It is possible to believe two things at once: That the long-suffering people of Iran deserve freedom from their despotic leaders, and that a bombing campaign by the current highly corrupt authoritarian government of America is unlikely to bring it.
TRUMP’S IRAN WAR: we are starting a war illegally (ie without congressional approval), in order to obliterate Iran’s nuclear capability, which the White House has said it does not have any more as a result of the Trump administration’s attack on Iran last year?
In short: An illegal pretextual war.
Once again, the founders foresaw Trump perfectly, what they failed to foresee was this supine Congress.
Ossoff: "Among today's false prophets are the election deniers who indulge this president's obsession with overturning the 2020 election. Hear me when I say this -- they tell a lie so absurd, and therefore so debasing, that the act of telling it proves the teller's total and humiliating submission."
This. A hundred times, this.
Hey Spencer J. Cox, Senator John Curtis, Senator Mike Lee, Rep. Blake Moore, Rep. Burgess Owens, Rep Celeste Maloy, and Rep Mike Kennedy, are you good with this? This is your President. Will any of you say a word in protest? You know this is sick. Please say something. Your silence enables this guy.
I wrote a thread last March at the Stand Up for Science rally @standupforscience.bsky.social
Here is Utah’s Democratic Chair Brian King @briansking19.bsky.social asking all of us to together help talk about the realities facing our world, locally and globally.
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Trump just said Republicans should “take over the voting and nationalize it.” That’s authoritarianism, full stop. The silence from elected Republicans is cowardice—and it’s dangerous heading into November.
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There comes a point when a man must refuse to answer to his leader if he is also to answer to his own conscience. -Hartley Shawcross, barrister, politician, and prosecutor at the Nuremberg War Crimes tribunal
Good article here. I ask, we should all ask, why Sen. John Curtis and Sen. Mike Lee over and over again vote to give lifetime entire to judges who are not willing to state that the U.S. Capitol was attacked by a violent mob on January 6, 2021.
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Trump is corrupt beyond anyone’s wildest nightmare. The world’s biggest shakedown artist. Endorsed, enabled, and empowered by just about every elected Republican. They are all rotten to the core.
What Spencer Cox and the power hungry super-majority legislature have done to turn one of the highest quality state court systems in the country into a partisan, political animal is nauseating.
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I'm skimming through mentions of Trump in the Trump-Epstein Files, and there's one thing that I'm thinking over and over:
All we had to do was believe the women.
There are dozens of stories in here that make me ill. Do you really believe these are all lies?
God bless these people.
Former criminal defense attorney here.
If what we’ve seen of the Epstein Files so far—heavily redacted and with 3 million pages still missing—is bad, keep in mind that the *Files in full* are a *hundred* times worse.
That’s how this works.
You’re seeing the G-rated version.
It's not the rulers that make America great. It never has been.
The resistance is what makes us great. Keep pushing and never let up.
Six days ago federal officers murdered a man in the streets of Minneapolis and we still don't know their identities. Is there any modern precedent for this?
ICE and CBP agents seem to enjoy gratuitously breaking glass—from car windows to store fronts to homes. It’s an expression of unchecked power and dominance: “We’re in charge. We break and shatter what we want.”
And nights of broken glass have been a harbinger of worse to come.
MINNESOTA — Mom goes outside to warm up her car, ICE grabs her: "Please, my car kids are all alone in the house!”
So nothing has changed and Homan was just to put a new face on the cruelty, got it
(H/T longtimehistory)
I hope every person on Earth listens to this.
America is not gone yet.
This is what the Republican party has become. The GOP: instead of Grand Old Party. It's Guardians Of Pedophiles (Trump), Or Goons on Patrol (ICE- Homan, Noem, Bovino).
Let’s give him credit…. At least the corruption isn’t hidden. He’s doing it right out in the open. The name “Trump” will be treated like Benedict Arnold’s name within the decade
"This is a criminal president and a criminal administration. This is straight-out fascism. This is about ending democracy. These people are destroying the Constitution. And if we say it in words that are any less blunt, we are not telling the truth."
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“Why would you bring a gun to….” Is irrelevant under the second amendment
What about this murder by ICE, Spencer Cox, Mike Lee, John Curtis, Burgess Owens, Blake Moore, Celeste Malloy and Mike Kennedy? Are you going to say a thing? Or will you just continue to cower? Will you vote in a few days to keep funding ICE?
No elected official should be silent about this level of derangement from the President.
