schools are never valid military targets, on or off base if someone bombed a DoD school in Okinawa and killed a bunch of American 4th graders, that would be a war crime. The murder of Iranian schoolchildren is a war crime.

I'd be more inclined to believe that Graham Platner is merely a dumbass if he was making different kinds of "mistakes" instead of one very specific type of "mistake" over and over

Nope. We don't have to do this. The courageous act would be to refuse. Jingoist slop like this is an enormous factor in why the US has been terrorizing the world for decades. There are no heroes bombing Iran.

No. The correct response is "Trump is a madman. Voters in America do not want this war. This war is risks mass chaos and suffering while likely leaving the Iranian regime in place. It was started illegally by violent authoritarians in our government, who should be prosecuted, convicted, and jailed."

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.

every person who dedicated their time and energy to bring us from point A to point B here has blood on their hands that will never wash off they’re the ones who should be exiled from society instead of trans people

Minnesota superintendent details just TEN MINUTES under ICE occupation

Big which side are you on moment for all the maga hat types at Congregation Sons of Israel of Cherry Hill et al

Abortion was phase I, trans healthcare was phase II, birth control is phase III

Honestly huge shout out to CWA 9413 for not only taking on this organizing but making a site saying “we’re organizing brothel workers, haters fuck off”

these people are fucking freaks, man

The piece I wrote for Liberal Currents on Musk's USAID cuts and how we can respond to them is out, take a look if you get the chance.

This is the singular legacy of the Biden administration, the failing that preceeded all subsequent failings. What good there was (and there was real tangible good!) will have to be excavated from a legacy of failing while in power to punish the plotters and beneficiares of an attempted coup.

What does Singal even think he's saying here? Para 1: It is naive to trust experts Para 2: It's a real problem that American's don't trust experts This is just a hot dog suit meme. What terrible writing. And editing. The editor should have sent this back to him and told him this didn't make sense

I’m sorry please correct me if I’m insane and wrong… but is this newsom saying he “fell prey” to not being “culturally normal” because he was supportive of same sex marriage?

will never stop being crazy to me that this virus showed up, killed my grandfather and uncle, had us sitting for months listening to nonstop ambulance sirens out our window and bodies piling up in the local hospitals, and just a few years later people started acting like it was no big deal

Idk if this applies to any of you people but if you've ever been told that maybe compression socks would help you: buy the compression socks

these people treat being called racist like it is a slur, and treat slurs like they're mere differences of opinion

extraordinarily based

Ilya Shapiro quitting for being reinstated after investigation for tweeting that KBJ was a lesser black woman was the academic free speech Outrage of the Decade for some people who had absolutely nothing to say about Emily Suski being un-hired as dean for signing a Scotus amicus brief. Weird!

"Prosecutors sought to have his case dismissed without prejudice, allowing them to later re-charge him. But the judge rejected that request, citing the defendant’s arguments that “future prosecution may be politically motivated” – a claim that, the judge noted, the government had not contested."

George Wallace in 1962: "I started off talking about schools and highways and prisons and taxes and I couldn't make them listen. Then I began talking about n**rs and they stomped the floor." Donald Trump in 2023⬇️

Also that Nick Land was addicted to meth

Hard to pick a favorite part of this video, but these two young women landing punches *at the same time* on the head of the old guy who had their friend in a chokehold was pretty solid.

I am never going to get over the fact thar so many Americans died that corpses stacked up in nursing homes and hospital morgues, that refrigerator trucks had to be brought in for the overflow, and that the big takeaway from Important Pundits is there should have been *less* mitigation.

Imprisoning children for peaceful protest and then cutting off all contact from the outside world is an interesting choice for someone who, one assumes, serves at the will of the mayor or city council.

This 53 year old man who lived in my neighborhood w/no criminal record & who had been in the US for 30 years, was detained and thrown into a cold cell for days, caught pneumonia and COVID there and deported. He finally died. I am so angry. www.kptv.com/2026/02/21/n...

worth noting, related to this, that Trump and especially the House GOP backed down from a plan to sell off public lands because it hit a rare constituency: armed defenders of a public good, in this case the (often right-wing) hunters who have an outsized political presence in small rural states

The main reason I think it would be good if more libs owned guns is that there are a lot of right wing militia types out there who are itching to jesse plemons-in-civil-war us, and I think it's bad that they see us as soft targets.

I saw this video on instagram a week or two ago and assumed it had to be fake. jesus christ

i've decided not to listen to the audio of a teacher reporting a kindergartender because frankly I don't want to become the person that that event would turn me into. but one thing I hope we are collectively coming to grips with is what it meant that we have lived among such people this whole time

I cannot imagine being a left-aligned journalist and using this moment to publically beef with anyone who has put their personal safety on the line to slow down ICE in Minnesota.

the computer should have never left this room. we have to go back

You simply won’t believe what she’s referring to as “Corolla-sized vermin” here

You know I love Mamdani. But this is a Schumer post. Please announce some kind of sanction against NYU Langone and/or some specific help for trans kids. Concern is not enough.

Benjamin Ryan openly admits that his reporting on trans issues is animated by personal bias against someone who was mean to him online. Ben is not capable of reporting on this issue objectively, and yet the New York Times and other outlets repeatedly let him do just that.

You should automatically acquire citizenship if you have a kid who’s a citizen at birth

it is so clear that the mental model of politics these guys has is of playing a video game

The goal here, presumably, is reducing the salience of trans issues, but what everybody except Matty et al understands is that creating permanent screening structures for gender nonconformity and arbitrary medical restrictions which would impact everybody WOULD NOT ACTUALLY DO THAT.

There are, as far as I can tell, approximately zero Democrats who are actively trying to campaign on this, they are just declining to help create a gender panopticon and do a witch hunt against woke doctors. Matty doesn't know anything about this, so he assumes that nobody else does either.

The left tried for decades to pass green energy subsidies, passed them, the subsidies worked, and now literally the entire planet's electricity grid is going to convert to solar+battery. It just doesn't feel like "tech" because it mostly produces kinda boring blue collar jobs instead of billionaires

Go birds

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.” - 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas. Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

My son’s grades went up between 30 and 60% after getting GAC. Yes, 60%. Grade 9 English 20%. Grade 10 80%. Grade 9 math 60%. Grade 10 math 100%. And we were supportive thru social transition before we managed to get GAC.

a. there is def [growing] support among the public for restrictions on trans rights (e.g. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...) b. i'm sorry but I have a degree in poll design & fielding, and I trust lakshya's polling skills about as far as I can throw them.

My little sister died desperately sad and in chronic physical pain. Much of her sadness and all of that pain were consequences of not having access to gender affirming care as a child. There is no polling that can move me or any decent, aware person on this issue. And I promise our side cares more.

ICE killed a teacher in Georgia today when they chose to chase a man who posed no danger and had no criminal history.

I know this makes me an extremist but I think our baby concentration camps should be abolished.