Reposted by El MendigoCanadian Liberal @cliff229.bsky.social · 10/03/2026When a US missile killed 160 children, president shits-a-lot claimed Iran stole the missile and fired at the school. When asked why he was the only one making this claim, he said "because I just don't know enough about it". Go ahead. See if you can make this make sense. (Source: RB Hubbell) 47479911749
Reposted by El MendigoRyan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 06/03/2026Reuters Exclusive "U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school." "The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the Middle East."reuters.comExclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources sayMilitary investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday, two U.S. officials told Reu... 61199575224
Reposted by El MendigoRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 03/03/2026Looking at the 2024 crime figures, it's absolutely insane how Trump, tech billionaires, and centrist pundits fooled everyone into thinking Biden had turned the U.S. into some Hobbesian hellscape. 50-year lows for violent crime, armed robbery, property crime. Second-lowest homicide rate.ourworldindata.orgHow have crime rates in the United States changed over the last 50 years?Both violent and property crime are far below their 1990s peak, but some crimes see periodic rises. 401447439
Reposted by El MendigoSahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 03/03/2026Netanyahu to the U.S. Congress, 2002: "If you take out Saddam, Saddam's regime, I guarantee you that it will have enormous positive reverberations on the region." 1212413941
Reposted by El MendigoAl Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 03/03/2026Iran mourns 165 girls, staff killed in school strike during US-Israel war aje.news/t0pz7y 15456276
Reposted by El MendigoOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 03/03/2026a thing historians will marvel about when they study this era is the extent to which the "war is a thing that happens to poorer, browner people" class went about systematically dismantling every aspect of the global political order that confined the costs of war to poorer and browner people 5558131444
Reposted by El MendigoEsheru @esherukweku.bsky.social · 02/03/2026One of my favourite sides of politics/media. 132135434262
Reposted by El MendigoMolly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 03/03/2026Trump’s war is messing with the fallout from Trump’s tariffs, which is messing from the fallout from Trump’s war on clean energy 951846469
Reposted by El MendigoChris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 02/03/2026Of course. No one wanted this war. They wanted food and health care and energy prices to go down. Now all those things will cost more. It's a war of folly by a doddering old man who likes when things blow up and needs to distract us from the child sex ring he's connected to. 595111043618
Reposted by El MendigoThe Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 03/03/2026Just to recap from my soda-straw perspective: My government started a war of choice that led to my home being bombarded by missiles and drones depleting our air defenses which they refuse to resupply while telling us to evacuate after our airspace was shut because their war put us in danger 15808137
Reposted by El MendigoMehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 02/03/2026You cannot talk like this about any other minority in America. And if it was any other president’s adviser who said something like this about any other minority, it’d be the instant end of their presidency. 1694237185921
Reposted by El MendigoOliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 02/03/2026for those of you who werent adults during iraq, its hard to overstate how much the media loves war porn. they salivate over pentagon spin briefings. they love stories about all the bombs and how supposedly infallible they are. they love the notion of the commander in chief, in the situation room etc 429100412136
Reposted by El MendigoMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 02/03/2026Not only *did* they start this war, they have no idea how to finish it. 880105722766
Reposted by El Mendigocollie.bsky.social @collie.bsky.social · 29/07/2025We need to flip these numbers if we’re ever going to solve the housing crisis. 0242
Reposted by El MendigoAdil Haque @adhaque.bsky.social · 29/07/2025"Americans’ approval of Israel’s military action in Gaza ... is now at 32%" "Disapproval of the military action has now reached 60%" Large splits by party, age, and gender, but no majority support in any major demographic. 164
El Mendigo @luchalibre66.bsky.social · 29/07/2025#Gaza #Genocide #IsraeliWarCrimes #EngineeredFamine 010
El Mendigo @luchalibre66.bsky.social · 29/07/2025It’s 2025 and we have a country (Israel) forcibly starving a people (Palestinians). Just the sheer inhumanity, obscenity, and cruelty of it all… Know who else did this? The Nazis in the Warsaw Ghetto… #Gaza #Genocide #IsraeliWarCrimes #NaziPlaybook 000
El Mendigo @luchalibre66.bsky.social · 29/07/2025#Gaza #Genocide #EngineeredFamine #IsraeliWarCrimes apnews.com/article/mide...? 010
El Mendigo @luchalibre66.bsky.social · 28/07/2025In today’s FT…. #Gaza #IsraeliWarCrimes #Genocide 021
