SSI was created over 50 years ago to ensure that older adults and people with disabilities living in poverty could meet their most basic needs. But today the program has not kept pace with the cost of living. Dignity in aging is non-negotiable. - @yaniracruzdc.bsky.social @nhcoa.bsky.social

First Draft: 🤬 Is This the Worst-Run War in US History? Trump and his administration are improvising a major conflict in the Middle East, as Democrats keep winning in the 2026 redistricting war that is immensely backfiring on the GOP. From @swin24.bsky.social: zeteo.com/p/is-this-th...

DeSantis (in Florida) and Abbott, and Paxton (in Texas) are using the same playbook against CAIR that southern states used against the NAACP and other civil rights groups in the 1950s and 60s. But First Amendment doctrine is stronger now, thanks in part to the cases that the NAACP litigated.

Israeli warmonger who told Obama to keep supporting Israel and doing drone strikes and keeping up the war on terror, and cracking down on American protesters in Minneapolis. Sound like a familiar policy?

I am tired of being pitted against my neighbor. I am tired of being told to hate my neighbor.

'Missiles fired by the US & Israel have hit 2 schools in the town of Parand, southwest of Tehran, Iran’s... Fars news agency reports. It shared photos of damage&debris in what appeared to be a classroom&said several nearby residential units also sustained damage."' www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

Dems like Schumer slow walked this vote until AFTER Trump started bombing. Remember that some Dems WANT THIS WAR. They got bribed by the same warmongers like aipac that bribe republicans. Every dem needs to explain why they haven’t called for new leadership. You’re killing people!

Of all the bad looks from this week's hearings with Kristi Noem, it is not that she's NOT deporting the worst of the worst, that her fuck bunny signs contracts, OR that she has tanked his polling on most popular issue. It's that she claims he knew of her corrupt propaganda contract.

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Brendan Loper. #NewYorkerCartoons

Perhaps unsurprising for Miami, but I still find it notable that the three students quoted with most sexist, bigoted and antisemitic texts are named Bejerano, Gonzalez, and Valdes. As someone said recently, America is such a melting pot that these days even our white supremacists are multicultural.

Discuss.

Remember when Rep. Greg Gianforte, now the GOP governor of the state, body slammed a reporter into a table? We probably need to shut down the Montana Republican Party entirely until we can figure out where all this violent rage is coming from.

Bari Weiss Is Going Full ‘Propaganda-Palooza’ With the Iran War The CBS News war coverage is going exactly as we thought it would. Plus, Gayle King goes 'all in' on Weiss, while CNN commentator Scott Jennings sucks up to her. From @justinbaragona.bsky.social: zeteo.com/p/bari-weiss...

"When people come together we can organize for incredible things. We an move literal mountains.” Volunteer: act.clairevaldezforcongress.com/events Donate: clairevaldezforcongress.com/donate

This district is home to more artists than almost anywhere in the country but rising costs are pushing them out. I'm running to build an economy where time and space for creativity isn't a luxury reserved only for a lucky few.

🟡 Hezbollah activity south of the Litani River suggests the group may have reestablished an operational presence in southern Lebanon, Al Jazeera’s Ali Hashem reports. ➤ Recent rocket, drone, & anti-tank attacks near the border point to restored command and control. ➤ On Tuesday alone, 13 attack...

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

The record of the US (and Israel) assassinating leaders and bombing schools is unlikely to give the people of any country however bad its government hope of a brighter future ... meme via Susan Hocking

NEW: Anchorage Daily News staff becomes the first newsroom in Alaska to unionize and win a union contract! Congratulations to the @pacnwguild.bsky.social for this historic win ✊ newsguild.org/anchorage-da...

There was a white man on here, a professor, who was compulsively posting that the Iranian media were lying about murdered schoolgirls and that is was just silly to believe the photos and videos. Where are you now, you asshole?

Explosions reported at Tabriz, Iran

Footage of the mass displacement from Lebanon capital, Beirut

#JUST_IN | Israeli occupation forces raid the village of Kharbatha, west of Ramallah.

