Ossoff: "The WH put out a video depicting this war as a video game. When service members are returning in flag-draped coffins, & even more have lost limbs or suffered brain injuries or are fighting for their lives, this WH treats war like a game. It's a disgrace. And it speaks to a moral rot."
Just so we're all clear, this is a war crime and would be punishable by life or death under U.S. law.
The Strait of Hormuz is open for transit
I do not want to read or answer your long texts about work or leisure. I do not want to read or follow your group texts. I do not want to even read the texts anyone is sending me. I do not want to have an ongoing text exchange that requires me to constantly toggle open the texts on my phone.
The real shock of the Epstein Files isn’t that there was some dark escort service silencing people with threats and blackmail.
It’s that everyone knew or kinda knew what was going on and didn‘t care. Saw the rapes as eccentricity, like visiting Mexico and going to a cockfight, risqué but whatev
I genuinely believe he will launch a nuke before this is done, it’s the logical culmination of the entire admin’s “we win by being more violent and evil than the other guy, and if that’s not working, escalate both” ethos
KENNEDY: You said, 'Republicans think can troll their way to ethnic cleansing.' Did I read that correctly?
BIER: DHS tweeted for 100m deportations. That would be ethnic cleansing!
K: You don't think it's hyperbolic?
B: I think advocating 100m deportations is ethnic cleansing. Yes. Your time is up
Many of your faves are completely besotted with this myth, and maybe you are yourself. It's one of the more appalling outgrowths of overeducated liberal elitism, an expression of disgust for regular people that has been disguised an observation about political strategy. It's why liberals lose.
There's something deeply obscene and broken about the fact that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are bombing elementary schools in an illegal war of aggression, and there's still a sense among the opposition that it has to be explained in terms of gas prices in order to get American voters to care.
feels telling about American foreign policy punditry that while many decry the aimlessness of Trump’s monstrously wrong Iran war there were far more outraged columns over the harm done to US power and influence and standing and interests and example when Biden rightly withdrew from Afghanistan.
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.
U.S. elites treat everything Trump does with an air of unseriousness, because he is a ridiculous flimflam man. But applying that lens to the Iran war seems deeply inapt. Reminiscent in some ways of the lens many of those same elites applied to COVID from Nov 2019 - Jan 2020. An over-there problem.
Turns out lawlessness is not a winning strategy. See you at Nuremberg 2.0
It’s a problem that the president is a world-class imbecile with zero capacity to think strategically, understand the basic context of his decisions, and who makes those decisions in chaotic spasms.
It’s a much bigger problem that our political system finds it impossible to say this out loud.
trump, pointing a gun directly at the head of his diplomatic counterparty: "the reason no one else has ever tried this is because they're not as smart as me"
It is baffling to me why Dem leadership returns again and again to these procedural critiques. Does anyone find them compelling? Is the problem with this war really that Trump didn't tell Schumer about it sooner?
Trump's negotiating strategy goes something like this:
-"Give us what we want"
-"Oh, this is taking too long"
-"Okay, I'm having you killed"
don't think there's a better encapsulation of everything wrong with "working class politics" that a literal petit-borgeois business owner is somehow universally viewed as blue collar because he's a white guy with a few slurs under his belt
"will you compromise on racism and bigotry?" is THE fundamental question, the most important dividing line, in politics.
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.
Collins absolutely has a massive trove of Platner dirt ready to go the day after the primary, it's going to be a bloodbath
Their adoration of him completely gives away the game. All they care about are a few aesthetic markers of masculinity and a few populist buzzwords. Grow a killer beard, learn to shoot, and say "oligarchy" a bunch and they think you're literally qualified to be a United States senator.
The first deaths announced from the US-Israeli strikes on Iran: dozens of school girls. They hit an elementary school in Hormozgan.
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I don't think anyone pretending there isn't an effort underway by Republicans to eradicate trans people from public life can be taken seriously at this point.
Border Patrol released Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a 56 yo man, nearly blind with serious medical conditions, at "an old address & his family had since moved" in Buffalo, NY in the winter. "His family was not initially notified." He was found dead. @news4buffalo.bsky.social
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(the median Republican is a threat to all life on earth)
Biggest thing dems could do for their current position imo is have true moral convictions. They love to wait till the poll tells them something is confirmed Okay and by that time it’s too late. You should try believing in something, anything, the first time - even at pt of risk
the Bonica-Grumbach thesis is doing an amazing job and is being recognized more and more
"Antiseptic judicial rhetoric cannot do justice to what is happening"
The opinion, by a Clinton appointee, says Trump admin's conduct is "beyond the reach of ordinary legal description. It is an assault on the constitutional order."
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An ICE agent shot and killed Ruben Ray Martinez, a US citizen and San Antonio resident, in March 2025. Then ICE and the Texas Department of Public Safety covered it up. He was 23 years old. I am calling for a full investigation into this shooting, including why there was an 8-month cover up.
