Mical Raz

this picture is a good summary of how and why January 6th was, at a fundamental level, a successful insurrection.

There's something deeply obscene and broken about the fact that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are bombing elementary schools in an illegal war of aggression, and there's still a sense among the opposition that it has to be explained in terms of gas prices in order to get American voters to care.

Me, dumb and politically correct: Firing on unarmed ships or double-tap military strikes on schools are bad things.

The Most Chilling Detail in the U.S. Attack on an Iranian Naval Ship The Iranian warship was taking part in an international exercise with many other countries—including the United States.

This is a chilling crime. A shame on our country. The Iranian ship was unarmed. The US knew this. The sailors were murdered by our navy, and the survivors were left to die at sea.
newrepublic.com/post/207429/...

A submarine wouldn’t reveal itself … but there was also no ( obvious at least) reason to do this.

I’ve been waiting for like anybody to say this. It’s an insane thing to do and devoid of any justification.

So, in launching a huge bombing campaign on Iran they apparently didn't plan for:

- Who takes over;
- Interceptor shortages from sustained drone retaliation;
- How to defend US bases in the region;
- Threats to ships in the Strait of Hormuz; and
- How to evacuate Americans with airspace closed.

Page 1 ad in Haaretz today: Settler pogroms against Palestinians in WBank are war crimes. Prime minister responsible for not stopping them. Orders to army officers to allow these actions are illegally & must be refused.
Among those signing: Former Likud justice ministers Dan Meridor & Meir Shitreet

the results are in from Heartland County, West Redstatekota. They've sent a Republican to Congress every election since 1962. In a shock this special election was won by a local teacher with no political experience running on a platform of putting ICE agents in a gigantic blender in the town square

In America ,our solution to impoverished children is transferring them to richer parents, rather than assuring their parents have resources to raise their children and ensure they can thrive.

Creating complex and expensive systems to incentivize taking babies from poor people and transferring them to richer white people is bad , actually .

If a university student group had celebrated Charlie Kirk being killed, complete with a graphic made from an actual picture of the killing, the whole lot of them would have been expelled before the ink on the digital story was dry.

I will simply never recover from reading this sentence:

"Since Georgia implemented work requirements in 2020, they have spent twice as much on Deloitte consultants and administrative costs as on healthcare for people."

I was always told that one of the central lessons of the Shoah is that legal, juridical regimes can still be immoral. The claim that Anne Frank was in Amsterdam "legally" is false, but more than that, the question "Was Anne Frank an illegal?" is so grossly missing the point of Holocaust remembrance.

I’m actually somewhat surprised as in Israel we still haven’t been killing lefties in protests? Lots of violence , spurious arrests , incitement , but police killing Jews still is a bridge to far .

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

picture of Alex Pretti

Alex Pretti was an ICU nurse serving veterans. He died trying to protect protestors being assaulted. A group of anonymous & masked men fired chemicals into his face, beat him, disarmed him, and shot him in broad daylight in front of witnesses. Then his government smeared him & defended his murder.

Monstrous acts and crimes are being committed right now, in our names, with our tax dollars:
-Renee Good - murdered by an armed agent of the state for protesting
-Alex Pretti - murdered by an armed agent of the state for protesting
-Liam Ramos (5) - used as bait to lure his father out of the house

Man shot in Minneapolis by federal agents identified as VA nurse: ‘He wanted to help people’ Alex Pretti, 37, worked in the ICU at the Minneapolis VA Health Care System and had assisted on scientific research

Alex Pretti took care of veterans as an ICU nurse. “He was a super nice, super helpful guy – looked after his patients," said @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social, who worked with Pretti both at the hospital and on scientific research. "I’m just stunned.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Agents detain and send 2-year-old girl and her father to Texas despite court order to release toddler Attorneys for the family say they were asylum-seekers who were pulled over without a warrant and did not have a final order for removal.

ICE keeps abducting babies.

www.startribune.com/agents-detai...

A masked ICE officials with a 5 year old child

This guy went to work today, put a mask on, kidnapped a 5 year old child, and then used him as bait so both he and his father could be sent behind bars

Opinion | They Were Ordinary Germans. We Are Ordinary Americans.

"Past or present, it’s not the leaders who disappoint me. It’s the led."

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/o...

Just want to stress that this was a woman who was simply trying to get to a doctor's appointment.

no no don't tread on ME, you see. I of course am going to tread the shit out of YOU

Tracking Implementation of the 2025 Reconciliation Law: Medicaid Work Requirements | KFF KFF's interactive tracks key data and policies that will affect how states implement Medicaid work requirements, which are required under the 2025 budget reconciliation law starting in January 2027. T...

Nebraska is the first state to announce it will begin enforcing Medicaid work requirements early, starting May 1.

Learn more about the data, policies, and questions that will influence how states implement work requirements via our interactive tracker: on.kff.org/4ozQHFm

Woman killed by ICE in Minneapolis was 2020 graduate of ODU A 37-year-old woman who was fatally shot by a federal immigration officer as she drove a vehicle in a snowy Minneapolis neighborhood was a 2020 graduate of Old Dominion University.

So, ICE murdered one of our alumni. So nice to see the Administration try to gaslight the nation by claiming this woman, who won a poetry award as part of her studies, was a domestic terrorist. Zero shame.

www.pilotonline.com/2026/01/08/o...

Distraught woman says ICE killed her wife in video after deadly Minneapolis shooting "They killed my wife," the distraught woman says, adding, "They shot her in the head." An ICE agent shot and killed a 37-year-old woman who was driving an SUV in Minneapolis on Wednesday. / Screenshot/@Breaking911

"They killed my wife. I don't know what to do," the woman says through sobs in the footage, with a damaged SUV visible in the distance behind her. "We stopped to videotape, and they shot her in the head," the woman cries. "We have a six-year-old at school," she says, almost unable to breathe, as a chaotic scene in which federal officers prevented at least one doctor who was on the scene from assisting the shot victim unfolds. "We're new here," the distraught woman says in despair.

You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today.

This could be you.

love to be a libertarian whose response to the summary execution of an american citizen is “you shouldn’t say bad words”

What’s going on with the daycares in Minneapolis?

As a Jew, it’s fun watching the administration post Christian nationalist messages while also saying they are doing everything they can to curb antisemitism.