I'm old enough to remember the hundreds of times over the past seven years when people excoriated me for writing articles and giving interviews describing Trump as a malignant narcissist potentially on par with some of the worst figures in history, like Hitler and Stalin and Saddam and the like.

Gen. Caine and Adm. Cooper should put a statement now making clear the U.S. military will not follow orders that would mean committing war crimes, including military actions whose purpose would be to destroy a country or a civilization.

So, to sum up, a couple of days ago Christina Koch became the first woman to see Earth in its entirety, and today – right now, in fact – she is the first woman to see the Moon up close, and the first woman to see the far side. 🥹

Amen.

That one person can drag us into a war without consulting or even notifying Congress beforehand, or our allies, or coherently explain to the American people why this is necessary, is absolutely bonkers. Reminder that Congress has the power to stop this.

I’m afraid it’s worse than that. We’re an existential threat to the world & we’re now a nuclear power that aligns w/Russia. The balance used to be more heavily tilted toward NATO nuclear powers. 5 of 9 nuclear powers (includes the US & Israel) are now heavily aligned w/ or carrying water for Russia.

American here: to me, It’s like being in the backseat of a car w/a drunk driver on the way to the apocalypse. We are closer to nuclear war than we have ever been in my 50yrs of life, in my parents’ lives, in my grandparents’ lives & my grandfather worked w/nuclear bombs: 85 seconds to midnight.

I certainly have not forgotten and am judging. Especially since they have a sterling litigation reputation and chose to capitulate immediately while Perkins Coie, WilmerHale, Jenner & Block, & Susman Godfrey fought back & won. And especially because Brad Karp is still a partner.

He's confessing to planning war crimes on live television

It’s gobsmacking - and truly disappointing— to me that reporters don’t stick up for each other in these Trump news conferences

Just a reminder: 89% of Cuba’s (aging) pop. lives in extreme poverty. And the United States is still blocking their access to oil. La Presidenta de México Claudia Sheinbaum has sent shipments of aid to Cuba while Trump spits threats of violating both nations’ sovereignty. I hope this mtg helped.

Orbán has been caught staging a false-flag terrorist event to influence the elections or to justify shutting down the elections. Hungary’s embattled right-wing prime minister is accused of staging a false flag operation to improve his chances of re-election after a bomb was allegedly found next

This goes hand in hand w/Trump adding “antifascist” to the counterterrorism priority list that includes “Al Qaeda” & “ISIS.” This is how you classify large swaths of “We the People” public enemy no. 1. This is an NKVD & Stasi tactic incompatible w/ our Constitutional Republic. Now add Palantir.

U.S. journalists, newsrooms, & publishers/media CEOs have yet to fully figure out what their responsibilities are as liberal democracy falls to fascism. It takes humans a YEAR as a nation is falling to get over the SHOCK of it falling—that’s not it take a year to take action, that is

Indeed. The cruelty is the point. A nation that deports service members, veterans, military spouses, and military brats is a nation that does not value our military and does not truly understand how much morale and the security of military families play in military readiness.

I’m curious: what are “traditional American views” on religion and morality? Especially when there are Russian assets in the White House? The FBI survived Hoover. But Hoover, a white-passing closeted Black Gay man would never have taken $25,000 from a Kremlin backed filmmaker.

Fucking Abolish ICE, release everyone in custody. DHS is over. This nation and the world will never be able to trust DHS again. (Hello to my ICE surveillance team 🖕🏻and how the fuck do you sleep at night?)

Trump is turning the country into a huckster’s paradise. trib.al/fscpOaq Just as our ancestors dragged America out of the muck and into a progressive era of cleaner politics and business, so too should the next Democratic administration.

Why would Americans emigrate? "You don't face [...] your 5-year-old going into a kindergarten and doing an active shooter drill." Another interviewee "moved with his two children after the second active shooter scare at his 8-year-old son's LA school."

Reuters: Japanese, French, Iraqi, and Omani vessels transit the Strait of Hormuz no problems. No Israeli or US flagged ships, tho.

Protesters in Tel Aviv are violently manhandled by the IDF police. They want to end the war fb.watch/Gi3RnWfpqq/?

Iran is a fascist state. Holding Mohammad-Amin Biglari, Shahin Vahedparast and their loved ones in my prayers.

