Secretary of State Marco Rubio at UFC in Miami tonight as diplomatic negotiations with Iran fail (Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AFP via Getty)

trump and his secretary of state are at a UFC fight while negotiations with Iranians, led by the VP and real estate developers, fall apart.

After reading this, there is zero way any of us can support Swalwell. A staggering disappointment, but he has to go — and be held accountable. These are really horrific allegations and I support all the women who have come out against him.

Our long national nightmare of effective cancer treatment is coming to an end.

Not All Men, but really a lot fucking more of them than you'd like, you know?

1)Republicans lost the popular vote in 7 of last 9 presidential elections 2)more than 2/3 of Americans had not even been born yet the last time the Court had a majority appointed by Dem. president. The Post left these 2 points out of this #scotus story. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Except we’ve spent $50 billion, the Strait is closed and 3000 people are dead. @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

An avowed bad-faith republican can co-host a news show for a major network as an alleged journalist because the intent of corporate media is to support the republican party

At least 85 Democrats are calling for Trump's impeachment or removal via the 25th Amendment.

GOOD TO SEE dem leadership bringing up the 25th amendment and other accountability mechanisms!

Trump accepted $37 million worth of donated foreign steel for his White House ballroom from a corporation based in Luxembourg. Just days later, the Trump administration made major cuts to tariffs on steel imports that could significantly benefit that corporation. "America First."

I want Democrats out there scaring the shit out of Americans about how insane and dangerous Trump is. I want them to say nonstop that they need to remove him from office and challenge Republicans to join them unless they don't love their country. Make it patriotic to want to get rid of Trump.

A reminder here that we were negotiating with Iran in February, with the Strait of Hormuz open and Iran not even threatening to close it. Now we’re negotiating to re-open the Strait with Iran having succeeded in closing it and with more leverage. Epic failure. newrepublic.com/article/2087...

Like many right wing ideas, it is both reprehensible and incorrect. This was a massive, massive strategic defeat, quite possibly the worst in American history. Trump's genocidal threats were products of weakness and immorality, not strength

Donald two weeks ago: "We no longer ‘need,’ or desire, the Nato Countries’ assistance _ WE NEVER DID!” Donald today: "NATO WASN’T THERE WHEN WE NEEDED THEM, AND THEY WON’T BE THERE IF WE NEED THEM AGAIN."

Right now, we are witnessing a preview of what could happen in the USA this November. Hungary's opposition party, Tisza, is so far ahead in the polls that they are on track to win a supermajority in the parliament, spelling the end of Orban. The only way Orban can remain is to subvert the election.

Exclusive: The acting director of the CDC has delayed publication of a report showing the covid-19 vaccine cut the likelihood of ER visits and hospitalizations for healthy adults last winter by about half, according to two scientists.

That's the new lie that every Republican will have to parrot no matter how much they know it's a lie: Iran was an "imminent threat that has been destroyed"and not "this was a stupid clusterfuck of ego and incompetence."

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

Donald all but admitted it early this morning. bsky.app/profile/toms...

BEIRUT (AP) - Israeli strikes hit several dense commercial and residential areas in central Beirut Wednesday afternoon without warning, hours after a ceasefire was announced in the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran. @apnews.com

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

We lost 13 troops. Injured hundreds more. Killed thousands of Iranians, including school children. Used hundreds of millions of our tax dollars. Damaged our bases in the region and countless aircraft. Sent gas prices through the roof here and abroad. And we got what exactly?

I hate having to do the "look, they're normal just like us" post, but sometimes you have to do that when American propaganda tries to convince everyone Iranians are "animals".

The entire world is held hostage by a 79yo pedophile.

Let's take a moment to look at some economic data showing how much damage he's doing to the US economy and consumers. First up, CPI. His tariffs caused the main gauge of inflation to rise by more than 50%. In Friday's March report it is likely to jump above 10% on annualized basis!!!!!!! 1/

just to be clear, everyone, when 8 pm EDT comes and goes, regardless of what does or does not happen, the president still threatened genocide and war crimes and we should still impeach, arrest, and try him

Not one word of this is hyperbole.

23 people could stop this genocidal war criminal. That’s it. 23. 20 Republican senators and 3 republican reps in the house and he’d be out of politics forever. But they won’t. They’re addicted to power. A drug so strong they’d rather see a civilization die than give it up.

Delaying booking a return flight back to my house in case my idiot president launches a nuclear war tonight. Even if he eats shit and walks away tonight, don't let anyone forget how fucking stupid this moment was. Don't let kids forget how close we are to annihilation, provided we make it.

After Trump wrote, in reference to Iran, “A whole civilization will die tonight,” the entirety of the House Democratic leadership issued this joint statement:

Cool cool cool.

I feel like I have nothing to write. "Genocide is illegal and Trump must be tried for war crimes" feels, somehow, *under*whelming in this moment.

Yep. Dems need to be speaking loudly and in unison about the urgent national need to remove this madman from office immediately.

President Trump is threatening war crimes of horrific proportions against civilians. It’s deranged. This madness must stop.

There is no excuse for downplaying or eliding the insanity of Trump’s morning post. It is the most unhinged public comment by a president in US history and should be reported and remarked upon as such.

An upcoming Montana ballot referendum would deny corporations the power to spend in state and federal elections. If it passes in deep red Montana, it could pass anywhere. State by state, this could effectively nullify Citizens United. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1fPbGHe3xE

This is an actual post. This is not funny. This is beyond desperate. This is a deeply unwell man who doesn’t belong anywhere near the levers of power. Every member of his cabinet and Congress is complicit in not demanding his removal now.

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.

“Three Hundred Habeas Cases in Which the Government Has Defied Court Orders” An extraordinary database of non-compliance, from @katherinepomps.bsky.social and @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org for @lawfaremedia.org. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/thre...

Pam Bondi’s portrait was taken down at DOJ and tossed in a trash bin soon after her firing. MS NOW obtained the photo. The move reflects how deeply unpopular she was among career officials. Ken Dilanian & Carol Leonnig scoop www.ms.now/news/pam-bon...

This is so, so well-articulated.

It says a lot about where we are that one can read the entire @nytimes.com story on the firing of the Attorney General of the United States without a *single* reference to that officer's duty to uphold the Constitution—which might just sometimes make it just a little hard to do the boss's bidding:

People say Trump has no war strategy, but his strategy is quite clearly a criminal one of destroying Iran's civilian infrastructure (and killing a bunch of people in the process) unless they capitulate. We -- the United States of America -- are a rogue state and global pariah.

I can promise you that no matter how closely you are paying attention, you are missing huge swaths of damage Trump is doing to the country & to vulnerable people. There's almost no way to fit it all in your head.

As I note in this piece, asking the question of whether the constitution creates birth right citizenship is on par with asking whether it creates a federal senate. This entire question is made up. Only SCOTUS corruption makes it an issue. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-few...

How is it that this story kind of came and went without provoking some obvious questions regarding our own possibly election tipping assassination attempt?

74% of Americans now say the government isn’t doing enough to regulate AI. They’re right. That’s why I introduced a moratorium bill - to give us time to address the risks and to ensure that this technology works for all of us, not just the billionaires who own it.

God, how most of the rest of the world must hate us and will hate us for years because of this asshole.