Topher
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“Between a high, solid wall and an egg that breaks it, I will always stand on the side of the egg.” — Haruki Murakami.
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"This war is already lost," says journalist Spencer Ackerman. "Iran has so thoroughly outfoxed the United States that you heard Trump say he is willing to walk away from a conflict he began without reopening the Strait of Hormuz."
“This War Is Already Lost”: Spencer Ackerman & Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi on Trump’s Iran Debacle
President Donald Trump gave a primetime televised address Wednesday to discuss the war on Iran, his first since the United States and Israel launched attacks on February 28. Trump gave few clues about...
www.democracynow.org
April 4, 2026 at 9:36 PM
"This war is already lost," says journalist Spencer Ackerman. "Iran has so thoroughly outfoxed the United States that you heard Trump say he is willing to walk away from a conflict he began without reopening the Strait of Hormuz."
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New in PN: The bombing of Iranian children is an unforgivable crime
"American disinterest in the lives of people abroad is a resource politicians use to justify cynical wars. It's hard to see on what moral grounds we claim a right to decide the fate of those about whom we clearly care so little."
"American disinterest in the lives of people abroad is a resource politicians use to justify cynical wars. It's hard to see on what moral grounds we claim a right to decide the fate of those about whom we clearly care so little."
The bombing of Iranian children is an unforgivable crime
America has blood on its hands.
www.publicnotice.co
March 9, 2026 at 11:47 AM
New in PN: The bombing of Iranian children is an unforgivable crime
"American disinterest in the lives of people abroad is a resource politicians use to justify cynical wars. It's hard to see on what moral grounds we claim a right to decide the fate of those about whom we clearly care so little."
"American disinterest in the lives of people abroad is a resource politicians use to justify cynical wars. It's hard to see on what moral grounds we claim a right to decide the fate of those about whom we clearly care so little."
Just parallel parked on the first try without having to turn off my music. Please clap.
March 7, 2026 at 6:45 PM
Just parallel parked on the first try without having to turn off my music. Please clap.
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The morally bankrupt Trump administration has partnered with another morally bankrupt authoritarian to declare an unprovoked war on Iran, already killing scores of civilians.
We need an immediate vote from Congress on a War Powers Resolution. Then articles of impeachment.
We need an immediate vote from Congress on a War Powers Resolution. Then articles of impeachment.
February 28, 2026 at 3:33 PM
The morally bankrupt Trump administration has partnered with another morally bankrupt authoritarian to declare an unprovoked war on Iran, already killing scores of civilians.
We need an immediate vote from Congress on a War Powers Resolution. Then articles of impeachment.
We need an immediate vote from Congress on a War Powers Resolution. Then articles of impeachment.
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Read it again. We killed 85 schoolgirls this morning.
We killed 85 schoolgirls. We are not the good guys.
US-Israeli strike on girls' school kills at least 85 students, Iran's judiciary says
At least 85 students have been killed in US-Israeli strikes that hit an Iranian girls' school in Hormozgan province, Iran's judiciary said on Saturday. Washington has not commented on the reported str...
www.france24.com
February 28, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Read it again. We killed 85 schoolgirls this morning.
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I will never get used to the disdain our country holds for brown and Black children.
From Palestine to Iran to Sudan, we normalize the destruction of schools and hospitals and daycares. We reduce children to death tolls and their futures to rubble with no consequence or second thought.
From Palestine to Iran to Sudan, we normalize the destruction of schools and hospitals and daycares. We reduce children to death tolls and their futures to rubble with no consequence or second thought.
February 28, 2026 at 4:06 PM
I will never get used to the disdain our country holds for brown and Black children.
From Palestine to Iran to Sudan, we normalize the destruction of schools and hospitals and daycares. We reduce children to death tolls and their futures to rubble with no consequence or second thought.
From Palestine to Iran to Sudan, we normalize the destruction of schools and hospitals and daycares. We reduce children to death tolls and their futures to rubble with no consequence or second thought.
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if the media had any integrity — and it doesn’t anymore — they’d be pointing out on a loop that Obama made a deal with Iran, Trump cancelled it because Obama is Black, and then Trump started a war on the pretense there is no deal
February 28, 2026 at 12:54 PM
if the media had any integrity — and it doesn’t anymore — they’d be pointing out on a loop that Obama made a deal with Iran, Trump cancelled it because Obama is Black, and then Trump started a war on the pretense there is no deal
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War is massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who do know each other but don't massacre each other.
February 28, 2026 at 10:25 AM
War is massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who do know each other but don't massacre each other.
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the congressional authorization thing is bad but honestly for me the whole "the crime of aggression is the supreme international crime" thing is what keeps me up at night
February 28, 2026 at 7:51 AM
the congressional authorization thing is bad but honestly for me the whole "the crime of aggression is the supreme international crime" thing is what keeps me up at night
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I'm already sick of "It's all a distraction from Epstein" replies. This regime is killing innocent people because our leaders are all power-hungry tyrants and war profiteers. When you say it's "just a distraction" you minimize the gravity of what's happening and the lives lost.
February 28, 2026 at 1:25 PM
I'm already sick of "It's all a distraction from Epstein" replies. This regime is killing innocent people because our leaders are all power-hungry tyrants and war profiteers. When you say it's "just a distraction" you minimize the gravity of what's happening and the lives lost.
