Republicans are using kids as a smokescreen for what Big Tech lobbyists want: a national surveillance program to harvest our data with zero protections for people and their privacy. We must fight this dangerous expansion of surveillance technology.

A++++++ question there

NEW: A recent study on public perceptions of extreme wealth has a remarkable implication: Americans really seem to think that rich people are just earning high salaries. Almost no conception of capital income at all. www.peoplesline.org/p/americans-...

TIL that the Catholic Church has never formally apologized for its ruthless torture, persecution, and murder of Mennonites in the sixteenth century, but the Mennonite Church has formally apologized to them for being mad about it

If Cory Booker must do tax cuts (which are stupid) there's an obvious approach: * Rate cuts and no increases among the bottom 99%, and * Rate increases on the top 1% to offset lost revenue If you ever see a proposal that doesn't work like this you should immediately get suspicious.

The key point raised by this war which MSM cannot even touch: Why is Israel allowed to have nuclear weapons? Can Israel provide an explanation to the UN and show why it but not Iraq and Iran can have such weapons.

“Iran has Tomahawk missiles, a fact we disclosed only after a Tomahawk was caught on camera striking a school, in Iran, during a US bombardment consistently of hundreds of Tomahawk missiles” -if your news org isn’t openly attacking this claim you may as well run Sandy Hook false flag theories too

I just sent this email to the news director at NBC4 Washington about the unprofessional and disrespectful way they handled publishing the body camera footage of the DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace that was obtained via my FOIA lawsuit:

This is so shitty and disrespectful. Marisa fought for MONTHS to get access to this information and NBC sliding in to try to scoop her is unprofessional and shameful. Seeing mainstream outlets consistently use her reporting, including her FOIA work, with no credit is galling.

Focus on the cartoonishly Orwellian CNN chyron here. The press corps is literally *manufacturing* the idea that Dems are in a "bind" over whether to stand with the majority of Americans who oppose the Iran War. There's no bind. (reminder: CNN is about to be subsumed by Trump's billionaire ally)

It was. And a cynical, calculated & shameful one at that. Hearing this from a news outlet that called the famine in Gaza a hoax is just too much. For one allegation, no actual evidence or even victims is required. For the other, even as we can see it w/ our own eyes, & hear it from doctors & aid...

New survey finds that socialists are more racially diverse than any other group on the liberal-left, with the least support among whites and the most among black and Asian respondents. Manhattan Institute so grain of salt, but don't see any obvious signs of shenanigans here

NO NO NO YOU DON’T GUYS LET ME PLEASE SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF FREE TAX USA federal is free, state is $16, handles even my chaotic freelancer taxes just fine, same step-by-step “designed for normies” kind of interface as TurboTax but NOT EVIL tell everyone you know www.freetaxusa.com

Holy shit: the guy who cut millions in grants because they were DEI cannot form a coherent explanation of what DEI is bsky.app/profile/lmrh...

OMG they released the deposition videos where they revealed that these two DOGE bros were just feeding grants into ChatGPT and saying "tell me if this is DEI in less than 120 characters." www.techdirt.com/2026/02/19/d...

I wonder what percentage of Americans knows that the CIA helped overthrow a democracy in Iran in 1953, installing a brutal dictator who tortured and murdered people. Republicans keep citing the 1979 Islamic Revolution as if that was the start of U.S.-Iran hostilities. Go back 26 years earlier.

Remember when the IDF had a squad dress up as medical personnel to enter a hospital and execute an injured man in his hospital bed

My point is these are not people who have gotten good at creating new things that people need and making a steady profit off of that. They are people who have gotten good at extracting wealth from a captured market they helped create.

I don't think it's just job security. It's people who have gotten ahead by rent seeking. I point to door dash as an example because it is only modestly better than calling your local restaurant and ordering that way but they charge restaurants a 30-50% fee to do it.

oh people don’t want to be out in the streets? the streets that are being bombed? those streets?

The original bill had nothing to do with trans people. It is a federal electoral powergrab. But all of the Dem moderates who've been talking this past year about moderating on trans issues walked right into this trap. Congrats.

If there is a god, please get this message to this genocidal freak. Maybe through an intern. A pissed off vet calling her office. Please let her see it.

