Trump Threatens Iran—Again—Amid Claim He Wants Iran To Think He’s Unstable The president said negotiators would return to Islamabad, Pakistan for another round of peace talks on Monday.

The president said negotiators would return to Islamabad, Pakistan for another round of peace talks on Monday.

Oh.

So they want Obama’s nuclear deal minus Obama’s signature.

Got it.

Notes for String Theory by artist Candace Hicks.

Putin offers to stop sharing intel with Iran if US cuts off Ukraine The U.S. rejected the Russian proposal, which has nonetheless sparked concerns in Europe amid growing transatlantic tensions.

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the country is at war and the president is peacing out for another weekend at his private club in Florida that he'll spend with his paying customers

How many times do we have to give farmers billions of dollars because Trump’s policies screw them over constantly? They overwhelmingly voted for this guy 3 times. Ask him for the money - maybe he can sell some crypto.

James Wright

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The Lion Lying On His Back - Cleveland Review of Books to my knowledge this poem is the first poem of any length to be written about cleveland in 150 years.

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New addition to the bookshelf (hi randy)

Today so far:
/ U.S. tells citizens to flee Mideast, offers “very limited” help.
/ U.S. consulate in Dubai hit by Iranian drone.
/ Stocks down.
/ Oil prices up.
/ U.S. rips Spain and Britain for not helping U.S. attack Iran.
/ Trump says he has enough weapons for war “forever."
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The New York Rangers expect me, a woman, to come back and watch the rest of the season after I watched the people who run the organization and two of its players laugh at female athletes. I think I’m good on hockey for the rest of the season. It’s been, like, really ruined.

Dear Women’s USA Olympic Hockey Team — First, congratulations! Second: I drove race cars for 19 yrs & the amount of misogynistic crap I put up with in the garage was insane. The U.S. Men’s Hockey Team has now shown you their true colors. Believe them. They’re not friends of your team or women in general. I’m so tired of this misogyny in sports & everywhere else in American life, to be honest. The patriarchy sucks. Grow the fuck up or hand the keys over to the ladies. Maybe it’s time we drive.

Leilani Munter, y'all.

Under WEXMAC, companies can be “pre-qualified.” Once pre-qualified, the government can issue task orders without going through any normal bidding process. On Friday night, the Trump administration quietly announced that private prison giant The GEO Group had been added to the WEXMAC-TITUS list of pre-qualified vendors, along with several other companies which specialize in things such as “turnkey workforce housing and temporary shelters [and] large-scale camp construction,” “rapid-deployment staffing solutions” and “protective services and secure detention transport operations.” In other words, ICE is now able to tap into the entirety of the $45 billion to award contracts to private prison operators and other contractors to start work on the warehouses it has purchased almost immediately, without any normal bidding process, and with potentially far less transparency than normal.

As you read @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social's piece on how Trump is fast-tracking his concentration camps by bypassing the bidding process, remember that Tom Homan accepted a pre-bribe from concentration camp co & Trump decided that was totally cool.

www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/ice-buy...

For all those who didn't watch tonight, allow me to summarize:

The liar lied again.

Rep. Al Green was holding a sign that reads "Black People Aren't Apes" at the State of the Union:

Rep. Al Green was holding a sign that reads "Black People Aren't Apes" at the #SOTU:

Katie Britt's Sad Confusion about and Complicity in Misallocation of HSI - emptywheel Katie Britt accuses Democrats of taking HSI off its job hunting down child sex predators. But under Senator Britt's oversight, Stephen Miller already did that.

As of Monday, more than one in ten of DHS' Homeland Security Investigations people remained in MN.

So while the goons have largely gone, the people who criminalize those who oppose the goons have remained behind.

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"Holy shit, did WE ever make the right decision" - The US Women's Hockey Team

Her name is congresswoman luz rivas of California😬

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Still seems crazy that Richard Hanania wrote for years under a white power banner and is just like, part of the media landscape.

oops. White nationalism is a helluva drug.

Alina Stefanescu Reads From Guillermo Stitch's THE COAST OF EVERYTHING Thanks to Alina Stefanescu, author of MY HERESIES, for this dramatic reading from Guillermo Stitch's forthcoming THE COAST OF EVERYTHING. https://thecoastofe...

Thanks to @alinaetc.bsky.social  for this reading from @guillermostitch.bsky.social 's THE COAST OF EVERYTHING, coming this Bloomsday.

Venezuela is a DIVERSION
Jerome Powell is a DIVERSION
Greenland is a DIVERSION
Board of Peace is a DIVERSION
Minnesota is a DIVERSION

Renee NICOLE Good is a CASUALTY of his DIVERSIONS ...

FROM RELEASING THE FUKKKIN EPSTEIN FILES!!

Trump struck deals with 16 drug companies. But they're still raising prices this year All 16 drug companies that inked deals with the Trump administration over the past few months still raised some of their

The Art of the Deal.

"Sir! This is a warning!" the agent yelled as he punched the man's vehicle window. "Stop f—king following us! You are impeding operations! This is the United States federal government!" "I live over here," the driver explained. "I got to get to my house." "This is your warning!" the officer exclaimed. "I serve the Lord; go to church," the resident replied. "I will arrest you!" the officer threatened. "Don't make a bad decision," another agent warned. "I serve the Lord," the driver repeated. "Not a draft-dodging coward." "Let these people go to church," the driver added. "Let these people serve the Lord and worship." "You're not going to like the outcome of this, sir," the first officer said. "I guarantee that... Did you not learn from what just happened [when Renee Good was killed]?" "Learn what?" the driver asked. "I serve the Lord, not a draft-dodging coward. I can't believe you'd take orders from a draft dodger."

it's incredible how if you put this entire dialog into the Left Behind series, it would basically work, but instead it's just IRL MN

The DOJ is more than three weeks late in delivering the Epstein Files. In those three weeks:

- Trump declared himself acting President of Venezuela
- ICE murdered a woman in Minnesota
- Trump is preparing an invasion of a NATO ally
- Trump initiated a criminal investigation of Fed Chair Powell

Three women wearing various stages of mourning, from deep mourning with a long veil, to a woman in a widow's cap and crape-trimmed dress, to a woman in black, but very fashionably dressed for the street.

#TheVictorianBookoftheDead 7 Jan 1900 The Buffalo [NY] Times: Fashions in Mourning - Somber Garments No Longer Need Be Unbecoming.
"The widow who wears this will not have any sense of frumpishness to add to her sorrow.”

“Which is why we are posthumously indicting Paul Revere.”

Congress should pass a law requiring agents to show their faces, identify themselves, & wear their badges. It’s not agent safety we have to worry about these days.

End so-called Kavanaugh stops & admin warrant-based forced entry into homes too. Let’s have a Constitution.

This mobile billboard is more righteous than the justice system.

Arrest and charge Jonathan Ross. 📢