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Interesting hand signal from Pete Hegseth this morning

Cuba regrets the decision of Jamaica to cease medical cooperation, yielding to pressure from the US Cuba’s MoFA reports that “on March 4 Foreign Ministry of Jamaica communicated to our Embassy the unilateral decision of its government to terminate health cooperation agreement we had for decades”.

Google is eating its seed corn

'An Iranian military spokesperson has warned that any US ships entering the Gulf will end up at the bottom of the sea. It comes after Trump said earlier this week the US Navy would begin escorting tankers through the Strait of Hormuz “as soon as possible”.' www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

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Jamaica to end medical cooperation program with Cuba reut.rs/4ue07u0

Prevention is best. Leadership and trusted community level voices need to speak clearly that vaccination is in the best interest of our children. publications.aap.org/aapnews/news...

My friend Essam and his wife have been blessed with twins!! Life in Gaza is hard; let’s help build joy where we can. Please help them (if you can) to raise their babies in safety and comfort. Right now they are looking for $200 for milk, diapers, and clothes. gofund.me/fc848a56

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.

In southern Lebanon, the Israeli military is using drones to surveil and control civilians who they believe are associated with Hezbollah without occupying the territory; these drones also conduct lethal strikes. Some scholars have declared this effort a “digital occupation.” Justin Salhani reports.

the US & israel kicked this off unprovoked by attacking a school full of kids, i'm not sure why the fuck i'm supposed to see a headline about their murder infrastructure being destroyed and think "oh no, what a bad development"

NEW @katemac.bsky.social & I: Conscious Uncoupling - Can America's allies bypass the hegemon? www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/con...

The next year in Mississippi, the state passed a “criminal syndicalism” law. Local authorities could arrest voting or labor rights activists for “terrorism.” (Sound familiar?) These are the forces Lafayette bravely confronted. Read more by Charlie Cobb here: www.zinnedproject.org/materials/ch...

Chlorine dioxide is an industrial bleach for lumber and freaks like RFK give autistic kids enemas with it. Kids die from the practice. These people just want autistic kids dead.

After the NCAA meeting at the White House, Condoleezza Rice is pulled aside by Donald Trump and Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and walks back with them.

"The only ones who need to be worried right now is the Iranians who think they're gonna live" -Pete Hegseth, Very Normal Guy

The US has conducted a bombing inside Ecuador near the Colombian border, with cooperation from the Ecuadorian military Ecuador and the US claim the target was a FARC dissident camp. They do not yet provide any further details US killings in LATAM go landward

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Quick H/T to @propublica.org's new financial disclosure search tool — which helped surface the ethics filing behind our DHS scoop. A former Anduril Industries insider is now overseeing Department of Homeland Security’s massive biometric surveillance dragnet.

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"I started a fight and said the fight was over. Surely the other guy will understand there is no need to throw a punch because I have declared I am done fighting." [email protected] @katemac.bsky.social & I puzzling over why Mr Market didn't think the "Enemy gets a Vote" bsky.app/profile/70sb...

In Amerikkka, ‘working class’ is code for angry white man in jeans. And the undocumented Guatemalan woman picking strawberries from his fields—fruits of her labor she can’t even afford to buy? Who knows? Certainly not the dominant pundits, pollsters, or politicians.

This is why I don't particularly care about linguistic drift much of the time, but I really do insist upon the original Marxist definition of "working class"; it's defined by your relationship to capital and nothing else. Any other definition is Vibes, and as always, Vibes Delenda Est.

This has been happening for awhile. Politics assigned to outdated aesthetics.

There is a perfectly understandable and simple definition of the working class for a century and a half and Americans keep trying to act like it's confusing or unsettled because they don't like what defining it properly forces them to contend with

I call this The State of the Union

Iran is just going to bleed Trump. They’ve thought this through while he can’t think at all. Iran is gearing up for a long war of attrition against Israel and the US www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/iran...

Kissinger: It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal

It's past 6:00pm Eastern Time. ICE once again failed to release congressionally-mandated detention statistics on its typical biweekly schedule. The last update was on February 12, 2026. Four weeks ago. www.ice.gov/detain/deten...

"Ha! Ha! So silly. 92k lost versus gained? Who cares same thing. Ha ha. We have fun here at newsmax. Now that I've been corrected that it's jobs lost, next up: how this is immigrants' fault.'

The US and Israel have bombed at least 13 hospitals and health facilities in Iran and one in Lebanon.

Employees at Camp East Montana are being told that the massive detention Center in El Paso is not closing, internal messages obtained by the El Paso Times show. My story:

To save you time: It’s because he’s anti-Trans, pro-Genocide, anti-Socialism, pro-Landlord

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“When less than 1% of farm employers are investigated every year, they can act with impunity, knowing that there is a very low likelihood that they will ever be investigated,” one expert said. By @maxblau.bsky.social

Indonesia suspends its participation in Board of Peace “Indonesian FM Sugiono said the decision to suspend participation was taken because of the latest military escalation in the region, which has directly affected the foreign policy priorities of countries involved in the initiative”

INBOX: @couriernewsroom.bsky.social is circulating a video of #TX23 Republican nominee Brandon Herrera showing off his "1939 edition" copy of Mein Kampf.

Somebody offline told me that we were “both from the latchkey kid generation” and this is totally unrelatable. As a kid, I would come home from school and there would be my dad at the table with his bags and scale or making small talk with a ‘customer’ at the couch.

"The Teamsters are a great union that does amazing things for workers, so it's unfortunate their president is willing to throw our working immigrant brothers and sisters under the bus." Any union leaders feel free to steal this statement! Free!

There’s a pretty strong norm in the union world against publicly criticizing other union leaders but at some point I think it becomes necessary for labor movement leaders to start saying “Sean O’Brien sucks.” Otherwise this guy represents all unions in people’s minds thehill.com/homenews/adm...

Too much vibes-based discourse on my timeline this morning

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Good to see. He's not a labor leader, he's a culture warrior.

The IDF just ordered the forced evacuation of *all of Dahieh* a day after ordering the forced evacuation of all of South Lebanon. Israel is taking advantage of the focus on Iran to destroy Lebanon

The DoD is spending billions to build a shield to destroy missiles launched against the U.S. At least four of the companies awarded contracts so far are owned by a private equity firm founded by billionaire turned Deputy Secretary of Defense Steve Feinberg.

Media attention has moved on, Noem and Bovino have been shuffled off to do evil elsewhere, and the state terror is ramping up again.

Two large private-market funds — from BlackRock and Blackstone — are facing elevated redemption requests. BlackRock $26B Private Credit Fund Limits Withdrawals BlackRock Private Credit Fund Caps Investor Withdrawals At 5% Even Though Redemption Requests Reached 9.3% Blackstone