How to connect today's unusual Melania Trump press conference about Jeffrey Epstein to tomorrow's U.S./Iran ceasefire talks in Islamabad ...

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BREAKING: U.S. recommits to ceasefire with Iran and pledges to give duplicity a chance

TRUMP: One does not simply walk into Mordor and demand that Sauron stop attacking Lebanon.

America’s imperial vibe through the decades:

seizing is based

keeping is cucked

Trump's war in Iran is costing the U.S. economy 10,000 jobs a month, Goldman Sachs says | Fortune The bank sees the Iran-driven oil shock stripping 10,000 jobs a month from U.S. payrolls through year-end. Leisure, hospitality, and retail are hit worst.

Goldman Sachs projects Gen Z will bear the brunt of the coming job losses during the #TrumpSlump.

fortune.com/2026/03/26/t...

Evidence Points to US Scattering Mines over Iranian Village - bellingcat US appears to have deployed the Gator Scatterable Mine system over Kafari, a village near Shiraz, Iran.

[Bellingcat] Evidence Points to US Scattering Mines over Iranian Village

❝The munitions appeared to be air-delivered US-made Gator anti-tank mines.

The US is the only participant in the Iran war known to possess Gator Scatterable Mines.❞

www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03...

Don't make Rubio outraged. You wouldn't like him when he's outraged.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Fox News is so woke /s

U.S. realizes it might have pulled a muscle with its imperial overreach

Troops working remotely while they try to recover

Trump is pivoting from Epstein Files to X-Files:

"I want to deceive"

"pay more at the pump" is the new "buy war bonds"

except we're the Axis

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Trump Announces “First New U.S. Refinery in 50 Years” at Port of Brownsville, Reviving Local Resistance Environmental advocates and residents say the long-proposed refinery threatens air quality and public health in a region already ringed by heavy industry.

Louisiana has Cancer Alley.

Texas will have Cancer Valley.

[The Border Chronicle] Trump Announces “First New U.S. Refinery in 50 Years” at Port of Brownsville, Reviving Local Resistance

www.theborderchronicle.com/trump-announ...

Thank you, I am now imagining the family as a 1980s hair metal band called Brontë Crüe 🤘

... and why are they always setting their phasers to stun?

Hi, Leah, I'm trying to track down more info on this list of sites I've seen on social media, which includes my city McAllen, TX.

Are you able to authenticate this list based on your reporting or otherwise confirm whether McAllen is among the target sites?

Thanks!

www.reddit.com/r/hagerstown...

Fascinating! Thanks for the insights, Amber. It seems to me there must be a close, bidirectional relationship between attention and heuristics, though I’d wager the impact of attention on heuristics is stronger than the reverse. Maybe I’ve found my own rabbit hole 🙂

Wild that that was published 30 years ago 🤯

Has preattentive processing found its way into computer vision or other tech we routinely use today? I'd be curious to know what sent you down this rabbit hole :)

Just wait until those American citizens get back to the U.S. and find out we now have our own paramilitaries searching vehicles for Americans — or doing far worse.

don's search for meanness

Patterns and parallels ...

Thinking about an ICE agent's murder of Renée Nicole Good on Wednesday in Minneapolis, I can't help but think of the 2009 murder of Neda Agha Soltan in Tehran by a militiaman belonging to the Basij paramilitary organization.

"our"

we and ours vs. you and yours

this is the language of civil war

[Ken Klippenstein] Trump Slaps Antifa With First-Ever Foreign Terror Label

𝘔𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘤𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘕𝘚𝘗𝘔-7, 𝘴𝘢𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘌𝘶𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘯 𝘈𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘢 𝘨𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘱𝘴 𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘥 "𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘪-𝘊𝘩𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘺," "𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘪-𝘤𝘢𝘱𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘮," 𝘢𝘯𝘥 "𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘪-𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘮"

www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trump-slap...

... fallen toward a more perfect union :)

A Woman Self-Deported, Hoping to Shield Her Son. He Was Detained Anyway.

Yesterday, I went to an ICE check-in with 16-year-old Joel Camas and his lawyer, who expected him to be out in time for school by 8am because he has special immigrant juvenile (SIJ) status. Instead, he was detained.

Here is what happened (free link):

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/n...

Louvre heist: 'We have failed' says minister as security tightened A hunt is under way to find the four thieves before the jewels - which once belonged to French royals - vanish for good.

Nostalgic imperialists bemoan theft of handicrafts fashioned from imperial plunder

www.bbc.com/news/article...

congrats, zack!

𝙋𝙚𝙖𝙘𝙚 𝙞𝙣 𝙊𝙪𝙧 𝙏𝙞𝙢𝙚

Werewolf as Uniform: Traveling a Familiar Macabre Valley We chat with Zack Quaintance and Anna Readman about Macabre Valley, their ghoulish, cathartic comic.

🌕New Episode🐺

As we head into @newyorkcomiccon.bsky.social & prepare for the @harveyawards.bsky.social, we're joined by @zackquaintance.bsky.social & Anna Readman to discuss their excellent Werewolf Priest/Journalism Satire, MACABRE VALLEY #1. www.comicbookcouplescounseling.com/post/macabre...