The real theme of the modern age is "Nobody Wants This". AI, ICE in airports, ICE in general, the Iran War, data centers sending actual cities wiht people into blackouts -- "nobody" wants this. And yet here we are.

TSA is against this. The TSA union says it will make their jobs harder, not easier. The American public is against this. And Dems have offered seven times to pay TSA and Republicans have refused to come to the table. This is about fear tactics, not long lines. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/22/u...

there is a serious critique of liberalism and it is not 2016 trump-russia collusion denialism, it is that liberals put their faith in a bunch of ostensibly nonpartisan but actually (light) republican civil servants who preferred to close the case on this than actually do their jobs

I can't emphasize enough that the Tucker Carlson that Hasan is praising is not bow tie smarm era Tucker, or even light MAGA conspiracy theory Tucker. In this era Tucker has specifically and intentionally allied himself with the literal Nazi wing of MAGA. That is his angle.

There was a moment when someone was given a voice to truly be unabashed about this. But he was quickly shut down and targeted constantly. AND the left should be better at looking to the actual other voices they often ignore. Like Palestinians. And people of color generally.

you kinda have to have brain worms in the first place to accept any notion that people who aren’t bothered enough to do anything about an open pedophile ring involving the president and keep trying to legalize child marriage in various states suddenly care about protecting children

I wonder if part of the government’s motivation here might be to let ICE people into parts of the airport that are normally off limits so they can harass baggage handlers, food service workers, ground crew, etc who are frequently immigrants and/or people of color.

Put another way, if Israel itself defines its existence as contingent upon permanent military dictatorship over millions of stateless people and the suppression of the non-Jewish citizenry, then its existence is not protected by international law as such because those acts are criminal.

And this was the ninth attempt to do it.

This should really be seen as a deliberate attempt by some portion of the populist right to undo the “Judeo-Christian” synthesis, which erased Jewish specificity, but gave Jews a place as junior partners in a civilizational war against both Islam and secularism. That might be over now.

This bridge is a primary civilian artery linking southern Lebanon—a main agricultural region—with the rest of the country. Its destruction isolates southern communities and cuts off the flow of goods to the north. Israel plans to annex the southern territory under the auspices of a “buffer zone.”

So, um... this is bad. Really bad. I looked at the letters that were translated by the AI, and the very first one I found was almost entirely hallucination. Thread:

History repeating itself:

This made it out of committee. You do NOT want to let it go to a vote. Go make your voice heard right now right now

ICE agents *will* be taking shit, yes they will.

The heaviest price is being paid by civilians in the Middle East, but the small-scale farmers of Tanzania & Kenya can already testify to the war's impact 1000s of miles away. 47's war appears increasingly likely to have the unconscionable side effect of amplifying global hunger. No pay wall.

Please think for like 2 seconds abt how ICE has actually been used to target groups identified by the regime as racially & ideologically suspect & ponder what possible role they will serve as faux TSA agents in airports.

The framing on men and academic achievement was always sus. It was never “yay! Girls are succeeding!” It was always “oh no! Boys are falling behind!” Even when girls/women are showing agency, the framing strips it from them and poses their success not as success but as men’s failure.

Listen, we've emboldened several of the worst regimes on earth, simultaneously exposed both our viciousness and weakness, and gained nothing but higher prices for everything. But at least we've created a far more dangerous world doing so!

Sure hope the ADL is happy with their decision to go to war against Zohran Mamdani, who could have been the face of a humane anti-Israel politics in the US that actually separates Jewish people from state of Israel. Now you get Holocaust revisionist Tucker Carlson claiming the issue instead.

I'm much more worried about the use of a nuclear weapon now than ever before in my life, and I was raised on "The Day After" and "Wargames"

No US president—no Democrat, no Republican—should have a huge, vastly-resourced military force to be deployed in our homeland for tasks unrelated to its mission, at the personal urges of the president. It is far past time for our Congress to do its sacred duty. Americans REJECT authoritarian rule.

Speaking of: Netanyahu and others are openly talking of applying the “Gaza model” to Lebanon. The “Gaza model” means genocide. www.jpost.com/israel-news/...

