Gen. Caine and Adm. Cooper should put a statement now making clear the U.S. military will not follow orders that would mean committing war crimes, including military actions whose purpose would be to destroy a country or a civilization.

They wouldn’t be terrified of being indicted if they followed the law & not Trump.

Despite Hegseth’s bravado this morning, the last 24 hours are clearly the worst for Trump’s folly, with massive refineries hit in multiple countries. The impact on the US and global economy is going to be brutal and affect every American. This war is a disaster.

This moron continues to incinerate alliances that were built by far better people than him over the past 80 years.

Ukraine is holding back Russia and thus fulfilling the entire traditional mission of NATO without any soldiers or sailors from other countries. Trump is meanwhile demanding NATO allies leave the continent they are supposed to be defending to join him in a doomed adventure he chose in the Middle East

Fox hasn’t been this ridiculous hour after hour since they ran with Trump’s election conspiracies in 2020-21 before they got sued and paid $737 million. It’s a jingoistic alternate reality custom designed for right-wing boomers.

Yes, many Americans are struggling, but it’s good to know the first family can still afford the Earth’s most expensive provisions, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

Quite a timely moment to revisit Keir Starmer’s 2003 op-ed against the Iraq war: “The problem for the government is one of credibility”. www.theguardian.com/politics/200...

President Trump’s administration spent the past year dismissing Europeans as pathetic and irrelevant. Now, as he wages a war alongside Israel to force regime change in Iran, he wants Europe to cheer him on.

It will be tough for America’s global reputation to recover after this absolutely shameful vote.

So, the Trump DOJ failed to release files concerning an Epstein accuser with claims involving Trump... but did manage to accidentally reveal that the files existed? Americans are fed up with this administration’s mix of incompetence and corruption. Time to come clean.

“.. I'm no political strategist, but I'd confidently say ‘you're about as popular as you were back when you fomented a rebellion to overturn a free-and-fair election’ is a suboptimal flex.” @rexhuppke.bsky.social @usatoday.com www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

Trump is melting down. One minute he’s raging, then he’s whining, then he’s threatening, then he sounds like he’s about to cry. Rambling off on tangents. Totally unhinged manic.

Crockett: "All this administration cares about is protecting the powerful and protecting pedophiles. They will do anything to distract from that, including deciding to put up in the middle of Black History Month the most racist thing that we've ever seen come out of a White House."

It’s election year so Lindsey Graham is begging for money on Fox News. It brings me such joy to know he probably lays awake at night trying to figure out how the hell a pediatrician is out-raising him. Let’s keep the pressure on. 🇺🇸💙

In a remotely sane universe, this would be disqualifying and career-ending. The political world would recoil, and the fundamental decency of the America people would be outraged. The raw rancid racism is neither a joke nor a close call. In Trump’s world… open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

Bruce Springsteen’s “Streets of Minneapolis” calls back to protest music’s glory days, Spencer Kornhaber writes—and though the Boss has sounded bitter and mournful before, he has never sounded “this purely angry”:

Singer says song is in response to ‘state terror’ visiting city, painting image of unrest due to ‘King Trump’s private army’

Stephen Miller called the victim, an ICU nurse at the VA filming ICE, a “domestic terrorist who tried to assassinate federal law enforcement.” Greg Bovino said he “wanted to massacre law enforcement.” You saw the videos. How can any Republican not call for their resignations?

Not a “paid protester.” Not an Antifa battalion commander. Not “bussed in from out of state.” A registered nurse at the VA who broke no laws and cared about humanity. Murdered by the Trump Administration.

On the execution in Minnesota: Obviously, the individuals involved should be held accountable. But responsibility goes to the top of ICE and CBP, and DHS. Their appropriations come up next week in the senate. Not a cent for DHS without pulling ICE and CBP off the streets, in MN and everywhere else.

All of this is fucking senseless. Minnesota did not have an immigration problem. Trump sent his Nazi thugs here because he's racist against Somali people and to own libs like Tim Walz. Now two Minnesotans are dead and Minneapolis is on the verge of going up in flames. None. Of. This. Was. Necessary.

The video is out. We can clearly see one of the federal agents shooting the man FIVE TIMES — after he’s lying on the ground!! From an eyewitness: “They killed that guy! Did they fucking kill that guy? Are you fucking kidding me, dude? Now I get it. Are you fucking kidding me? That guy is dead!”

