After a series of fatal strikes involving civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan, Congress directed the Pentagon to reduce civilian casualties as part of a 2019 law. During the Biden administration, the Defense Department created the Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response initiative. The civilian mitigation teams – cut by 90% by Hegseth – work with military commanders on target planning, and making sure that targets are actually military sites. The teams help come up with "no strike" lists, including religious and cultural sites and schools

I knew that the Department of War shot a missile into a school & killed 175 civilians, mostly children.

This is learned today:

Secretary of War Hegseth had cut the teams assigned to prevent such tragedies by 90%.
www.npr.org/2026/03/11/n...

A screenshot of a business registry webpage for a company named SK2 LLC. The page displays a "Details" tab under a header titled "General Information." The business is listed as a Domestic, For Profit, Limited Liability Company with the Register Number 532054. The record indicates the entity's status is DISSOLVED. Key dates include: Formation/Effective Date: June 6, 2024, at 11:20 AM. Termination Date: February 20, 2026, at 2:21 PM.

The image is a screenshot of the Articles tab for the company SK2 LLC on a business registry website. The section is titled Registration and Organization and features a list of documents filed for the entity. Each entry in the list shows a uniform Effective Date of 20-Feb-2026 02:21 PM. The documents listed include a Payment Receipt [EN], an Other (Uploaded) file, and a Certificate of Dissolution. There are also entries for Articles of Dissolution [EN], an Administrator Resolution (Uploaded), a Certificate of Dissolution [EN], and a final entry for Articles of Dissolution. Navigation links for "Details," "Annual Filings," and "Certificates" appear at the top of the page above the main header.

A review of Puerto Rico business records shows that SK2 LLC — the firm ICE hired in November to broker the purchase of warehouses around the U.S. — filed to dissolve the company in February.

The company had just been added to the WEXMAC TITUS contract vehicle in January.

Democrats should be focusing on voting rights
and due process, the places where we all belong.

On My Mind & In My Heart We currently live in a world that is rapidly changing. And depending on where you stand, many would say it is for the worse.

..there are spheres in our society..where everyone belongs unconditionally...the ability to participate in the political process, to express one's views..must be protected..necessary to liberty or freedom or human dignity that must also be protected...is the right to “due process.”

Russia forged new cyber weapons to attack Ukraine. Now they're going international At the end of December, the person manning the digital boards at PSE, Poland's national electricity operator, noticed a flurry of solar stations suddenly flicker off grid. Poland in the dead of winte...

Poland’s electricity operator detected a suspicious disruption in late December when several solar power stations suddenly disconnected from the grid despite continuing to generate power.

Trump admin effort to claim Kari Lake had power over Voice of America was illegal, judge rules "The Court declines Lake’s invitation to do such violence to the statutory and constitutional scheme," Judge Lamberth ruled on Saturday. And, for paid subscribers: Closing my tabs.

U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth ruled on Saturday that the Trump administration effort to install Kari Lake as the “acting CEO“ of the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), the parent organization of the Voice of America, was unconstitutional and violated federal law.

At Law Dork, I dive in:

Everything You Need to Know About the Iran War YouTube video by Pod Save the UK

"..it's these gigantic planes dropping gigantic bombs .. they have shock waves in a city of 15 million people. They've bombed 10 hospitals already, neonatal units, schools, 181 kids under the age of 10 have already been documented as having died. Over a thousand civilians have already died."

Documents Reveal a Web of Financial Ties Between Trump Officials and the Industries They Help Regulate ProPublica is releasing a trove of disclosure records that detail the finances of more than 1,500 Trump appointees, including former lobbyists, industry executives and at least a dozen officials who d...

A trove of nearly 3,200 disclosure records, which ProPublica made public this week, reveals a web of financial ties between Trump officials and the industries they help regulate.

Daily reminders of what we’re up against, pretty much for the rest of our lives.

Textbook corruption

This shows the sort of data that Proton Mail, which prides itself both on end-to-end encryption and that it's only governed by Swiss privacy law, can provide to third parties. In this case, the FBI. @evystadium.bsky.social has more.

Scoop by @josephcox.bsky.social: www.404media.co/proton-mail-...

Palantir Sues Swiss Magazine For Accurately Reporting That The Swiss Government Didn’t Want Palantir If you run a company whose entire value proposition is the ability to see patterns, predict outcomes, and connect dots that others miss, you’d think someone in the building might have flagged…

"The Republik investigation itself is genuinely worth reading, and not just because Palantir desperately doesn’t want you to."

HAAi - Satellite (feat. Jon Hopkins, Obi Franky, ILĀ, & TRANS VOICES) YouTube video by HAAiVEVO

Stay strong Kansas.

@wyden.senate.gov @johnlarsonct.bsky.social @ewarren.bsky.social @waysmeanscmte.bsky.social

Trump DOJ expands voter roll crusade, sues five more states — including four red ones The new wave of lawsuits suggests the department is not retreating — it is doubling down.

