There are tremendous differences from the Iraq War, @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social argues today. Where Bush had the support of Congress, the public, and the "coalition of the willing," Trump has none of those things, and has not bothered to try. www.liberalcurrents.com/internationa...
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Airpower is extraordinarily effective at destroying infrastructure and eliminating individuals. It is far less reliable as a tool for reshaping political systems. www.vox.com/politics/481...
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Donald Trump says US and Israeli strikes killed Iran’s supreme leader. He was the biggest target in a “decapitation” mission.
The theory is familiar: take out the leadership, avoid a ground war, force change from the air. But history says it rarely works. www.vox.com/politics/481...
From my perspective one group down AND ANOTHER IS RISING!!! And that terror group is our government!
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NICE ART… sketchbook art..my fav
Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.
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Composite of nine digital scenery paintings: 1. Rough landscape digital painting of an old castle overrun by nature. In the foreground a couple of children are holding bouquets. 2. Rough landscape digital painting of a field covered in snow. A golden yellow tiny person is leading their horse through it. 3. Rough landscape digital painting of a couple of houses surrounded by trees and lost in the mountains. 4. Landscape and cityscape digital painting inspired by Bar-le-Duc, France. 5. Rough digital painting of an orange cat taking a nap in an old oak tree. 6. Landscape digital painting of an old train station surrounded by nature. An old rusty railway leads there from the foreground. 7. Rough digital painting of a girl up a hill, standing next to a human-built old source. A green valley extends up the horizon while clouds and a bird fly by. 8. Rough digital painting of a girl jumping from rock to rock across a river. In the background a forest is slowly changing to its autumn colors. 9. Rough landscape digital painting of a little house in a valley lost in the mountains.
Hi #PortfolioDay!
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I'm available for freelance work.
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The State of the Union: the president is a corrupt demented sex criminal who tried to overthrow the constitution.
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Life……airstream living…. My other place is a cabin in the forest…. Most of the time secluded.
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BREAKING: Sen. Ruben Gallego will NOT attend the SOTU and will instead participate in the People’s State of the Union hosted by MeidasTouch and MoveOn.
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An ICE agent shot and killed 23-year-old U.S. citizen Ruben Ray Martinez in Texas almost an entire year ago and hid the shooting from the public.
It’s only now coming to light, 11 months later, due to Freedom of Information Act requests.
What else is the regime hiding from us?
GOOD TROUBLE: Call your dem members of Congress and tell them to boycott the State of the Union *unless* they’re one of the members escorting Epstein survivors.
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The ICE surge in Minnesota cost $280M to detain 4k people. Of those- only 30 were accused of violent crimes.
$9 million per capture of the "worst of the worst".
Renee Good and Alex Pretti were unavailable for comment….
Journal sketching
23.02.2026 21:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0A tariff “refund” mostly goes to whoever wrote the tariff check: the importer of record. That’s not the same person who paid more at the register. So refunds -- if they're offered -- might sound like consumer relief, but in reality, they're corporate windfalls.
21.02.2026 17:46 — 👍 12458 🔁 5016 💬 774 📌 472Not to put a damper on everyone’s weekend but the president is saying he’s going to ignore the ruling of the Supreme Court and that’s a textbook Constitutional crisis. Is there a plan?
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What $70 million in taxpayer money buys: a private luxury jet for Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowski to jet-set around on.
And we’re supposed to believe it’s used for deporting undocumented immigrants.
Kinda weird that the party that controls the House, the Senate, and the White House claims there's rampant voter fraud.
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That “voter fraud” GOT THEM ELECTED!!
Our country has been programmed to self destruct! (One of democracies problems is OUR CONSTITUTION!)
Paul Blume @PaulBlume_FOX9 · 1h BREAKING NEWS: U.S. District Court Judge Laura Provinzino has just found a government atty in CIVIL CONTEMPT of COURT for violations of her orders in a habeas case. Attorney cited is Matthew Isihara, a JAG atty from Dept. of War assisting in local US Attorney office @FOX9 (1/) Paul Blume @PaulBlume_FOX9 · 1h Judge Provinzino had ordered a detained immigrant held by ICE in El Paso, TX be released in Minnesota with all of his identification papers. ICE released the man in TX with none of his papers, forcing his attorney to find him a shelter for the night & flight back to MN (2/)
Paul Blume @PaulBlume_FOX9 · 57m Judge said she is imposing CIVIL CONTEMPT "to force the government to comply with her court order" to immediately return immigrant's papers. Gov't attorney Matthew Isihara is responsible for $500 daily fine, every day the man does not have his papers starting tomorrow. (3/3) Paul Blume @PaulBlume_FOX9 · 47m CONTEMPT FINDING: Matthew Isihara apologized for allowing the order in this habeas case to "fall through the cracks." Blamed situation on case overload & significant understaffing in US Attorney's office. Says he has picked up nearly 130 habeas cases in just last month. @FOX9
1. DHS surges 3,000 officers to Minneapolis without doing anywhere near enough prep first.
2. Hundreds of habeas cases overwhelm local courts.
3. Dozens of DOJ lawyers quit in disgust/anger.
4. The DOJ brings in JAGs to cover.
5. A JAG was just held in contempt and fined $500/day for ICE's failures.
Listen closely to every word of this
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To understand the catastrophic turn in U.S. health policy, follow the money paulkrugman.substack.com/p/how-the-ka...
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Something new: A short video responding to the Trump administration saying that economists whose studies aren’t what they want to hear should be “disciplined” www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzZd...
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One fact bothers me: after the killing of Good and Pretti I realized the government agents that killed them were men who served YEARS in their positions!; they were NOT recent recruits (w/ little training & maybe right wing militia guys or even J6’rs).
To me, that is a disturb’N fact
"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." –Justice Louis Brandeis
Words spoken many years ago that are just as relevant today.
We must continue the fight to get big money out of politics.
NEWS: CBS blocked Stephen Colbert from airing an interview with Texas State Rep. James Talarico and ordered him not to mention the cancellation over fear of FCC chair Brendan Carr.
Colbert went on air and revealed it anyway.
“He was supposed to be here, but… 1/
