"I hope you are impressed," he said to me. "How do you like the performance? I mean, Venezuela is obvious. This might be even better. How do you like the performance?"

"I hope you are impressed," he said to me. "How do you like the performance? I mean, Venezuela is obvious. This might be even better. How do you like the performance?"

"How do you like the performance?"

An illegal war for the sake of spectacle and the amusement of POTUS.

U.S. Military Joins Drug War in Ecuador: “It Wasn’t Going to Be Just Boat Strikes Forever” Two government officials told The Intercept that the joint U.S.–Ecuador military action won’t just be a one-off raid.

The US under 'antiwar' Trump has now also launched military operations in Ecuador too:

The U.S. just surpassed a grim measles milestone As the U.S. officially breaks 1,000 measles cases in 2026, experts say that the rate of infections is accelerating much faster this year than it did in years past

“As the U.S. officially breaks 1K measles cases in 2026, experts say that the rate of infections is accelerating much faster this year than it did in years past *** [I]n just 2 months, the national total [in 2026] is already nearing half of all the 2,281 confirmed cases reported in 2025.” 2/27/26

Clippy says: Look's like you're trying to start a global thermonuclear war. Would you like me to decide when to launch?

if the media had any integrity — and it doesn’t anymore — they’d be pointing out on a loop that Obama made a deal with Iran, Trump cancelled it because Obama is Black, and then Trump started a war on the pretense there is no deal

Deeply conflicted, Kushner represents the U.S. in high-stakes negotiations with Iran Today in Geneva, Switzerland, Jared Kushner will represent the United States in meetings with Iranian officials — a last-ditch effort to avoid war.

Just a reminder: instead of an actual diplomat, we sent Trump’s deeply compromised son-in-law as the lead negotiator to avert war with Iran.

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Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started

From last year theonion.com/netanyahu-ca...

It's estimated that it would take about 40 billion dollars a year to solve world hunger.... we could get that just from taxing one company properly.

Amazon's tax bill plunges after GOP tax cuts The 87 percent drop is largely due to a more generous depreciation break in the 'One Big Beautiful Bill Act.'

Thanks to the OBBB, Amazon’s tax bill for 2025 is $1.2 billion, down from $9 billion the year before despite a 45% jump in profits.

A table showing the federal markup value that ICE pays for the warehouses it is buying across the United States.

Curious how much ICE is over-paying for property for its detention warehouses?

We've got you covered.

Sources: State and local property records, land records, deeds, and tax assessment data.

tinyurl.com/ICEWarehouse...

I’ll also be here this week.

Ice out of LA Post, February 24th and 27th Baldwin Park three save the dates Baldwin Park three trial. The BP three are facing up to 10 years in prison for exercising their first amendment rights to film ice in public trial begins Tuesday, February 24 350 W. 1st St. LA 90012 in courtroom share widely let's pack the courtroom.

Fork ICE!🍴🧊

🔥 Support the Baldwin Park Three in court! 🙏

🔺 Pack the courtroom! 🙌🏽🫶🏽

These ladies face 3 years in prison for filming ICE!

⏰ Tuesday, February 24
9 AM
Courthouse

📍 350 W. 1st St.
Los Angeles

#firstamendment
#freespeech
#ForkICE
#BP3
#FuckICE

IF YOU'RE UNEMPLOYED IT'S NOT BECAUSE THERE ISNT ANY WORK JUST LOOK AROUND: A HOUSING SHORTAGE, CRIME, POLLUTION; WE NEED BETTER SCHOOLS AND PARKS. WHATEVER OUR NEEDS, THEY ALL REQUIRE WORK. AND AS LONG AS WE HAVE UNSATISFIED NEEDS, THERE'S WORK TO BE DONE. SO ASK YOURSELE, WHAT KIND OF WORLD HAS WORK BUT NO JOBS. IT'S A WORLD WHERE WORK IS NOT RELATED TO SATISFYING OUR NEEDS, WORLD WHERE WORK IS ONLY RELATED TO SATISFYING THE PROFIT NEEDS OF BUSINESS. THIS COUNTRY WAS NOT BUILT BY THE HUGE CORPORATIONS OR GOVERNMENT BUREAUCRACIES. IT WAS BUILT BY PEOPLE WHO WORK. AND, IT IS WORKING PEOPLE WHO SHOULD CONTROL THE WORK TO BE DONE. YET, AS LONG AS EMPLOYMENT IS TIED TO SOMEBODY ELSE'S PROFITS, THE WORK WONT GET DONE.

