Happening now: a protest in Chicago's federal plaza is underway in response to US and Israeli strikes on Iran earlier today. Chicago Ald. Byron Sigcho Lopez just addressed the crowd, which I'd put at a couple hundred people strong. A lone counterprotestor is also posted up across the street.

Sen. Tammy Duckworth: "If there was ever a time for Republicans to find their spines, it's now, when the Commander in Chief readily admits that he is choosing to put our troops' lives at risk without a legitimate imminent threat to our homeland or our citizens."

Alan with a good breakdown of openAI’s bs here.

Get fucking bent

AOC says she will support the Massie-Khanna War Powers Resolution.

Sorry again @conorlambpa.bsky.social !

Pennsylvania- you could have had him as your Senator. Put him in 2028.

Leagues better than Sinema and a lot of “moderates” Really the only Dems happy are a couple weirdo house reps and fetterman

Bring Congress back into session. Now. We should vote on Senator Kaine's War Powers Resolution today.

QUISLING DETECTED, PRIMARY AT FIRST CONVENIENCE

“This criminal president is starting an illegal and dangerous war. His promise of peace was just another empty lie from a senile sex pest. We refuse to work with Republicans on any business until they live up to the oath we all took to defend the constitution. May God have mercy on their souls.”

Running your war from a private club for millionaires — ahead of a $1 million-a-plate dinner — is a choice.

Jesus

SHUT THE FUCK UP, COPPERHEAD

Cool then come back and vote for it shit head

This shouldn’t be difficult.

I will also accept a firm demand for a vote by congress and outrage at the presidential usurpation if their role.

Not the worst but not the best either. Really should be foregrounding the lack of congressional authorization and should be madder about it.

Omfg

Cool….🫠

And Congress should be called back into session this afternoon to immediately begin debate on legislation that would approve or deny the President's illegal war against Iran.

Glad I just traded in my ICE vehicle for an EV

Iraq War veteran Sen. Ruben Gallego warns against war in Iran: “I lost friends in Iraq to an illegal war. Young working-class kids should not pay the ultimate price for regime change and a war that hasn’t been explained or justified to the American people.”

Ok this one is a bit better than the other one I saw

Their willingness to do this suggests to me that they think the govt's evidence that they are, in fact, members of Tren de Aragua is weak.

Honestly a pretty weak sauce statement for the President usurping whatever was left of congresses war power.

In a statement, Sen. Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, accuses the Trump admin of peddling "misrepresented intelligence" to justify war with Iran

Weeks (at least) of conflict all without congressional authorization. Wtf are we doing?

Think this might be misinterpreting something said about hitting his compound in Tehran.

oh boy

To recap: Anthropic refused to do killbots or mass surveillance. DOD trying to destroy company. Altman: we are now working with DOD, who totally respect safety and oppose mass surveillance! Why would anyone trust a word Altman says after this?

Congress must reassert its constitutional authority, halt unauthorized military action, and make clear that no president—of either party—has the power to drag this nation into war alone.

I dont like waling up on sat morning to more war in the middle east

Republicans will try to claim this isn’t a war. The President’s own words prove otherwise: “The lives of courageous American heroes may be lost, and we may have casualties. That often happens in war.” When the president calls it war, Congress cannot pretend it’s anything else.

MORE OF THIS (And the court expansion that will be needed to cement it)

Paramount should enjoy its growing news monopoly while they have it because when Democrats win back power we are going to break up these anti-democratic information conglomerates. All of them.

Ok this shit is legit insane: 1) EXTREMLY light on legal justification 2) it contemplates that all ballots are to be hand counted only; 3) requires new id and reg requirements for 2026 among other barriers contrary to existing state laws.

Lol, well the Ellison's need to really hope AI aint a bubble

Gallego is a pretty good litmus test for where sentiment is within the party. If this becomes a standard position with Gallego, Kelly, Klobuchar, Warner, then it will likely become a codified position and the Dems hostile to antitrust enforcement won't have muscle.

Still doing it

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This caller is doing more work here than the media person.

Columbia President with NEW details: 5 DHS agents entered a residency with no warrant. They said they were police looking for a missing kid. Security camera even captures them showing pictures of the "kid." A campus officer asked for a warrant & their boss. They ignored him & took the student.

BREAKING: Protests have erupted at Columbia University after the school says DHS agents detained a student after making "misrepresentations to gain entry" to building.

Right here people.👇

Well now

Laughable

I think one good reform push would be to pair statutory expansion with a simultaneous push for a term limits amendment that included text fixing the size at 9 and basically undoing or mitigating somehow the expansion.