Crimea is Ukraine. 🇺🇦

An impressionable American president willing to collude; overwhelming American-Israeli military and technological superiority; a weakened Iran under economic strain and diminished geopolitical stature. But, not for the first time in his strategic assessments, Netanyahu got it wrong. trib.al/iWS0UyP

Trump and Netanyahu Have Royally Screwed Each Other Over

The Iran war has not turned out the way they promised, and they’re suffering major political blowback as a result.

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How often do popes declare woe on tyrants like ours? Feels like a big deal. Just saying.

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 4mo ago

Pope Leo XIV: Jesus told us, blessed are the peacemakers. But woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic, or political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth.

President Zelenskyy: So if Putin is afraid of the US, they have the ability to put pressure on him. But if they don't put pressure on him and continue to engage exclusively in diplomatic, soft dialogue with the Russians, Russia will stop being afraid.

Hungary just elected a new PM who wasted zero time — he shut down state propaganda, called out the corrupt officials by name, and started the reckoning on day one. It made me want to write down exactly what that should look like here. So I did. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

Hungary's New PM Just Showed Us What Courage Looks Like. Where's Ours?

Hypothetically, if I was elected President, here are the opening salvos of restoration

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We are deciding right now if we are to be a nation of concentration camps and ethnic cleansing. And there is much citizens can do!

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez@aoc.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Local zoning is the way! A lot of these are being stopped or stalled by neighborhood organizing. These warehouses often need to be purchased, permitted, approved for occupancy and specs. Each one of those steps can be interrupted. Ppl are pressuring corps not to sell, counties to deny permits, etc

The Danish government has contributed more than $250 million to the Ukrainian city of Mykolaiv, testing a country-to-country aid program that contrasts with a Trump administration plan that would focus on for-profit ventures in rebuilding Ukraine. nyti.ms/427mjsZ

What Happened After Denmark Adopted a Ruined City in Ukraine

The Danish government has contributed more than $250 million to Mykolaiv, as the Trump administration pushes a more business-focused plan.

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🤔 Put him on the stand, swear him in and have him repeat those words.

2028 Blue Wave 🌊🌊💙 🇺🇸@2028-bluewave.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Now the DOJ is saying there are no more Epstein files. They already tried this lie. Unbelievable!

NEW: Raskin, w/ 50 House Dem co-sponsors, formally introduces a bill which would create a commission to assess Trump's fitness for office under the 25th Amendment. Bill text here: www.documentcloud.org/documents/28... Story TK

Honestly, how much more nonsense are we going to have to go through before the people around Trump grasp that he is mentally sick, a danger to America and the world--and he needs to be removed from office?

Trump must be removed from office. He has no capacity to do the job, and he’s destroying the US and the world with incoherent flailing. He thinks he can bully and blackmail the whole world and will start WW3 or nuke someone eventually. He absolutely cannot he allowed to continue.

TRUMP MOST IMPEACHABLE CRIME Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social Elie Mystal @elienyc.bsky.social Elie Mystal warns that we only have 2 weeks to hold Trump accountable for his crimes. Luckily for Congress, Elie lays out a plan... #FelonTrump #Impeachment #Crimes 3/7

Rarely has a people had such an *opportunity* to stop the evils of their government as we do right now. If we impeach & remove Trump, we will avert additional crimes against humanity. If we do not, history will judge us harshly. All of us. Yes, even me & you. 6/7 www.thenation.com/article/poli...

We Have 2 Weeks to Stop Trump From Committing New Atrocities

It is up to the American people, and our elected representatives, to use every legal means available—from impeachment to protest.

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So Trump's response to failing to enter into a joint toll booth venture w/Iran in Hormuz is to declare that it will blockade Iran's blockade?

When he launched this war, the President vowed regime change and “unconditional surrender.” What has he gotten? We went from Ayatollah Khamenei to Ayatollah Khameini Jr. - and are now negotiating over a 10-point plan written by the Iranians.

We elected you to Congress to be a check on executive power, not a spectator. You swore an oath to defend the Constitution, not to protect a man who threatens democracy, threatens war, and threatens the future. Stop hiding behind voters. Stop punting responsibility. DO YOUR JOBS.👇

Donald Trump is the worst President we've ever had by far. We don't need any ballroom or arch or libraries in his honor. He hasn't earned it, and he doesn't deserve it. Our sole objective as Americans is to erase all evidence that he was even here.

Journalists, get Amanda Ungaro on camera asap to keep her safe.

We were talking about our President ending a civilization yesterday. The best outcome possible now is, Israel either stops bombing Lebanon or Iran de-links the war in Lebanon, and we leave the nuclear materials in-place with something like the JCPOA, though its terms will be hard to get back to. 🧵

Donald Trump is by far the weakest, most pathetic excuse for a president in US history, and the world is weaker (with the posible exception of the regime in Iran) because he’s in it. Remove him.

I want Democrats out there scaring the shit out of Americans about how insane and dangerous Trump is. I want them to say nonstop that they need to remove him from office and challenge Republicans to join them unless they don't love their country. Make it patriotic to want to get rid of Trump.

Fascinating, Zelensky coming out publicly more and more and saying that Trump is working with/for Putin. The Ukrainians seem to have determined that telling the truth is preferable to lying to please Trump.

“The one predictable thing about any Trump policy is that he will find a way to prop up Putin and his fascist regime.”

Timothy Snyder@timothysnyder.bsky.social · 4mo ago

1/2. Notice that after losing the war Trump threatens his allies rather than Russia — even though Russia quite literally helped Iran defeat the US and he knows it.

Brutal.

Trump must be removed from office - immediately He is insane -

trump is no more sane now than he was yesterday. today we learn that the regime has threatened 🟥 the Pope 🟥 CNN 🟥 his Secretary of War Crimes 🟥 NATO he has not threatened Netanyahu or Putin. Make America Safe Again, DUMP TRUMP

Ceasefire or not, America can’t continue with this kind of “Look at me, I’m a crazy former reality show star, tune in to see what I’ll do next?!?” insanity. Donald Trump has to go. My column, arguing you don't just walk back from a threat of genocide: www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

Iran ceasefire or not, Trump can't lead. He's got to go. | Opinion

A president shouldn't be able to walk away from threatening to wipe out an entire civilization and then carry on like he's a normal president.

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With this settlement the US is worse off in every way than it was before the war; Iran is strengthened by the huge new tolls in the Straits of Hormuz, paid by the whole world. (1/14)

Trump lost this war in every possible sense — morally, legally, politically, economically, reputationally, and strategically.

Some thoughts about the President of the United States speaking about ending a civilization. The president speaks genocide. Anyone who has been involved in that conversation or associated actions would be complicit. And so we too must speak. Not only about crimes, but about their legal punishment.