U.S. military spending is set to hit a record $1.5 trillion. Roughly half of defense spending goes to private contractors that routinely price-gouge the government. Meanwhile, the Pentagon has failed EIGHT straight audits. The military industrial complex is cheering today.

🎯🎯

Just remember what this is all for…. Distracting from the Epstein files

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres: “Military action carries the risk of igniting a chain of events that no one can control in the most volatile region of the world"

The U.S. Senate must be clear: no war with Iran.

It’s been almost one year since Israeli forces killed 15 Palestinian medics and aid workers in a brutal two-hour massacre on a vehicle convoy in southern Gaza.

Euronews journalists in Dubai report explosions and apparent missile strike on residential area. The US military has thousands of personnel stationed at air and naval bases across the Gulf region and these are believed to be the targets of Iranian missiles.

The Constitution gives control of elections to the states and only Congress can change the rules. Invoking “national security” to override that design would be unlawful and dangerously authoritarian (via Bloomberg Opinion)

At least 57 people were reported killed and 45 others wounded at a girls’ school in southern Iran in the Israeli-U.S. strikes. One of the first strikes hit near the offices of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said he's alive “as far as I know.”

After a US-Israeli strike on a girls’ elementary school in Minab, Iran, rescuers dug through the rubble for survivors. The death toll is still rising, with more than 80 confirmed dead so far.

The facts suggest two interpretive frameworks for Iran: a foreign war as a mechanism to destroy democracy at home; and a foreign war as an element of personal corruption by the president of the U.S. Join my live conversation with @phillipspobrien.bsky.social, 12:00pm ET, snyder.substack.com

A goodbye note to co-workers from veteran CBS News producer Mary Walsh: "We've been told to aim our reporting at a particular part of the political spectrum. Honestly, I don't know how to do that." (via @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social) #$PSKY #$WBD

Article 1, Section 8, Clause 11 of the U.S. Constitution: "The CONGRESS shall have power...to declare war."

The morally bankrupt Trump administration has partnered with another morally bankrupt authoritarian to declare an unprovoked war on Iran, already killing scores of civilians. We need an immediate vote from Congress on a War Powers Resolution. Then articles of impeachment.

My God. What have we done?

for those fixated on congressional authorization, i get it. this is a massive violation of our constitutional order. even so, congress *cannot* legitimize an illegal war. there is nothing congress can do to make it legal under int'l law.

Anyone walking around constantly shouting that they’re “FULLY EXONERATED” has clearly done something really, really bad.

👇👇

Did congress authorize this fucking war where American lives will undoubtedly be lost? If not, why the fuck do we have a congress? Why are we paying very large salaries and benefits to all these assholes since they do absolutely NOTHING!

This should be used as part of the evidence for treason.

👇👇👇👇

In response to his horrible polling…..

This guy is dropping truth. Awesome man.

DOJ #CoverUp #Epstein #EpsteinFiles #TrumpEpsteinFiles

Kamala Harris just threw her weight behind Jasmine Crockett in the Texas Senate race 🔥

Every senator who voted to confirm RFK Jr owns this tragedy. Every single one.

🚨BREAKING: The DOJ recklessly failed to uphold constitutional rights and liberties by allowing the FBI to seize 2020 election records in Fulton County, Georgia, using a faulty search warrant application, former top department officials alleged Thursday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

The DOJ is flat out LYING when they claim compliance with the Epstein law. Millions of files are being withheld under the assertion of privilege. Take them to court immediately. Get a judge to assign an independent special master. Let the SM review the remaining files and determine compliance.

seems obvs to me that mamdani gets far because of his charm. why do "male self improvement" types always focus on things like looksmaxxing instead of personalitymaxxing or charmmaxxing?

Clinton: It then got at the end quite unusual because I started being asked about UFOs and a series of questions about Pizzagate. One of the most vile bogus conspiracy theories that was propagated on the internet.

Nurul Amin Shah Alam crossed oceans to flee unimaginable violence, only to die here — where he should have been safe. The cruelty is endless.

Just reupping this image from my newsletter last week, that I hope people will feel free to save and liberally spred around the interwebs. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Hillary Clinton’s fire and fury opening statement to the House Oversight Committee.

Here’s a thought for James Comer. There IS a First Lady who has had a relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. And it’s not Hillary Clinton. It might be worthwhile for Comer to subpoena the First Lady who actually knows Epstein. You know, just to see what she knows.

Dispatches from MN: it's getting really hard, guys. The media has left, the donations are drying up, and ICE is still here kidnapping people. It's hard not to be resentful that other people have the option of setting this aside for.other things.

Casar: He steals from working Americans to give to the rich. Donald Trump doesn't owe us a two-hour rambling speech. He owes the American people their money back.

Schiff: I've not missed the State of the Union in the 25 years I've been in Congress, but we have never had a president violate the constitution every day with seeming impunity. We can't treat this as some new normal, so I'm here boycotting...

Al Green didn’t last long.

Lee: We live in a country where we have one reality for everyday people and another for the rich and the well-connected and the well-protected. We have to change that. That’s why earlier today I announced that I'll be introducing articles of impeachment against Pam Bondi.