@lesliestreet
librarian; lawyer; professor; obsessed with trying to teach information literacy in a world that barely seems to care; lover of dogs, tennis, beaches, swimming, long hikes that cause my muscles to ache, the search for a perfect book, and my two boys.
It is so damning of US news media that so many outlets refuse to just straight up say that Senator Tim Sheehy assaulted an activist.
He did not "help" Capitol police. They did not need his help. He wanted to assault the guy and did. He should resign.
"You're right, my answer was based on outdated information. My bad! I sincerely apologize for targeting hundreds of children, and hope you'll forgive me for the error. Upon further research, I have identified another epic target and launched missiles at the coordinates 33°48'45.9"N 117°55'08.4"W."
Apt characterization of the Article I Crisis
I’ve spent years, decades, obsessing over the Bush Administration’s Iraq WMD lies, writing about them, debunking them.
I can think of no lie about Iraq WMDs told by Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld et al that comes even close to the enormity and absurdity of this lie from Donald Trump.
They are sick.
We are all complicit. If you are an American, you paid your government to murder those little girls.
www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-ira...
Killing civilians! Killing children! What a tough guy Hegseth is, being unbound by morality and international law! This glorification of death and destruction is sickening, but expected from a self-proclaimed "Christian" administration whose Bible stops short of the New Testament.
I know fifth grade boys who speak with more maturity and self-control than this. It is embarrassing.
Only a loser talks like this.
Chris Murphy: "It's just so disgusting to listen to the president be waxing poetically about the drapes he's buying while there are six Americans who are dead. There are six families who are about to bury their children because of a war of choice that no one in this country wanted, an illegal war."
Just ask Sen. Ball Coach to point to Iran on an unmarked map. He would be stumped for weeks.
How come “How are you going to pay for it?” is never asked about endless war?
Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez: “Today more than ever, it is essential to remember that one can be against a hateful regime as is the case with the Iranian regime…and at the same time be against an unjustified, dangerous military intervention outside of international law.”
Seems like the emerging policy is: you people out there are responsible for setting up your own governments, but if the US doesn’t like who ends up in charge we’ll just assassinate or kidnap them and then the ball is back in your court.
i am distracted from the bombing of children by the raping of children, and from that by the kidnapping and caging of children, and then from that by the bombing of children and on and on "distracted" until there are no children left
Running your war from a private club for millionaires — ahead of a $1 million-a-plate dinner — is a choice.
Strongmen, like Trump, live in constant fear of being held accountable — which is why all of us should be concerned about what they might do to the upcoming midterms.
The best thing we can all do is pay attention, call them out for what they’re doing, & turn out in huge numbers in November.
No congress, no constitution, and a king.
What a way to celebrate 250 years.
For people who still care about this sort of thing, here's James Madison writing from 1793 (6 years after the delegates in Philadelphia signed the Constitution) about why the power to make war was vested in the legislature.
press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/doc...
Nope. Wrong answer.
In Iran, air power alone will not reshape the regime. Since WWI, dozens of U.S., Israeli & allied air campaigns have tried to force political change — none installed friendly governments. None! They strengthen nationalism and intensify resistance.
the guy who wrote the literal book on this stuff is dunking on the admin:
The United States has just begun a massive, open-ended war — and nobody knows why
BREAKING — 51 Iranian children are dead after a strike hits Minab girls elementary school in Iran.
The incompetence would almost be comical, except when you remember these stupid and incompetent people in control of all the weapons and can kill us all.
Yale Law, never beating the accusations. Honestly, this is what happens when you let your student write his fake memoir as a law school course rather than, you know, actual law classes.
They found him. He died.
Another murder by our immigration goon squads
I actually think Dulles is the most architecturally stunning airport in the country. The only thing that sucks is its reliance on those outdated people mover trucks. He will make everything uglier.
Since this will likely come up in the SOTU: Yes, US stock markets are up since Trump took office (14%).
But in the rest of the world, markets are up WAY more. Cumulative market gains are more than triple ours (43%)
