I feel like it should be more widely unpopular that in the past year we’ve witnessed the creation of an American Stasi required to meet arrest quotas who utilize an AI technology created by a company run by a sweaty raisin of a billionaire who thinks Greta Thunberg is the antichrist.
When a federal judge (finally) put ICE officers under oath, they admitted that they are given daily detention quotas and rely heavily on a Palantir-supplied AI tool to select targets, without warrants and without enough evidence to obtain one. They simply go into neighborhoods and round people up.
"Watching the World Cup in a Global Crisis": Looking forward to learning from the always insightful @shireenahmed.bsky.social, @soccerpolitics.bsky.social, and @jtannenwald.bsky.social.
I wonder what the popularity of Trump as well as the active resistance against him would be if Americans would get their information from non-U.S. media rather than from the sane-washing legacy U.S. media.
“I'd prefer to be dependent on China for the import of solar panels & batteries, than I would, for oil & gas coming from the Gulf, and I'll tell you why… if I buy that solar panel, that battery, that wind turbine, that transformer, I buy it once every 25 years. I don't have to buy it every day”
This.
If you don’t draw a line in the sand—regardless of a hearing’s or impeachment’s outcome—you’ve essentially declared an offense acceptable.
A handy precedent for more of the same.
This is exactly right.
Age verification / online ID check legislation literally forces companies to collect MORE data on children (and everyone else) not less.
We desperately need privacy, antitrust, and algorithmic justice legislation.
Not censorship bills like KOSA and expanded surveillance.
Screenshot of video of children burning Lionel Messi jerseys
When I watched a smiling Lionel Messi applauding Trump’s cartoon villain bloodlust, I thought about Muhammad Ali going on international television to deliver his poem condemning the Attica prison massacre, telling the world that fascists would never conquer the human spirit.
I wonder what percentage of Americans knows that the CIA helped overthrow a democracy in Iran in 1953, installing a brutal dictator who tortured and murdered people. Republicans keep citing the 1979 Islamic Revolution as if that was the start of U.S.-Iran hostilities. Go back 26 years earlier.
This is what ecocide looks like.
There's something deeply obscene and broken about the fact that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are bombing elementary schools in an illegal war of aggression, and there's still a sense among the opposition that it has to be explained in terms of gas prices in order to get American voters to care.
Tweet from Donald Tusk on Mar 7, 2026 "The war in the Middle East continues and chaos is spreading. Oil prices are going up. Washington may lift sanctions on Russian oil. Who is the real winner here?"
"The war in the Middle East continues and chaos is spreading. Oil prices are going up. Washington may lift sanctions on Russian oil. Who is the real winner here?"
- Donald Tusk, PM of Poland
This is a gift link to Jenny Schuessler’s essential article about the DOGE assault on funded peer reviewed humanities research at NEH.
And about the lawsuit by @historians.org @modernlanguage.bsky.social and @acls1919.bsky.social that is bringing the details to light.
Trump multiple times just today has said the country is at war. War can only be declared by Congress, and Iran posed no imminent threat. What Trump is doing there is a textbook illegal war and impeachable offense — if we still had a Congress.
"War Is Peace. Freedom Is Slavery. Ignorance Is Strength."
There are 92 million Iranians
More principled than Fetterman
Once again reminding everyone that the majority of people stranded in the UAE are not influencers or expats or tourists, but South Asian (and SE Asian and African) workers whose passports are often controlled by their employers and whose govts have made no attempts to repatriate.
Let me be clear: I’m glad Kristi Noem was fired. But we still have to abolish ICE.
I truly do think all of the "Noem out, Mullin in" posts and stories are failing American democracy right now!
Trump is announcing his nominee.
That's it.
If the Senate majority wants to confirm him, they're a part of this—even after knowing what they know now.
And that matters come November.
A US submarine sinking a lonely, dinky Iranian surface ship an ocean away from the theater of the main conflict—and 9000
miles from North America—makes it pretty clear the US is fighting a general war, without the declaration required by the Constitution. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...
Not ICE. Not Border Patrol. Just the same rotten local cops we've always had
A cartoon from "Vorwärts": "The SA Man Ruled the Street" showing a single SA man walking down the street while two rows of police are lined up on either side of him with their backs turned.
"The SA Man ruled the street" -- cartoon from Vorwärts, January 24, 1933
The Department of Education has hung a massive banner honoring a racist college dropout who built a lucrative career out of targeting professors for harassment
I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to
the party that wants to require ID to vote abruptly invalidating a thousand people’s IDs overnight seems like a pretty giant flashing red light
"[W]e’re seeing yet more cancerous growth of the post-September 11 national security bureaucracy, but with a more intensified inward focus."
It's not worth overthinking this speech which basically reads like an essay Stephen Miller submitted to the local American Legion Chapter when he was 11 for their July 4 contest for which the top prize was a $50 savings bond. But it's still a massive, reactionary, fascistic erasure of US History.