Reposted by El MendigoThe Intercept @theintercept.com · 26/07/2025The survey question appears set up to test whether voters would oppose one of the candidates because of backing from groups like AIPAC. interc.pt/3IKxUI3 74920
Reposted by El MendigoGaza Freedom Flotilla Coalition @freedomflotilla.bsky.social · 26/07/2025SOS! The crew on 'Handala' have been kidnapped by Israeli forces. Emma Fourreau is a citizen of Sweden. Tag/E the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs NOW: Email: ud-ksu@gov.se X: SweMFA and MariaStenergard Instagram: swedishmfa and mariastenergard Facebook: Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs 9491368
Reposted by El MendigoShibley Telhami @stelhami.bsky.social · 25/07/2025Over 10,000 protest Gaza war and hunger crisis in Arab Israeli town of Sakhnin, which has a total population of 33,000. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...haaretz.comOver 10,000 protest Gaza war and hunger crisis in major Arab Israeli city*** 410629
El Mendigo @luchalibre66.bsky.social · 25/07/2025What does it take for a famine to be declared in Gaza? - NPR Western governments hesitate because, Just as with using the term “genocide”, they’d have to admit that the Israelis engineered this famine. Just another genocidal tool, of course…. #Gaza #Genocide #IsraeliWarCrimes 020
Reposted by El MendigoJon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 20/07/2025Here’s one good reason to vote for Zohran Mamdani. 134298321558
Reposted by El MendigoSam Youngman @samyoungman.bsky.social · 16/07/2025I can’t believe Jeffrey Epstein’s best friend is gonna fire the fed chairman. 461645322
Reposted by El MendigoMother Jones @motherjones.com · 16/07/2025President Donald Trump seems unfamiliar with the Streisand effect, the phenomenon of inadvertently drawing more attention to an issue by trying to make it go away.motherjones.comTrump reaches a breaking point over Epstein filesMAGA isn't letting go—and the president is taking aim at his own. 60701140
Reposted by El MendigoJustin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 16/07/2025Do Markets Value Fed Independence? An Event Study. 16853391439
Reposted by El MendigoThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/07/2025Trump calls his own supporters who are dissatisfied with his handling of the Epstein cover-up “weaklings”, says he doesn’t want their support anymore (Polls show this is almost all of them) 1631506521
Reposted by El MendigoMorten 🇩🇰 @mortenc.eurosky.social · 13/07/2025Rosie O’Donnell responds to Trump’s threat to revoke her citizenship: 23330112
Reposted by El MendigoAndrey X @theandreyx.bsky.social · 15/07/2025Just another unhinged Israeli settler moment: 3176
Reposted by El MendigoBlue Dot in Red State @bluedotin.bsky.social · 16/07/2025(CNN: free) The Epstein case has now garnered the attention of a number of GOP members, including the Speaker, who are publicly and privately encouraging greater transparency from Trump. Is this momentum coming from the MAGA base? The Polls will tell us... www.cnn.com/2025/07/15/p...cnn.comHouse Speaker Johnson joins growing number of Republicans pressing Trump administration for more transparency on Epstein case | CNN PoliticsSome of President Donald Trump’s most loyal allies in Congress aren’t satisfied by his decision to not release additional files from the Jeffrey Epstein case, and it’s threatening to deepen the MAGA d... 3269
Reposted by El MendigoAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/07/2025 REPORTER: Will you commit to include California in any disaster aid package? MIKE JOHNSON: We've not seen the formal disaster relief request from California yet REPORTER: The formal request was sent to your office in February 2368311849358
Reposted by El MendigoShawn Harris @shawnforcongress.bsky.social · 16/07/2025Marjorie Taylor Greene wants to pretend no one’s running against her. But I’m right here. And I just OUTRAISED her. This is what it looks like when the circus starts packing up. 471118330
Reposted by El MendigoDr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 16/07/2025The DOJ that's saying Jeffrey Epstein had no client list is the same DOJ that prosecuted and convicted Ghislaine Maxwell. 1062977930
Reposted by El MendigoBrendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 15/07/2025I'm stunned. ICE attorneys not identifying themselves in COURT? 28140751598
Reposted by El MendigoThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15/07/2025WASH POST: “Trump has declared millions of undocumented immigrants no longer eligible for a bond hearing…” Enriching their private prison company friends who make money the longer they keep them locked up, often with no criminal record. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/... 431000465
El Mendigo @luchalibre66.bsky.social · 16/07/2025#Gaza #Genocide #israeliWarCrimes #Netanyahu #WarCriminal 020
El Mendigo @luchalibre66.bsky.social · 16/07/2025In the spectrum of horrific attacks on human beings, you’d think that war crimes and crimes against humanity would be bad enough, but it looks like only the word “genocide” has any currency…. That’s how morally deadened western societies have become to the carnage in #Gaza. 010