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us_roads: United States roads (2000)
The road networks of the 50 US States and the District of Columbia based on UA Census 2000 TIGER/Line Files. Edges are stretches of road and vertices are intersections of roads. The data sets were assembled by Dominik Schultes. The 'merged' network contains all the states merged together.
This network has 540981 nodes and 664215 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Roads, Unweighted

As a general matter the US Federal government can not hold a copyright.
As such the "Coalie" character (see article below) may well be fair game for use by any and all in counter-messaging.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyrigh

Copyright status of works by the federal government of the United States - Wikipedia

"This is the last chance for Western countries to convince the rest of the world that they are capable of dialogue rather than monologue, consistency rather than double standards, and cooperation rather than domination."
Finland's Alexander Stubb in:
https://www.foreignaffairs.c…

The West’s Last Chance
How to build a new global order before it’s too late.

The United States asked Ukraine for help to fend off Iranian drone attacks in the Middle East,
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Thursday,
adding that he had ordered expert support to be given.
“We received a request from the United States for specific support in protection against ‘shaheds’ in the Middle East region,”
Zelenskyy said on X,
referring to the Iranian-designed drones also used by Russia in its invasion of Ukraine.
“I gave instructio…

Likely violating the UN Charter (article 2(4), article 51) and the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (article 88, article 90), and possibly the Geneva Conventions, Additional Protocol I as well, the United States killed 87 Iranian sailors over 1,000 miles from Iran.
Unclear if the United States even attempted to rescue any of the 32 survivors rescued by the Sri Lankan Navy and Air Force.

Sri Lanka recovers 87 bodies from Iranian warship sunk by US submarine
Sri Lanka’s navy has recovered 87 bodies and rescued 32 people after an Iranian warship was sunk by a U.S. submarine in international waters near the island. U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Wednesday a torpedo sank Iran's “prize ship” — one of the few instances of a submarine sinking a ship since World War II. A spokesman for Sri Lanka's navy said it responded to a distress signal from the IRIS Dena, but by the time its personnel reached the location, there was no sign of the s…

us_roads: United States roads (2000)
The road networks of the 50 US States and the District of Columbia based on UA Census 2000 TIGER/Line Files. Edges are stretches of road and vertices are intersections of roads. The data sets were assembled by Dominik Schultes. The 'merged' network contains all the states merged together.
This network has 210801 nodes and 260902 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Roads, Unweighted

Everything you’re fine with Israel, the United States, Germany, and the UK doing to Gaza and Palestinians today is what they’re going to be doing to you tomorrow.
(In case that makes you care if nothing else does.)
#israel #usa

Hey, I'm in the Epstein files! Er, in a "Popular in your network" email from <info@twitter.com> in February 2016. The redirect URLs are broken so I can’t even figure out what I said that was popular: https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet 11/EFTA0…

Age Verification | United States Department of Justice

A look at the informal economy of rogue streaming box resellers, who sell hardware that offers free access to sports games, cable TV, and streaming services (Janko Roettgers/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/streaming/873416/piracy-streaming-boxes

Everyone is stealing TV
Rogue streaming boxes like SuperBox and vSeeBox are flooding the United States. They are being embraced by consumers fed up with ever-increasing subscription costs.

Es ist nicht zu glauben, was alles in den Epstein-Akten steht.
#epstein

"President Donald Trump wants the world to know: The United States is on a war footing. It’s why he changed the name of the Department of Defense to the “Department of War,” he and others have said. It’s among the reasons why he has threatened rivals and even allies with attacks and invasions, and also commissioned a series of lethal boat strikes in the Caribbean."
💰🧱

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
The Presidents of the United States of America:
🎵 Peaches
#ThePresidentsoftheUnitedStatesofAmerica
https://toiletmusic.bandcamp.com/track/peaches-the-presidents-of-the-united-states-of-america-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/5huLMzIzFEdVcvEzt2hfk1

This should be interesting; Trump's first administration got smacked down bigly for trying the same exact thing in *United States v. California*, No. 18-16496 (9th Cir. 2019)
Trump urges Ninth Circuit to allow funding freezes in sanctuary cities | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/trump-urges-ninth-circuit-to-allow-funding-freezes-in-sanctuary-cities/

A look at the informal economy of rogue streaming box resellers, who sell hardware that offers free access to sports games, cable TV, and streaming services (Janko Roettgers/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/streaming/873416/piracy-streaming-boxes

Everyone is stealing TV
Rogue streaming boxes like SuperBox and vSeeBox are flooding the United States. They are being embraced by consumers fed up with ever-increasing subscription costs.

Venezuela: The Precedents -- And America: The Future -- Now that the United States ... (Timothy Snyder/Thinking about)
https://snyder.substack.com/p/venezuela-the-precedents
http://www.memeorandum.com/260104/p25#a260104p25

Venezuela and oil – Michael Roberts Blog
#Venezuela

Venezuela and oil
Within hours of the US military strikes on Venezuela and the capture of its president, Nicolas Maduro, President Trump proclaimed that “very large United States oil companies would go in, spend bil…

“Nuclear talks with the United States are scheduled to be held in Muscat on about 10am Friday,” wrote the Iranian foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi.
“I’m grateful to our Omani brothers for making all necessary arrangements.”
US officials also indicated the talks in Oman will go forward.
They will take place amid a massive buildup of US naval and airpower in the region and appear to be a last chance for Tehran to avert a US strike against the country’s leadership and nuclear …

I just learned that Frank Gehry passed away. 😔
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/arts/design/frank-gehry-dead.html
One of his buildings that I hope to visit is the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao 🇪🇸. I looked at the list of buildings he designed and the only o…

The next non-insane president-elect of the United States. Literaly anything he decides to say will win him the election. The easiest run in the US history, considering the scariest part that it will drive Trump into a world-destruct mode - if Trump manages to stay in office in the next three years ->
Governor Gavin Newsom on Relationship with Trump, People Badmouthing CA & "Gov Gav" Has a Surprise!

Vance is probably hoping they’ll rename it “Vanceuela”
I know, I know, don’t give them any fucking ideas. 🙄
https://bsky.app/profile/ericmgarcia.bsky.social/post/3mbjmd6dwuc25

Eric Michael Garcia (@ericmgarcia.bsky.social)
Vance pushes back and says this was not illegal, arguing "Maduro has multiple indictments in the United States for narcoterrorism. You don't get to avoid justice for drug trafficking in the United States because you live in a palace in Caracas."

The US used to be really dirty: Environmental cleanup laws have made a huge difference #UnitedStates

The US used to be really dirty: Environmental cleanup laws have made a huge difference
Growing up in the 1970s, I took for granted the trash piles along the highway, tires washed up on beaches, and smog fouling city air. The famed "Crying Indian" commercial of 1971 became a symbol of widespread environmental damage across the United States.

Orphan medical devices: addressing the regulatory and access gaps in the EU and US https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/public-health/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2025.1729821/full "Argus II represents a high-profile example of post-market disc…

Frontiers | Orphan medical devices: addressing the regulatory and access gaps in the EU and US
BackgroundOrphan medical devices remain the blind spot of rare disease policy. While the United States has recognized them since 1990 through the Humanitaria...

"In a commercial brochure published in 1957 by Remington Rand UNIVAC, we learn about the advantages of the new FLOW-MATIC language, the brainchild of Grace Hopper.
On page 5 of this brochure we find, among an enumeration of six key advantages of FLOW-MATIC, a beautiful quote:
> Breaks the Communications Barrier Between Programming and Management Groups
The impossible dialogue was already a problem in 1957. I do not think this should be a surprise to anyone."

Grace Hopper & David Letterman
Among the many documents available at the Computer History Museum website there is an interesting artifact: a commercial brochure published in 1957 by the Remington Rand UNIVAC, "a division of Sperry Rand Corporation", titled "introducing a new language for automatic programming". In it, we learn about the advantages of the new (at the time) FLOW-MATIC programming language, the brainchild of United States Navy Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper.

"Stolen oil must be returned to the United States"
— JD Vance
Je ne comprenais pas bien pourquoi JD Vance parlait de ce "STOLEN oil", qui allait revenir aux U.S.A, comme si le pétrole vénézuélien leur appartenait.
Comme si ce n'était pas un braquage d'État, mais la récupération d'une propriété spoliée...

Man pleads guilty in athlete home burglaries case https://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/48104437/man-pleads-guilty-2024-athlete-home-burglaries-case

French nuclear 'umbrella' for Europe now increasingly discussed among allies.
French President Emmanuel Macron will deliver a speech on nuclear deterrence on Monday, with Europeans expected to pay close attention amid threats from Russia and growing doubts over the United States' reliability as a NATO ally.

French nuclear 'umbrella' for Europe now increasingly discussed among allies
French President Emmanuel Macron will deliver a speech on nuclear deterrence on Monday, with Europeans expected to pay close attention amid threats from Russia and growing doubts over the United States' reliability as a NATO ally.

Heute vor 60 Jahren: Am 5. März 1966 zündeten die USA im Rahmen von Operation #Flintlock die 23. #Atombombe "Red Hot". Flintlock war eine Serie von Tests zwischen 65/66 bei der insgesamt 47 #Kernwaffentests

I'm afraid we'll have to live with absurdist headlines for a while.
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2026/01/05/8014746/

US to send Witkoff to Coalition of the Willing meeting
Steve Witkoff, US President Donald Trump's Special Envoy, will represent the United States at the meeting of the Coalition of the Willing, which will take place in Paris on 6 January.

The United States Has Captured Maduro. What Happens Next? by William Spaniel
#uspol

Venezuela’s mission to the U.N. has requested an emergency Security Council meeting
and has asked the Council to condemn the U.S. military strikes against the country.
Venezuela’s ambassador, Samuel Reinaldo Moncada Acosta, said in a letter to the Council’s president:
“The United States of America always uses lies to fabricate wars.
It is an international tyranny imposed with the propaganda of death:
the recent past confirms this.”
Russia and China, allie…

Venezuela Live Updates: Trump Says U.S. Will ‘Run' Country After Capture of Maduro
President Trump offered few details about how the United States would oversee Venezuela and for how long, but said its oil industry would “make a lot of money” under U.S. leadership. President Nicolás Maduro and his wife were being taken to New York to stand trial on drug and weapons charges.

Yay! Colorado officially recognizes that mental health IS physical health! Our bodies DO include our brains.
Next, we need to legislate financial support for medical problems with ears, eyes and teeth. Hell, throw in food, water and housing--NOW we're getting civilized. https://newsbeep.org/@us/1158286950032

United States News Beep (@us@newsbeep.org)
Attached: 1 image New Colorado law requires insurers to cover mental health like physical illness Advocates said the law ensures that Coloradans can access the care they are paying for without facing a… #NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Mentalhealth #Health #MentalHealth https://www.newsbeep.com/us/384528/

Comer Opens Hearing on Minnesota Fraud with Governor Walz and Attorney General Ellison (United States House Committee on Oversight ...)
https://oversight.house.gov/release/comer-opens-hearing-on-minnesota-fraud-with-governor-walz-and-attorney-general-ellison/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260304/p137#a260304p137

"she was under oath at the time she made the claims about getting Trump's approval for the ad — which, as Democratic strategist Matt McDermott pointed out on X, means that if Trump is telling the truth, Noem committed a federal crime. "The President of the United States is accusing Kristi Noem of committing perjury, a federal crime," wrote McDermott."
**Trump's allegation against Noem would constitute a federal crime**: analyst - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/kristi-noem-2675562240/

Oh, no.
My favorite scripting language is the
#Epsteinfiles #bash
https://www.justice.gov…

Age Verification | United States Department of Justice

Gender, Authority, and Trust in the United States /Workshop and Edited Collection, July 10-11, 2026, in Heidelberg, Germany
https://ift.tt/3OByIpT
updated: Sunday, January 4, 2026 - 8:04amfull name / name of organization: Heidelberg Center for…
via Input 4 RELCFP

You can search for any tech guy's name and they plop out of the files.
Besides the shady mail conversations you can see there's also Steven Sinofsky's Retirement Agreement in there for some reason in case you wanted to see how that looks like.
https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/Data…

Age Verification | United States Department of Justice

I’m pretty sure that, if a country assassinated the President of the United States, the United States would rightly be pretty pissed off.
#uspolitics

How the EU responds to the illegal invasion of another country and the kidnapping of its president by the United States will determine-
Ah.
Continuing to kiss fascist ass it is then.
https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2026/01/03/kaj…

Kaja Kallas says Maduro 'lacks legitimacy' and calls for restraint
The European Union’s top diplomat, Kaja Kallas, stated that Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro “lacks legitimacy. “ She urged for restraint and respect for international law regarding Venezuela’s situation. Kallas mentioned discussions with U. S. officials and emphasized the EU’s monitoring of the situation, advocating for a peaceful transition and adherence to the principles of international […]

Western allies form 6G security coalition amid tech rivalry with China https://therecord.media/western-allies-form-6g-security-coalition

Statement from Adam Meyers, Head of Counter Adversary Operations, CrowdStrike
No large-scale cyber campaigns from Iran have been observed thus far.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music
Liam Lynch:
🎵 United States Of Whatever
#LiamLynch
https://jacobrabin.bandcamp.com/track/united-states-of-whatever-liam-lynch
https://open.spotify.com/track/6Jub05dvpbF4Im83NqMCUg

It was outside the United States that the dissonance struck most deeply.
I remember sitting on high-speed trains that glided so fast and silently they seemed to erase distance itself,
watching wind farms cross the horizon like silent fleets.
In country after country
— places far smaller and, on paper, far poorer than ours
— I kept asking the same question:
how could they manage to build what we could not?
Why did the richest nation on earth feel like…

The Terrifying New Era of American Imperialism
Donald Trump's war against Iran is part of a terrifying new era of American imperialism, one in which the military budget never stops growing.

