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If you’re an American should watch the Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown ep on Iran. A deeply humanizing look at a country full of people just like you and me. I watched it after Anthony died and it moved in ways that are hard to relay. I also immediately ran out to try kabob koobideh and tahdig.

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Some people get into journalism because they’re skeptical of power, and others do so because they’re impressed by it. Moments like this are clarifying with respect to who’s who.

submitted 13 hours ago • 86 comments

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

submitted 13 hours ago • 311 comments

I really have no idea how a country that has consistently defunded education, let a cognitive inhabiting virus ravge their population, and created a digital culture that both silos people and thrives on rage bait, became so dysfunctional.

submitted 23 hours ago • 12 comments

Thousands march through New York City’s Times Square protesting the bombing of Iran.

submitted 15 hours ago • 306 comments

Shaedon Sharpe serves people experiencing homelessness in Portland at Blanchet House. ❤️ #shaedonsharpe #trailblazers #portland

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Folks who don't follow Middle East politics: The Gulf states loathe Iran and its regime. They see it as a threat to their regional dominance and interests. The fact that THEY are critical and against US and Israel's strike and potential war is very telling. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

submitted 14 hours ago • 20 comments

Resistance will take many forms in the days and months ahead.

submitted 16 hours ago • 254 comments

Social housing models in Austria, Finland, the Netherlands… what is preventing us from taking a similar approach in Canada? www.cbc.ca/news/world/e...

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He just dropped $280,000,000 worth of artillery in a war that’s not ours, but our grandparents have to live on Ramen noodles because America can’t afford Meals on Wheels anymore. Make it make sense.

submitted 15 hours ago • 941 comments

That one person can drag us into a war without consulting or even notifying Congress, or our allies, or fully explaining to the American people why this is necessary, is absolutely bonkers. Reminder that Congress has the power to stop all of this. Where the hell are they? Hello?

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Schiff: "It's not an operation that should've ever been authorized by the president in the absence of intelligence showing that Iran had made the decision to break out and build a bomb."

submitted 22 hours ago • 660 comments

The American people were lied to about Vietnam, with tragic consequences. The American people were lied to about Iraq, with tragic consequences. The American people are being lied to again today. We cannot allow history to repeat itself.

submitted 18 hours ago • 853 comments

Republicans want you to forget they’re ripping health care away from over 16 million people while Trump wages a new endless war against Iran. That’s Republican leadership for you.

submitted 16 hours ago • 164 comments

A war with jets and a war with missiles/A war with high seated, government officials/Wall street war, on high finance/A war on people who just love to dance A war on music, a war on speech/A war on teachers and the things they teach/A war for the last 500 years/War's just messin' up the atmosphere

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A long-tailed weasel looking around its domain #mammals #weasels

submitted 22 hours ago • 4 comments

#MCVegas Canadian Highlander meet-up will be in the 2nd floor free play area next to this fella (Teferi) at 2:00pm PST today.

submitted 18 hours ago • 7 comments

About to play in @covertgoblue Worst Possible Commander Show at 11! Come watch us gang up on CGB 😎 Room S229 upstairs!!! #MCVegas

submitted 18 hours ago • 2 comments

I’m at #mcvegas, and even more crucially I’m paying out. Come find me and say hi!

submitted 17 hours ago • 2 comments

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

submitted 1 day ago • 56 comments

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 1 day ago • 153 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 day ago • 1 comment

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

submitted 1 day ago • 1292 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 day ago • 13 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 1 day ago • 308 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.

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

submitted 1 day 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 day ago • 14 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 1 day ago • 1109 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 day ago • 58 comments

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

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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.

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

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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 3 days 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)

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