Any serious future for democracy in America requires us to get rid of single-member districts. It is the only long-term solution to this nonsense.

Cmon if you’re going to name Prince Andrew name the former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak in this post.

Jewish figures across the globe call on UN and world leaders to sanction Israel

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Trump's FTC just deleted articles by former Chair Lina Khan about the dangers of AI. Meanwhile, Trump is fast-tracking data center permits after Big Tech gave huge donations to his inauguration. AI is making the richest Americans even richer while everyone else pays the price.

Trump's shutdown isn't just imperiling millions of Americans' healthcare coverage. Nearly 42M people could lose critical food assistance when SNAP funding runs out in two weeks. Republicans think this shutdown is about punishing Democrats. But in reality, it hurts everyone.

Under Mike Johnson, the House has conducted just 20 days of business in the last 16 weeks and refused to swear in Democrat Adelita Grijalva. Don't forget what this is really about: keeping the release of the Epstein Files at bay.

So far this year, 16 states have enacted 29 laws that restrict the vote — a rise from previous years. 28 and parts of the 29th will be in effect for the 2026 midterms. Learn more in the latest State Voting Laws Roundup from the Brennan Center and @goldmanschool.bsky.social:

Trump's ballroom donors include: -Google, whose CEO thanked Trump for "resolution" of an antitrust case -Palantir, which has lucrative contracts with ICE -Blackstone's Stephen Schwarzman, who would profit from Trump's regulatory rollbacks for private equity Pay-to-play.

Trump hosted a dinner last week for White House ballroom donors. Then he went to Mar-a-Lago for a $1 million-per-person dinner benefiting his super PAC. Last night, he treated big GOP donors to dinner on his new White House patio. The government has been shut down for 22 days.

“What Trump is doing is creating more and more permission structures for people to carry out violence for his goals." Experts point to Trump's encouragement of military generals to be more aggressive by using US cities as “a training ground” to fight “the enemy from within.”

Experts in civil unrest don’t think a civil war is around the corner. But they’re still nervous about what happens next: “The fabric of what binds America together at this point is basically on its final thread,” one source tells WIRED.

Israel returned 195 mutilated Palestinian bodies showing strangulation marks, torture, gunshot wounds to the head, and missing limbs and organs. Israel has been doing this for 30+ years. Read their history of organ theft and trafficking. mondoweiss.net/2025/02/a-br...

Spotify users boycott streaming platform over ICE recruitment ads

“Nearly two-thirds of Americans believe the U.S. is headed in the wrong direction, fueled by dissatisfaction with President Trump's impact on the economy, immigration, race relations and the nation's global standing.” Even 30% of Republicans don’t want this www.axios.com/newsletters/...

Oklahoma’s curriculum rules make it so teachers aren’t supposed to tell students that the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 — a defining incident of racial violence in Oklahoma history — was perpetrated by racists. @jsmithrichards.bsky.social

NEW: CU Boulder sophomore Nathaniel Ellis has been identified as a member of the white supremacist groups Patriot Front and Active Club. Nathan is on the Executive Board for CU Boulder's Turning Point USA Chapter. Read the full report: frontrangeantifa.noblogs.org/nathan-ellis/

ICE becomes, by budget, the 13th largest military in the world. Obviously they need guided missles. www.commondreams.org/news/ice-wea...

ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase. The President is building an army to attack his own country.

$170B budget isn't really for illegal immigration it is being used to build an army that will be used against all of us.

Guided Missiles, Chemicals, Bomb supplies WTF!!!!! popular.info/p/ice-boosts...

Israeli forces today carried out an airstrike on a home in Al-Zawayda, central Gaza, killing Dr. Ismail Mansour Abu-Rkab, head of the Mental Health Department at Al-Aqsa Hospital, together with his wife Amani and their 16-year-old daughter Shaima. The Health Ministry has now recorded the killing…

Northwestern is banning over 300 students for refusing to watch an extremist indoctrination video that demonizes anti-Zionists, including Jews, as Nazis and Klansmen. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

How to drive away foreign investment in the U.S.: www.forbes.com/sites/siladi...

Video shows the moment Israeli forces opened fire at Palestinian journalists in Gaza as they were conducting an interview.

Support for vaccinating kids against infectious diseases dropped from 81% in 1991 to 51% last year We are getting dumber as a society

Trump just said ‘knows nothing about’ the 2019 SEAL raid in NK he had to personally sign off on. We’ve accepted lying from our POTUS. What a weak ass press corp not to follow up and let him endlessly spew his propaganda against immigrants.

Genuinely embarrassing to be an American right now.

REPORTER: The DOJ is reportedly considering a ban on trans people owning guns after the Minneapolis shooting TRUMP: Are we talking in the military? REPORTER: No TRUMP: Ok. I thought you were talking about in the military

It's trafficking.Those women (and children) get"deported"bringing in a lot of money from the pimps that buy them.Man often just disappear.Since there is no warrant, no charge, no due process, nobody can find out what happened to them. All they know is not white. Those agents must sleep well at night

You gotta wonder what arrengement they have with the elites in these random countries where they “deport” people to who have no connection to them: El Salvador, Jamaica, Uganda, etc

Look at her hands clasped together, pleading for mercy. Just terrified that she is never going to see her mother again. These men are animals. Human filth. Do with them what you will. I don't care.

Gestapo. Such cruelty. And Noem is bragging that there have been 5000 arrests in Los Angeles alone. American society will pay the cost in PTSD and moral injury for decades to come.

Get clear videos of their faces so they all can be brought to justice when this is over. And so they can have no peace until then.

ICE kidnapping a mother as her child begs the officers not to take her. Heartbreaking 💔 😢

The last photos taken by Mariam Dagga show the damaged stairwell outside a hospital in the Gaza Strip where she would be killed by an Israeli strike moments later.

Derry tomorrow ✊

At @techpolicypress.bsky.social, we published a piece with this title this morning. www.techpolicy.press/ai-companies...

"While ChatGPT use has been linked to suicides and mental-health hospitalizations among heavy users, this appears to be the first documented murder involving a troubled person who had been engaging extensively with an AI chatbot."

WSJ: ChatGPT fueled a 56-year-old tech industry veteran’s paranoia, encouraging his suspicions that his mother was plotting against him.... On Aug. 5, Greenwich police discovered that Soelberg killed his mother and himself in the $2.7 million Dutch colonial-style home where they lived together.

"A mural of the Statue of Liberty in shame" by JDL Street Ar in Lille , Roubaix France 🇫🇷

UK bans Israeli officials from flagship defence show

westenglandbylines.co.uk/politics/ali... "The masquerades being performed by our supine press and politicians in this wonky, fractured place do not protect our interests. But Alice represents us." Article by Claire Jones for West England Bylines -