"A momentous pivotal moment for the United States." #ice

"A momentous pivotal moment for the United States."
Alex Pretti, 37, was a registered nurse working in the intensive care unit at the Minneapolis VA Health Care System.

O...kay... The BASH Reference Manual is in the Epstein Files
https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet 9/EFTA00315849.pdf
Well, I guess that helps explain why it's millions of pages long... 😉

Age Verification | United States Department of Justice

WTF does kidnapping a foreign leader on his own soil have to do with US Law Enforcement?
"This operation was done in conjunction with U.S. Law Enforcement"
Trump says US forces have captured Nicolas Maduro
Here's text from a Truth Social post:
"The United States of America has successfully carried out a large scale strike against Venezuela and its leader, President Nicolas Maduro, who has been, along with his wife, captured and flown out of the Cou…

Donald Trump says US forces have 'captured' Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro
US President Donald Trump says the US has "captured" Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, who earlier declared a national emergency and hit out at US "military aggression" after attacks in the capital, Caracas.

Iran is continuing to prepare for a potential military conflict with the United States.
#usa

Iran Update, February 24, 2026
Iran is seeking support from US adversaries Russia and the People’s Republic of China (PRC) to prepare for war against the United States.

From The Maple
Carney's Job Cuts Undermine Canada's Position Against Trump
Austerity undermines the foundation for a fairer economy that is less dependent on the US
https://www.readthemaple.com/carneys-job-cuts-undermine-canadas-po…

Carney’s Job Cuts Undermine Canada’s Position Against Trump
Austerity undermines the foundation for a fairer economy that is less dependent on the United States.

Just in case anyone out there wants a job ... The requirements are so low that I think I qualify!!
" Special Vacancy Announcement: Interim United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 546(d) "
https://www.

An attack by the United States on a Nato ally would mean the end of both the military alliance
and “post-second world war security”,
Denmark’s leader has warned,
after Donald Trumpthreatened again to take over Greenland.
https://www.

In 2025, 126 media industry people were killed globally, the US had 170 reports of assaults on journalists, and Trump's government increasingly attacked media (David Bauder/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/press-freedom-2025-me…

A rough year for journalists in 2025, with a little hope
By most measures, 2025 was a rough year for those who care about freedom of the press. It's likely to be the deadliest year on record for journalists and media workers across the world. The number of assaults on reporters spiked in the United States. As is by now familiar, the ranks of people working as journalists continues to thin. The president of the United States continues to berate many who ask him questions, sometimes in harshly personal terms. Outside of name-calling, the second term of…

Gender, Authority, and Trust in the United States /Workshop and Edited Collection, July 10-11, 2026, in Heidelberg, Germany
https://ift.tt/3OByIpT
updated: Sunday, January 4, 2026 - 8:04amfull name / name of organization: Heidelberg Center for…
via Input 4 RELCFP

'President Claudia Sheinbaum said “Mexico condemns the military intervention in Venezuela.”
'She also included in her post an article in the UN Charter which states: “The Members of the Organization, in their international relations, shall refrain from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any State, or in any other manner inconsistent with the Purposes of the United Nations.”'

World reacts to US bombing of Venezuela, ‘capture’ of Maduro
Donald Trump says the US has carried out a ‘large scale strike’ against Venezuela and captured its president.

Did she give tips on how to kill them, like the 165 little girls the US and Israel murdered just this week in Iran?
https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/03/1167067

SECURITY COUNCIL LIVE: Melania Trump presides over historic session on children in conflict
The UN Security Council convened in New York under extraordinary circumstances Monday: amid escalating conflict in the Middle East and repeated calls from the UN for restraint by all sides, the Council turns its attention to a long-standing but under-addressed crisis facing children in war zones. The United States, which holds the rotating presidency for March, decided to have First Lady Melania Trump chair the meeting. Usually, the UN ambassador or senior official takes the gavel. While there …

us_air_traffic: U.S. air traffic
Yearly snapshots of flights among all commercial airports in the United States from 1990 to today. Metadata include passengers, distance, carrier, airport located city, state, and month of the flight.
This network has 2278 nodes and 6390340 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Airport, Unweighted, Metadata, Temporal

Live Updates: U.S. Captures Venezuelan Leader, Trump Says (Associated Press)
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01/03/world/trump-united-states-strikes-venezuela
http://www.memeorandum.com/260103/p8#a260103p8

In 2019, Russia signaled that it was willing to allow the United States to act as it pleased in Venezuela,
in exchange for Washington giving the Kremlin a free hand in Ukraine,
according to Congressional testimony from Fiona Hill,
who ran Russian and European affairs on the National Security Council during the first Trump administration.
The Russians “were signaling very strongly that they wanted to somehow make some very strange swap arrangement between Venezuela and…

Russia Once Offered U.S. Control of Venezuela for Free Rein in Ukraine
The exchange offer was recounted at the time in congressional testimony by Fiona Hill, who ran Russian and European affairs on the National Security Council during the first Trump administration.

