If a US military partner goes "we're gonna start a war and it'll blow back on you," American officials could easily respond "don't, and if you do anyway, we'll hold you responsible for our deaths and it'll ruin our relationship," instead of "ok, give us a month or two for a giant military buildup."

youtu.be/3TyKtpveR7U?... Did they beat the drums slowly, did they play the pipes lowly? Did they sound the death march as they lowered you down?

Trump has been bragging about ending “eight wars.” He believed being seen as a peace-making president would rally the base. That’s not working, so he now believes victory lies in the path of war-making. That this is a diametric reversal is irrelevant. Everything he said was intended in bad faith.

"Biden did more than a lot of pro-Palestine people think he did and less than he could or should have" seems to be a pretty easy resolution to this

One Nazi mistake might be forgivable. But this guy, seeking to be a US senator, keeps stepping on the same rake over and over and over again and I'm just not in a very forgiving mood these days

Looks a little like a chemo rash…

Angus King was on Morning Joe, saying that he’s seen no evidence Iran posed any imminent harm to the US, and noting that air strikes can’t produce regime change. He’s going to vote against the war powers resolution. #mepolitics

The Pentagon doesn’t want to take the blame for this mess. www.reuters.com/world/us/pen...

Why in the world are people paying $400 for a TOASTER? Like how good can it possibly be

This is awful.

Joe Biden withdrew from 🇦🇫 like everyone said they wanted, & the media decided it was a scandal worthy of destroying a presidency bc it wasn’t immaculately clean. Donald Trump just launched an unplanned illegal war & assassinated the leader of another country, & they’re fluffing the Shah’s son. 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️

whenever people start swooning over a progressive "outsider" whose complete lack of previous political experience is what makes them special, i remind them that paul wellstone spent 20 years in DFL and local community activism and running for state-level seats before running for U.S. senate.

Like yes I am a purist and my litmus test is no nazis or white supremacists.

I get it. Lotsa people liked this guy. He had some appealing traits. But, um...absolutely not. His judgment sucks.

Press gave Biden far worse coverage for a small number of American soldiers dying while leaving a war than to Trump for a similar number dying while starting a war for no reason. It makes you think!

this is fucking shocking, and while i know politics journalists think it's cliché to point this out, a democratic president would be impeached for delivering this speech in this way, and rightly so.

That's why I'm so annoyed at the "Mills won't be a fighter" bs because they refuse to see her account but instead think cause she's an old white lady, she's "not a fighter". Her account is hyper aggressive!

Hmm, beginning to notice a pretty fricking obvious pattern here.

the kind of person who thinks they are too cynical to get taken by malign interests is the exact kind of person who gets duped, 100 times out of 100, and a "both parties hate me because they're afraid of me" guy is exactly that guy

a thing that doesn't really get enough discussion about platner is that, even if you assume the latter here is true (and i do), it's going to make him strongly susceptible to malign influences if he gets elected to the senate; the framework to think about him isn't fetterman, it's gabbard

You have clearly not read the War Powers Act, Mike. Everything you've written is totally wrong. The War Powers Act SPECIFICALLY PROHIBITS military action unless: a/ there is a prior congressional authorization; or b/ it's a response to an attack against the U.S.

Let’s all call Massie today and get him to switch parties. Then force Gonzalez to resign. Then get the gavel, issue some subpoenas, and impeach some motherfuckers

The aggressive criminality never ends It just gets worse, all the time

Bought myself some jeans for the first time since…2022, maybe? I was sorry to learn that swap dot com is defunct, that used to be my favorite. Made my purchase today from threadup.

Enslaved Potter David Drake’s Poetic Pottery Was Resistance www.nga.gov/stories/arti...

The FBI being on high alert for terrorist actions is important right now. Too bad they fired and gutted their counterterrorism capacity

7. FOIA for administration Truth Social DMs 8. WaPo op-ed that led to leave for reproductive health care 9. Donating my Veterans disability benefits to LGBTQ+ and Immigrants rights orgs 10. Write, produce, and record 15 free shows per week helping get reliable news out there 2/

Okay *cracks knuckles*. Here’s a non-exhaustive list of things I’m doing. 1. Suing DoJ for Epstein training videos 2. Suing DOGE for documents 4. FOIA request for DHS OHC memo authorizing warrantless home entry 5. FOIA for kids’ letters confiscated by ICE at Dilley 6. FOIA for USAID docs 1/

Why did the right strip women of constitutional protections?Why is it trying to outlaw contraception & no-fault divorce? Why are the majority of positions of power in the federal gov't held by known sex pests & rapists? Because ladies got shrill & accusatory during MeToo, you see!

Scouting America says transgender kids are still welcome after Pete Hegseth claimed they weren’t - Advocate apple.news/APnmvF0XyQRO...

Another good point: Trump didn't even run on an anti-war platform! This was wishcast into existence by the same pundits who pretended it was some great mystery which party was better on abortion rights.

part of why putting congress back in charge of this is that it would require that the admin make the case for war in front of them, and i want you to think for a moment about what that case would look like coming from this admin

the problem with the "it's cool if you don't succeed, we'll give you credit for trying" argument is that it has been decisively disproven many times over by now people want the Dems to succeed from the minority with political power they don't have and if they fail (bc minority) get fuming mad

Congress must return immediately and vote to put an end to this war. Every Senator should be on the record—the American people deserve to know which of their leaders supports another potentially bloody and costly war in the Middle East. No war with Iran.

mass murder you say....

Killing a bunch of elementary school girls to distract from having raped a bunch of middle- and high-school girls is pretty fucking grim.

Remind me, when you slaughter 85 young school children, are you the Good Guys?

/3 Anyway all operation names are basically variations on “Operation: We’re Right”, which as I recall was the satirical name given to the war on that show Dinosaurs

"A colossal mistake," says Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.). "The Senate should immediately return to session & vote on my War Powers Resolution to block the use of U.S. forces in hostilities against Iran. Every single Senator needs to go on the record about this dangerous, unnecessary, and idiotic action.”

America sucks at voting because everyone says, "We should have listened to Black voters!🤡" after the fact, when it's far too late. But no one says, "So next time, I will listen to what 87% of Black voters are telling me to do!" Everyone always thinks that this time, they know best. They don't.

The first deaths announced from the US-Israeli strikes on Iran: dozens of school girls. They hit an elementary school in Hormozgan.

There are always tweets

You worry in one direction & then trouble comes at you from a different one.

Just saying, but when people are trying to do everything they can to prevent you from voting, that’s when you absolutely need to vote. Ready to make this the biggest midterm turnout in history?

They will accuse and condemn 1000 women before they ever think about holding a man accountable.

IBEW intern'l VP 2nd District, Michael Monahan, said in his support for Maine Democratic senate candidate Graham Platner: “He’s an impressive person, kind of a Manchin, Fetterman type, in that kind of category.” And this is supposed to be better than the "Establishment candidate" Gov. Janet Mills? 🤦‍♂️

Yikes “Kind of a Manchin, Fetterman type“ does nothing to increase my enthusiasm for this guy.

Part of the reason we’re in this mess is because so many Dems decided it would be in their best, personal interest to either take shots at or not really support both Biden and Harris. And, I agree, no candidate/elected is infallible, but that selfishness cost the country and I will not forget it.

This is bonkers, but it also screams at how scared Rs are of voters in November. We’re still in that window where voting can begin to stop Project 2025 from setting into the concrete. We’re running out of time, but a wave election in November would keep us in the game into 2028.

Throwback, uh, Friday! Spent the last few days helping my mom move and found this photo from maybe 2002