🦬 Dr Red Bison, PhD @redbison.bsky ♀🏳️‍🌈🌻

Prairie🔥/Historian—Dr of ills I can't cure/Grey-crowned Night Heron/Patriarchy=root of evil/“Thinking is my fighting”—Woolf/LongCovid/EcoGrief/Birder/ ❤‍🔥🐰

[🦬 Dr Red Bison, PhD @redbison.bsky ♀🏳️‍🌈🌻 @RedBison]

We should refer to @mashagessen's Rules for #SurvivingAutocracy daily, especially now that Trump is worse than Putin. Journalists are failing to pay attention. They downplay, buy the normality, say "we're not shocked," "someone will stop him." No one is coming to save us but us.

[Judd Legum @JuddLegum]

1. Polymarket, the prediction market that promotes itself as a "truth machine," is sponsoring posts from far-right influencers on X that push election conspiracy theories.

[Sandi Bachom 📹 @sandibachom]

Why is nobody talking about the fact that the UFC fight on Trump‘s birthday is going to be Broadcast on Paramount streaming so it’s like a pay-per-view event to the guy that is trying to make a deal to buy all the media companies how is that not completely illegal?

[Breanna Morello @BreannaMorello]

🚨LAWSUIT🚨

Peter Hotez is being accused of sexually misconduct after he allegedly pursued a Northwell Health scientist that ended up rejecting him.

Annette Lee says Hotez, who is married, proposition her repeatedly.

In Lee’s wrongful termination lawsuit she says, "Dr. Hotez told me he would give up all these women for me and I declined and said I did not want to be more than friends and said that I did not want a sexual relationship."

She was later terminated from her job of over 20 years and is now suing in federal court.

Hotez is denying her “characterization of the facts.”

[Laura Miers @LauraMiers]

The U.S. is never going to dig out of the record disease & death hole. We will be coexisting with record disease & death for the rest of our artificially shortened lives. Everyone says The Other Side will solve the problem. When The Other Side defunds public health for billionaires too, ignores an entire pandemic, & defunds STI prevention amid record STIs, media doesn’t cover it. The public has no knowledge of it. It didn’t happen. It’s always “The Others did it. WE didn’t. The Others did.” But it’s a lie. Both Sides work for billionaires & corporations at our expense, & this is what it looks like. Persistent Disease & Premature Death 4 All.

[🦬 Dr Red Bison, PhD @redbison.bsky ♀🏳️‍🌈🌻 @RedBison]

“The resettlement of South Africans to 🇺🇸 under the guise of being ‘refugees’ is entirely politically motivated and designed to question 🇿🇦 constitutional democracy.” Trump has also cut off aid to 🇿🇦 based on specious claim of discrimination vs Afrikaners.
https://t.co/YzWWPFz6xo

[🦬 Dr Red Bison, PhD @redbison.bsky ♀🏳️‍🌈🌻 @RedBison]

Since 1 October 2025, the US has accepted just 6,668 refugees. Of those, 6,665 were white South Africans.
Trump sees Afrikaners, descended primarily from European invaders, as victims of “white genocide” — a far-RW racist conspiracy myth promoted by Elon.
https://t.co/YzWWPFz6xo

[Suppressed News. @SuppressedNws1]

Trump today claimed he “didn’t promise anything” about NO NEW WARS.

So here’s a second compilation showing FIFTY times during his campaign where he PROMISED exactly that.

[Malcontent News @MalcontentmentT]

Plot Twist: The US is no closer to a deal with Iran than it was in June 2025 at the end of the 12 Day War.

Watching the Department of Defense morph into the Russian Ministry of Defense under Pete Hegseth, with the repeated outright lies, and there is no other way to candy coat it, about how everything is a spectacular military success, is not getting the US any closer to a resolution.

It's embarrassing and humiliating.

Worst of all, every day Hegseth lies to the White House about glorious total military success, it provides Iran with another day of breathing room to rearm and redploy assets. Iran's missiles and drone inventory, and TELs, were not 90% destroyed. Not even close. Iran's production capacity, especially for drones, is already nearing full restoration.

Real military leadership includes accountability when things don't go to plan. The first rule of war. Nothing ever goes to plan. Henry Stimson wasn't proving he could beat Hitler and Hirohito by making Newsreels of himself doing push-ups and telling European allies they need to suck it up.

We were promised 4 things by the Trump administration.

1) No new wars. Not, no. New wars!!!

