When an illegal war, likely to cause mass murder, is launched, we have a choice of 2 positions:
1. It's wrong and has to stop.
2. Hurray! Let's join in.
Much of the UK Establishment - Conservatives, Reform, the billionaire media - went straight for Option 2.
Which tells you all you need to know.
“It is up by 42% since hostilities began. American motorists are already paying over $3.40 for a gallon of petrol on average, around 50 cents more than on February 27th. In Europe prices of natural gas, of which the Gulf normally ships lots in liquefied form, are 92% higher than before the war.”
New in PN: The bombing of Iranian children is an unforgivable crime
"American disinterest in the lives of people abroad is a resource politicians use to justify cynical wars. It's hard to see on what moral grounds we claim a right to decide the fate of those about whom we clearly care so little."
Seems like the media should at least express some curiosity about this.
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GENDER-AFFIRMING CARE IS HEALTH CARE.
Thank you to the NY Attorney General’s Office for affirming our community.
"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
Reports indicate at least 100 children have already been killed in strikes on schools. That is unconscionable.
Three U.S. service members are dead as a result of this entirely preventable war of choice.
The blood of these service members, these children, and every civilian rests in Trump’s hands.
The Department of War regretfully informs you your husband has died lethalitymaxxing in Operation Epic Furry
Today should be your 38th birthday.. When you lose your son you lose more than a child you lose a piece of your heart and your joy. Life is forever altered, and nothing can ever fill that space. Yet in my soul, he remains, my precious boy, forever loved. His laughter, his smile, and his love are woven into who I am. My love for him will never fade. Yor are my pride and my joy - you've made a change that cannot be broken..
Alex's mom on his 38th birthday.
A big part of the authoritarian playbook is war. War takes over the news. War blots out criticism. War divides a nation’s people, subjecting those against it to being called unpatriotic. War grants leaders all sorts of emergency powers. War consumes everything else.
We mustn’t let this war do so.
See a pattern here?
Nobel Peace Prize, my ass.
If Trump really wants to destroy Iran he should go be its president for a few months.
When you start an illegal war to distract from the other illegal things you've done.
> @covie93.bsky.social
The president of the United States killed children to distract from raping children.
The attack on Iran will not liberate its brutally-oppressed people, but make matters worse. It could be a trigger for major conflagration.
Oh great. Another war. Israel and U.S. at the forefront of it.
Because of “weapons of mass destruction.”
It’s 2003 all over again.
U.S. is participating in Israeli strikes against Iran, AP reports
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Israel declares that the attack on Iran was a joint strike with the United States. The US is now at war with Iran as well.
"Holy shit, did WE ever make the right decision" - The US Women's Hockey Team
The UN itself is a joke, and this voting is nothing but a meaningless gesture, but this US abstention tells so much about one of our security guarantors. Allies my ass
A+ State of the Union counterprogramming by TCM.
BREAKING
Former ICE agent:
On my first day training new cadets, I received secretive orders to teach them to violate the Constitution by entering homes without a judicial warrant.
I like U.S. Senate candidates who don’t cut and paste their policies from other candidates’ websites from other states.
This rundown of Jasmine Crockett’s original, Texas specific policies is exactly what doing your own homework actually looks like.
Tweet that reads Leo Xander @STALLEON Stop taking social media so serious. Nothing here is real. Look at this chicken V - it is bigger than the car
I think about this tweet every time I feel something online start to curl its annoying little grip into my head
If I were the Greenlanders, I'd check that hospital ship for Odysseus and his Greeks before letting it anywhere near shore, given that it's a weird creepy unnecessary oddly shaped "gift" no public reporting on what is happening in Greenland explains and Trump is Temu Agamemnon
This 53 year old man who lived in my neighborhood w/no criminal record & who had been in the US for 30 years, was detained and thrown into a cold cell for days, caught pneumonia and COVID there and deported.
He finally died.
I am so angry.
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Hey, Austin Smith! Thanks for proving once more that with Reich-Wingers, every accusation is a confession. #ElectionFraud #AustinSmith #TPUSA
I was quoted in this 2019 article about the risks of troves of biometric data collected by CBP from travelers. Six short years later and our data is being used against us, just like pretty much everyone warned it would be.
alysa liu!!!
