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For those seeking a deeper understanding of our post-9/11 world & a clear sense of how our imperial globe actually works. https://tomdispatch.com/
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TomDispatch @tomdispatch.bsky.social · 7h
Retired Air Force Lt. Col. and historian Bill Astore on whether any top military figures might consider resigning over Trump's version of (domestic) war-making. bit.ly/4h5DYrT
Should Senior Military Officers Consider Resigning?
Several Coordinated Resignations Based on Principle Could Make a Difference
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TomDispatch @tomdispatch.bsky.social · 8h
The Guardian has a truly devastating summary of what the Israeli military has done to Gaza. (Check the original for charts, etc.) It's beyond shocking. bit.ly/42zyy2k
The ruin of Gaza: how Israel’s two-year assault has devastated the territory
IDF’s bombs and ground offensive have killed tens of thousands of people and reduced entire cities to rubble
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TomDispatch @tomdispatch.bsky.social · 10h
It's good to see people marching in Chicago, as Julia Conley of Common Dreams reports, against Trump's desire to occupy American cities. Remember, next weekend is the No Kings march nationally! bit.ly/3KHMtxe
'Trump's Gestapo': Chicago Marches to Resist ICE, National Guard Deployment | Common Dreams
President Trump's deployment of federal agents and National Guard troops to Chicago has sparked outrage and protests. Residents are demanding ICE agents leave, calling them Trump's Gestapo. As tension...
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At the Guardian, Hassan Abo Qamar on what it feels like in Gaza to have the hell stop at least for now, however long this peace plan may actually last, and of course with Gaza in ruins. bit.ly/3IOSYxD
‘It’s over! It’s over!’ they shout, but people here in Gaza still fear what the future may bring | Hassan Abo Qamar
Phase one of Donald Trump’s peace plan has brought joy and relief, yet it’s hard to believe this fragile peace will last, says Palestinian writer and journalist Hassan Abo Qamar
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TomDispatch @tomdispatch.bsky.social · 1d
Clarence Lusane at TomDispatch today: On (un)nominating Donald Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize.
Never in a Million Years
Who doesn't know that President Donald Trump desperately wants a Nobel Peace Prize and said bitterly, "They will never give me a Nobel Peace Prize. It’s too bad. I deserve it, but they will never
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TomDispatch @tomdispatch.bsky.social · 1d
"I got elected in a much bigger, better, crazier election, but they gave him the Nobel Prize."
Never in a Million Years
Who doesn't know that President Donald Trump desperately wants a Nobel Peace Prize and said bitterly, "They will never give me a Nobel Peace Prize. It’s too bad. I deserve it, but they will never
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TomDispatch @tomdispatch.bsky.social · 1d
Never in a Million Years: Ten Reasons Why Trump Should Never Be Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
by Clarence Lusane
Never in a Million Years
Who doesn't know that President Donald Trump desperately wants a Nobel Peace Prize and said bitterly, "They will never give me a Nobel Peace Prize. It’s too bad. I deserve it, but they will never
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TomDispatch @tomdispatch.bsky.social · 3d
“This is a breathtaking abuse of the law and power... The Trump Administration is unapologetically attacking the rule of law itself and putting into action their dangerous words — ignoring court orders and treating judges... as political opponents.”
Newsom joins Oregon’s suit after Trump sends California National Guard to Oregon
“This is a breathtaking abuse of the law and power,” the governor said in a statement.
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TomDispatch @tomdispatch.bsky.social · 3d
@washingtonpost.com on the possibility -- in fact, the likelihood -- of a new Israeli set of attacks on Iran (with, of course, possible U.S. involvement). www.washingtonpost.c...
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TomDispatch @tomdispatch.bsky.social · 3d
@commondreams.bsky.social on the judge who has stopped Trump from sending the Nation Guard into Portland, Oregon.
White House Responds With 'Authoritarian Propaganda' as Judge Blocks National Guard in Portland | Common Dreams
Top Trump adviser Stephen Miller accused Judge Immergut of "legal insurrection" for blocking National Guard deployment to Portland. Miller claimed left-wing terrorism and called for dismantling networks.
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TomDispatch @tomdispatch.bsky.social · 3d
MAGA Men, Rage, and the Road to Nowhere: A Case for Nonviolent Resistance
by Andrea Mazzarino
MAGA Men, Rage, and the Road to Nowhere
One strangely hot November afternoon, I waited for my elementary-school-aged kids to arrive at their bus stop. The quiet in our rural area was eerie. It captured the mood in the days after a national
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TomDispatch @tomdispatch.bsky.social · 3d
Making Sense of a World with a Maniac in the Driver's Seat
by Andrea Mazzarino
MAGA Men, Rage, and the Road to Nowhere
One strangely hot November afternoon, I waited for my elementary-school-aged kids to arrive at their bus stop. The quiet in our rural area was eerie. It captured the mood in the days after a national
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TomDispatch @tomdispatch.bsky.social · 3d
Andrea Mazzarino at TomDispatch today: The eerie world of MAGA men explored in a deeply personal and moving fashion.
