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Detainee at "Camp East Montana" says guards bet on suicide
Like other detainees, Ramsingh said that between cleanings the rooms, restrooms and showers were often filthy and infested with insects.
He said detainees stole others’ food because everyone was hungry due to the small and sometimes inedible meals,
-- which led to fights, and the conditions took a toll on his mental health.
🔥At one point he said he overheard a security guard talking about bets made am…

911 calls reveal pain, despair at ICE'S largest detention camp
The calls to 911 poured in from staff at Camp East Montana, the nation's largest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility, in its first months of operation in El Paso, Texas. The emergencies included repeated suicide attempts by detainees, seizures, injuries from fights and a pregnant woman in pain. Data from more than a hundred 911 calls obtained by The Associated Press, interviews with detainees and court filings offer a portrait of overcrowding, medical neglect, malnutriti…

Good point made on Bluesky:
"Threatening the destruction of "a whole civilization" is just explicitly a threat of genocide. Even if it is just a bargaining tactic, even if it is just bluster, it is a threat of genocide. Everyone who has furthered, and continues to further, the aims of this regime is morally culpable."

Alex Wellerstein (@wellerstein.bsky.social)
Threatening the destruction of "a whole civilization" is just explicitly a threat of genocide. Even if it is just a bargaining tactic, even if it is just bluster, it is a threat of genocide. Everyone who has furthered, and continues to further, the aims of this regime is morally culpable.

Every time leftists talk about escalating against Trump, liberals point out that Trump is looking for an excuse to invoke the insurrection act. This is true. But they don't notice that he's the least popular president in history and the military has largely already made it clear that they won't be used against civilians. That risk assessment completely lacks context.
Trump could not possibly win against an insurgency because the only thing he could possibly offer to end it would be his own resignation. If Trump tried to escalate to civil war he would either lose or be removed.
More importantly, Trump compulsively escalates. He will continue to start wars because he thinks he's doing a good job and he's a hero. When he gets frustrated at some foreign enemy because he's actually completely incompetent and only able to win against incompetent and wildly unpopular opponents, he threatens war crimes.
I am familiar enough with history to fully believe that he ordered a nuclear strike last night and people said "no." Humanity has been saved multiple times by people refusing to follow orders, and you don't find out until years later. (This is also not the first story of a president dangerously deep in mental decline. Reagan lost the nuclear football.)
The longer this goes on, the greater the risk that eventually someone will actually let him do something unthinkable. But that's significantly less likely if he's trying to fight within the US border.
Just looking at things from a risk perspective, "he's going to invoke the insurrection act" is not nearly as big of a threat as democrats think it is, and it's about time they think realistically about this fact.

A look back at Ted Turner's invention of global 24-hour cable TV news and how it dramatically changed politics, journalism, and civic engagement (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/ted-turner-cnn-media-legacy-64660a245d5f52d1c466367e161bc…

Ted Turner changed the nature of news — and of those who consume it
Ted Turner’s death comes at a fraught time for cable news, which has struggled to retain viewership in an era of countless media choices and abundant streaming video. But people in the news industry left little doubt of Turner's impact. One called the discussion of it hyperbole-proof and another said he saw TV news as a global entity long before many of his contemporaries. The United States' first Gulf War against Iraq was a particular inflection point that showed both the capability of and t…

Trump agrees to suspend attacks for ‘two weeks’ if Iran opens Strait of Hormuz
Just 90 minutes before Donald Trump’s 8 p.m. deadline to
“wipe out a whole civilization”
with massive strikes on Iran’s energy infrastructure and bridges,
he came up with a two-week extension for diplomacy to continue.

“Subject to the Islamic Republic of Iran agreeing to the COMPLETE, IMMEDIATE and SAFE OPENING of the Strait of Hormuz,”
Trump said on social media,
“I agre…

Trump agrees to suspend attacks for ‘two weeks’ if Iran opens Strait of Hormuz
Amid threats to bomb civilian infrastructure, the president said he had received a 10-point proposal from Iran that formed a “workable basis” for continued negotiations.

Once again, the Supreme Court’s conservatives put their thumbs on the scale for Republicans.
And once again, they’re very mad that people noticed.
Not content to undo civil rights and destroy the Court’s credibility,
they’re racing to ensure that Republicans can redraw House districts even as voting is already underway.
And if anyone points out their flagrant partisanship and clanging hypocrisy, they scream bloody murder,
even — especially! — if the person p…

How dare you point out that Sam Alito is a partisan hack!
A hit dog will holler.

Trump agrees to suspend attacks for ‘two weeks’ if Iran opens Strait of Hormuz
There was no immediate comment from Tehran,
and it was not clear whether or how either side had altered what appeared to be mutually exclusive demands.

In sputtering negotiations over the past week, Iran had rejected U.S. demands to shut down its nuclear and ballistic missile programs and reopen the strait, the vital Persian Gulf waterway through which an estimated one-fifth of the world’s ene…

Trump agrees to suspend attacks for ‘two weeks’ if Iran opens Strait of Hormuz
Amid threats to bomb civilian infrastructure, the president said he had received a 10-point proposal from Iran that formed a “workable basis” for continued negotiations.