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And a FOX flunky booze hound at the Pentagon. I curse every MAGA enabler...

A big part of the authoritarian playbook is war. War takes over the news. War blots out criticism. War divides a nation’s people, subjecting those against it to being called unpatriotic. War grants leaders all sorts of emergency powers. War consumes everything else.

We mustn’t let this war do so.

But they said he was “The peace president.” 🥴

Israeli strikes rock Tehran as Iran's counterattacks widen after the killing of its supreme leader An explosion rocked Iran’s capital as Israel said it would carry out “non-stop strikes” against its leaders and military.

The U.S. military said three service members have been killed and five others seriously wounded since the operations began. They are the first known American casualties from the fighting.

U.S. military spending is set to hit a record $1.5 trillion.

Roughly half of defense spending goes to private contractors that routinely price-gouge the government.

Meanwhile, the Pentagon has failed EIGHT straight audits.

The military industrial complex is cheering today.

Then what happened?

Florida uses emergency rule to cut patients off AIDS medication The state filed the changes the day before a legal hearing with the AIDS Healthcare Foundation.

Florida uses emergency rule to cut patients off AIDS medication

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Cruelty is the point. Always has been.

Those who live in glass concentration camps shouldn’t throw stones.

Every senator who voted to confirm RFK Jr owns this tragedy. Every single one.

As ex-DOJ officials slam FBI seizure of Fulton County ballots, judge sends worrying signal for future elections The officials said the DOJ recklessly failed to uphold constitutional through the raid.

🚨BREAKING: The DOJ recklessly failed to uphold constitutional rights and liberties by allowing the FBI to seize 2020 election records in Fulton County, Georgia, using a faulty search warrant application, former top department officials alleged Thursday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Per WIRED - a White House staffer has been ID’ed as running a big Twitter account that called the Obama apes video a “masterpiece” (and his wife works for Karoline Leavitt)

www.thedailybeast.com/white-house-...

The President isn't fooling most Americans: he is actively making life in this country more expensive.

Riley Gains: "My husband is a legal immigrant.. I'd describe him as more American than a lot of Americans who are citizens... He respects ICE."

BTC: "Who are you to say that somebody is more or less American because of their adherence to certain political issues? Isn't that inherently un-American?"

Klobuchar: "One of the things that most struck me about this State of the Union is that he spent only 2.9 minutes talking about affordability out of an hour and 47 minute speech, and 3.9 minutes talking about healthcare. These are the number one issues on the minds of people."

Found this on FB from Against The Feed

Last night, in the State of the Union address, the President of the United States openly celebrated the violence toward and oppression of people of color.

Dwell on this.

Alsobrooks backs Casey Means into a corner about her failure to disclose her conflicts of interest to such an extent where Means has no response and just grants the point

The USA men’s hockey team utterly failed to meet the cultural moment The United States men's hockey team soured their golden Olympic ending with an embarrassing locker room moment involving Donald Trump.

Hockey players being misogynistic? I’m shocked I tell you.

Dear Women’s USA Olympic Hockey Team — First, congratulations! Second: I drove race cars for 19 yrs & the amount of misogynistic crap I put up with in the garage was insane. The U.S. Men’s Hockey Team has now shown you their true colors. Believe them. They’re not friends of your team or women in general. I’m so tired of this misogyny in sports & everywhere else in American life, to be honest. The patriarchy sucks. Grow the fuck up or hand the keys over to the ladies. Maybe it’s time we drive.

Leilani Munter, y'all.

THERE’S POWER IN BOYCOTTING!

Massie goes full beast mode today.

Gets on the house floor, shreds the DOJ and starts naming names from the Epstein files.

Over a dozen Epstein survivors and their family members will be in the audience of Trump's State of the Union address tonight, at the invitation of Democrat members of Congress.

They will wear “Stand with Survivors” and “Release the Files” pins.

🇺🇸People's State of the Union🇺🇸
Virtual Community Event

Tuesday, February 24
8 – 11pm EST

Need a #SOTU alternative, tonight?

Join Dem. leaders, MoveOn, MeidasTouch & everyday Americans coming together for the People’s State of the Union.💥

#Pinks
www.mobilize.us/moveon/event...

Rep. Garcia on Epstein Survivors: "I have invited Annie Farmer to take a seat at the State of the Union…She wants Donald Trump to look up and see their faces there, and she wants to continue to advocate not just for the survivors, but for the full release of the files."

Let’s be clear — no funding should be used to track or target people for exercising their protected First Amendment rights, as this administration is doing.

The Senate must enact concrete measures to rein in Donald Trump, Kristi Noem, and ICE’s abuses of power.

Susan Rice is right. Now Netflix must choose. The institutions and individuals who betrayed democratic principles will bear that mark of shame well into the future.

Susan Rice saw this moment coming. She described it plainly, and she was right.

Now, Netflix must decide which side of history it wants to be on.

The right choice is obvious. The only question is whether Netflix has the courage to make it. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/susa...