Buttigieg: "For the leader of this country to make a nakedly genocidal threat against another civilization as if the US was a death star that was going around blowing up civilizations, of course that is a new low ... the whole country is being judged just for tolerating that kind of thing at the WH"

What Trump did to the entire world with his insane threat cannot be lost in the unhinged news cycle, as Marisa says.

JUST NOW: House Democrats were set to try to pass a resolution to halt Trump's war with Iran — but the Republican presiding over the session, Chris Smith of New Jersey, gaveled out without calling on Rep. Glenn Ivey, who going to introduce the resolution. Democrats shouted in protest.

New at CBS News - Army survivors of deadly attack in Kuwait dispute Pentagon's account, say unit "was unprepared" to defend itself — this is a photograph of the tactical operations center struck by an Iranian drone on March 1. www.cbsnews.com/news/iran-wa...

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“Outrage” is the right word to use here. www.icrc.org/en/news-rele...

Threatening the Pope is … I’m exhausted.

Imagine the hubris to think you could win a stand off with a Pope from Chicago

NEW: A stunning new report claims that the Pentagon summoned Pope Leo XIV’s top American diplomat and threatened him after the U.S.-born pontiff gave his January state-of-the-world address. Leo used the address to denounce a world ruled by “a diplomacy based on force” and “zeal for war.”

A federal judge in Vermont rules that Harvard scientist Kseniia Petrova’s visa was unlawfully canceled after she was detained at an airport over biological samples she was carrying.

I’m not much for the genre of justices-maybe-sneak-dissing but this is unusually pointed

Tuan Van Bui is the 46th person to die in federal custody under the Trump regime — an all-time high. Around 70,000 people are still in ICE detention, a majority of whom have no criminal convictions. Never forget the cruelty Trump continues to inflict at home.

Brutal.

I'm on the train back to DC – I call on all my colleagues to come back, too. Congress must vote to end this war IMMEDIATELY.

Trump went from making insane genocidal threats this morning to hyping the “golden age” of Iran hours later, and he received no concessions in between. He’s an absolute basket case who needs to be removed from power before he follows through on one of his mass murder fantasies.

Ex Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications and Speechwriting under Obama👇🏽

The President of the United States posted a threat of genocide, which strongly suggested the possible use of a nuclear weapon. Those in power in the US just sat silently, for the most part, and did nothing to stop him as his “deadline” approached. There is no recovering from that.

35 days ago, Iran had no control over Hormuz, made no income from passing ships, faced crippling primary & secondary sanctions, had to deny and hide its enriched uranium, saw its proxies attacked by Israel and had US enemy bases on its doorstep. THAT HAS ALL REVERSED It’s VI Day. Victory for Iran.

Here's a sanction of the (auto-translated) regime statement

Only a master deal maker could achieve the status quo of 5 weeks ago in exchange for accomplishing nothing of value and turning his country into a global pariah. Thank you sir

Same.

There it is: Trump calls off the attack, declares ceasefire.

Call Congress and tell them to do their job: 202-224-3121

The fact that nobody seriously believes there is an institution in this country that will check the president—that we’re all just sitting here hoping that he gets distracted and fails to follow through on his genocidal threats—is the most damning indictment of our political system I’ve seen yet.

JUST IN: Judge Robert Gettleman (Clinton/ILND) extends order allowing religious leaders access to ICE detainees in Broadview, IL. He previously allowed Holy Week visits. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...

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NOW: B52 bombers are literally in the air on their way to Iran and hundreds of thousands of Iranians are in the streets waving flags and surrounding bridges & power plants. Difficult to imagine this has any precedent in modern warfare. (🎥 Al Jazeera)

I appreciate some of these responses from individuals in Congress, very much actually. As a body, though, Congress has constitutional duties, and they need to start acting like it.

This is a horrifying threat of genocidal war crimes. The lives of civilians and service members alike are at stake here. Congress must stop this war and remove Trump from the White House.

What she said!

Historians sue DOJ over opinion dismissing Presidential Records Act

If people in power don't listen to the historians now what makes folks think they will listen to the historians in the future?

This.

The President’s threat to destroy Iranian civilization suggests he’s either considering using a nuclear weapon or wants Iran to believe he would. Israel and Iran have already struck close to one another’s nuclear facilities.

Definitely, 100%, this man needs to be peaceably removed from power immediately, there is a mechanism for that, and the GOP needs to activate it.

We don’t even have a declaration of war and the President of the United States threatening ”a whole civilization” with death. I would say that this constitutes an emergency that Congress and Cabinet must deal with asap before he can follow through on this insane threat.

He's threatening nuclear war with the kind of language they'd use to promote a special episode of Celebrity Apprentice

Trump believes in absolute impunity no matter what he does. Years of impunity for US Presidents (eg, George W. Bush), and years of impunity for Trump himself (eg, 34 felony convictions, Jan 6) support that belief. Impunity is dangerous.

These are orders given "under a black flag," and US military personnel should refuse to carry them out.

This is explicitly genocidal

This is sick on a level I can’t express.

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They are, but also: Vance is a black hole of charisma & has very poor political instincts. If they're lucky, his trip will have no effect. But there's a reasonable chance he makes things worse for Orban.

But thou who settest in the way a snare, With threats of hell for all who stumble there, Almighty Spirit, whom the spheres obey, Is mine the sin, or Thine the greater share? —Omar Khayyám [عمر خیام], Rubáiyát [رباعیات], Nº 148

“It’s difficult to cover him in a way that conveys how unhinged he is. Journalists are trained to be like, ‘OK, what did he say that was newsworthy?’ So you convey that to your audience. But in reality, when you actually watch, you see he's full of hatred, lying constantly, and very incoherent.”

The SAVE Act goes beyond voter ID. It would require a passport or birth certificate to register to vote, which would block millions of American citizens from voting.

With the fighting now in its sixth week, the damage across the Middle East is already vast. Yet each side insists it is resilient, and winning: the narrative war has overshadowed the real one

BREAKING: Another person has died in ICE custody, per required notification to Congress, marking 15 deaths in detention this year and 45+ since Trump took office again.