In arguing against birthright citizenship, President Trump claims he "can undo centuries of progress just with a stroke of my pen." University of Pennsylvania law professor says, "The administration is pushing legal theories that really would be disastrous for our national identity." #Velshi

In a functioning society. Yes. There is no one person who is going to swoop in and turn this around. We all need to do our part.

This is dangerous editorialist behavior by enablers of fascism. This is not journalism.

I’m the Episcopalian-raised, Yiddish-speaking descendant of Irish, Scottish, Spanish, and Polish Catholics and Jews—I cannot pass up a bread meme. In Mexican Spanish el Papa is the Pope y la papa is a potato. As fascism grows pls remember, God will be found in breaking bread & potatoes in community.

The polite niceties of Congress & punditry are great during Normal Times. These are not normal times. We are losing our constitutional republic to fascism & I’m not sure we have a YEAR. Roll up your sleeves & get in the fight or go to the back & let the fighters like AOC & Jasmine lead the charge.

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Hope in the face of war & idolatry of profit. I think our Chicago Pope is a gift for these times. Whatever you believe & however you may spend your day: may you be loved & give love, break down barriers of misunderstanding, www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

A nation that goes out of its way to surrender soft power is a nation that cedes diplomacy, goodwill, & foreign policy. It is a nation that oscillates between two extremes: isolationism & war. Surrendering soft power kills human beings and the planet; it is deeply dangerous to the U.S. & world.

His job is to destroy the United States

Amen.

I mean, you don't really need a translator

Graft and grift as far as the eye can see.

South Korea asks Gulf nations for steady energy supply, safety of Korean vessels reut.rs/4vdx9ep

This. I’m a 10-Gen U.S. military brat, born at Landstuhl, raised on bases in the U.S. during the Cold War of the 80’s, the daughter of a Vietnam & Gulf War vet, the sister of an Afghanistan vet, the aunt of an active duty service member. Do I wish we didn’t need militaries? Yes.

Back in 2020, Trump thought that if he ignored Covid, it would just go away. 700,000+ deaths were directly attributed to his incompetence. He's trying to do the same thing with the war he started with Iran. He needs to end it or we need to find someone who can.

I have the solution to climate change. My hatred and loathing for Stephen Miller could power the world for a thousand years.

No one should sound like Lemay. For men like Hegseth and Trump, Lemay was a god standing against two woke blokes from Boston. Neanderthals with myopic vision: Trump, Hegseth, and Lemay.

4 of the U.S. svc members injured in Iran are Mexican nationals. So many people from other nations swear oaths to & fight to protect American interests & our Constitution. They’re not guaranteed U.S. citizenship & under Trump we’ve deported a large no. of veterans & even military brats. Shame on us.

The only national security risk is Trump descending into a completed 9 level underground bunker with the football and a paramilitary security force, in order to not cede the White House.

An interesting development from Eliot Higgins, the founder of Bellingcat, it looks like things are ramping up in Iran.

These are the structural conditions for a coup. I'm the granddaughter of a USAF nuclear missile engineer who worked on our missile defense systems. My fear? A Trump so desperate for a coup, compromised by Russia, & fanned by enablers, that he drops a nuclear bomb inside or outside the U.S. to “win.”

Trump is now openly pairing threats of unlawful attacks on Iranian civilian infrastructure with explicit religious language, presenting this confrontation as both a policy choice and a kind of divinely sanctioned mission.

Happy 77th Birthday, #NATO. Love, a grateful U.S. citizen youtu.be/HFWc88h2sJE?...

It would, indeed, Mr. Ambassador.

Los vigilantes que protegen la selva con micrófonos en los árboles: “Por una vez, los malos se sienten inseguros” dozz.es/tzzvc4

I have nothing to add that Kevin has not already pointed out & highlighted so well. Please read his whole 🧵 below. I will not be linking this article in case that wasn’t obvious to those who know me across platforms. This reads as something Ross Douthat would write—they assigned it to Vivien Yee.

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89% of Cubans live in extreme poverty in Cuba—not poverty, extreme poverty, according to the latest study on Social Rights in Cuba by Spain’s Observatorio Cubano de Derechos Humanos. Blackouts & food access are the biggest worries Cubans have as their population experiences rapid aging—like the U.S.