DOGE was a huge win for the Effective Sociopathy movement

FCC's Carr warns broadcasters while reposting Trump comments on Iran reports U.S. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr on Saturday renewed his criticism and threats against broadcasters over their content, ​but this time with President Donald Trump's criticism of Iran ‌war reporting as the backdrop.

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Exclusive: ‘Rescuers were flying blind’: Inside the crucial $200,000 contract Kristi Noem’s team let lapse | CNN Politics As deadly tornadoes tore through the Midwest and Plains last weekend, state and local search-and-rescue crews rushed to the devastated areas to look for survivors. It wasn’t until the teams deployed t...

"As of earlier this week, the tornado mapping contract still had not been renewed..."

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The Iran war has already cost the U.S. more than $11.3 billion in just the first six days (basically the opening week), according to Pentagon estimates shared with Congress in a closed-door briefing.

We just learned that 6,000 companies have contracts with ICE. Not just a few hundred. SIX THOUSAND.

We have a lot of boycotting and demands to make, folks.

Pete Hegseth Calls For ‘No Quarter’ For US Enemies In Apparent Violation of International Law Pete Hegseth's call for "no quarter" for U.S. enemies drew the attention of critics who pegged the directive as a direct violation of international law.

A note to Department of War Crimes Pete Kegsbreath:

According to international humanitarian law, “’Directions to give no quarter’ is listed as a war crime.

“No quarter” is refusing to spare the life of anybody, even of persons manifestly unable to defend themselves or wants to surrender.

University of California backs plan for $23 billion research bond If California voters approve the bond in November, it could help ease federal funding turmoil

The University of California system is sponsoring a state senate bill that proposes a $23 billion bond to fund research across California.

#chemsky 🧪

ICE agents reveal daily arrest quotas and surveillance app in rare court testimony Under oath, officers said they were told to make eight arrests a day and given special tech to help choose ‘targets’

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.

We study pandemics, and the resurgence of measles is a grim sign of what’s coming Controlling the spread of many infections, including measles, depends on trust in public health, which is eroding.

Two researchers who study outbreak preparedness and response at Brown University’s Pandemic Center view the return of measles in the US as a grim signal of what’s to come.

Because how a country controls measles is a proxy for how well it would control many other diseases.

No pay wall.

US ‘unfortunately’ eases Russia oil sanctions; Macron says move ‘in no way’ justified Live updates as attacks continue in the Middle East

US ‘unfortunately’ eases Russia oil sanctions; Macron says move ‘in no way’ justified

Trump Rewards Russia for Helping Iran Target US Service Members - emptywheel Even before the extent of Russia's help to Iran has become clear, Trump has rewarded Russia by lifting sanctions on it.

Trump Rewards Russia for Helping Iran Target US Service Members

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Letter: The SAVE Act is a bogus effort to solve a problem that doesn’t exist Letter: The only thing Mike Lee’s “SAVE Act” will save is MAGA politicians’ jobs in the upcoming midterm elections.

Letter: The only thing Mike Lee’s “SAVE Act” will save is MAGA politicians’ jobs in the upcoming midterm elections.

Please read and share. The “grassroots” support for the SAVE America Act is a lie. The campaign pushing this bill is being run by Cleta Mitchell and Scott Presler, two of the most notorious election deniers in the country.

Billionaires’ % share of federal election spending in:

2008: 0.3%

2024: 19%

@nytimes.com #GildedAge
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Iran’s Cheap, Plentiful Weaponry Puts US Military Under Unprecedented Strain As the conflict extends towards a third week, an arsenal of attack drones and ballistic missiles has helped make Tehran unlike any adversary the US has faced.

The US has burned through over 1,000 Patriot interceptors ($4 million each) to stop an onslaught of Iranian drones ($20k to $50k each).

Using my last gift link from Bloomberg, which is doing some of the best reporting anywhere on the war.

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Books Are Meant to Be Slow The erosion of deep reading weakens our capacity to grasp complex ideas.

“If deep reading cultivates empathy,” Joel Halldorf writes, “the attention-fracturing, dopamine-hitting, scroll-spurring design of digital media often undermines it”:

Trump Administration Moves to Allow Intelligence Agencies Easier Access to Law Enforcement Files “None of this has been thought through very carefully,” one official said of the plans, which upend long-standing restrictions meant to protect Americans’ privacy.

Granting the intelligence community access to large amounts of law enforcement data on citizens “puts Americans’ freedoms at risk,” Sen. Ron Wyden said of the administration’s plan. “The potential for abuse of that information is staggering.”

“It was disturbing. We know very well the history of governments assembling lists of Jews does not end well.”

Iranian schoolgirls better off dead than ‘in a burqa’, says MAGA’s Matt Schlapp Conservative lobbyist Matt Schlapp was blasted by critics for his comment about the schoolgirls killed in Iran

Disgusting Islamophobia:
MAGA lobbyist suggests Iranian schoolgirls killed in airstrikes are better off dead than ‘in a burqa’
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Russia is providing Iran intelligence to target U.S. forces. Not surprising. What IS surprising? Our response: easing oil sanctions on Russia.

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Even red states are defiantly rejecting DOJ’s demands for private voter data “Election officials across the political spectrum stood up to protect state sovereignty and voters’ security, regardless of partisanship,” voting rights advocate David Becker told Democracy Docket.

Earlier this week, Idaho became the latest state to push back against the U.S. Department of Justice’s campaign to seize the private voter data of every state. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/eve...

The national suicide being committed by the Republican-led United States has no historical precedent. Centuries from now (if humanity survives that long), historians will struggle to explain how such a thing was possible.

Peter Thiel, who controls the trump regime from the shadows, hates & is dismantling government for a techfeudal autocracy.

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Mike Johnson has effectively shut down the government.

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.

The Cathedral of Justice is Crumbling A former attorney general’s call to action.

“Today it appears to many former DOJ employees and officials that the cathedral of justice is being dismantled stone by stone.”

Fmr. AG Alberto Gonzales on what it will take to restore the rule of law and regain the confidence of the American people.

So Iran now has, perhaps for the first time, information about the location of our most sensitive covert sites in the region.

A completely foreseeable, unnecessary consequence of unnecessary war with Iran.

If you hear a politician claim there really IS a “war on cars” in your city hall (and we don’t mean in an ironic way, like @thewaroncars.bsky.social does it), you have full and enthusiastic permission to steal @brenttoderian.bsky.social’s reply below. #UrbanTruth

There have been some very bad developments today.