Noah was born on a placid island of blissful stupidity in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that he should voyage far. His takes, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but someday...

*breaks your nose and steals your money* "haha look how poor and bloody you are"

In 2013 Aaron Swartz committed suicide for facing 35 years in prison for mass downloading scientific articles. 13 years later, Meta is almost getting away with an infraction orders of magnitude larger. The law didn't change. torrentfreak.com/uploading-pi...

Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.

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Turns my stomach to see cities with millennia of history flattened by United States and Israel, two of the fakest countries in the world.

NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch has revived stop-and-frisk, cracked down on low-level “quality of life” offenses, and allowed her department to collaborate with ICE. Why has Mayor Mamdani kept her on?

Gonna be fun watching NAFO guys who oppose Trump's war in Iran explain why Americans get to do conscientious objection but Ukrainians do not

Love to be a results-oriented, all-that-matters-is-electability liberal who also thinks Harris did something to stop Trump by winning fewer votes

⭕️ Full transcription of the message posted by Iranian FM Abbas Araghchi who called Trump’s war on Iran a “war of choice pursued by a small cabal of ‘Israel Firsters’”: ⸻ “President Pezeshkian’s openness to de-escalation within our region—provided that our neighbors’ airspace, territory, and...

There’s an Indian journalist in Israel right now reporting in Hindi about how bomb shelters in Israel will allow even the pets of Jews in but will not open its doors to the Indian workers our shithole government sent in droves to make up for genocided Palestinian labor. Apartheid regime.

Two are proposed in Pennsylvania — in Berks and Schuylkill counties.

A few hours after NYT reported that the U.S. bombed an elementary school in Iran, killing many children, the White House last night posted this video mixing airstrike footage with Top Gun, Iron Man, Gladiator, Halo, Breaking Bad, Star Wars, John Wick, Superman, Transformers and Dragon Ball Z

The moment I land in Tel Aviv they'll pull me aside for "enhanced screening" and install spyware on my phone also gay marriage is illegal there (and don't give me the bullshit about "oh only religious marriages are conducted" or "oh they just get married in Cyprus")

Actually, genocidaires are the antithesis of my identity. My gay identity, my Jewish identity, my human identity. Why isn't it the antithesis of yours?

Rotating villains.

Everyone saying this is just a cover for anti-lgbtq censorship is right BUT It's also a way to prevent new entrants into online social media as only large incumbent companies can afford to comply with these onerous rules. It's anticompetitive.

Everything becomes clearer when you realize that 60% of the online right is just guys sitting around waiting for the plot of Taken (2008) to happen to them and when it doesn’t they seek out adjacent fantasies (Somali scams, QAnon, Venezuelan fentanyl pushers etc)

Trump claims to want to bomb Iran over human rights concerns. This excuse is obviously pretextual, fake and not something Trump has ever expressed interest in until 12 days ago. Nevertheless, as I write, corporate media is uncritically reporting on it as if it’s a sincere and genuine conviction.

Only one group meets this criteria, HRW (whose report was explicitly inconclusive) and HRW very famously pulls its punches on Gaza all the time. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

It’s also why they all went with “who knows, fog of war” and moved on because the goal was the dampen outrage. Meanwhile Israel told dozens of documented lies about what happened, not something you do when you’re innocent forensic-architecture.org/investigatio...

The fact you’re mocking people for whom the literal unprovoked and unjustified wholesale slaughter of an entire country is a big enough deal to influence our voting, only serves to demonstrate that you have no moral compass and you should not have a voice in our governance.

#BREAKING | Hezbollah issues a warning to the Israelis in Hebrew "Warning - All the citizens of the settlements shown in this message are asked to evacuate immediately - go south"

incidentally, let's examine a webarchive screencap from March 1 (forgive the quality, it's all that comes up) that they reference "spent 12 hours on our homepage". Let's see if this story is being treated as a media priority. It is not by any objective metric.

If Iran killed 140+ girls in a school bombing in a million years does anyone think this wouldn’t be a front page story in NYT? Does anyone think this would be an A11 story? Does anyone think they would be so faux anal retentive about attributing responsibility for five days? Obviously not.