Commentary: Anyone Else Have Those Weird Dreams Where Sobbing Future Generations Beg You To Change Course?
02.03.2026 18:10
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Commentary: Anyone Else Have Those Weird Dreams Where Sobbing Future Generations Beg You To Change Course?
The Wayback is now so load-bearing we should be protecting it with our actual lives
Gonna go ahead and say this was a) inevitable and b) widely predicted, but the subhuman shitstains involved in all this c) don't care.
This ICE observer had her TSA-Pre-check revoked.
www.courtlistener.com/docket/72047...
"Three days after the interaction, on January 13th, I received an email notice that my Global Entry/TSA-Pre Check privilege for passing through airport security had been revoked."
Screenshot of a press release with the headline: “Mayor Mamdani Announces Formation of ‘Rental Ripoff’ Hearings.” Subhead reads: “‘Rental Ripoff’ hearings in all five boroughs will offer New Yorkers a microphone to share poor conditions, unconscionable business practices that City will act on.” Body text reads: “NEW YORK, NY — New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani today signed an executive order directing the Department of Housing Preservation & Development, the Department of Buildings, the Mayor’s Office to Protect Tenants, and the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection, in coordination with the new Office of Mass Engagement, to hold ‘Rental Ripoff’ hearings across the five boroughs within the first 100 days of the administration. At these hearings, working New Yorkers will be able to speak about the challenges they face — from poor building conditions to hidden fees on rent payments. Following these hearings, the Mamdani administration will publish a summary and report detailing common themes and areas of opportunity, and the testimony shared at these hearings will directly inform policy interventions to take on these ripoff tactics. Details about the hearings will be available at nyc.gov/RentalRipoff.”
This should exist in every city in the country.
WORLD Iraqis Celebrate in Baghdad Streets APRIL 9, 2003 • 12:00 AM ET HEARD ON MORNING EDITION By Anne Garrels Listen + PLAYLIST Related NPR Stories Expanded coverage In Baghdad, security forces desert the streets, replaced by looters, and government officials have disappeared. Hundreds of Iraqi civilians take to the streets, cheering U.S. soldiers and ripping up posters of Saddam Hussein. And with the help of a U.S. Marine vehicle, a crowd of Iraqi citizens topples a giant statue of the Iraqi leader. Hear NPR's Anne Garrels.
< Back WORLD Iraqis Rejoice at Saddam's Capture DECEMBER 14, 2003 • 12:00 AM ET By Ivan Watson Audio for this story is unavailable. News of the capture of Saddam Hussein by U.S. troops sets off celebrations across Iraq, as citizens in Baghdad play loud music and fire into the air. The former dictator was found in a camouflaged hole near a farmhouse outside of Tikrit. Hear NPR'S Ivan Watson.
People being like, "But Venezuelans are happy about Maduro being gone!" have the memories of goldfish. IN 2003, the narrative was that Iraqis celebrated the U.S. invasion and capture of Saddam.
Whether they were happy or not, invading Iraq was still the wrong thing to do.
Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago
I mean they could be right. They’re not a senators son. They’re just the senator who has sons who won’t be fighting in this war
Screenshot image: "Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson had to get naked, attack each other 'like tigers' first day on set"
Me and who:
Rubio is claiming that they did not need Congress permission because it was a law enforcement mission. The US is behaving as a global police state, extending its own arbitrary legal decisions to the whole world.
This is not a problem just for Venezuela.
People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.
Screenshots from Andor when the Gorman councilman told Mon Mothma, “They don’t even bother to lie badly anymore. I suppose that’s the final humiliation.”
A defining moment for Europe. If it endorses/fails to condemn this flagrant breach of international law, it will have surrendered its core justification for opposing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
sorry i am doing the thing i don't like to do but yes obviously we are at war with venezuela under any terms other than those of our constitution, because the war is domestically illegal as well as internationally illegal
Kidnapping the leader of a foreign state without any declaration of war and announcing it via social media is full-on rogue state stuff. From the world’s number one superpower.
Whatever you might think of Maduro, the seizure and kidnapping of a head of state takes us to a very dark place. Vast, arbitrary, extra-legal power, which could be exercised almost anywhere, regardless of the character of the target government.
Im seeing discussions about consultations with congress, authorizations of force etc. I have to say this transcends any of what I would call sub constitutional technicalities. The president has gone to war with a foreign power and, it seems, kidnapped a foreign head of state on the basis of nothing.
The media wants the war and likes Trump and so will not report on this war as if it is unpopular, despite overwhelming polling showing that it is. Covering things as if they are unpopular is for things they want to stop and they want the war and want it to succeed.
Most Americans say President Trump should seek congressional authorization before using force in Venezuela.
(@dhmontgomery.com @today.yougov.com)
More, via Opinion Today:
opiniontoday.substack.com/p/251224-free
For all my SF folks, we gotta get into the streets. We can’t let Trump or anyone think this is ok or normal
#Venezuela #Trump #Maduro #Caracas #WarCrimes
Three million people live in Caracas, five million in the metro area. It's one of the densest cities in South America. Remember this in the morning when they try to spin this as anything other than a cold-blooded attack on a major civilian center.
The members who did the "don't follow illegal orders" video absolutely need to immediately do a "hey these were the illegal orders we were talking about and participating in them can expect to face consequences to the fullest extent of the law" video
hey remember when a bunch of middle-aged drunk korean lawmakers climbed the locked gates to the national assembly to hold an emergency session after the president gave illegal orders to the military, all of which ended with said president being sentenced to prison
So we’re just starting WW3 now? Wtf is Trump doing here kidnapping Maduro and his wife after bombing a sovereign country we’re not at war with
we have not "apprehended" the president of venezuela. we have invaded a foreign country and kidnapped its leader. what the fuck are we doing here, i am going to lose my mind
TikTok showed me this saying give this to someone in Tech and I can confirm this is the best thing you could give me
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A large part of the Black Panther was building power *outside* of the state. They did not want to get the dems to win the senate or house or presidency
And there’s absolutely no way the street is going to find another use for this.
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