These Nazis are sick like Dr. Mengele, Kansas MAGA republican chomos overrode the Democrat governors veto, allowing a new law for forced genital inspections of children to make sure they are not transgender. #MAGARepublicanPedos

WATCH: “This is f*cking kidnapping! That’s not your badge… I do have a little bit of education… get the f*ck out of here, racial profiling is illegal…” A brave woman melts ice 🧊 💪🏽 www.instagram.com/reel/DLOWbEs...

"There is no intel," said one of the ofcls…."The president is *protecting* the United States & our interests, [but] the intelligence assessments have not really changed from what they were before."

Sen #ChrisMurphy, who sits on the #ForeignRelations Cmte, confirmed…American #intelligence assessments on #Iran have not changed. "I was briefed on the intelligence last week. Iran posed no imminent threat of attack to the United States. Iran was not close to building a deliverable nuclear weapon."

Welp.

#Iran #Trump

Trump resort coming soon

ADDED via Catherine Rampell:

Rubio on CBS: "This wasn't a regime change move."
Vance on ABC: "Well, first of all, we don't want to achieve regime change."
Vance on NBC: "our view has been very clear that we don't want a regime change."
Trump, not waiting even 24 hours to undercut and humiliate them:

NEW: Three top House Dems—Greg Meeks, Jim Himes, and Adam Smith—are drafting a resolution to limit Trump’s war powers after the Iran attack, per John Bresnahan of Punchbowl. This would be an alternative to one drafted by Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna (excerpt below). massie.house.gov/uploadedfile...

I hope Marcy posts this here, but if you can, read this thread.

https://bsky.app/profile/emptywheel.bsky.social/post/3ls7xx4b3ss2m

Emptywheel:

I'm really shocked how little commentary there has been about China's likely response.

Trump is about to blame Biden for inevitable higher gas prices

‪Bloomberg News‬:

Breaking: Oil prices surge after the US strikes Iran’s three main nuclear sites and threatens further attacks

So… in the last hour:

• Iran says US “decided to destroy diplomacy”
• Trump says he’s open to regime change
• Iran says it will decide “timing, nature and scale” of its response to US attacks
• Russia accuses US of gambling “the safety and well-being of humanity as a whole”
• Waiting on China?

Shared on Bsky. I love AOC.

Keep 'em coming

Via Tyler McBrien:

NEW: A judge just DENIED the government's motion to detain Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

A hearing to review the conditions of Abrego Garcia's release is to come.

ADDED via Anna Bower:

Clearly an important early victory for Abrego Garcia’s team, though it doesn’t necessarily mean that he’ll be released — he could (and is very likely to) remain in ICE custody even if he’s released from criminal detention.

like the regime they answer to, american tech companies continue to demonstrate that they cannot be relied upon by the international community

The street that my mum lives in is a one-way street, but wasn't marked as such on #Google Maps. This caused many drivers to drive the wrong way. I have tried to edit it on Google Maps (there is such functionality), but to no avail. No matter how often I submitted a change (with photos of street signs!), Google said "Sorry, we could not verify it".

Solution: Edit the street on #OpenStreetMap! A few months after I did this, Google seems to have stolen the data, as it regularly does, and now the street is correct in both datasets!

Unpossible. I've been told Dems have been twiddling their thumbs.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:drfb2pdjlnsqkfgsoellcahm/post/3lsamhzlnmc2f

Don't be distracted from the continuing abductions in LA

https://ktla.com/news/local-news/masked-men-in-u-s-border-patrol-vests-brutally-beat-take-santa-ana-father/

@rdfrkian @oldguy52

If only Congress had a spine. Honestly, the GOP congressmen all need to be impeached for not upholding the constitution that they pledged to protect.

Oh my godddssss

I've been saying this for months, only more gently and without all caps.

Via Jeff Tiedrich:

FOR FUCK'S SAKE PEOPLE PLEASE STOP TELLING ME THAT SOMETHING IS A DISTRACTION FROM SOMETHING ELSE. WE CAN ALL KEEP MORE THAN ONE THING IN OUR HEADS AT A TIME, OK? NOW SHUT THE FUCK UP

5/5 "This is a moment for resistance and for accountability, in whatever ways are possible today, and more forcefully once the people can take our country back. And it starts with this basic understanding: that Trump is revealing the fallacy behind “strongman” rule.

He bombed Iran because he is a weak man."

4/ "But however what’s left of Iranian leadership decides to retaliate, or not retaliate, Trump’s rash and irrational war-making is only going to accelerate America’s slide into authoritarianism. Trump would not be the first U.S. president, unfortunately, to use the threat of a terror attack to curb the First Amendment rights of everyday Americans, but he would take it to a new level."

3/ "The truth is that Donald Trump is not, in his blackened, Big Mac-clogged heart, a warmonger. Trump is also not a peacemaker. His attitude about war and peace, life and death, and policies that reverberate for 340 million Americans, 91 million Iranians, and the rest of the world centers on One Big Idea: What’s in it for Trump? His only ideology is toxic narcissism."