Mary Vavrus

100 girls are dead because of generative AI

The Republican Party’s treasonous war of racial purity waged against the civilian population of the United States continues.

Eisenhower

Opinion | An Unwise and Unconstitutional Attack on Iran More war isn’t the answer. If it were, the past 70 years would have produced a better outcome than what we see today.

Sen Tim Kaine (D-VA): “As a member of the Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations committees, with access to ample classified information about threats from Iran and others, I can state plainly that there was no imminent threat from Iran to America…” www.wsj.com/opinion/an-u...

“Every Republican president comes to office, cuts benefits for the poor, cuts taxes for the rich, raises prices, and then bombs a Middle East country.”

@mehdirhasan.bsky.social explains how Trump’s ‘anti-war’ campaign was a lie, noting the president has bombed seven countries in his second term.

🎯🎯

Please, media, don’t turn the war into entertainment 8 things for journalists to keep in mind as they cover Trump’s military moves

I wrote this plea for media responsibility last June when Trump ordered air strikes against Iran. It remains relevant as Trump launches an even wider war against Iran.
American news outlets must resist the impulse to treat war as entertainment.

A mad king's illegal war on Iran is a cry for regime change...in Washington | Will Bunch Democracy really did die in darkness as Donald Trump's unconstitutional war on Iran stamps America as a dictatorship.

No wonder Trump went to war with Iran in the dead of night, with the Capitol empty, most Americans soundly asleep

This war is illegal. Full stop. The worst abuse of presidential power in American history aims to cement a dictatorship on U.S. soil

My instant column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

Tehran. Qum. Kermanshah. Isfahan. Tabriz. Jordan. Bahrain. Dubai. Kuwait. Ashkelon. Jerusalem.

This war brought to you by the Peace Board.

This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t

I can't fucking believe we're doing this again.

Trump launches massive and massively illegal, perilous and costly war of aggression because he feels like it — with hardly even a pretense of legitimate grounds or coherent outcomes, a catastrophically world destabilizing and murderous folly.

CNN reporting that the strikes on Iran tonight are joint US and Israeli strikes.

Which means Donald Trump should be impeached for a third time.

What he has done tonight is illegal under the US constitution and the UN charter.

Federal judge blocks new DHS policy that would allow arrest of thousands of legal refugees "The new policy turns the refugees’ American Dream into a dystopian nightmare," Judge Tunheim wrote.

BREAKING: Federal judge blocks new DHS policy that would allow arrest of thousands of legal refugees.

"The new policy turns the refugees’ American Dream into a dystopian nightmare," Judge Tunheim wrote.

Tonight, at Law Dork:

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Federal judge extends order protecting refugees in Minnesota who are lawfully in US from being arrested and deported.

My team and I have been anticipating this for months. It is unconstitutional and illegal.

The media should note: Last time he issued an EO about voting, we sued and won. If Trump issues such an order we will sue again and we will win again.

Again, with feeling: the argument here is that the administration is totally justified in BREAKING THE LAW in order to fight crime.

Withholding congressionally appropriated money, which is what Medicaid funding is, is a violation of federal law and the Constitution.

However angry we are, it isn't angry enough.

We can be angry enough to free these poor, innocent children and people who have done nothing wrong. There's no logic or plan to this other than keeping you disoriented long enough to steal everything.

Don't lose focus, or yourself. Let's end this.

How can you defend men in masks holding a five year old autistic child outside as bait for her parents? Children in concentration camps fed moldy food with worms in it and contaminated water? Denying medical treatment to a 2 month old baby with RSv so long he almost chokes to death? Shame on you.

Vance says Minnesota’s Medicaid funds halted as part of Trump’s ‘war on fraud’ Vice-president makes announcement with Mehmet Oz, who says other states will be next after Minnesota

Let’s be clear: the Trump administration isn’t “pausing” funds to fight fraud. They’re weaponizing Medicaid to punish a state that rejects their extremism. They’d rather see a child lose coverage than see a Democratic governor succeed.

so fun fact: recently during the fraud investigations being redone by this season’s feds, MN’s rate of medicaid/medicare fraud was well below the national average

nationally, it’s ≈ 6% each year; in minnesota it’s like ≈ 2.5%

we know this is vindictive at this point

It's just insane the degree to which the federal government has simply declared war on a U.S. state. A punitive war with no discernible objective other than to immiserate its people. bsky.app/profile/apne...

Right?!?

This should be the headline!

BREAKING

Former ICE agent:

On my first day training new cadets, I received secretive orders to teach them to violate the Constitution by entering homes without a judicial warrant.

Former ICE lawyer Ryan Schwank: “I received secretive orders to teach new cadets to violate the Constitution.”

It’s looking like we may go two days in a row without an ICE Air flight out of MSP; meanwhile, in New Hampshire:

The hidden ICE blueprint that should horrify every American | Will Bunch An internal Department of Homeland Security document shows how ICE plans to cram thousands of detained human beings inside a Georgia warehouse.

What's more shocking than ICE's plan to cram as many 8,500 humans into massive, soul-crushing warehouses?

Seeing the actual DHS floor plan that echoes slavery ships and history's worst gulags with no rec space but a gun range for guards

My new column on the camps www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

💯Fearless, excellent journalism!

German soccer team cancels Minnesota visit due to ICE crackdown Bundesliga side Werder Bremen were planning to visit in May, though no matches were scheduled.

More economic loss for Minnesota, caused by the mngop welcoming in and applauding ICE attacking their own state. www.startribune.com/german-socce...

I’m living this in my current job. It makes teaching significantly less enjoyable. Even traditionally conservative faculty hate it because some of these measures bite both ways.