Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.
In some ways I definitely agree (grew up in rural VA and have watched this while living all around the country), but also feels like there was always some degree of this; see, for example, Hofstadter's "Anti-intellectualism in American Life". Stunning how that 1963 book has so much staying power.
Only if he’s kept in jail until the tribunals, because he’ll just flee otherwise…
I’ve been thinking of finding just the right place in WV or TX or WY since part of the purpose is to put the evil on trial in front of a key enabling population, then assuming the name of that place would become synonymous with Nuremberg…our very own.
Gonna do a Nuremberg
The administration “has just stopped following this part of the law” has to be one of the most common phrases of the past year…
ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.
They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.
Bernie Sander’s 2028 litmus test would strangle America’s golden goose
Surprise! The Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post is against my 5% billionaire wealth tax. I wonder why?
If enacted, Bezos would owe $12 billion in taxes, and an average family of 4 would receive a $12,000 direct payment.
Poor Jeff would be left with just $224 billion to survive.
I sang that in the tune of Stone Temple Pilots… youtu.be/yjJL9DGU7Gg
be strictly illegal at the moment (tho' plenty is!), but the Constitution provides an open-ended mechanism to correct course in Article II, Section 4...we're going to have to use that authority to its fullest, for all appointees of the administration and lots of career (e.g., in ICE). Essential.
'It is because the Constitution’s writers were intentionally expansive in their definition. They were most focused not on statutory crimes but misrule.'
@joshtpm.bsky.social highlights what is surely the constitutional basis for the tribunals that we will need one day: so much being done may not...
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trump...
'It’s a cliché and more or less true that the Constitution’s “high crimes and misdemeanors” language can mean whatever Congress wants it to mean. That is not only because in this area Congress’ decision-making is certainly un-reviewable...'
Bar graph showing voters want the federal gov't to invest more in housing and infrastructure, among other priorities. Note that hardly anyone wants more investment in AI and data centers.
I was just looking at some @dataforprogress.org polling in which people want the USG to spend a lot more on housing. I'm as big a fan of bigger (and better) gov't as anyone, but not sure how this is a federal issue. Infrastructure in many cases yes, but housing? bit.ly/4aTDRNb
We shouldn't forget that he and others in this administration would print, frame, and hang this sort of indictment as a declaration of success, because they have no moral compass, no shame, and unless something changes, will not be held accountable.
The best thing you can do in light of the Ellison takeover of Warner Brothers invest your time, energy, and money in supporting independent creators and independent distribution networks and independent venues. It is absolutely crucial to make independence a viable option.
They have just completely bastardized the process. When we look back and estimate the monetized and non-monetized harms from this kind of action and the overall assault on science...it's going to be 🤯
This stunt where ICE releases people far from home with no proper clothing and no way home should be treated as attempted homicide. In this case, actual homicide. These cases are not accidental or based on misunderstandings. They are deliberate attempts to inflict bodily harm.
Since this will likely come up in the SOTU: Yes, US stock markets are up since Trump took office (14%).
But in the rest of the world, markets are up WAY more. Cumulative market gains are more than triple ours (43%)
I see my decision to not waste money on The Atlantic was a good decision…
While I had a general sense of this dynamic as I argue for the central need for accountability - social and legal - I was never going to articulate it as clearly as @quinnae.com does here:
www.liberalcurrents.com/what-trump-s...
Illustration of a sunfish (also known as a Mola Mola) floating above an aerial view of some farm lands. A plane flies next to the fish, really putting into perspective of just how large the sunfish really is.
I think that if sunfish could, the would be sunbathing in the sky ☁️
#art
Remember the moral panic about safetyism? Trigger warnings? Snowflakes? Well, its actually happening in Texas.
One side of the coin is that a lawmaker is saying that educating himself made him change his mind on an issue. (Which, good!)
The other side of the coin is that he's admitting that he authored, sponsored, filed a bill while having evidently spent no time doing reading or research about the topic.
CATO: “.. In short, seven independent research teams have now examined the “who’s paying” question and have reached essentially the same answer: We are.”
@cato.org @scottlincicome.bsky.social
www.cato.org/blog/white-h...
Ya think?
Reuters newsletter summary that reads: "Trump has no time to defend, plenty of time to sue Priorities: The president frequently resorts to litigation to target his opponents, but when he’s on the defending side in civil litigation, he says a sitting president has better things to do. Judges also have ruled more than 4,000 times that ICE has jailed people illegally. And yet, they’re still doing it. ICE also has blocked detainees from seeing their lawyers."
Kudos to @reuters.com for appropriately framing this issue of the Trump administrations abuses of the justice system.
Not sure who needs to hear this but the voter fraud rate is a mere 0.000003%. Anyone telling you otherwise is making shit up so they can take away your right to vote.
How do folks, how does anyone, expect life on this planet to be for humans as we drive so many pieces of nature extinct? Depauperate of beauty and diversity to be sure, but the ecosystem functions that humans depend on will also collapse.
