critics say
Afghan man dies in ICE custody
Mohammad Nazeer Paktyawal was legally evacuated out of Afghanistan after the fall of Kabul and had served with US forces for ten years.
He leaves behind six children, one of whom is a US citizen.
I don’t think this shit will work but i never want to hear about free speech from any trumpers or anti anti trumpers ever again, fuck off forever bsky.app/profile/cram...
Remember when they declared they had restored free speech and ended federal censorship on Trump's very first day back?
Well, now they're openly bragging about all the journalists they got fired for saying the wrong thing and all the companies the federal government forced to make changes.
For those who think that the US armed forces would never carry out illegal orders from the Trump administration, note that they are still carrying out boat strikes--which experts agree are illegal. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/u...
Donald Trump letting you know how the authoritarian capture of the media is going, in case you missed it. Unlike other authoritarians in places like Hungary and Poland he has no worries about advertising his authoritarian take over of the media.
Almost like it was a mistake to alienate all of our allies with idiotic trade wars, and then launch an actual hot war where we needed their help gcaptain.com/trump-calls-...
To lose one strait controlling the global oil supply may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
- Oscar Wilde
There's a hauntingly beautiful irony in these morons thinking that carefully crafted American hegemony was actually weak and woke, and they would be the ones who would do Power and Dominance properly, and immediately bringing everything crashing down
When in doubt, pretend linear time works backwards.
An internal DHS document obtained by 404 Media shows for the first time CBP used location data sourced from the online advertising industry to track phone locations. ICE has bought access to similar tools.
www.404media.co/cbp-tapped-i...
Look, it is a sign of strength and success when you try to censor press coverage of your unnecessary war.
US soft power now completely abandoned in favour of spectacular displays of ineffective hard power.
Let me just say that having been there, the idea of being a Black woman in labor in America and having to go before a judge is terrorism.
Of all the generations that have ever lived on Earth, this one is the only one to have even attempted to recognise the substantive equality of all people.
If it dies, it dies with us. But let it not die without a fight.
NEW: Two senior MOD whistleblowers with inside knowledge of Palantir's systems have come forward to @thenerve.news to say government ministers are ignorant of the grave national security risks the technology poses.
Hugely important by @charlienotold.bsky.social
www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-t...
Funny how all the "free speech" warriors go so quiet when actual state censorship comes along.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
What’s happening here is that the 30% of the country that wants, like Mike Johnson, to impose its right wing religious values on the country using state power is falsely accusing the 1.3% of the US population that is Muslim of wanting to impose their religion on the country using state power.
In the 1920s, there was an enormous Klan-aligned caucus in the House of Representatives that passed an immigration restriction bill designed to keep out Catholics and Jews because they supposedly posed an existential threat to American civilization. 100 years later, here we are.
"We started a war of aggression for no reason & commenced it by accidentally bombing an elementary school & killing over 100 kids."
That simple fact is so horrific that it's just kind of bouncing on the surface of our collective consciousness. We can't absorb its full implications & significance.
I have watched 6 hours of a DOGE bro deposition. The whole thing, start to finish. It's a fascinating, and horrifying, look at the people who caused so much damage, didn't really achieve anything at all, while still being so sure they are right. Here's what they said: www.404media.co/i-watched-6-...
Lawyer: You don't regret that people might have lost income?
Cavanaugh (DOGE): No, I think it was more important to reduce the federal deficit from two trillion dollars to close to zero.
Lawyer: Did you reduce the federal deficit?
Cavanaugh: No, we didn't.
Countries should withdraw from the World Cup over this.
Maybe it should matter that the President of the United States threatened the lives of the Iranian soccer team, who can say
A man who was shot by Connecticut police last year and later died had to wait 10 extra minutes for another ambulance to arrive at the scene, after another officer having an anxiety attack took the first one.
the mental fragility of maga he-men is incredible to behold bsky.app/profile/scot...
Nadia Schadlow, Trump’s former Deputy National Security Adviser, hasn’t read the Constitution
Even in the era of hyperpolitics, I don't think you can overcome a genuine energy crisis through posting. But decent odds we're about to find out whether that works.
5/ And on the Strait of Hormuz, they had NO PLAN. I can't go into more detail about how Iran gums up the Strait, but suffice it say, right now, they don't know how to get it safely back open.
Which is unforgiveable, because this part of the disaster was 100% foreseeable.
Even as a cynical scholar of rape culture, I'm shocked that this isn't the headline story on domestic politics everywhere right now. It's just an unfathomable abuse of power, in clear violation of the law.
