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Elvis Costello opens his L A show with “What’s so funny about peace, love and understanding?”

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The American people do not want to begin a war with Iran, and Trump does not have the unilateral authority to start one. I'll keep speaking up on behalf of my constituents, the overwhelming majority of whom don't want to be dragged into another forever war.

submitted 16 minutes ago • 46 comments

Please don't break your sobriety over this. Please don't harm yourself over this. We're all scared as fuck, but please, PLEASE don't undo all of your hard work. No matter what happens, you HAVE to protect yourself. You HAVE to hold on. Please hold on.

submitted 1 hour ago • 1 comment

Why are no headlines focusing on the unconstitutional and dictatorial nature of this action?

submitted 53 minutes ago • 328 comments

Fun fact: Congress voted in 2020 to ban Trump from attacking Iran without Congressional approval, but he vetoed it - and they didn’t have 2/3 to override the veto.

submitted 1 hour ago • 11 comments

When I returned to my birthplace my father's house and mother's voice were gone. —Abbas Kiarostami #StopWarOnIran

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Donald Trump illegally took military action against Iran—without congressional authorization—risking dragging us into another endless war. I am calling for an immediate emergency session of Congress to vote on the War Powers Resolution.

submitted 2 hours ago • 219 comments

There was no intelligence support. There was no coalition. There was no noble goal. There was no planning for tomorrow. There was no meaningful consideration of the consequences. Just a 79 year old toddler who wanted to play tough guy.

submitted 1 hour ago • 1 comment

AOC gets it. Every other Democrat in Congress must follow her lead here.

submitted 1 hour ago • 3 comments

Absolutely absurd statement by Trump. Media is just focusing on military operations and realpolitik bullshit analysis, no mention of illegality or how terrible this decision was. I swear to god. I swear to fucking god.

submitted 1 hour ago • 11 comments

This is not about the merits of Iran’s nuclear program. No president has the authority to bomb another country that does not pose an imminent threat to the US without the approval of Congress. This is an unambiguous impeachable offense.

submitted 3 hours ago • 764 comments

May every single human being on this planet be safe. May every single person be protected from harm. May we bring into being a time in which we are all free from those who do evil— together, speedily and in our days.

submitted 1 hour ago • 28 comments

AOC: “It is absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment.”

submitted 1 hour ago • 177 comments

Why are we bombing Iran, mom? Well, honey, the President didn’t have enough people at his birthday parade, too many people attended the NoKings protests, and he needs attention and conflict so he can play hero. That’s why.

submitted 2 hours ago • 40 comments

AOC: “grounds for impeachment” Jeffries: “Trump needs to explain”

submitted 1 hour ago • 168 comments

Kamala would not have done this

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Bernie Sanders did in fact find out about the attack on Iran during his speech in Tulsa. This is that gut wrenching moment when he stopped his speech and announced Trump’s post then informed the audience that we are now at war with Iran. Sanders made clear it’s unconstitutional.

submitted 2 hours ago • 47 comments

I know this can sound kind of silly at a time like this, but doing a war without congressional authorization is ample grounds for impeachment

submitted 3 hours ago • 346 comments

somebody should draw up articles of impeachment over this immediately. I don’t think it’ll happen because we’re too worried about a rally-round-the-flag effect that won’t happen and it’d be a coalition splitter for that reason. but it should

submitted 3 hours ago • 80 comments

Due to an apparent shortage of air traffic controllers, there are ongoing departure delays at a number of major airports on the US east coast. nasstatus.faa.gov

submitted 12 hours ago • 7 comments

The approach here is to drill through the winter ice and pump sea ice to the surface where it freezes so the ice is thicker in the summer. In layman’s terms, adding another block of ice to the cooler. We need more solutions like this.

submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

Anyway Juneteenth is pretty much over and I had a lovely day off, but this is your infrequent reminder that @ironcircuscomics.bsky.social is Black-owned and woman-owned, there are literal structural and institutional forces pushing against that every day, and your support means the world to me. ♥

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

On Juneteenth and forever… Honor, don’t bury or whitewash the history of our ancestors who were lynched. (National Lynching Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama)

submitted 2 days ago • 317 comments

OK i’ve seen almost no media outlet pick up on the fact the Supreme Court ruling endorsed conversion therapy and opens a portal to the normalization of conversion therapy nationally so here’s a thread explaining how they did so, and why you should care (1/x)

submitted 2 days ago • 58 comments

This twice-yearly shot almost completely prevents HIV and is now approved. It could shut down HIV. It needs to roll out in at risk groups. But Trump has gutted HIV prevention at home and abroad. That could be stopped, however. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/h...

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

Happy Juneteenth, to those who celebrate. Double Happy Juneteenth to those who don't. Good morning. 🙂

submitted 2 days ago • 270 comments

Aha! A stolen, AI-rewritten version of one of my reviews that went up on another site ON THE VERY SAME DAY WE PUBLISHED IT. There's the timing, recycled sentences, same observations, adjectives & phrases badly regurgitated. The real giveaway? They didn't edit out "Broken Frontier" in the first para.

submitted 2 days ago • 16 comments

Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.

submitted 3 days ago • 260 comments

Powerful words from J. Sotomayor dissenting today in #Skrmetti: "By retreating from meaningful judicial review exactly where it matters most, the Court abandons transgender children and their families to political whims. In sadness, I dissent." www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

“i asked chat gpt” “i asked grok” Jeeves would kill you where you stand

submitted 4 days ago • 88 comments

What is something that is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders? Illustration pay has not kept up with inflation. We get paid approximately the same dollar amount as an illustrator in the early 2000s. Some of the big companies are the worst for this.

submitted 4 days ago • 8 comments

When House Republicans passed their version of Trump’s Big Ugly Bill CBO estimated their destruction of Medicaid would take health insurance from 11 million Americans That wasn’t enough for Senate Republicans Folks If you participated in the #NoKings protest THIS IS PART OF WHAT YOU’RE FIGHTING

submitted 4 days ago • 15 comments

After the Felon praised Putin at the G7, criticized Trudeau and Democrats, then confused the UK with the EU, his staff decided to bring the bumbling fool home under the pretense of a Middle East situation. He doesn’t know what the hell he’s doing. #ProudBlue

submitted 4 days ago • 32 comments

One fantasy setting I would love to see more covered in literature or other media is the “two cities” from “The city and the city” of China Miéville.

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

Kim Terrell exposed how petrochemical companies disproportionately pollute Black communities in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley—which can cause cancer, premature births, and low birth weights.

submitted 5 days ago • 7 comments

All 55 U.S. attorneys general have signed on to a $7.4 billion settlement with Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family over their role in the opioid crisis. The agreement ends the Sacklers’ control of Purdue, bans them from selling opioids, and releases 30M+ internal documents. Historic.

submitted 5 days ago • 18 comments

Tonight, I introduced legislation to stop Trump from from leading us into an illegal war with Iran. Another war in the Middle East could cost countless lives, waste trillions more dollars, and lead to even more deaths, more conflict, and more displacement.

submitted 5 days ago • 177 comments

2 of every 5 acres of the planet are cropped or grazed. We lose a soccer field of forest every 6 seconds. Agricultural sprawl has overrun 30 times more of the global landscape than urban sprawl. WE ARE EATING THE EARTH. First excerpt in @theatlantic.com: www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

submitted 18 days ago • 12 comments

For making devilled eggs

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Six bullfrog photographs ⏫️⏬️

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Whiskey tango foxtrot, this is such a bad idea.

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This whirlpool turbine uses water to provide an endless supply of renewable energy - 24 hours a day. We have so many solutions. Implement them. #ActOnClimate #climate #energy #renewables #greennewdeal

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments