How Trump Took the U.S. to War With Iran

Extraordinary reporting from the NYT. Someone in the inner circle has broken from the administration over the war. Vance?

Deaths and Health Care Issues in ICE Detention Centers Under the Second Trump Administration | KFF This brief provides an overview of deaths in ICE custody and detention centers under the Trump administration based on KFF analysis of ICE detainee death reporting and news releases and reviews recent...

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46 People Have Died While in ICE Custody or Detention Facilities Since January 2025.

Opinion | Do We Really Need a Reminder of What the AIDS Crisis Was Like?

Yup. Not only have they destroyed the global HIV work of USAID, and crippled PEPFAR, which brought cheap HIV drugs to developing countries, they are also going after ADAP, the program that makes HIV drugs affordable in the USA. What's next?

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Elbows up, Canada. YouTube video by Mark Carney

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Inside the ICE Forum Where Agents Complain About Their Jobs “I'm all for removing illegals, but snatching dudes off lawn mowers in Cali and leaving the truck and equipment just sitting there? Definitely not working smarter,” writes one forum user.

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Fascinating.

Homeland Security is targeting Americans with this secretive legal weapon Under Trump, the Department of Homeland Security has weaponized administrative subpoenas to attack free speech, according to privacy and civil rights groups.

This. wapo.st/4rtfCw8

A Bad Heir Day at the Fed No, Kevin Warsh isn’t qualified

A Bad Heir Day at the Fed
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Mark Carney's full speech at the World Economic Forum YouTube video by National Post

Leadership.
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This ‘Galaxy That Wasn’t’ Never Bore Any Stars

They've found a place in space they actually call Cloud-9, a galaxy with no stars. Love it.

If we are going to have another War for Oil, it is worth a moment to consider what kind of oil we fight for: Venezuelan crude is bitumen-rich, sour crude. Dirtiest on Earth. During the fight to block Keystone XL, Canada argued their oil was cleaner than Venezuela's, as if that made it OK. Good God.

Will someone let me know when the old MSNBC stops scrolling their various awful new acryonym logos in the lower right corner of their shows, so I can start watching the shows again? Seems that distracting the watchers from the shows they want to watch is a bad idea, but so is the name change.

Keep an Eye on it. www.facebook.com/reel/1327816...

With Walt Disney and its subsidiary ABC complicit in the shredding of the First Amendment, isn't it time for folks to reconsider the need to book expensive vacations for their kids at Disney properties? And cancelling your Hulu + Disney subscription is remarkabley easy, and sort of fun.

"Oh-RE-Oles, OH-Rioles" (music from The Wizard of Oz) YouTube video by Willhelm von Nordbach

Soundtrack for tomorrow's dictator display. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqaj...

It seems like the world is waking up to this reality. Maybe it took Bill Gates to point it out. This is what should be discussed during Trump's Triumph of the Will parade on June 14. bsky.app/profile/sabi...

Trump’s Revenge on Public Health The attacks on HIV research are just the beginning of unraveling decades of progress.

When all this passes, the quick dispatch of PEPFAR and the sledgehammer blows to HIV prevention, treatment and cure programs are topics worthy of consideration by The Hague.

Seems to me that before we are frog-walked or disappeared into Trump's Dachau in El Salvador, half of America needs to boycott the T-shirts, knitted and crocheted clothing that amounted to $1.24 billion in imports from there. Sometimes the power of the purse is just the power of underwear.

Meet the 23-Year-Old Student Who Raised $25 Million in Democratic Losses

Dems have GOT to clean up this mess before the 2026 elections. Dems need small Blue State donors to persuade the fence sitters in "battleground states," so don't f*ck with us. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/u...

Hope Springs Eternal....

Weekend protest at University Village Tesla, Seattle.

Opinion | Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True. (Gift Article) A journey through the front lines of global poverty shows that when the world’s richest men slash aid for the world’s poorest children, the result is sickness, starvation and death.

My placard at protests says Elon Musk is Killing Children, Save USAID, Save PEPFAR. Some might find this offensive to to the richest man in the world, who literally wears a child on his shoulders at photo ops. Here is a story that verifies exactly what the sign says:
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Supreme Court Rejects Trump’s Bid to Freeze Foreign Aid The move came after Chief Justice Roberts temporarily paused a trial judge’s order requiring the administration to release more than $1.5 billion.

When Alito is 'stunned,' the patient is showing signs of life. Huzzah! www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/u...

The Trumpster seems a little twitchy about this. Wonder if he's starting to realize that he's already neck deep in his own sh*t.

DOGE held an Oscar party and Big Balls "accidentally" threw Hulu into the chipper.

The Putinization of America Trump’s deference to the Russian dictator has become full-blown imitation.

Before the chess board is kicked over, and perhaps the game is over, a clear perspective from a well-placed source.

Elon Musk’s business empire is built on $38 billion in government funding Government infusions at key moments helped Tesla and SpaceX flourish, boosting Musk’s wealth.

You are welcome, Elon. So now, would you mind taking your knee off the necks of starving children in Sudan, off the pipeline for HIV drugs in Africa, off the backs of non-rocket scientists and federal workers in the U.S. so that you can waste, fraud and abuse your way to Mars?

Opinion | America Has a Rogue President (Gift Article) The firing of three judge advocate generals is one more element of this administration’s attack on the rule of law.

Considering the source, read this guy and share if you can. (Published, incidentally, on the day the USA locked arms with Russia and North Korea in the UN.)
"America has a rogue president and a rogue administration, and we need to acknowledge that and respond."

Waste, fraud, abuse, anyone?