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For comparison's sake, the entire National Park Service costs $3 billion - a year.

After a series of fatal strikes involving civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan, Congress directed the Pentagon to reduce civilian casualties as part of a 2019 law. During the Biden administration, the Defense Department created the Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response initiative. The civilian mitigation teams – cut by 90% by Hegseth – work with military commanders on target planning, and making sure that targets are actually military sites. The teams help come up with "no strike" lists, including religious and cultural sites and schools

I knew that the Department of War shot a missile into a school & killed 175 civilians, mostly children.

This is learned today:

Secretary of War Hegseth had cut the teams assigned to prevent such tragedies by 90%.
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The largest payment eliminated by DOGE was $38,468,659 to the American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences for transition support services to adulthood for disabled children served under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.

The missles in this video cost more than that.

We need reparations for ICE victims.

Anything short of that is setting the stage for a massive wealth grab from people of color that will re-entrench racial disparities for generations.

I feel like something that often goes unspoken or unrealized is that shifting to renewable energy better insulates citizens from political malice and incompetence.

The former is clearly a big driver of holding on to fossil fuels, but the consequences of the latter still sting.

You can have the best armed forces in the history of the world, but if you are an incompetent criminal without a plan, you can still lose a war, and rather quickly.

conservative evangelicalism is the direct theological offspring of slaveholder christianity and it contains all of its pathologies, part infinity

China has been installing more solar per year than the US has installed all time (315 GW added in China vs US total 279 GW in 2025). This is making a real dent in their generation %s with wind and solar going from ~20% on 2024 to over 25% in 2025. Still a long road to go, but that's real progress!

Devastating reporting. Like RFK Jr., Kristi Noem, and Marco Rubio, Pete Hegseth is reshaping his department to indiscriminately kill tons and tons of children.

A major throughline of the Trump administration.

It's looking increasingly like these guys thought that if they could wreak more death and destruction than the other side then they would be respected as strong powerful men and they would "win" and that would make them big important heroes. Very possibly they had no rationale deeper than that.

Kash Patel’s latest firings ousted agents with expertise in Iran The FBI director gutted a specialized, global espionage unit of counterintelligence agents, just days before Operation Epic Fury.

Patel fires FBI Iran experts just in time for war. Counter-terror generally has already been taken apart.
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Sure sounds like somebody at DOGE took the Social Security numbers and personal information of every American on record, and put it on a thumb drive to bring home to Elon Musk’s AI company.

Imprisoned in Iran, and Under Bombardment

Iranian political prisoners — already jailed for protesting their own government — now huddle under beds as U.S.-Israeli airstrikes blow out their cell windows. They're caught in between. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/w...

Hi! Canadian here - are you going to denounce your mad would-be Emperor's renewed threat to annex my country or are you just going to let that slide past without comment?

We REALLY NEED TO SEE high profile American politicians LOUDLY DENOUNCING this annexation talk EVERY TIME he engages in it.

Senator, all due respect to Asian Carp haters, for whom I'm sure this is a big deal, I think the fact that he threatened to annex Canada again merits a mention.

Good words of warning here. AI models are generally designed to read and incorporate (and, in a sense, believe) virtually everything they find online, with very few guardrails. The information can get divorced from its original source, context, & rebuttals or retractions. That's a really big problem

So when are Republican lawmakers going to admit this president is endangering not just the U.S. but the entire globe and stop him before he does even more damage?

Why is the entire world being being pushed to the brink of destruction by three elderly sadistic lunatics?

Three guys.

Trump, Putin, Netanyahu.

Three nuclear armed maniacs.

There are over eight billion humans on this planet.

We're seriously not able to stop these three specific guys?

Ret. Col. Lawrence Wilkerson: Netanyahu Could Turn to Nuclear Bombs If Iran War Escalates As President Trump gives conflicting statements about the length and objectives of the war he launched with Israel against Iran, fears are growing that the conflict could continue to expand throughout...

Hey that's not great - retired US colonel Lawrence Wilkerson says on @democracynow.org that he thinks Netanyahu is ready to use a nuclear weapon should the war "become as bad as it looks like it might right now".

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At ~$1 billion/day, the US has spent as much on the war in Iran in ten days as the entire FY25 budget for the National Science Foundation ($10 billion).

Trump's FY26 budget request for the agency declined to $3.9 billion, due to a "realignment of resources in a constrained fiscal environment."

If you continuously rob banks every day on camera and those sworn to charge you don’t charge you then yes that effectively means bank robbery isn’t against the law or it means there is no law.

And people notice.

Trump DOGE cuts caused 600,000 deaths this year, fmr. USAID official says YouTube video by MS NOW

That Elon Musk, the richest man ever to live, walks the earth free and unbothered after condemning millions of the poorest people to an early grave is a sin we must spend the rest of our lives correcting.

Early Iran strikes cost $5.6 billion in munitions, Pentagon estimates The figure, accounting for the war’s first two days, is likely to intensify concerns in Congress that U.S. forces are churning through a scarce supply of advanced weaponry.

The Pentagon calculated it was spending $1 billion a day on Trump and Netanyahu’s war. The truth? It was $3 billion…and that’s just for munitions.

Plus they’ve alarmed everyone by burning through scarce munitions in a matter of days.

Lebanon: Israel Unlawfully Using White Phosphorus The Israeli military unlawfully used artillery-fired white phosphorus munitions over homes on March 3, 2026, in the southern Lebanese town of Yohmor.

Human Rights Watch says they've verified that Israel has used white phosphorus on civilian populations in Lebanon.

"I said, 'Why don't we just capture the ship? Why did we sink them?' He said, 'it's more fun to sink them.'"

Oh, no biggie. Just the president of the United States out there boasting about the commission of war crimes, to the uproarious laughter of his Nazi cohort.

One of the most useful data points this experiment has surfaced is that America doesn't have the ability to end it early.

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Why I've been so reluctant to share posts that don't link to a news source. If you just post a video untethered to any sources, sorry, I don't care how viral it is, I'm not sharing until I've confirmed it's real.

Live Nation settles US antitrust case Live ​Nation Entertainment ‌has ​reached ​a proposed ⁠settlement ​with ​the U.S. Justice ​Department, ​according to ‌a ⁠court hearing ​on ​Monday.

Instead of taking Live Nation-Ticketmaster to trial, Trump just let them off the hook.

The federal government had been building a case for years, and could have broken up the Live Nation-Ticketmaster monopoly.

But Trump just let them settle out of court.

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Me a year ago: "Musk may be a happy hatchet man thinking he is reshaping the government. But for Trump he is a useful tool to help allow Trump to restaff it."

WaPo today: "A year after Elon Musk and his DOGE allies purged 100k's of federal employees, the Trump administration is ramping up hiring."

I’m briefly in India. This is a facile observation, but Americans have barely scratched the surface in understanding how the rest of the world is reacting to this war. It’s already an Iraq War-style disaster in the global imagination, underscored by the thuggishness and caprice of the Trump approach