🚨 “Leonard Leo, who put the 6 Catholic Supreme Court justices on the court, was my boss for 3 years — He’s a very dangerous man. I don’t think people realize how corrupt and compromised the Supreme Court is.”
(From @acyn.bsky.social @pabloreports.bsky.social )
America not being a signatory to a number of treaties does not mean that international law does not exist. The US is conducting clear war crimes, and boasting about it. They should be treated as a pariah state. They definitely shouldn't be getting a Royal visit.
Over 100 international law experts wrote a statement on their concerns about war crimes in Iran. They said the strike on the girls' school alone is "among the deadliest single attacks by the US military on civilians in recent decades."
www.justsecurity.org/135423/profe...
Can anyone explain what’s going on here?
Laid my father to rest on Saturday. Flew to Chicago Tuesday. Keynote panel on Wednesday. DC panel on Thursday.
Home, finally. Time to lie down for a while.
I heard someone say that we should be registering voters at gas stations.
John Terry's recent liking of anti-immigration social media posts has been criticised by anti-racism groups and caused dismay at Chelsea, where he works as an academy mentor.
It begs the question - can he ever have a major role in the sport he dominated as a player?
www.nytimes.com/athletic/714...
You know, the guy in Gaza who's a software engineer that built a bot to randomly repost people reposts my random stuff all the time & it really doesn't bother me. It's about .0000001% the discomfort of a mosquito bite. And he's just desperate to save his family so I don't get people'sdeal.
Reminder that as a corporate lobbyist, Pam Bondi represented scores of clients facing federal regulatory scrutiny — including Amazon, Uber, and GM.
She also represented the government of Qatar and ICE contractor GEO Group.
She was a walking, talking conflict of interest at the DOJ.
Meryl Streep: The SAVE America Act will make it harder for women who have changed their names to vote
She’s right. Text SAVE to 63033 to tell your senators to vote no on the SAVE America Act.
Then he literally led an insurrection ON TV, stole a bunch of government documents, and faked an assassination, then won again 🫠
NEW REPUBLIC: “The centrist group Third Way ⚠️ accuses popular progressive streamer Hasan Piker of being a ‘Jew-hater’ — His record proves he’s the opposite of an antisemite.”
Hasan addresses the bad faith accusations: newrepublic.com/article/2084...
It is pretty interesting what doesn't get called terrorism.
The US reportedly waited to strike the bridge in Iran a second time until rescue workers and others in the area gathered to help the wounded, which then killed at least eight people. Authorities in Iran are describing it as an act of terrorism.
We are spending an estimated $1B per day on the war on Iran.
Now Trump and Co want an extra $200B from Congress to fund the war.
But healthcare? Cut.
Food stamps? Cut.
Education? Cut.
Cancer research? Cut.
Environmental protections? Cut.
And of course, taxes on the rich? Cut.
It's obscene.
Jeff Bezos' Washington Post editorial board endorsed Pam Bondi as a "qualified" and "serious" pick for Attorney General.
Nowhere in the endorsement did they mention that she's a former Amazon lobbyist.
Another reminder that billionaire control of our media is a threat to democracy.
Kanye's still performing before crowds of thousands? Well fuck him anyway. That's a hella problematic culture if people haven't dropped him.
According to the Times:
Post from Twitter by Javier Blas highlights all caps that dated Brent crude is up to $141 a barrel (highest price since 2008)
Meanwhile NY's brain genius of a governor, Kathy Hochul, is pushing to gut the state's climate law. If she succeeds, New Yorkers will stay locked to oil & gas. 🤦
NYers: Call your state legislators now and leave a message: demand that they stop Hochul's madness! 🔥
BREAKING: Artemis II astronauts fire their engines to rocket toward the moon after spending a day orbiting around Earth.
US Army Chief of Staff Randy George has been asked to step down by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and take immediate retirement, two defense officials and a source familiar with the matter told Reuters reut.rs/4togFhR
Todd Blanche will serve as the acting attorney general after President Trump abruptly fired Pam Bondi on Thursday. As deputy attorney general, he shaped the Justice Department in his own image, and has been the lawyer that Trump has turned to in his times of need.
"The president of the United States would like everyone to know that he is acting with criminal intent, in case there was any ambiguity," a US law professor said of Trump's social media post about bombing a bridge in Iran.
Update:
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth asked Army Chief of Staff Randy George to step down and retire, a U.S. official confirmed to NPR.
Thousands of women and girls in Sudan have sought treatment after surviving sexual violence in the country’s civil war, Doctors Without Borders has found, in what it called “a pattern of deliberate tactics designed to humiliate and terrorize.”
Austria says it’s banned the U.S. military from using its airspace, adding to a growing list of countries denying requests from the U.S. military amid its joint war on Iran with Israel as President Donald Trump lashes out at allies for refusing direct participation in the atrocities.
A U.S. immigration judge is clearing the way for the potential release of Subramanyam Vedam, an Indian citizen whose Pennsylvania murder conviction was overturned last year.
