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This really isnโ€™t a hard message. Obama neutralized the Iran nuclear program through the hard work of diplomacy, but Trump tore up the deal in his first term out of spite and chose war instead.

Trump should be impeached for putting the interests of Netanyahu over the United States!

And just like that, the โ€˜No New Warsโ€™ people are all-in on a new war. Proving yet again that they really believe in nothing other than what one man tells them to believe today. Which could be different tomorrow. The very definition of a cult.

Donald Trump bombed Iran tonight, not because they are about to have nuclear weapons (they are not), but because he needed a distraction from his tanking poll numbers and his deeply unpopular "Big Beautiful Bill." He doesn't care who gets killed, Iranians or Americans, to help HIM.

I was briefed on the intelligence last week. Iran posed no imminent threat of attack to the United States. Iran was not close to building a deliverable nuclear weapon. The negotiations Israel scuttled with their strikes held the potential for success.

Much as I would not dare to predict the consequences of this war, I do think we can summarize it thusly so far: A smart and evil man manipulated a stupid and evil man into a war against a fanatical and evil regime.

Masked ICE agents spotted swapping out license plates this morning in Bell Gardens, CA

I just. I just really hate how much this is starting to feel like yellowcake/WMDs/Iraq. Please call your reps.

Why am I not surprised?

Every day a different Democratic member of Congress should go to an ICE facility to inspect their detention facilities or speak to a detaineeโ€”and bring the media. Thatโ€™s such an easy fight to have.

I head to court in two months to face off with my rap*st. This is the actual jury trial, and Iโ€™ve already spent a lot in traveling and Iโ€™m pursuing justice. Just throwing this into the universe. A re-share would mean the world. gofund.me/869834ef

SCOOP: Trumpโ€™s tax bill includes a little-noticed line that spends $200 billion on a tax break that rewards private equity firms for taking over small businesses and then loading them up with debt, slashing employee pay, mass firing workers, and driving them into bankruptcy.

๐Ÿ”ฅ The NAACP wonโ€™t invite Trump to its national convention in Julyโ€”marking the first time in its 116โ€‘year history that a sitting president has been excluded. NAACP President Derrick Johnson: itโ€™s โ€œa waste of our time and energy to give a platform to fascismโ€ www.blackenterprise.com/naacp-exclud...

Bravo!! NAACP The way I see it. He is no President "Waste of Time" "Won't give a platform to fascism"

Robert May has taken the GOPโ€™s โ€˜family valuesโ€™ initiative in a very dark direction.

I just have to say, as a historian of the Reconstruction-era Klan, that masked paramilitaries are very bad and masked vigilantes are even worse and there are causal links between the two and none of this is good for democracy.

I'm only sad that people 25 years from now won't fully appreciate this comedy gold They'll likely not know that Donald Trump uses the phrase "two weeks" whenever he's completely out of his element, overwhelmed and confused, outclassed and outmatched and desperately playing for time like a schoolboy

E. Jean Carroll: This is a man who wears apricot makeup, with his hair twirled around his head like Barbara Stanwyck in Ball of Fire. I was so closeโ€”I heard almost every single thing he said. The fartingโ€”you wanted to know about that? It was a silent oneโ€ฆ sort of.

Shouldnโ€™t the NY Times headline note that this new policy breaks the law?

Time for a General Strike! โ€œTwo Weekโ€ Trump is trying to get rid of holidays for working class people. Heโ€™s cost the US economy trillions of dollars in losses in the last 6 months and financially ruined millions of hardworking families. #3E #generalstrike

This tweet from a MAGA Republican. An outright death threat.

If itโ€™s true that hegseth and Gabbard are excluded from the deliberations and itโ€™s Rubio, Vance, Caine and Ratcliffe it confirms that Trump knows what everyone else does which is that the two of them are hopelessly out of their depth clowns or worse. Now Trump is scared. And frankly itโ€™s good โ€ฆ

You might think "law enforcement agencies" would be able to, you know, follow the clear letter of the law but you would be mistaken.

Texas Bans Consensual Sex theonion.com/texas-b...

See how it works.

NEW: According to an administration official and another close associate of the commander-in-chief, Trumpโ€™s heavy consumption of Fox News content is increasing his appetite for direct military confrontation with Iran.

And wearing really badly tailored suits.

His tradition is to not pay the tailors who transitioned from tent-making.

What an excellent piece by Jamelle Bouie @jamellebouie.net -- here's a gift link so you can read it without the paywall: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/o...

Juneteenth is the perfect moment to remind everyone of two facts: 1. Those who donโ€™t learn from history are doomed to repeat it. 2. Those who prevent history from being taught are plotting to repeat it. Read this out loud. Read it again. Then teach it to your kids.

Thank you, Madam Speaker.

I am going to see Hamilton tonight. I find the message of the play (never giving up and upholding the Constitution) very timely and motivating. Who is jealous of me? (Please retweet to get the word out because this is special to me.)

Trump's average approval rating has now fallen to low 40's-worse a Quinnipiac poll last week had his approval at 38%. But do you get that sense from corporate media?! Nope! Why isn't corporate media pointing daily how Trump is horribly unpopular?! Oh yeah because they are corporate media!

๐“๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ฌ๐ข ๐ฐ๐š๐ง๐ญ๐ฌ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ค๐ง๐จ๐ฐ ๐ฐ๐ก๐จโ€™๐ฌ ๐›๐š๐ง๐ค๐ซ๐จ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ญ๐ก๐ž โ€œ๐๐จ ๐Š๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฌโ€ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐ญ๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ๐ฌ? ๐Ž๐ก ๐ฌ๐ฐ๐ž๐ž๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐š๐ซ๐ญ, ๐ข๐ญโ€™๐ฌ ๐ฃ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ž๐ ๐จ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ ๐€๐ฆ๐ž๐ซ๐ข๐œ๐š๐ง๐ฌโ€ฆ ๐–๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐ณ๐ž๐ซ๐จ ๐Ÿ๐ฎ๐ง๐๐ข๐ง๐ . ๐‰๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ซ๐š๐ ๐ž, ๐ฌ๐ง๐ž๐š๐ค๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ, ๐š๐ง๐ ๐š ๐๐ž๐ž๐ฉ ๐ก๐š๐ญ๐ซ๐ž๐ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐Ÿ๐š๐ฌ๐œ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐ฌ.

"It is believed that Secretary Noem may have been inadvertently exposed to trace amounts of integrity."

It took Netanyahu 29 years, but he finally found an American president who was itching to go to war with him against Iran.

Always.

Q: "Tulsi Gabbard testified in March that the intelligence community said Iran wasn't building a nuclear weapon." Trump: "I don't care what she said. I think they were very close to having one."