If you vote for the new $50 billion supplemental appropriations package, you are voting to force us to pay for more of this.
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If you vote for the new $50 billion supplemental appropriations package, you are voting to force us to pay for more of this.
I forgot to include “…corrupt enough to want to cash in while the getting is good” in that list of reasons.
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Surely every Trump appointee must see they’re being teed up as the fall guy for his failures. Easy enough to do given they’re rarely qualified for the job. Yet they’re always vain, narcissistic, or just plain dumb enough to think they’ll be different. But nope.
A screencap of a Boston Globe headline reads: ANALYSIS Trump’s ‘shock and huh?’ military attack on Iran What’s truly remarkable about President Trump’s decision to attack Iran is just how little Trump has talked about or explained any coherent rationale to the American people. James Pindell February 28th, 2026, 5:37 pm
A Boston Globe headline for an analysis piece, with the unstated acknowledgement that Trump has given us no coherent rationale for this war because there isn’t any. At least, no valid reason—impulsivity, a need to from his failures, and taking narcissistic pleasure in dealing out death don’t count.
Technically part of a series, but it totally stands on its own: The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet. I just listened to it, and something about its thoughtful yet light-hearted — and good-hearted — tone seems perfect as a counter to these bleak and angry days.
Meanwhile most of the rest of us are juggling rent, groceries, medical bills, and childcare.
“Trump did not have an `I feel your pain’ moment in this speech.”
Empathy coming from that mouth? 🤣
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If any of it is real, I’m sure he’ll try to take it with him.
How a Planned Disney World Vacation Turned Into Four Months in Immigration Detention
A 9-year-old shares her story of being held at the nation’s only operating detention center for immigrant families in Dilley, Texas.
I had my little desktop and laptop Macs chugging along with SETI@Home for the entire 21-year run. The story’s not over, but some good science has come out of it. Spoiler alert: no ETs found… at least not yet!
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Maybe he should be sending thr hospital ship to Florida or Texas, which have been working diligently to strip away their citizens’ healthcare.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
Sure, state efforts at climate adaptation are illegally blocked while FEMA disaster aid has been sabotaged and bungled, but at least Kristi Noem found the $200M she needed for her Bezos-style personal jets.
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A cafe latte with artful swirls of milky art, served in a ceramic cup.
Good coffee, gracefully crafted. It’s a wonderful step away from the world, for just a few moments.
STAGGERING: This new study of 133 countries is the first to estimate the impact of all USAID’s work. In 2 decades, it has saved *92M* lives. Current cuts, if not reversed, are forecast to cost up to *14M* lives thru 2030. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
A dot matrix printout on a tractor-feed paper banner reads, “ICE OUT!”
The medium looks folksy: a vintage tractor-feed, dot matrix printout that brings up fond memories of 80s-era computing (Print Shop! Commodore 64! Apple II! Epson printers!), but the message is just as urgent and emphatic as every other form.
If you are wondering what words the all-male Congress found so "blasphemous" that they felt compelled to literally scrape them off the monument, they were: ''Woman, first denied a soul, then called mindless, now arisen, declared herself an entity to be reckoned.''
It took a while but these women are back in the light, and it seems we’ll fight the same fight with all the monuments, plaques, web sites, and exhibits depicting women, people of color, and LGBTQ+ people which are being hastily torn down by the current bunch of small, weak, and resentful men in DC.
A protester holds up a heart-shaped, handmade sign that reads, “Break up with Citizens Bank,” which is a major financial enabler of ICE’s for-profit prison camps.
Protesters hold signs that read, “break up with Bank of America”, “stop financing climate chaos”, and “stop melting the wrong ice” on the sidewalk in front of Citizens Bank in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston.
A protester walks on the sidewalk holding a heart-shaped sign that reads, I love my small bank”.
A protester holds a sign that reads, “broken climate promises”.
Valentine’s Day breakup with the big banks financing ICE for-profit prisons and big oil. Boston, February 14, 2026.
These two absolutely need to be held accountable. But I don’t want to hear any talk about bad apples, because the past year has clearly shown that the entire immigration enforcement system is rotten to its roots.
If there was ever any doubt, it’s not just our imaginations — the First Amendment is actively under attack on social media, too. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
Generally good framing, but no one should be disappeared, documented or not.
Needing a bit of a visual and emotional cleanse…
They’re 2 for 2 — murder compounded by denial of life-saving care.
True accountability would completely change the game.
This is the dark miasma that surrounds us all like tear gas in the streets. We can’t help but feel the indifference — or outright celebration — around the destruction of our country and our collective future.
www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-poll...
We’re now living in a country where girls traumatized by rape are being imprisoned and forced to give birth, all while being denied critical healthcare and basic human rights.
