"An Iran war that was already proving quite unpopular with the American people has entered a new, more problematic phase. That comes with the news that a US fighter jet was shot down over Iran," writes CNN's Aaron Blake. | Analysis https://cnn.it/3O57rrQ

“They were going to come. It was going to be a big thing. We were going to go to the beach right after. All those plans had to go out the window because they said ICE would be here."

Every day we get a little closer to the blessed, ineluctable moment when someone loses it and publicly shouts at Trump to shut the fuck up, directly to his face

He was on cancer meds and apparently declined to accept the responsibility that he drove somewhere and was incapable of remembering it. Listen, buddy, I had chemo, and I couldn’t remember seeing The Truman Show a few days later. But I didn’t say God erased it from my memory.

Trump’s nominee should be pressed hard to commit to those two specific actions. While the administration continues its cover up, Democrats must be relentless in our commitment to pursue truth & accountability. Credit to @rokhanna.bsky.social for again leading the charge on this. Fight, don't fold.

Democratic senators: It's time to draw a line in the sand. A nominee for Attorney General will soon come before you. Make the confirmation process about releasing ALL of the Epstein files (without redactions) and prosecuting the Epstein class. (1/2)

Intellectual coherence never seems to be a requirement for these folks.

you were never going to get an anti-war president from a chauvinistic, jingoistic political party full of people who fantasize about being in a holy war. and yet, despite the US Army raising the enlistment age to 42, not a single one of these pro-war podcasters and pundits have signed up to fight.

I remember Chris Coons not wanting to hold hearings on Trump nominees last time—so they just voted them through—because Congress “wanted to go home for Valentine’s Day.” All the people want is for Democrats to show the same urgency regular Americans feel. So far, there’ve only been a handful.

Worth noting that Hegseth already established his foreign policy doctrine includes killing shipwrecked survivors and "no quarter", and this will inform an adversary's rules of engagement when confronting US forces during a war. His bloodlust and fealty to Trump have endangered our military.

“It’s honestly been eye opening (in a bad way) to see how special interests work in our system” says the Head of Politics at Kalshi, which pays Donald Trump Jr. to sit on its advisory board and has spent over a million in lobbying over the past ~year.

Bondi: ‘My Only Regret Is Not Being Able To Re-Traumatize More Victims’

The judge who had ordered their release “called their detention the product of a ‘perfidious lust for unbridled power’ & said the case had its ‘genesis in the ill-conceived & incompetently implemented gov’t pursuit of daily deportation quotas, apparently even if it requires traumatizing children.’”

i just think Watering Flowers While Black should not be an arrestable offense nor do i think this should be controversial ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

@robertgarcia.house.gov on Pam Bondi: "She's gotta think about herself. She's not working for Trump. She's gonna be under oath. She could be held in contempt. She should not be lying to Congress-- certainly not as a private citizen. She has no executive privilege."

Iran released another LEGO inspired video. This one is specifically for Pete Hegseth.

Damn.

The American people deserve answers.

“He’s not a war hero. He is a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren’t captured.” -- President Donald J Trump, July 18, 2015

JUST A REMINDER…👇

Democrat House Rep. Ro Khanna says that Democrats will impeach Donald Trump if they take back the House and he might face “conviction” in the Senate if we get to 60 votes. “He should be impeached now.” 🔥

First shoe to drop On left: CENTCOM refutes claim that a video shows a U.S. missile (PrSM) in media reports (NYT & BBC) of a U.S. strike on a sports hall/school in Lamerd, Iran. On right: BBC comes back with SIX weapons experts. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Even ICE oversight inspectors are finding violations at Camp East Montana in El Paso, according to a report published yesterday. Inspectors found 49 violations during a visit in February. My story for the El Paso Times:

None of this had to happen. Republicans can stop it all right now, but they won’t.

Taps sign.¹ There is no path back to anything approaching "normal" geopolitics (or domestic politics for that matter) that doesn't go through impeachment, removal, and trials. ¹ See bsky.app/profile/davi...

while the March job numbers came in better than expected, the revision to February's numbers was significantly downward. 133,000 jobs lost just that month.

getting really tired of this kindergarten brained fixation on Fairness. no fair your kid goes to free preschool when you can afford to go to restaurants sometimes! no fair you use EBT to buy rich tasting food! whence the idea that every fucking thing must be means tested and rationed to death my god

When you throw in the towel after a campaign loss or failure, you lose momentum for your cause. Remember, you're never building your own thing. You're building a means for others to move forward. You're part of things, not the culmination of them.

If we bought a few less bombs, we could probably afford nice things. One thing I'd like to see from the next presidency would be to appoint a special commission to prepare a report on the actual cost to defend the United States from attack. Not foreign wars. Just the cost to defend this country.

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Dear Christian, If you’re demanding that the Ten Commandments be put up in public schools, but you’re not holding this president or his administration accountable to a single one of them, please don’t act like you actually take them seriously.

According to the Times:

The US Department of War Crimes.

I identify as vindictive too…

Also, it’s remarkable that Hegseth thinks he has the political capital to do this right now. He may well be Trump’s dumbest appointee - completely oblivious to the fact he’s about two weeks and 30 dollars of oil barrel prices from being unceremoniously hurled under the bus by the boss.

Non-zero chance this is going to be an exhibit at a trial.

It’s been downhill ever since

CNN: Sources are telling us that recent U.S. Intelligence assessments found roughly half of Iran's missile launchers are still intact and that thousands of one way attack drones are still in Iran's arsenal tonight. That's despite daily U.S. And Israeli airstrikes.

Moynihan: Don't look to DC for moral clarity Mockler: I could have looked up to Obama and actually learned patience. If I look to Trump, I don't even know what I learn from that. Be an absolute asshole to anyone who interacts with you. What's the lesson that I'm supposed to take from this guy?

oh for god's sake you spineless loser This is your statement about the gutter racism and petty revenge from a manifestly unqualified SecDef? CONGRESS CAN IMPEACH HEGSETH, AND IT SHOULD

Trump is committing war crimes in Iran and is threatening more and worse ones. His entire war strategy at this point is war crimes. A functional Congress would be far down the road of impeachment and removal.

JUST IN: Defense attorneys for the remaining members of the "Broadview 6" say the agent they're accused of impeding texted about their indictment, reported their political positions to senior ICE officials after they were charged.

All but three (!) of the 1,651 refugees admitted into the United States in the three most recent months we have data are white South Africans. For comparison, in 2024, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees. It's an explicit white supremacist project. www.rpc.state.gov/documents/Re...

NEW REPUBLIC: “The centrist group Third Way ⚠️ accuses popular progressive streamer Hasan Piker of being a ‘Jew-hater’ — His record proves he’s the opposite of an antisemite.” Hasan addresses the bad faith accusations: newrepublic.com/article/2084...

View of Planet Earth from Artemis II...

The number of service members and civilians shot and killed on US military bases over the next 2+ years is going to rise quite a bit.

this is the chaplain btw. wonder why he was fired.

The US reportedly waited to strike the bridge in Iran a second time until rescue workers and others in the area gathered to help the wounded, which then killed at least eight people. Authorities in Iran are describing it as an act of terrorism.