Deborah Baker

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At odds with Europe: Why is Spain saying ‘no’ to US-Israeli war on Iran? Spain's socialist president is locked in a war of words with Washington, which has threatened to cut trade ties.

🇪🇸Spain is leading the way: the leftist government was the first in the EU to condemn Israel’s war on Gaza as “genocide.” Now Spain is the most vociferous critic of the U.S. and Israel’s war on Iran, and refuses to help Drumpf ship arms to supply the conflict. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/...

i really don't think Hegseth realized the diplomatic consequences of that strike

The reason they’re called human rights is all human beings have them. If you’re talking about the supposed exclusive rights of the herrenvolk you should use another term or just switch to German entirely.

He’s like a really bad actor in a 1980s B action movie that went straight to video.

The United States gave Netanyahu over $24 billion in taxpayer dollars to fund his horrific war in Gaza.

That wasn't enough. Netanyahu wanted war with Iran. Trump gave him one.

The American people — not Netanyahu’s right-wing government — should determine U.S. foreign policy.

Spain's leader with a message that should be adopted by every top Democrat

We also just murdered this guy’s parents, his wife, and his son so good luck getting a peace deal

Spain’s Sánchez emerges as the EU’s chief critic of Trump’s war in Iran The Socialist prime minister has slammed the war as unjustified and illegal, and his criticism has sparked the threat of a trade war from Trump.

Only one EU leader has dared to directly challenge U.S. President Donald Trump over a war against Iran, calling it unjustified, dangerous and illegal:

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez.

The brutal, despicable, and grim side of war. The burial of the 150 elementary school girls killed in American-Israeli strikes on #Iran was today.

Cville peeps! Honored to appear at Virginia Festival of the Book 10:00 am March 21 at the Paramount. AND
Charlottesville out in paperback today. Hope to see you. #vabookfest
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N.Y. Attorney General Orders Hospital to Resume Youth Transgender Care

Tish James to NYU Langone on cessation of gender affirming care: Stop obeying in advance. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/n...

Very dark comedy.

Aerial view of gray ground with rows of tiny black graves and yellow backhoes

Graves.

165 graves.

Each for a little girl killed by the Israeli-American strike that targeted a school on the first day of the Iran War.

MARCO RUBIO:

The imminent threat was from Israel deciding to attack Iran without us and then Iran retaliating

The imminent threat was from Israel deciding to attack Iran without us

The imminent threat was from Israel deciding to attack Iran

The imminent threat was from Israel

Christ.

WAIT WHAT

Asa Carter gave a speech at a white supremacist rally in a whites only public park in Charlottesville, Virginia on August 18, 1956, answering Virginia's political leaders' call for massive resistance to desegregation.

world-altering decisions are being made by a cabal of gambling addicts hell bent on self enrichment no matter the cost to humanity, we should look into that.

I've found one of the most disorienting and horrific things about watching fascism take over not to be that the fascists' words have no meaning, but that the people ostensibly responsible for conveying news to us continue to act as if they do.

Top Democrats Try to Stop Vote That Would Put Them on Record for Trump's Iran War Democratic leadership and senior aides are working to blunt momentum for a vote on the Khanna-Massie Iran war powers resolution.

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Mass extinction? The planet destroyed?

That's how you get your gated forever community.

It's a genocide theology. It's an apocalypse cult. It sold a billion copies of a book series called Left Behind.

It's running our government.

there's also something truly sick and decadent about how absolutely impossible, just utterly outside the Overton Window, it is for even mainstream progressive American politicians to simply say: "the US does not have the right to attack any country it doesn't like and the US military should go home"

Americans do not want this. They do not want another war in pursuit of regime change. They want relief from the affordability crisis. They want peace.

Additionally, I want to speak directly to Iranian New Yorkers: you are part of the fabric of this city — you are our neighbors, small business owners, students, artists, workers, and community leaders. You will be safe here.

-Zero Congressional consultation or approval.
-Zero preparation of public for need/consequences of war.
-Zero evidence of thought about "OK, what might the other side do?" Next month. Next year.
-Zero mention of anti-nuke agreement Trump voided, or Trump claim last year that nukes "obliterated."

The morally bankrupt Trump administration has partnered with another morally bankrupt authoritarian to declare an unprovoked war on Iran, already killing scores of civilians.

We need an immediate vote from Congress on a War Powers Resolution. Then articles of impeachment.

Running your war from a private club for millionaires — ahead of a $1 million-a-plate dinner — is a choice.

Opinion | Trump’s Strikes on Iran Were Unlawful. Here’s Why That Matters.

The strikes on Iran are blatantly illegal. I explained in June why the strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities were unlawful under US and international law. Everything I wrote then is true today, but this is a far larger assault with far graver consequences.

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/o...