Ken Hughes

I was told we were a superpower

ProPublica Sues Education Department for Withholding Records About Discrimination in Schools Under Secretary Linda McMahon, the work of the Office for Civil Rights, which aims to protect students from discrimination, is cloaked in secrecy.

NEW: ProPublica has sued the Department of Education in federal court, accusing it of withholding public records about how it’s enforcing civil rights protections for millions of U.S. students.

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Video of former Jan 6er Betancur allegedly touching women on the train and recording them available on the other platform. (Link:
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Trump Administration Abandons Efforts to Impose Orders on Law Firms

Trump Administration Abandons Efforts to Impose Orders on Law Firms www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/u...

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…

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Dwight D. Eisenhower, "The Chance for Peace"
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Trump Is About to Send More U.S. Forces to Iran—and There’s Still No Clear Strategy The president leapt into this war without first thinking through his goals or the criteria of success.

The war widens, Trump widens it further, and still he has no strategy. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Proud Boys About-Face On Iran Just Months After Saying 'F**k This S**t' The leader of the extremist group, whose 22-year prison sentence Trump pardoned, endorsed the strikes this weekend.

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Proud Boys About-Face On Iran Just Months After Saying 'F**k This S**t'

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Growing Fears That Hungary’s Orbán May Cancel Next Month’s Election As polling shows the opposition widening its lead, observers worry the prime minister is preparing a drastic step to retain power.

This election is about more than a change of government, it’s about a change of system (rendszerváltás). The Hungarian term is exactly that used to describe the change of system that took place in 1989 when communism collapsed.

Capitol rioter who wanted to be 'lone wolf killer' taken back to jail for stalking DC activist Bryan Betancur Battisti, of Silver Spring, Maryland, previously served four months in prison for his role in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Aspiring lone wolf shooter, self professed white supremacist and stalker:

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This is a bombshell: "the Pentagon wanted the company to allow for the collection and analysis of unclassified, commercial bulk data on Americans, such as geolocation and web browsing data"

This kind of agenda echoes the defunded Total Information Awareness effort, post-9/11

Trump Says War Could Last Weeks and Offers Contradictory Visions of New Regime In a brief interview, he said the country's hardened military should simply surrender their weapons to the Iranian public.

At first, when asked whom he wanted to lead Iran, he said, "I have three very good choices." He added: "I won't be revealing them now. Let's get the job done first." But then he described a scenario in which the Iranian people would overthrow the existing government. "That's going to be up to them about whether or not they do," Mr. Trump said. "They've been talking about it for years so nov they'll obviously have an opportunity." That would, of course, be the opposite of the Venezuela model that he had said minutes earlier he wanted to replicate. [I highlighted the final sentence.]

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A record 129 journalists and media workers were killed in the course of their work last year, two-thirds of them killed by Israel, the Committee to Protect Journalists said. #News #Reuters #Newsfeed… GRAPHIC WARNING: Record 129 news workers killed in 2025: journalist group

CPJ’s #2025KilledReport documents that a record 129 journalists and media workers were killed last year, two-thirds of them by Israel, including @reuters.com journalist Hussam al-Masri.

Watch coverage of the report from Reuters ⤵️

The Epstein class's kids won't die in this war. Poor families' kids will.

Billionaires won't suffer. Middle class families will pay more for everything.

And for what? For a different hardline cleric to run Iran than the one who was about to die soon anyway?

How is he "ending a regime"? Game out for me how this ends up in an inclusive, flourishing democracy. The most likely scenario - by far - is the the same hardliners (maybe even worse hardliners) end up in control. Just a different name on the door.

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Trump Says War Could Last Weeks and Offers Contradictory Visions of New Regime

While Trump has called for regime change in Iran, he makes clear in phone interview with Zolan Kanno-Youngs that he is fine with remnants of the repressive regime remaining in power. "What we did in Venezuela, I think, is the perfect, the perfect scenario." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/01/u...

JUST IN: A federal judge says the Trump administration has been “terrorizing” refugees — violating the promise America made to them when they fled persecution at home — by locking them up illegally. He blocked the policy for those in MN storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

This feels like the opening to a science fiction novel. The ones with those particular type of openings next not to end well for humanity.

"military action may become necessary to protect American troops and American citizens in Iran" is some true up-is-down Orwellian nonsense

FWIW, this is sec. 2(c) of the War Powers Resolution:

Elite Doctors Served Jeffrey Epstein While Treating His ‘Girls’

NEW: I and colleagues reviewed 15,000 documents to illuminate how Jeffrey Epstein used VIP doctors to control and manipulate young women* — and how the doctors helped him, treating his needs as more important than the patients'. Gift link.

*see next post in thread

Exclusive: Prior to Iran attacks, CIA assessed Khamenei would be replaced by hardline IRGC elements if killed, sources say In the run-up to the U.S. and Israeli attacks on Saturday, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency assessed that even if Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in the operation, he would likely be replaced by hardline figures from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), two sources briefed on the intelligence said.

Exclusive: Prior to Iran attacks, CIA assessed Khamenei would be replaced by hardline IRGC elements if killed, sources say reut.rs/4l9SCAs

X Is Drowning in Disinformation Following US and Israel’s Attack on Iran WIRED has reviewed hundreds of posts on X that promote misleading claims about the locations and scale of the attack.

NEW: X Is *drowning* in disinformation following US and Israel’s attack on Iran. WIRED has reviewed hundreds of posts on X that promote misleading claims about the locations and scale of the attack.

read @davidgilbert.bsky.social:

They went to war with Iran (which nobody in America was asking for) so they could conjure an excuse to allow ICE to keep murdering Americans and teargassing schools here at home with impunity (which nobody in America was asking for).

Women have been mapping the world for centuries – and now they’re speaking up for the people left out of those maps Women have moved from mapmakers using their bodies to depict maps to being leaders shaping the field of cartography.

Women known as the “Military Mapping Maidens” produced tens of thousands of topographic maps during World War II. Yet their work remained largely uncredited until recently, explains a specialist in geographic information systems. buff.ly/Fdv5iOH
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(If you haven't been reading Fred Kaplan, now's a good time to start.)

Catholic bishops push for end to ‘immoral’ birthright citizenship order at Supreme Court The Catholic-majority Supreme Court gets spiritual and legal advice from bishops ahead of showdown on birthright citizenship.

Catholic bishops push for end to ‘immoral’ birthright citizenship order at Supreme Court
"Citing scripture, the Constitution and Western tradition, they argued the order would undermine both the legal and moral foundations of American society."
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Musk asked Epstein for ‘the wildest party.’ Now he claims to stand up for victims. The billionaire Tesla CEO has called for accountability for figures named in the Epstein files — despite appearing in them himself.

Musk asked Epstein for ‘the wildest party.’ Now he claims to stand up for victims.

The billionaire Tesla CEO has called for accountability for figures named in the Epstein files --- despite appearing in them himself.

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Florida suddenly cuts off 12,000 people from receiving their HIV meds In a shocking move, the state’s Department of Health utilized its “11th hour” emergency rule just one day ahead of a lawsuit hearing.

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