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Cupich: “A real war with real death and real suffering being treated like it’s a video game -it’s sickening. Hundreds of people are dead, mothers and fathers, daughters and sons, including scores of children who made the fatal mistake of going to school that day.” www.archchicago.org/en/statement...

“Our government is treating the suffering of the Iranian people as a backdrop for our own entertainment…But, in the end, we lose our humanity when we are thrilled by the destructive power of our military.”

By way of background, the last time the FEC looked at this issue they decided to exclude paid influencers from disclosure rules otherwise applying to paid online advertising.

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Sadly what drives outrage in our society is the price at the pump, not the human cost of an unprovoked war. Six more dead American troops reported today. How many more dead or injured will we tolerate? Or will Trump’s claim of total victory by be driven by $6 gallon petrol? The latter.

Jimmy Carter installed solar panels on the WH West Wing in 1979 during the Arab oil embargo, demonstrating our ability to become energy independent. And here we are, nearly 50 years later, in the same fucking predicament. Of course Reagan removed the panels in 1986. We never learn.

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"Every dollar spent on these unproven procedures takes away funding that could be used to treat cancer, heart disease, and diabetes.”

Tell it to the administration that cut cancer research.

Unproven my arse. Regret rates for cis people with similar surgeries is over 14 times that of trans people.

Whistleblower claims ex-DOGE member says he took Social Security data to new job The Social Security inspector general’s office is investigating allegations that the former DOGE engineer took sensitive data on a thumb drive in a major potential security breach, said people familia...

He allegedly said "he needed help transferring data from a thumb drive “to his personal computer so that he could ‘sanitize’ the data before using it at [the company.] ... [and] that he expected to receive a presidential pardon ... ." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

BREAKING: As many as 150 U.S. troops have been wounded in the war with Iran, according to sources familiar—far higher than the Pentagon’s publicly disclosed figure of just 8 seriously wounded troops. The true toll of this war is already far worse than the public has been told. (Reuters)

With a patsy DOJ & supplicant Republican Congress, nothing will happen. If the midterm elections are not suspended, we know what to do.

MAGA Voter Claims She Loves High Gas Prices

MAGA Voter Claims She Loves High Gas Prices https://theonion.com/maga-voter-claims-she-loves-high-gas-prices/

Pete Hegseth Blew Billions on Fruit Basket Stands, Chairs, and Crab The Defense Department went on a $93 billion spending spree in 2025.

The story of government waste is as old as government itself,but every so often a headline arrives that feels less like a policy debate and more like a punchline.The recent reports surrounding Pete Hegseth and Pentagon spending on fruit basket stands, chairs,and crab land squarely in that category.

This is amazing.

When the government kills a crucial report, independent scientists decide to write it anyway and release it outside of government channels.

That’s science serving society, even when our political leaders don’t.

Tesla’s climate work quickly undone by noisy, dirty xAI methane gas turbines According to xAI’s own permit application, its data centers, powered by methane gas turbines, could emit more than 6 million tons of greenhouse gases per year.

Last year we went to Memphis to provide the evidence that the gas turbines being used by xAI were not some of the cleanest in the world as were being claimed. Good to see this headline getting it right referring to "dirty xAI methane gas turbines."

And yes, they are very very loud.

Senator mocked ‘green energy crap.’ His house runs on it. Montana Republican Tim Sheehy voted to scrap solar tax credits after installing panels and battery storage at his Bozeman home.

Montana Republican Tim Sheehy voted to scrap solar tax credits after installing panels and battery storage at his Bozeman home.

Aren’t we asked by the PA announcer at every ballgame to remove our caps before the national anthem is sung?

At Largest ICE Detention Camp, Staff Bet on Detainee Suicides, AP Reports Camp East Montana has received several 911 calls in the span of five months about immigrants trying to harm themselves.

Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.

Caitlin KALINOWSKI over X I resigned from OpenAl. I care deeply about the Robotics team and the work we built together. This wasn't an easy call. Al has an important role in national security. But surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got. This was about principle, not people. I have deep respect for Sam and the team, and I'm proud of what we built together.

OpenAI head of robotics just resigned over company deal with the Pentagon saying…

“Surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got”

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Newly released videos of the DHS murder of Ruben Ray Martinez show the agent who they claim he ran over arresting Orta and walking without any visible injury or limp.

Ruben Ray Martinez just turned 23 when Trump's Homeland Security thug, Jack Stevens, shot & killed him on March 15, 2025.

Having some of the most thoroughly redacted thoughts of my life.

It's a sign of the times that AI companies are deciding whether or not to allow the military to engage in mass surveillance of US citizens and this is treated as a legitimate debate of two reasonable positions.

DHS nominee Markwayne Mullin is one of the most active stock-traders in the Senate — and violated the STOCK Act against insider trading as recently as last August.

He currently holds stock in L3Harris, which has millions in contracts with ICE and FEMA.

The grift continues.

On NJ Transit on the way home and the train just died.

Just another day/reminder of how “the richest and most powerful nation in the world” cannot do mass transit.

We can afford a war and build concentration camps, but not mass transit.

Investigators now say the U.S. likely bombed a girls’ school in Iran, killing over 160 people, mostly children. If confirmed, it would rank among the worst civilian massacres of America’s Middle East wars.

I am frankly more concerned about the apathy of the American public and even more importantly the lack of leadership in the Democratic Party.

This is not a dress rehearsal. Every single American must speak out against this Facist administration.

boots on the ground coming....

Josh Hawley claims boots/ground are his red line for reining in the Orange felon’s war powers. Somehow I don’t buy it. The goalposts always seem to shift.

A Company Plans 4,000 Orbiting 'Sky Mirrors' to Shine Sunlight on Earth After Dark, Worrying Astronomers A startup wants to light up the night sky using giant mirrors in space. The idea could extend daylight for solar farms and nighttime operations.

There's been so much going on that I missed this story. WTF are we doing? @banditelli.org

The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-lo...

Read @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social on the "intellectually insecure reactionaries" around Epstein. Much here that I did not know

www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...