the Black Panthers were right

Nina Simone: Take Me To The Water YouTube video by Nina Simone

"But i'm a Pisces on the cusp of Aquarius so I gotta say Take Me To The Water" - Nina Simone (born on February 21]
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Hackers Expose Age-Verification Software Powering Surveillance Web Three hacktivists tried to find a workaround to Discord’s age-verification software. Instead, they found its frontend exposed to the open internet.

Anyway!!

A colorful quilt square features patches with slogans: "ABOLISH ICE," "DON'T EVER TALK TO COPS," "love each other, FUCK ICE," along with a heart with flowers and two birds. The background is pink, black, and cream patterned fabric.

I'll be raffling this mini wall quilt created by my friend Rachel Wallis next week. It will be a fundraiser.

ice is the gestapo and they're creating more concentration camps, we're living in the 4th reich. this isn't hyperbole or any other literary device.

Transracial adoption may be too deep for this show to engage with

How Autocrats Meddle With Elections The Trump administration has its eyes on the midterms and beyond.

"Voter suppression is one of the core tools of authoritarianism. It is how you shift from democracy to autocracy. And for millions of Americans, it’s about to become the norm"

www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/202...

The Campaign to Destroy Renee Good After an ICE agent shot and killed the Minneapolis mother, conservative media launched an all-out attack on her reputation. Her identity as a queer woman was central to it.

For @wired.com, I wrote about how misogyny and homophobia have been used by the right to wage a campaign to destroy Renee Good www.wired.com/story/the-ca...

they abolished the department of education, we do not need a trojan horse to abolish ice we can just do it

The ‘Colorblindness’ Trap: How a Civil Rights Ideal Got Hijacked (Published 2024)

“And so we must be clear about the stakes: Our nation teeters at the brink of a particularly dangerous moment, not just for Black Americans but for democracy itself.”

www.nytimes.com/2024/03/13/m...

The last thing I wrote in my colorblindness piece argued “What we are witnessing, once again, is the alignment of white power against racial justice and redress. As history has shown, maintaining racial inequality requires constant repression and is therefore antithetical to democracy...”

A decade ago, when Trump one the first time, I and other Black writers tried to make us see that racism — both explicit and deeply seeded — was at the root of Trump’s rise. We were dismissed even as late as last year as people attributed economic anxieties to Trump’s wins.
DO YOU BELIEVE US NOW?

During those decades, Conservatives think tanks thought through how they wanted to dismantle it. There's no concomitant apparatus among Democrats.

Abolishing the Dept of Ed was a multi-decade project of the Right and it took a fascist regime to finally start to do it.

Dem elites and politicians have no such investment in dismantling ICE and we can see that in real time. There's also no movement of its voters threatening them on the matter.

Power is always discursive and its moves to undermine the use of language to tell the truth is central to its narrative strategy against the public.

Here, Homan makes calling a murder a “murder” more dangerous than murder itself.

Stokely taught us this decades ago about power and police.

Power is always discursive and its moves to undermine the use of language to tell the truth is central to its narrative strategy against the public.

Here, Homan makes calling a murder a “murder” more dangerous than murder itself.

Stokely taught us this decades ago about power and police.

They're threatening to kill more of us if we call them murderers. Only a murderer levels that kind of threat.

Anne Arundel County Police dispute ICE’s account of Glen Burnie shooting A deadly shooting by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Minneapolis on Wednesday renewed scrutiny of a violent Christmas Eve incident involving ICE agents in Glen Burnie, with Anne Arundel County ...

After Minneapolis, now the ICE shooting on Christmas Eve in Maryland is getting some scrutiny from local police: “…county police confirmed The Banner’s reporting that the second person injured in the encounter was already in ICE custody, in one of the agency’s vehicles, when he was hurt.”