Meanwhile, in Cuba:

I don't even know what to say. Am I supposed to chastise Palestinians for wanting any lifeline thrown their way? No. All I will do is say that Zionism was once a national-liberation movement, too, but it shook hands with the Devil and now here we are

Post-pandemic, we (very briefly) had a strong labor market for early-20s workers, for the first time since the 1990s. People, including Gen-Z, said they *hated* this, because this tight labor market raised prices on food delivery, ubers, fast food and other labor intensive, low-skill work.

Targeting energy infrastructure is synonymous with the mass deaths of newborns, elderly, and disabled people who rely on it to stay alive. It is the same as cutting off water to the region. It is the same as sentencing huge numbers of civilians to death. Stop letting him sanitize that.

“The Phoenix Police Department will not discipline any officers for their roles in a massive city scandal where officials invented a fake gang and then falsely charged protesters as members back in 2020”

If they're not doing passenger screening, they're just there to harass non-white people.

Installing ICE at airports is a grade a level stupid idea but it also advances the larger issue, which is a private, unaccountable army funded by and ideologically loyal to a dictator that spreads militaristic oppression to all forms of public life.

1. They’re going to terrorize people just minding their business 2. They’re going to get in the way of TSA agents who are doing their jobs while not getting paid 3. They’re going to make airports even more of a hot mess. 4. I wonder if some of these yahoos even have the necessary clearance

I’m currently working on the plan we’ll execute tomorrow to introduce our hastily hired and poorly trained fascist shock troops into a job they have no competency for, but don’t worry I found the time to do a couple hours of tv hits about it before I finished it.

They will be at airports in blue states and blue cities

It's a strange thing, because Americans cannot imagine the reality of being bombed like we do to others. We got bombed, so to speak, by another country, once and it completely changed everything. And yet we nevertheless live through constant daily barrages of gun fire that we metabolize as not war.

This is the strategy Russia has employed against Ukraine (in violation of the laws of the war). It hasn’t worked there. I doubt it will work in Iran. But if carried out, it will inflict a lot of suffering on the people Trump was promising to protect.

Trump so hated that Obama made a deal to keep Iran from getting nuclear weapons that he has systematically done everything to ensure Iran ultimately develops one.

Antisemitism has a special place in European society. It isn't just another bigotry, it's one of the organising principles of "western civilisation", to the extent that exists It's baked into our cultural DNA. Unless you actively oppose it, you WILL repeat it. It's the master's tools.

Five days apart 🙃

Truly indefensible. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Monè is the fucking EMPRESS of this game and nobody will convince me otherwise! #AEW #RevPro 🤼

the same number of troops have died in this war that died in the evacuation of afghanistan fyi, weird how the media has decided that isn’t a point to drive home this time

The right will try to repeat their lies that the Mueller Report "exonerated Trump" or "proved Russiagate was a hoax," but it did no such thing. It was a damning account of Trump's corruption by a foreign power, whose impact was limited by a cowardly Congress and complicit press.

things should be easier for most people

One of the things Robert Mueller detailed at length was Donald Trump’s secret efforts to pursue a Trump Tower Moscow during the 2016 presidential campaign while telling the public he had nothing to do with Russia…

"Over the last few years, American tech oligarchs have become the greatest argument against their own existence. The sheer scale of their erratic behavior and political interference proves that extreme wealth concentration is a structural threat to society." -Joni Askola

Which is why the decision by the ADL to go to war with Zohran Mamdani was a generational mistake. They think they can shut down criticism of Israel. But people will just get it from voices like Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens, who care a lot less about distinguishing between state and people.

BREAKING: 49 Senate Republicans just VOTED DOWN our simple bill to pay TSA workers. Republicans have now blocked TSA pay SEVEN times. It’s a slap in the face to the men and women who have been working without a paycheck for weeks.

We should not forget that Ta-Nehisi Coates gave a far better answer to the "right to exist [as a Jewish state]" question than Tucker Carlson. The issue isn't that Tucker is the only one who will say it, but that the American commentariat ices out left-liberal, and often nonwhite, people who say it.

Live Nation-Ticketmaster looked like a monopoly. The government should have broken it up. But Donald Trump got a call from his buddy, and Ticketmaster got only a slap on the wrist. Trump wants you to keep paying sky-high ticket prices so his friends can get richer.

I got really into the game Daybreak this winter, which is a cooperative board game about reversing global warming. It’s based in science and you learn about things people are already doing. I notice articles like this all the time now. It just took a little education and hope to see them.