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Senate votes to let Trump continue war on Iran WASHINGTON—On March 4, the Senate ignored its constitutional responsibility by failing to pass a War Powers resolution to constrain President Donald Trump's military hostilities against Iran. The Hous...

Senate votes to let Trump continue war on Iran. House votes next and anti-war forces vow to increase the pressure for peace
#news #politics #IranWar

I'm sure a few ICE agents suspect this already, but it seems very clear that DJT, Miller & Bovino WANT an ICE agent to get killed. They need their own martyr. There is a reason they are putting them in increasingly volatile situations.

I wish Democrats would start just speaking the truth:

“ICE is killing American citizens in public for exercising their freedom of speech because Donald Trump wants to be a king.

This isn’t about immigration—Trump wants to make it illegal to oppose him, and to stay in power until he dies.”

The Jan 6 riot was successful. Maybe this will put to bed the constant admonition that "riots don't work."

Folks bypass things like the fact that NYPD activated drones and 30 cop cars for a demonstration of 1000 people in freezing weather today. The levels of surveillance and potential repression are taken as regular order in this country.

TRL

trauma-informed reading of A Christmas Carol

i think i would rather seek electroshock therapy than help from a therapist who uses an AI version of themselves for their profile picture

not the AI profile picture on the psychology today therapist search results

Today, the president of the United States said that multiple US senators should be put to death for treason and articles of impeachment have not been filed yet. This country is cooked. Done. Finished.

Altman molested his child sister for years and later used his massive wealth to try to silence her.

He is a rapist with zero morals or ethics even if it were his job to have them

‘It’s revolting’: More Young Republican chat members out of jobs as condemnation intensifies POLITICO report on private Telegram chat filled with racist slurs and tropes ignites debate from New York to Washington.

Two more members of a Young Republican group chat strewn with racist epithets and hateful jokes stepped down from their jobs Tuesday after we published an exclusive report on the Telegram exchanges.

Absolutely insane that this is what we knew we were up against and the Dems campaigned on a “good economy”

“Put Them in Trauma”: Inside a Key MAGA Leader’s Plans for a New Trump Agenda Private videos reveal Trump adviser Russ Vought’s “shadow” plans for using the military on protesters, defunding the EPA and villainizing civil servants.

Before engineering the Trump administration's government shutdown response, Russ Vought spent years building Project 2025 strategy.

“We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected,” he said in 2023. “When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work.”

(Pub. Oct. 2024)

What is the correct amount of pro-Palestine content? The origins of the TikTok ban.

A photograph cannot inspire an antiwar movement if the antiwar movement has been spirited away in the night to a facility in Louisiana. www.theverge.com/features/761...

Western liberal democracy’s pact with capitalism was the notion of the “outside.” But there never was an outside and now the false externalities permitted to capitalism will dispose of liberal democracy and us along with it.

we’re in the middle of an extreme crisis yet too many people are treating it like a “normal” political moment that an election will simply “fix”, and nearly everyone in power is complicit

We are at a crucial tipping point where either we descend into authoritarianism or defeat it, and almost everyone who should be taking action is waiting for someone to take action.

i am in new york and did a lot of k and got an hour of sleep and the sharp edges of reality are irresistibly pressing into me. it is horrifying and beautiful

it’s all fake! the perfect goat cheese, the free drugs from finance bros, the hot foreign djs… all built on a teetering pile of skulls which is rapidly collapsing before our eyes except it feels like no one is talking about it. one more night of absolute abandon for 32yo bankers, comin up

viscerally felt the complete and abject unreality of life in the imperial core while eating a perfect goat cheese crepe on my way home from the all night rave

Perspective | Allied leaders were anti-Nazi, but not anti-racist. We’re now paying the price for their failure. The high cost of failing to fight white supremacy during World War II.

Yup:
www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019...

The operation of the state and the semi-equilibrium of hegemony in fact require the docile consent of “the masses” and therefore the inactive “mass,” which comprises the majority of the population in most states, is thoroughly and crucially “political.”

The University of Michigan is using private, undercover investigators to surveil pro-Palestinian campus groups, including trailing them on and off campus, furtively recording them and eavesdropping on their conversations, the Guardian has learned. The surveillance appears to largely be an intimidation tactic, five students who have been followed, recorded or eavesdropped on said. The undercover investigators have cursed at students, threatened them and in one case drove a car at a student who had to jump out of the way, according to student accounts and video footage shared with the Guardian.

The University of Michigan is using private, undercover investigators to surveil anti-genocide protesters on and off campus.

This is absolutely unconscionable and a complete betrayal of students by the university, not to mention a violation of their fundamental rights to academic freedom.

$45 billion for adult and family detention. That would be enough to detain 100,000 people at a time, perhaps more. The New York Times reported in early April that ICE had already requested proposals from contractors who run detention facilities. Add another $3 billion for the Office of Refugee Resettlement to hold migrant children who arrive unaccompanied. How much is that combined $48 billion? Adjusted for inflation, it would be: Enough to cancel the debt of 1,240,814 student loan holders ( averaging $38,375 each). A generous estimate of what it would cost to end U.S. homelessness for 19 months ($30 billion per year). 1.6 times the global revenue of the entire music industry in 2024 ($29.6 billion in 2024 dollars). More than enough to build a new stadium for all 30 Major League Baseball teams (the Oakland As’ new stadium in Las Vegas is expected to cost $1.5 billion). More than Netflix’s forecast worldwide revenue from its 300 million-plus subscribers in 2025 ($43.5 to $44.5 billion). ICE’s detention budget in 2024 totaled $3.43 billion to hold 41,500 people at a time. This bill would quadruple that capacity,

Second, the Bill sets the stage for massive privatized, for-profit concentration camps. It will quadruple the capacity of ICE to detain people--giving it capacity to detain, in for-profit arrangements where corporations make money per person per day, at least 100,000 more people.

The Trump Administration Leaned on African Countries. The Goal: Get Business for Elon Musk. The State Department has intervened on behalf of Musk’s satellite internet company in five developing nations. In Gambia, U.S. diplomats have lobbied and browbeat at least seven government ministers…

In one dramatic example, Gambian officials said the State Department issued a veiled threat of cutting funds to their fragile democracy if they didn’t approve a license for Musk’s Starlink.

AI’s only general purpose use is to control labor. Thank you.