EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war. The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been “inundated” with more than 110 complaints. One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus…

1. According to multiple reports both Saudi Arabia and the UAE lobbied Trump to attack Iran. Both countries have increased their influence with Trump by investing billions in projects that personally enrich Trump and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner.

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Do it now. Yes, you can leave a message. Yes, call the DC offices. Script here again.

Updated:

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The UAE secretly paid Trump $187 million. Money in his pocket personally. And then Trump overrode decades of national security objections to selling Nvidia chips to UAE because we feared UAE would send the chips to China. Corruption has consequences.

He’s also selling a bridge. I’m sure that’s in the body of the article.

BREAKING Former ICE agent: On my first day training new cadets, I received secretive orders to teach them to violate the Constitution by entering homes without a judicial warrant.

3 million pages of evidence of a massive child sex trafficking ring in the US and this is how the FBI director is spending his time.

Many are appropriately outraged by Altman’s comments here implying that raising a human child is akin to “training” an AI model. This is part of a broader pattern where AI industry leaders use language that collapses the boundary between human and machine. 🧵/

This is a ridiculous abuse of power.

Pritzker’s invoice to White House: (via @nbcnews.com) @govpritzker.illinois.gov

JUST IN: Judge Provinzino in Minnesota has held a Justice Department attorney in civil contempt for violations of her order requiring the return of a released ICE detainee’s ID documents. He must pay $500 a day until the documents are returned.

NEW — An obscure Navy contractor program is making Trump’s plans to quickly build out and supply immigrant concentration camps around the country a reality. Here I explain WEXMAC TITUS, an acronym you need to understand:

So when thousands of women (and children) were being duplicated--including in non-consensual AI porn--it was no big deal. But it took "only a 15-sec clip" of these two famous white men to draw outrage and fear. Gotcha. Cool cool.

A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore the slavery exhibit that the National Park Service removed in Philadelphia www.inquirer.com/news/philade...

This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.

Unpopular losers with money

Any doctoral student or early career scholar want to give an online guest lecture on Marcion (preferably) or second century Christianity (but not gnosticism) more broadly? I think I can offer you a $100 stipend for a 45 minute talk. Needs to be MWF 10-1050.

I think people look at how Republicans were able to constantly put sand in the gears as a minority and wonder, rightly so, why Democrats don’t appear to be doing that. People are looking for some resistance, and Dems can’t even stop voting for Trump judicial nominees.

Breaking NBC: Lawmakers on Capitol Hill will be able to begin reviewing the unredacted version of the Justice Department's files on Jeffrey Epstein starting Monday morning, according to two sources familiar with the DOJ's plans.

Every American needs to watch this:

happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.

In the days before the presidential inauguration, an Emirati sheikh paid $187 million to entities controlled by Donald Trump’s family to take a major stake in one of the president’s crypto companies, World Liberty Financial. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

For the next two weeks, the new Cambridge Elements in the History of Constantinople addition, on _The Great Palace_ at Constantinople is open access. Read it for free while you can! www.cambridge.org/core/element...

This is just insane. It’s only a matter of time before DHS kills another innocent person here. (clip via MPR and @davidjbier.bsky.social on X)

DOJ has since killed this link. This is what was there:

BREAKING: The DOJ just DELETED a document in the Epstein Files that contained allegations made against Donald Trump. But we saved it. 👇

the White House's official X account gloats over the arrest of Don Lemon with a chains emoji

College money well spent and needed. Rice students created an interactive map exposing ICE raids across the country as they're unfolding. Soon it will be a map of ICE raids and ICE murders. Keep reminding Schumer and Dems.

The number of children in ICE detention on a given day has skyrocketed, jumping more than sixfold since the start of the second Trump administration. We analyzed data obtained by the Deportation Data Project and found that ICE held around 170 children on an average day under Trump.

There is always some guilt by association from these ‘conservative’ bobble heads…unless it’s a republican hanging out with Nazis.

"You raise your voice, I erase your voice." ICE in Minneapolis are erasing your rights. Please share our new video of what's happening in our city. youtu.be/W1dyNcRGRXY

Saw this and it’s just wild

Red or Blue, now is the time to email your senator. Tomorrow morning is the time to call their offices. I don't care if your senator is already on side (give them your courage) or if your senator is wholly useless (give them some of your fear). Make sure they hear from you.

We are not the first people, or the first country, to suffer under a tyrannical government that does not respect our lives, or our rights. There is a method for how to effectively resist, and eventually topple, such a regime. We can learn from others who came before us. This is my favorite guide.

Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now

From this moment forward (and before, but clearly now): -If you work for ICE. -If you vote for money for ICE. You are complicit. This is the gestapo. You're on the wrong side. You can't pretend not to know.

Two women trained as first responders were abducted by three ICE agents. One of the agents starts seizing. The other two don’t know what to do. The women jump into action and save the agent’s life, only to be re-handcuffed and processed. www.startribune.com/detained-by-...

This video filmed by Ben Luhmann shows the moment a federal agent sprayed chemical irritants directly into a man's face in south Minneapolis. Three agents already had the man pinned to the ground when a fourth agent walked up and sprayed the irritants.

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

Time for us to apply pressure: Call your member of Congress. Congress is working on funding bills today. Tell them to defund Trump/Miller's brutal state police Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121.

The choice is impeachment and removal or calamity for the United States. I don't see how anybody watching Trump's speech in Davos can draw any other conclusion. He's a senile madman.

‼️ Today @americansunlight.org launches TrumpCensorship.com, a public dataset visualizing 200+ censorship actions by the Trump Admin against journalists, researchers & citizens since his 2nd term began. From our weekly "Last Week in Censorship" monitoring → one interactive archive you can't ignore.

This is extremely disappointing @murray.senate.gov I do not support this weak statement that looks to absolve you and Dems from responsibility for the present state of affairs. You have a responsibility to stop this.

I just happened to look up the fairy tale “The Emperor's New Clothes.” I didn’t realize that it was written by a Danish author. Anyway, back to the news. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emp...

We've got a cover and we're racing to get our final adjustments to the body finished in the next 10 days!

The reason why white evangelicals lose their minds over a non-violent interruption of their worship service and don't even blink an eye at a violent invasion of their neighborhoods is that they don't consider their neighbors as sacred.

Here’s your reminder that we’re impeaching Kristi Noem, and you can help out! Take just a second to tell your Representatives to get behind this effort here: