Today, we’re expanding our NotWhatYouSignedUpFor.org campaign — which connects service members to resources for responding to unlawful and immoral orders — to two major active duty military installations: Fort Bragg and Camp Lejeune.

Trump is turning a “show of force” into policy - blurring the lines between the military and law enforcement. Democrats should push back before it’s too late, @mattduss.bsky.social and @harrisonmann.bsky.social write in @foreignpolicy.com foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/08/t...

Here’s how stupid former Secretary of State Antony Blinken thinks you are: Watch him tell Amanpour that the war could have ended if pro-Palestinian protestors had just called for Hamas to disarm and release the hostages.

Check on your hometown. I recently spoke with a group of Georgia elected officials who were surprised to learn their state had loaned $25 million to Israel, including $10 million Governor Kemp committed after Israel began carpet bombing Gaza post-October 7.

Gillibrand apologizes to Mamdani over ‘jihad’ comments - POLITICO So I am glad Gillibrand apologized but she should really do so publicly, not privately, given her smear against him was done publicly, on live radio in fact.

Our ED, @shaghdoosti.bsky.social, on why members of Congress should stop their dangerous bigotry against Zohran Mamdani and focus on protecting their constituents from real threats -- like the bill they're currently considering that would strip health insurance from millions and supercharge ICE.

“US allies in the Middle East are also coming to the realization that the United States may not be willing or able to protect them if they land in Israel’s sights.” @harrisonmann.bsky.social writes how Trump’s 12-day war in Iran has further endangered the Middle East, as well as the United States.

Between this and his bullying of the Israeli judiciary on Netanyahu’s behalf, Trump has doubled down as an exporter of violent autocracy.

Not so tacit anymore

ICYMI: @harrisonmann.bsky.social told @deanobeidallah.bsky.social that one of Israel's goal with a war with Iran was to cause an regime collapse with the help of the Unites States.

Trump using his leverage to choose Israel’s ruler (like Biden did in Lebanon last year). The tacit threat here is that Trump could reduce military support if Israel’s judiciary prosecutes Netanyahu. I wonder if this statement was one of Netanyahu’s conditions for a ceasefire with Iran.

Coming up on the @deanobeidallah.bsky.social show: @harrisonmann.bsky.social @glennkirschner.bsky.social Casey Pick of @trevorproject.bsky.social ☎️: 866-997-4748 🔊: SiriusXM.us/Dean

Sara Haghdoosti: Let me put this as clearly as I can, Donald Trump's reckless and illegal strikes over the weekend has made us less safe. The last few days have been terrifying but they've also been helpful. Why? Because the anti-war majority did show up. @winwithoutwar.bsky.social

Our statement on the urgent need for de-escalation in the Middle East:

People across the country agree: No War with Iran

"No matter who knew what, and whether Trump explicitly gave Netanyahu a “green light” for the strikes, the United States literally fuels the Israeli war machine." @harrisonmann.bsky.social on Israel's attack on Iran.

Former Army intelligence officer @harrisonmann.bsky.social, who resigned over Gaza, shares seven lies that Trump and Netanyahu are telling about Iran. Read: zeteo.com/p/seven-lies...

I wish @schumer.senate.gov had considered the very real risk of collective blame BEFORE he spent 19 months breathlessly equating American Jews with a genocidal foreign state.

“Mr. President, we’ve got to feed those people.” Thank you Sen. Peter Welch @welch.senate.gov‬ for demanding the Trump administration end the Israeli blockade that threatens to starve 14,000 children to death.

Sen. Welch @welch.senate.gov quoting a Palestinian in Gaza on the nightmare Trump and Netanyahu’s blockade has created: “Believe it or not, people no longer care about bombs, rockets, or even death. What consumes them now is food: How to find it, how to feed their children.”

Happening NOW: @welch.senate.gov is on the floor to demand the Senate pass his resolution calling on the Trump Admin. to use all diplomatic tools at its disposal to end to the blockade on Gaza. Tune in 👇 www.c-span.org/congress/?ch...

Bombing Mexico is still on Trump's agenda, and it's still a horrible idea. Our @harrisonmann.bsky.social has a piece in @foreignpolicy.com today reporting on the results of a tabletop exercise he ran where experts simulated just how bad Trump's plan could turn out. foreignpolicy.com/2025/05/16/u...

My first in @foreignpolicy.com: I ran a wargame to find out what would happen if Trump ordered strikes on Mexican cartels. In short: Strikes were deeply destabilizing for Mexico while doing little to temper the demand at the heart of the US overdose crisis. foreignpolicy.com/2025/05/16/u...

"There is a close overlap between the elected officials who fought the Biden administration's bloody Israel policy and the members now trying in earnest to push back against the Trump administration's authoritarian overreach." @harrisonmann.bsky.social

Trump's first 100 days have been a chaotic and relentless assault on governing institutions and American democracy itself. Our new roundtable of DAWN fellows @naderhashemi.bsky.social @seanyom.bsky.social @yara-asi.bsky.social @harrisonmann.bsky.social and more: dawnmena.org/the-dangers-...

GAO coming out and saying what everyone with eyes to see already knew: the NSM-20 process for Israel was total bullshit, and the Biden administration lied to Congress to continue shipping arms to Netanyahu.

Sen Van Hollen is meeting the moment with courage and leadership, demonstrating that elected officials still have power to stand up to creeping authoritarianism. You should demand the same courage and leadership from your own representatives. bsky.app/profile/vanh...

I applaud @booker.senate.gov for embracing morality. He has the unique opportunity to immediately live his values and silence skeptics when he votes tonorrow on @sanders.senate.gov ‘s joint resolutions to block sales of bombs to Israel that have killed hundreds of children just last month.

2 weeks after I wrote @harvard.edu shouldn’t reputation launder the “Kissinger knock-offs” responsible for atrocities in Gaza, Harvard ups the ante and names Jake Sullivan as inaugural “Henry A. Kissinger Professor of Statecraft and World Order.”

I organized this exercise. TLDR: Drone striking cartels isn’t a great idea unless you want to spread cartel violence, push fentanyl production into new communities in 🇲🇽 AND 🇺🇸, make the trade war even more painful here, and see what happens if 🇲🇽 lets 100Ks of migrants up to the 🇺🇸 border.

On Thursday, @JoaquinCastroTX.bsky.social @ChuyGarcia.house.gov & @Velazquez.house.gov led a resolution reaffirming that Congress opposes calls for U.S. military action in Mexico. winwithoutwar.org/win-without-... 🧵

I had “fun” plotting hellfire and damnation against the Trump White House in yesterday’s exercise. Thanks to @harrisonmann.bsky.social and @winwithoutwar.bsky.social for organizing an incredible event! As the Onion famously declared “Drugs win drug war.”

"Hiring McGurk is a declaration that being party to a litany of war crimes isn't a deal-breaker at Harvard," DAWN fellow @harrisonmann.bsky.social writes. "The very least Harvard can do is stop laundering the reputations of the architects of an ongoing, generational atrocity."

As someone with the dubious distinction of being a veteran of both Brett McGurk’s war on Gaza and his newest employer @harvard.edu Kennedy School, I write we cannot afford to let “elite” institutions reputation launder for the architects of genocide. dawnmena.org/harvard-shou...

McGurk was principle evangelist for a US-Saudi defense pact, a proposition as worthless as it sounds if assessed from an *American* perspective. One of his last acts at the NSC was to lie to @chrisvanhollen.bsky.social that the UAE was no longer arming the RSF in Sudan. H/t @jeremyscahill.com

Join us on March 10th for "Resisting Authoritarianism & Building Power" with @marieberry.bsky.social, @shaghdoosti.bsky.social, and @harrisonmann.bsky.social! Register here: cglink.me/2fC/r2268758 @josefkorbelschool.bsky.social @winwithoutwar.bsky.social

Multiple Democratic congressmen put on their thinking caps and said, “yes, I will go on the record to whine that my constituents care too much about the ongoing coup attempt.” Incredible stuff.

Jewish state adopts poison gas as weapon of choice. @972mag-rss.bsky.social: The IDF killed Israeli hostages and countless Palestinians through doctrinal carpet bombing that “intentionally weaponized toxic byproducts of bombs to suffocate militants in their tunnels.”

Win Without War ED @shaghdoosti.bsky.social's statement on President Trump's despicable plan for the ethnic cleansing and annexation of Gaza.

Marco Rubio was confirmed 99-0 as secretary of state. People on MSNBC called him a "moderate." Now he's helping kill USAID, denying food to desperate people overseas, with no input from Congress, which created the agency. Stop playing nice, Democrats. It makes fascists think you're easy marks.

Of note, the senators who visited USAID today ( @schatz.bsky.social @vanhollen.senate.gov @chrismurphyct.bsky.social ) were also all supporters of the November JRD suspending some arms transfers to Israel (with the exception of @andykimnj.bsky.social , who was still in the House last year).

Trump’s first arms sale to Israel (initiated by the Biden admin) will be an interesting test for Dems now doubling down on rule of law in the face of the Trump/Musk takeover. Will that commitment extend to Leahy Laws? www.wsj.com/world/middle...

“Israeli figures have put the total terrorist death toll in Gaza at around 20,000.”

She also candidly admits that Biden admin’s push last summer for a pan-Arab peacekeeping force in Gaza was “magical thinking”

On the Saudi-Israel normalization cure-all that Biden was hawking as recently as last October: The Biden admin had never actually gotten buy-in from Israel even *before* the Oct 7 attacks.

Unclear to me why the top State Department Near East official would do her exit interview with an Israeli paper, but as always some notable admissions here: www.timesofisrael.com/we-averted-m...

Yesterday, we welcomed @repilhan.bsky.social & @hirono.senate.gov reintroducing the Neighbors Not Enemies Act, which would repeal the Alien Enemies Act, the last of the shameful Alien & Sedition acts from the 1790s still on the books. winwithoutwar.org/win-without-...