📌 "Congressional Democrats need to know that if they provide the decisive votes for a war supplemental, they will endanger every incumbent Democrat with a primary ahead of them." @brianbeutler.bsky.social
My comment: “I don’t think any Democrat can credibly claim to lead the party or the country without opposing Trump’s reckless, lawless war. Honestly, it shouldn’t even be a tough call.”
If it’s a test, it’s an easy one. A vote to fund the war is a vote for the war.
My remarks on the War Powers resolution.
Despite starting the war, the Trump Admin is just now "working on a plan" to get Americans to safety while other nations are already well underway on their evacuations.
"Western governments are evacuating travelers from the Middle East. The U.S. is working on a plan."
There are so many things wild about this but "we kept the government totally in tact" in Venezuela is so unbelievably revealing. Trump's entire justification was how evil the Maduro regime was, but unless you believe Maduro did everything personally, to now be bff's with the same gov't is so telling
It's easy to lose track while bombs are falling, but the corruption of this Administration is quite literally unprecedented.
This is the most deranged logic you’ll ever hear.
It’s also not at all how the law works.
Schools should be places of joy, safety, and learning—never military targets.
Today I am thinking of the scores of children, families, teachers, and unionists whose lives have been lost or upended. We at NEA are in solidarity with members of @eduinternational.bsky.social in calls for peace in Iran.
$300 million mistake
That's the same cost as 25,000 Head Start slots
The savings we're getting here by annihilating decades of American science will pay for whole minutes of the operation to create decades of death, immiseration, and chaos in Iran.
“That’s the way it is…”
The Graham corollary to the Powell Doctrine:
If you break it, who cares about fixing it, that’s someone else’s problem.
Illegal war on Iran does not seem super popular.
Historically speaking, the strongest days of polling for military action are right at the start. It typically goes down from there…
www.reuters.com/world/us/jus...
He literally spoke for nearly 2 hours days earlier in the State of the Union and barely uttered a word explaining why he had decided to launch this war, what its goal was, and why it was worth the inevitable human costs.
It’s an almost unimaginable dereliction of duty by a President.
As we learn about the first deaths of US servicemembers, it’s worth remembering that not only did Trump not get the constitutionally required authorization for his war of choice, he didn’t even bother to address the nation. He made a brief video on his personal social media company at 3am.
A powerful, important statement from @repyassansari.bsky.social. Thank you, Congresswoman.
From the start of his political career, Donald Trump campaigned against the idea of regime change.
Yet, Trump has launched an illegal & baseless war on Iran – the exact type of Middle East conflict that the president & his top officials claimed he would never start.
Read: zeteo.com/p/team-trump...
Think there’s any chance he realizes it’s not actually the same Ayatollah…
While a lot of folks online and in the news will once again be celebrating American bombs falling in the Middle East, it's worth remembering General Petraeus' famous invocation, 'Tell me how this ends.'
Important to remember as we already begin to hear stories about the incredible power and precision of American military force, that the tactical successes of the first few days and weeks are only how the war starts. Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya are reminders that strategic failure may yet lay ahead.
In the run-up to the US and Israeli attacks, the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) assessed that even if Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was killed in the operation, he would probably be replaced by hardline figures from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), two sources told Reuters. The assessments, which were produced over the past two weeks, looked broadly at what could occur in Iran after a US intervention and the extent to which a military operation could trigger regime change in the Islamic Republic – now a pronounced objective for Washington. The IRGC is an elite military force whose purpose is to protect Shia Muslim clerical rule in Iran. The intelligence agency reports did not conclude any scenario with certainty, said the sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence matters.
If indeed the Ayatollah has been killed, this reporting by Reuters via @theguardian.com is worth noting.
“This war is dumb and illegal.”
About sums it up. More current members of Congress should take note.
“Under the Constitution of the United States, the President must receive authorization from Congress to enter a war. But even if he had, that does not change the fact this action is unwise, unjustified, and not supported by the American people.”
Yes. Even if authorized, this would be bloody folly.
They didn’t even bother wheeling in a tv (showing twitter) this time. It’s just a poster of where some ships are and some phones for conference calls with the White House.
Truly imagine if any other President had launched a war seemingly this disengaged from the whole situation.
I talked to @ichotiner.bsky.social about Trump’s reckless and illegal war, the Democratic leadership’s lame response, and how fixing our foreign policy will require fixing our broken politics. www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
It would be nice if statements by members of Congress on the U.S. attack on Iran started with something like:
“This attack is an unconstitutional usurpation of Congress’s war powers.”
Only one in five Americans supported an attack on Iran.
But Trump did it anyways.
article 8bis of the rome statute of the international criminal court
continuation of article 8bis
posting, once again, the well-established definition of the crime of aggression in the rome statute for the ICC
