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It's happening in high school classrooms?

High Schools Are Losing the Struggle to Block Pot—Even During Class Legalization makes marijuana culturally acceptable and easy to get; “it was a party in the bathroom.”

"Make it legal, it's harmless."

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By Tommy Siegel

The End Times are unfolding more strangely than I expected.

I've never been happier to be a theorist.

I remember an ignorant man interviewed on TV before Gulf War I who insisted saving "a few pennies at the pump" justified a war. That knuckledragging logic has pervaded our thinking abt Mideast policy for decades.

It may be abt to die a harsh death at the gas pump.

If only the executive branch knew all this was going to happen....

I feel the same way about AmGovt textbooks.

The truth (I'm not unhappy to say) is that the discipline needs to lean on theorists across the subfields if we want to find ways to speak meaningfully about AmGovt, IR/Comp, Policy.

Here's a health

The West and Western culture—whatever that is—is defined by plurality, being more than one thing.

It's too much for fools and xenophobes to understand. But it's true and it's important.

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We cut the hair.

The costs of this Iran war debacle will likely be more than the cost of extending the ACA health insurance subsidies.

If you asked Americans, which do you want: another war in the Middle East or lower health care costs at home, is the margin 90 to 10? 95 to 5?

The BAFTA thing is a situation that hasn't had much said about that's felt like it did service to complexity of what happened.

This does. No notes. 🎯

This is pretty smart.

It also is a GOP governor in 2026 saying it would be good to return to the pre-2011 immigration debate.

It would be. But his party and their leader made themselves the obstacle.

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."

-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

The billionaires’ kids will pay no price. But American kids have already died for a war of vanity and choice. A war that will result in hardline leadership remaining in Iran and no meaningful impact on their nuclear program. A likely moral and strategic disaster.

...of funds already appropriated to the Defense Dept. The war in Iran can be de-funded ... if that could withstand a veto.

That's pretty unlikely. It's also the only constitutional limit.

And, it's been this way since 1794. When you vote for a POTUS, you vote to give him this power. Always.

...Constitution. But it is a stalemate among the three branches that the POTUS always will win because the POTUS gives orders to the military and the other branches do not.

If you want effective opposition? Congress can claw back funding from the Pentagon or place restrictions on the uses...

...place limits on Trump) then we need to take this seriously too. If we believe in the Constitution and wish to defend the Constitution, this is what the Constitution is.

I'm not saying it's good. I'm not cheering for it. I'm being consistent.

This is one of the most dangerous things abt our...

...POTUS from Nixon to Trump. The executive has a solid constitutional argument to ignore a legislative act or a court ruling. Other branches cannot alter the constitutional powers of a branch of govt.

If we take the Constitution seriously as limiting the uses of govt power (as we want it to...

...deploys the military assets of the U.S. he exercises a power given to him alone by the Constitution. An effort to limit that power made by the legislative branch or the judicial branch would breach the separation of powers.

For this reason, the War Powers Act has never really limited any...

...Geo. Washington who called up the militias to put down the Whiskey Rebellion. It wasn't Congress.

The case is even clearer today because the armed forces are in the "actual Service of the United States" everywhere, all over the world.

The POTUS is *always* commander-in-chief.

And, when he...

...say 'when Congress has declared a war.' It says "when called into the actual Service of the United States."

When that was written, they never imagined a standing federal military. It meant when the state militias were called by the POTUS to federal service. Even in the 1790s, it was...

🧵 Friends, most of the discourse around the legality of war in Iran is beside the point. It's wrong. It's not helping.

The question is not whether Congress declares war. Of course they do.

The question is *when* the POTUS can exercise the Art II-2 power of commander-in-chief. The text does not...

Frankly, I expected better from a FIFA Peace prize winner

None of them was building a nuclear weapon.

When everything everywhere becomes "content" for social media or some other variety of commerce, even warmaking seems to lose its seriousness. A war with Iran is content that serves the brand.

But Mars will have his say. At great cost, the accursed madness of war will scoff at our moral triviality.

No justification, no authorization from Congress, and no clear objective.

But none of that matters to Donald Trump — and apparently neither do the safety and lives of American service members.

I'm very grateful for our bishops in these days.