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KAINE: To wage offensive war, the framers of the Constitution were absolutely plain that you gotta come to Congress

KERNEN: But it's almost a moot point

KAINE: Let me just underline the fact that I made an argument about the Constitution and you said it's a 'moot point.' I don't believe that

Happy election day to those who celebrate!

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It's good that Dems are forcing a war powers vote. But they can also link it to a larger case that Trump is conducting himself as a maliciously unhinged despot who's wrecking our system of self rule at its very foundations. 6/

newrepublic.com/article/2072...

I want Dems to fight and to articulate good policies and plans to fix this mess. BUT-republicans have capitulated to their oligarchs and a dementia-riddled incompetent so that is the real focus.

Sun Tzu is eternally correct

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“Dems need to strongly make the point that there was no imminent threat and that this war is a violation of the Constitution—and illegal,” Rep Adam Smith says, noting Trump is “ruling like a king instead of the elected president of a constitutional republic.” 4/

newrepublic.com/article/2072...

Hah! Interesting for when the BBC played his speech and I commented to my husband about which medieval pope’s words before the Crusades were plagiarized 😝

kind of astounding to consider that Trump won the 2024 election to a significant extent because Biden's support for Israel became so politically toxic, then he decided a good governing strategy would be to become full on a client state of Israel

Michelle Obama’s mention of the “affirmative action of inherited wealth” seems appropriate here. No actual effort or ability required.

I want to walk you through why it’s nearly certain Trump’s Iran War is going to be a massive, deadly, trillion dollar failure. And why you should be furious he’s set us on this path.

To protect their gerrymanders, Republicans try to revive a dangerous legal theory Despite repeated rejections, the GOP’s fringe strategy persists.

Republican lawmakers are revisiting a fringe legal theory that would hand state legislatures immense power over federal elections — an alarming move that proves their loyalty falls with Trump above the very people who put them in office.

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This was a nail-biter by at least I didn’t crash out 😅

That one person can drag us into a war without consulting or even notifying Congress, or our allies, or fully explaining to the American people why this is necessary, is absolutely bonkers.

Reminder that Congress has the power to stop this.

Trump's Operation Epic Distraction

anntelnaes.substack.com/p/operation-...

Russian foreign ministry stated that any attacks on civilian targets in Iran or Arab countries are "unacceptable and must be completely ruled out."

Just today, Russian hypocrites killed two people and injured 11 more in Druzhkivka, Donetsk region, and it's still early.

Not an empathetic bone spur in his whole body

Maybe it is a function of which ally has the most copies of the Epstein files 🤔

Can we add The Stupid to that too?

Wr need fresh voices willing to fight against MAGA, thr oligarchs etc. And we need term limits to stop Congress from becoming a nursing home and get rid of
Citizens United so they listen to constituents and not the money donors.

Absolutely incredible. Weeks of war without any vote in Congress. And the current regime may largely be left in place. This isn't just a war of choice. It's a vanity war. If this is allowed to stand, our country is in real trouble.

U.S. cities step up security measures amid Iran tensions FBI director Kash Patel instructed federal counterterrorism and intelligence to "mobilize all assisting security assets needed."

The “big picture” here, to use Axios lingo, is that for a year team Trump has destroyed important counter-terror tools and diverted counter-terror personnel to immigration enforcement.
And that Patel, Noem, & Gabbard have no qualifications and are riotously incompetent.
www.axios.com/2026/03/02/i...

"Aside from the internment camps used to incarcerate Japanese Americans in the 1940s, such facilities have no precedent in American history..."

US Conference of Catholic Bishops statement on Trump's new mass prison camps.

Full statement at the link:

www.usccb.org/news/2026/th...

💔💔 and Trump and his enablers just shrug and say “well that’s war” and don’t risk their own family to do this. The scary thing is, with his toxic personality and encroaching dementia, Trump will keep escalating domestically and abroad.

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Another 4, but LOL on guess 3 🤣

A big part of the authoritarian playbook is war. War takes over the news. War blots out criticism. War divides a nation’s people, subjecting those against it to being called unpatriotic. War grants leaders all sorts of emergency powers. War consumes everything else.

We mustn’t let this war do so.

The Next Terrorist Attack And What Comes After (Updated)

Modern tyranny is terror management.
I wrote this essay in April 2025 and updated it in November. I'm posting it again now because my fear of this scenario has continued to grow.
"The Next Terrorist Attack: And What Comes After"
snyder.substack.com/p/the-next-t...

A brief history of US and Iran

Push from Saudis, Israel helped move Trump to attack Iran President Trump launched a wide-ranging attack on Iran after weeks-long lobbying by an unusual pair of U.S. allies in the Middle East: Israel and Saudi Arabia.

"The attack came despite US intelligence assessments that Iran was unlikely to pose an immediate threat to the US mainland within the next decade."

So why do it?

"A weeks-long lobbying effort by Israel and Saudi Arabia..."

Ah. Not just weak, but cheap, too.

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...