MAGA Men, Rage, and the Road to Nowhere
One strangely hot November afternoon, I waited for my elementary-school-aged kids to arrive at their bus stop. The quiet in our rural area was eerie. It captured the mood in the days after a national
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TomDispatch @tomdispatch.bsky.social · 4d
A Dying American Empire: "Rotten to the Heart"?
by Alfred McCoy
In the Autumn of America’s Empire
In his novel The Autumn of the Patriarch, which is eerily evocative of our current political plight, Gabriel Garcia Marquez described how a Latin American autocrat “discovered in the course of his uncountable years that
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TomDispatch @tomdispatch.bsky.social · 4d
Alfred McCoy at TomDispatch today: How Donald Trump is taking down the liberal international order in a big-time fashion.
In the Autumn of America’s Empire
In his novel The Autumn of the Patriarch, which is eerily evocative of our current political plight, Gabriel Garcia Marquez described how a Latin American autocrat “discovered in the course of his uncountable years that
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TomDispatch @tomdispatch.bsky.social · 4d
In the Autumn of America's Empire: How Trump Is Demolishing U.S. Global Power and Its World Order
by Alfred McCoy
In the Autumn of America’s Empire
In his novel The Autumn of the Patriarch, which is eerily evocative of our current political plight, Gabriel Garcia Marquez described how a Latin American autocrat “discovered in the course of his uncountable years that
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TomDispatch @tomdispatch.bsky.social · 5d
@nickturse.bsky.social with a look at how the sweeping authority asserted by the White House to use force against drug boats could open the door to lethal strikes on supposed enemies inside the US.
Trump Administration Conjures Up New “Terrorist” Designation to Justify Killing Civilians
The U.S. military justified the slaughter of alleged drug traffickers by claiming links to “designated terrorist organizations.”
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TomDispatch @tomdispatch.bsky.social · 5d
This is simply the perfect world for @borowitzreport.bsky.social
Furious Kim Jong Un Claims Trump Stole His Idea of Gathering Generals
“That asshole totally ripped me off.”
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TomDispatch @tomdispatch.bsky.social · 5d
A moving reminder of the era of segregation in the U.S. and one brave young man who helped to break it.
Bobby Cain, Barrier Breaker in School Desegregation, Dies at 85
In 1957, facing down white mobs, he became the first Black student to graduate from a public high school in the South under a court mandate.
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TomDispatch @tomdispatch.bsky.social · 7d
Just what the world needs most! More coal, of course.
‘Mine, Baby, Mine’: Trump Officials Offer $625 Million to Rescue Coal
The new effort, which includes opening 13.1 million acres of federal land for mining and eliminating pollution limits, aims to save an industry that has been declining for decades.
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TomDispatch @tomdispatch.bsky.social · 7d
@pkrugman.bsky.social on a country that is no longer a fully functioning democracy now being run by incompetent autocrats-in-the-making.
An Autocracy of Dunces
How stone-faced generals, Wall Street pushback, and a government shutdown may save America’s quickly declining democracy
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TomDispatch @tomdispatch.bsky.social · 7d
@antiwardotcom.bsky.social sums up the nightmare in Gaza City, where any Palestinian is now to be treated by Israeli forces as a "terrorist."
Israel's Katz Says Civilians in Gaza City Have 'Last Opportunity to Leave,' Will Be Treated as 'Terrorists' - News From Antiwar.com
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz on Wednesday issued a threat to Palestinian civilians in famine-stricken Gaza City, warning they have their "last opportunity" to leave the besieged city and that they will be treated as "terrorists" if they remain. Katz said in a post on X that the IDF has…
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TomDispatch @tomdispatch.bsky.social · 9d
@jricole.bsky.social on just how Iran has been mistreated by the U.S. and what to make of it.
Do UN "Snapback" Sanctions really Matter to the Iranian Economy and its Nuclear Program?
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) - The E3 -- France, Britain and Germany -- successfully led a bid at the UN …
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TomDispatch @tomdispatch.bsky.social · 9d
@commondreams.org on whether Venezuela is about to be targeted by the Trump administration. (It never ends, does it?).
‘No War Crimes Are Off Limits' as Trump Reportedly Mulling Bombing Targets in Venezuela | Common Dreams
NBC reported Friday that the US military is considering options including drone strikes against drug cartel members within the South American country, prompting fears of escalation.
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TomDispatch @tomdispatch.bsky.social · 9d

A look at the strange and seemingly growing set of divisions between Donald Trump and --yes! -- Marjorie Taylor Greene!
Greene, Straying From Trump, Reflects an Emerging MAGA Split
The right-wing Republican congresswoman from Georgia has grown disillusioned with her own party and with President Trump, and increasingly willing to say so.
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