I'm really glad to see someone like Kelly finally saying this. bsky.app/profile/atru...

The first strike was also murder. You can’t just up and kill civilians on the high seas and then claim you were at war with them.

Here are US military lawyers stating clearly that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's "kill everybody" orders are either (1) war crimes or (2) murder. Either way, expect prosecutions in the future. www.justsecurity.org/wp-content/u...

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Democracy will not be restored in this country until all of the political leaders responsible for these unlawful actions are prosecuted to the maximum extent of the law. These should be prosecuted for murder, among other things. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

The rule is: do not collaborate with fascists. There's actually no exception if you're a democratic socialist, you got to call him a fascist to his face, or you've got a killer smile.

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person. The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person. People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives. And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

By this time next week, the estimated deaths due to the illegal destruction of USAID and the shuttering of its aid efforts will breach 400,000. More than 260,000 will be children. Source: www.bu.edu/sph/news/art...

one of the most insane thing about partisan politics is that Republicans are allowed to say "these four million American citizens shouldn't get the representation they are entitled because it would be politically inconvenient for us" and nobody bats an eye

This graph never fails to be shocking: "The US has experienced the earliest and greatest slowdown in life expectancy improvements among higher-income countries, reported Eileen Crimmins. “We have horrible life expectancy—and it’s getting worse and worse”" www.prb.org/resources/se...

84% of political science experts said creating such a force poses a threat to democracy, including 65% who said the threat was extraordinary or serious brightlinewatch.org/violence-red... However, it is overwhelmingly popular among Republicans brightlinewatch.org/violence-red...

If the goal of the trip was to demolish the last remnants of nuclear order, I'd rate the last six hours a tremendous success.

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Oh you're trying to say the cost of living is skyrocketing? Donald Trump can't hear you over the sound of bulldozers demolishing a wing of the White House to build a new grand ballroom.

If the National Guard is really in D.C. to protect federal property, they should probably have been at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. two days ago

bsky.app/profile/moll... this is what I’ve been thinking too. A bulldozer to the whole of the new deal, to a whole system of rights.

bsky.app/profile/kair... law is a gentleman’s agreement backed by state violence and this is the downstream of effect of state violence deciding it wants to do something else instead* *don’t yell at me lawyers I’m an international relations professor my job is thinking about power

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😍 Boston, you are beautiful. #NoKings

Minneapolis is showing up and showing out. #NoKings

Don’t believe anyone who tells you that intelligence shows anything “without a doubt,” but even if the intelligence was water-tight, this strike was still murder. No law permits the deliberate, premeditated killing of civilians.

This is simple. Congress should not willingly pay the bills to fund the most serious assault on political freedom in our lifetime - an assault that may collapse democracy as we know it if we don't fight back.

NEW: Sen. Tammy Duckworth is calling for Pete Hegseth to resign. "If this PR stunt proved anything, it's that the best thing Pete Hegseth can do to strengthen our military is resign in disgrace immediately."

#FreeDC Mass march hitting the streets of DC now.

Ha! The poorest 25% of workers LOSE money under this bill while the richest Americans get a $270,000 tax cut. They can rebrand all they want. The facts are the facts. They screwed working people to help their billionaire and corporate donors.

Very bad sign when masked, unidentified agents of the security state are not just grabbing people off the street but openly identifying with the regime's politics

Beautiful scenes in Anchorage, Alaska.

It's a unique combination of anger, shame, revulsion, horror I haven't felt the day he smiled in front of American and North Korean flags with Kim Jong Un and saluted his general.

America's failure to enact DC statehood and gave fascism a crucial foothold. A city so disenfranchised and disempowered that they could impose federal martial law without legal resistance, to normalize it and extend it to other cities.

No, he’s not giving Putin Alaska, but he is giving Putin a huge gift: the legitimacy of touching down on US soil at the invitation of a US president. A reward for the full-scale invasion of a sovereign, democratic country that the United States and its European allies support.

is there a starker illustration of how they'll always find the money to terrorize people but never to shelter, clothe, or feed them

Taxpayer dollars spent persecuting political opponents. Not only trying to intimidate state officials who are fighting to save our democracy, but normalizing threats of violence against citizens who support them. Not far now from armed and masked federal thugs at political rallies.

I hope people understand that this is why progressives are progressives. Every reservoir of injustice we allow to persist is not only morally intolerable each and every day; it's a lever fascists will exploit to consolidate authoritarian transition.

Eighty years ago, we destroyed Hiroshima. We killed civilians, children, foreigners, even Americans. There is much to regret about the history—and about the effects it has on our policy and culture to this day. We will not be whole until we apologize. foreignpolicy.com/2023/06/10/u...

Accountability is possible. Democracy requires it.

Catastrophic—for human civilization and America's place in it.

Please don't write or amplify headlines that say Trump "ordered" or "deployed" or "moved" submarines. He may have done so, pointlessly, but a tweet is not an order.

On the relatively short list of explicit nuclear threats, I think this is the most stupid and least credible. It's narrowly ahead of "fire and fury," which, remember, was also explicitly a threat against statements made by a foreign official.

You've got to be pretty egregious if your use of the "nuclear modernization budget" as a slush fund made it to the front page of the New York Times.

No, no, no. We do NOT want the regular US Army 'integrating at every echelon' with domestic police. A two star has to get a mission done. He does not have to tell his troops and the press that Army-as-cops is great and this is what the US military *should* be doing

Few if any experts know more about the deliberate use of starvation as a war crime than Alex de Waal. If he says it's happening, it's so.

Donald Trump will go to the ends of the Earth to make life easier for billionaire CEOs but doesn’t lose a night of sleep screwing over people with student debt.

This is going to be terrible for the relationship between our military and broader society.

headline: "democrats lost voters on transgender rights." the article:

As I have been saying: we’re already under an authoritarian regime, the question is whether it will consolidate or not. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/u...

It’s especially worth understanding the world well if you want to build cooperative and not hierarchical relationships

A growing crowd has gathered outside the State Department this evening to show support for employees affected by today’s mass layoffs. Hugs and applause greet departing staff as they leave the building for the final time.

A State Department employee shared with PBS News an image from inside the department. The image includes a piece of paper taped to a mirror with the words, "Colleagues, if you remain: RESIST FASCISM. Remember the oath you vowed to uphold."

I wrote about how the Everglades experiment fits into the history of concentration camps in the US and abroad, and how it will connect a domestic network of camps to an international one. We’re watching the imposition of a global concentration camp network.

"The [] rise of authoritarianism at home is precipitating a kind of international authoritarianism, in which the American president can unleash the most powerful military the world has ever known on a whim."