there's a lot going on right now but did you know a massive amount of the world's fertilizer flows through the middle east, and did you know that that fertilizer needs to be shipped to the us *right now* for planting season, and uh did you know we are at war with iran

Preliminary Pentagon cost estimate of the war in Iran is $1 BILLION a day. So far.

I’ve been notified about another death in ICE custody. This marks a stunning 40 deaths during the second Trump administration. This cannot continue. There must be real accountability for ICE and DHS.

“If [wealthy, powerful people] can get us to accept that the future’s already settled, AI is already here, the end is already here, then we will create that for them. My most daring idea is to refuse.” — @tressiemcphd.bsky.social

just thinking about how USAID was dismantled under the rationale of cost savings but there's an unlimited budget for war

Perhaps the President of the United States is not the President of the United States.

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…

I hate that trying to explain this sounds so bonkers that it’s basically impossible to get normal people to understand that it’s actually happening

This is a war almost 40 years in the making. Trump said in *1987* that the US should attack "horrible, horrible" Iran, "and take over some of their oil." In the years since, Trump talked about seizing oil from Venezuela, Iraq, Syria, Kuwait, and Libya. www.businessinsider.com/trump-energy...

New, from me: Why is American attacking Iran? It helps to have a coherent reason, to justify to the US public the costs in money and blood, to allies about the potential long-term risks, and to Iranians about the future of their country. Lets take a look 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-reason...

You cannot talk like this about any other minority in America. And if it was any other president’s adviser who said something like this about any other minority, it’d be the instant end of their presidency.

Eisenhower

Just one in four Americans supports US strikes on Iran, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds www.reuters.com/world/us/jus...

Just remember what this is all for…. Distracting from the Epstein files

there are a lot of people working in the government right now who want to intentionally trigger an apocalypse to create the conditions for the return of jesus christ and I know how crazy that sounds but its absolutely true

The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive

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

Jesus Christ they're running the war from Mar-a-Lago www.reuters.com/world/us/top...

our government combines the impulse control of pete hegseth, the intellectual rigor of rfk jr, and the attention span of donald trump with elon musk’s signature sense of humor

Back in 2023, for the 20th anniversary of the war in Iraq, I did a "where are they now?" article about the pundits who cheered on the U.S. invasion www.readtpa.com/p/where-are-...

BREAKING — 51 Iranian children are dead after a strike hits Minab girls elementary school in Iran.

TRUMP: We’re touching the stove, folks. We’re touching it like never before. They’re saying the stove is too “hot” but we don’t believe them do we DIPSHIT BOAT OWNER IN CROWD (BARELY AUDIBLE): Hell no!

Reminder that the media loves war spectacle and already have musical accompaniment and graphics ready to go

Holds up

There's nothing in US history and culture that suggests that the leadership of the country will ever fire the thousand of ICE agents currently working and that will be hired in the future. In fact, what's more likely is that a future administration will increase their number.

SCOOP: Noem's DHS has acquired at least NINE new jets in recent weeks, with another one on the way. Half are luxury jets. gillianbrockell.ghost.io/noems-luxury...

Check this out

All y'all going to jail

MAKE AN EMERGENCY DONATION to Trans Continental Pipeline right now. They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate there and they are overwhelmed with requests. CO borders KS, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out. GO DONATE. tcpipeline.org

This is a Nazi move. Stripping people of rights, invalidating their IDs, setting them up for criminalization and imprisonment. If you don't support trans rights, you support fascism.

it took an expensive, coordinated effort & a lot of people saying “this doesn’t matter” to get from a bathroom ban costing one state $400 million & a gubernatorial race to “trans people must turn in their documents which become invalid in a few hours or face fines & potential jail time” in 10 years.

As of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse, enabling the overnight criminalization of an entire group of people for going about our lives. It’s often said you never know when you’re living through history, so let me assure you: that’s what’s happening now.

In case you're late to the party: Upon listening to all the graphic gore and violence described by Trump during the SOTU (and, beneath his thin guise, celebrated), we'd be naive AF to doubt that Trump not only enjoys violence, but perpetrates violence himself, via surrogates and with his own hands.

Holy shit, y’all need to subscribe ASAFP

“This would lock the world into a new and hellish ‘hothouse Earth’ climate far worse than the 2-3C temperature rise the world is on track to reach. The climate would also be very different to the benign conditions of the past 11,000 years, during which the whole of human civilisation developed.”

excited to hear tech companies will now be allowed to build their own power plants for their data centers. i am sure the makers of "the app that tells kids to kill themselves" will responsibly operate coal plants

This piece is so good and important. Musk/Rubio/Trump have the highest body count of any tyrants this century. www.liberalcurrents.com/what-elon-ha...

you don't understand. that cop's former partner was one day away from retirement when he got hit by a snowball. he held his partner as he lay on the ground with a runny nose and waited with him for an ambulance. he never caught the sons of bitches who threw it

Releasing the potentially damaging report would cause “manifest injustice” to Trump, Cannon ruled.

new from me at @curbed.com: everyone ICE did business with in New York City last year www.curbed.com/article/ice-...

ICE has not left Minneapolis. This afternoon for some reason they are just parking in their unmarked cars next to the elementary school on my block. There is no good reason masked men in guns need to be terrorizing elementary kids. #AbolishICE #ICEOut #Minneapolis

Seriously, do not look away from Minneapolis: THIS IS STILL HAPPENING.

I spoke with my friend who told me about the fundraiser and this is the update that I received:

#resist #quiltcon