File this under "Why establishment Dems keep losing." If you won't act like an opposition party, we'll replace you.

The Constitution is clear: Congress is responsible for authorizing offensive military action and declaring war. This President – or any President – should not launch America into sustained offensive military activity in the Middle East, or anywhere, without Congress’ authorization.

This is happening all over the country this week. I'm incredibly grateful for every member of MAGA who have finally decided that enough is enough.

The lack of media coverage about the bombing of the girls elementary schools is shocking.

Trump violated our Constitution by waging war without Congressional authorization. Senate Rs had the chance to defend our Constitution. They failed. They failed to defend our Constitution. They failed to rein in Trump’s poorly planned and illegally-launched war. They failed the American people.

Jeffries: "Article 1 of the Constitution provides Congress with the sole authority to declare war. Framers made that decision b/c they were concerned about kings plunging their people into unnecessary wars to pillage resources of others for the benefit of a tyrant and his family. Sound familiar?"

This is exactly the problem of our day. It should not be possible to become “ultra-rich.”

www.theguardian.com/environment/... Olivier De Schutter, the UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, says politicians must stop prioritising “socially and ecologically destructive growth” that only increases the profits of the world’s richest individuals and corporations.

In The Netherlands, if you hit a kid under 14 with your car, it is automatically presumed to be your fault.

“After analyzing crash data over a 13-year period in areas with separated bike lanes on city streets, researchers estimated that having a protected bike facility in a city would result in 44% fewer deaths and 50% fewer serous injuries than an average city.” Safer for ALL. Via @usa.streetsblog.org

It's kind of wild how driving the speed limit feels like an act of resistance against car culture

The soldiers who died were because of Trump. Nothing else! This war was never discussed with Congress in any way shape or form. It was a political war started because of the Epstein files. The gaslighting and propaganda is pathetic.

New reporting finds that Trump's DOJ took over and quashed a state investigation into Epstein's New Mexico ranch in 2019. As the walls close in on Trump, he'll do anything — including launch full-scale wars — to distract the public.

Trump may have ordered a deadly military strike on a girls’ elementary school in Iran because the Pentagon was using an out-of-date map. At least 175 people, including dozens of young girls between seven and 12, were killed Saturday in an attack on a southern town miles from Tehran. trib.al/1BhX9NO

People refuse to acknowledge how an LLM actually works, and insist on assigning meaning and understanding to its output. There is no meaning, and the system understands neither the user’s question nor its own “response.”

Right now Trump is spending billions of dollars for massive military force against Iran... without a clear congressional mandate or broad public backing. Meanwhile we're being told we “don’t have enough” for affordable care, living wages, or public services.

Guy who said he wouldn’t start a foreign war and attacked former Presidents for starting foreign wars and begged like a small child for a peace prize starts foreign war to distract from his guilt sexually assaulting under-aged girls with Jeffrey Epstein. Who could have seen that coming? Everyone.

They don't *need* AI to make these decisions. But they *want* AI to make these decisions. Because the tech gives them plausible deniability--something to blame (other than themselves) when things go wrong.

We killed 85 schoolgirls. We are not the good guys.

It's really not that surprising. The data exists. I'm just hoping to see my residential street go down to 40km/h.

“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas and city center in 2021.”

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.

No war with Iran. Impeach, remove, and prosecute President Trump.

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

If we don’t build housing to solve homelessness, we don’t really want to solve homelessness. #UrbanTruth

Yes, you SHOULD absolutely print off our ads as posters and put them up around your office, home, barber shop, coffee shop… Plus please just share them A LOT on social media. #UrbanTruth

They beat a blind refugee who speaks no English for failing to obey police commands he could not understand. Then instead of apologizing, they charged him with possession of a “weapon”—HIS WALKING STICK. Then they dumped him miles from home without notifying anyone, after which he was found dead.

ICE is struggling to keep pace with vetting new hires during its historic recruitment push, so it's hiring officers before completing standard checks. The agency fired five people after belatedly finding that they had outstanding warrants for their arrest. www.reuters.com/world/ice-st...

“For almost 2 hours, Trump unleashed a torrent of lies in a desperate attempt to persuade America—and the world—that we all have no idea about the reality we’re living in & that he knows better. Zombified Republicans clapped like circus seals & brayed like asses on cue…” Via @djrothkopf.bsky.social

Following NPR's reporting, the @oversightdemocrats.bsky.social said Tuesday said they're investigating if DOJ "appears to have illegally withheld FBI interviews."

The story that Elon Musk committed voter fraud has gotten next to no coverage -- one of those things you can't make come up on a Google search. But I think it's time for Dems to go on offensive abt right wing coddling of this immigrant interfering in our elections. newrepublic.com/post/206857/...

Who Save America Act could disenfranchise: -146 million without passport -69 million married women who took spouse's last name -21 million without ready access to citizenship docs -21 million without current drivers license -Rural voters forced to drive 4.5 hours to show docs at election office

There are an estimated 275,000 to 300,000 Americans who are living unsheltered on the streets. If we put all of them in luxury hotel rooms for $500 per night, it would cost the taxpayer around $50 billion per year. Homelessness is a policy choice.

Having spent most of my working life in transport policy, this is the essential truth that so many people - including politicians with responsibility for transport decisions - don’t or won’t get. To reduce congestion, you reduce capacity and reduce speed. The empirical evidence is overwhelming.

ICE wants to cover their faces and prevent people from recording what they are doing. In no way should we allow the right to normalize the behaviors of a fascist police state,

Kristi Noem has to go. Gregory Bovino has to go. Stephen Miller has to go.

Team USA Curler Rich Ruohonen: "We'd be remiss if we didn't at least mention what's going on in Minnesota...I am a lawyer, as you know, and we have a constitution... and what's happening in Minnesota is wrong. There's no shades of gray. It's clear."

Why do drivers bang on about cyclists wearing hi viz and helmets when they can't even avoid poles that have lights on them? If they can knock over a metal pole then a helmet won't do much.

This is really, really good. And aggravatingly true.

This is the energy I want from elected Democrats dealing with the federal government.

Question: What would you call it when someone hears the truth, sees the truth, but still believes the lies? Answer: A Trump supporter.

Democracy dies in tax cuts

AOC: We are going to have to reckon, as a country, with this time. And I hope that that reckoning includes prosecution of people who are involved with the lawbreaking and human rights violations they are knowingly engaging in right now.

The word don't is censored. Don't, or Don T. If you're looking for just some fun proof they're doing control+f censoring

Facts are facts. Some people have an anti-fact bias. They are usually power-hungry assholes.

Love to see this, hope it happens.

Bezos isn't destroying the Washington Post because it isn't profitable. He's destroying the Washington Post because he's calculated that a robust free press threatens the ability of his class to warp society around their interests

I can’t believe how stupid everything is. I just hate the stupidity.

Floored by this story. A man wrote a pollite email to a federal prosecutor objecting to the deportation of an Afghan seeking asylum. DHS responded with an administrative warrant to get the man's info from Google, then visited his home to intimidate him.