fundamental hazard of populism is that it assumes a Big Bad for any given social problem
INBOX: Rep. Eric Swalwell accuses his fellow Democratic opponent in the California gubernatorial primary, the billionaire Tom Steyer, of doxxing
Who Benefits from the U.S.-Israel War on Iran?
"The war will eventually backfire on Trump and Netanyahu, while Putin profits"
by Ruth Ben-Giat
open.substack.com/pub/lucid/p/...
I knew that the Department of War shot a missile into a school & killed 175 civilians, mostly children.
This is learned today:
Secretary of War Hegseth had cut the teams assigned to prevent such tragedies by 90%.
www.npr.org/2026/03/11/n...
That this is a discussion for him means he should never EVER hold public office again.
wait, we had to ask *THE BRITISH* to evac US personnel? holy christ these people are incompetent abcnews.com/Internationa...
"Gaza - March 11: A scene of flames as civil defense teams and residents work to extinguish a fire in tents targeted by Israeli warplanes after prior warnings at the Ansar refugee camp in Gaza, on March 11, 2026... Photographer: Saeed Jaras"
www.threads.com/@said.m.jara...
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Important reminder that the US is intentionally, before the world, not prosecuting or even investigating anyone involved in the Epstein files.
In addition to oil, the war has bottled up the world’s main supply of sulphuric acid, setting back a lot of heavy industrial supply chains. theoregongroup.com/commodities/...
A St. Paul police officer fabricated a massive sex trafficking case and had multiple people locked up under false charges. The Supreme Court yesterday affirmed a ruling that she can't be sued by her victims. She appears to still be employed by the St. Paul PD. ij.org/press-releas...
Some folks treated me like a naive child for believing we had the money to cancel a portion of student loan debt
In 1968 Finland banned for profit education, the few private schools that exist in Finland have to reinvest any profit they make or pay it back to parents.
It has been in the Top 3 in education for the last 20 years.
There should be no profit in education or healthcare.
NEW: DHS is requesting access to the government’s “most powerful people-finder system,” which contains the name, address, Social Security number, employer, and salary or wages of every employed person in the country — as well as sensitive information on children and domestic violence victims.
Most accurate portrait of modern culture currently available
Yeah well I mean, >85% of Democratic voters think this is a stupid fucking idea, >75% think negatively of Israel, and even >80% of Democratic members of Congress weren't stupid enough to vote against the WPR.
Sorry but you're a sucker if you think you can just cry and appeal to "the big tent".
we have known about this threat for 20 years. amazing
So much winning you'll be sick of winning.
A mother and daughter in Kentucky have rejected multimillion-dollar offers for their land, offers made by an anonymous tech company trying to build a data center.
Ida Huddleston has turned down $4,260,000.
Her daughter turned down $22,224,000.
www.lex18.com/news/coverin...
Nothing says “I am ready to be your representative“ quite like “I signed up for the ethnic cleansing job but then it was hard so I had an insane breakdown on the record”
Pro-crypto super PAC and Fairshake arm Protect Progress will air ads in IL-08 in support of Melissa Bean, per FCC filing.
Bean is the sixth of eight frontrunners who filled out the Stand With Crypto questionnaire to receive direct or indirect support from a linked super PAC.
The first state in the US to remove statutory protections for an entire class, gender identity, has just enacted a bill preventing local municipalities from having their own protections for trans people.
www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/p...
Abbas Alawieh, a former leader of Uncommitted who is now running for state senate in Michigan, announced yesterday on Twitter that his 91 year old grandmother's home in Lebanon was destroyed by an Israeli airstrike
Getting to the solar economy by "just one more barreling" our way through the strategic reserve while we do whatever this is
NEWS: It was never about the children.
Transgender adults now face care restrictions after the ruling of the federal appeals court in Richmond, Virginia.
www.advocate.com/news/court-b...
It’s a crime that we are never gonna get a Jessica Williams/Harrison Ford buddy movie
For awareness, Iran and Hezbollah maintain an extensive network in South America and likely have ties to certain cartels. While still a stretch in my view, it remains a plausible threat.
She’s (a) running against Ilhan, and (b)probably counting on people not figuring out that she was an ICE prosecutor before signing up to imprison people at DOJ. Her candidacy comes with a free laugh track.
I've called it "The Weekend at Bernie's Presidency for over a year, that can only happen when scores if not 100s of people are acting in concert
He made a public announcement of full blown visual hallucinations
#LawBsky, what crime is being committed by those sock puppeting him besides elder abuse?
americans would be terrified if we knew what a "litre" was
