Letting the U.S. nuclear treaty with Russia expire puts every family on the planet at greater risk.
For decades, this deal limited warheads and allowed inspections so leaders didn’t have to guess what the other side was doing.
The morning after mass layoffs, The Washington Post publishes this as their lead editorial. The owner and publisher clearly have no idea why they are losing subscribers. Meanwhile they have destroyed a storied brand.
Support independent media. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0
Dems need to abandon the idea, fed to them by certain commentators, that Trump's 2024 win represented a durable cultural shift against immigration. It's blinding them to the possibilities of this moment.
Check out this exchange with @brianbeutler.bsky.social:
newrepublic.com/article/2061...
I am running out of ways to convey how disconnected from reality Trump's judicial nominees are. They can't say that Trump lost the 2020 election, they won't say that the January 6 insurrection happened, they don't acknowledge any fact about anything if Trump hasn't authorized them to believe it
New -- Republicans are quietly readying another DHS stopgap. They think there's NO way an immigration enforcement deal can happen in next 8 days
WH official:“It’s not enough time to come to the sort of agreement that we were hoping to come to"
www.semafor.com/article/02/0...
The Trump era exposed how badly Congress erred over decades by granting the president emergency powers in certain situations while also making the president the one who decides when we’re in those situations.
ICE can’t mask except when ICE’s boss says it’s necessary? Repeating that same mistake.
"except in extraordinary and unusual circumstances" is a big enough loophole for a family of elephants to walk through. www.huffpost.com/entry/democr...
‘One officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." …
She offered me $2600 to self-deport.
I refused.
I wanted to talk to my attorney.
They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’
If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff.
Democracy dies in oligarchy.
As The Washington Post cleaved off a third of its workforce, chief executive Will Lewis and owner Jeff Bezos were nowhere to be found—leaving the storied institution to profusely bleed while its top leaders hid from accountability.
Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/washington...
NBC News's Tom Llamas did an hour-long interview with Trump filled with softballs & filled with Trump lies that he didn't challenge.
Worst of all, he did not ask 1 single question to Trump about the Epstein files & the 38,000 references to Trump.
Our mainstream media is broken. Subscribe to Zeteo.
I’m so pessimistic about Israel’s 2026 elections
I’ll vote for the left-wing Jewish-Arab Joint List, but if Netanyahu and Ben Gvir win again, there’s really nothing to do about it
I’m 100% sure they’ll change the elections rules like Putin did
#WATCH | Israeli Energy Minister Eli Cohen takes part in cutting off the water supply to the UN Agency for the Palestine Refugees,(UNRWA) headquarters in occupied Jerusalem.
🇨🇳🇮🇱 #BREAKING | China Has Imposed A Ban On New Israeli Investments ❗️
China is refusing to invest in new Israeli projects under their control citing the war as the reason
Kibbutz Hanita opened a lawsuit after losing $11 MILLION of dollars due to the Chinese decision
As terrible as what is happening right now to journalism, we actually should dismantle the romantic myths we have of the press in America.
I teach in my class about colonial press censorship, and then how the independent press was a tool for the wealthy, white power holders to maintain dominance.
This is it.
And the founders also never really envisioned a system like industrial and post-industrial capitalism that would be *fundamentally at odds* with their vision of a democratic republic.
Which is why capitalism must be dismantled.
The last U.S.-Russia nuclear weapons treaty expires this week.
Without a new agreement, we're at risk of an arms race.
This is serious.
The Trump Administration must continue to pursue arms control deals to keep Americans safe.
"This has become a defining moment not just in reining in ICE and DHS, but in reining in Trump. The Europeans got him to retreat a few weeks ago. It is our turn now."
@simonwdc.bsky.social sees big potential in this moment (discusses opposition to ICE camps)
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/american-p...
ICE is beyond reform. The people are demanding an end to the killings and abductions.
My Melt ICE Act will prohibit detention and monitoring, disrupt DHS immigration enforcement, and redirect funding to our communities. We must MELT ICE NOW!
Immigrants are carrying this country on their backs while the right screams into the void.
Here’s the Cato Institute report:
www.cato.org/blog/cato-st...
Heads are going to explode 💥
Cato Institute just nuked the lie. Immigrants have cut U.S. deficits by $14.5 TRILLION since 1994, slashing the national debt by a third.
All that “immigrants are bleeding us dry” noise? Absolute bullshit.
1/3
When Jeff Bezos bought WaPo, he immediately took control of the opinions section. Now, he's laying off hundreds of journalists, including those covering Amazon.
This isn’t a coincidence. It’s the result of billionaires with vested political agendas taking over our media.
The UAE president’s brother secretly bought a $500 million stake in Trump's crypto venture and gave Trump $187 million.
Then, the president corruptly greenlit the sale of American AI chips to a UAE-based firm.
@chrismurphyct.bsky.social breaks down this damning feat of corruption here:
What's that you say!
It was all just fear pushing by bad faith groups and that trans women pose no threat to cisgender women.
www.independent.co.uk/news/science...
Bezos isn't destroying the Washington Post because it isn't profitable. He's destroying the Washington Post because he's calculated that a robust free press threatens the ability of his class to warp society around their interests
Oregon's U.S. Rep Maxine Dexter announced she's traveling to Texas on Thursday to perform an oversight visit at the Dilley detention facility. There, she'll visit the Oregon family detained by immigration agents in January on their way to the hospital. oregoncapitalchronicle.com/briefs/u-s-r...
Arizona and over 20 other states have denied the Trump administration's requests for their full voter registration lists.
Arizona's Secretary of State, who previously oversaw elections Maricopa County, explains why.
Remarkable: Trump's planned migrant prison camps are hitting deep resistance in red areas. In Virginia's partly rural Hanover (+26 Trump) opposition is intense. GOP leaders in other states are opposed.
Voters are rejecting mass deportations big time. 1/
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2060...
I personally do not think some rich man should be able to buy an institution like this like a toy and then break it when he doesn’t want to play with it anymore. bsky.app/profile/benm...
New: Washington Post Executive Editor Matt Murray and HR Chief Wayne Connell tell employees to stay home for a zoom webinar ahead of “significant actions across the company.” Widely expected layoffs are scheduled to begin today.
Daily reminder that anyone in Congress, including @balint.house.gov, can invoke Rule IX and force a vote on impeachment of Noem, Trump — all of them. Ball's in your court, Ms. Balint. Honor your oath.
The thing about Epstein's death and this partial file release is that it's now impossible for his accomplices to get their stories straight. People are getting grilled on things that they thought were long ago buried, and several will fold under that pressure. The narrative is out of their control.
"Epstein’s most stupendous feat was to become a powerful New York insider after being registered as a sex offender" - no, that was confirmation of his place within a particular elite. www.ft.com/content/3f82...
If you are as sickened as this by I am, please direct all of your disgust and outrage at Congress - your favorite Democrats included - who should and could be filing and forcing votes on impeachment EVERY SINGLE DAY.
ANYTHING LESS is COMPLICITY. PERIOD. FULL STOP.
ICE OUT = TRUMP OUT
The next witness is Aliya Rahman, a U.S. citizen and resident of Minneapolis with autism and a traumatic brain injury, who in January was dragged from her car by immigration agents— four blocks away from where George Floyd was killed—then detained without access to medical care or lawyer.
In 2009, this was the mask of a UK SAS character in “Call of Duty.” By 2015 it was de rigeur among Iraqi government commandos and Shiite militiamen. In 2018, in “Sicario 2,” it was what CIA surrogate characters wore to disguise themselves as cartel gunmen.
Now US law enforcement wears it.
KAITLAN COLLINS: What would say to Epstein survivo---
TRUMP: You are so bad. You are the worst report. No wonder CNN has no ratings. She's a young woman. I don't think I've ever seen you smile. They should be ashamed of you.
Marimar Martinez, the Chicago woman whom a Border Patrol agent shot five times last year, says despite her physical and mental suffering, she at least survived her attack.
"I am Renee Good. I am Alex Pretti. I am Silverio Villegas González. I am Keith Porter. They should all be here today."
NEW via @punchbowlnews.bsky.social: Virginia state senator Russet Perry is eyeing a run for Congress following redistricting.
@russetperry.bsky.social attended the "50 States, One Israel" propaganda tour in Israel last September, where 250 American state lawmakers met with Netanyahu and his allies.
