Taulby Edmondson

It's true Trump has not managed to solidify authoritarian control over the US the way that mullahs have over Iran.

on the other hand, the US has much, much more power to create misery in the world, a power it is using in myriad ways.

This town is a good example of Trump's real base:

ICE Detention Is ‘Hell On Earth.’ Trump Has A Plan To Keep Even More People Locked Up. Immigration detention is not supposed to be punitive. But one man who spent 20 years in state prison told HuffPost the ICE detention facility he is currently in is worse.

New, with @jessicaschulberg.bsky.social: Immigration detention is not supposed to be punitive. But one man who spent 20 years in state prison told HuffPost the ICE detention facility he is currently in is worse. Inside Trump's plan to jail many, many more people:
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

Sec Def John Rocker

Yes

Ruben Ray Martinez: Footage shows US citizen shot by ICE agent in Texas traffic stop The Department of Homeland Security did not disclose Martinez was shot by one of its agents until almost a year later.

Newly released footage shows an ICE agent killing Rubin Ray Martinez, 23, in his car in Texas.

"He was shot at point-blank range through his side window by an ICE agent who was in no danger."
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This puts the primary onus of responsibility in the right order. And because of it, when they face a minimum consequence for their behavior--getting yelled at in public or losing votes--they throw absolute tantrums about it.

it's so cool how these people are going to set back actually useful computer science innovation in healthcare by a decade

i cannot get over how incredibly insane it is to think you can pull the same move you did on maduro against the entire regime of iran. in time this will be recognized as caligula-level insane. totally bonkers. hard to even fathom how someone could think this.

I feel like people are hedging on Platner by saying that they "don't think he's a Nazi," just a troll or dumbass etc. I personally would bet on him being a Nazi, given what we know about him. And it becomes more likely with each new revelation, a trend which I suspect will continue. Why wouldn't it?

Nature Report, Killed by Trump, Is Released Independently

Just yesterday, experts released a draft report--initially quashed by Trump 2.0 in its first ill-wrought days--revealing the grim reality of the country's ecological health. And yet politicians in Congress are poised to hand the keys to our future over to EnergyTech industries?

GTFOH.

Morale is woke.

I'm sure US troops are thrilled that Trump and Hegseth declared open season on unarmed soldiers no where near combat.

I've seen lots of coverage including in the international press. What I haven't seen is Democratic electeds bringing it up daily therefore driving coverage.

Unarmed and was part of an officially sanctioned Navy exercise organized by India, in which the US was also involved. 80+ dead and 60+ missing.

Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say Military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday, two U.S. officials told Reu...

Reuters Exclusive

"U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school."

"The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the ​Middle East."

ICE detains reporter Estefany Rodríguez in Nashville - Nashville Banner Reporter Estefany Rodríguez, detained by ICE with no arrest warrant, may face deportation. Her attorneys seek immediate review of the legality of her case.

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.

This type of thing exactly. It's not this specific instance per se, it's that any expert would immediately look for background information, doesn't even matter what type of expert you are. But these idiots don't think about things because they don't think they need to.

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This actually isn’t surprising in the slightest from an American POV. The only people trying to actually learn from this war are like Mike kofman, Rob Lee, 4 rando freelancers, and 7 people on here

Unless you were born 1945 or earlier, you've never lived in a world where the US military was this unprofessional and degraded in competence.

Gender (and race) all the way down.

Been thinking about the military more and more, despite it being a long-time point of criticism, because not only is Trump and Hegseth degrading it from the top-down, most of the GOP and a couple Dems are still on this rah rah tough-guy warfighter bullshit that accomplishes nothing but death.

"You can only be decent because we are horrible" is a very, very popular line of thinking among horrible people.

What a coincidence, so is the Republican Party.

"You know all those concerned parents in the 1950s waving Confederate flags at Black kids? Come on, they had Black housekeepers and nannies that they loved like family, as they often said. You think they knew it was racist?"

So that's how they double-tapped a girls school, with "the most advanced AI" they've ever used.

At this point, it's safe to assume most of the Republicans are talking like nazis in their group chats.

I'm tapping this sign quite frequently now.

The professional career civil servants who normally would effectively handle this were run off by Trump, Musk, and Vought.

Map showing Dahieh in red and orange

The IDF just ordered the forced evacuation of *all of Dahieh* a day after ordering the forced evacuation of all of South Lebanon.

Israel is taking advantage of the focus on Iran to destroy Lebanon