Hegseth needs to stand trial after this as a war criminal. Between this attack and the girls' school, there's no ambiguity. He is responsible for mass murder and must be held accountable.
NEW: Believe it or not, it’s that time of year: the Wisconsin Supreme Court election is next month.
Liberals have a huge opportunity: if they win, they can lock down the majority of this court thru 2030.
That means they’d have it in the next presidential race, a big democracy guardrail.
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🧵Feels like shouting into the void, but it is essential to note that the Trump/Rubio gutting of the State Department and blowtorching of US diplomatic capacity and credibility is an accelerant to this spiraling war and will seriously undercut US/allied efforts to pick up the pieces after. 1/
a public utility does not need to turn a profit. this is intentional.
Every single one of us would have understood it if @crockett.house.gov had remained in Texas for a while after putting everything she had into her Senate campaign. Taken some time to recover, rest, and heal. She's earned it.
And instead she's right back at work in DC today. For all of us. Wow.
never, ever, ever, ever accept "how will you pay for it?" as an argument against social programs.
Screenshot of an X post by Senator Tom Cotton saying Iran has been an imminent threat to the United States for 47 years and that the president was right to act. Below is a Fox News segment with Cotton speaking while footage labeled “U.S. Central Command – Unclassified” shows a strike.
“Imminent.” You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
I don’t want to share the video because it’s pretty graphic, but apparently we’re at the ‘Republican Senator breaks the arm of a Marine IN FULL DRESS because that marine was protesting the Republicans starting a war of choice with Iran’ stage of things.
JFC if you can’t handle protestors, you shouldn’t be in office. 🤬
This 👇👇👇👇 is so true.
OMG!
Yep. I couldn’t believe it.
Today, Congress was finally briefed on Trump's war of choice in Iran.
Even behind closed doors, they couldn't get their story straight.
But one thing is clear: they don't have a clue what the end game is, and it sure as hell isn't making America safer.
Well most professors. My husband had a colleague once who did not excuse a student who was in the hospital at the time of an exam. 🤨
Doubly crazy because not only is Iran a war of choice—one that doesn't happen if the 2024 election goes the other way—but also the reason things got here is Trump chose to renege on the JCPOA in 2018.
This isn't the inevitable march of history. It's the election and foreign policy of one guy.
I am not sure what the US govt plans. But turning Iran into a ungovernable warlord state of chaos and poverty is an outcome Netanyahu would benefit from.
That would be a disaster for the US. I don’t see how that chaos and violence doesn’t come home to hit the US mainland.
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This very important point cannot be stressed or repeated often enough. The destruction of US democracy by a compliant GOP-led Congress and SCOTUS is leading to less stability and less prosperity both at home and around the world.
They went to war with Iran (which nobody in America was asking for) so they could conjure an excuse to allow ICE to keep murdering Americans and teargassing schools here at home with impunity (which nobody in America was asking for).
"I, a member of <checks notes> the Senate Committees on Finance, Budget, Judiciary, Foreign Relations, & Select Intelligence, have no better idea than you what the hell is happening as the President of the United States takes us into a an illegal war."
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I promise you that the government that murdered Alex Pretti and Renee Good does not give a flying fuck about the protests in Iran.
Shockingly bad at negotiations. Like their whole thing was supposed be about making deals and yet here we are, the Department of “War” begging to continue discussions with Anthropic.
The Founders were so concerned about bribery that the Constitution forbids it three separate times (the two emoluments clauses and as the only name impeachable offense besides treason).
Exactly for this reason. A US president pocketing funds from foreign govts leads to actions against US interests.
Think about how no one under 30 knows what pensions are, it's a totally alien concept. The GOP goal is to make all government services as alien and unfamiliar.
Imagine in a decade, trying to explain to a 20 year old what social security, libraries, grad school, the EPA, OSHA, mass vaccination, ADA,
When you can’t win, this is what you do. Sore loser(s).
Glenn should learn about the sexual mores of his Republican colleagues Tony Gonzales and Cory Mills, among others.
There are many reasons Trump is desperate to keep his illegal, destructive tariffs but chief among them is w/o tariff revenue Dems can and should demand that we claw back the extra ICE funding and roll back the tax cuts to wealthy people.
With a slowing economy/revenue loss we can't afford either.
It will take decades for the US to recover from the institutional damage that the Trump administration has done to science agencies. Which of course is the point.
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DHS is holding a 2-month-old BABY at a detention facility in Texas.
Last night, Juan Nicolás was rushed to the hospital after choking on his own vomit & being unable to breathe.
This demands accountability — not a blank check for more cruelty.
I think it’s time for Democratic leaders to start saying “if you’re a pilot or ground crew involved in a deportation that was stayed by a judge, you’ll be held criminally liable for human trafficking.” Everyone involved in these flights should have that fear in the back of their minds.
Oh, okay. I'll bite.
The right to vote is enshrined in the Constitution.
The "right" of armed federal cops to arrest, beat, and kill people with anonymity is not.