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Oman's FM Badr Albusaidi, who has been mediating the recent rounds of indirect talks between the US and Iran, has reacted to today's attacks by the US and Israel on Iran.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.news/x068qe
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.news/x068qe
February 28, 2026 at 1:47 PM
Oman's FM Badr Albusaidi, who has been mediating the recent rounds of indirect talks between the US and Iran, has reacted to today's attacks by the US and Israel on Iran.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.news/x068qe
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.news/x068qe
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I was talking to Seth Moulton's staff about that this week with regard to the Burlington ICE office. One thing they said was that closing an existing facility is really hard but preventing a new one from opening is comparatively easier. We have to stop these camps now while we have the chance.
Local zoning is the way! A lot of these are being stopped or stalled by neighborhood organizing.
These warehouses often need to be purchased, permitted, approved for occupancy and specs. Each one of those steps can be interrupted.
Ppl are pressuring corps not to sell, counties to deny permits, etc
These warehouses often need to be purchased, permitted, approved for occupancy and specs. Each one of those steps can be interrupted.
Ppl are pressuring corps not to sell, counties to deny permits, etc
February 23, 2026 at 12:30 PM
I was talking to Seth Moulton's staff about that this week with regard to the Burlington ICE office. One thing they said was that closing an existing facility is really hard but preventing a new one from opening is comparatively easier. We have to stop these camps now while we have the chance.
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When you say “only the vulnerable” are at risk… you’re saying that vulnerable people are expendable.
When you say “only those with pre existing conditions will die”… you’re saying our lives don’t matter.
You can become one of the “vulnerable” at any time.
Many of us were healthy…until we weren’t.
When you say “only those with pre existing conditions will die”… you’re saying our lives don’t matter.
You can become one of the “vulnerable” at any time.
Many of us were healthy…until we weren’t.
February 22, 2026 at 4:54 AM
When you say “only the vulnerable” are at risk… you’re saying that vulnerable people are expendable.
When you say “only those with pre existing conditions will die”… you’re saying our lives don’t matter.
You can become one of the “vulnerable” at any time.
Many of us were healthy…until we weren’t.
When you say “only those with pre existing conditions will die”… you’re saying our lives don’t matter.
You can become one of the “vulnerable” at any time.
Many of us were healthy…until we weren’t.
This is heartbreaking. I’ll say it again: ICE and anyone who supports these policies are monsters.
This 53 year old man who lived in my neighborhood w/no criminal record & who had been in the US for 30 years, was detained and thrown into a cold cell for days, caught pneumonia and COVID there and deported.
He finally died.
I am so angry.
www.kptv.com/2026/02/21/n...
He finally died.
I am so angry.
www.kptv.com/2026/02/21/n...
‘No one deserves this’: Beaverton father dies after deportation to Mexico
A Beaverton family is grieving after the father, who was detained and deported by ICE, has now died.
www.kptv.com
February 22, 2026 at 2:00 PM
This is heartbreaking. I’ll say it again: ICE and anyone who supports these policies are monsters.
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Americans waking up to news that Prince Andrew has been arrested for Epstein ties
squidward from spongebob squarepants looks out a window
ALT: squidward from spongebob squarepants looks out a window
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February 19, 2026 at 12:57 PM
Americans waking up to news that Prince Andrew has been arrested for Epstein ties
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Watching other countries actually make their leaders and powerful men face consequences with jealousy.
February 19, 2026 at 11:37 AM
Watching other countries actually make their leaders and powerful men face consequences with jealousy.
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The blockade on Cuba is unconscionable.
February 17, 2026 at 7:10 PM
The blockade on Cuba is unconscionable.
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the democrats deliberately boosted the candidacy of donald trump and ran status-quo empty suits against him and those brilliant strategies got the US two trump terms. a few oddly still have the audacity to blame the left for their lack of enthusiasm in cheering on these obviously awful plans
February 16, 2026 at 1:39 PM
the democrats deliberately boosted the candidacy of donald trump and ran status-quo empty suits against him and those brilliant strategies got the US two trump terms. a few oddly still have the audacity to blame the left for their lack of enthusiasm in cheering on these obviously awful plans
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Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
February 15, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
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Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude
February 10, 2026 at 10:54 PM
Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude
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When a sitting representative refers to the Super Bowl halftime show as “pornography,” people should use that to reflect on how they and other representatives are simultaneously working to ban, censor, and restrict “pornography” and what that actually means
February 10, 2026 at 6:52 PM
When a sitting representative refers to the Super Bowl halftime show as “pornography,” people should use that to reflect on how they and other representatives are simultaneously working to ban, censor, and restrict “pornography” and what that actually means
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Sorry to be Radical Left but I don't think we should put people who haven't committed a crime, and aren't even accused of committing a crime, into any sort of "Detention"
February 10, 2026 at 6:04 AM
Sorry to be Radical Left but I don't think we should put people who haven't committed a crime, and aren't even accused of committing a crime, into any sort of "Detention"
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senators only do this when they're in extreme distress
February 4, 2026 at 9:32 PM
senators only do this when they're in extreme distress
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this part is so true, i mostly travel in women-and-children spaces in far outer SE, so the exact opposite end of town, and since saturday i've overheard and had multiple conversations about how to launder tear gas out of things like diaper bags including one at the methodist church
February 3, 2026 at 3:36 PM
this part is so true, i mostly travel in women-and-children spaces in far outer SE, so the exact opposite end of town, and since saturday i've overheard and had multiple conversations about how to launder tear gas out of things like diaper bags including one at the methodist church