Trump has made various comments during this news conference showing that this military operation was at least in part about gaining more access to oil in Venezuela.
Asked about the potential presence of U.S. forces in Venezuela, Trump said that there would be a “presence in Venezuela as it pertains to oil.”

Venezuela Live Updates: Trump Says U.S. Will ‘Run' Country After Capture of Maduro
President Trump offered few details about how the United States would oversee Venezuela and for how long, but said its oil industry would “make a lot of money” under U.S. leadership. President Nicolás Maduro and his wife were being taken to New York to stand trial on drug and weapons charges.

us_air_traffic: U.S. air traffic
Yearly snapshots of flights among all commercial airports in the United States from 1990 to today. Metadata include passengers, distance, carrier, airport located city, state, and month of the flight.
This network has 2278 nodes and 6390340 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Airport, Unweighted, Metadata, Temporal

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
The Presidents of the United States of America:
🎵 Peaches
#ThePresidentsoftheUnitedStatesofAmerica
https://toiletmusic.bandcamp.com/track/peaches-the-presidents-of-the-united-states-of-america-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/5huLMzIzFEdVcvEzt2hfk1

Spain denies US permission to use jointly operated bases to attack Iran (Sam Jones/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/02/spain-denies-united-states-permission-military-bases-iran-pedro-sanchez
http://www.memeorandum.com/260302/p118#a260302p118

The three largest benefit managers
— CVS Health’s Caremark,
Cigna’s Express Scripts
and UnitedHealth’s Optum Rx
— collectively oversee some 80 percent of all prescriptions in the United States.
Employers and government programs hire P.B.M.s to negotiate with drug companies, pay pharmacies and help decide which drugs patients can get at what price.
Patients see the work of a benefit manager when they encounter denials for coverage of prescriptions or are f…

Congress Reins In Drug Middlemen in Effort to Lower Prescription Prices
The legislation will impose new restrictions on pharmacy benefit managers, giant companies like CVS Caremark, Optum Rx and Express Scripts that oversee prescription drug benefits.

us_air_traffic: U.S. air traffic
Yearly snapshots of flights among all commercial airports in the United States from 1990 to today. Metadata include passengers, distance, carrier, airport located city, state, and month of the flight.
This network has 2278 nodes and 6390340 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Airport, Unweighted, Metadata, Temporal

Trump - who didn't actually end any wars - appears to have started one now.
Venezuela latest: Explosions heard as smoke rises in Caracas
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c5yqygxe41pt?post=asset:90dc6c5e-bbab-4f84-acbc-030fb168d49f#pos…

Trump orders strikes on Caracas, officials tell CBS, as Venezuela declares national emergency - latest
Venezuela's government says it rejects "serious military aggression perpetrated by the current Government of the United States of America".

Trump on Sunday threatened military action against Colombia,
telling reporters that such an operation "sounds good to me."
"Colombia is very sick, too, run by a sick man, who likes making cocaine and selling it to the United States,
and he's not going to be doing it very long,"
Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One, in an apparent reference to Colombia's President Gustavo Petro.

Dear rest of the world,
We will fuck you up whenever and however we like to enrich ourselves and there’s nothing you can do about it. Can you smell the freedom yet, losers?
With love,
The United States of America
“The strongest, most lethal fighting force in the world.” – Kamala Harris
“Together over the next few years, we’re going to make our military stronger, tougher, faster, fiercer and more powerful than it has ever been before.” – Donald Trump
This me…

The US supreme court agreed on Friday to decide the legality of Donald Trump’s executive order to heavily restrict the right to birthright citizenship,
the long-held constitutional principle that individuals born on US soil are automatically United States citizens.
The order was a contentious part of the administration’s bigoted immigration crackdown
– and a step that would transform the interpretation of a 19th-century constitutional provision.
Multiple judges across…

A Criminal Empire -- The United States launches a conquest and occupation of Venezuela to extract its oil wealth. (Spencer Ackerman/FOREVER WARS)
https://www.forever-wars.com/a-criminal-empire/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260103/p70#a260103p70

“The Court is not aware of another occasion in the history of the United States in which a federal court has had to threaten contempt — again and again and again — to force the United States government to comply with court orders”
‘ICE will comply’: Top Minnesota judge threatens criminal contempt for continued defiance - POLITICO
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/26/ice-minnesota-judge-criminal-contempt-00803285

Haiti, lacking oil, is the poorest nation in the hemisphere
and probably the most dangerous.
That’s why the State Department issued a “Do Not Travel” order.

Simultaneously, however, the Trump administration insists it’s safe enough to force around 350,000 Haitians legally living and working in the United States to return home by next month.

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services issued formal notice that Haitians will be stripped of their temporary protected stat…

350,000 Haitians are being sent home. That’s cruel.
The Trump administration is rescinding temporary protected status for 350,000 of them on Feb. 3.

The casino-fication of war -- On February 28, the United States and Israel began major combat operations in Iran. (Judd Legum/Popular Information)
https://popular.info/p/the-casino-fication-of-war
http://www.memeorandum.com/260303/p13#a260303p13

Secretary of State Marco Rubio Remarks to Press (Marco Rubio/United States Department of State)
https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/2026/03/secretary-of-state-marco-rubio-remarks-to-press-6/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260303/p82#a260303p82

us_roads: United States roads (2000)
The road networks of the 50 US States and the District of Columbia based on UA Census 2000 TIGER/Line Files. Edges are stretches of road and vertices are intersections of roads. The data sets were assembled by Dominik Schultes. The 'merged' network contains all the states merged together.
This network has 53658 nodes and 69213 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Roads, Unweighted

Chairman Comer Announces the Clintons Caved, Will Appear for Depositions (United States House Committee on Oversight ...)
https://oversight.house.gov/release/chairman-comer-announces-the-clintons-caved-will-appear-for-depositions/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260203/p72#a260203p72

us_roads: United States roads (2000)
The road networks of the 50 US States and the District of Columbia based on UA Census 2000 TIGER/Line Files. Edges are stretches of road and vertices are intersections of roads. The data sets were assembled by Dominik Schultes. The 'merged' network contains all the states merged together.
This network has 116920 nodes and 133415 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Roads, Unweighted

This is what democracy looks like -- There is an uncountable number of repositories of power all across the United States. (pbump)
https://www.pbump.net/o/this-is-what-democracy-looks-like/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260203/p145#a260203p145

I listened to CNN talking heads praise the spectacular tactical success of the kidnapping
-- as if the U.S.' military capability was the relevant issue.
They spoke of a restoration of democracy, by which they meant capitalism, if they knew what they meant at all.
Then Trump said the U.S. would run the country directly. 
Once again, journalists attempt to clothe an emperor who's fine with letting it flop around for everyone to see. 
But to put it mildly,…

A Criminal Empire
The United States launches a conquest and occupation of Venezuela to extract its oil wealth. The neocon dream is the America First dream

Trump has claimed at the press conference now under way in Florida that the United States is going to run Venezuela for the time being -- although it’s unclear how that would be done.
“We’re going to run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition,” Trump said.
He has given no details.
He just called Maduro a dictator and a drug kingpin
Trump said his secretary of state,

"New START," 
💥the only remaining nuclear arms control agreement between the United States and Russia, 
🔥expires this Thursday.
Rose Gottemoeller, former deputy Secretary General of NATO, was America's chief negotiator on "New START." 
She joins the Amanpour and Company show from Capitol Hill, where she was briefing US senators on the agreement. 

Addressing Threats to the United States by the Government of Cuba (Donald J. Trump/The White House)
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/01/addressing-threats-to-the-united-states-by-the-government-of-cuba/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260130/p6#a260130p6

power: Western US Power Grid
A network representing the Western States Power Grid of the United States, in which nodes are transforms or power relay points and two nodes are connected if a power line runs between them.
This network has 4941 nodes and 6594 edges.
Tags: Technological, Power grid, Unweighted
https://networks.…

Five years ago, they risked their lives to support American troops in Afghanistan.
Now refugees across the United States are facing the threat of certain death thanks to ICE.
Some 100,000 Afghans resettled in America, repayment for assisting the U.S. government during a fruitless 20-year war, after Kabul fell to the Taliban in August 2021.
Thousands of them have since found a new home in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
But in the wake of the shooting of two National Guard…

Trump Is Ready to Send Afghan Refugees to Their Death
ICE is detaining Afghan refugees in the wake of the National Guard shooting. Those in the Dallas-Fort Worth area fear for their lives, in both their new home and their old one.

