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Tariffs. Stock market down. Medicaid slashed Secret police throwing anyone who looks Latino in unmarked vans. National guard and marines deployed in LA. No end to the wars in Gaza or Ukraine Bombing Iran This is the worst first six months of any presidential term in my lifetime.

submitted 10 hours ago • 221 comments

America deserves better. Israel deserves better. Iran deserves better.

submitted 10 hours ago • 4 comments

Iran deserves better leadership Israel deserves better leadership USA deserves better leadership

submitted 3 days ago • 93 comments

Incredible to think, not very long ago this space was wasted for car traffic.

submitted 13 hours ago • 3 comments

The JCPOA was one of the greatest diplomatic achievements of the 21st century. Multiple nations, several powerful blocks, a ton of oversight and the entire time diplomats were working it out domestic American media & politicians were demonizing it, lying about it, and trying to sabotage it. They won

submitted 6 hours ago • 20 comments

America needs at least one major political party that’s not in bed with the Israel lobby.

submitted 5 hours ago • 12 comments

“Donald Trump has guaranteed that Iran will be a nuclear weapons state in 5 to 10 years from now.” Iranian writer @tparsi.bsky.social tells @mehdirhasan.bsky.social that US bombing of Iran would push Tehran toward developing nuclear weapons. Watch the full conversation: zeteo.com/p/breaking-t...

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submitted 11 hours ago • 92 comments

illegal war started by a man constitutionally ineligible to be president

submitted 11 hours ago • 359 comments

When Trump said, Iran is ‘very close’ to building a nuclear bomb—it was a self-own. We wouldn’t be here if Trump hadn’t backed out of the Obama Iran nuclear deal.

submitted 13 hours ago • 103 comments

They have made the world living hell for no reason whatsoever. People will ask why this happened in a decade and there will be tremendous effort to make it more complicated than “they were evil, stupid, and bored”

submitted 11 hours ago • 102 comments

About the “two weeks” delay: If the Middle East explodes, Trump shrugs: “not my fault, America First.” If it stabilizes, he takes credit. Either way, he spins it for personal political gain. It was never really about nukes, America's interests, or Israel. Just himself.

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

🇺🇸🇮🇷 U.S. intel agencies still see no evidence Iran is pursuing nuclear weapons, Senate Intel Vice Chair Mark Warner told MSNBC.

submitted 3 days ago • 146 comments

POV: You’re trying to keep up with America’s best marathoners… 🇺🇸 Only made it .48 miles on the heels of Conner Mantz and Clayton Young during their 6-mile tempo run in Central Park. I’ve got my work cut out for me for LA 2028. 😅

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

They've got enough money to throw us into another war, but not enough money to fund the suicide prevention hotline. Very "pro-life." Very "pro-family." So "GREAT."

submitted 3 days ago • 510 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

So “pro-life.”

submitted 3 days ago • 831 comments

If I – as a U.S. Senator and Vice Chair of the Intelligence Committee – have no answers on what this administration’s policy is when it comes to Iran, what signals does that send to our allies? To our foes?

submitted 3 days ago • 191 comments

Hard to argue with that.

submitted 3 days ago • 514 comments

I have seen this exact quote everywhere on right-wing social media & in interviews. So many of their views on whether the US should go to war for/with Israel is based off a passage in the Bible. US foreign policy in 2025 is based on something from the Bible. It’s a Holy War. bsky.app/profile/yash...

submitted 3 days ago • 179 comments

It's infuriating how 99% of the coverage of this new war doesn't bother to mention that it is happening because we had an agreement to limit and monitor Iran's nuclear program, which even Trump's own aides said was working, and he blew it up because it was negotiated under Obama.

submitted 3 days ago • 41 comments

BREAKING The Trevor Project confirms that the Trump administration is eliminating the LGBTQ+ option on the 988 suicide hotline. Right now, LGBTQ+ people who dial 988 can access specialized services.

