this was a bad idea from people that are unbelievably high off their own supply

Trump is now totally fine with Iran as long as they cut him in on the tolls they charge. The guy has the moral fiber of a sociopathic mob boss. He is a walking atrocity.

Stares in Canadian.

So who's the theocracy here?

Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:

🚨New preprint and our results are rather concerning.. We find the "boiling frog" equivalent of AI use. Using large-scale RCTs, we provide *casual* evidence that AI assistance reduces persistence and hurts independent performance. And these effects emerge after just 10–15 minutes of AI use! 1/

this whole thing is very much like being locked in a room with a guy with a grenade who keeps being like IM GONNA DO IT IM GONNA PULL THE PIN and then is like “actually nah” and then everyone sighs but you’re still locked in the same room with the same guy and he’s still holding the same grenade

It’s TACO time. But it’s still time to remove Donald Trump via the 25th amendment or rein in his war powers. Now please.

In case it's not already obvious, we're going to see a lot of conflicting reports over the next hour or two. Best not to jump to any conclusion based on any one piece of info.

I want to build a world where people care about the welfare of all the other people in the world.

1. Elahe Mohammadi’s reporting on the funeral of Jina Mahsa Amini — which ignited the Woman, Life, Freedom uprisings — led to her being imprisoned by the regime for 17 months. God only knows what she endured while in prison. So I hope you’ll read her message below.

Another Lebanese channel, citing sources in Beirut, says there is a high possibility of a ceasefire *that includes Lebanon.* Which would be very good. www.mtv.com.lb/en/news/Loca...

Happening now: an anti-war demonstration is getting underway in Chicago's Federal Plaza, in response to US/Israeli attacks on Iran and Donald Trump's threat to Iran this morning that "a whole civilization will die tonight." A few dozen people here so far.

Breaking MS NOW: More than 50 House Democrats are now calling for Trump's removal through impeachment or the 25th Amendment.

A second House Democrat, Jasmine Crockett, sends Vance and the cabinet a letter urging them to invoke the 25th Amendment:

Iranian sources reporting that U.S. and/or Israeli fighter jets are continuing strikes throughout Iran as we approach Trump's 8pm deadline, when "a whole civilization will die." I'm going to post images, video & updates (including sourcing/confidence where possible) over the evening in this thread.

This is simply genocidal language and is a horror in itself.

Yes, alarmism is bad but if we want to revive the constituency for nuclear arms control I think we need a better response to people concerned about nuclear use than “it’s not going to happen and your fears are misplaced, you ignorant rube”

Now is the time to show us your good, America. Get rid of Trump and stop the bombs.

called my rep and then like five minutes later he posted basically what I told him so I've decided it was my call that really pushed him over the edge. this is the power of Phone Call

KSENIIA PETROVA (Harvard clawed frog embryo computational biologist) wins her Vermont habeas case on partial summary judgment: the Court finds the cancellation of her visa was arbitrary and capricious and must be set aside, and therefore the revocation of her visa is set aside.

That NYT article reminds me of all the people in Trump’s first term who “almost resigned” - it doesn’t count unless you act, folks

Anti-War protest tonight at 6 pm at the White House. Spread the word!

I find comfort in the fact @hcrichardson.bsky.social is planning her usual livestream tonight youtube.com/live/3Z3l_ea...

We are! And you can! Mobilize.us and Indivisible.org are great places to start. Don’t wait for others to do something. See a need and fill it. Everyone can contribute something.

“Progress has been made in the past 24 hours in the negotiations between the U.S. & Iran, though reaching a ceasefire deal by President Trump's 8pm deadline still looks like a long shot.”

The entire Dem leadership should CALL THEMSELVES OUT OF VACATION and set up camp in chambers and shame the shit out of the deadbeat war criminals, the Genocide Ol' Party.

Small point but it’s kinda troubling that we have a POTUS whose cabinet members are unsure that he knows the meaning of the word, “farcical”

Shout out to every single person and institution, from Vietnam-era draft boards to Mark Burnett to the Supreme Court and the GOP, who have let Trump off the hook for decades. Thanks to you, he's started a war because he believes things "always" work out in his favor. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/u...

everything we are seeing now is the consequence of having a political environment in which indifference to the deaths and suffering of other people - even by the state whose supposed responsibility is to safeguard their welfare - is a superpower rather than a political liability

Trump calls into an Orbán campaign rally to endorse him, as Bloomberg reveals secret tapes of Orbán's private conversations with Putin in which he promises him absolute loyalty.

The President of the United States is threatening to commit war crimes and wipe out a "whole civilization" — all because he started a disastrous war of his own making and had no plan and no strategy for how to end it. This is abhorrent, and the American people do not support this.

This is all you really need to know: “Everyone deferred to the president’s instincts”

I have read a statement that “a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again,” and as I read that statement and as I reread that statement I cannot shake the feeling that the civilization from which that statement comes is one that is already dead.

The photos of the earth from space are so impossibly moving. It's such a small, bright, fragile thing. Why isn't that enough to make us live here together better? I know, it's a cliched reflection, but it just feels so so true today.

If Trump is allowed to operate with impunity, it's because people with privilege aren't willing to do anything that might upset the tacit agreements that allow them also to get away with breaking the rules.

All children are innocent and it’s proof of deep and far-reaching moral collapse that their murder is tolerated by so many.

call for an investigation into the president's fitness. call for the house to impeach. say you will obstruct every last bit of senate business. call for soldiers to disregard illegal orders. say you will prosecute the people who do this. say you will take their military pensions and benefits.

human shields is a war crime too, not like anyone cares at this point

The question now is whether or not the Republican Party is comprised of lemmings willing to follow Trump over the cliff.

The madman strategy is more unnerving when practiced by a madman

NEWS: Three trans women mogged Clavicular so hard that he was speechless. www.advocate.com/news/clavicu...

something strange and horrible and somehow fitting that we should have a very real threat of madman civilizational destruction at the very moment when we also have humans on the dark side of the moon taking pictures that show how small, precious, and beautiful our world and existence is

Even individual members of Congress can participate in this by promising prosecution & accountability, as has Sen. Ron "See you at Nuremberg 2.0" Wyden @wyden.senate.gov

Also, if you, as an elected official, do not do anything out of the ordinary today in order to try and put a stop to this, then the signal gets through to the general public that what the president is doing is ordinary.

yes, there are ways to mass-murder a ton of people *slowly* with air strikes

This has been running through my head recently as people keep rediscovering fresh outrages: he’s the same guy, just older and less inhibited and surrounded by some of the worst people in the world

Hopefully more cities join in to protest.

to imagine back on that beautiful blue orb that makes all of this unique life possible we can’t stop bombing and killing one another, it’s terribly sad