Either Platner's a Nazi or he accidentally got a Nazi tattoo & kept it for almost 20 years, accidentally RT'd a guy who recently proposed a "final solution" for American Jews, & accidentally went on the podcast of a guy who thinks Israel killed JFK. If he's not a Nazi, HE'S EXTREMELY NOT BRIGHT.

I'm exhausted by all the efforts to rewrite the history of the 2022 US Senate primary in Pennsylvania, with folks insisting "we told you so!" as to Fetterman, that Conor Lamb was always the better choice, and generally ignoring Malcolm Kenyatta's historic candidacy. So let me say a few things. 🧵1/

According to our sources in Williamsport, the vehicles have arrived.

Fascists like to distract you by doing outrageous things and telling you it’s audacious and bold and leadership. We had a nuke deal. It was working. If any of this was necessary, it’s bc he made it necessary, which is to say none of it was necessary. Fascists rationalize failure with more failure.

This is like the knowledge check on annual security training

I mean it's a SCIF with a perimeter barrier consisting of curtains so I think we're a little past ICD 705 already, even by TSWA standards

For the first time in months or maybe years, Ukraine is liberating more territory than it's losing, says Come Back Alive Foundation chief Taras Chmut. Russia lost the winter battle and Ukraine keeps fighting, he wrote on X.

Mark Warner: "I saw no intelligence that Iran was on the verge of launching any kind of preemptive strike against the United States. None."

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.

It’s clear that saving American climate science requires that the community discard the myth of political neutrality, engage in a concerted defense of liberal democracy, and stand in solidarity with this administration’s other targets. trib.al/cQFeXBO

There’s been no effort by the administration to sell this war to the base.

I'm already sick of "It's all a distraction from Epstein" replies. This regime is killing innocent people because our leaders are all power-hungry tyrants and war profiteers. When you say it's "just a distraction" you minimize the gravity of what's happening and the lives lost.

So many agendas claim to prioritize people in Iran while simultaneously killing them or being more than willing to. They cannot catch a break, just endless attacks, lies, and exploitation as if the populations there are just disposable pawns for whoever's game.

“If Kamala wins, only death and destruction await because she is the candidate of endless wars. I am the candidate of peace. I am peace.” - Trump, 11/1/24 “I’m not going to start a war, I’m going to stop wars.” - Trump, 11/5/24

CNN is saying the Iranian attack happened after Trump “lost patience with negotiations”. I don’t believe it. The negotiations were cover. This was always the plan. The scale of the military buildup showed that.

“The President’s use of military force in Iran risks drawing the United States into yet another open-ended conflict in the Middle East, with no plausible casus belli, no congressional authorization, and no clear conception of victory,” says Cato Institute’s Brandan Buck.

Gonna re-up this for the people on this cursed website that see Trump doing a unilateral attack on Iran without congressional authorization as an opportunity to immediately attack democrats.

Bombing Iran in the middle of negotiations, whilst starving Cuba, whilst genociding Palestinians, whilst threatening to invade Greenland… Clearly, the US and Israel are the single greatest threat to humanity and it’s not even close… Meanwhile, we’re all forced to live in the nightmare they create.

It will be interesting to see what Trump's neo-Nazi base thinks about going to war with Israel. Some had come around since the last time Trump made illegal strikes on Iran. But it has always been the case that an anti-Jewish splinter could do real havoc, possibly including violence, to his support

President Trump’s military campaign against Iran and call for regime change are the beginning of a reckless new war of choice with no clear strategy and no clear endpoint. This is not how a democracy goes to war.

Trump’s bombing of Iran is reckless and a direct threat to American and Iranian lives. Launching military strikes without congressional authorization or evidence of an imminent threat is not strength. It is an abuse of power. Tell your Members of Congress to put an immediate stop to this war.

Did I miss the part where Trump and Hegseth addressed Congress and asked for a Declaration of War, which Congress then issued? Article I, Section 8, Clause 11. Maybe as a member of Congress, you could familiarize yourself with our Constitution?

all of your actions go on the permanent record

You’re a pathological liar running cover for a demented pedophile 🖕🏻

Demonic. What lives would the children in that girls elementary school have taken?

Quit your fucking job

How to understand war with Iran? We must get away from propaganda. Facts suggest two interpretive frameworks: a foreign war as a mechanism to destroy democracy at home; and a foreign war as an element of personal corruption by the president of the United States. snyder.substack.com/p/why-attack...

Just posted. Trump is telling us that Iranian interference in the 2020 elections is his justification for going to war against Iran? Of course, Trump's own intel service told us that Iranian interference occurred and was of no consequence.

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Ex-Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene R-GA blasts Trump over attack on Iran

For those journalists and editors interested in providing essential context to POTUS bombing #Iran No need for euphemism, the attack is "unconstitutional and illegal".

“Trump is lying to the American people as he launches an illegal, regime-change war against Iran," says Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.). "This is endangering American lives and has already resulted in mass civilian casualties. The Senate must immediately vote on the War Powers Resolution to stop it.”

Paramount elbowed out Netflix to buy WB Discovery after a months-long bidding war. When (not if) the deal closes, Paramount will control 25% of the entire media market, and half of the cable TV market, putting CBS and CNN under one roof— which sits atop a house owned by the pro-Trump Ellison family.

Sheehy mocks ‘socialist’ Green New Deal, but runs his house on solar. (Hypocrisy, thy name is Republican!)

The proposed merger between Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery is far from settled. It must be examined by Congress like all mergers to ensure it does not harm consumers, raise prices, or threaten jobs. I hope state AGs will use their powers as well.

“These two Hollywood titans have not cleared regulatory scrutiny—the California Department of Justice has an open investigation, and we intend to be vigorous in our review,” California Attorney General Rob Bonta said. trib.al/oVU1MGI

Sebastian Gorka at the 2019 CPAC convention: “they want to take away your hamburgers. This is what Stalin dreamt about but never achieved.”

Benjamin Netanyahu continues to manipulate Trump into whatever he likes. Andrew Sullivan's analysis of the situation and where it's headed seems very much on the money.

This is a thing I feel very strongly about as well. "Genocide!" is a highly specific crime, it is not a force multiplier of evil. Plenty of extremely evil things happen that are not in themselves genocide! The term means something!

Independent media are fundamental to democracy. Fight for it.

This is insane. It appears to require everyone to re-register before November.

The ballot formats in the order would make it easy for a bad actor to see and discard ballots marked for someone other than their preferred candidate. They make it difficult for non English speakers. And they might allow the ballot to be traced to a voter.

The Republican president is trying to unilaterally start a war with Iran. Democrats are trying to stop him. Both sides are not the same. 😠

the consolidation of major media institutions by the president’s oligarch friends is obviously bad, but i do wonder about the ultimate impact. it is clear that trump and his allies believe that you can buy up media and pull an orban or a putin. but…