As a US senator, I do not support Donald Trump committing war crimes in Iran. But if I don’t let him commit them, I could be primaried by a far right challenger who also lets him commit war crimes, enthusiastically.
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Me, joking: I can’t believe we chose “destroying the economy” and “losing wars” over “being nice to trans people occasionally”
Conservatives, dead serious: it was a tough choice, but I’m glad we picked “destroying the economy” and “losing wars” over “being nice to trans people occasionally”
i swear this gov is a TV show. the head of intelligence got hacked and used his real name for a porn account. the head of dept of war accidentally texted war plans to a journalist. and now former head of homeland security grappling with husband's secret cross-dressing double life in anti-LGBTQ admin
We don’t support the troops by taking health care from their families. And we don’t support them by mindlessly giving ever more money to ever fewer defense contractors without thinking about what war means and how it is fought in the 2020s. (4/4)
Also Macron, speaking for many, has this explanation:
"When you want to be serious, you don’t go around saying the opposite every day of what you just said the day before. And perhaps you shouldn’t talk every day.”
I wonder if much of the “debate” around “effectiveness” of protest isn’t fueled by failure of those who dismiss them to perceive that at the *very least* they function for many as *a* democratic tool for the maintenance of sanity. Not everyone! But that’s ok. Solidarity requires survival.
The Villages was once called “Trump Country.”
Now this Florida community is gathering in huge numbers to reject the regime. #NoKings
Mucho hogwash.
Offshore wind demonstrably less expensive than fossil; ask the grid. Trump pays back fossil donors by blocking cheaper competition. www.csmonitor.com/Environment/...
Viktor Orban is waging cognitive warfare on a scale no one else has tried before. "Emotions are high because the stakes are high. If he succeeds, he will once again blaze a path that others will follow. And if he loses, an era comes to an end."
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
We had a 100-0 bipartisan deal in the Senate and the House blew it up because the Republicans who run Congress apparently don’t talk to each other and prefer chaos.
Album cover of The Sidewinder by Lee Morgan
Obsessed on this after seeing it on the wall at our Airbnb in Nashville.
In his piece for Foreign Policy published Feb. 24, Swanson wrote that Iran would not capitulate after a bombing campaign, but rather escalate and “target global oil flows and international shipping, sending energy prices up and creating a serious political liability for Trump.” And indeed, Iran has made scattershot attacks on energy targets and others across the region, as well as throttling passage through the Strait of Hormuz by threatening attacks on ships.
Loomer post noting that a government expert on Iran was part of the Iran negotiations.
This guy sounds smart. Laid out Iran's moves with incredible foresight. Too bad he no longer works as the National Security Council’s director for Iran b/c some online nutjob does not like him and that is enough to get experts shitcanned from government these days.
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The Iran war is exposing some of those gaps. The State Department and FBI have shed employees with specialized expertise on Iranian energy and counterintelligence. The Department of Defense gutted the office working on civilian casualty minimization — a fact became newly salient following a U.S. airstrike on a girl’s school in Iran. The National Security Council’s director for Iran, Nate Swanson, laid out exactly how Iran would respond to a bombing attack — unfortunately he was fired last year at the direction of online nutjob Laura Loomer. That expertise might be useful right about now.
Gee, maybe it was a bad idea for Trump to fire the people in government who knew what the fuck they were talking about when it came to Iran.
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Today's the day. America has no king.
Come out and stand together in solidarity for freedom.
#NoKings
Find your event:
www.nokings.org
Brendan Carr: “Look at the results so far — PBS defunded, NPR defunded, Joy Reid gone from MSNBC, Sleepy Eye Chuck Todd gone, Jim Acosta gone, John Dickerson gone, Colbert is leaving, CBS is under new ownership — & soon enough CNN is going to have new ownership as well”
#NoKings protest tomorrow 🤘🏼
Where text is clear, a Da Vinci "originalist" suggests secret meanings. Where history is clear, they change the subject to Machiavelli, or Blackstone. Where the evidence thin, well, they raise a pinky and suggest that those who disagree are simply too stupid to understand the lost symbol./3
I've been writing about birthright citizenship for 20 years. This thread strings together my opinion pieces (not law review tomes, which I will post separately). I wrote a book about the Fourteenth Amendment and I debated John Eastman 20 years ago about his vile plan to end birthright citizenship./1
The weirdest and also most important election in Europe this year
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The crusades took place about five hundred years before the US was founded, and they were brutal and unsuccessful. The United States was not founded on Christian principles.
I’m working on typing up notes from the hearing, but first: please enjoy this highly detailed, totally lifelike rendering of today’s proceedings!
We’re expecting many Americans to be politically awakened by tomorrow’s No Kings protests. These nationwide events will welcome thousands and thousands of new people into getting involved with sustained local actions around ICE monitoring, election protection, and noncooperation. #NoKings
How it started vs how it's going.
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I think this is entirely about image. He doesn’t care that TSA agents can’t feed their families or even that people have to wait in massive lines. He wants to say he tried to fix it but they (laws/judges/Congress/whoever) wouldn’t let him.
5/5 Also worth noting that, in Plutarch's telling--the telling that the Founding generation would have known intimately--it was Caesar's raiding of the treasury and threatening of the tribune Mettellus, who tried to defend it, that was one of the clearest signs that he intended to become a dictator.
1/ It's not just that unilaterally paying TSA agents is illegal.
It's that Trump has now repeatedly undermined the core of the congressional power of the purse. He's not spending money that has been appropriated by law (impoundments) and he's spending money that has not been appropriated.
This is so brazenly corrupt.
