The "speech" last night by the orange dude had so many lies but one hit personally, the price of prescription drugs! Checking the gimmicky website for the "reduced" priced drugs you will see this! So, the most vulnerable citizens on Medicare and Medicaid will still pay higher prices!

Amazon dropped $75M on the Melania doc — with a big chunk going into the Trumps' pockets. Since then, Amazon Web Services got a $580M Pentagon contract. And this week, Pete Hegseth visited Blue Origin facilities as the DoD overhauls how it hands out defense contracts. Always follow the money.

The brilliant Mana Neyestani!

The spread of violence starts here. Trump boosted Pentagon budgets and pushed NATO allies to spend more — and buy American weapons. That cycle fuels global arms sales, locks countries into U.S. war supply chains, and strengthens the military-industrial complex.

Charlie Hebdo

Hypocrites!

The Trump regime started the week by telling lies about Alex Pretti's murder. Now, Trump has pivoted back to telling lies about the economy in order to change the subject. But on both fronts, Trump's year back in office has been filled with broken promises. Watch. youtu.be/AcefFTXUcxU?...

Pretti Good!

The brilliant Mana Neyestani #Iran

I wrote about Iran's protests for @theatlantic.com: how AI manipulation and the suspicion of it is being weaponised to dismiss real footage of protests. This piece draws on work from my stellar team at WITNESS and years of studying information controls in Iran and beyond.

The Islamic Rethuglit of Iran and its favorite number: 3,117 2020: 3,117 new COVID cases 2020: 3,117 alcohol poisoning victims 2026: 3,117 killed — labeled “martyrs” Coincidence, or a pattern?

We’re missing the forest for the trees. When a legally armed nurse can be labeled a “domestic terrorist,” anyone can. Emergencies become tools. Power expands. Democracy erodes quietly. Wake up. Pay attention. Be a witness.

Living a moral life in an age of bullies requires collective action; it cannot be done alone. Each of us must organize and participate in a vast network of moral resistance. From this solidarity we will grow stronger. This is what our current moment requires.

Berlin

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

Free Iran!

I'm old enough to remember when CBS News and journalists like Edward R. Murrow held power to account, instead of capitulating to it.

Trump's escalation in Latin America will likely serve as a pretext to further suppress dissent at home. We must resist his efforts to launch more international wars and stifle freedom of speech, make warrantless searches and arrests of Americans, and put more military onto our streets.

Forget drugs, oil and other excuses for intervention in Venezuela, classic wag the dog maneuver, distracting from millions losing health insurance and the revelations from Epstein's file.

U.S. military spending is set to hit a record $1 trillion. Roughly half of defense spending goes to private contractors that routinely price-gouge the government. Meanwhile, the Pentagon has failed EIGHT straight audits. This is the military industrial complex on steroids.

NEW: Protests in Iran have expanded geographically and demographically since December 28, and many of the recent protests adopted an explicitly anti-regime tone. 🧵(1/5) Iran Update, December 30, 2025: isw.pub/IranUpdate12...

By Farzad Kohan #Iran

A question for everyone regarding the shooting in Providence: How many mass shootings since 2000 at any school (k-12 or college or university) was done by a current or former student at the school? What percentage of all mass shootings in school is it?

The use of national security rhetoric to justify mass incarceration today echoes the same logic that led to the incarceration of Japanese Americans. It is inconceivable that the US is once again building concentration camps, denying the lessons learned 80 years ago. www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-a...

Charlie Kirk is trusting his "friends in the government" with the Epstein files? Pretty off-brand for a conspiracy theorist

Math is not a GOP strength

حجاب بی حجاب!

Jon Stewart on how the debate over BBB budget cuts rests on a bulls**t narrative favoring billionaires

Hadieh Shafie www.hadiehshafie.com/2009?itemId=...