The United States has gone to war against Iran.
America has only one ally—Israel—in this operation
(the Arab states of the Gulf, which fear the Iranian regime, are targets of Iran, but so far are not participating in the attack),
and both Washington and Jerusalem are making claims about “imminent” threats that require “preemptive” strikes.
But we should dispense with such statements:
Iran is not presenting immediate danger to the United States or Israel.
E…

Trump’s Enormous Gamble on Regime Change in Iran
A few paths to success, many to failure

Marc Elias writes:
DOJ's recent 6th Circuit filing misspelled:
Voters as “Votors”
Emergency as "Emeregency"
United States as "United Staes"
And, it included a non-party in the caption.
These are the people who want access to your sensitive voting records and who my team fights in court every day.

Trump’s War on Iran
Violates International Law
& U.S. Constitution
-- War Crimes Prosecutor Reed Brody
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/3/2/iran_reed_brody

Trump’s War on Iran Violates International Law & U.S. Constitution: War Crimes Prosecutor Reed Brody
The United States and Israel launched a devastating war against Iran on Saturday without approval by the U.S. Congress or support from the United Nations Security Council, making President Donald Trump’s attack illegal under both domestic and international law, says veteran war crimes prosecutor Reed Brody. “The U.N. Charter is not ambiguous,” says Brody. “President Trump has presumptively committed … the international crime of aggression, as he did in Venezuela and just as Vladimir P…

The State Department has urged all Americans  in the Middle East to leave immediately,
but U.S. embassies in the region are telling people trying to flee that they are on their own. 
U.S. allies within the region are at high risk of being targeted by Iranian missiles, with Iran strikes already occurring across Israel, Kuwait, Qatar, the UAE, and Saudi Arabia, after the joint attack by the United States and Israel last weekend.
Meanwhile, Israel has bombed Lebanon.
⚠️ A…

U.S. Embassies Tell Americans in the Middle East They’re on Their Own
The State Department has urged all Americans in the Middle East to leave amid the Iran war—but it won’t help them get out.

Donald Trump’s illegal war in Iran is so unpopular, his own former spokesperson is calling him out.
During an appearance on Fox News Monday night, #Caroline #Sunshine pointed to a statement from Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Dan Caine,
who said that the United States could “expect to take additional los…

Former Trump Spokeswoman Turns on Him Over Iran War
Caroline Sunshine, who was a spokeswoman for Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign, is not thrilled with his recent decisions.

A new investment thesis has spread through global markets at the start of 2026, as trading strategies long built on the primacy of the United States now opt for a new approach:
Sell America.
The sentiment started to take hold in financial circles after the shock of sky-high tariffs sent stocks and bonds into a tailspin last April,
but it has taken off recently as the Trump administration has pursued policies like attacks on the Federal Reserve’s independence and threats of …

Sell America Is the New Trade on Wall Street
Investors are increasingly souring on the United States, as illustrated by the declining dollar, the stalled stock market and rising government borrowing costs.

#Explosions, loud noises and low-flying aircraft have been heard in the #Venezuelan capital of #Caracas,
amid reports that Donald Trump had ordered strikes against the South American country.
In the early hours of Sat…

In June and July, Canada and Mexico will each host 13 #WorldCup games,
compared to 78 for the United States, which will organize every game from the quarterfinals onward.
"It’s not right," Blatter said.
"By putting the three together, one would have thought they would have roughly the same share of the pie."
He added that such a disparity "is not in the spir…

Former FIFA president pans mixing soccer with politics, blasts U.S. ahead of World Cup | CBC Sports
In an exclusive interview, former FIFA president Sepp Blatter blasted the United States administration's 'defamatory' policies and the 'crumbs' given to Canada for the 2026 World Cup, which the country is co-hosting with the U.S. and Mexico.

Trump has nominated
Bradford P. Wilson,
of the conservative, anti-LGBTQ and Opus Dei-tied Witherspoon Institute
and the charter school organization Great Hearts Institute
(and formerly Exec Director of Princeton's James Madison Program)
to be Archivist of the United States.
🧵
https://

"By the end of 2026, Trump will have begun to distance himself from the aggressively pro-AI industry policies that characterized his AI strategy in 2025,"
wrote retired New York University professor and AI entrepreneur Gary Marcus.
"The giant AI infrastructure plays (like Project Stargate) that he championed after his inauguration will look like an unprofitable and underused mistake.
So will his utter failure to meaningfully regulate AI,
against the w…

This 'utter failure' from Trump could 'stun the world' in 2026: researcher
President Donald Trump has bet big on an agenda to expand artificial intelligence investment in the United States — but this year, some analysts think it could come back to haunt him, as a long-suspected AI investment bubble bursts and the public turns against the technology for its increasingly app...

