Breaking MS NOW: More than 50 House Democrats are now calling for Trump's removal through impeachment or the 25th Amendment.

We’re all waiting for the 8pm alarm as if Israel and the US are not massacring civilians, obliterating non-military infrastructures, destroying the world, every second leading up to whatever horror awaits the night.

I love how we all have access to the same news that says black women are currently unemployed at the largest rate yet ppl are still wondering why donation goals arent being met. Black women are the backbone of mutual aid.

just to be clear, everyone, when 8 pm EDT comes and goes, regardless of what does or does not happen, the president still threatened genocide and war crimes and we should still impeach, arrest, and try him

2/2 Back in 2015 I wrote about him here. www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

We have an Iranian friend in Tehran who has devoted his career to translating Thoreau for an Iranian readership. Starting with 'Walden,' through Thoreau's anti-slavery works and essays on civil disobedience, the lot. We have not heard anything from him since the bombardment began.

The fact that nobody seriously believes there is an institution in this country that will check the president—that we’re all just sitting here hoping that he gets distracted and fails to follow through on his genocidal threats—is the most damning indictment of our political system I’ve seen yet.

You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.

NOW: B52 bombers are literally in the air on their way to Iran and hundreds of thousands of Iranians are in the streets waving flags and surrounding bridges & power plants. Difficult to imagine this has any precedent in modern warfare. (🎥 Al Jazeera)

Of course AOC is the only one with the nuts to warn people in the chain of command that acting on Trump's illegal orders is a crime they can be tried for. Literally, she is the only person who has a moral claim to the Democratic nomination. I just hope voters see it. thehill.com/homenews/hou...

Come on then, and remove him.

Throwback to baby Butternut for International Beaver Day! 🦫 Butternut turns 7 on April 29.

I wish as many people were outraged by Putin seeking to erase Ukraine and Netanyahu seeking to erase Gaza as they are about Trump's threat regarding Iran. They are the same.

yes, please do not fedpost but also it is incredibly infuriating that the president of the united states can threaten to destroy an entire civilization with impunity and the rest of us have to say <redacted> a lot

watching all this hemming and hawing from government officials and all these questions of "what do you want them to do?!" and then thinking about Aaron Bushnell.

BREAKING: Extraordinary scenes as Iranian citizens start forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites. This is Kazerun Power Plant in Fars province, southern Iran (🎥 i24 News)

I am here for messaging that the THREAT alone - regardless of if it's carried out or walked back - should end his presidency. The die is already cast. You cannot wield the power that man has and say that kind of shit.

hmm, what if i told you that it wasn’t

Sometimes reading the comments on a recipe is its own reward

everything we are seeing now is the consequence of having a political environment in which indifference to the deaths and suffering of other people - even by the state whose supposed responsibility is to safeguard their welfare - is a superpower rather than a political liability

i feel insane, to be seeing the photos of the earth from the moon, THE MOON IN THE SKY, and seeing how small we are, and seeing how beautiful things could be, and to have such a small, pathetic man and his small minority be such a threat to our beautiful home!! our, the whole of people, all of us!!!

You are a senator.

all of America's bravest elected Democrats jumping into action to post vaguely on social media about how somebody else should do something

Nuremberg was an important symbol of German nationhood so I say with 100% sincerity that this is a job for Philadelphia

I'm sorry to everyone under 60 but being being crippled with existential dread over a criminal President's disastrous prosecution of a war of choice WHILE ALSO being rapt in childlike wonder over an historic moon mission is something the boomers did first.

Extremely relevant thoughts from @jamellebouie.net www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVnF...

If you are a United States servicemember and you are concerned about illegal or immoral orders, or you simply need clarity on your rights and duties, a counselor at the GI Rights Network can help. 877-447-4487 girightshotline.org/en/military-...

This is a huge day for new releases. I wrote about a couple of them in my latest newsletter, where I also proffer the very controversial take that Patrick Radden Keefe is a genius. www.themarisreview.com/the-maris-re...

Can't tell you how many members of Congress who *at best* had nothing to say when I asked about the Minab girls school attack. There is a profanely cold detachment inside Capitol Hill, a mode completely unrecognizable to common human decency I wish I could properly convey to you.

Today should be about the glorious photos coming from Artemis II, the astonishing set of today's new book releases, the tender green glimmer of spring, and the infinite wonder of getting to live on this wet, blue planet. And yet.

"This is a distraction" is just a lie. "They are taking your money and using it to commit criminal acts beyond our comprehension" is 100% true. I think we should tell the truth and not the lie. The latter also has the benefit of at least somewhat centering the issue of atrocities.

the interplay between whether he "means it" or not is secondary right this second IMO. era of soft power now officially over. we wasted all that. so now it's just Nuke Threat when stuff doesn't go our way. World just got a whole lot darker, even right now, before anything happens or not

so that's the worst thing a sitting president has ever said right

yeah it's long past 25th amendment time and long past time for international tribunals

Nice 25th amendment you got there, shame if anyone invoked it

The National Association of Black Bookstores (NABB) has declared April 7 to be #NationalBlackBookstoreDay — a day to recognize the "cultural, economic, and community impact of Black-owned bookstores across the United States.” pen.org/black-owned-...

So much AI propaganda about “saving time” is capitalist propaganda. You need to do things faster so you can make more money because work has been devalued and full-time jobs are harder to come by. But AI isn’t going to make YOU rich. It’s already devaluing the work and the jobs even more

Total solar eclipse! Solar corona! From behind the Moon! #Artemis

There is a path. It’s the path that Michael Vick walked. He has worked with the Humane Society for the last 17 years to educate folk about animal cruelty. He says he’ll do that work for the rest of his life. Call me when Louis or Kanye devotes even one weekend to making reparation.

NEW: University of Michigan Chinese researcher dies after allegedly "hostile questioning" by federal agents www.detroitnews.com/story/news/l...

My 2023 book Burn It Down has chapter about exactly this & LCK mentioned obv. Not trying to sell books, get it from library if inclined. Tl;dr: if someone does not do the hard, consistent work of amends, repair & reparation, there doesn’t have to be a path back. If not, experts agree: fuck that guy.

Reid Wiseman on #Artemis II: "We have Earth out window 4 and Moon out window 3... the Moon is about 3-4 times the size of the Earth and it is almost full, and the Earth is just a small crescent out there... it's magnificent... such a majestic view out here" Mission Control: "Amaze, amaze, amaze!"

We’re just kidding, that’s why you can’t uninstall it

AWKWARD

Tax invisibility is a scourge in our politics > Public childcare isn't free, it's tax-funded. > People buying $34 burgers pay taxes. > Believe $34 burger eaters should pay more? wait until you hear about this idea "progressive taxation" Wow, problem solved, thanks taxes! 😀

Good to see more and more physicians saying it. memory.ucsf.edu/dementia/ftd...

Oh my gd, the Artemis II crew doing a parody of a bad 1980s sitcom intro from in space. Source: www.instagram.com/p/DWwuHPfCZ8Z/

The limitations on violence established after World War II were not brought by pacifists or peaceniks but by literal old soldiers. They knew. They had seen.

The two truths: 1) There is nothing wrong with porn, let people safely make it, let people safely enjoy it. 2) If you let people define porn as bad, authoritarians will ALWAYS expand the definition until their hands are around your neck.

Was feeling melancholy, but then I dug up Theoden with an undercut from my vault of memes