Putin celebrates International Women’s Day. Same gift 4 years in a row.
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Putin celebrates International Women’s Day. Same gift 4 years in a row.
I’ve spent years, decades, obsessing over the Bush Administration’s Iraq WMD lies, writing about them, debunking them.
I can think of no lie about Iraq WMDs told by Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld et al that comes even close to the enormity and absurdity of this lie from Donald Trump.
At a minimum, this should open up the spigots of US support to Ukraine so Russia loses the war it caused.
Respect, Pavel Talankin. May you someday see your film shown in Russian schools.
I really want to know what has happened to Iran's enriched uranium; its stocks of centrifuges and centrifuge parts; the Pickaxe Mountain facility and the deep tunnels at Isfahan; and the documentation and equipment from the old nuclear weapons program -- among other things.
In the absence of an immediate threat, this fits the bill entirely, and constitutes illegal aggression in international law, if that matters...
Time is a flat circle
The non-stop gaslighting of Zelensky abt what Ukr can do for peace needs to stop. Let's be clear: Ru hasn't agreed to ANYTHING. The US is badgering Ukraine to offer concessions up front. There is zero commitment from Ru to stop the war if the Ukrainian army started retreating from Donbas tomorrow.
The New York Rangers expect me, a woman, to come back and watch the rest of the season after I watched the people who run the organization and two of its players laugh at female athletes. I think I’m good on hockey for the rest of the season. It’s been, like, really ruined.
“It can seem that the world watches Russia’s war on Ukraine as if it were a film. When attention wanes, there is a demand for an ending — if not good, then bad. For Ukrainians, this is not cinema but reality. It will last as long as it lasts” — Nataliya Gumenyuk. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/15/o...
Absolutely infuriating. These grotesque, morally bankrupt men have broken this country.
In 1854, after watching the federal government deploy 2000 federal troops and spend $40,000 sending Anthony Burns back into slavery, Boston's Amos Adams Lawrence said “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.”
Kevin Moncla, who pleaded guilty to a voyeurism charge and was ordered to pay more than $3 million for secretly filming guests in his home bathroom, has tried repeatedly to prove that the 2020 vote in Fulton County, Georgia, was tainted by fraud.
the answer to his hypothetical about a five year old American citizen is his party would like to deny it food and healthcare if its parents are working but poor and that the party would like to tear gas the American child if the parents take the kid to do free speech incorrectly
Three rules in FBI firearm training:
1. Always point your weapon downrange
2. Do not point your weapon at anything you do not intend to shoot
3. Don’t put your finger on the trigger unless you intend to shoot
Guns are not for threatening compliance for unarmed people doing things you don’t like
This incident alone would have triggered hearings and probably a senior-level resignation in another administration.
Well surely this will dial the temperature down.
The constitutional prohibition on using federal law to abridge the freedom of the press is unusually explicit and really does mean what it says.
look at this fucking creep. there are children in this home.
"Retired Air Force Gen. Michael Hayden, who led both the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency and is a former senior ODNI leader, called Gabbard’s appearance in Georgia 'unbelievable.'
“'She has no responsibility for that, at all,' Hayden said."
wapo.st/4t9kfNq
Or how about this headline — “American citizen arrested without cause after exercising his Constitutional rights.” Very important that government propaganda not become the default framing.
Tulsi Gabbard Drags U.S. Intelligence into Trump’s Election Fraud Campaign
open.substack.com/pub/spytalk/...
I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com
The Republican Party.
After Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine, a friend in Moscow was going to protests and getting detained at them. He typically got released with a court date and then fined. One evening an FSB guy visited him at his home to tell him he should stop going to protests. Police-state shit.
Following the killing of AFGE Member Alex Pretti and the subsequent slanderous rhetoric that followed from top Trump administration officials, AFGE National President Everett Kelley issued the following statement: “Yesterday, AFGE brought together labor and faith leaders from Minneapolis and across the nation to mourn our fallen brother from Local 3669, Alex Pretti. We honored his life and legacy and lifted up his family, his friends, his union, Minneapolis, and our nation in prayer. “Today, we demand accountability. “In the immediate aftermath of Alex’s killing, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem betrayed the public trust by slandering the good name of our union brother and calling him a “domestic terrorist.” Alex Pretti was a patriotic ICU nurse at a VA hospital who devoted his life to serving America’s veterans. That claim was reckless, defamatory, and unsupported by the facts. Noem was preceded in this false statement by Stephen Miller, Deputy White House Chief of Staff, who is also the architect of the chaotic and failed immigration policy in Minnesota. “Our demand is clear: Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, who was responsible for carrying out the policy that led to Alex’s needless killing, and Deputy White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, the architect of that policy, must resign immediately. If they refuse, President Trump must dismiss them.
The American Federation of Government Employees, which represents border patrol officers at the National Border Patrol Council, calls on Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller to resign or be fired