Israel launched a daylight attack Saturday on Iran’s capital,
with a cloud of smoke rising from the city’s downtown.
The apparent strike happened near the offices of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
It wasn’t immediately clear whether the 86-year-old Khamenei had been in his offices at the time.
He hasn’t been seen publicly in days as tensions with the United States have grown.
But the attack comes as the United States has assembled a vast fleet of fighter …

Israel and US launch attack on Iran with tensions high over nuclear talks
The U.S. and Israel have launched a major attack on targets across Iran. U.S. President Donald Trump called on the Iranian people to “take over your government.” That was an extraordinary appeal that suggested the allies could be seeking to end of the country’s theocracy after decades of tensions. The first strikes of the attack Saturday appeared to target the compound home to Iran’s 86-year-old Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in downtown Tehran. It wasn’t immediately clear if h…

How to Submit Comments on Satellite Applications to the FCC
Any member of the public can provide input to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) as it considers satellite applications.
The AAS believes that its individual members (in addition to the Society as a whole) should be able to voice concerns about any proposed satellite system that might be harmful to astronomy and the night sky.
This process is also open to those outside the United States who may be impact…

From Ukraine, the Baltic states, and Poland
to Taiwan and Japan,
potentially vulnerable nations are all drawing the same uncomfortable conclusion from the past year
—that survival in Trump’s new world order no longer depends on old-fashioned U.S. guarantees
but on making yourself too painful to attack.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky publicly acknowledged in December that NATO membership,
a cornerstone of his country’s strategic aspirations since th…

U.S. Allies Need to ‘Become Porcupines’
One of six FP columnists on how the world could handle the new Washington in 2026.

Donald Trump said the United States was beginning to talk with Cuban leaders
as his administration puts greater pressure on the communist-run island and cuts off key oil supplies.
This comes in the wake of his moves in recent weeks to cut off supplies of oil from Venezuela and Mexico,
which he suggested Saturday would force Cuba to the negotiating table.

Trump says US is ‘starting to talk to Cuba’ as he moves to cut its oil supplies
The administration puts greater pressure on the communist-run island and cuts off key oil supplies from Venezuela and Mexico.

A day after part of a missile fired by the United States hit their village, landing just meters from its only medical facility,
the people of Jabo in northwestern Nigeria are in a state of shock and confusion.
Suleiman Kagara, a resident of this quiet and predominantly Muslim farming community in Tambuwal district of Sokoto state, told CNN he heard a loud blast and saw flames as a projectile flew overhead at around 10 p.m. on Thursday.
Soon after, it came crashing down, expl…

Fear and confusion in Nigerian village hit in US strike, as locals say no history of ISIS in area
A day after part of a missile fired by the United States hit their village, landing just meters from its only medical facility, the villagers of Jabo in northwest Nigeria are in a state of shock and confusion.

The “super flu” behind outbreaks in the US and UK is a new variant of influenza: H3N2, subclade K.
https://www.wired.com/story/what-is-super-flu-spreading-in-united-states-europe/

What Is the ‘Super Flu’ That Is Spreading in Europe and the United States?
The “super flu” behind outbreaks in the US and UK is a new variant of influenza A H3N2, subclade K. Existing vaccines appear to be insufficiently effective against the virus.

Bettors on the prediction platform #Polymarket made a killing with suspiciously timed wagers that the United States would attack Iran by February 28
-- the day Donald Trump announced a bombing campaign against the Middle East nation.
Bloomberg reported that six accounts on Polymarket
-- all newly created this month
-- “made around $1 million in profit” by betting on the timing of th…

'Insane This Is Legal': Bettors Make Huge Profits From Suspiciously Timed Wagers on Iran War | Common Dreams
"Reminder that Donald Trump Jr. sits on Polymarket's advisory board and his firm invested double-digit millions into the platform last year."

“In my view, we are in an all-out war with the United States, Israel, and Europe;
they do not want our country to stand on its own feet,”
Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian said in an interview with the Supreme Leader’s official website.
He said the current war is worse than the Iraq war in the 1980s.
“If one understands it properly,
this war is far more complex and more difficult than that war.”
“In the war with Iraq, the situation was clear;
the…

Iran says it is in full-scale war with US, Israel and Europe
Iran’s president said on Saturday the country is facing a full-scale confrontation with the United States, Israel, and Europe, describing the pressure campaign against Tehran as more complex and damaging than the Iran–Iraq war.

Matt Yglesias on X:
I hope that it all works out. Sincerely. The Iranian regime is genuinely bad and so is nuclear proliferation.
Years ago, there was a deal in place
— the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action
— that had a lot of downsides from the standpoint of Iran’s regional adversaries
but which did a good job of ensuring a non-nuclear Iran.
A set of hawks in the United States did not like JCPOA, criticized it at the time, worked to undermine its imple…