When members of Congress say they want "someone" to use the 25th, they're passing the buck. They need to force a vote on impeachment themselves via Rule IX. Congress: Don't cross your fingers and hope that Trump's cabinet of sycophants does the right thing. Do the right thing yourselves.

I've now seen several posts from Democratic US Senators and House Reps calling for Congress to return to DC, and my only reaction to seeing these is: Do it. Just get on a plane and go back to DC. The House is in Recess, not adjourned. There was a pro forma session today. Go. Lead by example.

I'm not sure how you can be against removing this man from office right now. What will it take? A nuke being dropped? It's too late then. The purpose of impeachment and the 25th Amendment is to prevent that type of thing from happening, not just to react to it.

Donald Trump is openly threatening war crimes against the entirety of Iranian civilization. 25th Amendment proceedings must begin immediately, but if the Cabinet is too cowardly, the House should begin the impeachment process now.

Rep. Ted Lieu isn't backing down.

Sickeningly evil. Donald Trump must be impeached.  When will it be enough for my Republican colleagues to grow spines and remove him from office?

How is every Democrat not calling for Trump to be removed from office, whether it’s highly unlikely or not? The American people know he is exceedingly dangerous. Show them that you are with them.

Let’s not misunderstand what the president is saying in his latest unhinged rant. He is calling for genocide by our hand. He is calling for war crimes while those with the ability to stop him refuse to do so. This is what our nation has become.

The President is openly threatening genocide. A crime against humanity. He must be removed from office. The 25th Amendment must be invoked. If not, Congress has to do our damn job. Speaker Johnson, call us into session. War powers & impeachment. Remove this man from office.

Some reports say over 500 schools, 55 libraries, & 25 universities hit. You can debate the numbers, but hitting Sharif University & Beheshti is like hitting MIT & Stanford. I keep wondering: How would the scientific community respond differently if it was those universities? What’s the difference?

Does the new "institutional neutrality" require the leaders of US universities to remain silent as their government systematically destroys Iran's universities? www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...

I mean, Murphy's not wrong, but he is part of a certain branch of government that is supposed to check the President's power. Senator Murphy, how about you get together with some of your colleagues in the House and make a plan to impeach him? We can't rely on the sycophant's cabinet to check him...

"Join me in impeaching Donald Trump" is a great message, easy to say, will get loads of media attention because the word "impeach" tends to do that. Also, it communicates URGENCY.

I’ve you’re in Congress right now and you’re not pulling out every stop available to you in an attempt to stop this then you own it every bit as much as Trump owns it.

that the president is making unhinged threats of war crimes on easter sunday should be an immediate presidency-ending scandal and that the media is rewriting this as just a normal negotiating tactic should be a career-ending scandal for everyone involved

The question is of course whether that is what will be taught, whether the people doing the teaching will have adequate training to do so, whether the better and worse uses are based on vibes, whether thinking is preserved, etc. But the ignoring the issue entirely certainly is not working. See:

A better world is possible if we fight for it together. Help us take the power back and put people first, not billionaires or genocidal foreign countries.

At a time when trans people are being targeted, blamed, legislated against and pushed to the margins, we fight back in solidarity 🏳️‍⚧️ Attacks on trans communities are part of a bigger pattern: blaming the vulnerable to keep us divided so they can steal from us. We’re not falling for it.

I don't see this said enough: the widespread use of generative AI is not only making our jobs as educators harder logistically, but also emotionally. It is genuinely sad to be suspicious of students when you have spent so much time building a pedagogy based on trust and not being a cop. It sucks.

The US bombed a primary school in Iran, killing 168 girls. Why is nobody talking about this anymore? These abominable war crimes should not be forgotten — and nor should the lives, hopes and dreams of human beings who were slaughtered with impunity.

Yes. AI as a rhetorical project is drastically muddying the waters. Which is what some people want -- see also: IoT -- but I'm inclined to be very specific in saying what AI projects I think are terrible and why.

if you don't like the social issues conversations in star trek then you just don't like star trek

Remember when people were fired for *reposting* accurate quotes from Charlie Kirk after he was killed.

