I think often of a New York Times photo of a little Iraqi girl tending to her parakeets in a bombed house, probably from 20 years ago now. I will think of this man and his sweet dog often now too. People just want to love what they love, care for their little beings, and instead we do this to them
Man with his dog flees from bombs in Tehran.
(Photo by Pooria Hatami)
Hard to overstate how obvious this was in Minneapolis. They'd roll around the neighborhood in full gear, doing nothing immigration-related at all, wait for angry crowds to gather, and then attack them with tear gas and pepper spray! It was a violent siege and the feds owe us billions in reparations.
Civilians among the rubble following airstrikes in Tehran.
(Photos by Mehdi Ghasemi)
Matt Bailey
Jesus Christ, what are we even doing here. This is passive murder by the state. And how many others in detention like this poor man?
Anjali Dayal
Leah McElrath
Either this is a thing he can’t do or this is a thing he could’ve done all along, and either way it’s insulting
1/ It's not just that unilaterally paying TSA agents is illegal.
It's that Trump has now repeatedly undermined the core of the congressional power of the purse. He's not spending money that has been appropriated by law (impoundments) and he's spending money that has not been appropriated.
How Palantir, not Anthropic, led US bombs to kill 175 civilians, mostly 7-12yo girls, in a school in Minab, Iran on Feb 28. How embedding automation - not LLMs in this case, just image processing and sensor fusion - in military workflows mutes human judgment, causes errors, & diverts accountability.
Man with his dog flees from bombs in Tehran.
(Photo by Pooria Hatami)
Will Stancil
Still Life - Pink Roses - 1890
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Leah McElrath
d.k.l.a.
Laura Bassett
Nothings Monstered
Leah McElrath
Kevin J. Kircher
Josh Chafetz
Vincent van Gogh
Stephen Miller allegedly urged Department of Homeland Security agents to “force confrontations” with protesters in Minneapolis in order to win a “PR battle." trib.al/NcbpdiX
