Ossoff: "The president owes Americans a real explanation. 2am posts on Truth Social just aren't good enough when you're sending Americans into combat. He was dancing at his beach club the same night he ordered air crews to launch into combat & hours before our service members endured missile salvos"

The glibness. The indifference. The carelessness. The utter lack of planning for a war against a country of 90M. The sickness of a man who acts on whim that will kill thousands not hundreds. The horror of a regime that enables this sickness. The broken body politic that votes in such malignancy.

when people point back at Reconstruction to explain where we are as a country (a good impulse) its often to claim that Reconstruction completely failed I'd say it's more like: Reconstruction was partial and compromised, which kept the Civil War going as a domestic political battle vs a won war

In a New York minute.

In a democracy, the war on Iran would not be possible.

Listening to the GOP call Iran a murderous authoritarian regime made me think about the fact the US is also a murderous authoritarian regime. Happy Monday.

AYMAN: Can you tell me where Iran killed thousands of Americans in America? ANNA PAULINA LUNA: I said they are responsible for thousands of Americans being killed AYMAN: Where? LUNA: Are you serious right now? AYMAN: It seems like you don't want to have a good faith conversation

Trump was briefed this was the riskiest US military operation since the Iraq invasion of 2003. He was told American lives would be lost. He was told Iranian missiles could overwhelm our air defenses. He proceeded anyway. No congressional authorization.

Trump just launched a war in Iran — without Congress and without a plan. As a 25-year vet who served in Iraq, I’ve seen how wars begin and how hard they are to end. Regime change from the air won’t work — but American troops will pay the price. This is not peace. It’s chaos.

We’re such a fucking sick, evil country. It’s the exact same playbook as Iraq and Afghanistan. This was always the end goal.

“In 2003, the road to war in Iraq was paved with lies about nonexistent weapons of mass destruction. The path to a new conflict in Iran 23 years later has been lined largely with incoherence or silence.”

My big takeaway from the invasion of Iraq—which I regret having supported—is that the US should go to war only when it has to. It should not engage in preventative wars against nebulous threats based on suspect intelligence and without a clear endgame. Yet here we go again. wapo.st/4seF5K1

Donald Trump just bombed Iran...a country with 92 million people. This is not Venezuela, Iraq, or Kuwait. This is not a joke. This mother fucker just started a war. Why do you think this is happening? Who benefits? What are we going to do about this America?

Sociopaths are terrific at spotting other sociopaths. {gift link} www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Documents released by the DOJ revealed Brende had met the convicted sex offender for three business dinners and also communicated with Epstein over email and text messages.

the fact the president of the united states is even thinking about asserting emergency powers to disrupt an election - just a few years after he incited an armed coup attempt - should be the top issue. but the media mostly shrugs and the opposition doesnt focus on it.

Wow jmail.world/drive

The Justice Department has filed lawsuits against Kentucky, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Utah, and West Virginia seeking access to their complete voter registration lists.

This is such a well done piece that reports out, with hard data and interviews, something profound about what's gone wrong in this country. www.wsj.com/us-news/amer...

Breaking MS NOW: An ICE whistleblower is expected to testify at a congressional forum today that the agency is "lying to Congress and the American people" about its training of new recruits. Ryan Schwank was an ICE academy instructor for new recruits before he resigned earlier this month.

Get Your Freak On,Pam Bondage !

Just saying...

What's the use of democracy if the media is allowed to lie to the public and therefore influence their voting? We have churches that do not pay taxes directly influencing people's votes. And this is what democracy is. It's bullshit. It doesn't work like we're supposed to believe.

i'm watching spike lee's remarkable documentary FOUR LITTLE GIRLS and as much as i want to focus on the film i can't help but think about the people, with real power and influence, who want to take this country back to before birmingham

Happy Lunar New Year!

“It’s the people that have to change the earth, not the presidents or whatever you wanna call them. The people have to change this thing, you know. Because it’s the people that put them in power, right? So the people have to make decisions for themselves.” #bobmarley

This is something

This whole Epstein File episode has really brought home how much we’ve lost our empathy on a massive scale. There is actual evidence both documented and verified by survivors of horrific crimes. Committed by people at the highest levels. Yet not one of them has been punished.

Yes! What if we treated extremely normal human variation as something other than a "disorder"??? www.positive.news/society/yout...

@barackobama.bsky.social: "When I was POTUS, I suppose I could have simply unilaterally ordered the military to go into some red state and harass and intimidate a governor or cut off funding for states that didn't vote for me... but that is contrary to how I think our democracy is supposed to work."

This guy raped little girls.

The interesting thing about ICE and CBP blatant lies is that it has normie people questioning what other law enforcement lies like this on the regular. It has shattered a lot of the deference people had.

Swarms of bots linked to IP addresses in Lanzhou, China are absolutely flooding the internet. An absolutely fascinating story from our Made in China newsletter this week, by @zeyiyang.bsky.social

Creative Revolution is the solution to fascism.

RFK Jr: I'm not scared of a germ. I used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats.

CARTOON OF THE DAY 😕 (From @andertoon.bsky.social )

Trump nominated a legit white nationalist to a top post at the State Department. I asked him some basic questions about his belief in the “erasure of white culture”. Watch this embarrassing, fumbling answer. Like he has never before been asked to explain his views.

Start taking assets from this criminal….

Pam Bondi walked right into a trap today. And she is too dumb to realize she was set up. Set up to be the scapegoat for the entire administration, including Donald Trump, over their Epstein files failure.

YES! This ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Raskin: "I want the whole country to look at this. This is the attorney general of the US whose job is law enforcement. We've never had a witness who has misunderstood our rules and been unable to conform his or her conduct to our rules before. Excuse me."

The Atlantic’s profile of Bondi has some wow. @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

“The dissent I’ve seen is like a whisper. It’s a fear-based culture right now.” Across the industry, workers describe a ‘fear-based culture’ and pressure to ‘fall in line.‘ Read more from @haydenfield.bsky.social: buff.ly/NArp66x

Goldman: "Will the survivors and victims who are here please stand up one more time. By show of hands, how many of you or your loved ones actually have met with the DOJ? None ... How many of you were ignored by the DOJ? All of them." (Bondi responds by smearing Goldman.)

Rep. Raskin to Pam Bondi: You're siding with the perpetrators and ignoring the victims. That will be your legacy. You're running a massive Epstein coverup right out of the Department of Justice.

🎩 For the past 10 years we have been traumatized day after day By the cruelty of Trump and his enablers The abuse is constant and never ending Everyday is even worse than the day before We’re living in Hell this is a real life nightmare I’d rather die fighting than allow this to continue!