Please help Honey if you can. No amount is too small. 🙏

Please, please end your partnership with OpenAI, @rweingarten.bsky.social @aft.org. In addition to everything else, given all that we know, it seems incredibly likely that that company is going to funnel student input straight into government surveillance files.

Trump ripped up the Iran nuclear deal and created this mess. Now, he's putting servicemembers in harm's way with no clear plan and no Congressional approval. The American people deserve answers — and Congress needs to do its job.

As I said. Senior AEI fellow, Michael Rubin, says: "Will Ankara in 2036 be like Tehran in 2026?" Rubin has argued for a while that Israel and the US should prepare to do to Turkey what it does to Iran.

This is kinda insane. Also we are never clear on opsec like ever

Just to clear things up… i don’t think the black curtains are there for “security.” They are there to make things look “serious,” and to hide the shitty decor at Mar-A-Lago, so that we don’t mock his terrible interior design and gold-trimmed everything.

Dubai airport terminal damaged in Iranian rocket strike, four wounded - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/dubai-airport-terminal-damaged-iranian-rocket-strike-four-wounded

“There are only two things you can do at the State of the Union, and they are sit down and stand up. I was arrested for standing up.”

I wish the lord would take me now.

Look Europe, you gotta have a spine against illegal US+Israel bombing of Iran. 1 Another inflationary shock to your economies (LNG exports from Persian Gulf to Europe will be directly affected by effective Iranian closure of Hormuz) 2 More Refugees from destabilized countries across middle east.

Iran just shut down the Strait of Hormuz. Gas will be about $15 bucks a gallon on Monday. Let's see how his "peace" BS stands up then.

Iranians were going about their morning routine when they suddenly learned they were being bombed. President Trump, with no prior authorization from Congress, joined Israel in what he called “major combat operations” to eliminate “imminent threats from the Iranian regime.” trib.al/SOUOm8f

meanwhile, war rages on at home.

Yeah, it's in Ukraine's constitution that elections are suspended during war. It's in Ours that there shall be no suspension. War, or not. And, Our Article II Exec has no business doing any fucking thing to interfere. It's an exercise of Article I Congress & the States. (And, not in that order.)

NEWS: Pete Hegseth said that trans kids can’t be in Scouts anymore. Scouting America told me that’s not true. “Scouting America remains steadfast in our commitment to providing a place for all young people to learn, grow, and thrive,” the org said after I asked. www.advocate.com/politics/nat...

A pedophile. An adjudicated rapist. A convicted felon. A pathological liar. A sociopath. A malignant narcissist. A sadist. A racist. A fascist. A traitor. An insurrectionist. A war-monger. A demagogue. A despot. An enemy of the Constitution. An American nightmare.

Oh hey guys look the LA Sheriff's Dept investigated itself and found no deputy gangs. WHO COULD HAVE PREDICTED THAT

You forgot — misogynist.

People wonder why I spend more time talking about how to move Democrats left and get them to step up to meet the moment instead of worrying about the Republicans, but this is basically why 👇 Republicans cannot be reasoned or negotiated with on any level whatsoever. They have to be actually STOPPED.

Operation Epstein Furry

I promise you that the government that murdered Alex Pretti and Renee Good does not give a flying fuck about the protests in Iran.

Pakistan also just declared war on Afghanistan and attacked their mutual border. That was yesterday. Both countries border Iran. Who supports the Afghan government and supplies them with weapons? Russia. Everyone is in great peril.

“and now i am become airborne leaflets, changer of minds” — robert j. oppencyber

In South Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan, regime change was the easy part. Nobody doubts the ability of the US to effectuate regime change through military force in most countries. The hard part is what comes after. We didn’t have a great plan for that in other places. Do we now?

From Hunter S. Thompson’s ESPN page 2 column one week after 9/11.

I just have to sit and hope this isn't some kind of Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo moment. fucking hell.

TONIGHT!! 5PM @ WILLIAMS PARK!! Reject the US regime's latest imperialist assault on Iran! #NoWarWithIran #stpetersburgfl #imperialism #iran #ZionismIsTerrorism

In the absence of an immediate threat, this fits the bill entirely, and constitutes illegal aggression in international law, if that matters...

Stephen Miller in 2024:

Trump is VERY clearly looking for claims of foreign interference to serve as a basis to declare a national emergency and usurp control of the election. This is how he's going to try and do it. Trump is nothing if not self-interested; he's doing this to help himself and consolidate his grip on power.

Remember when we used to have a Congress? bsky.app/profile/atru...

U.S. military spending is set to hit a record $1.5 trillion. Roughly half of defense spending goes to private contractors that routinely price-gouge the government. Meanwhile, the Pentagon has failed EIGHT straight audits. The military industrial complex is cheering today.

The most evil people on the planet trying to buy yet another election.

Yes, it really was triple posted. Everything is fine.

Trump: "This is the Golden Age of America."

the upsides of the Paramount/Warner stuff: 1. Nobody at Paramount seems remotely competent 2. The U.S. isn't Hungary 3. The huge debt makes collapse very likely 4. Humans still have agency 5. Every time anybody has tried to use Warner to dominate media (see: AT&T) it has failed spectacularly

so as another major media organization is handed over to the republican party, its time for me to remind you there are almost no left leaning investments in media. meanwhile the harris campaign (and biden and others!) spend billions on waste during elections so consultants get rich.

President Donald Trump says the US economy is booming and that he has fixed inflation. But most Americans, including many in his Republican Party, do not see things that way, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll reut.rs/3OEhl3F

For @newrepublic.com, I point out that the question of whether ICE agents misrepresented themselves as NYPD to gain access to a Columbia dorm is not one that should just linger in the ether. It's a question for investigators and the local DA, who have a credible allegation of a Class E felony

Virginia Giuffre was recruited at Mar a Lago at 16. Epstein was a member. Melania lived there. Hillary Clinton never set foot in an Epstein property and sat for 6 hours under oath. Melania lived where a child was trafficked and has never been asked a single question. That's not oversight.

Subpoena Melania Trump. She knows all about the Epstein trafficking and she hasn’t said a word. Get her *under oath* to testify about these crimes. We all know she loathes Donald, so why not bring her in and let her expose his crimes. Let’s get justice for the victims; they certainly deserve it.

"Paramount/Warner Bros is not a done deal," said California AG Rob Bonta last night. But he'll have to act fast, as Paramount's merger shepherds want to rapidly close the merger and commingle assets before states have a chance to challenge it. Up-to-the minute news on this terrible merger, from me:

"The result reeks of a 'political deal' in which [Trump] steered the ownership of a major news outlet to his crony. That’s unconscionable in a free society - but a familiar tactic of authoritarian leaders like Hungary’s Viktor Orbán": @mattgertz.bsky.social www.mediamatters.org/cnn/paramoun...

NEW: We obtained 911 audio from the Texas detention center housing hundreds of immigrant kids and their parents. Since mid-September, EMS crews have been dispatched to Dilley at least 11 times to treat children in medical distress. Burning fevers. Low oxygen. Seizures. A broken leg. My report:

I didn't often agree with Noa, but you did used to be able to have an argument with her and it be broadly productive, this is genuinely bleak.

I would say one of the main right-wing projects of the past twenty years has been gaming every web 2.0 platform into thinking the right-wing is much bigger and more influential than it actually is. And the people who have been most taken in by this effort has been the right wing

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WTF are these bumbling incompetents doing? apnews.com/article/mili...

A federal judge has found that the IRS violated federal law "approximately 42,695 times" when it shared confidential taxpayer addresses with immigration enforcement officials last summer.