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okay, this *specific* part feels like a parody of the actual iraq war

Like, I just want to post silly videogame nonsense and stupid rec league soccer updates, and in this day alone we had a government-approved Charlie Kirk banner at the DoE, multiple US service members dead, and an update that the ghouls who started this war have no fucking idea what they’re doing.

Seems like the emerging policy is: you people out there are responsible for setting up your own governments, but if the US doesn’t like who ends up in charge we’ll just assassinate or kidnap them and then the ball is back in your court.

The fact that a question like this even has to be asked is itself remarkable:

The White House has communicated so little about the offensive in Iran — its rationale, its goals, its scope, etc. — that there’s ambiguity about whether the United States is currently at war.

Between this (is he smiling?) and the state of the union, Trump is just horny for people dying violently. like there’s no other way to describe it

Joe Biden was absolutely pilloried when he said this...but about oil prices, not about service members dying.

Today should be your 38th birthday.. When you lose your son you lose more than a child you lose a piece of your heart and your joy. Life is forever altered, and nothing can ever fill that space. Yet in my soul, he remains, my precious boy, forever loved. His laughter, his smile, and his love are woven into who I am. My love for him will never fade. Yor are my pride and my joy - you've made a change that cannot be broken..

Alex's mom on his 38th birthday.

Don’t worry everybody, Thomas is on the job

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Nope! Democrats need to stop playing games and put everyone on record. The American people deserve to know where they stand.

I support Rep. Ro Khanna and Rep. Thomas Massie’s Iran war powers resolution.
@khanna.house.gov

@wonkette.bsky.social Just in case you didn't see this.

Nearly 2 Dozen Retired Harvard Business School Professors Step Into The Democracy Debate Harvard Business School profs urge business leaders to recognize their responsibilities as citizens: 'The cost of silence is incalculable'.

“We are retired Harvard Business School professors. …We ask that the leaders of the business world in the United States — some of whom it has been our privilege to teach — speak out now, act now, in defense of democracy.”

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Sup chat this is Slouching Towards Bethlehem with your boy The Rough Beast, and it looks like today’s stream could be a big one, as some of you might’ve already seen there are rumors going around social media that the hour has come round at last, so we’re gonna get right into it

Seized Art, Eavesdropping Guards: Parents Describe a Clampdown at Dilley Detention Center as Kids Shared Their Stories Detainees told ProPublica that art supplies have been removed in room searches, immigrants have lost access to Gmail and staff hover within earshot during video calls.

Dilley detainees said art supplies have been removed in room searches, immigrants have lost access to Gmail and staff hover within earshot during video calls.

The Trump administration and private prison operator CoreCivic disputed detainees’ claims.

It’s insane this is legal. People around Trump are profiting off war and death. I’m introducing legislation ASAP to ban this.

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A thing I think about the Billionaire right’s consolidation and growing stranglehold on US media is that you can’t spend decades training the public that the media is untrustworthy and full of lies and a biased useless fake news machine and then expect people to suddenly trust it once you take over

A mad king’s illegal war on Iran is a cry for regime change...in Washington | Will Bunch Democracy really did die in darkness as Donald Trump’s unconstitutional war on Iran stamps America as a dictatorship.

Will Bunch @inquirer.com:

➡️Bush’s Iraq War was the last throes of a decaying democracy, while Trump’s actions are those of an unrestrained dictator — exactly the mad king that Madison sought to warn us about 228 years ago.
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While we sit around to find out how bad exactly it all is, a bit of cheer: the best baguette of Paris competition was won by a Sri Lankan who appears to have started as a dish washer in restaurants and eventually trained as a Boulanger.

www.paris.fr/pages/la-mei...

Trump in dopey USA baseball cap, posed at the head of a table full of crisis actor White House staffer flown into Perv-A-Lago for the “war” photo op, in a black-draped section of his club, which is supposed to make it look like a high security “situation room,” but doesn’t.

Cropped version on the previous photo, showing aires peeking in through the high security, top secret curtains.

Pipe and draping does not make it a SCIF. And DEFINITELY not a SCIF if you can just peek your head in from outside.

WOOWWW,,, this just hit $100,000. Keep it up cuz it’s going directly to them in Vegas 👍🏾

congress sounds cool i wish it was real

meanwhile, war rages on at home.

How many times do we have to say this but: dead people do not come back. Dead children do not come back. Death is permanent.

What happens in 3 months means fuck all to the deaths happening RIGHT NOW

Despite the short notice, there are quite a few people out. Had to leave to get back for Iftar but what a relief to actually see how many people are furious. #StopTheWarOnIran

Just to clear things up… i don’t think the black curtains are there for “security.” They are there to make things look “serious,” and to hide the shitty decor at Mar-A-Lago, so that we don’t mock his terrible interior design and gold-trimmed everything.

In 1789, Thomas Jefferson writing to James Madison, extolled the Constitution for instituting “one effectual check on the Dog of war by transferring the power of letting him loose from the Executive to the Legislative body.”

No War With Iran. Get our troops out of Iraq and Syria now. http://tulsi.to/no-war #IranAttack #NoWarWithIran

Anyone know what she is up to these days?

OTOH, he really likes to kill brown people and he is insane. The buildup could have been as a threat and then he randomly decided fuck it, let’s kill people, they deserve it.

The media and academia have an obligation to not remain neutral in the face of authoritarianism. These institutions need liberal institutions to exist in any meaningful way. Authoritarianism is an existential threat. Our devotion to "neutrality" will keep us from fighting for our own survival.