Margaret Wright

All power to President Sanchez

“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:

Kash Patel’s latest firings ousted agents with expertise in Iran The FBI director gutted a specialized, global espionage unit of counterintelligence agents, just days before Operation Epic Fury.

When FBI Director Kash Patel fired a dozen FBI agents and staff last week for their role in the classified documents investigation of Donald Trump, he targeted an elite counter espionage unit that investigates threats from foreign adversaries and specializes in Iran www.ms.now/news/kash-pa...

Epstein’s New Mexico Ranch Gets Scrutiny at Last. It May Be Too Late.

In 2019, Trump's DOJ told local officials to drop their investigation into Epstein's New Mexico property. What are they hiding?

Pam Bondi MUST release the rest of the files, including any documents detailing the decision to shut down this key investigation.

‘We’re seeing chaos.’ Hundreds turned away at Dallas County polls amid switch to precincts The switch surprised and frustrated voters who stopped to vote on their way to work or between errands only to be redirected elsewhere – an outcome predicted...

There are reports of voter confusion in Dallas County, TX, where voters are being turned away for going to the wrong polling place. www.dallasnews.com/news/electio...

only one of these guys has an actual read on america and you already know who it is

we appear to have four competing fascist movements jockeying for control: blood & soil nazism under miller and hegseth, darwinian ecofascism from rfk, technofascism under vance and musk, and one Big Wet Hitler who understands the true animating core of the american volk is a deep love for shopping

I've always thought of Dubai as the waiting room for Epstein Island.

Cartoon by Tom Gauld of two banks of a river one labeled “our blessed homeland” and the other “their barbarous wastes.” Both locations are identical in their three castle like buildings, number of trees, etc. I have added text over the original labels. On the left these labels go left to right and downward along the cartoon with each line pointing to a different building or a group of people or finally a ship. The labels on the left read: “OUR GLORIOUS peaceful intent OUR GREAT nuclear deterrent OUR stabilizing missile shield OUR HEROIC regionally deployed security forces.” The labels on the right read: “THEIR WICKED warlike nature THEIR PRIMITIVE nuclear arsenal THEIR destabilizing anti-missile system THEIR BRUTISH regionally deployed imperial troops.”

I do, once again, recommend reading Hugh Gusterson’s “Nuclear Weapons and the “Other” in the Western Imagination.”

In any case I did the meme along those lines:

Forever wars are good and easy to win

When the media covers war, every other topic fades Trump will do anything to distract from the political damage of the Epstein files

If you've been around long enough, you remember the shameful flag waving during the early days of the Iraq War.

Read @sulliview.bsky.social--->

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I vividly remember a childhood friend who was raised Quaker traveling with her church to "the Holy Land" c. 1996, and upon return telling our high school women's group (membership: 3) that she was terrified newly elected first-term Israeli PM Netanyahu posed immense danger.
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I also find interesting the inability of some leftist groups to distinguish people (who are messy, full of factions, and sometimes have inchoate views rather than being a romanticized unitary and monolithic The People) vs nation-states and primarily articulate responses

FCC chief tells CNBC WBD-Paramount merger deal is ‘cleaner’ than Netflix's, will be approved 'quickly' FCC Chairman Brendan Carr told CNBC on Tuesday that Netflix's previous Warner Bros. Discovery offer "raised a lot of competition concerns."

and by "cleaner" he means way more layoffs, all the same (if not worse) competition issues, massive autocratic propaganda implications, and unprecedented national security concerns due to the gigantic infusion of saudi cash

not even claiming anything revelatory, this seems pretty obvious
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Justice Alito’s latest opinion is a very, very bad sign for voting rights A decision upholding a New York GOP congressional district could be a prelude to killing the Voting Rights Act.

Even by his standards Alito’s opinion in NY redistricting case last night was totally unhinged. If he’s writing majority opinion in Voting Rights Act case that’s very very bad news www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I had a vision and clearly Jesus was starting to develop male pattern baldness toward the end there

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Literally sitting in the City Council hearing about eviction prevention paying rents while I’m waiting to speak. If you want to help keep 11 immigrant families in public housing from being imminently evicted, I’m trying to raise $2500 for them 💛

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As the laid off Middle East News Editor, I concur. Management eliminated the positions of every single staff correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East.

Bad Internet Bills All of the bad internet bills. One website.

THREAD: Whenever imperialist governments go to war, they become more authoritarian at home.

That makes censorship bills like KOSA, ID checks, and attacks on Section 230 even more dangerous.

Online protest, documenting war crimes, even news articles could be suppressed.

www.badinternetbills.com

“Bombing a country isn’t war”

“Rising prices aren’t inflation”

“Suppressing speech isn’t a 1A violation”

“Forceable penetration isn’t rape”

“Calling black people apes isn’t racism”

“Abducting people because of their skin color isn’t racial profiling”

Aren’t you sick of this shit?

Albuquerque NM

this was one day in, good lord

"War is hell" is a warning, not an excuse.

Why Can't Top Democrats Just Say "No War With Iran"? The response to what could be the biggest geopolitical disaster of the 21st century is foot-dragging, silence, and sleepy, feigned opposition long after the deed is done.

The stakes could not be higher. The US-Israeli war on Iran is catastrophic—and rapidly expanding across the region. Yet Democratic leaders are failing to muster a clear, anti-war response. Instead it's sleepy, feigned opposition after the deed is done. By me and @ahjohnson.bsky.social

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Conservative Radio Host Eddy Aragon to Challenge NMCD2 Gabe Vasquez - New Mexico Conservative News Albuquerque Conservative Radio Personality, Eddy Aragon, of KIVA AM 1600, has announced his intention to challenge Congressional Representation Gabe Vasquez in New Mexico’s 2nd Congressional District....

unfortunately this article neglects to mention that the man can also drone on to a fever pitch about the power of peptides
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all I'm saying is you will regret not knowing this enemy when he gets elected to congress or some shit 🤧