wrong."

An incompetent buffoon. bsky.app/profile/atru...

The Pentagon Wants to Use AI to Kill People Without Checks. Is Anthropic Really Pushing Back? Anthropic’s rupture with the Pentagon has sparked public backlash and soaring support. But an AI ethics expert warns against 'falling for the theatrics.'

"The Pentagon Wants to Use AI to Kill People Without Checks. Is Anthropic Really Pushing Back?"

Anthropic’s fight with the DOD has sparked public backlash but an AI ethics expert warns against 'falling for the theatrics.

Important reporting from @taylorlorenz.bsky.social for Zeteo:

Trump said Spain "has been terribly" by refusing US military base use, and added "we can just fly in and use them, nobody is going to tell us not to use it." Trump said he personally told Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to cut all trade with Spain. #US

KLOBUCHAR: Alex Pretti's parents said what you said was one of the most hurtful things they could imagine. Do you want to say anything to Alex's parents?

NOEM: I did not call him a 'domestic terrorist.' I said it 'appeared to be an incident of'

KLOBUCHAR: I think the parents saw it for what it was

This administration's policies on data are so twisted that *People Magazine* is covering it now.

I'm sorry, if you're going to make a big show about how you've got a Department of WAR helmed by a Secretary of WAR and staffed by WARfighters, it's totally inane to then claim that your massive bombing of a foreign country constitutes something other than a war.

“The Intern in Charge”: Meet the 22-Year-Old Trump’s Team Picked to Lead Terrorism Prevention One year out of college and with no apparent national security expertise, Thomas Fugate is the Department of Homeland Security official tasked with overseeing the government’s main hub for combating v...

The Republicans seem to be prepping an argument that any domestic terror attacks in the aftermath of their Iran attacks will be the fault of Democrats for shutting down DHS funding, so I'd like to remind everyone of this appointment:

RIP to hundreds of Iranians and one American vacation

FYI Markwayne Mullin is not
A war veteran and never served

The petition for a writ of certiorari is denied. JUSTICE KAGAN would grant the petition for a writ of certiorari. JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR, with whom JUSTICE JACKSON joins, dissenting from denial of certiorari. This case asks whether federal law prohibits the poorest prisoners from splitting the $350 fee required to file a federal lawsuit when it allows everyone else to do so. The answer statutorily appears to be no. Because the decision below held otherwise and deepened a split among the Courts of Appeals, the Court should grant the petition for a writ of certiorari.

Petitioners Topaz Johnson and Ian Henderson were incarcerated at High Desert State Prison in California when they filed this lawsuit in federal court. According to their complaint, corrections officers forced them and a third prisoner to stand in filthy cages that reeked of urine and measured 2.5 feet by 2.5 feet. They alleged that the officers forced them to stand in those cages for nearly nine hours with their hands cuffed behind their backs.

By a 6–3 vote, SCOTUS refuses to review a judge-made rule that bars indigent prisoners from splitting the filing fee among themselves when filing a federal suit—even though everyone else is allowed to split that fee. These defendants were allegedly tortured. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

Jim Jordan: "When people step back and evaluate it, they say, 'This was the right decision. This was consistent with what the president told the American people when we the people elected him. He said he was going to do this.'" (Trump literally campaigned on no war with Iran!)

Price of the White House ballroom now at $400 million and rising. Which is still relatively cheap when you consider that would only buy four fighter jets for Kuwait to shoot down and, hey, that barely gets us through a day of a fresh Mideast war.

.. with “actor Dennis Quaid on board.” 🤡

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Trump is now going to submit a massive bill for a military appropriation package to replenish the stockpiles he has been drawing down for many months with his bombings all over the world, and naturally he will blame Biden and Zelensky.

Military officials question fortifications at site where U.S. troops were killed in Iranian strike The first American service members to die in the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran were killed in an apparent Iranian drone attack on a makeshift office space in Kuwait, sources told CBS News.

On the 6 US troops who died at Shuaiba port in Kuwait: Troops asked for more drone defeat capabilities, none came. It was recommended that the makeshift tactical operations center not be used because it was hard to defend and concentrated too many troops in one place. www.cbsnews.com/news/iran-st...

Republicans Wage War As Politics ...and politics as war.

Via @brianbeutler.bsky.social, Dems should politicize the hell out of Trump's Iran bombing:

"It would be a mistake to treat this as an above-board idea over which people of good faith can disagree. There is no merit here, and there was no imminent threat."

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This may seem trivial to people who use the word "sportsball" online, but remember that, for many Americans, the events that finally drove home the severity of COVID was the cancellation of March Madness.

How have crime rates in the United States changed over the last 50 years? Both violent and property crime are far below their 1990s peak, but some crimes see periodic rises.

Looking at the 2024 crime figures, it's absolutely insane how Trump, tech billionaires, and centrist pundits fooled everyone into thinking Biden had turned the U.S. into some Hobbesian hellscape.

50-year lows for violent crime, armed robbery, property crime. Second-lowest homicide rate.

CNN put together a montage of the regime's incoherent talking points about Trump's war on Iran

OpenAI posted the terms of the deal. Reveals that it absolutely does allow for domestic surveillance. EO 12333 is how the NSA hides its domestic surveillance by capturing communications by tapping into lines *outside the US* even if it contains info from/on US persons.

openai.com/index/our-ag...

Even Matt Walsh isn’t buying it

U.S. Troops Were Told Iran War Is for “Armageddon,” Return of Jesus Advocacy group reports commanders giving similar messages at more than 30 installations in every branch of the military

EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war.

The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been “inundated” with more than 110 complaints.

One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus…