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We are all hostages now. It was just a matter of time.

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If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people: 1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money 3) We won’t need a lot of troops 4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq 5) We’ll find WMDs 6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators 7) It will be easy 8) It won’t take long All lies.

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Sen. Bernie Sanders: "The only entity that can take this country to war is the U.S. Congress. The President does not have the right." "The American people do not want more war, more death."

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Here's a 2013 throwback:

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If anyone tries to tell you that the violent destruction of a nuclear facility once bound by treaty is an act of nonproliferation, they're lying to you. The likely outcome is more and more secret proliferation internationalpolicy.org/publications...

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We still don't even know how many people died today.

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If we are supposed to take the POTUS's words as meaning actual things, then he made real news. According to Trump, the three nuclear weapons sites were "completely and totally obliterated"--which can only mean that Iran's nuclear program no longer exists? But also that . . .

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He doesn’t self identify as at war you guys

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U.S. spies and a U.S. intelligence agency—including Trump's own Director of National Intelligence—told the president that Iran was not building a nuclear weapon. He ignored them, preferring to listen to Israel and Fox News, and has now ordered the U.S. military to strike Iran.

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One lobotomy is not enough to watch the bloodthirsty coverage of this nightmare without going insane.

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Trump is struggling to read his teleprompter

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Jesus.

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Be prepared for radically expanded accusations of national security threats.

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illegal war started by a man constitutionally ineligible to be president

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"I hope everyone who believed Gabbard was a peacenik feels as stupid as they've always looked," writes @attackerman.bsky.social

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Iran did not have a nuclear weapon. Iran did not have a nuclear weapon. Iran did not have a nuclear weapon. Iran did not have a nuclear weapon. Iran did not have a nuclear weapon. Iran did not have a nuclear weapon. Iran did not have a nuclear weapon. Iran did not have a nuclear weapon.

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Virtually every MAGA Republican will now fall in line, and there won't be a passing second of introspection or contrition among those who credulously adopted the "Donald the Dove" nonsense, who, it should be said, helped bring us to where we are today.

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Big day for impeachment.

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NEW: Mahmoud Khalil's release was a bright moment in a day highlighting the right's power. Trump's National Guard activation remains in effect. Also: The Supreme Court's conservatives keep pushing the law to the right.

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will the black mayor of a huge neighboring, predominantly black city endorsing Mamdani get a full writeup in the new york times the same way a black SC congressman endorsing Cuomo did? Clyburn piece's newsworthiness was pegged on his influence in the NYC black community. Is Baraka not influential?

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Personally I am unfamiliar with any legitimate activity that requires switching license plates, which by the way is illegal.

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The idea that a school should be prepared to reward a well-argued paper for a bad position is fine in principle, but if we're not total nihilists, we'll also recognize that there are positions for which it's inherently impossible for a defense to be "well-argued."

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it is funny how many people affiliated with the secret police have had to say "stop making fun of the secret police, the guy in the tac vest that covers him like a training bra is a hero, he tracked down and subdued two hospice orderlies using only the W-2 forms they file annually"

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This story. We are literally at the point of major universities awarding prizes to avowed Nazis, to people who argue for violent eugenics. And the Dean was fine with it until they got too much pushback. A most egregious example of administrative evil.

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JD Vance, you know my name. If you want to talk about political theater, let’s start with the thousands of troops that your administration is using as props in Los Angeles.

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I wrote in March about how Trump's willingness to defy any court, on any level, was an immediate emergency requiring full-court attention from Democrats (& media, but they take their cues from leaders) Inadequate responses then made Trump's lawlessness easier now. www.lowellsun.com/2025/03/29/o...

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wait what? www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/u...

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Awful: Trump just threatened to send troops into other cities. The conundrum is this: Faced with a president whose bad faith/willingness to invent fake pretexts for abusing his powers is limitless, the system is crashing, pushing us toward the abyss. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/1970...

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It's no coincidence that the person who threatened to become a dictator on day one is imposing military occupations on American cities.

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I'm sure if a law student delivered a sharply written paper citing Colonial standards for husbands' rights and the age of marriage to make the originalist case for child sex abuse, and a federal judge gave it a prize for its formal merits, it would likewise be shielded from criticism

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Especially if the author publicly identified as a pedophile

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an easy disguise: all you’d need are some black masks

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“How many bodies did you grab today” bsky.app/profile/moll...

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55,654 People Now Detained by ICE, Possibly Highest in History Largest growth comes from people with no criminal histories, who now make up a third of ICE detention amid dangerous overcrowding and lucrative contracts for private contractors. austinkocher.substack.com/p/55654-peop...

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can’t overstate how shoddy the actual work is. “the framers didn’t think black people counted in the constitutional order” falls apart with a single question: “well what did they think about all the free blacks that most of them lived around, encountered, and even hired for work?”

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"These armed bounty hunters stormed a family's home in Huntington Beach no warrant, no ID, weapons drawn on kids. Do you recognize them? Help us identify them.

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Imagine if the headline was, "Vice President acts like a petulant child while using Marines as props"?

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Job Garcia’s kidnapping by the Trump administration is the top story on the LA Times website right now. www.latimes.com/california/s...

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In Florida, “free speech” and “institutional neutrality” mean that a Nazi arguing that nonwhites have no rights wins a prize while a course with “race” in the title is censored for violated the law. Congratulations to all the credulous centrists who helped this along.

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“Donald Trump and Stephen Miller are on the wrong side of public opinion on this, and they’re losing badly in the court of public opinion,” says Chris Hayes. “The more they lean into the cruelty, the less popular it all is.” youtu.be/4Hl6SirHAKU

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If you’ve got a badge and a gun but think your actions are shameful enough to need a mask, you should quit.

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There was also a pastor in his vestments at the anti-ICE protest outside Dodger Stadium yesterday. More religious leaders need to show up and call these kidnappings what they are.

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JD Vance flew into a state where Alex Padilla got more votes than Trump (and Gavin Newsom) and slandered him, using the name of a terrorist.

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more than that, he also got her a scholarship (named after his parents) to attend Tennessee Tech. “John has made everything possible that I’ve done in FFA beyond high school,” she said prospect.org/politics/how...

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These two unstated beliefs that govern modern punditry have completely ruined for the Democratic strategic response: 1. Trump is immune to traditional political gravity 2. Public opinion is the cause, not the effect, of public action, and we must obey it at all costs

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honestly this was very predictable if you could a) accurately recall the political consequences of the 2020 protests and b) take public opinion as it actually existed in 2025. impossible difficulty for a non-trivial portion of the professional political commentary class

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youtu.be/4CKbwIC9zO0?...

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I don’t see this mentioned at all about Andrew Cuomo. He’s on Netanyahu’s legal defence team for his ICC claims. nypost.com/2024/11/25/u...

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