2) Ruthless transparency. The most transparent administration ever. The Pentagon press office is now off-limits and classified. Casualties have been covered up. Critical losses of military hardware have been covered up. The severity of the damage to the USS Ford was covered up. Even the official Congressional report on airframe losses omitted a CH-47 and 4 Little Birds that were, without any doubt, 100% lost. So what else was covered up?

3) Politicians and poll numbers would not drive US military doctrine. USA! War fighters! Right now, Bob and Martha in Tulsa, Oklahoma, are furious that diesel fuel is $4.66 a gallon and they can't afford fertilizer for their summer crops. Politicians and poll numbers are driving military doctrine. You don't need a poli sci degree to know that if WTI goes to $150 a barrel, Republicans are toast in the midterms. Someone get Barak Ravid on the phone. Operation Epic Fury is over. We won! A ceasefire is when both sides still shoot at each other.

4) The DoD procurement Charlie Fox-Trot of the last 25-30 years, especially for the Navy and the needs of 21st-century warfare, would be fixed. Trump-class battleships that will field weapons that, wait, let me check my notes, don't even exist today, don't solve the core problems the Navy is facing. A lack of total VLSs. The poor state of Naval logistics. The need to have more vessels in total to operate in multiple theaters concurrently. Expanding US shipbuilding? It has just been a bunch of talk.

The DoD continues to reject Ukraine's drone technology because we hate Ukraine, apparently, and friends and family of the administration need to be enriched by building vastly more expensive solutions that will never scale in a major war.

The Biden administration expanded US 155mm artillery production using money, wait for it, that was part of the Congressional authorized funds for Ukraine, supporting the construction of a modern ammunition factory in Mesquite, Texas. The US is supposed to be making over 1M rounds per year now. It's not even close, and the Trump admin has done almost nothing to hold General Dynamics' feet to the fire to solve their damn problems beyond some token fines. Meanwhile, in less than 5 years, Germany's Rheinmetall is producing more military ammo than the US. But somehow, Europe is the problem.

[Saint Javelin @saintjavelin]

Footage of NATO fighter jets that carried out the alliance’s first-ever drone shootdown over Latvia.

According to the Latvian military, the drone entered the country’s airspace due to the effects of Russian electronic warfare (EW) systems. It was destroyed by French fighter jets patrolling the Baltic skies as part of NATO’s air policing mission.

[courtneybonneauimages @cbonneauimages]

I just heard the @BBC radio say that the Israeli army was attacking Hezbollah targets yesterday & they also platformed someone bloviating about how Iran is ‘occupying’ Lebanon.

As a frontline journalist on the ground for the last 18 months, I would like to reiterate that I have not see any Iranian occupation bases in Lebanon. I have not seen any children killed here by Iranian bombs. I haven’t seen the IRGC massacring entire families on a daily basis. The IRGC has not shot at me or killed dozens of my colleagues in targeted attacks. Iran has not been systematically murdering healthcare workers (over 130) in Lebanon.

Israel has violently invaded and occupied Lebanon. The flag flying over the base in Al Khiam is an Israeli flag, not an Iranian flag. (Photo below)

The Lebanese Ministry of Health yesterday reported that 3,613 civilians have been killed and 11,072 have been wounded in Israeli attacks since March 2nd.

[🦬 Dr Red Bison, PhD @redbison.bsky ♀🏳️‍🌈🌻 @RedBison]

They knew about the murder of the Iranian schoolgirls before we did. Officials feign ignorance to avoid responsibility. They refuse to uphold the Constitutional requirement that only Congress can declare war. They should've subpoenaed Hegseth 100 days ago.

[Prem Thakker @prem_thakker]

It's been 100 days since the US reportedly bombed a girls school in Iran, killing 100+ kids. I pressed members of Congress on what they're doing in response to one of the most horrific war crimes in modern US history.

Some didn't even know about it.
And some just didn't care:

[Karen Piper @PiperK]

This man is a troll who says that any election won by Democrats is "stolen." He also oversees national election security for Homeland Security.

He's been pushing the ridiculous "California fraud" narrative.

He studied at Moscow State University. 1/

[🦬 Dr Red Bison, PhD @redbison.bsky ♀🏳️‍🌈🌻 @RedBison]

A now-familiar pattern: MAGAt Zionists like Weiss and the Ellisons working with Trump to destroy the US press.
The Zionists get a platform for their pro-genocide Hasbara, while Trump gets a weaponized media ('make the [ICE] protestors look more violent') to crush his critics.

