David Robert Newman

For the first time since the 1960s, the pay disparity between US men and women widened over a two-year period.

And International Womens Day has 23 hours this year. I’m not a fan of pay inequality, or time changes.

US gasoline prices jumped 14% this past week as a result of Trump’s elective war in Iran, according to @npr.org.

The flat-Earthers who used to post Joe Biden stickers on gas pumps have been mighty quiet for some reason.

The atrocities will continue until he fires Stephen Miller.

In first, CIA acknowledges 1953 coup it backed to overthrow leader of Iran was undemocratic While other American officials have made similar remarks in the past, the acknowledgment by the CIA in a podcast about the agency’s history comes as much of its official history of the coup still rema...

The CIA really did that, and Google is your friend.

Eisenhower installed the Dulles brothers, who were not good guys.

Even leaving Iran aside, the Dulles boys also overthrew democratically elected governments in Guatemala and the Congo, and were complicit in the murder of the Congolese president.

He was and he wasn’t. Eisenhower named Earl Warren to SCOTUS, but came to regret it.

And just 4 months after this quote, he approved a joint CIA-MI6 ouster of the democratically elected government of Iran.

The quote rings especially true given that 73 years on the effects of that coup linger on.

War! Act II — Mic Farris Trump launches an unconstitutional 3 am attack on Iran. From the Decisions Newsletter

“A war without focus is a war with no tangible goals. And a war with no goals ends up a Forever War.

“Trump said these kinds of Forever Wars would never happen under his presidency. He lied. Just like saying he’d lower prices and bring back jobs, he lied.” (h/t @micfarris.com)

Best (only?) example of regime change by air strike: Libya 2011.

Here's why it's more of a cautionary tale:
♦️It was such a personalized regime that succession proved impossible. That's not #Iran.
♦️US didn't actually kill Qaddafi: A mob did.
♦️Post-2011 Libya is chaotic mess: Is that what we want?

For the Epsteinth time: There are plenty of reasons to do this now.

The Mississippi Free Press is seeking a full-time Capital Bureau Reporter. Read more at mfp.ms/jobs.

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ICE detained a Minnesota teen, labeled him an ‘unaccompanied minor,’ and lost him The Trump administration is apprehending and designating immigrant kids as “unaccompanied,” even as their parents in the U.S. search for them.

ICE agents grabbed a 16-year-old asylum seeker--which they aren't supposed to do

They kept him from his parents -which they aren't supposed to do

They shipped him out of state, to a Christian ministry, which they aren't supposed to do.

Then they *lost* him.

www.startribune.com/how-ice-labe...

Incredible opinion. It holds that the common ICE tactic of jumping out of an unidentified rental vehicle and seizing suspected noncitizens while masked violates the Fourth Amendment because the *manner* of the seizure is incompatible with a free society governed by the rule of law.

we couldn't use government funds to buy coffee (like, folgers ground coffee) when i worked on a CDC outbreak emergency response

So SCOTUS, with its fabricated-out-of-thin-air immunity doctrine, has actually made American presidents less accountable than LITERAL royalty.

🎯🎯

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

Reposting, in case this wasn’t already abundantly clear before today.

GOP fast tracks monster voter suppression bill that could disenfranchise millions by requiring proof of citizenship at polls In the past few weeks, passing the legislation has been a unifying rally cry for Republicans, a welcome distraction from the party’s cratering public opinion polls.

Republicans are moving quickly to pass a bill requiring voters to show proof of citizenship both to register and at the polls ahead of the 2026 midterm elections — a move that experts warn could disenfranchise millions of Americans. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

We can continue moving toward a society of walled gardens, with ever-fewer haves and lots more have-nots, or work toward a civil society that really does provide opportunity for all. I choose the latter. (5/5)

Everyone likes to talk about opportunity. It is obvious, and empirically measureable, that excessive concentrations of wealth create less opportunity, not more. (4/5)

There is a bright, unbroken line between the exploding inequality that Reagan wrought and the vulgarities we see today as oligarchs prostrate themselves before a gold-encrusted narcissist while too many Americans struggle to pay for food, shelter, education, healthcare, and other necessities. (3/5)

Instead, on the occasion of Ronald Reagan’s birthday, let’s remember that his most destructive legacy, by far, was his quite deliberate redistribution of wealth toward the already wealthy. (2/5)

Still from Bedtime for Bonzo, featuring a chimpanzee and Ronald Reagan, actor and smiling pitchman for some truly terrible ideas.

Different president, different ape. But this isn’t a post about today’s distraction from the Epstein files. (1/5)

The Manson family? :-P

A decade later, measles returns to Disneyland Vaccination levels among kindergartners are currently below herd immunity.

Measles vaccination levels among kindergartners nationwide are currently below herd immunity, according to the CDC.

Trump voters did this.

ICE now confirming that there is a measles outbreak at the Texas concentration camp where young Liam was held.

A historic photo of the Greensboro 4.

Feb. 1, 1960, 4 NC A&T students sat-in at the “whites only” counter at Woolworths in Greensboro. Their defiance ignited a movement led to the birth of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.

Young people fuel movements. It is inspiring to see that today they still do.

#BlackHistoryMonth

US District Judge Fred Biery’s release order is a model of clarity and brevity. It’s a reminder that our legal system exists to protect all persons, not to target people. (2/2)

Liam Ramos, the 5-year-old whom ICE used as bait to draw his father Adrian Arias out of his house, is now back in Minneapolis.

ICE imprisoned father and son under harsh conditions in Texas, even though the family came here legally and followed the legal process to apply for citizenship. (1/2)

“The People of Minnesota Are Stronger Than the Federal Government That Seeks to Break Us” The legal system empowered Trump’s ICE rampage. It is people who have the power to stop it.

'If we're going to honor the fight in Minnesota & reject Trump’s authoritarianism, it’s not enough to require ICE wear body cameras when they’re shooting us. We must reimagine the systems that got us here'

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