We were constantly told that students objecting to bigots on campus was the greatest threat to free speech and now those same people have instituted a ideological minder program on college campuses that would make the Soviets blush.
Thank you for your courage to publicly address abusive language.
Fifteen South American people deported from the US arrive in DR Congo
Fifteen South American people deported from the US arrive in DR Congo https://aje.news/qtsa2a
On April 15, at the direction of #SOUTHCOM commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations. Three male narco-terrorists were killed during this action. No U.S. military forces were harmed. @DeptofWar #OpSouthernSpear
Despite the administration’s rhetoric and bogus legal theories, the supposed armed conflict with “narco-terrorists” appears to be entirely make believe.
Murder is the general term for premeditated killing outside of armed conflict.
If it looks like a concentration camp and sounds like a concentration camp,
Not so long ago, we had an entire cabinet level department staffed with professionals from all walks of life, people with advanced educations & lived experiences from around the world, to negotiate in good faith on behalf of the American people.
Today, we have JD Vance.
If you felt compelled long ago to donate to Graham Platner (I did 🥴) I think our penance should be helping Sam now instead
Cal State Channel Islands philosophy lecturer Jonathan Caravello has just been ACQUITTED of assaulting ICE/CBP last summer while protesting a brutal Ventura County cannabis farm raid! His defense argued he threw a tear gas canister away to protect protesters. The jury acquitted him in two hours.
Ecocide *and* epistemicide wrapped up in one. What's not to like?
same Overton Window-shattering tactic he’s always used: Even if worst doesn’t happen tonight - rhetorically he’s opened up possibility of the unimaginable, making lesser (but still horrible) actions seem moderate by comparison… all increasing likelihood that one day the worst really will happen
Fully expecting major mixed messages over the next few hours, lots of conflicting information will likely be released.
Prepare for some swings back and forth from all sides….
Holy mother of god....
1/ NYT out with a huge piece on the decision to go to war. It's much as we thought: Bibi sold Trump a rosy scenario that he heard over the mild to moderate warnings that it was BS but the details are so...appalling/demoralizing.
Vance clearly a source:
GIFT LINK 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/u...
Bro it took you most of the day to come up with this?
Simple question from us: if the House impeaches him, will you vote to convict? Your colleagues @markey.senate.gov and @wyden.senate.gov have gone on record. Why won't you?
There are 214 House Democrats. Let's see how many go on record for removal.
Rep. Nathaniel Moran (R-Texas) is the first House Republican to speak out against Trump's genocidal threat against Iran.
"I do not support the destruction of a 'whole civilization.'" www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...
I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake By A Horse Hello. I am a horse. I work very hard at my job of being a horse. When humans say move the heavy thing, I move the heavy thing. When humans sit on top of me and pull on my head, I carry them where they want to go. The main food the humans give me is hay and oats. But I am thinking it would be nice to have a different food. I am thinking I would like to try cake. Yes, yes. Cake. I know all about it. When humans eat cake, it is in glad times. It is the food for a celebration, such as when a woman becomes 47. I have seen cake on the Fourth of July. When humans have a cake, they stand around it and clap hands and smile and say happy birthday at each other. Sometimes there are beautiful markings on a cake, such as balloons or a pink shape. Sometimes the top of a cake is on fire and a boy must blow on the fire with mouth wind. This is the scariest cake. I do not want this kind. But I will eat any other cake. Any cake that is not the fire cake that tries to kill the boy. Please understand: I do not get money for doing work. I do not get to go inside the house. All I am either doing my horse job or standing in my pen or eating food off the floor. I always do these things. But I have never once gotten cake and I would like it very much. I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children. I am more helpful to the farm. Children do not move the heavy things like me or let anyone ride on them. And yet they get cake. Maybe the humans will realize this. Maybe they will say, "You know who deserves cake? That horse. That horse whose back we are always on." Every day I dream about what it will be like if I get to eat cake. Here is what will happen. First, I will walk to the cake and putt my nose at it like hrrfff to make and stomping my hooves to make sure it is not a snake. Then I will trot in a circle to show that I am a horse and I am large. After that, I will nuzzle the cake to …
The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me.
It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."
LOL, it is literally impossible to take the NY Times seriously these days.
The US Department of War Crimes.
Huge, impactful, disastrous move by Trump being almost totally ignored or misreported by major news organizations: www.hatchmag.com/articles/tru...
This is so, so well-articulated.
reminder that the number one issue that the press covered in 2016, the one they told voters was THE MOST IMPORTANT thing in the election, was Hillary Clinton's compliance with Presidential Records Act record-keeping
Warning Will Robinson!
JD Vance personally invited Pope Leo to the U.S. 250th celebration on the 4th of July. Today the Vatican announced Leo will be spending the day with migrants instead.
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
Philip Glass
Philip Glass
Philip Glass
Philip Glass
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
Trump’s outright bigotry against an entire ethnic minority continues to stain this country. It’s gutter racism with real consequences; the government itself has been ordered to target this minority group for special disfavor.
New: DOJ lawyers told a judge they’ve been relying on incorrect information for months in a fight over the Trump administration’s arrests of migrants at US immigration courts, and blamed ICE for the "regrettable error"
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Letter: assets.bwbx.io/documents/us...
Well put.
ICE ivan! "I understand there's a problem you need made a million times worse?"
Today's New Yorker cartoon, by Ivan Ehlers
Full analysis: www.cato.org/blog/banned-...
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