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Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:

Thank god. Christ. But seriously folks. We cannot continue to live like this.

Yes, that Trump is a master of “the deal.”

Thune should immediately call the Senate back into session. Trump’s unhinged threats to commit massive war crimes against Iranian civilian targets show an increasing mental and moral instability we can’t ignore.

I wish more mainstream groups like Indivisible would get behind something like this

We won't last 33 more months of this. This must stop. We must make it stop.

Speaker Johnson, we are calling on you to bring the House back to DC IMMEDIATELY! The Cabinet needs to invoke the 25th Amendment. But Congress can’t just sit on its hands and wait for that to happen when the President is threatening to commit war crimes TONIGHT.

This is really good as well. So far Ted Lieu, Chris Murphy, and Elissa Slotkin making this point with crystal clarity. More Dems need to do this.

In all seriousness, one thing that might be worth doing today: Tell your Reps and Senators to call Adm. Richard Correll, the Commander of U.S. Strategic Command, which controls the nation's nukes, and remind him of *his* unique responsibility to refuse an illegal order.

Has your representative said this yet? If not, contact them and demand it.

If you are a United States servicemember and you are concerned about illegal or immoral orders, or you simply need clarity on your rights and duties, a counselor at the GI Rights Network can help. 877-447-4487 girightshotline.org/en/military-...

REI and Patagonia both spoke out against the dismantling of the US Forest Service thank you to both of them! We’ve updated our website and added L.L. Bean to the pressure campaign.

"We have a president who is irresponsible, reckless, and unhinged...What’s to be done?...We need to think seriously about internal resistance in the executive branch. And the more straightforward measure that ought to be put on the table for debate is impeachment." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

This thread is very much worth reading.

If you’re in Georgia’s 14th District or Wisconsin, don’t forget to vote today!

You're not prepared for the last joke

Every single photo of this conman screams "Are they on to me yet? Shit shit shit, I think they're on to me."

Fascinating exchange

I was just talking to a friend today about Dolly Parton's Imagination Library - new books every month, totally for free, for kids ages 1-5. My son was part of the program - this is a copy of the letter that came with his last book, right after his 5th birthday.

Thanks to Margaret Sullivan for highlighting how I’ve sounded the alarm about Trump’s mental unfitness and the media’s failure to confront it. @sulliview.bsky.social Her column here: margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/how-the-me...

Third time's the charm?

“Who do you think you are?? Tweeting out the F word on Easter morning? No decent person mocks other people’s religions… That is the definition of evil.”

Yes.

A president should always be quoted verbatim on any public statement he makes, and @anntelnaes.bsky.social enhances that simply and succinctly. Trump unhinged open.substack.com/pub/anntelna...

☎️ would be awesome if you could call Congress on your lunch break about the Forest Service reorg. Some are calling it a dismantling. Big business (timber, mining, oil, realty, etc.) might call it “dinner.” 📞 Capitol switchboard: 202-224-3121 Details in 🧵

Talk about a timeline cleanse. This guy’s videos are such an antidote to the fresh national and international horrors we face every hour.

Don't worry. The WHCA will push back against this with some sternly worded pocket squares, I'm sure.

Donald Trump’s post yesterday was the final straw. It’s time for the 25th amendment. We need to make a lot of noise or Congress will try to act like this is normal. It’s not. It’s hugely dangerous and an untold number of people will die unnecessarily if Trump remains in office. WE ALL NEED TO CALL.

If the Republican Party wasn't a party full of traitors, the 25th Amendment would be a viable option to remove the mentally disturbed Trump. But the Republican Party is a party full of traitors.

Reminder: Trump said his decision to launch the Iran war was shaped by conversations with Steve Witkoff, Jared Kushner, Pete Hegseth, and Marco Rubio. Not one active military commander. Not one. Expect more of this, since Hegseth is firing the people who actually know better, the generals.

We love guns! Who in America really even needs butter anyway!

Mamdani after he defers a question to a city attorney: "It sounds better when he says it"

I used to rewatch episodes of “West Wing” (I know, I know) because I felt it was aspirational, a look at what government could be with smart, sincere people from both parties trying their best to do good. Now it feels more like one of those sci-fi alternate history shows.

Constitutional lawyer here. I don't think it would violate the Constitution for the VP/Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment, but the intended constitutional remedy for this behavior is impeachment & removal. The fact that that remedy is politically impossible is a scandal and a crisis.

An appropriate response for any Jew to this is fury

This is what happens when 77 million people take leave of their senses and put a manifestly unqualified, unfit, mentally ill narcissistic man-child in charge of the country and the world's most powerful. military. This is what happens when the media 'bothsides' election coverage.

Obama wore a tan suit and wanted everyone to have healthcare.

An added wrinkle to this pattern of mass disassociation is that the President is permanently disassociated...he can say "Mamdani is a terrorist who must deported" one day and then the next day have a chummy photo op with him in the White House. His words & his actions are totally unlinked.

If this is real. If his thumbs actually typed what is below... Citizens. Senators. Cabinet. The President of the United States is out of control. He is beyond reason or amelioration. We might really, really, really, I'm trying not to shout or capitalize here, really want to address this.

The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is.

This.

It would take only a handful of Republicans to step onto the right side of history and stop this madness. They would be remembered well. It's right there for the taking.

Most prescient, clear/eyed work of writing I’ve read on reorg. Read it. Then act. “Call your senators. Call your representative. Not next week or later. Now. Tell them this is not a reorganization — it’s the destruction of a federal agency by executive fiat and that Congress must intervene.”

ICYMI — 100 INTERNATIONAL LAW EXPERTS: “The conduct of the war, and statements of U.S. officials, raise serious concerns about violations of international humanitarian law, including potential war crimes.” www.justsecurity.org/135423/profe...

If I were in Trump's Cabinet, I would spend Easter calling constitutional lawyers about the 25th Amendment. This is completely, utterly unhinged. He's already killed thousands. He's going to kill thousands more.