ICE must be stopped. It's leaders should be prosecuted. Later we can discuss how to create a law-abiding, public-serving agency to police our borders. But it can't be this tainted, criminal agency. That's not an extreme position. It the only way to address this existential threat to our society.

There has been an increasing sense in Minneapolis that we are on our own, that our elected representatives are unwilling and/or unable to take action to get these murderous Nazi thugs out of our community. I really hope that changes today. The time for pleading TV hits ended weeks ago.

Moskowitz reads quotes of Republicans denouncing January 6 before they taught themselves to love it

The choice is impeachment and removal or calamity for the United States. I don't see how anybody watching Trump's speech in Davos can draw any other conclusion. He's a senile madman.

Carney: "American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, a stable financial system... this bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition... recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as a weapon. Tariffs as leverage ... "

I will never get over the fact that the Republican Party chose as its standard-bearer, and this country elected as its President, quite possibly the worst human being on the planet.

Mark Carney gave the best speech at Davos by far. He understands the situation with clarity while others prevaricate, appease, and send late-night “Dear Donald” texts or call him “daddy.”

Fukuyama: Trump is a bully who wants to dominate everyone around him. Trying to placate him with concessions is a fool’s errand. He despises weakness. As an American, I say to my European friends: do not back down. Appeasing Trump with flattery has failed and must stop. 1/3

The world knows the US is being run by a madman.An immature, hateful, greedy, racist, in fact. The saddest part is we do not have a single branch of government functioning in the people's interest. The world's once great democracy is no more. It is our struggle to get control and rebuild.

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"That is a fundamental difference between Vice President Vance and I," says Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) in response to JD Vance's defense of the ICE agent who shot and killed Renée Good in Minneapolis. "I do not believe that the American people should be assassinated in the street."

New in PN: Renee Good's killer can and must be prosecuted "There’s no path to justice that runs through this administration or the federal courts. Hell, Trump will probably give the shooter a medal, and would certainly give him a pardon. But there is a path to justice that runs through Minnesota."

A New York Times video analysis of an ICE agent’s fatal shooting of a woman in Minneapolis contradicts the Trump administration’s account. Watch our investigation here.

Please watch and share. The President's remarks yesterday - the lies that he told - were among the most disgraceful moments in his rancid time in the Oval Office.

The American people electing Trump after he staged a coup attempt 5 years ago was a nail in the coffin of our democracy. You can rationalize it all you want - But inflation! But wokeness! - but ultimately it was a societal suicide attempt and probably the dumbest collective voting decision ever made

Steve Cropper, legendary guitarist for Booker T & the MGs, dies aged 84

“London and New York, two of the west’s largest, richest, and most diverse cities are now run by Muslim men, both of them elected on the ticket of left wing, pro-LGBT, pro-multicultural parties…The victory is a reminder of the fundamental weakness of Trumpism, Faragism, and the politics of hate.”

Trump has now murdered 34 people in international waters. No one has any idea if any were criminals, and of course it doesn't matter, because it was a war crime to kill even a single one of them. Drug trafficking is a felony, but it's not a violent crime and isn't punishable by summary execution.

Remember the first few months of this year, when all we talked about was DOGE and spending cuts and waste, and this administration gutted USAID? And now they’re giving $40 billion (!) to Argentina. Insane the amount of amnesia in this country and in our politics and media.

Good to see the Conservative Party committed to keeping the deficit down by *checks notes* spending £2 billion giving tax breaks for private education, creating a massive new deportation force and pledging to maintain pensioner benefits.

How did we get to the point where politicians hoping to get elected compete on being anti human rights, anti climate, and pro racist? It’s thoroughly depressing. We need a big hitting mainstream politician (and the press) calling this madness out

‘The president is unhinged’: Trump’s online behavior grows increasingly odd

I'm tired of people suggesting this woman is not or can't be a true Dem leader. She speaks for the whole party and for the vast majority of Americans better than almost every other politician out there. We need leaders. She's one.

What Hegseth did today was inform an organization he’s unqualified to lead that (a) any area in which he believes he personally excels (e.g. physical fitness) is all that matters, and (b) any area in which he’s deficient (leadership, morality, ethics, record, experience, intelligence) is immaterial.