In the past, sometimes presidents have said it’s just a military operation or limited airstrikes to skirt Congress. Trump has unilaterally launched major combat operations, declaring war with the goal of regime change. A major violation of the U.S. Constitution, also illegal under international law

This senile moron has been on a nonstop crime spree since the day he took office and even talking about impeachment is still beyond the pale for this congress. Useless

Fun fact: the US has been at continual war since 1945 and *not a single one of these wars*, from the Korean War to Vietnam to Iraq to Iraq again, was ever declared war by Congress. The last time the US Congress declared war was 1942. 83 years ago.

his time is eternal. www.reddit.com/r/Grimdank/s...

A lot of people are talking about whether Trump is going to go to war with Iran but not enough people are talking about the fact that Trump has no legal authority to do so without Congressional authorization

idk it feels like you could use this as a rationale for preemptive war on any country that looked at you funny

Just finished the Behind the Bastards episodes on the impact of Jeffrey Epstein. And like a takeway is that he started funding anti-trans research because he allegedly SA'd a trans girl (she was 16 at the time) who turned around and sued his ass for it and he was mad that she sued him.

Love it when our nation’s defense contractors all spend their Friday nights subtweeting each other about killing everyone in the world

The Israeli and US attack on Iran is morally repugnant. It is calculated only to benefit an elite of racist, Islamophobic warmongers. It will not benefit Iranians or ordinary people anywhere on earth. We must build the grassroots capacity to interrupt the war machine or things will only get darker.

So Israel is launching a "preventive" strike on Iran and also announcing a state of emergency, because they expect Iran to respond to their "preventive" strike by launching missiles. So like... what's being prevented here?

I’m an internationalists in the sense i think Tel-Aviv should be occupied by coalition forces

one of the funniest things to keep coming out of the anthropic reporting is that the pentagon was trying to convince amodei by proposing elaborate hypothetical scenarios. buddy do you think an EFFECTIVE ALTRUIST has never considered a bizarrely specific and elaborate hypothetical scenario??

the current position of the US government is that NVIDIA should be allowed to sell chips directly to China but banned from using Claude, because the latter is a larger national security risk. that is the level of absolute insanity coming out of the White House & Pentagon nowadays

"I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a Supply-Chain Risk to National Security. Effective immediately, no contractor, supplier, or partner that does business with the United States military may conduct any commercial activity with Anthropic." - Defense Secretary Hegseth

So let’s think about this. A private company refused - on principle - to yield to the government’s demands. The government then cancelled its contracts with the company and has set about destroying it

I don't often say this about Missouri laws but I wouldn't have a problem with this being the rule nationwide. www.live5news.com/2026/02/27/right-thing-do-bill-would-require-drunk-drivers-pay-child-support-after-killing-parent

This is fucking crazy right. Like truly insane. I know this dude is a wacko but this is totally berserker. Epstein raped and trafficked kids and filmed it. There's audio and video.

Video of IDF Attack on Medical Aid Workers Analyzed. Aid Workers Were Systematically Executed by the IDF www.instagram.com/reel/DVOTola...

Call me old fashioned but I also dont think china and Russia should do whatever they want

In the story of Humpty Dumpty it is never said that he is an egg. However, it is never said that he is NOT an egg. This means that any character in ANY story could be an egg unless explicitly stated otherwise. Keep that in mind when you read a Jack Reacher novel

Charmed and fascinated by Chess Wars, a DOS game released in 1996 that features live-action cutscenes of medieval melee when playing pieces engage one another in battle.

my understanding of UK politics is that labor got put in power cuz people we fed up with the right and for some reason labor decided "we have to be exactly like the right. or maybe even worse." and are now surprised that they lost to the left because they went right

(I think a lot of people who am my age, also known as people who were born in the 80s and grew up in the 90s were absolutely traumatised by diet culture. I grew up thinking I was enormously fat. Imagine my complete shock when I saw myself on a home video from the 90s; not only was I not fat…)

Metacritic has sent a reminder email to all games site editors/publishers which is pretty strong, and great:

Our best and bravest

Center left parties everywhere would rather cut their own throats than tell the truth about Israel. It’s a puzzler www.axios.com/2026/02/22/d...

they’re calling it the most incel shit in history x.com/weretuna/sta...

i love stories of insanely wealthy degenerate gamblers. you have to be completely detached from reality to play like this. you're just mainlining risk like heroin. anyway Goldstein just got convicted of massive tax fraud archive.is/8Md9L

Only Larry Summers would be so stupid and naive to think you could get Alan Dershowitz to stop talking to the press.

Has he spoken about his two eldest sons with as much warmth as Zohran Mamdani?

it's really surreally funny that the socialist mayor of New York City seems to be Donald Trump's current favorite person

Trans rights have always been the canary in the coalmine for human rights. I wish they weren't, but that is the reality we have to deal with.

Beyond just being a book ban it lists gender dysphoria and transgender”ism” as explicitly sexual. It’s clear they want to follow through on Project 2025’s goal of labeling even existing as trans as being a sex crime.

@gonzo.bsky.social, you are avenged.

For the many Platner fans here, Peters is a white supremacist, Holocast denying / antisemetic, virulently anti-trans anti-gay right-wing influencer. There's no lack of people making similar points that Platner could be reading and promoting who are not nazis.

If you’re wondering why the Trump Administration is cutting off health care for people across our state - look no further than the President’s own words: “retribution is coming”

Glad this MAGA hall monitor is reading MS NOW! www.ms.now/opinion/fcc-...

i really struggle to understand how anyone could behave this way. i mean, intellectually, i get it. i research monsters for a living. i know they’re real. but imagine slamming the cage door in a crying child’s face, having just confiscated her crayons. and then going home to your own family???

"small government"

"Constructed in a record two months after a $1.2 billion contract was granted to a Virginia-based company w/no listed related experience, it is viewed as a model for more than two dozen ICE facilities the gov’t plans to convert into detention centers across the country, including several in Texas."

i have a highly scientific hunch that while a genocidal gaza policy obviously hurt harris/biden's support generally, it hurt them especially with People Who Give a Shit, i.e the people who would more usually be the ones volunteering & knocking doors & making sure their friends & family vote

Kansas has, overnight, invalidated the drivers’ licenses of trans people, a pointless cruelty that upends their lives If Brits think “it won’t happen here” think again! Groups in the U.K. who want the same thing are routinely invited to consult with Labour and normalised in our press!

I did catch up up a bunch of soap work today too - photography and packaging. I need to start making all the restocks again. Maybe March will be less chaotic. In the meantime, Lavender Soap photos! veronicafoaleessentials.com.au/shop/product...

Beloved Sugar Plum suffered a devastating accident in her new home, & she’s fighting desperately for her life with a fractured skull & TBI. We stepped in to try to save her, but after nearly $10k in bills for Setzer just last week, we could use some help. linktr.ee/crits4cats has our donation links

Cops are great

Cops are great

I know this is becoming something of a mantra but it is really disheartening to be reminded constantly how many seemingly normal folks out there are just completely bereft of the most rudimentary degree of basic decency or moral sense.

Honestly almost as revolting as the behavior of the cops & CBP involved is the Erie County DA’s office that looked at this fact pattern and decided “yup, better bring charges against this menace to society.”