#Iran: Weeks away from having nuclear weapons since 1995

Reminder: The State Department's reported plans for an office of “remigration” stem from a far-right policy that calls for “soft-style ethnic cleansing.” It is rooted in the debunked Great Replacement theory and favored by the European far-right and White nationalist extremists.

The worrying backstory of Trump’s proposed “Office of Remigration”

The State Department is reportedly creating an office for "remigration": a far-right policy that calls for what has been described as "soft-style ethnic cleansing."

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This is so important it hurts. This is the tiny area of a massive sprawling city that Trump is attacking and the entire propaganda machine is churning to make us believe more is happening. Don’t fall for the lies.

Also cannot be emphasized enough: Barack Obama successfully negotiated the shutdown of Iran's nuclear program. It exists today because Trump deliberately tore up that agreement. The deaths happening right now can be laid at his door.

Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · last yr.

Israel aggressively bombing Iran—unlike two incidents of strikes in 2024, which followed Iranian missiles launches against Israel—is in part another consequence of a weak, chaotic US president. Worth noting that this didn't happen under Biden, Obama, or Bush, despite Israel talking about it a lot.

Trump said he wanted a deal with Iran. I guess he couldn’t convince his good friend Netanyahu. No respect. Looks weak.

Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · last yr.

Israel aggressively bombing Iran—unlike two incidents of strikes in 2024, which followed Iranian missiles launches against Israel—is in part another consequence of a weak, chaotic US president. Worth noting that this didn't happen under Biden, Obama, or Bush, despite Israel talking about it a lot.

If they win on this they won’t stop here. Indian Americans, Chinese Americans, Cuban Americans, Vietnamese Americans, African Americans, they are coming for all of you, too.

That’s right. They want Mexican Americans to be ashamed of being Mexican. They’re leaning on the implicit racist belief of white people - including too many liberals - that Mexican heritage makes someone presumptively dangerous or criminal. It’s nativism and we shouldn’t give them one single inch.

Samhain@samhain23.bsky.social · last yr.

They’re attacking latinos, flying the Mexican flag is about not bowing down to racists and the fascist administration it’s not about being proud to be “American” it’s about being proud of the things they are trying to demonize about you.

Really Cool how nobody wanted to take this shit seriously

On what planet is this not assault? Deliberate and willful abuse of power by that officer.

Atrios@eschatonblog.com · last yr.

This reminds me of the time Sarah Huckabee Sanders was politely asked to leave a restaurant.

This tweet aged well. Guess it is ok when the fascists do it!

SUNDERLAND! That was amazing!

This is awesome!

Traveling Menace@neau.blacksky.app · last yr.

I cried, so now y’all can too. Mr. Riddick graduated at 80 years old! It’s never too late, and this is important as I constantly doubt myself. 💙💙💙 congratulations to you sir!!!

I live in the mid-west corn land of southern IL. Land sits ununsed most of the year, between October and May. No cover crops, no winter wheat. Nada. Just cropped off corn stalks.

Robert Rohde@rarohde.bsky.social · last yr.

The US already devotes more than 40 million acres to growing corn for ethanol fuel production. If only ~1/3 of that land were converted to solar PV, it could generate enough electricity to cover the entire country's electricity needs.

This is the right approach — speak to them as you would an especially stupid child, spell out their crimes and your contempt clearly.

🗽LOLGOP🗽@lolgop.bsky.social · last yr.

I  know your goal is to try to make life as hard as possible for immigrants.

You know, maybe I’m too prideful, but if I’d ever tweeted “I’m voting for the leopard, so it can eat the libs’ faces!” I think I would simply not later tweet “noooo the leopard is eating my face nooooo”

consider, they picked whichever Pope would piss off Vance the most

We're starting to get voter file data back and Change's model indicates that the biggest contributor to Kamala losing was new voters entering the electorate breaking heavily toward Trump substack.com/home/post/p-...

Kamala Harris Didn’t Lose to the Couch

New Voters, Not Drop off, Determined Harris' Defeat

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I am a government worker. We know where the inefficiencies are, but they are few and far between. The systems work, albeit sometimes slow, but that is for a reason: so we dont break important shit and we get things right 99.867% of the time.

Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · last yr.

Conspiracy theorists, and conspiracy theory-style thinking, is a major problem. That was evident in the takeover of Twitter, and even more so in the takeover of the US government. Convinced they’re the victim of dastardly conspiracies that don’t exist, find no evidence, mostly plow ahead anyway.

Carl Sagan on sensible military spending and climate change.

FIFA needs to remove the US as a host and give it to Canada and Mexico only.

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · last yr.

we just straight up can't have the World Cup here honestly. or the Olympics. it's not safe for the teams, coaching staff, fans, nobody

lmao

seems kind of weird that the vice president of the united states is openly supportive of german neo-nazis!

Joe Stieb@joestieb.bsky.social · last yr.

Not only is he going out of his way to strengthen the European far right, that claim about the Berlin Wall is beyond absurd. This is a broad strategic alignment away from the liberal democracies toward the global right.

Waltz is using TeleMessage, which archives Signal messages. Meaning all those messages that were supposedly gone from the last investigation might actually exist somewhere...

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · last yr.

Honestly this is just incredible content.

Honestly this is just incredible content.

RFK Jr. ordered the NIH’s Integrated Research Facility in Frederick to stop all research on serious infectious diseases yesterday at 5:00 PM. They study pathogens like Ebola there. You may be familiar with it from The Hot Zone. www.wired.com/story/hhs-ni...

RFK Jr.'s HHS Orders Lab Studying Deadly Infectious Diseases to Stop Research

NIAID's Integrated Research Facility is one of the few federal facilities charged with studying Ebola. Tuesday afternoon, all of its work was put on indefinite pause by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s departm...

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This is a new image from #JWST. The bright points with spikes are stars in the Milky Way. Everything else is a galaxy. Everything. Else. Is. A. Galaxy.

Trump is reveling in how he humiliated these big law firms: "You have to ask them, 'Why did you all pay Trump hundreds of millions of dollars?' ... "They just signed whatever I put in front of 'em. I've never seen anything like it. I'm actually surprised myself." abcnews.go.com/US/full-tran...

This isnt a lie if you think like a white christian nationalist. Some math: 350M Americans - all the non-white Americans equals? Could it be 258M? Ballparkish? I think it is!!! They are literally telling us their plans on the daily: "we are getting rid of non-whites".

Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · last yr.

We need stronger social censure mechanisms against being miserably, incomprehensibly stupid in public.

Not good.

Bruno J. Navarro@brunojnavarro.bsky.social · last yr.

“The consequence will be empty shelves in US stores in a few weeks and Covid-like shortages for consumers and for firms using Chinese products as intermediate goods.” — Apollo Global Management Chief Economist Torsten Slok.