It's been my (basic) understanding the US "won" the Cold War by driving the USSR to break it's economy in a headlong rush to spend on weapons systems and occupation.
Putin, no doubt, is enjoying the spectacle of the US Ouroboros devouring itself. No gain, all pain. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/w...
absolutely useless
text exchange between Falwell and Julius Goat in which Falwell is convinced Jesus advocated for Caesar/Roman taxes and JG suggests this might be a misguided take, given the the whole Roman crucifixion thing
Exquisite
This is what ecocide looks like.
move slow and repair things
The Public Advocate speaks on the steps of City Hall
New York City agencies work for New Yorkers—not for ICE or Trump.
Our laws are clear: city government is here to protect the safety, rights, and dignity of all who live here.
Data shows sanctuary cities are safer, and sanctuary laws exist for a reason: public safety and trust.
It's about time.
But Trump's violent, cruel deportation agenda didn't begin with Kristi Noem & it won't end with her firing.
We need to abolish ICE, dismantle DHS, & prosecute everyone responsible for violating our rights, bypassing due process, & killing people in our streets.
Good news that the execrable Kristi Noem has been fired, but Trump should really be firing Stephen Miller, the primary engineer of the vile ethnic reengineering agenda and murderously violent civic tensions that are sucking all of them into a bottomless political sinkhole, Trump included.
I'm worried when Kristi Noem finds out she's been fired she's going to become America's first obedience school shooter.
Letting Kristi Noem give a press conference before she realizes she’s fired is a pretty hardcore start to white history month
This Guardian excerpt is horrifying.
Just the facts, m'am. 😎
Incredible work from @nysfocus.bsky.social and @hellgatenyc.com
The state asked a judge to dismiss a prison sexual abuse lawsuit — lawyers said couldn’t find record of the alleged abuser. We found him.
New report in partnership with @nysfocus.bsky.social
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There are so many excellent reasons to donate to @propublica.org. Surely the work of the irreplaceable @pamelacolloff.bsky.social is at the top of that list.
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Every single element of life is either more deadly, more expensive or more inconvenient (often all three) today than it’s been in decades & it’s purely because our robber baron overlords decided to dedicate the entirety of the US apparatus to doing barbaric & culturally suicidal white nationalism
An ICE agent shot and killed Ruben Ray Martinez, a US citizen and San Antonio resident, in March 2025. Then ICE and the Texas Department of Public Safety covered it up. He was 23 years old. I am calling for a full investigation into this shooting, including why there was an 8-month cover up.
I hadn't cried about how much I love Minneapolis in a few days, so this was a good one to read:
"Minnesotans will continue to keep Minnesotans safe until we rid the state of the federal occupation, just like lake ice is weakened by springtime sunshine and subsumed by the water below."
An administration that will be historically notable for having all the Worst People in the World in and supporting it.
Nothing at all concerning here:
"Dr. DeRemer, an anesthesiologist in Portland, Ore., who frequently visited his wife’s Washington offices, did not responded [sic] to a request for comment."
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/b...
Black women in America are more than twice as likely as white women to have a stillbirth.
Getting physicians to take their concerns seriously is one reason for this disparity, they say: “If you’re a Black woman, you get dismissed.”
(Published Dec. 2022)
In the concentration camp universe, this is what's known as a filtration camp. A government preemptively takes a whole class of people to interrogate and detain extrajudicially in order to inflict duress on them while arbitrarily assessing their (supposed) culpability.
NEW: DOJ told a judge in New Jersey that it had violated court orders about 54 times between Dec. 5 and this week — the latest accounting of a phenomenon that used to be rare and is now rampant. www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
There must be trials. Not as an emotive aspiration, rhetorical meme, or empty threat. A concrete plan. A dedicated special court for it. Structural legislation and prosecutors and funding and all the rest of it. Everything necessary for it can be done constitutionally. All it takes is the will.
Just beyond horrifying that this is the United States in 2026.
“I’ve never protested before - but I just watched 4th & 5th grade kids run away from our own government.” 😕🇺🇸💔
(From @crindivisible.bsky.social )
SCOOP: ICE is asking Social Security for peoples' in-person appointment dates and times, and SSA staff are being told to give it to them. From me + @leahfeiger.bsky.social + @zoeschiffer.bsky.social @wired.com
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it really can't be said enough that this is a person who has dined with the president of the united states
Ending this operation is not enough.
We need justice and accountability. That starts with independent investigations into the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, economic restitution for businesses impacted, abolishing ICE, and the impeachment of Kristi Noem.
