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

We're no more than a few hours away from the next phase of digital propaganda: unverified videos of "liberated people celebrating" will go viral. Many of these videos will later be revealed to have predated the illegal war, or be entirely unrelated to current events

Upshot: verify before amplifying

I never would have anticipated how much of my adulthood would consist of having to tell people that it is in fact wrong to

Bomb
Shoot
Starve
Kindap
Rape

Children.

A mug depicting KC Green's This Is Fine dog comic, but tragically faded

I've had my This Is Fine mug so long that the dog has become a ghost and all that remain are flames

This aged well. Note the author.

Donald Trump has learned nothing from decades of endless war.

I went to war three times for this country. Working class folks will pay the price of his military adventurism.

Americans are sick of it. I’m sick of it.

The founders would impeach Trump for this

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done

- started a war in the middle east
- completely destroyed the economy

-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."

Donald Trump in 2012:

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.

People say what's the point of impeachment? It'll fail.

The War Powers resolution will possibly (probably?) fail as well, like the Venezuelan War Powers resolution.

You push for both because both are required responses to the illegality we're facing.

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?

Defense Minister: “You’ve nuked our own cities! You’ve damned us all!”
ICBM-GPT: “You’re absolutely right - that was a mistake, and I apologize.”

Anthropic: We lost a contract because we refuse to build Skynet.

OpenAI: We'll do it

“if you won’t let us use your product to spy on Americans and kill without supervision we will single-handedly destroy your business by fiat” is the single most authoritarian anti-business action I can ever remember any administration taking

I'm just so fucking tired of this fucking nightmare hellscape of a society

I mean...

Right alongside the NRA standing up for gun rights in MN.

Headline: Moskowitz, Gottheimer oppose Iran war powers resolution, breaking with most Dems. (official portraits of Moskowitz and Gottheimer). Subhead: They should just rename it the Ayatollah Protection Act because that’s what it does Rep. Jared Moskowitz said

If you don't want a vote on matters of war and peace, gtfo of congress, because that's literally your job.

If you think it's better to leave those matters to the likes of Trump and Hegseth, gtfo of Democratic politics.

The overlap of people still on Twitter and people with even a hint of progressive ideals is zero.

They literally cannot stop naming their companies after the most evil parts of Tolkien. “Hey, let’s name our bank after the home of the evil dragon who hordes wealth while laying waste to the land and driving out the common people.”

Coming from a culture of people that include organ meats as part of their traditional food because we lived in conditions where society enforced poverty on us and it’s all we could afford: this is what you say to people you’re enforcing poverty on.

Why would we not just defund the agency by statute and then RIF them? Seems pretty straight forward and legal.

What happens now that the Ellisons will have both CBS News, plus CNN?
*Dems could set out a populist anti-trust platform for the next election
*Desperate need for new independent media sources - follow nonprofit or other models
What else?

I wonder what threats they received to make them drop out so suddenly.

you don't get the benefit of the doubt on quote-posting a Nazi account when you had a totenkopf tattoo

this guy is bad, actually