if you've just gotten yelled at for six months and you go on a podcast called VALHALLAVFT without having listened to it (and that's genuinely giving him more good faith than he has earned), i might suggest that you may not be the best candidate for the most elite legislative role in america

I don’t care what a paid political commentator on cable news thinks about this war. I want to know what Middle East experts have to say, what elected officials have to say & what people running for office have to say. It wouldn’t hurt to ask economists either.

They care so little about American soldiers that Trump is at a golf course today.

Only exactly what people not in the orbit of Trump and his band of evil idiots have been saying, ever since that aircraft carrier headed to the Gulf. Here we go, into the unknown unknowns.

His video is very clear that the war powers resolution is to STOP Trump's war. But the skeet text needs to make that plain as well. Tons of folk on here are saying the vote will be to authorize. No! That's not it. Watch the video.

part of why putting congress back in charge of this is that it would require that the admin make the case for war in front of them, and i want you to think for a moment about what that case would look like coming from this admin

We had a deal to keep Iran from getting nukes! Trump backed out of it because he wanted to own Obama. Iran kept following its end of the deal for a year anyway, begging Trump to reenter the deal. Trump literally backed out of the no nukes deal and then initiated a war because of nukes. Insanity.

The lying liar with a whopper at SOTU.

In a just world, every bad faith git with a platform who called Trump an anti-war president would be driving DoorDash for the next ten years. It was always such transparently false bullshit.

For obvious reasons, I'm in a MOOD. And it's going to be touch and go wether I block accounts that are harping on "Congress" not doing enough. It's the fucking Republicans. The REPUBLICANS. Blaming Congress is pernicious both-sides (even if, yeah, I'd like a bit more vigor from some Ds!).

Running your war from a private club for millionaires — ahead of a $1 million-a-plate dinner — is a choice.

Stephen Miller just before the 2024 election

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done - started a war in the middle east - completely destroyed the economy

We often heard that the Constitution “bent, but didn’t break” in Trump’s first term. Maybe, but it’s broken now. None of this (the invasion of MN, war on Iran, abducting Maduro, persecuting trans ppl) should be happening, because a president this corrupt is supposed to have been removed.

Here's a crazy idea for you: What if Trump's malignant nationalism is actually bad politics? That challenges the pundit take that 2024 showed a durable cultural shift toward Trumpism, but with tariffs/deportations tanking, the evidence for it is mounting. 4/ newrepublic.com/article/2071...

What are they hiding? (Narrator: we all know what they’re hiding) Congressman Garcia (D-CA) said, “The DOJ appears to have illegally withheld FBI interviews with this survivor who accused President Trump of heinous crimes.”

This was the very next item in my timeline 🤦🏼

This is a winning message. Republicans really have their finger on the dietary (and budgetary) pulse of normal Americans!

The Dow has been below 50,000 for over 2 weeks now. So isn't it time for Pam Bondi to come back to Congress and answer more questions about Epstein?

Feel like I'm going crazy. Holocaust survivors spent decades telling everyone, "The fascists will come back. When they do, first you will see this, then they will do that, then this will happen," and so forth. And it's all proceeding exactly as foretold. After they died, everyone just . . . forgot.

The law shows a type of open contempt for fairness, human rights, legal rights of Kansas residents, and decency that should be a five alarm fire for human rights and rule of law in the US. It is illegal, unconstitutional, and illegitimate.

They're cranking the kakistocracy dial to 11. And I doubt that a single "First Principles" conservative group, who couldn't pass up a single tiny ('arugula'!) slight by the Democrats, will all stay completely silent by this utter embarrassment of a moment.

vindictive, vicious cruelty designed to humiliate and criminalize every trans person in kansas horrifying fascist shit reminiscent of the runup to the literal holocaust

It was never about women's sports. It was never about American jobs. Never about fighting crime. INever about fighting antisemitism. Never about free speech. It's always been about one thing: narcissistic hate, of the fascist variety.

Not one person will be made safer by these laws. These laws will protect no one from anything. They will not make anyone safer. They will do nothing but put a license to insult, abuse, beat, and kill trans people. That is it. www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...

