President Trump announced another two boat bombings in the Caribbean today. The U.S. military killed at least 3 more people in what amount to extrajudicial executions, done without oversight or approval from anyone but Trump himself. These deadly PR stunts cannot be allowed to continue.

Donald Trump just blew up another boat in the middle of the ocean with no legal justification. I'm drafting a resolution and forcing a vote to reclaim Congress’s power to declare war. Before Trump’s actions provoke one.

We and 36 other organizations today urged Congress to block Trump’s reported plans for unauthorized military strikes in Latin America. The strikes would be dangerous, illegal, and useless in stemming our synthetic drug crisis. Read more here: theintercept.com/2025/08/15/t...

It’s… TIIIIMMMEEE for Congress’s annual ritual of handing the Pentagon more money than it needs, wants, or can keep track of and directing it to do a bunch of things that, by and large, make us all less safe. A 🧵 on yesterday's #FY26NDAA House Armed Services Committee markup process:

nathan fielder (narrating): to truly feel the responsibility of airline captains, i needed to pilot the most important plane – air force one. but i couldn’t get the security clearance needed. so i went undercover as a qatari official and convinced the president i was gifting him a luxury boeing 747

At the same time, Americans dying from fentanyl overdoses provide the pretext for tariffs on Canada and Mexico and the justification for those in the administration who want to go to war in Mexico against drug cartels. www.latintimes.com/rfk-jr-end-g...

Great Chain of Being LFG

The point is that he and Musk get to impose their stupid ideas and bigotries upon us and our government because they are rich. Pretty straightforward.

I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.

Please tune in to @60minutes.bsky.social tonight 7pm on @cbsnews.com to hear my interview about our @immdef.bsky.social client Andry, the makeup artist who was disappeared to El Salvador because of tattoos. We are not giving up on him. #FreeAndry #JusticeForAndry www.cbsnews.com/video/the-pr...

“The truth is that a tattoo identifying Tren de Aragua does not exist,” she told me. “Tren de Aragua does not use any tattoos as a form of gang identification; no Venezuelan gang does.”

Everything is so fucking stupid right now

They want the unreviewable power to grab people and render them to a foreign gulag.

This is horrifying! Family members of some of the people sent to do hard labor in a Salvadoran prison by Trump confirm their loved ones weren't members of a gang. One woman said her brother got a tattoo of a rose in Dallas, and because of that they accused him of being a gang member.

Trump just invoked a terrifying law that sets us on the path to repeating the disgraces of Japanese American internment in WWII. Our statement:

Any opposition worth its salt, in preparation for assuming power, will tee up for quick repeal all the laws and loopholes Trump is exploiting for his authoritarian power grab. The Alien Enemies Act should be at the top of the list: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

one has to assume that rubio would denounce his own children in a MAGA show trial if it would give him a .5% greater chance of winning the iowa caucuses

Below is our statement on the unconstitutional arrest and detainment of Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil--an action sure to set a precedent of unlawfully detaining and deporting people demonstrating their right to dissent.

If Trump withdraws from NATO they have to let Mike Myers actually be James Bond

Read our statement in response to the Israeli government’s new blockade against the Gaza Strip:

Last week, the New York Times reported that the Trump administration is “embroiled in a debate over whether to carry out military strikes against Mexican drug cartels.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/w...

On Thursday, @JoaquinCastroTX.bsky.social @ChuyGarcia.house.gov & @Velazquez.house.gov led a resolution reaffirming that Congress opposes calls for U.S. military action in Mexico. winwithoutwar.org/win-without-... 🧵

If you're in the DC area, it's showing at AFI Silver Spring silver.afi.com/Browsing/Mov... and Alamo drafthouse.com/dc-metro-are...

No president should have the power to authorize secret, unaccountable killing outside war zones, without geographic bounds or congressional authorization. If Trump wanted to end US wars, he would end this unlawful program - not remove safeguards and further endanger civilians.

Idiotic beyond measure, but worth pulling from the article that at least some are trying to game out the consequences of this threatened action -- though clearly nobody in the White House. In short: all downside.

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This post is the definitive answer to the Elon Musk IQ question.

THREAD: The @apnews.com is reporting that the State Department has designated eight Latin American cartels, including six Mexican crime groups, as foreign terrorist organizations, or FTOs. apnews.com/article/trum...

The U.S. has stepped up secret drone flights over Mexico to hunt for fentanyl labs, part of the Trump administration’s more aggressive campaign against drug cartels, U.S. officials said.

Trump is claiming that the migrant "invasion" gives him extraordinarily sweeping powers. He gets to define what it means to be under "invasion" and he gets to say when the "invasion" ends. It should be self-evident that he isn't going to allow that the "invasion" is over at any point.

Trump's EO that sets up cartels for Foreign Terrorist Organization designation is directly downstream of this corruption. The idea that the opioid use crisis these billionaires created can be solved by terrorist designation -- or a missile strike, or special forces op -- in Mexico is a fantasy.

Yesterday, we welcomed @repilhan.bsky.social & @hirono.senate.gov reintroducing the Neighbors Not Enemies Act, which would repeal the Alien Enemies Act, the last of the shameful Alien & Sedition acts from the 1790s still on the books. winwithoutwar.org/win-without-...

I wrote about Trump’s inauguration. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Pro-Trump tech billionaires want Greenland...here's why:

Lots of reporting suggested that, this time around, Trump and his lawyers would avoid the sloppy legal work that plagued his first administration so they’d fare better in the courts. I see no evidence of that in this round of executive orders. This is poor, slipshod work obviously assisted by AI.

Dumb observation about a miserable day, but if you are so soft that you think of immigration as an "invasion," then you are a weak, whiny individual that doesn't deserve to wield power. Unfortunately, you are also currently president of the United States or a White House staffer.

One response to this 14th amendment nonsense:

one reason i am adamant that we should not treat the constitution as purely or exclusively a form of law is that it cedes the field to clever lawyers. “oh, well if some chuds in trump’s white house says birthright citizenship doesn’t exist then i guess it doesn’t exist.” but

Help! I'm a 30-something middle manager. How do I get my 20-something direct reports to stop replying to my messages with a salute emoji???

Hegseth really brings home how Evangelical Christianity got so much market share in America: it's the religion that asks less of you once you convert

Pete Hegseth, of all people, decrying extremism in the military after lamenting the rising number of Muslim elected officials: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

He's been making quite the living as a TV personality, and like everyone else in Trump world, he'll cash out when he's done wreaking whatever chaos and violence he can.

Hegseth’s big plan for ending endless wars is to do more war crimes. That’s unacceptable, and it won’t work!

Secretary of Defense nominee Pete Hegseth's hearing is live. Follow this thread for our thoughts on...whatever is going on here. www.c-span.org/event/senate...

Great to see the new CPC chair @repcasar.bsky.social and 19 other members not let up the fight here, even as many in DC are heading towards the exits.

I'm calling for a complete and total shutdown of David Leonhardt writing about immigration until we can figure this thing out. Seriously though, he is a menace to the facts. Notice how he waves away COVID and the destabilizing of countries in the Western Hemisphere and goes with bIdEn DiD iT.

Today in "Congress is a serious body, serving the needs of the people," here's a real provision in the National Defense Authorization Act that'll be passed this week:

lefty shit posters: the harris campaign is chasing Good Republicans, and this is not going to work harris campaign vets: we chased Good Republicans, this is the only possible strategy, there are no others, and it failed because trans people exist