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The WSJ calls it “the most severe energy crisis since the 1970s.” ⛽️

@wsj.com
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They're still lying on the website:

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One thing I keep seeing as Trump wages a war of aggression against Iran, is the stories of the truth of what our military did in Iraq are being shared: widely, publicly. I feel like there could be a reckoning coming for the US War Machine run by - and for the profit of - the Epstein Class.

Mar. 4, 1921 | Georgia Mob Lynches Black Man; Later Claims Mistaken Identity Learn more about our history of racial injustice.

On this day in 1921, a white lynch mob hunting a Black man saw a different Black man walking down a road and killed him instead. The mob claimed mistaken identity and faced no punishment.

Posting this video I made about Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton I originally made back in 2023 for no reason whatsoever definitely don’t share it around the interwebs 🙃

A passenger train wagon in flames after being struck by a Russian/Iranian Shahed attack drone early on March 4 in Mykolaiv in southern Ukraine. Such attacks on civilian transport are becoming more frequent, strongly indicating deliberate targeting by the Russians - terrorism.

Arkansas - Go Vote!

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#sheshed

Trump's trying to find the guy who did this.

Bernie Sander’s 2028 litmus test would strangle America’s golden goose

Surprise! The Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post is against my 5% billionaire wealth tax. I wonder why?

If enacted, Bezos would owe $12 billion in taxes, and an average family of 4 would receive a $12,000 direct payment.

Poor Jeff would be left with just $224 billion to survive.

This is kind of unfair...to NG majors generally.

He was a NG captain promoted on his way out the door to IRR, who was blacklisted from every infantry career milestone position above platoon leader, with no Airborne, Air Assault or Ranger qualifications and no PME above infantry officer basic.

Pete Hegseth is just a walking, talking fascist motivational poster.

The mad dash to award the Maduro raid pilot the Medal of Honor in time for the State of the Union | CNN Politics When President Donald Trump visited Fort Bragg, North Carolina, earlier this month, the commander of the elite Army Delta Force responsible for carrying out the operation to seize Venezuela President ...

It. Was. Political.
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I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed.
Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.

In a Kakistocracy, the incompetence is weaponized for the benefit of the regime. Norms cannot be met, chaos rules. The least qualified and most corrupt run the show. There is no interest in justice and legitimate governance.

Why Can't Top Democrats Just Say "No War With Iran"? The response to what could be the biggest geopolitical disaster of the 21st century is foot-dragging, silence, and sleepy, feigned opposition long after the deed is done.

The stakes could not be higher. The US-Israeli war on Iran is catastrophic—and rapidly expanding across the region. Yet Democratic leaders are failing to muster a clear, anti-war response. Instead it's sleepy, feigned opposition after the deed is done. By me and @ahjohnson.bsky.social

As Texas Restricts Cashless Bail, More People Will Be Jailed for Months Based on an Accusation Despite evidence that cashless bail doesn’t increase crime, several states are moving to restrict it.

Taken together, SB 9 and Proposition 3 illuminate a two-pronged effort to stiffen pretrial detention: They simultaneously tighten the money-bail pathway for some offenses, while widening the menu of cases where people can be held without bail at all.

Feed people.
House people.
Educate people.
Heal people.
Love people.

This isn’t fucking rocket science.

A vintage sepia-toned portrait photograph of Danish seismologist Inge Lehmann taken in 1932, at around age 44. She is posed formally against a softly draped curtain backdrop, gazing directly at the camera with a calm, intelligent, and composed expression. She has short, neatly waved dark hair and wears a simple, elegant dark blouse or dress with a light-colored V-neck insert or scarf tied loosely. The photographer's signature, "Nachtwey 1932," appears in the lower right corner in a flowing script. The image captures her poised and thoughtful demeanor during the early years of her groundbreaking career in seismology, before her landmark discovery of Earth's solid inner core in 1936. #seismology

Danish seismologist Inge Lehmann fundamentally changed our understanding of the Earth's interior by discovering its solid inner core in 1936. Often referred to as 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘢 𝘣𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘢𝘳𝘵 due to her incredible ability to interpret complex seismic records by hand.

She died #OTD in 1993 #WomenInSTEM

Clarence Thomas Secretly Accepted Luxury Trips From Major GOP Donor Island-hopping on a superyacht. Private jet rides around the world. The undisclosed gifts to Thomas have no known precedent in the modern history of the Supreme Court. “It’s incomprehensible to me tha...

Our Pulitzer-winning "Friends of the Court" series began with this story that revealed how SCOTUS Justice Clarence Thomas had, for 20+ years, been treated to undisclosed luxury vacations by real estate titan and GOP megadonor Harlan Crow.

(Published April 2023)

A fake ICE tip line reveals neighbors reporting neighbors A Nashville comedian’s deportation hotline, set up as a joke, has gone viral among viewers who say it shows the “banality of evil personified” in the U.S. immigration crackdown.

New: A comedian set up a fake ICE tip line as a joke. Then 100 calls flooded in: neighbors ratting on neighbors, a teacher reporting a kindergartener. Fans say the viral TikToks revealed deportation's "banality of evil." Conservatives say he should be in prison wapo.st/4kM4qbF

just to be the fascist twerp translator: Trump is the law, anything that disagrees with him is per se lawlessness

‘Andor’ Creator Tony Gilroy Gives the Interview He Couldn’t During Its Release While promoting his cautionary tale about fascism, Disney asked Gilroy to refrain from using the word. Nine months after it aired its finale, the 'Star Wars' series feels scarily prescient.

“We were stunned [about the prescience] for a while, but we’ve really gotten to the point where it’s really sad. It’s just sad how predictable and lame and obvious and wrong it all is. Fascism is just a total fail in the end.” www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-featur...

Donald Trump illegally stole $1700 from you is a gift midterm message.

that’s right

DoJ cases against protesters keep collapsing as officers’ lies are exposed in court String of embarrassing defeats for prosecutors as experts condemn DoJ effort to cast people as ‘violent perpetrators’

Good piece on how DHS lies are falling apart in court. It's also a reminder- especially for headline writers- to NEVER take anything DHS says as fact. Never.

"no supporting evidence or in some instances were proven by video footage to be blatantly false."

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Deja Vu: As Bush geared to invade Iraq in 2002 (a decision we now know he made 3 days after 9/11), it became hard to place anti-war articles in mainstream media as sense a of inevitability built up. Two collogues and I were driven to organize a NYT ad of prominent IR scholars who shared ad cost:

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s arrest prompts calls for justice in the US US lawmakers say action by UK authorities on matters arising from release of Epstein files compares unfavourably with a lack of accountability in the US

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s arrest prompts calls for justice in the US

Feds retract statement about Chester purchase; opponents target realtors involved in deal CHESTER - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Wednesday backtracked on its statement last week that it had purchased the former Pep Boys warehouse in Chest

and now another retraction/reversal in Chester, New York:

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