New Marquette Univ Law School Poll of Wisconsin voters: Check the whole thread! But this was eye opening to me:

a) Not my district and b) Never voting for a Republican. But GOP Whim Tom Emmer has a home-grown Republican primary challenger! And as Foley says, MN-06 is heavily R (66-34 last cycle) so the primary is – even with Trump headwinds – very likely the deciding election.

@governorwalz.mn.gov what are you doing? Folks in MN are days away from rent being due but 10s of thousands of people are being impacted by ICE and the Federal government. You need to push to pass a rent moratorium until ICE IS OUT of MN. Please move on this fast.

So many horrors. And NO, training is not the problem. A culture that disdains life - particularly non-white life - is the problem. ICE has to be disbanded. Root and branch.

This is the most hopeful moment of the entire night.

The whole speech by Spanberger is good. And if you didn't see it, it's only 16 mins. Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpfl...

The State of Our Electorate is Strong.

Pedocon theory remains undefeated.

Yes! I'm very critical of how (many) Congressional Dems handled the SOTU tonight in the chamber. But I'll give credit when Dems to well. This good.

Yes I'm partisan (lol) but Gov. Spanberger is delivering a response that doesn't feel like a lukewarm can of SPAM. Having an audience is smart. Having a speaker who can be both natural and crisp and clear, and who talks truthfully about how Minnesota was invaded, it's good.

This, THIS is why I'm so mad. And I have to say, our trans neighbors have been warning about this for a long time. It's also why I'm LIVID when Reps like Angie Craig parrot the "more training for ICE" bullshit. It's accepting the authoritarian premise, but with 'rules' (as if they matter!).

The 27th f**king opportunity for Democrats to walk out. We goddammit do not just sit still for this!!! Some more have in recent minutes left, I gather. But it needs to be ALL of them by now.

I'm pretty pissed that Jeffries and (bar a handful who've left or refused to attend) the Dems don't understand that standing up and walking out when Trump bitterly demeaned them IS "going high when they go low." Sitting there is indeed a total giving away of any dignity.

THIS is why people like me get mad when Jeffries suggests 'decorum'. He should have walked out seconds after this happened!!

After pointing at Democrats and saying they are "crazy," Trump says, "We’re lucky we have a country, with people like this. Democrats are destroying our country, but we stopped it, just in the nick of time." Just insanely destructive. Indefensible — but Republicans stood and clapped.

His family's wealth has gone up by BILLIONS since he took the presidency. He is the biggest crook in the history of the Republic.

Wasn't watching. Will not be watching. Popped over here on a break between streaming Standup shows to get the vibe aaaand.... Getting some chips and gonna ☮️ out.

This blatant xenophobic racism against an entire group of immigrants is unacceptable, and every member of Congress who cheered it is a horrifying stain on America.

trump just "shame if something happened" slant threatened the supreme court justices sitting in front of him and to john roberts specifically i say: lol. lmao

Not watching, so I don't know how Mikey Johnson looked at this moment. Relieved probably, since he seems to hate doing work. Or watching news. Or reading. Or anything (except maybe monitoring his son's internet usage?).

Remember last year when he introduced the child with brain cancer, pledged to fight brain cancer, and then a few days later cut all of the funding to that program?

Finally gets to "The state of our union is strong." And the second he hits that note, he's GONE. He's rambling, he's off-script and talking about winning big, and introducing the US hockey team!!!

Serious fiscal conservatism is a group of Minnesota Republicans trying to appropriate taxpayer dollars to erect a statue of Charlie Kirk at a public university none of them attended and that doesn’t even have a Turning Point USA chapter

In all seriousness, Trump said in his post-SCOTUS-tariff press conference that he can destroy a country if he "wants to." He does not believe that Congress has to participate in declaring war. (And the GOP will probably make that functionally accurate if not legally true.)

Yes, this, if the news of flights heading to Iran are accurate. He & Kegbreath can probably convince the generals to strike, but it will be a war started without legal basis. The "party of law and order" is absolute sh*t.