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I feel seen.

#Cartoon #CalvinHobbes #Humor #Funny #Bookstadon #Books #Read

#Woke #Humanity #Empathy

"Russia can stop the war anytime by leaving Ukranian land."

#Putin #Russia #Ukraine #USPol #Trump #PutinWarWarCriminal #RussiaIsATerroristState

The Trump administrationis tying itself in knots, clinging to a ceasefire with Iran that now remains in name only. “There’s this ongoing denial of reality by the administration about the global and domestic consequences of this conflict,” said Finucane. “This war is very unpopular. The president’s own popularity has fallen, and it doesn’t look like it’s going to get any better as the economic consequences worsen."

https://theintercept.com/2026/05/05/iran-war-ceasefire-trump-strait-hormuz/

#Trump #DOD #Hegseth #GOP #NationalSecurity #World #Iran #IranWar #FossilFuels

The unchecked DNA collection “puts you and your family in a surveillance state database of people who have criticized this administration,” Dunne alleged, while suggesting that on an “authoritarian scale of one to 10, this is a 10.”

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/05/ice-protesters-sue-to-stop-dhs-from-seizing-dna-samples/

#Policy #DepartmentofHomelandSecurity #DHS #DNA #dnadatabase #dnasamples #fbi #immigrationandcustomsenforcement

The United States has just spent billions of dollars to lose a war that enriches its oligarchs, impoverishes the citizenry, sabotages its alliances, and strengthens its enemies. As justification for the self-destructive mindlessness, the White House gestures towards Jesus and genocide.

The systems that made the United States a superpower cannot be rebuilt as they were, nor should they be: they involved structural injustices that made the present attempt at self-annihilation possible.

From where we stand now there are two ways forward: one is the self-induced downfall of the American republic; the other is to reconsider American ideals and to restructure American politics so as to bring the people greater power over a more just future.

https://snyder.substack.com/p/on-superpower-suicide

#Trump #GOP #USPol #Iran #War #TimSnyder #Democracy #Resist #Protest

“Every year Pentagon contractors get more and more taxpayer dollars and then use some of that money to convince Congress to give them even more money next year. It’s a win-win-win for contractors, lobbyists, and Congress. The loser? American taxpayers who have to pay for this corrupt war profiteering.”

https://truthout.org/articles/war-profiteers-multiply-as-opportunists-eye-golden-opportunity/

#Trump #GOP #DOD #CostofWar #iranwar #Israel #LockheedMartin #Pentagon #Military #WhiteHouse

"The choice before us is stark: a society governed by cruelty, greed, and organized forgetting, or one animated by justice, memory, and solidarity. Trump has shown us what the collapse of conscience looks like, how a culture organized around fear, unchecked greed, moral compromise, and the pressures of conformity can hollow out democratic life and turn human beings into objects of suspicion, disposability, and silence."

"What is at stake is not simply the fate of a political system, but the moral compass of society itself. In an age when capitalism rewards selfishness, punishes compassion, and trades civic responsibility for the ruthless pursuit of power, the greatest danger is not only the rise of authoritarian figures, but the willingness of ordinary people to accommodate them."

"The question, then, is whether we have the courage to resist the seductions of conformity, reclaim the ethical imagination, and rebuild a culture in which justice, collective responsibility, and the dignity of human life matter more than profit, spectacle, and fear."

https://truthout.org/articles/we-must-resist-the-collapse-of-conscience-in-the-age-of-trump/

#Democracy #Freedom #GOP #Trump #Fascism #Iran #War #Resist #Protest