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Grandson of Holocaust Survivors (גאטשל-רוס, Poland 🇵🇱 ), Son of Immigrants (Sweden 🇸🇪-Cuba 🇨🇺), 1G American (Philly 🦅 🇺🇸). Watching the world crumble, again.

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a man in a military uniform is talking and says `` no problems , everything is fine . '' ALT: a man in a military uniform is talking and says `` no problems , everything is fine . ''

Baghdad Don

10.03.2026 18:51 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Who didn’t see this happening?

10.03.2026 18:49 👍 21 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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“.. off limits to the public.”

10.03.2026 11:55 👍 1174 🔁 471 💬 78 📌 30

But Baghdad Don said…

10.03.2026 11:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Pete Hegseth Blew Billions on Fruit Basket Stands, Chairs, and Crab The Defense Department went on a $93 billion spending spree in 2025.

“In the last five days of September alone, the department blew through $50.1 billion on just grants and contracts.”

“…including $2 million for Alaskan king crab and $6.9 million worth of lobster tail.”

10.03.2026 11:13 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yes

10.03.2026 09:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Brilliant

09.03.2026 20:27 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This puts me at 10 people released. I filed my 1st habeas petition 29 days ago. I am an incredibly small-time, nobody lawyer who knew nothing about immigration law the day I submitted that case. I barely know any more today. I had never sued the federal government and now I've beaten them 10 times.

09.03.2026 19:24 👍 11282 🔁 2529 💬 308 📌 125

Bookmark this.

09.03.2026 20:25 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

“Pluralism is a lie.” - Member of the party of Abraham Lincoln

09.03.2026 16:32 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Democracy itself has become a partisan issue. As of right now, the Democratic Party is the country’s sole (small-d) democratic party – while the GOP is firmly in the hands of an ethno-nationalist movement and oligarchic interests determined to impose their reactionary vision.

09.03.2026 13:21 👍 78 🔁 23 💬 1 📌 0

🎯

09.03.2026 12:44 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

von der Leyen: “We will always defend and uphold the rules-based system that we helped to build with our allies, but we can no longer rely on it as the only way to defend our interests.”

09.03.2026 09:34 👍 164 🔁 25 💬 11 📌 5
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How to Capture the Mad King's Attention - emptywheel There are ways to explain the snowballing repercussions of Donald Trump's illegal war on Iran. But he's not *getting* those explains for a variety of reasons that make his rule insane.

“…the 339 people killed in Israel’s opportunistic invasion of Lebanon are even more invisible than the 1,332 in Iran.”

08.03.2026 15:19 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

“Our government is treating the suffering of the Iranian people as a backdrop for our own entertainment, as if it's just another piece of content to be swiped through while we're waiting in line at the grocery store. But, in the end, we lose our humanity…”

08.03.2026 13:50 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The asymmetry of the value placed on human life is so striking. Israel has a goal to recover 40-year-old remains; to do so, it invades a sovereign country, and the lives of 26 Lebanese are an afterthought. Their names not even worth printing in the New York Times.

07.03.2026 14:15 👍 5734 🔁 1950 💬 80 📌 70

Trump doesn’t want Americans to know they’re in danger because he’ll look bad.

07.03.2026 11:04 👍 494 🔁 211 💬 27 📌 3
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Trump is intentionally making your life more expensive. Where are the journalists who staked out grocery store parking lots when Biden was President to ask Americans about the high cost of food (which he had nothing to do with!) now?

07.03.2026 11:40 👍 95 🔁 33 💬 5 📌 2

Now, just waiting to find out that the target was selected by Anthropic.

06.03.2026 13:19 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

These are war crimes, violations of the Geneva Conventions.

Increasingly I think we should turn the whole Trump cabinet over to the ICC to be tried at The Hague.

06.03.2026 13:13 👍 399 🔁 159 💬 22 📌 6
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The Rot Is Real And There Is More To It The Atlantic Piece Just Scratched The Surface

“We have seen arguably the worst friendly fire incident in modern US history, the worst articulations of war aims, the worst economic/industrial preparations for a war, and, tragically, what might very well be amongst the worst war crimes in US history.“

06.03.2026 12:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Quick question does anyone know how to restore virtue to a decaying society

06.03.2026 01:27 👍 7227 🔁 986 💬 265 📌 137

The U.S. war on Iran is now estimated to cost $1 billion per day. Meanwhile Americans are told there’s no money for healthcare, hospitals, or basic social programs.

05.03.2026 14:40 👍 10423 🔁 3372 💬 489 📌 177
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FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

05.03.2026 07:15 👍 17209 🔁 6003 💬 516 📌 493

Whoa. Buying now.

04.03.2026 21:01 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The entire executive branch is engaged in one massive coverup after another.

04.03.2026 18:03 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Remember the outrage when Michelle Obama wanted us to eat healthier? 🤦‍♂️

04.03.2026 16:11 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Accountability Commission hears shocking testimony about ICE in Illinois The commission, tasked by Gov. JB Pritzker to investigate alleged misconduct by federal agents amid the Trump administration’s ‘Operation Midway Blitz’ campaign.

Despite the lies the President and his administration want to tell, you can see and hear what happened for yourself when ICE ran rogue in our state.

No one is above the law — the Illinois Accountability Commission will hold them responsible.

04.03.2026 02:28 👍 2162 🔁 561 💬 33 📌 17

The glibness and arrogance of this administration when briefing the American people about matters of life and death is unbelievably astounding.

04.03.2026 14:13 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0