Would you rather have someone that had a nazi tattoo, removed it, and actively talks about why it's bad and wrong Or a person that has taken $4 million from a lobby that is actively committing genocide and is dragging us into another war in the middle east? www.trackaipac.com/states/maine...

I gather that everyone here is 100% certain Graham Platner is a Nazi antisemite. I also gather you all are trapped in an epistemic chamber sealed tighter than the one around Fox News. So, who here actually knew that Platner’s wife is Jewish? And how does that influence your certainty?

If you ever thought this was going to stop via the ballot box; You have no more time left; It's either become a subject to the new feudal movement or resolve yourself to smother it in its crib.

We’ve got to keep the Epstein victims and survivors centered while we pursue transparency and accountability. Their stories must be told.

A colleague of mine was complaining last night that I wasn't on twitter anymore. Said I should come back, that you have to be there to debate, that it's where the people are. But, no. Every day there's a no reason to not.

in the Obama Era, this was literally called "kinetic military action."

How Iran war may accelerate the fall of US empire - https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/how-iran-war-may-accelerate-fall-us-empire

How Israel didn’t manage to intercept It? 🤔

Priorities.

Promises made. Promises broken. [Cartoon by Adam Zyglis]

NEWS FLASH: In a democracy, we don’t allow one guy to take the entire country to war based on an “opinion.” That’s what the kings we were breaking from used to do. (1/2)

NEWS: Americans were told to evacuate the Middle East — but the State Dept is not helping them do it. We called the State hotline. First thing you hear is an automated message: "Do not rely on the U.S. government for assisted departure or evacuation."

Donald Trump has said almost nothing to justify going to war against Iran. The real reason may be something he dare not speak of. trib.al/wBH0PCo

By this logic, the US has been at war with Iran since 1953, when the CIA overthrew Mohammed Mossadegh to ensure that western oil companies, and not the Iranian people, controlled Iranian oil. It’s brutal puppet the Shah tortured & killed for 25 years. That’s why they chanted DEATH TO AMERICA in 1979

“Towards Persia very nearly a million men, The true serpent will invade Byzantium and Egypt.” -Nostradamus. Persia is Iran. Byzantium is the land north of Israel. Israel just invaded Lebanon again.

VOTING TODAY! Primaries for Texas, North Carolina, and Nebraska! Talarico and Crockett running in Texas. Nida Allam in NC. Idk Nebraska but vote for the leftists! #vote #elections #trump #iran #war #primaries

It's weird right? Greenwald was 36 years old and had been practicing law for nearly a decade when he was putting his faith in Bush and rooting for the Iraq War. He was in his 50s when he fell for Trump's "peace president" bullshit. It's almost like his judgment is inherently bad.

A global market sell-off intensified on Tuesday, as Iran expanded its retaliatory attacks around the Persian Gulf region, and American and Israeli officials signaled that strikes on Iran could continue for weeks. Stocks and bonds fell and oil and gas prices surged.

The president is signaling it’s ok to kidnap or kill world leaders AND revolt against your government. Hmmmmmm

who knew that a child predator would become a world wide predator with no accountability in sight? /s

An effective “abundance agenda” would radically reduce the importance of government-granted patent and copyright monopolies and, in the process, trim the incomes of our richest. That may explain why we don’t have an effective abundance agenda. @deanbaker13.bsky.social www.patreon.com/posts/real-a...

Trump is launching us into what could be another costly and deadly forever war. Meanwhile, he and Republicans are making devastating cuts to food assistance programs that help millions of people. Remember: It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.

Hostilities rocked the region for a fourth day Tuesday, with Israel striking Iran and Lebanon and Iranian missiles and drones launched toward Israel and Gulf countries. Here’s the latest.

"Trump has no ideological commitment. He likes his foreign policy 'one and done': kidnap Venezuela's prez, drop a MOAB on Afghanistan. He sees it like reality TV: these are plot twists in his season finales. I’m worried the war on Iran is a series finale — for Earth." www.youtube.com/watch?v=zobD...

I find this a hilarious marker of the incompetence of the entire Trump administration: “We identified people to take over Iran, then accidentally killed them all.”