Citizens Bank: Stop financing CoreCivic and The GEO Group. CoreCivic and the GEO Group have seen skyrocketing profits in the last year as a result of their direct involvement in Trump’s violent deportation agenda. CoreCivic saw a nearly 70% increase in net in...

Please sign this petition to Citizens Bank to stop financing ICE's private prison corporations: sign.moveon.org/petitions/ci...

Community Impact: Citizens Bank and Private Prisons After delayed medical treatment in the for-profit ICE detention facility where she was being held, Lucia* suffered a miscarriage—and she isn't alone. Read Lucia's story.

Lucia was transported to an emergency room in shackles — only after losing enough blood to need a transfusion. Read her story and learn about Citizens Bank’s role in financing private ICE detention. #deicecitizensbank www.de-icecitizensbank.org/impact/lucia

Trump’s budget for 2027, a breakdown Polygraph | Newsletter n°339 | 13 Apr 2026

The US budget has been trending this way forever but the new proposed budget takes 80% of your federal income tax and gives it to men with guns -- the Pentagon, weapons contractors, ICE agents, veterans of war.
A society made by the use of fear and force.
A people disgusted and resisting.

The REAL costs of America's wars | GOING DEEP with Catherine Lutz YouTube video by Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft

Our co-founder @cathylutz.bsky.social joined the @quincyinst.bsky.social’s Always at War podcast to talk about democracy, media and forever wars. www.youtube.com/watch?v=76f9...

NO KINGS! Saturday, MARCH 28

The Pentagon wants $200 billion more for Trump's War. That $ will NOT:
*Bring back the 1000s killed already
*Heal the wounded
*Return millions of refugees home
*Make the war legal
*Erode military companies' power
*"Support the troops"
*Lower gas prices
Call your reps & take to the streets March 28

Well, here's a good one: Melber on MSNow outraged about threats to press freedom right after an Iran story in which he says this is the first war fought without giving a reason: Afghanistan because of 9/11, he says, and Iraq because of WMD "whether or not that was true." What an ill-informed dope.

Second Connecticut school district cancels Linda McMahon-linked civics event Fairfield Public Schools canceled a similar event in January.

Every act of resistance matters.

Living like Kings in the Pentagon while killing school girls in Iran:
Pete Hegseth Blew Billions on Fruit Basket Stands, Chairs, and Crab newrepublic.com/post/207555/... via @newrepublic.com

the bug — Blood+Honey by Catherine Lutz “Winter has had its way with the bush on which the berry hangs, denuding it of its leaves and stripping the fruit of any seeming life.”

Teachers open up worlds.

A short piece by my sister @cathylutz.bsky.social about one who did that for her.

Tell your Members of Congress to rein in ICE NOW On January 24, federal forces with the Department of Homeland Security killed Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. This was just over two weeks after the killing of Renee Nicole Good. These killings are a dire...

Tell your Members of Congress to rein in ICE NOW act.indivisible.org/sign/ice-out...

The Companies Behind ICE Sludge built an interactive map of every ICE contractor working with the Trump administration.

The Companies Behind Ice: Mapped Here is the data to help us know and protest the ICE budget profiteers in our states. readsludge.com/2026/01/16/t...

It's in the Commandments, Mike. Thou shalt not lie and thou shalt not kill.

The Costs of War with Brown University Professor Catherine Lutz YouTube video by The Home Front

Costs of War co-founder @cathylutz.bsky.social talks to @reedgalen.bsky.social about how popular opinion is against forever wars.

“Popular opinion is one thing, but it’s when that popular opinion gets mobilized that we have any hope of something changing.” www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9GE...

Authoritarianism Feeds on a Bloated Military Budget | Common Dreams Squeezed domestic spending and extravagant military spending have widened inequality, with dire consequences for democracy.

High Pentagon spending has boosted inequality and paved the way for authoritarianism, writes Costs of War co-founder @cathylutz.bsky.social and @lutzfernandez.bsky.social. www.commondreams.org/opinion/auth...

Reminder: ICE has a budget bigger than most militaries around the world.

It has increased its spending on weapons by 700% since Trump took office.

Trump is building his own personal military to terrorize American cities, trample on civil rights, and intimidate his opponents.

Many journos & pundits feel obliged to praise--even as they critique the purpose(s) of the Venezuela war--the competence of the military operation. How does that not make it *worse*? It seems quite bad that we a highly competent, gigantic, overfunded military ready to serve these chaos agents.

Combine militarism and the lawlessness and ignorance of Donald Trump, and this is what you get. Many Venezuelans died last night and many more lives are at risk as a consequence. Impeachment now.

There’s nothing stopping the people in Washington DC from naming their own things after the president

The Donald J. Trump Dumpster

The Donald J. Trump Port-a-Potty

The Donald J. Trump Municipal Waste Disposal Facility

We need to pay attention, as this astounding review does, to what is happening to our children in schools as the long reign of MAGA madness has maimed their education.

“This is not the beginning of a war…”

No, it’s a reminder that the US remains at war in Syria.

Authoritarianism Feeds on a Bloated Military Budget | Common Dreams Squeezed domestic spending and extravagant military spending have widened inequality, with dire consequences for democracy.

“Year after year, trillions are spent on military affairs…just 25% of Trump’s 2026 budget request is left for Americans’ other needs, including transportation, housing, disaster response, cancer research, education, and more.”

Authoritarianism Feeds on a Bloated Military Budget | Common Dreams Squeezed domestic spending and extravagant military spending have widened inequality, with dire consequences for democracy.

Authoritarianism Feeds on a Bloated Military Budget www.commondreams.org/opinion/auth...

Trump Dangles Cash Payments to Buoy Voters’ Views of the Economy

Bonuses are the favorite tool of cheapskate bosses. Much better than honest salaries and earned and fair benefits.

They can be dangled to motivate and withheld to punish but "given" (or regifted) at whim with grand gestures that make them feel all yummy inside.

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A great conversation with Reed Galen about the forever wars and their latest installments.

Accomplishing Project 2025: K-12 Edition The year has been chaotic but a few themes emerge

A devastating timeline of all the damage Trump has done to our public schools in 2025 but a hopeful message, in closing, that"Our largely decentralized school system makes this fight winnable for children... Public schools are our heritage, the inheritance we’ve been handed to grow and pass on."

Entire Chain of Command Could Be Held Liable for Killing Boat Strike Survivors, Sources Say Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s actions could spark investigations for war crimes or outright murder, sources told The Intercept.

The Intercept reporting on this has been spot on from the beginning. It also keeps the whole legal picture in mind: all the strikes, not just the "double tap," are crimes.

Entire Chain of Command Could Be Held Liable for Killing Boat Strike Survivors, Sources Say
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We Ain't Buying It - Target, Home Depot & Amazon

Give the oligarchs a heave-ho this week. Thanksgiving-Cyber Monday, ditch Target, Home Depot, & Amazon. I'm tired of corporations enabling this administration ditching DEI, allowing ICE to terrorize our communities, & get tax breaks. Join me! #WeAintBuyingIt 🚫 app.sosha.ai/s/UTZ2quyN

Ask Americans — they don't want a war on Venezuela Reports say the president is preparing to attack, as lawmakers ignore their constituents and refuse to stand in the way

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We Americans don't want to go to war with Venezuela, my brilliant writer sister, Anne Lutz Fernandez, and I write in Responsible Statecraft this morning. That should matter in a democratic and humane society.