[Michael Tomasky @mtomasky]

She was placed at CBS by Ellison to crush the left and advance Donald Trump’s agenda, so it’s no surprise that that is precisely what she’s doing. And no matter her level of incompetence, she’ll stay there as long as she’s doing that. https://t.co/oax4XKWmZO

[Molly Jong-Fast @MollyJongFast]

Remember when we were told women were too emotional to be president

[Michael Freeman @michaelpfreeman]

Credit to Kristen Welker. Many interviewers let him get away with his lies and move on without pushing back that there is no evidence. She held her ground.

And the more she didn’t defer to him, the more he became a petulant child.

[Molly Jong-Fast @MollyJongFast]

"This is dedicated to the beautiful tapestry of immigrant families who make this country really special. May you one day not have to audition for the empathy that should be freely given by this country that benefits from your beauty. To the queer and trans communities that always will exist, no matter what people in power try to take away from them. To the people of Palestine who deserve to live a free life – a full life – without occupation. ... If there's one thing we can learn from vampires, it's that life is short, but that's its gift. Find beauty in the ephemeral and gratitude in what is not promised."

[Ori Goldberg @ori_goldberg]

When interviewed about the genocide and its regional implications I used to asked most frequently about Israel's endgame. I would try to explain that the endgame, the jackpot, was the absolute right to attack whenever and wherever in stark disregard of any and all rules. Killing and ethnically cleansing Palestinians was a welcome perk for those who celebrated it alongside those reluctant to "be like them", but it was not the main point. My answer was (and still is) intensely criticized. People want villainy to be orderly and based on a diabolical masterplan that is in itself linear and "sensible". It is difficult to accept that the outer darkness offers no such comfort.

Recently I have been asked most frequently about the sentiments of the Israeli public. Are they satisfied with the existential "Groundhog Day" scenario they appear to be living through? Israel will hold a national election in the autumn; is there an opposition party offering an alternative vision, one calling for the cessation of hostilities (on all "fronts")? Are Israelis calling for a change? Do they want one and, if so, what is it?

Israelis are not satisfied. That does not mean they criticize the war with Iran or the genocide or the destruction of Lebanon. They support them all. That is what enables the horrific carelessness with which Israelis perpetrate the genocide and their supporters justify it as ongoing policy - the resignation. Most Israelis (Israeli Jews, that is) have adopted an attitude of resounding resignation when it comes to Israel's wars and crimes. They don't like them (purportedly), but what is there to be done? When this is the dominant attitude, it is much easier to commit the most horrid crimes while being convinced that such crimes are inevitable. Israel's greatest evils stem from this gap. It's not that we don't care; we have no choice. We will never have a choice. What can we do? What can we do if our leadership is mad? What can we do against our own extremists? What can we do against the barbarity of our enemies? We must resign ourselves to our inevitable duties.

There are many Israeli Jews who celebrate death. It is a no-brainer for them: they must die so that we can live. They are not the source of the greatest evil. The greatest evil comes from the myriad "liberals" who "see your point" when confronted but perpetuate a moral and intellectual emptiness in their lives. Israel's evil has many parents but rhe resignation, the embrace of the abyss as the only "human" framework possible and necessary, is in my mind the worst of all.

[Indigenous Environmental Network @IENearth]

This World Oceans Day, we are calling out the growing biodiversity credit markets offering large sums of money to communities for protection of their bays, beaches, and ocean relatives; then they pull the veil revealing the money isn't for conservation, it's an "investment." The Oceans and relatives which Indigenous Peoples have a longstanding relationship with are not commodities you can just dump money into. Especially not while profiting from other extractive industries at the same time. We have to assert our rights as Indigenous Peoples in defense of lands, waters, and relatives for the future generations and their relationship to the Ocean. #WorldOceansDay

[🦬 Dr Red Bison, PhD @redbison.bsky ♀🏳️‍🌈🌻 @RedBison]

This is why tRump became enraged and walked out on Welker's interview — maintaining The Jan 6 Big Lie is existential for tRump with midterms approaching & GOP loss of control looming. It's why he's desperate for the slush fund to pay his J6 Stormtroopers; he may need them again.

[The Intellectualist @highbrow_nobrow]

SC Jack Smith on Trump Indictment (2023):

The Jan. 6 attack on our nation's capital was an unprecedented assault on the seat of [U.S.] democracy. It was fueled by lies. Lies by the defendant, targeted at obstructing a bedrock function of the US Gov't.

[FRANCE 24 English @France24_en]

🇱🇧 At least 3,600 people have been killed by #Israeli strikes in #Lebanon, with more than 11,000 others injured in the attacks.

The victims have been laid to rest in exile in #Sidon, with their loved ones forced to wait until the fighting subsides to bury them closer to home.

FRANCE 24's @AKerrigan47 and Elena Volochine bring you this report.