the attitude with arnie arnesen the tues edition Feb 3
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Arnie Arnesen
Mar 3, 2026, 5:51:20 AM (10 days ago) Mar 3
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opening thoughts Shit,aka the unqualified, rises to the top:
Why in the world is Melania Trump leading a UN security council meeting?
"Melania Trump’s new gig at the United Nations. It’s been announced that the first lady will lead a session of the United Nations security council on Monday titled Children, Technology, and Education in Conflict. It can’t be stressed enough that this is highly unusual. As the White House noted in a statement: “Mrs Trump’s leadership will mark the first time a sitting US first lady presides over the security council.” Back in precedented times, you see, you generally needed a qualification or two to lead the security council. Now, however, we’re squarely in the WTF economy: Melania is a Trump, ergo automatically qualified to do anything her little heart desires."
part one: Bill Curry was a Connecticut state senator, comptroller and two time Democratic nominee for governor who served as Counselor to the President in the Clinton White House. He has written for Salon, the Daily Beast, the Huffington Post and the Hartford Courant and has provided commentary on National Public Radio, MSNBC and many other news outlets.
Facebook thoughts on the events of this weekend by Bill Curry
The Trump wars continue nonstop. We invaded Venezuela and kidnapped its president. We bombed Nigeria on a lie as a kind of Christmas present to American Evangelicals who claimed Christians there were somehow being discriminated against. We've bombed Syria, Iraq, Somalia and Yemen. We provided crucial weaponry and financing for ethnic cleansing in Gaza. We threaten even our close, good friends Canada and Greenland. In case you didn't know, we've just begun a covert war on Cuba. Today, we launched our second brutal missile attack on Iran.
This is insane. Not once in 250 years did our (former?) Republic, in a single year-or decade, or generation- launch so many attacks on sovereign nations, which makes these attacks not just insane but literally, unAmerican.
Each is also a crime under international law and a brazen violation of our Constitution. Trump hates our Constitution. He often reviles or threatens to ignore it. In less than a year, he has grossly violated it three times. The Constitution gives Congress exclusive right to levy taxes. It gives states and Congress exclusive power to regulate elections. It gives Congress exclusive power to declare war. Trump could care less. He denies the plain meaning of each provision and daily subverts it.
This is the third time in twenty five years we've attacked a Muslim country with the express intent of overthrowing its government. How well do we think the first two attacks went? It's the second time in seventy five years we've deposed an Iranian government. How well do we think the first coup went?
For eighty years, no country has profited so much as ours has from the world's adherence to the rule of law. Every American is made less safe by our subversion of it. Excepting only Trump and his pals, every American will be made less prosperous as well. We won't escape the consequences or our crimes. We never do. If you think otherwise, think of Vietnam, or Afghanistan, or Iraq, or just think of Iran.
Trump's bizarre state of the union address, crassly staged like a cross between the Price is Right and the Hunger Games, ended with a hymn to America that celebrated our conquests, innovations, wealth and power but never once mentioned our Constitution or our democracy. His fever dream of empire betrays every good thing America ever stood for, I suspect that deep down, he hates not only our Constitution but our country, which he depicted in two inaugural addresses as a hell hole, and which he now seeks to remake in his own self image.
Never believe any Trump rationale for war. Before Venezuela he talked about the virtues of democracy and the evil of drug trafficking. He hasn't mentioned either since, but instead devotes his full attention to getting a slice of Venezuela's oil and gas riches, not for the Venezuelan or even the American people, but for himself. No previous president ever even considered committing such a crime.
Before he launched his attack on Iran, Trump spoke ceaselessly of its brave protesters, whom he vowed to protect. Thousands took him at his word and died for it. Last night, he told them in a scolding tone, he was giving them the gift of freedom and they better take advantage of the opportunity. In other words, once the bombs stop falling, they're on their own. The only alternative is what he once decried as "nation building" a phrase that means helping the country you bombed get back on its feet. Trump doesn't care any more for them than he does for us, or for anyone. He'll figure out a way to pilfer some of Iran's oil, then be on to his next illegal, unconstitutional war. Unless we stop him.
part two
opening thoughts from Robert Arnold On Iran and 150 Dead Children https://substack.com/@defiance13/p-189595985
How to Bring Down Grocery Prices The Defense Department has long operated discount supermarkets, called commissaries. Military families love them. A civilian equivalent could deliver more affordable groceries to hard-pressed Americans, at little to no cost to taxpayers. https://washingtonmonthly.com/2026/01/22/how-to-bring-down-grocery-prices/
a conversation with Claire Kelloway the food program manager at the Open Markets Institute.She is the primary writer for Food & Power, a first-of-its-kind website, providing original reporting and resources on monopoly power in food and agriculture. She also oversees Open Markets’ policy research into the legal underpinnings of corporations and market concentration in the food sector.Kelloway has written for outlets such as The Intercept, Civil Eats, The American Prospect, and ProPublica. She has appeared on NPR’s “All Things Considered,” Vox’s “FuturePerfect” videos, and numerous podcasts. Before joining Open Markets, she worked as a sustainability fellow with Bon Appetit Management Company and studied political economy at Carleton College.Kelloway lives and works in Minneapolis.
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