UPDATED story with an interview from a veteran who tells the public what they can do to help stop the madness:

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In June 2025, Putin was asked why Russia would not help Iran in a conflict with Israel. “Israel today is almost a Russian-speaking country, two million people from the Soviet Union and Russia live there. We take that into account.”

Kaine: "Donald Trump abandoned diplomacy and now our service members are dying as a result. Iran has shown it will reach a deal to block its nuclear path. Donald Trump prefers war and he doesn't want to come to Congress to ask for permission."

Tim Kaine dogwalked Joe Kernen in this interview

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If you can’t make the distinction between children and adults, then that explains a lot as to why child rapists run your country and can freely murder other people’s children without consequences.

Ugh

AIPAC spent $150k to air an attack ad about 16-year-old me.

Gallego: "Young American men and women are dying because of these idiots"

Bruce Campbell announces he has a type of cancer that's "treatable" not "curable"

After Renee Good was killed, career FBI agents were ordered to stand down from investigating her killing. Why? Kash Patel wanted to falsely spin Renee Good as a threat to law enforcement.

Relatedly www.mediamatters.org/pete-hegseth...

DOJ's recent 6th Circuit filing misspelled: Voters as “Votors” Emergency as "Emeregency" United States as "United Staes" And, it included a non-party in the caption. These are the people who want access to your sensitive voting records and who my team fights in court every day.

Minnesota would like a word.

we have a psychotic, murderous, christian nationalist as secretary of defense

"No stupid rules of engagement" means no Geneva Conventions or other international humanitarian laws, which the U.S. signed and supported for more than a century. Hegseth and Trump are pro-war crimes.

Worth a re-up 11 days later. And I honestly wish it wasn't.

New in PN: The irrational strongman we’ve been warned about is here "The fantasy monster that president after president has conjured up is real, and he is squatting orangely over his phone in the bathroom at Mar-A-Lago."

"Aside from the internment camps used to incarcerate Japanese Americans in the 1940s, such facilities have no precedent in American history..." US Conference of Catholic Bishops statement on Trump's new mass prison camps. Full statement at the link: www.usccb.org/news/2026/th...

So we just live in a Black Mirror episode now huh

“Cut the utilities, condemn the building, demo it, take it under eminent domain, whatever you can do. Make it impossible for them to use our neighborhood for a concentration camp,” he said. “This will not be solved by a harshly worded letter or resolution. We need action.” wdet.org/2026/02/27/c...

Alex's mom on his 38th birthday.

Reports indicate at least 100 children have already been killed in strikes on schools. That is unconscionable. Three U.S. service members are dead as a result of this entirely preventable war of choice. The blood of these service members, these children, and every civilian rests in Trump’s hands.

Because incels are in charge. Every day they post about how no woman will talk to them and say they never get laid. Yelling I GOT NO GAME should not be followed by I'M IN CHARGE OF THE NUKES but here we are. These aren't nerds. Nerds get laid. These guys are losers. This is who runs the country.

Just out in the open and people still pretend we have a federal government. Lol

We live in a world in which its entirely possible that Iran negotiations failed because people involved bet the under.

Yes

world-altering decisions are being made by a cabal of gambling addicts hell bent on self enrichment no matter the cost to humanity, we should look into that.

Chris Murphy: "We need to stand up for the American citizens that ICE is murdering, the kids they're terrorizing. They should stop this illegal war and they should stop ICE from terrorizing our communities. We should demand they do both things."

uhhh oh my god

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every time one of these markets dissembles and parses and weasels their way out of paying people on a technicality my heart grows three sizes like the grinch. i love to watch these people get scammed on crypto and nfts and gambling. they deserve it and it's funny and it's not my problem at all

There were def people in Washington who advised Trump not to do this, basically saying, "hes 90, hes had cancer twice, hes going to die soon anyway. Dont make him a martyr for the cause". He didnt listen.

"The attack came despite US intelligence assessments that Iran was unlikely to pose an immediate threat to the US mainland within the next decade." So why do it? "A weeks-long lobbying effort by Israel and Saudi Arabia..." Ah. Not just weak, but cheap, too. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

He took $10 billion from the US taxpayer to set up a “Board of Peace” He’s bombed 8 countries. He’s presided over the killing of American citizens by ICE. He’s given billions to DHS despite a record number of deaths in the camps Now he’s started war in the Middle East.

WSJ reporting that the U.S. used Claude for the air strikes in Iran. Centcom has been using Claude "for intelligence assessments, target identification and simulating battle scenarios" www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

Trump keeps those Epstein connections tight huh. Funny for a guy who said he has zero to do with him. He could easily not do this. And yet

😂 It was so obviously going to happen. Same in the UK, young people want to be influencers and stars on whose got talent , not picking apples or cabbages. This anti-immigrant rhetoric is stupid and economically disastrous. Also extremely racist. The world has some very dumb people in charge.

If America still had the rule of law, this would be the easiest prosecution ever, but we all know absolutely nothing will happen.

sure the pedophile felon president just illegally bombed a country that may have nukes while federal forces under his command murder and harass people in america and immigrants are tortured and he moves forward with plans to build concentration camps and sorry idk where i was going fuck all of this

Can't take any of this shit personally, most of us are on here yelling so we don't annoy our irl loved ones with this garbage

meanwhile, war rages on at home.

"The Islamists oppose women getting an education," I mutter, as I aim my missile at the girls school

The president didn't bother to make the case for war in a marathon State of the Union address and then he fucked off to his sweaty gilded country club so he could literally phone in an unconstitutional war. Every single Democrat needs to be screaming about this at full volume.