Mark Peifer (He, him)

BREAKING: Keir Starmer has given US permission to use UK bases to launch “defensive” airstrikes against Iran - destroying its missiles “at source” to prevent them firing across region.

Last week, I was asked whether I supported strikes on Iran.

My position remains the same.

The entire US political class is rotten to the core.

NYC Times Square
Say No to War in Iran❕

Literally the only statement from an elected official I’ve read this morning worth our time. @schumer.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @sanders.senate.gov take note!!

Thank you @mayor.nyc.gov @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

CC: @hebagowayed.bsky.social

How even this statement does not center Iranian lives.

Even to the best of the electeds we are not human.

The U.S. Senate must be clear: no war with Iran.

President Trump has just launched another illegal attack on Iran after he claimed the attack in June 'obliterated' Iran’s nuclear program. He has not gotten authorization from Congress to go to war. That power belongs to Congress, not the President. Americans do not want war in the Middle East.

For the first time in Gallup history —

More Americans sympathize with Palestinians in the “Middle East Situation” than with Israelis.

41% Palestinians (+8)
36% Israelis (-10)

Democrats: Palestinians +48
Independents: Palestinians +11
Ages 18-34: Palestinians +30
Ages 35-54: Palestinians +18

US military says three of its troops killed in first Iran operation casualties Three U.S. service members have been killed and another five have been seriously wounded, in the first casualties of the unfolding U.S. operations against Iran, the U.S. military said on Sunday.

Reports indicate at least 100 children have already been killed in strikes on schools. That is unconscionable.

Three U.S. service members are dead as a result of this entirely preventable war of choice.

The blood of these service members, these children, and every civilian rests in Trump’s hands.

Iran has a great many Mandelas and Walesas. Most of them are in a prison that Israel bombed back in July.

George Mason University is rallying today in the city of Fairfax to make sure they are included in our collective bargaining bill! I worked in my Campus Dining Hall and I'm going to make sure our student workers, professors and everyone who works at our universities have representation!

So much solidarity as @aaup.org @aaupmason.bsky.social @aft.org @local6741.bsky.social @unitehere.org @seiu.org fight for the rights of ALL public sector workers to collectively bargain in VA.

Thank you for joining us @ssurovell.bsky.social @salimforva.bsky.social @helmerva.bsky.social!!

Feds asked New Mexico to halt Jeffrey Epstein Zorro Ranch sex trafficking probe, records show Former AG says feds halted New Mexico’s Epstein inquiry without sharing promised evidence as state reopens Zorro Ranch investigation.

Need DOJ-scale probe of the... DOJ

Daer I type with two fingers and any key further out on the keyboard is in danger of being hit late

Wait--that's a dumb thing to say even for RFK

Cervical cancer rates higher in states with low HPV vaccination rates

RFK Jr *lies* when he says cervical cancer risk is increased in women who get the HPV vaccine.

New study: "States with high vaccination rates have seen the biggest drop in cervical cancer, while states with low vaccination rates have had little to no progress"

www.cidrap.umn.edu/human-papill...

Sigh.

This is the directorate that funds all of the earth, ocean & atmosphere research at NSF.

bearing in mind of course that his own party controls both the house and senate

Including trans women? We need you on their side Roy

The point is to make us all apathetic because apathy means we are too numb to resist the fascists anymore. Apathy is the enemy of community, it is the enemy of humanity. We cannot allow them to steal our outrage from us because our outrage means we care.

WOW!!

An infinite number of mathematicians enter a bar.

The 1st orders a beer.
The next says: "I'll have 1/2 of what he ordered"
The next says: "I'll have 1/2 of that..."

The bartender stops them, pours two beers and says:
"I get it, but you need to know your limits."

While operations are coordinated at a members-only, private beach club — in between fundraisers and parties.

They spent billions on regime change in Venezuela and left the Maduro's head of torture in charge.

They are now spending billions on regime change in Iran, knowing the most likely outcome will be harder line leadership.

We do not have serious people running our country.

A PSA from Thomas Massie:

Chris Murphy: "We need to stand up for the American citizens that ICE is murdering, the kids they're terrorizing. They should stop this illegal war and they should stop ICE from terrorizing our communities. We should demand they do both things."

Mark Warner: "I saw no intelligence that Iran was on the verge of launching any kind of preemptive strike against the United States. None."