The is the federal government telling news stations to provide favorable coverage of the war or their licenses will be pulled. A truly extraordinary moment. We aren't on the verge of a totalitarian takeover. WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF IT. Act like it.

This is not true—driver’s licenses aren’t acceptable under the SAVE Act without additional proof of citizenship. The fact that they keep doing this sleight of hand should make clear that the SAVE Act is not something that “every American gets”

Take note of all corporate media that parrot Israel's propaganda of "pre-emptive strike." Call it out immediately. Also, take note of all the Democratic war hawks who tacitly or publicly rationalize this illegal war. Let's try to learn something, anything, from the disastrous War on Terror.

We have a word for this in media history. It's called propaganda.

the current position of the US government is that NVIDIA should be allowed to sell chips directly to China but banned from using Claude, because the latter is a larger national security risk. that is the level of absolute insanity coming out of the White House & Pentagon nowadays

This is why you can't really collaborate with the feds under any circumstances. If your policy is "we will only collaborate with them when it's unrelated to civil immigration enforcement" then the Trump administration will just lie about what they're doing!

it's fascinating to watch Costco lap every one of these clowns because they have the only CEO in America who still thinks his job is to run a company that does business and not be the main character of life forging his personal legacy with one eye on the group chat to see if they're impressed yet

I know dems are sensitive to politicize the fbi but director using position and government resources to party in Italy while parent of high profile celebrity continues to be mia seems likes a scandal

I'm a law guy, not a politics knower, but "Trump illegally taxed/stole $175 billion from Americans" seems like good messaging.

A victory. And….a reminder NOT to comply in advance.

"Is there technology the left is excited about?" is the kind of question you only ask if you're wildly naive about technology. mRNA vaccines. Heat pumps. Offshore wind. Urban mining. Sodium batteries. But god forbid we're not fawning over every new implementation of Making Computers Bad At Math.

And yet, every day, our most prominent Democratic politicians, scholars, public intellectuals, universities & university leaders, & other civil society organizations continue to use his platform as their primary social media outlet. One cannot help but notice this & draw conclusions.

Saying “Free Palestine” is considered antisemitic but dehumanizing Muslims as less than dogs is considered free speech for which this MAGA member of Congress will face zero consequences whatsoever.

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THEY ARE BUYING UP WAREHOUSES TO HOLD HUMAN BEINGS IN DETENTION INDEFINITELY. I feel crazy at how everyone is acting like this is normal. These are concentration camps being built right before our eyes. These buildings are not meant to house human beings. People will be caged like cattle and die.

Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."

Okay, the New York Times has a very dumb op-ed about the US’s “marijuana problem”. You are completely valid in just dismissing it as fear shit, but I will make a Lil’ Thread of some of the dumb stuff in particular, for the Sickos and Curious. Keep your cool, remember: it’s bad on purpose. Andiamo:

No Kings includes Draft Kings

on the balance i think partisan gerrymandering is bad but the only way it ends is if democrats weaponize it against republicans everywhere they can. wiping out republican lawmakers in blue states might bring the GOP to the table to end the practice.

this may be the single most insufferable thing about the radical centrist caucus - not just extending good faith to obviously bad faith people but demanding everyone else do the same and chiding them when they don’t

This is why they must be challenged every single time. Not accommodated. Not bargained with. Just challenged.

Mamdani: "I speak of Renee Good, whose final words to the man who murdered her were, 'I'm not mad at you.' I speak of Alex Pretti who died as he lived, caring for the stranger. ICE shot him bc he did something they could never fathom ... let us offer a new path: one of defiance through compassion."

1. It was not an accident. 2. It was not a staffer. 3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia. 4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares. 5. His base agrees with him. 6. He will do it again. 7. No one in power will hold him accountable.

they don't have enough guys, and if the response in Minnesota shows anything it is that trying something like this is going to drive a much larger backlash than anything they hope to gain out of it "oh well I guess we'll just stay home" is not how this is going to go

Heads are going to explode 💥 Cato Institute just nuked the lie. Immigrants have cut U.S. deficits by $14.5 TRILLION since 1994, slashing the national debt by a third. All that “immigrants are bleeding us dry” noise? Absolute bullshit. 1/3

I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.