The world's first trillionaire helped put Trump back in office. Then he killed at least 750,000 people by gutting USAID. Democrats can break Elon Musk's power by forcing Congress to cut off SpaceX's taxpayer-funded contracts. Read my 2025 @theintercept.com piece: theintercept.com/2025/02/17/e...

EFF’s Threat Lab confirmed @WIRED.com’s finding that Meta has deployed facial recognition code to millions of their always-on surveillance glasses.

Meet the panel for "U.S. Foreign Policy: Sponsored by Corporate Greed" at #NN26 👇 Sunjeev Bery (Public Citizen) Stephen Semler (Center for International Policy) Sandy Shan (Justice is Global) Miranda Cleland (AFSC) Moderated by Mariam Malik Thursday, June 4 | 1 PM ET

Insanity, by the numbers: $8.8 billion: Current funding for US Environmental Protection Agency $40 billion: Total extra spent on gas by people in the U.S. due to Iran War gas prices. $1.5 trillion: Total Trump wants for U.S. war budget.

Remember the Bad Bunny / Super Bowl controversy? Both sides may have been amplified -- by the same source. Keith Presley, the co-founder of GUDEA, provided his analysis to New York Magazine: archive.is/k5RbW More: 1/

trump and hegseth are presiding over one of the great Ls in american military history.

30 Members of Congress are calling on the Trump Administration to end its silence about Israel's nuclear weapons. Thank you to Congressman @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social Castro of San Antonio, Texas, for leading this effort. Read the full letter below and here: castro.house.gov/media-center...

50 years ago, the federal minimum wage was $2.30. That is $13.66 in today's inflation-adjusted dollars. Today's federal minimum wage is only $7.25.

Why deportation doesn't necessarily lead to more open jobs or higher wages, according to AEI economist @stanveuger.bsky.social www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...

Hungary’s Prime Minister-elect Péter Magyar said today that his country must take Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu into custody if he enters Hungarian territory while wanted by the International Criminal Court.

"the band performed their 2016 song Oblivius in front of giant LED screens that showed a montage of world leaders whose death or ousting the CIA has either been a proven or suspected party in..." www.theguardian.com/music/2026/a...

If you are like me, you might want to review this graphic several times a day. (H/T to the forgotten LinkedIn user who posted this first.)

World War 2 ended over 80 years ago. It is telling that Vice President JD Vance has to go eight decades back in time to find a war that he can use to justify the US / Israel war on Iran. 1/

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Trump is taking flak on Truth Social from Christians who follow him after he posted a Jesus-like AI image of himself.

🧵 Two rules for understanding this White House: 1) Trump's answer to every crisis is to escalate into another crisis, thus creating an endless spiral of escalating Trump-created crises. 2) Everyone who gets politically close to Trump gets slimed.

"It is an unusual form of Jew hatred that calls out antisemitism and promotes Jewish Americans for the presidency. I have deep disagreements with Piker, but he isn’t a “Jew hater.” He’s an anti-Zionist." - Ezra Klein on Hasan Piker www.nytimes.com/2026/04/12/o...

Saturday Night Live takes aim at, well, see for yourself...

All these attacks on @dropsitenews.com have reminded me that I'm long overdue to become a paid subscriber. Thanks @ryangrim.bsky.social @mazmhussain.bsky.social @jeremyscahill.com and everyone on the team who does such impressive work and makes it possible. Https://www.dropsitenews.com/subscribe

Trump won WI by less than 1% in 2024. Last night, progressive Chris Taylor defeated her GOP-backed opponent by 20 points in the WI Supreme Court race — flipping longtime Republican strongholds and securing a liberal court majority until 2030. The midterm reckoning is here.

Congress must reject Trump's request for a $1.5 trillion Pentagon budget and oppose any increase in Pentagon funding. That's the message from nearly 300 groups across the US. From @publiccitizen.bsky.social : www.citizen.org/news/nearly-...

Trump wants to double Pentagon funding over 2 years. This money should be spent on human needs, not illegal wars that destroy human life. @publiccitizen.bsky.social joins with the Coalition on Human Needs, @fcnl.bsky.social, and 100s of groups to oppose Trump's $500 billion Pentagon proposal. 1/

Defend birthright citizenship.

"I called AIPAC out clearly and repeatedly, through the press, paid advertising, and in living rooms and public places across the district." Evanston Mayor and congressional candidate @danielbiss.bsky.social writes in @thenation.com: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

In order to pay for bombing people in Iran, the Republican Party is going to push more Americans into sickness and death. The proposed Republican healthcare cuts would increase out-of-pocket premium costs and could "result in 300,000 more uninsured people."

"55% of American Jews oppose the US military action against Iran, compared to just 32% who support it." [Major Jewish American orgs that support the US-Israel war on Iran do NOT represent the Jewish American majority.] Philissa Cramer, editor in chief of JTA, reports: www.jta.org/2026/03/30/u...

#NoKings #Washington DC

Kentucky Governor @andybeshearky.bsky.social denies the Gaza genocide.

So are the headlines saying the Democrats won this round, or nah? Cause they did. Funding for TSA, FEMA, Coast Guard, no funding for ICE. That’s the deal Dems have been offering over & over. Republicans caved.

The first Iran War Tax is here. apnews.com/article/usps...

Trump wants to double the Pentagon's budget instead of paying for our health care. Thank you Rep. Mark Pocan @pocan.house.gov for your work to cut Pentagon funding -- and for interviewing my teammate, @publiccitizen.bsky.social, @savannahewooten.bsky.social. youtu.be/S4B7oKHHmLc?...

Democrats will likely lose again in 2028 If either of these two are the presidential nominee. Both @gavinnewsom.bsky.social and @joshshapiropa.bsky.social support the genocidal state of Israel. Enough Democratic voters will stay home to cause a repeat of 2024.

Trump's war on Iran is also an act of war against the American people. Every U.S. dollar spent to bomb and kill civilians across Iran and the Middle East is also a dollar stolen from the housing, health care, and food that millions of people across the U.S. depend on to live.

US lobby firm secures $2m contract to whitewash image of Libya’s Haftar

Money for healthcare? Or money for war? Thank you @moveon.org for sounding the alarm. (And nice hat!) store.moveon.org/products/fun... #PeopleOverPentagon #NoWar cc: @nationalnurses.bsky.social

Eid Mubarak to all of my Muslim friends and colleagues. May God bless us with the wisdom and strength to build a better world.

Trump's Director of the National Counterterrorism Center has resigned. "I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in #Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from #Israel and its powerful American lobby."

Over 250 US groups urge Congress to halt Iran war funding - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/over-250-us-groups-urge-congress-halt-iran-war-funding

Over 250 organizations have joined our letter demanding no additional funding for Trump's war of choice on Iran. The additional $50 BILLION the Trump admin has requested would be enough to restore SNAP for 4 million Americans. Congress must refuse funding for this illegal war.

NEW: We sent a letter to Congress in partnership with more than 250 organizations urging them to block any bill that would give the Pentagon more money to continue this illegal war against Iran. Our tax dollars must not be used to pay for this unconstitutional and unpopular war.

250+ Groups Have Single Message: ‘Not One More Penny’ for ‘Foolish, Destructive’ Iran War

More Than 250 Groups Oppose Additional Spending on Trump’s Illegal Iran War www.citizen.org/news/more-th...

New: We joined 250+ national organizations urging Congress to reject any more funding for President Trump's reckless and illegal war on Iran. Congress must listen to the American people and invest our tax $'s towards the urgent needs of our communities, not more disastrous war.

✔️ Make the Iranian government more hard-line. ✔️ Further impoverish Iranians. ✔️ Kill 2,000 people. ✔️ Disrupt the global economy. ✔️ Raise gas prices for working class Americans. So much "winning."

MoveOn members consider a vote for the supplemental a vote in favor of Donald Trump's war and any member of Congress who rubber stamps another dime for this war of choice should expect to hear from our members.

Will the real Gavin Newsom stand up? According to the California Governor Israel is not commiting genocide, but it might be committing apartheid, but college student protests on #Gaza should be limited, but maybe US military support for Israel should be ended. @gavinnewsom.bsky.social 🤔

"anti-American dictators" is doing a lot of work in this @nytimes headline. 7 of the Middle East's 9 dictators are backed by the United States: Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman, Egypt, Jordan. 1/

The problem with war is that you eventually run out of other people's children.

Re killing Ayatollah Khamenei: Remember when the US removed the Taliban from power in Afghanistan, and killed Saddam Hussein in Iraq? How did that all go? The future of this unnecessary and illegal war is completely unknown.

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done - started a war in the middle east - completely destroyed the economy