@alnewman
Proud Progressive — Golden Rule, animal welfare (domestic, farm & wild), human rights (incl. women’s bodily autonomy), voting rights, civil rights, SCOTUS reform, gerrymander and electoral college elimination, environmental protection, Abolish ICE!
President Trump remarks on plans for Cuba at "Shield of the Americas" summit in Florida: "Cuba's in its last moments of life as it was. It'll have a great new life…That'll be an easy one."
He added: "I'm not learning your damn language. I don't have time."
Sherrill: And when people would say to me, “Why don’t you just do it?” I found that offensive. Because this isn’t his money. This is the people’s money. It isn’t his money to leverage for his own personal desires.
Trump to Latin American leaders: "I'm not learning your damn language. I don't have time."
Also mother and her child were killed. Mother worked as teacher and her son was killed by russians.
Hate them with all of my heart. They must be vanished from this world.
#Ukrainianview
I'm pretty open-minded about sex, but I draw the line at anything even remotely involving a Republican.
After Trump’s mass pardons of anti-abortion activists, threats and harassment at clinics have surged.
The Trump regime is currently holding more than three times as many detainees as Nazi Germany had six years into the Third Reich, and the stated goal of 15 to 20 million deportations would exceed the entire population that moved through the Soviet Gulag system over more than twenty years.
Remarkable: With support for the Iran war tanking, Trump is now throwing away the GOP's advantage on three core issues: Economy, immigration, national security.
A year ago it looked like he might be popular on all three. He lit it all on fire. 1/
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2074...
Except if Biden did what Trump is doing - Biden’s numbers would be less than 1%.
38% of American are fucking idiots!
The citizenry is also responsible. We must elect responsible reps of decent character who take their jobs seriously. We are responsible for the government we empower and must do better informing ourselves and exercising our voting power.
Ben Rhodes: If the war grinds on—either through sustained US attacks, civil conflict, or a widening regional war, Russia could be the beneficiary. From the continued diminution of US munitions, decreased attention on Ukraine, Gulf states hedging, a potential refugee crisis that could bolster
ALERT: Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-OH) files motion asking court to block Trump's closure and demolition of the Kennedy Center
Beatty is ex-officio member of Kennedy Center Board of Trustees
Beatty: "Emergency relief is necessary to prevent irreparable harm"
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High-stakes First Amendment suit against the Pentagon heads to court
The New York Times is suing the Department of Defense after it implemented a restrictive new press policy that prompted most Pentagon reporters to hand in their credentials.
www.ms.now/news/high-st...
Actually, it's worse. It's "The Troops are The Only Public Employees Who Matter, AND All the Rest are Lazy, Incompetent, Bloodsucking Leeches on Society, ESPECIALLY the Radical Liberal Professors Indoctrinating Your Kids to Hate America."
It's not just Miller & Hegseth. It's also the Scott Walkers.
Yes, folks have agency & the authoritarians are to blame for DOGE, this illegal war, Hegseths' fundamentalist Crusader nonsense about the country & war, etc. But also, none of this stuff happens if we haven't encouraged 50 years of "The Troops are The Only Public Employees Who Matter" 24/7/365.
👇🎯🧵 Trump is destroying our diplomatic capacity & credibility in ways orders of magnitude worse than any of his predecessors.
But also, this is downstream of how we have decided to glorify our military in 🇺🇸 society on <every holiday> & <at every sports event> while totally ignoring our diplomats.
🧵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/
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Check it out, it’s now FREE on YouTube.
Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmL_...
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“How to Eat an Elephant: One Voter at a Time” is the playbook for consigning MAGA-style politics to the ash heap of history where it belongs.
Order now before it drops on Sept. 8.
A US judge will reportedly meet government lawyers to agree how to refund up to $175 billion in tariffs that were collected illegally from more than 300,000 importers. | The Guardian
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Still think @sanders.senate.gov was wrong, @slotkin.senate.gov?
Netanyahu has been wrong every time he has recommended some new military action to the US because his interests are more personal self-preservation than security.
newrepublic.com/article/2073...
All the polls on the U.S. war in Iran so far
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/polls-us-i...
If you ignore people who say they “don’t know” how they feel about the war, disapproval of Trump’s actions is already at 56%. That is higher than the resistance to Vietnam in 1971.
Pete HatersBreath.......
Middle East situation is 'major humanitarian emergency', UN refugee agency says reut.rs/4ldPYJW
The world health organization has found that the US and Israel have bombed several health facilities in Iran.
We have also bombed two ADDITIONAL schools this week, not counting the girls schools earlier. Making that 4 in total.
We are the bad guys in this illegal war.
#SheShed
what would you be doing right now if Kamala (or Hillary or Al) had won #ElectionMultiverse
