🧵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/
For the record, @raskin.house.gov should be Minority leader and the future Speaker of the House.
Drunken Dude with record of endorsing war crimes put in charge of enormous military—what could possibly go wrong? #ImpeachHegseth
"No stupid rules of engagement." — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, March 2, 2026
"The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the Middle East." — Reuters, March 5, 2026
There are no institutions that will save this country
NEW @npr.org: The Justice Department has published additional Epstein files related to allegations that President Trump sexually abused a minor after an NPR investigation found dozens of pages were withheld.
But 37 pages of records are still not public.
More:
Three bodies of law govern the use of U.S. military force against Iran:
1) U.S. domestic law, first and foremost including the Constitution
2) jus ad bellum, eg Article 2(4) of the UN Charter
3) jus in bello, aka the law of war, LOAC, IHL
Just wanted you guys to see “Riding in a golf cart fatly”
ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.
They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.
I think one of the most staggering industry shifts in my 16 years as a tech reporter is that it’s not become a question of “should our product help the government kill and/or surveil people?” but “to what extent?”
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Besides, Miller runs everything anyway, but it could provide leverage in the budget standoff
And a majority of the House just voted to allow this unauthorized war for performance to continue.
The Article I Crisis.
Outside the Israeli consulate in downtown Chicago this afternoon, security guards are maneuvering some barricades around a small group of anti-war protesters to box them in and away from commuters going into Ogilvie.
Despite her removal, Trump’s cruel mass deportation campaign rages on. The Congress must hold her and her successor accountable.
Thou shalt arrest Kristi Noem and put her in a detention center indefinitely so she can “await processing.”
Coincidence that they look like Woody Allen frames?
Turns out lawlessness is not a winning strategy. See you at Nuremberg 2.0
Pam Bondi or Pete Hegseth or RFK next and next and next in any order, amiright?
Now Senate can put hold on Mullin until Dems DHS demands are met
Doesn’t there have to be a confirmation process?
T has a long history of throwing women in his administration (and beyond) under the bus, so I can't have much sympathy for the women this happens to now. They know what is likely going into it.
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good news is that 250 years later we're going to let a Native American decide who gets to be American, bad news is that it's this guy
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So let me get this straight: Trump fired Noem after she lied about spending over $200 million of taxpayer dollars on ads promoting herself.
But he wouldn't lift a finger after two Americans were killed by her federal agents?
Come for the news that Kristi Noem just got fired, stay for the news that Trump's Doral resort (which he owns and profits from) is hosting a summit for foreign leaders that is almost certain to direct unconstitutional payments his way.
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4/ and this is the community that the US views as its best bet to take on regime forces? A militia constituted from a community that is a tiny minority, and non-Shi'a?
It's dangerous, delusional, idiocy to think that anything positive can result from such a numbskull-ian idea. Fucking stupid.
This is how international law is preserved- by unambiguously and publicly speaking out against its violations. More need to do the same.
Devastating. One reason I firmly believe IHL should be taught in schools in democracies is because voters must understand what their militaries are permitted to do so that they are held to account when they engage in legal violations
