There are ~50,000 US troops in the Middle East and Trump basically just agreed to sacrifice a bunch of them on Israel's behalf.

Iran will retaliate by attacking US military bases in the Middle East. Troops will die, and Trump will use their deaths to justify more bombings. Democratic leadership, always keen to remind us that the party is *not* anti-war, will not present any serious opposition to this.

This disaster is what happens when panels include no expert Iranian voices and someone who clearly knows nothing about the topic is asked to comment.

Everyone should be prepared for the fact that whereas with Iraq, anti-war protesters were smeared as traitorous terror lovers, this time we will also be smeared as bigoted anti-semites. The new official definitions of anti-semitism which seek to criminalize Israel criticism, this

The Gaza genocide grows Staff at the Information Unit in Gaza’s Ministry of Health continue their heroic efforts to identify and name every individual massacred by Israel. We provide here (with permission) an Excel spreadsheet version of 55,202 named victims released today (June

It’s abundantly clear Iran doesn’t want war, ironically making it the only government in this standoff aligned with US public opinion

BREAKING: Haaretz Confirms Israeli Soldiers Ordered to Fire on Unarmed Starving Civilians at Aid Sites A major Haaretz investigation confirms Israeli soldiers in Gaza were ordered to shoot at unarmed Palestinians gathering near food distribution sites — even when they posed no

Some images of Israel’s aid operation in Gaza

.John Fetterman was the only Senate Democrat to vote against Tim Kaine's resolution prohibiting Trump from unilaterally waging war with Iran

He never called for violence against Jewish people, he never even called for intifada. This is a 100% Islamophobic racist smear campaign and Congresswoman Laura Gillen should apologize and retract, or be condemned and censured by the party leadership. cc: Hakeem Jeffries

"Team leaders referred to Gazans as 'zombie hordes', the former contractor said, 'insinuating that these people have no value.'" bbc.com/news/articles/…

The Big Beautiful Bill will leave most Americans worse off. Workers will work more, earn less, and ultimately won’t be able to make up for the losses caused by atrophied social programs. It's good for rich people though

The Big Beautiful Bill harms people in the bottom income quintile as much as a $24,000 penalty would pre-Big Beautiful Bill. For those in the top income quintile, the bill's passage is akin to receiving a $50,000 check.

BREAKING: The reconciliation bill enacted recently pushes annual U.S. military spending beyond the $1 trillion mark—likely triggering a more than half-trillion-dollar transfer of wealth from taxpayers to military contractors. [THREAD] watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/pap…

Between 2020 and 2024, $771 billion in Pentagon contracts went to just five firms: Lockheed Martin, RTX, Boeing, General Dynamics, and Northrop Grumman. By comparison, the total diplomacy, development, and humanitarian aid budget, excluding military aid, was $356 billion. [5/12]

Breaking: From 2020-2024, 54% of Pentagon spending went to private contractors. That's $2.4 TRILLION in taxpayer dollars handed to weapons companies. They call it “defense spending"—but it's the one of the biggest corporate welfare programs in history.

New research from Quincy's Bill Hartung and Stephen Semler, in collaboration with The Costs of War Project, breaks down this shocking new finding. Read the full paper here: watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/pap…

Over the last five years, the Pentagon has provided over $770 billion in revenue to just five companies:

The Big Beautiful Bill pushes this year’s military budget past $1 trillion. I wrote a bill that rescinds its $156 billion for the Pentagon and sends people $600 checks with the savings:

Read the bill here: stephensemler.com/p/pentagon-bud…