31 strikes in Somalia so far in 2026 by our tally. www.newamerica.org/future-secur...

first sentence gives the game away

Worth noting that the Trump admin today reaffirmed its opposition to annexation of the occupied West Bank— and this should reaffirm to everyone who pays attention that words do not mean anything if actions are absent. Whether it's a Democrat or a Republican, de facto annexation has been occurring.

reminded of this great paper right about now

When there's some Intel Community malfeasance he can't talk about, Senator Wyden notoriously finds a way to wave a red flag anyway, through his public hearing questions or letters like this. Really concerning.

their demand was already stupid and they couldn't even stick with it lol

sending her on her journey to find a journal home today

citing myself like

lefty orgs: not a good look to be fundraising and list building off someone's murder right now

once again I am asking

Reminder: Congress, on a bipartisan basis, is getting ready to give Trump more money to put more masked, lawless agents on American streets. zeteo.com/p/trump-agen...

I once had a reply guy respond to one of my tweets saying I should really read what experts are saying on the topic, then linked to a report *I wrote* to "get me started."

Schumer likes to use this trick, too. "Schumer/Jeffries are opposing the bill!!!!!" headlines help obscure a failure to do the actual leadership part of the job and get the caucus in line.

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incredible stuff

No one is surprised that Vance fell in line. He's a toady. But let's stop repeating this myth that Vance was ever a credible antiwar figure. He has backed every illegal attack that Trump has ordered from Yemen to Iran to Venezuela.

Democrats almost always prefer to follow polls over actually leading. The fact that they're *not* following polls on ICE (which a plurality of voters want to abolish) tells us a lot about who they actually work for.

very cool that Democratic leadership actively chose not to mount any opposition at all to the parts of the big bad Trump bill that threw mega extra $$$$ at the military and ICE. a strategy that's really aging well.

who will be the first politician to propose DDR for ICE

girl dinner

Cripes a’mighty people, Steven Miller is not staging a militarized ethnic cleansing and sending the border cops to murder people in the street to distract from the Epstein files. He’s doing it because he and Trump (and Vance and Homan and Noem etc) really really want to.

@elizabethrb.bsky.social called it right when it happened. @democrats.senate.gov are spineless, feckless chair fillers.

Jeffries dodged when multiple reporter, myself included, ask about using appropriations to rein in ICE

DHS was a post-9/11 creation with the mandate to fight "terrorism," and creating and placing ICE in that agency has meant that immigrants are framed as inherently suspicious terrorists-to-be, requiring militarism and force.

When the state uses violence it's self-defense, when someone the state doesn't like uses violence, it's terrorism.

Democrats need to understand that they can just say “It’s insane to threaten Greenland” and “I don’t think ICE should murder Americans in the street” and you don’t need to pretend to link it to the affordability crisis. Say bad things are bad.

Terrorist designations are entirely politicized weapons of statecraft and shouldnt carry such heavy legal consequences: exhibit one billion

cartoonish levels of uselessness

"the president must brief Congress!!" is.... not the right demand

this would also be abhorrent with congressional authorization 👍

Genuinely funny watching all the "this is about democracy" cable news commentators scramble to pivot after the Trump presser where his answer to every question was "oil."

Bombing another country and kidnapping its leader would also be wrong with Congressional approval. The outrage, and call for impeachment, should be over the evil and illegal outcome not merely the failure to follow the prescribed process.

That's essential Trumpism: strip away the fake "human rights" and "democracy" PR and just plainly state the crimes you're committing. It's more honest, at least.

shout out to everybody who held this guy up as a beacon of restraint

You should be embarrassed to be a member of congress and issuing anything other than impeachment resolutions. You're in the model UN. They should give you legos and a propeller hat

"Official Bad Countries might do the same!" is always such a strange caution when the US does something despicable. Like it would then be REALLY bad instead of just kind of bad, which is all it is when we're the ones who do it.

Totally correct on the precedent but the conclusion should be: this is why compounding illegalities must be swiftly held to account, not nurtured and left to spiral further.

I suspect our opposition is now going to look like "well Maduro was illegitimate!" statements and a war powers vote. Instead of impeachment, hardball, and condemnations of imperial US aggression on the merits.

I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war

Exhibit A in where exclusively technocratic procedural handwringing leads 👇

I say this as a national security law professor: of all the reasons what happened is outrageous, the lack of congressional authorization ranks probably last and should not be the sole focus of criticism.

When they ask me what radicalized me

👏👏👏 to these LTEs www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...

just called the Knives Out series "those Benny Blanco movies" so it's time to put me out to pasture

The Trump administration's murderous boat strikes should be a "wake-up call" for Congress, @elizabethrb.bsky.social writes. It's time for lawmakers to "put real checks on executive killing power, and to finally dismantle the remnants of the War on Terror once and for all."

Wow: Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (named for Holocaust survivor Raphael Lemkin, who coined term "genocide") calls Clinton's remarks "genocide denial." "Young people in the US are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well."

The Trump administration's drone strikes in the Caribbean are "less of an aberration and more of a continuation and intensification of the War on Terror," notes our forthcoming contributor @elizabethrb.bsky.social in @inkstickmedia.com. inkstickmedia.com/the-war-on-t...