New attorney general just dropped

Paul Manafort's lawyer is now the acting Attorney General. Let that sink in.

PSA: as people start to expect Iran War price spikes, please watch for businesses that add an “energy” or “inflation” fee to their bills. These junk fees are illegal in Minnesota. Please report any to Attorney General @keithellison.bsky.social here:

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John Young died 1 yr ago. With Debroah Natisos, he launched Cryptome in 1996; they mapped out surveillance apparatuses that muzzled whistleblowers; published (not cited) primary sources readers could verify (i.e. the cure to fake news); inspired WikiLeaks, Bellingcat & countless OSINT & leak sites

Platner is a plant, you absolute dupes who never learn from experience.

Leaving a public comment is easy and took me less than a minute. Link toward bottom of article. Super worth-it.

or threatens, that it's business as usual. She said that the hospital's lawyers said the same. I'm sure James' Office is doing something, as shutting down care is violative of NYS law. It's possible that Mamdani is saving his powder and letting James catch the Eye of Sauron. 2/2

@erininthemorning.com I had my most recent follow up at a SUNY Hospital that offers inclusive care. I was talking to my provider about the current situation with NYU and Mt. Sinai, and she told me that Leticia James sent out a memo telling them that regardless of what the Federal Government does 1/

The catastrophic impact to local health where the air is poisoned, as well as to our global ecosystem as they literally set the planet on fire and fill the atmosphere with pollutants

I must've gotten on a new list because I've been getting blocked by a bunch of people I've never engaged with. (The last time it happened was when I was put on an anti-trans list, which seemed misguided or malicious. Luckily the owner of that list had his account removed, which removed the list.)

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i am not generally a "go through the hoops to write a comment I don't think will really be read" kind of guy, but for a plan THIS bad, by a guy I hate THIS much... I'll make the exception

Get it on his rump, and he could call it Butt Her Emails I'm sorry

Yo is that DJ POTUS!?

Don't forget the Blackwater stint and absolutely no service as a public official. At all. How does this qualify him for the senate? (Perhaps more importantly, who is backing him financially)

I once drove this home to a roomful of cops via this example: “when you send out a BOLO do you want to send out the gender on birth certificate or what they look like today? Which is more useful on drivers license?”

Ada county is moving to print-on-demand ballots. I'm a pollworker & really looking forward to printer malfunctions slowing down the process. All the more reason to vote early or absentee while we can. Idaho primary deadlines: March 15 - change party affiliation, May 8 - request absentee ballot.

Kobach : "Driver's licenses have to be accurate." I dare someone to ask him how many times the State of Kansas has investigated someone's reported weight on Drivers licenses.

The zoom link works! So anyone who wants to watch this can.

You gotta love Wonkette. This is all so great, but one fun tidbit I didn't know about the legislating going on in VA, with inimitable Wonkette flourish:

Starting now

imagine being a history buff and getting this random tattoo on your chest that you look at every day in the mirror and then when you watch history documentaries for the next 20 years you never notice that all the nazi uniforms had your chest tattoo on their hats?

I hate every person who voted "no". WTF is wrong with you?!

I just called my US senators and told them to publicly call for Tim Sheehy to be expelled from the Senate for assaulting and apparently breaking the hand of a Marine today. You can call your Senators, too. Find them here: reps.fyi

I cannot tell whether some of you are being sarcastic or bafflingly thick-headed.

For years on my old blog I published the names of servicemembers who died in Iraq & Afghanistan. No other outlets were. These are the first 4 Americans to die in the Iran War. Capt. Cody A. Khork, 35 Sgt. 1st Class Noah L. Tietjens, 42 Sgt. 1st Class Nicole M. Amor, 39 Sgt. Declan J. Coady, 20

By the way, Democrats have now flipped 27 legislative seats in Trump 2.0. Republicans are still stuck at zero. Even in 2017-18, the GOP managed to flip a few. This time, just a goose egg, despite several good chances.

the double edibles I took have given me serpent's eyes and an oracle's tongue ask me anything and I will speak the truth

NOT JUST THIS: Two other Democratic lawmakers in North Carolina who sided with the GOP to overturn vetoes of major bills (e.g. anti-trans legislation) are also losing in their primaries so far to progressive challengers. This could be a major night in NC.

Minnesota is mourning the loss of Sergeant First Class Nicole M. Amor of White Bear Lake who was killed in Kuwait on Sunday. She answered the call to serve and gave her life in service to our state and nation. Minnesotans are wrapping our arms around her loved ones.

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Two senior Iranian Shiite religious leaders, Grand Ayatollah Hossein Nouri Hamedani and Grand Ayatollah Naser Makarem Shirazi, have issued fatwas calling on Muslims worldwide to take revenge for the killing of Khamenei. (Iran International) 1/3

A lot of the loudest voices are performative. I want the Iranian people to be free of an oppressive regime. There should be procedures & safeguards for how war is declared & how the military is deployed. This president & the Republican majority don’t care about them.

If we will have any chance at peace, of a world not salted in lead and blanketed in radiation such that humanity cannot survive, it is on Congress to stop this. Everyday that they don't, they earn greater blame for the blood spilling from children past, present, and future.

The biggest news in the non-Western world is not the news playing in the Western world...and that's the death of over 140 girls in a school. This is where the non-Western response to the 2003 Iraq war will seem tame. The US has created, at minimum, 3000 newly radicalized relatives of those girls.

We're two days into the [2026] Iran war and seeing why this was never a conflict between just two or three nations. The middle east is a region of interconnected stress points where any given break in diplomacy will cause the fracture lines to settle in ways that cannot be readily accounted for.

Everything I'm hearing about Iran is that there is no transition plan at all. This is all just off the cuff. Makes 2003 look like a stroke of strategic brilliance. There are some COAs but it sounds like it's just containment if they use WMDs.

Trump is draining the US’ weapons stock. Hope there are no more enemies anywhere.

Stop me if you’ve heard this before: the US has launched a war against an authoritarian state with the goal of regime change, where the plan is that the people will rise up and follow the leadership of a prominent exile.