submitted 3 days ago • 36 comments

Supreme Court ruling days are great. It's always exciting to learn which fundamental human rights they're taking away from us.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

In the spring of 2008, I feared America was on the verge of war with Iran — and, believing that it’s good style to get to know people before you bomb them, I made “Rick Steves’ Iran,” a one-hour special that could (and would) only debut on PBS. Sadly, this special has become pertinent again today.

submitted 4 days ago • 203 comments

Gonna level with you bro I think DHS needs to be dissolved after this. Regardless of what national security functions fall under its remit, it's clearly institutionally constructed in such a way allows it to be used as an unaccountable tool of executive power. Can't reform your way out of that.

submitted 4 days ago • 357 comments

There were some raids in my neighborhood today. My friends and I went to different locations as soon as we heard it was happening. They were already gone. They are trying to swoop in and leave asap because they know the community will show up. Keep the pressure up. They’re scared.

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

This is not actually a subtweet of anything specific right now, but I do want to make a plea to everyone to a) attribute and link to the source of any information you're sharing b) only share posts that do so. This isn't (just) about credit, it's about creating a chain of custody for information.

submitted 4 days ago • 28 comments

We rose this weekend and we’re not bowing anytime soon. #NoKings

submitted 5 days ago • 63 comments

NEW — Here are the 12 members of Congress who have so far signed on to efforts against the Trump-Vance administration's moves towards war on Iran. 2.2% of Congress

submitted 5 days ago • 38 comments

Let’s get this out there from the start I am no lover of the Iran regime and no they should not have nuclear weapons. But honestly what did Israel expect would happen after they attacked . If Trump had not pulled out of the nuclear agreement with Iran this would not have happened

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Before parroting Israel’s talking points on Iran, know this: 🚨 Israel bombed Iran first 🚨 Iran hasn’t invaded another country in over 200 years 🚨 It signed the nuclear deal—Israel opposed it 🚨 U.S./Israel backed Saddam in the Iran-Iraq war 🚨 Israel has nukes, Iran doesn’t

submitted 5 days ago • 111 comments

Cruelty, ignorance, chaos, & incompetence, all wrapped up into one big un-American disgrace.👇

submitted 5 days ago • 14 comments

TRUMP FLIPS AGAIN: Farm and hospitality workers won’t be exempt from ICE raids after all.

submitted 5 days ago • 284 comments

There is no nuclear weapons program. Fetterman’s pals in the Trump administration - including DNI Gabbard - have confirmed there is no nuclear weapons program. Fetterman is lying. Openly. Demonstrably. Shamelessly.

submitted 5 days ago • 295 comments

As much as I covered Biden, we never had such blatant disregard of basic truth presented on the global stage with NO follow up from the US media The int media is LAUGHING. Really, laughing.. all of them. Gov officials too

submitted 5 days ago • 95 comments

The California International Marathon has been selected to host the 2025 + 2026 US Marathon Championships. 🇺🇸 The race will award $20K to its men’s and women’s winners. Plus: $500 bonus for those who hit the 2028 U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials qualifying marks (2:16:00 for men | 2:37:00 for women).

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

If anyone tells you empathy is a toxic trait used to manipulate Christians into supporting people they wouldn't otherwise, just give them a hug and tell them its ok, you love them too.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

G7 tactics

submitted 5 days ago • 274 comments

Canada should have invited Govenor Waltz of Minnesota and Governor Newsom of California to represent America at the G7, instead of Trump and Russia

submitted 5 days ago • 8 comments

american evangelicals are more of a threat to people in the united states than ISIS by an obscene margin

submitted 6 days ago • 59 comments

We’re announcing new legislation — the No Secret Police Act (SB 627) — to ban local/state/federal law enforcement, w/ some exceptions, from covering their faces when interacting w/ the public & require them to wear identifying info. The secret police behavior we’re seeing destroys trust & must end🧵

submitted 5 days ago • 351 comments