Donald Trump’s attack on Iran may seem unusually brazen.
In reality, it has simply brought the U.S.’s tradition of militarism into the spotlight, exposing the deeply unpopular and undemocratic nature of U.S. foreign policy.
Khury Petersen-Smith and Azadeh Shahshahani on @truthout.org
“anger is real, and so is resolve” goes pretty damn hard
Question: What do you do when your grants are terminated, you lose your job and the biggest science agency in the land chooses ideology over evidence?
Answer: You launch your own damn shadow committee to fight misinformation on autism and public health.
#Pinks
Putting the AI Safety back in “mutilating hundreds of brown children for being muslim savages in the name of Christ and Israel”
WHOA. Camp East Montana in El Paso opened in August and quickly became the deadliest ICE facility, with infamously terrible conditions.
Now ICE is closing it, just as they plan to open up a detention camp nearly three times larger in a converted warehouse just outside El Paso.
These folks need to hear from you yesterday 👇
Sure seems like it would buy a whole lot of everything without killing a whole bunch of everyone if we defunded the military.
"There is no business case for microreactors, which — even if they work as designed — will produce electricity at a far higher cost than large nuclear reactors, not to mention renewables like wind or solar," said Edwin Lyman, director of nuclear power safety at the Union of Concerned Scientists.
it keeps going back and forth between being infuriating and funny how much we study this when the answer is always the same and it never matters
This is beautiful. Thank you, @laurajedeed.bsky.social , and thank you to everyone who was interviewed.
A transplant recipient whose body was rejecting his organ because DHS won’t give him his absolutely essential anti-rejection meds. www.thedailybeast.com/ice-arrests-...
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The federal agent who shot Marimar Martinez and joked about it has been placed on leave. This wouldn't have happened if everyone had accepted Homeland Security's blatant lies in this case.
This professor and her students are making sure Wikipedia doesn’t erase LGBTQ+ history
www.thepinknews.com/...
#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
Howard Lutnick regarding the Epstein files during a Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing today - "I looked through the millions of documents for my name, just like everybody else."
Innocent people worry about the victims, not whether their own name is in the mentions.
In 5 years, they've vaccinated *billions* of people. That is beyond our parents' wildest dreams, let alone our grandparents. I am not quite 50 and it blows my mind... it's the stuff of science fiction.
We could have a different world if we stop letting the worst of us run and control everything.
This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.
Wow — somehow we completely missed Republican State Senator Page Walley (R-Savannah) condemning Trump’s racist post depicting the Obamas as apes.
As far as we can tell Sen. Walley is the only elected Republican in Tennessee to do so.
His post: www.facebook.com/share/p/1CNf...
Screenshot of Byline Times. Jeffrey Epstein Met Privately with Bill Gates and Peter Thiel to ‘Rebuild His Reputation’ Through Philanthropy. Documents suggest they met at the convicted child sex offender’s home, alongside Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel and media mogul Mortimer Zuckerman. Photo caption: Bill Gates, Jeffrey Epstein and Peter Thiel. Photomontage: Alamy / Byline Times.
🚨 'In Wolff’s telling, Epstein is not merely present as a facilitator, but as the originator of a plan designed to extend the Gates Foundation’s influence outward, effectively positioning Gates’ approach to global philanthropy as a template for other ultra-wealthy donors.'
NEW: CBP signs a new deal with Clearview AI to access its scraped image database for "tactical targeting," including efforts to “disrupt, degrade, and dismantle” networks of people labeled security threats.
The SAVE Act 2.0 is a direct attack on Tribal sovereignty. Tribal ID would be rendered worthless at the ballot box under their plan. Millions of Native voters would be silenced. This isn't just a policy—it’s an erasure.
#HandsOffHerVote social.demcast.com/s/jxuJ50VY
there are some pretty concrete groups of people who should avoid cannabis, and ppl with schizophrenia would lead the pack. but for others, the known damages of excessive cannabis use are DWARFED by the side effects of other medicines.
Thus, rather than require such adjudications, the Department is changing its regulations to provide the Board more flexibility in reviewing appeals. Instead, for appeals taken from decisions issued after this IF becomes effective, as explained in Section IV.A of this preamble, the default will be summary dismissal unless a majority of current Board members vote to consider the appeal on the merits. And such dismissals will occur quickly—within 15 days of filing the appeal—allowing aliens to seek Federal court review expeditiously, rather than potentially waiting for years for a Board decision that in the vast majority of cases would affirm the underlying Immigration Judge decision.
🚨HOLY CRAP. The Trump admin just took a SLEDGEHAMMER to due process, largely eliminating the Board of Immigration Appeals process and MANDATING DISMISSAL of ALL appeals (which cost $1,000 thanks to OBBBA) filed after tomorrow unless a majority of the BIA votes to hear the case.
In this time of rising authoritarianism, we must adopt a new mindset if we hope to overcome the powers threatening our democracy.
That means bringing together fragmented organizations across the nation in a united movement, writes @pplsaction.bsky.social’s @ariassulma.bsky.social.
These are the same people who accuse physicians of pocketing millions. Now they’re launching a drug platform. Who’s profiting from this—and at what cost to patients?
Given their track record, I can only imagine the formulary: ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, raw milk, and albendazole 🤦♀️
very weird “I am Spartacus” thing happening right now with the worst people on earth
DHS said that the woman CBP shot in the chest in Portland was “involved” in a gang shooting.
Her ~involvement~ was that suspected gang members sexually assaulted and robbed her.
the latest onion print edition. visible headlines include 340 million americans killed in botched training exercise, jk rowling escapes insane asylum, and us reaches trade deal with pedotopia
just got my first copy of the onion print edition today. i've been boycotting us products for a year now but what @bencollins.bsky.social and team have done since acquiring is worth supporting (with the money i saved cancelling wapo).
"The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez."
Whip the fucking vote.
Get your fucking house in order.
Quit being so goddamn useless.
