One foreign policy expert noted that fears of a “mass exodus” of refugees come “as the US starves Cuba of energy and food.”
Federal immigration agents are required to allow parents to “make alternative care arrangements” for their children before they’re detained.
Israeli officials told US diplomats that the Iranian government is “not cracking” in a State Department cable.
“We're saying, ‘Oh, pretty please, will you save the bays? Will you not pollute us today?’... I think we're way too polite and way too well-behaved. And that's why I advocate being an unreasonable woman.”
There is a tremendous premium in intellectual circles on making the AI bubble problem more complicated than it is.
“It's a very dire situation in Cuba right now… [Trump] has made every aspect of life in Cuba much more difficult,” Medea Benjamin of CODEPINK tells us.
A senior Israeli official told Axios the military is “going to do what we did in Gaza.”
“We have a moral responsibility to join the Cuban people—people of conscience around the world, but especially Black people and people of African descent—because when [Africa] called [Cuba] came.”
“A case like this helps the government kind of see how far they can go in criminalizing constitutionally protected protest,” one legal advocate said.
“As more revelations come out in the Epstein files and as the chaos gets unleashed in the world by this current administration, it feels like they continue to stamp the ‘trans hate’ button harder and harder.”
Last weekend, Donald Trump met with right-wing allies from Latin America to kick off a new military coalition to attack so-called drug cartels and push his agenda up and down the hemisphere. This is episode 8 of Under the Shadow, Season 2.
Florida public schools will force students to take a Heritage Foundation-backed class on the “evils of communism.”
“This is the nightmare that I've had—literally had nightmares woken up in a cold sweat about. The government has kidnapped one of my friends."
How to bring the war home to an increasingly war-weary public? Tell them terrorists are “hiding in plain sight.”
We have another report that Israel used the military power the US underwrites to pressure Donald Trump into a disastrous war in Iran. US military aid to Israel makes Americans — to say nothing of the rest of the world — less safe.
“Americans can’t afford their groceries, they can’t afford their medicine, they can’t afford the cost of living, and yet we’re dropping a billion dollars of bombs, it seems, every day in Iran,” said one Senate Democrat.
“They called Afghanistan ‘the place where empires go to die,’ and Iran is very similar in that terrain. You put boots on the ground in Iran, and we're in for a lot of pain.”
