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I was steadfastly against the wars and very vocal about it. I had everybody from students to faculty tell me I was a traitor who hated America. When I complained to the administrators about the abuse, I was told, essentially, that speech has consequences, and I brought it on myself.

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I was thinking that maybe, more than 20 years after the start of the Iraq war, media coverage would be more skeptical and less sycophantic No such luck

submitted 4 days ago • 1006 comments

👀🚨 Bombing another country “that does not pose an imminent m threat to the US without the approval of Congress” is “an unambiguous impeachable offense.” - Democratic Rep @casten.house.gov Need other Dems to show the same kind of courage in this moment.

submitted 4 days ago • 25 comments

They were careless people, they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness.

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

🧵 Quick legal thoughts on Trump's attack on Iran. It was patently illegal. And a further egregious assault on the rule of law in the US. 1/n

submitted 4 days ago • 27 comments

Are Trump and others in the White House getting off on this cruelty?

submitted 4 days ago • 62 comments

I've lived in Los Angeles for seven years. The only times I've ever heard it this eerily, horribly quiet are in the very first days of Covid. Here's a bit of what it's like right now, in a city where so many people are rightfully afraid to go outside: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 4 days ago • 32 comments

BLUF: Without Congress, the President’s authority is legally tenuous beyond limited defensive strikes (for US forces in the area, NOT for Israel.

submitted 4 days ago • 8 comments

probably going to regret asking, but is there even a plausible theory* under which the US could militarily engage Iran absent congressional consent, either domestically or internationally, or are we really now fully in the vacuum of the absence of law

submitted 4 days ago • 75 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 4 days ago • 13 comments

No more algorithmic boosting of pro trump inflation anecdotes bsky.app/profile/gell...

submitted 4 days ago • 17 comments

illegal war started by a man constitutionally ineligible to be president

submitted 4 days ago • 443 comments

You Gov numbers: "Only 16% of Americans think the U.S. military should get involved in the conflict between Israel and Iran; 60% say it should not and 24% are not sure" It's going to change quickly, but let's at least remember where we started. today.yougov.com/politics/art...

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

submitted 4 days ago • 564 comments

this is as good as turning the Constitution off. If this is what congressional leaders are going to do when an executive just seizes power from the legislative branch, we do not have one.

submitted 4 days ago • 63 comments

Stunned by the ease with which never-Trumpers - among the loudest of those warning of Trump's autocratic impulses - are urging him to go to war, a step that involves massive increase of presidential power even under normal presidents. Does this mean Trump's will to power not so bad after all?

submitted 5 days ago • 18 comments

Reuters: Iranian state TV commentator says every American citizen or military in the region is now a legitimate target

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man it really sucks to live in the era of every craven conservative dream of the last several decades coming to fruition all at once

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

Just as I don’t want to be judged according to the current US administration, we shouldn’t judge Iranians by their government. We should absolutely not bomb Iran or start a war with them.

submitted 7 days ago • 9 comments

A Dem lawmaker and her husband were killed by a guy for their political views and it’s already out of the news.

submitted 4 days ago • 660 comments

Oh

submitted 4 days ago • 12 comments

Shout out to the residents of Sitka Alaska. Great protest today! 💙 Huge potential issue of Yam Tits trying to sell large chunks of the Tongass National Forest to the north and south of the city for major timber extraction. If you have ever been on a cruise to SE Alaska, you know the beauty of this.

submitted 4 days ago • 15 comments

There's no declaration of war, and no AUMF that covers this. Entering this war is wrong on the merits; we had a perfectly peaceful way to address Iran's nuclear program. It's also unlawful. A democratic republic should not be able to enter a war of choice on one man's say-so.

submitted 4 days ago • 83 comments

Senator Padilla chokes up on live television over Vice President JD Vance calling him "Jose." This is like the 3rd video of him crying in the past couple weeks.

submitted 4 days ago • 23 comments

just saw a group of masked men stuffing masked ICE agents into an unmarked car, who were saying "we're ICE we're ICE!" but the abductors shouted to the crowd "no we're ICE!" no one knew who was ICE, so no one in the crowd said anything.

submitted 4 days ago • 926 comments

Had to mute the Nazi paper thread. Once again (1) no the KKK did not correctly interpret the Constitution, by any methodological lights (2) no paper that argued for the KKK’s interpretation of the Constitution should have received a passing grade, let alone an award (3) what the fuck

submitted 4 days ago • 15 comments

Elon helped put into power a political party that doesn’t believe in climate change or renewable energy. Time for him to take a look in the mirror.

submitted 4 days ago • 124 comments

hell yeah

submitted 4 days ago • 64 comments

Here's my video from the African warehouse with millions of doses of medicine -- gathering dust and approaching expiration because Trump/Musk/Rubio dismantled USAID. Infuriating. www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

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?”

submitted 4 days ago • 90 comments

Iran: Weeks away from having nuclear weapons since 1995

submitted 8 days ago • 620 comments

I know my colleagues already dropped this line (h/t: @brendanvduke.bsky.social ), but it bears repeating - there already exists a rural hospital fund and it is called: 🚨🚨MEDICAID🚨🚨 www.politico.com/live-updates...

submitted 7 days ago • 53 comments

Reminder that BYD didn't steal that technology from "us." We don't have that technology, and we won't thanks to Trump and congressional Republicans gutting US investment in EVS.

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

With no publicity at all, HBO quietly released the George Clooney - produced documentary about the Ohio State scandal. Gym Jordan is an absolute disgrace.

submitted 7 days ago • 132 comments

The Plot to Enslave America

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JD Vance just called Senator Alex Padilla "Jose Padilla." This is some racist crap that runs deep in the GOP.

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