River Tide

"We left with all my children" implies there is an alternative, which is so horrifying I've never even considered it.

I have let people know the general ages of my kids when going to their house for the first time. But never like this. This is weird stuff.

I think that a lot of the socially libertarian consensus of the 2010s was driven by people who had high executive function and were able to manage moderation and whose social circle was similar.

I mean, everyone has already derisively laughed at that nonsense, so.

We can have 1984 or we can have 1994. We should all choose carefully.

And here's a fine PBS report on the Dilley concentration camp.

Doing the work so no one can say, "We didn't know."

"Because Ukraine's quest for freedom aligns with the United States' long held ideals, we entered into multi-party security assurances. While there are now those who question this alignment..."

Russia’s war in Ukraine has increasingly become a war of drones, but artillery still plays a key role on the battlefield. Newly obtained documents from 2014 to 2025 show that Russia continues to modernize its artillery production using industrial machinery from Europe. 🧵Thread:

There are ways to say we are on the wrong path. Even to fellow professionals, even with potential political consequences.

Clarifying The Military's Role In Protecting The Territorial Integrity Of The United States By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.

The White House has moved from wanting to use the military along the Southern Border, to using it across America, against America.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/clarifying-the-militarys-role-in-protecting-the-territorial-integrity-of-the-united-states/

TITUS refers to a term called Territorial Integrity of the United States. Usually our standards of how the US military can operate are different, whether foreign based or domestic. This is baldly saying the US Navy is being used to operate against America, inside America.

Russia thinks it can outsmart the US during Ukraine peace talks, a European intelligence chief says Russian officials have no intention of ending their war in Ukraine, according to a senior European intelligence official.

Russian officials have no desire to halt Russia’s almost 4-year-old invasion of neighboring Ukraine and think they can “outsmart” the United States during talks with Washington about how to end the war, a senior European intelligence official told The Associated Press.

Line chart showing that confidence in President Donald Trump's ethics has declined among several U.S. religious groups over the past year. The chart is based on Pew Research Center surveys of U.S. adults.

% of White evangelicals who are extremely/very confident that Donald Trump acts ethically in office 📉

55% in early 2025
40% in early 2026

www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

You broke it, you pay for it.

that's certainly what it brings to mind

This is the 38th time that the U.S. military has unlawfully killed civilians on the orders of Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump. At least 130 people — never charged with crimes, their identities unknown to their executioners — are now dead.

There’s no war.
The US wasn’t attacked, and isn’t under imminent threat.
Congress didn’t authorize it.
Treaties don’t allow it.
Drugs aren’t armaments.
Drug traffickers aren’t terrorists.
Even with all that, we don’t know these were all drug traffickers.
And even if they were, they’re low level.

The Trump administration just driving Canada (and Mexico) to move to trade deals with China.

They are so stupid, ignorant and pathetic.

The problem here is: the GOP has gone completely fucking insane in the last 10 years

And well, this may have been obvious to Dems and/or anybody actually paying attention, most people genuinely did not believe that the Republicans want to do the things they’re currently doing until, uh, they did it

Here is my conclusion after sitting through Maxwell's deposition with her refusing to answer a single question about the men who raped underage girls, saying she would only do so for clemency.

She must immediately be sent back to the maximum security prison where she belongs.

🧵3) until tonight no one knew who sent the torture video to Epstein. I went to DOJ, unredacted the email, and reverse searched the email to discover it was a Sultans. Our law requires VICTIM’s information to be redacted, not information of men who sent Epstein torture porn!

Massie is abusing Trump stooge Todd Blanche over this

Vermont US Representative Becca Balint being interviewed by Drop Site News shortly after reviewing more, unreleased Epstein files saying
"They're all a bunch of sick fucks"

Immigration Court Drops Case Against Tufts Student Rumeysa Ozturk The Turkish national had been arrested by plainclothes federal officers outside her apartment.

An immigration court dropped its case against Turkish graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk, a little less than a year after federal agents arrested her on a street near Tufts University

For Palm Beach and the island he had direct access to the ocean; NYC would be a removal difficulty with no garage. That leaves New Mexico...

This story is getting so disturbing in its breadth, depravity and criminal deviancy.

It's a military expeditionary structure funded to at least $65 billion for operations in TITUS.

Yes, it's a slush fund, an end run on oversight/control, and something that should be adjudicated as illegal. But right now it's a freight train.

sam.gov/workspace/co...

Actually, they don't.

Zoning doesn't apply to the Federal Government, unless they want it to follow codes.

All of these are going to have little to none water and sewer service. All of them will need local municipality/agency approval to tie into systems.

Good luck.

It's no different than the vast majority of all the detentions. All far beyond criminal undocumenteds. It's a sadistic power display - and massive payment transfer to the private detention contractors.

This is true.

And all the more striking because we *barely* integrated. Most organizations remain highly segregated but even minor integration was too much for some folks.