Tucker Jones

What's McDuffie's answer to this question? I'd guess also against due to budget reasons but I'm curious

I'm sorry for the loss of her son. I'm sorry that the local journalist didn't kindly and gracefully point out to her that Iran and Iraq are different countries.

Still not a reason to mock this woman's loss.

Interesting that the alleged co-conspirator has a very Yugoslav-sounding name. I can't find more about the co-conspirator's own legal case unfortunately.

I understand the care that your reporters take with people in grief like this woman. But did your reporters note that Iraq, where her son died, and Iran, where President Trump is waging an unconstitutional war, are different countries? Why did this story conflate two completely different countries?

OCASIO-CORTEZ STATEMENT ON TRUMP'S COMBAT OPERATIONS IN IRAN "The American people are once again dragged into a war they did not want by a president who does not care about the long-term consequences of his actions. This war is unlawful. It is unnecessary. And it will be catastrophic. "Just this week, Iran and the United States were negotiating key measures that could have staved off war. The President walked away from these discussions and chose war instead.President Trump flippantly acknowledged the possibility of American casualties, stating "that often happens in war.' "Mr. President: this was not an inevitability. This is a deliberate choice of aggression when diplomacy and security were within reach. Stop lying to the American people. "Violence begets violence. We learned this lesson in Iraq. We learned this lesson in Afghanistan. And we are about to learn it again in Iran. Bombs have yet to create enduring democracies in the region and this will be no different. "In moments of war, our Constitution is unambiguous: Congress authorizes war. The President does not. I will do my part to uphold our Constitution by voting YES on Representatives Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie's War Powers Resolution. Every member of Congress must join us in rejecting this aimless war.

My statement on President Trump’s combat operations in Iran⬇️

Which, amazingly, is somehow more than any of his colleagues did.

It is surreal that we are still locked in the never-ending debate over whether military intervention on behalf of democracy and human rights is good, when the current administration has been extremely explicit they are not intervening on behalf of democracy and human rights

The Bird House's coffee farm room is one of my favorite places in the zoo!

This is a point in favor of the "throw shit against the wall and see what sticks" theory of politics, by the way. I think they are idiots for not immediately seeing the value, but their poor judgment would matter much less if they just tried shit

He was at least sensible enough not to turn down this one staffer's idea, we've gotta give him that (and precisely that).

“President Trump's decision to bomb Iran is indefensible. This was not about preempting an imminent threat—it was a strategically misguided power play, with no discernible endgame,” Cato Institute’s Jon Hoffman says.

When did Congress declare war on Iran?

Even if everything you said is correct, when did you and your colleagues authorize this war?

Wishing safety for you and for all your fellow residents of Qatar

this is one of those things where i think it would be useful for more people to recognize that this is completely unrecognizable compared to republican party orthodoxy for essentially the entire history of the republican party

UPDATE: Manhattan Borough President Brad Hoylman-Sigal says that "ICE used a phony missing persons bulletin for a 5 year old girl," to lie and get into a Columbia residential building and detain a student.

"It is unconfirmed at this time whether they impersonated an officer to do so," he adds.

10 hour study with me at Columbia showing lunch

Her in the library

DHS illegally arrested me please help Text against image of her knees

Columbia student detained today is a day-in-the-life influencer with 100K followers. Her stories right now go from her studying for a Genetics exam in a nicely edited "ten hour study with me at Columbia" video, to a photo of her knees with the caption "dhs illegally arrested me please help"

dawg I will crawl over broken glass for the first candidate who promises to enforce FARA and get all of these fuckers thrown in jail

What’s really striking in Saruman’s speech to Gandalf is how broadly (and unusually for Tolkien) relevant it is. Take out the one specific reference to the Elves and Númenor and it is just an absolute classic rationale for collaborating with evil in the confidence you can ultimately direct it.

How to stop a dictator I spent months studying how authoritarians like Trump lose. The answer is shockingly simple.

I have spent the past several months studying the cutting-edge research on modern democracies that have defeated authoritarian leaders.

I've learned that the conventional wisdom on the topic is wrong — in ways that have clear implications for the US going forward

THREAD www.vox.com/politics/479...

Didn't ask

I Caught POLITICO and the New York Times Laundering Pink Slime "News" How the sexist backlash to AOC and Gretchen Whitmer at the Munich Security Conference led me to a scammy "local news" outlet pushing a coordinated right-wing narrative

Interesting post about the coordinated anti-AOC smear campaign. It's 2016 again! Fake local news outlets on Facebook getting picked up until eventually it winds up in the Washington Post.

Go for a classic like Doctor Who

NY times spelling bee puzzle reading MOCKBA which looks identical to the Russian word for Moscow spelled in Russian Cyrillic.

Wife and I still working on this one and unfortunately my knowledge of Cyrillic is a detriment

A screenshot of the NY Times game Spelling Bee with the phrase Barack Obama spelled out as a solution.

Now that's what I call a pangram.

So-called “inclusionary zoning” acts as a tax on new housing by requiring home builders to sell or rent a %age of the new homes at a loss.

Without funding, IZ only “works” when the market price of new housing is significantly higher than construction costs.

I am glad to see Oregon rolling it back.

Put her in a choke hold and the other kids jumped in to beat his ass. The kids are alright.

Heroyam slava

rice is life, and I got a thread to share about rice: Park Chung-hee's obsession to make South Korea rice self-sufficient in the 1970s changed everything about the country, including your favorite Korean foods and the urban environment 🧵

Positive take (relatively) on “we have lived among such people this whole time”:

Yes, and that shows things don’t need to be like this. There will always be the sort of people who’d try to get the state to hurt kindergartners. We just need to keep them out of institutional power, and on the fringe.