✋ Former USG war crimes lawyer here. Apropos of SecDef's remarks this morning: Denial of quarter—even the declaration of no quarter—is a war crime. And recognized as such by the US Government. From DoD's Manual for Military Commissions.

If you are a reporter and you ask Trump a question where he has to think about the answer, he just insults you. That means it was probably a good and important question.

Yes. ICE agents don't get to carve out a First Amendment exception for themselves.

Is the premise of this story that the mayor should make lighthearted video content about an ongoing criminal investigation www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/n...

The American right is heavily invested in the myth that progressives only oppose the war in Iran because we do not want freedom for Iranians

Concede nothing to the Nothing. (We skipped that one part)

can't help but notice whose losses are expressed in dollars and whose losses are expressed in lives

“EXCLUSIVE: I’m the Palestinian Who Has Been in ICE Detention for Almost a Year” Writing for Zeteo from inside of prison on International Women’s Day, Leqaa Kordia asks us not to forget the female detainees being held and mistreated in ICE detention camps.

then show the real footage you cowards

There's something deeply obscene and broken about the fact that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are bombing elementary schools in an illegal war of aggression, and there's still a sense among the opposition that it has to be explained in terms of gas prices in order to get American voters to care.

It's hilarious that "working class" now applies exclusively to the racist failsons of regional car dealership owners but every unemployed trans person is an "elite".

there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

This is the Republican Party now.

Hundreds of thousands of Americans are currently stranded in a war zone because the President raped little kids.

yes and thank you for the excuse to share one of my all-time favorite tweets (from @longwall26.bsky.social)

A few $ helps pay the interns or for gas so Colin can drive out to western Kansas to talk to farmers. Your support makes far more of an impact in this race than all the high profile ones.

Races like these don’t get the huge $ or attention from the party or the press because everyone thinks they’re unwinnable. But we know better and we are scrappy. Help us fight! 👊🏻

Apropos of everything, if you want to do something tangible that I promise REALLY makes a difference, throw some quarters at @colinmcroberts.bsky.social ‘s campaign to unseat a MAGA bootlicker in the heat of ruby-red Kansas. colinforkansas.com

The USA’s largest export is mass shootings.

Uh no...we definitely realize it.

"That's the way it is." -- President Trump "A squirter makes its way through." Sec Def. Hegseth They're talking about U.S. military personnel killed in action.

I hate how accurate this tweet is.

They went to war with Iran (which nobody in America was asking for) so they could conjure an excuse to allow ICE to keep murdering Americans and teargassing schools here at home with impunity (which nobody in America was asking for).

guys I’m literally ten days into Lent, and this is the SECOND person on the list who appears to have died after experiencing seizures in ICE custody when they’d never had seizures before so many cases where ICE never releases an official cause of death. what tf is happening behind closed doors

Social media created this nonsense idea that not exposing yourself to hatred is isolationist. Choosing to not spend your free time with bigots isn’t living in a bubble. I don’t need to know what’s going on at X. I won’t be smarter or more knowledgeable or empathic by being there. Neither will you.

“All that I ask is that you lie to us. We don’t need much. We can work with any old bullshit. Just give us something to pretend to believe in.”

oh thank god they took out a bunch of extremely dangerous [checks notes] little girls

Today’s military strikes on Iran — carried out by the United States and Israel — mark a catastrophic escalation in an illegal war of aggression. Bombing cities. Killing civilians. Opening a new theater of war.

"The Islamists oppose women getting an education," I mutter, as I aim my missile at the girls school

The King is mad

Read it again. We killed 85 schoolgirls this morning.

Wars can only be declared by Congress. Taxes can only be levied by Congress. Spending can only be appropriated by Congress. Laws can only be passed by Congress. Any President who refuses to work with Congress is an enemy of the Constitution and the rule of law.

It’s crazy that it’s basically just a combination of the single worst most disastrous parts of every administration in history

Dear Congress, What the fuck?

Nine months ago, the United States "completely and totally obliterated" Iran's nuclear program. Tonight, we're attacking Iran to disrupt their nuclear program. A sizable percentage of this country thinks that's normal.

I've been sharing this Adrienne Rich poem with a lot of folks as we move closer to the collapse of first amendment freedoms. Please read, understand, share. It is not an answer. It is, instead, the very question we must ask and keep asking. www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/51092/...

Stand up, and give it to him!

Arrest them.

To my trans folks online: no matter how many cowards you encounter or observe, you are, and have always been worth fighting for.

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.

The level of rage I have towards the New York Times that enabled this while blaming us for it is indescribable.

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.

We don’t want thunder; we want rum

we dont have the money for universal health care but we have tons of money for concentration camps and a surveillance society

This is hilarious and all, but I do think the headline convention in which media outlets position themselves as the most credulous rubes on the face of the earth really is a minor factor in the ongoing erosion of media trust.

"Be reasonable about this," he says. "Meet me in the middle." "OK," you say. You take a step forward. He takes a step back. "Be reasonable about this," he says. "Meet me in the middle."

The Party of Lincoln now believes in a government of the predators, by the predators, and for the predators

Why are the women hockey players being asked about Trump’s misogyny and not the men who laughed at the joke?

So much of the response to the hockey controversy has been “we were so unified during the games, this is about America, stop making a bigger deal about this.” That’s all BS. And all designed to keep women quiet and in their place. Men need to call out misogyny. When they hear it.

The sexy hockey show did all that work earning good will towards the sport with women and gay men only to have actual entitled douchebag hockey men blow that good will up by reminding us why sexy hockey show is just a fantasy.