Leslie

Prasad also made collages of doctors wearing masks to shame them and spread doubt and mistrust.

That’s the professionalism and maturity he brought to the table.

Reupping.

Not only did Trump minimize possibility of terrorist attacks on US. But White House nixed a law enforcement bulletin ABOUT those threats.

It’s almost like he’s hoping for it so that he can have an excuse to use “emergency powers”

Psycho

"The only ones who need to be worried right now is the Iranians who think they're gonna live"

-Pete Hegseth, Very Normal Guy

Miami Republicans, university rocked by report of racist group chat A Florida university said on Thursday law enforcement is investigating a Miami Herald ​report that prominent members of the local Republican Party and conservative student leaders exchanged racist, antisemitic ‌and homophobic messages in an online group chat.

A Florida university said on Thursday law enforcement is investigating a Miami Herald report that prominent members of the local Republican Party and conservative student leaders exchanged racist, antisemitic and homophobic messages in an online group chat.

They're the MLS Cup champion Inter Miami. He's supposed to be honoring them for their win, but he's rambling about other nonsense instead, as usual.

Soccer players

Has he said anything about the guys standing behind him or has he forgotten why they're there or that they're there at all?

My first thought

This doesn't surprise me, considering the massive online right-wing media machine mentors that boys and teens are following.

Pete Hegseth: Come for the bigoted White Supremacy, stay for the unconstitutional Christian Nationalism. Glory!

This isn't better. It might actually be worse, if that's even possible.

US opposes IAEA board resolution condemning attacks on Ukraine's power grid The United States joined Russia, China, and ‌Niger on Thursday in opposing a resolution adopted by the U.N. nuclear watchdog's board denouncing attacks on Ukraine's energy infrastructure as a threat t...

How awful are we?

www.reuters.com/world/europe...

I'm getting a really strong sense of deja vu

Basically, what the Department of Justice argued in court today was that RFK Jr. has the absolute authority to kill millions of people with impunity.

I do not exaggerate.

RFK Jr. Tells Joe Rogan He’s About to Unleash 14 Banned Peptides RFK Jr. plans to reverse a sweeping compounding ban of certain peptides issued by the FDA in late 2023.

This is madness. I wrote about "peptides" a few years ago, before the trend really hit. People are injecting themselves with black-market liquids purported to contain experimental drugs that were abandoned for failing to show benefits or being unsafe.

gizmodo.com/rfk-jr-tells...

Little boys playing with their very real deadly toys and treating it like a fun game or exciting reality show. They don't care who they're hurting or killing.

Considering most things Trump says are projections, this statement kinda scares me.

This is what weak and insecure people think confidence looks like: buffoonish bluster and swagger, like a 12-year-old bully. It doesn‘t inspire trust or security. It inspires grave concern for the lives of the people serving our nation whose fate is in the hands of these overcompensating oafs.

Right-wing pundits want Trump to heal the MAGA rift over the Iran war via the mass deportation of American Muslims

Influential right-wing voices are seeking to bridge the divide in MAGA media over Donald Trump's war in Iran by urging the president to launch a new phase of mass deportations targeting American Muslims for denaturalization and removal.

It's a really dark trend

www.mediamatters.org/us-iran-rela...

The Deputy Attorney General just rescinded the policy against no knock warrants in most cases. That policy was an important public safety measure. Restricting their use saved lives. Breonna Taylor died because of one. www.cnn.com/2022/02/22/u...

Considering that religious extremists aren't historically the most passive individuals, I would agree with you.

Jesus looks like Jared Leto? People are weird

So, in launching a huge bombing campaign on Iran they apparently didn't plan for:

- Who takes over;
- Interceptor shortages from sustained drone retaliation;
- How to defend US bases in the region;
- Threats to ships in the Strait of Hormuz; and
- How to evacuate Americans with airspace closed.

DOJ has asked a federal appeals court to un-drop its challenge to lower-court rulings that President Trump illegally targeted law firms he disfavored.

Screenshot of excerpt from opinion that reads: "Despite this, the New York courts refused to stay the trial court’s order. After that highly questionable injunction was issued, the applicants filed appeals in both the Appellate Division (the State’s intermediate appellate court) and the Court of Appeals (its highest court) challenging the trial court’s order on federal constitutional grounds. At the same time, applicants asked both courts to stay the trial court’s order. The Appellate Division refused to issue a stay, and by order issued on February 11, the Court of Appeals sent the appeal filed in that court to the Appellate Division and dismissed applicants’ motions for a stay."

With nowhere else to turn, the applicants asked us to issue a stay, and we have jurisdiction to entertain their application. Title 28 U. S. C. §1257(a) gives us jurisdiction to review “[f]inal judgments or decrees” that are rendered by a State’s highest court and adjudicate federal constitutional claims, and the Court of Appeals’ February 11 order falls within that category.

1/9: In the New York redistricting case, Justice Alito's justification for why #SCOTUS even had *jurisdiction* to issue a stay is based upon a remarkably misleading portrayal of the state court proceedings.

I realize this is technical, but I wanted to write a short thread to explain the shadiness: