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“Iran posed no imminent threat to the United States. Trump's own intelligence apparatus had determined that Iran was not close to being able to deliver a nuclear strike on anybody, much less the US. We were not attacked. There was no existing treaty that Iran was in violation of…”

submitted 5 hours ago • 9 comments

Congress has the sole power under the Constitution to declare war and yet Trump has initiated an attack on a foreign nation without authority or provocation. This is what happens when lawlessness in the executive branch is perpetually unchecked by Congress and the Supreme Court.

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

She’s a strong voice in Florida, and a rising star.

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

Per CNN’s @mkraju.bsky.social: Top Dems on House and Senate Intel Committees were not briefed on Iran attack

submitted 7 hours ago • 124 comments

I am looking for congressional leaders to come out quickly and forcefully against this. We need unequivocal opposition. We need theatric demonstrations of defiance. We need to see leadership. Trump will steamroll us all if we display weakness. Where are our leaders?

submitted 8 hours ago • 221 comments

Voice of reason from the next generation of leadership, alongside @aoc.bsky.social immediate call for impeachment. @katmabu.bsky.social @votersoftomorrow.org

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

Now that Trump has ordered an air strike on Iran, never forget how utterly the New York Times and people like Maureen Dowd failed us from the beginning.

submitted 6 hours ago • 29 comments

illegal war started by a man constitutionally ineligible to be president

submitted 8 hours ago • 335 comments

And we have a crusader islamophobe in charge of the military: 'He wrote: “This time in our history calls for an American Crusade.” A second tattoo - with the words Deus Vult.... The phrase has been popularised by the far-Right, as a rallying cry railing against the spread of Islam.'

submitted 7 hours ago • 3 comments

Instead of CUTTING Social Security benefits, Congress should INCREASE payments by $200 per month and extend the solvency of the Social Security program by 75 YEARS. How? Make the wealthiest Americans pay a fairer share. I’ve got a bill to get it done.

submitted 15 hours ago • 557 comments

I'll just say this before heading out. If you're a young person in NYC, THIS IS YOUR TIME. The next couple of decades in this city are going to be shaped by what happens on Tuesday. Be part of the team that is turning the page on politicians like Cuomo. There are better choices.

submitted 11 hours ago • 11 comments

Yet another reminder that these are all editorial decisions. When the BBC decides not to show a documentary on Israel’s slaughter of Palestinian medics, that’s an editorial decision. It’s not journalism. Same for the NYT. They simply decide what they consider valuable. It’s not journalism.

submitted 10 hours ago • 3 comments

We still have no idea who the ICE agents are. They could be insurrectionists, extremist militiamen or criminals themselves, chasing law-abiding citizens down the street for recording their kidnappings. The odds they aren't are low. Congress must raise hell about this. A masked gang runs our country.

submitted 15 hours ago • 1113 comments

I love @underwood.house.gov — she has focused her congressional career on protecting (and improving) our healthcare after serving as a health care professional herself. Grateful.

submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

There was a survey a few weeks ago that found half of Americans thought ICE was just hunting criminals. The institutional press have failed to make clear ICE’s primary strategy today is capturing people through the use of compliance traps, and shipping them off to substandard prisons in the South.

submitted 14 hours ago • 64 comments

This is incredibly beautiful storytelling.

submitted 15 hours ago • 93 comments

"If we had pursued vigorous climate policy back in the 1980s when Carl Sagan and James Hansen were testifying before Congress in favor of it, we’d be richer, safer, and healthier."... prospect.org/environment/...

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Yet another argument for a wealth tax. "He spends his time collecting sports cars and the world’s best bourbons, and wanted the house to accommodate both." "...he splurges on features ... including, in this case, a 'whiskey wall' that cost about $1 million to design, build and install." 🎁🔗:

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

Mahmoud should’ve never missed the birth of his child, or his first Father’s Day, or being with his wife during countless precious moments as a growing family. His release today underscores what so many of us have said. His detention was unjust. We need to end these disappearings.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Mahmoud Khalil’s freedom makes all of us a little more free. Whatever opinions you may hold about the issues on which Khalil speaks out, if they can detain him for his views, they can detain you for yours. Doubt that they will at your peril. Celebrate his release as a win for freedom itself.

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

“RFK Jr is a disaster,” said one CDC grant specialist who joined the agency within the past five years. “He is completely dismantling things to the point where the damage is going to become irreparable.”

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

It’s so on brand Trump Republicans claim CA is under siege WHILE the RNC hosts its Summer Retreat…IN L.A. 🤣 Rumored to be at the Beverly Hills Four Seasons Hotel. It’s all so ridiculous. L.A…Safe enough for the RNC but not Angelenos 🤣🤷‍♀️ At least it’s not at a landscaping company this time

submitted 1 day ago • 84 comments

The home planet of a civilization in its technological adolescence, locked in a relentless struggle to avoid self-destruction.

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

“Bloomberg, The Economist, the Financial Times, The New York Times, Politico, Reuters, and The Washington Post—create advertising content for major fossil fuel corporations. Some of these outlets allow these companies to sponsor their events.”(2023) Proof Corp Media is a propaganda machine.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Shouldn’t the NY Times headline note that this new policy breaks the law?

submitted 2 days ago • 1598 comments

These are US tax dollars going up in flames.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

In a single story: why US democracy will never reach its highest ideals (all created equal, equal justice under the law) with a moneyed class at the helm. @warren.senate.gov @aoc.bsky.social @governorwalz.mn.gov @aclu.org @splcenter.org @votevets.org @envirovoters.bsky.social @popeleoxiv.bsky.social

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Massachusetts progressives fought for & won the Fair Share tax, an extra 4% on income above $1M, which now funds transit & education Our media & center-right Dems have spent the whole time since sweatily trying to convince the public that millionaires are fleeing the state It’s a total lie

submitted 2 days ago • 17 comments

Hurricane Erick did all the terrible things, rapidly strengthening 80 mph in just 24 hours – a rate almost unheard of for June – to a 145 mph Category 4. It struck Mexico's Pacific side as the earliest major landfall on record...by over 2 months. More ⬇️

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

How ironic is this? We can use energy intensive AI to predict weather, while it’s emissions drive climate change. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/c...

submitted 3 days ago • 8 comments

To be clear: no one should bomb a hospital, for any reason, ever. But for Israel to label Iran “terrorist tyrants” after missiles hit a hospital in southern Israel is shameless hypocrisy from the demented regime Israel has attacked 600 hospitals since Oct 7 www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

submitted 3 days ago • 19 comments

The drunk & depressed Climate 8-ball says ... "in order to achieve a 66% chance of keeping below the 1.5C target, emissions from 2025 onwards must be limited to 80bn tonnes of CO2. That is 80% lower than it was in 2020." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

submitted 3 days ago • 26 comments

After reading the Republican tax bill, Rep. Jimmy Gomez is stunned: "I thought I wasn't reading this correctly. Anyone making less than $15,000/year sees an increase in their taxes by 74.3%." Republican trickle down economics is nothing but class warfare & massive wealth transfer to the top.

submitted 3 days ago • 13 comments

A lot of people are talking about whether Trump is going to go to war with Iran but not enough people are talking about the fact that Trump has no legal authority to do so without Congressional authorization

submitted 3 days ago • 148 comments

Former U.S. Amb. to Ukraine Bridget Brink has jumped into the Democratic primary for Michigan's 7th Congressional District. Brink left her post in protest of Trump’s policies in April and is now looking to unseat GOP Rep. Tom Barrett. "It's important to fight for democracy at home," she tells NYT.

submitted 3 days ago • 17 comments

Wow! Share this far and wide. Jim Jordan is scum.

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

israelpalestinenews.org/israel-made-...

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submitted 3 days ago • 191 comments

Former FTC Chair Lina Khan breaks down why monopolies and corporate concentration are bad for all of us. To hear more conversations like this, be sure to tune into my new podcast: The Power You Have — out on all streaming platforms!

submitted 3 days ago • 9 comments

The US Environmental “Protection” Agency is steadily undoing safeguards under Trump, protecting big biz and billionaires, while jeopardizing lives and our planet. @thirdactorg.bsky.social @climateofgavin.bsky.social @climatehuman.bsky.social @doctorvive.bsky.social @leahstokes.bsky.social

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

BBC reporting Israeli military just killed 51 Palestinians as they waited for flour at an Israeli run Gaza aid site. So to recap, Israel: -Blocks aid to Gaza -Blocks UNRWA from getting aid into Gaza -Insists on setting up its own aid sites -Murders starving Palestinians seeking aid This Is Genocide

submitted 3 days ago • 42 comments

This is the ICE deputy field director (in his toucan shirt), denying local congressional reps their legal oversight role…in this case an ICE detention facility.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

The consequences of JCPOA withdrawal in graph form www.ft.com/content/193f...

submitted 3 days ago • 16 comments

The Republican vision for the public lands has long been to see them as wealth-generators rather than what they are: essential spaces for wilderness, wildlife, sportsmen, agriculture, and recreation. The Senate is proposing ideas that have been around GOP politics for the last fifty years.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments