The asymmetry of the value placed on human life is so striking. Israel has a goal to recover 40-year-old remains; to do so, it invades a sovereign country, and the lives of 26 Lebanese are an afterthought. Their names not even worth printing in the New York Times.

Trump doesn’t want Americans to know they’re in danger because he’ll look bad.

Trump is intentionally making your life more expensive. Where are the journalists who staked out grocery store parking lots when Biden was President to ask Americans about the high cost of food (which he had nothing to do with!) now?

These are war crimes, violations of the Geneva Conventions. Increasingly I think we should turn the whole Trump cabinet over to the ICC to be tried at The Hague.

“We have seen arguably the worst friendly fire incident in modern US history, the worst articulations of war aims, the worst economic/industrial preparations for a war, and, tragically, what might very well be amongst the worst war crimes in US history.“

Quick question does anyone know how to restore virtue to a decaying society

The U.S. war on Iran is now estimated to cost $1 billion per day. Meanwhile Americans are told there’s no money for healthcare, hospitals, or basic social programs.

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

Despite the lies the President and his administration want to tell, you can see and hear what happened for yourself when ICE ran rogue in our state. No one is above the law — the Illinois Accountability Commission will hold them responsible.

The glibness and arrogance of this administration when briefing the American people about matters of life and death is unbelievably astounding.

I think of all the past generations who toiled and wept to give us, the present, such treasures. And how they are destroyed in the blink of an eye, by malignant fools, by the enemies of beauty, civilization, culture and life.

UK: Sending plane for citizens Germany: Sending plane for citizens China: Organising evac buses and sending plane for citizens India: Sending plane for citizens USA to citizens: Here's a MAGA hat, now go fuck yourself

Sigh

“American power is being used to destroy the order that America made.”

It’s been terrifying to have almost every year in the past 20 years be a lesson in how many people with power make decisions about who lives and dies with little thought or care or even a clear idea as to why they’re doing anything, and it’s terrifying that it seems to be getting worse

Americans do not want this. They do not want another war in pursuit of regime change. They want relief from the affordability crisis. They want peace.

We’ve learned nothing.

“To put it bluntly, the most powerful people in the world are preparing for the end of the world, an end they themselves are frenetically accelerating.”

“The forces we are up against have made peace with mass death. They are treasonous to this world and its human and non-human inhabitants.”

When there are no consequences for the last bad thing, you'll get a next worse thing.

I guess 250 years of a constitutional republic was enough?

In the past, sometimes presidents have said it’s just a military operation or limited airstrikes to skirt Congress. Trump has unilaterally launched major combat operations, declaring war with the goal of regime change. A major violation of the U.S. Constitution, also illegal under international law

“The presumption created by the surrounding evidence is that this war could very well be about (1) subverting US democracy, (2) enriching the president, or both.”

Just stating the obvious here, but we have to build a government that doesn't starve and bomb the planet for kicks.

Inhumanity and insanity. The sort of thing a dying empire does.

They should just air this on American TV every single day 😂

INSANE: Craig says she and Ilhan Omar last week visited Minneapolis' ICE detention facility (Whipple) to conduct oversight, and when they got inside... no detainees were there. "We found the facility completely empty, with the last detainee being transported out 30 mins before our arrival."

Absolutely shameful. Four years of war and the United States sends nobody to mark it.

This one hits hard.

Absolutely unreal. Years and years of Defense spending increases and calls to cut every program outside of DoD and now they admit they cant even find ways to spend it all. Don't let anyone tell you universal Healthcare, rent relief and food aid is too costly.

Incredible opinion. It holds that the common ICE tactic of jumping out of an unidentified rental vehicle and seizing suspected noncitizens while masked violates the Fourth Amendment because the *manner* of the seizure is incompatible with a free society governed by the rule of law.

PS - All this is said not to paralyze you, but to encourage you to organize against camp expansions happening now. The threat of camps over time is like a malicious form of compound interest. Getting rid of them quickly minimizes harm and helps detainees while also shoring up the country's future.

Every world leader right now

“If your tariff policy is so unpopular that you have to bully the central bank into not talking about it, maybe it’s time for a new policy.”

★ This deeply affecting account from journalist and artist Molly Crabapple explores the largely forgotten history of the Bund, a secular Jewish labor party influential in Eastern Europe before WWII. Readers will be rapt. @OneWorldLit buff.ly/GuOXwur

“DHS, with the help of the Department of War (née Department of Defense), are laser-focused on outfitting industrial warehouses into prisons for the people they round up. They call them detention centers, but we can call them what there are—concentration camps.”

“This is the government using administrative power to bypass the Fourth Amendment to violate the First Amendment. It seems like we actually found that ‘censorship industrial complex,’ huh?”

The rush to indict the 6 Dems failed with the grand jury voting unanimously against it. The Keystone Kops nature of all this, however, should not blind us to how dangerous it remains. Trump will keep trying to jail Dems until he succeeds. All in this new piece: newrepublic.com/article/2066...

“the seventh [death] since the start of the year and nearly the 40th since Trump took office”

There is nothing banal about this evil.

Jesus Christ these people are monsters.

Wow.

Powerful

It does not take any especial brand of genius to understand that if you have no moral standards and don't care about breaking the law, you can accumulate wealth and power in a way that people who are morally and ethically upright cannot.

Just as ICE and CBP have no legitimate role in "election security" neither does the head of DHS. The mere existence of this press conference should be a scandal, much less this tone-deaf comment.

Vaguely recall how Biden admin emails to Twitter were the biggest attack on free speech ever. There was a whole twitter files thing about that. Curious where are Elon, Taibbi, Bari and crew on this?

Sen. Kelly: The old world is gone because Donald Trump blew it up. We had this system of alliances that has served us since World War II. Even if we are able to repair these relationships, it's going to take generations before they feel comfortable.

$38 BILLION. Not to improve people’s lives, but to warehouse them.

What is the consequence of an FDA decision "not to review" a vaccine study? Production of the vaccine is abandoned, because without the US market there's no economic case for making it. This is the RFKJr strategy for killing vaccines.