🚨BREAKING: The Justice Department sued five new states Thursday demanding access to their unredacted voter rolls — escalating a campaign that has been rejected by multiple federal courts and faces resistance from Republican-led states as well. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

I have a lot of Trump supporters very mad at me

Note that the bail decision does not involve the DA or the defense attorney. Up to two weeks in jail based off the testimony of the police alone, before an ill-trained judge.

One journalist once told me he heard a magistrate defend the system on the grounds of "what's two weeks in jail? NBD."

thinking about how Savannah Guthrie had to cancel her trip to work the Olympics because of her mom’s kidnapping but the guy who heads up the investigative body handling the case was posting pictures of himself in the US hockey locker room today lol

Still, Laura Burns name was removed from the credits. The single mother who made the expose of Andrew and Epstein possible was not on any of the BAFTA award submissions either. To call her erasure unfair is to put it mildly.

How Trump Is Breaking Public Service A bizarro rule means he can fire thousands of government workers.

"The Rule Was Issued Despite Overwhelming Opposition...

..Pretends that a Completely Different President Is in the White House...

..Pretends Politicization Is Not Occurring...

..Misrepresents and Ignores Actual Research

...Is Moving toward the Claim that the Civil Service is Unconstitutional"

mmm Gazpacho

Divest from ChatGPT if you haven’t already. Support programs that help support & defend survivors instead, like RAINN:

Epstein Files confirm who really rules Britain | Paul Holden YouTube video by Dr Myriam Francois

Thank you podcasters letting this man cook.

TACO According to Newsweek, which reviewed internal reports obtained by American Oversight, they identified the victim of a 2025 March shooting as San Antonio resident and American citizen Ruben Ray Martinez. HSI agents who were working with municipal law enforcement in South Padre Island, Texas, shot and killed the 23-year-old during a traffic stop. This makes Ruben Ray Martinez the first known victim of' a shooting related to immigration enforcement agents for 2025, and the fifth shooting victim that we know of by a DHS agent. The information is only now being revealed after a FOIA request was sent to ICE. Martinez's death was reported in local news, but it did not identify HSI involvement or disclose that a federal agent fired shots through the driver's side window.

TACO On March 15th, 2025, HSI Harlingen BEST Maritime Group was assisting the South Padre Island Police Department with traffic control after a major vehicle incident that led to multiple injuries. According to ICE, they were redirecting traffic when Martinez drove towards the controlled area. As Martinez got closer, he allegedly failed to follow instructions, kept moving, before slowly coming to a stop. Officers then surrounded his vehicle and verbally ordered the driver to exit. At this point, ICE alleges that Martinez accelerated forward and struck an HSI agent, who wound up on the hood of the vehicle, leading an HSI special agent to shoot at the open driver-side window multiple times at around 12:40 a.m. Martinez was transported by emergency medical personnel to a hospital in Brownsville, Texas, where he was later pronounced dead.

LA TACO Martinez and his passengers were not named in ICE's internal report. Newsweek identified Martinez as the deceased individual's name based on local news. Joaquin Castro, state representative of Texas's District 20 covering parts of San Antonio, stated on social media, "I am calling for a full investigation into this shooting, including why there was an 8-month cover-up." SUPPORT OUT WORK LATACO.COM/JOIN

An ICE agent shot and killed Ruben Ray Martinez, a US citizen and San Antonio resident, in March 2025. Then ICE and the Texas Department of Public Safety covered it up. He was 23 years old. I am calling for a full investigation into this shooting, including why there was an 8-month cover up.

If you are in Tennessee, call 844-HELP4TN to speak to a licensed Tennessee attorney who can give you referrals to attorneys in your area. "ambulance chasing" is illegal, real attorneys will never do this.

I'm excited about the revelations in Paul Holden's book, and in the Epstein Files in that they may finally expose to the mainstream consciousness, the universality of the selfish lie in politics. Also hope The Global Casino by Ann Pettifor is read widely. Corruption in UK politics is a global issue.

Palantir's most recent scandal, covertly working with Topham Guerin to discredit the work of Good Law Project, is just the latest in a career littered with this kind of activity, beginning with the "Team Themis" scandal in 2011. They've been doing this for decades.
goodlawproject.org/how-palantir...

Indeed, The Guardian ignores the fact that The Guardian's own political editor was about to print the smears of Josh Simons and Labour Together as the latter tried to shut down Paul Holden's investigation - as Holden himself points out on p1 of his book The Fraud. h/t Nicholas Guyatt

The Fraud Using a cache of hitherto unseen documents and exclusive insider accounts, this sensational new book tells the story of how a shadowy group, Labour Together, came to the cusp of delivering Sir Keir St...

The world is starting to see the disgraceful, underhand & undemocratic behaviour of Josh Simons & Labour Together.

This is largely thanks to the courageous journalism of Paul Holden.

Buy his excellent book, The Fraud @orbooks.bsky.social here:

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