Donald Trump’s deranged threat to destroy “a whole civilization” in Iran is a threat to commit war crimes and genocide. Republicans in Congress must prevail upon VP Vance, now campaigning for Putin’s puppet Viktor Orban in Hungary, to return to the U.S. and invoke Section 4 of the 25th Amendment.
Georgia Voter: It's giving war crime. You can't do that. We don't just annihilate people because we can and, you know, make a grab for the money and the oil. And that's what we've done in Venezuela. And that's what we're doing in Iran.
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This is the interview Donald Trump didn’t want us to see.
Trump’s FCC and Bari Weiss’ CBS refused to air James Talarico’s interview with Stephen Colbert.
They’re worried we’re about to flip Texas.
Maybe we should stick to a message this simple.
It hasn’t been their year, so far
“When so much of our ability to communicate out facts to the world is concentrated in a small number of people, and there’s a squeezing of independent media ... I think we’re working with an information ecosystem that is highly dangerous.”
The 60 Minutes piece on the Trump Administration’s torture prison that Bari Weiss doesn’t want you to see has leaked.
!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social:
is.gd/paU8Ko
(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
This has been made available, so for purposes of commenting on Bari Weiss's decision to spike the story, here's a live-post of that segment.
It begins with a "you may recall" summary of the deportation to el Salvador. Describes the admin's claim that it could deport the men without due process
Be a MacKenzie: MacKenzie Scott Announces $7 Billion of Charitable Giving This Year www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/b...
X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based.
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
“The president cut your health care so he could build himself a golden ballroom” is a pretty easy message to sell
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Today, Los Angeles received its first honor of three Michelin Stars. The head chef of Somni, which received three, removed his jacket to reveal a t-shirt which read “immigrants feed America.”
“Nothing but cogs and wheels and springs”
Sofia Jeppsson ( @jeppsson.bsky.social ) discusses how autobiographies of madness intersect with academic philosophy and fantasy fiction in the context of her Swedish novel, “Cogwheel Souls”
www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/cogwheel-s...
“All sane people are alike; every madperson is mad in their own way.” @jeppsson.bsky.social 👇🏽
Breaking News: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is said to have shared detailed information about forthcoming strikes in Yemen on March 15 in a private Signal group chat that included his wife, brother and personal lawyer.
So the White House story is now:
“We didn’t mean to threaten Harvard, because we didn’t mean to send the threatening letter we sent, but when Harvard rejected the threats we made but didn’t mean to make, we decided to threaten them twice more.”
The country is now run by thugs and idiots.
