"history is also going to remember the cowards who definitely knew better but still let things happen—whether it was for money, convenience, or just comfort. Use ... the only phrase that can genuinely make a weak bully go away: F**k you. Make me.”" www.pajiba.com/news/john-ol...
Agree
One might think the only Jewish head of state in North America - and also the most popular Jewish head of state in the world - recognizing a Palestinian embassador and calling on Israel to end its genocide might you know, be news
The American people were lied to about Vietnam, with tragic consequences.
The American people were lied to about Iraq, with tragic consequences.
The American people are being lied to again today. We cannot allow history to repeat itself.
For decades, Sec. Kennedy has spread lies about vaccines. Now, his misinformation will lead to preventable illness & death.
Firing independent experts is a dangerous move that makes it harder for Americans to access vaccines that are safe, effective & essential to saving lives.
A defense official told The Intercept that Trump’s move to use Marines to stifle anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles is a “provocation.”
The Dallas ICE office is involved in a mass removal effort targeting nearly 200 people — many without removal orders — scheduled to be deported to El Salvador today.
This is not just cruel – it is lawless. I refuse to stay quiet while families are being torn apart, and lives are being put at risk.
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A friend drove two hours today for her breast cancer chemotherapy only to learn it was canceled due to NIH cuts. Clinical trial ended midstream. No treatment, no restart, no plan, no information. Her bro-in-law's chemo was also canceled.
Remember: Almost all of us are the descendants of immigrants who fled persecution, or were brought to America under duress, or sought better lives for themselves and their descendants.
Politicians who stoke fear and hatred over immigration want you to forget this.
Do not.
It is a fundamental mechanism of US imperialism to rely on a flexible claiming and/or disavowing of sovereignty, jurisdiction and/or territorial control to wield power with impunity.
Amy Kaplan‘s and @alyoshagoldstein.bsky.social‘s work have been instrumental in pointing this out.
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So it appears DOGE has decreed that Social Security administration will no longer provide phone support. At all. This is in addition to shutting down a ton of local SSA offices. www.axios.com/2025/03/17/s...
This is about destroying the #NIH. Even before the new NIH director takes his post, the higher ups in the #Trump administration are taking steps to dismantle biomedical research in the US as we know it, with the scientific, human and economic costs to be devastating.
The U.S. is cutting research funding, the weather service, park rangers, Social Security Admin staff, lifesaving foreign aid, plus billions in Medicaid and food stamps. For what? To potentially buy crypto with taxpayer dollars and to give more tax cuts to the rich.
Yes !
GLENN: Why don't you wear a suit? You're at the highest level in this country's office & you refuse to wear a suit. A lot of Americans have problems with you not respecting the office.
ZELENSKYY: I will wear a costume after this war will finish. Maybe something like yours. Maybe something better.
This scrum of pot-bellied, sunken-chested betas trying to bully an all-black clad badass Eastern European wasteland survivor while dressed like Men’s Wearhouse mannequins is peak cinema.
Russell Vought & his ex-wife Mary have a daughter with cystic fibrosis, who is being treated with elexacaftor/tezacaftor/ivacaftor, drugs developed with the support of the National Institutes of Health. Now Russ & Mary are trying to destroy the agency. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Historian here I know the United States siding with Russia along with Iran and North Korea seems like the end of the post world war international order but it reminds me of the slave power questioning the Declaration of Independence and American founding principles in the 1850s
"It’s time for the American people, across the political spectrum, to recognize what is happening. America has a rogue president and a rogue administration, and we need to acknowledge that and respond." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/o...
The presidents of all universities should hold a press conference together at the National Press Club in Washington DC condemning the attacks on science and universities and outline the stakes for all Americans. 1/
resistenciaenaccionnj.org/donate-2/ we have seen ICE all over NJ, including Princeton yesterday. Please support anyway you can including by donating to Resistencia en Acción.
(New Jersey has the highest proportion of undocumented workers in the nation at 22%)
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/st...
Many of us are affected, describe it in detail for them. Make it human, make it real. 9/
There are two people in Congress-the chairs of the Senate & House Appropriations Committees-who have enormous power over the illegal impoundment of funds appropriated by Congress, which is sowing chaos across the US. They need to be relentlessly contacted at their offices, in person and by phone. 1/
Immigrants they can't deport to their home countries are taken to Panama instead, where the plan is to detain them in a camp near the jungle. This is a trend I wrote about in S. America under 1970s & '80s dictatorship: the outsourcing of concentration camp detention. (Australia also did it in 2001.)
UPDATE: Nearly 100 migrants, recently deported by the United States to Panama where they had been locked in a hotel, were loaded onto buses Tuesday night and moved to a detention camp on the outskirts of the jungle, several of the migrants said.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/w...
