The Law is King

“In America, THE LAW IS KING. For as in absolute governments the King is law, so in free countries the law ought to be king." Thomas Paine, Common Sense, 1776

[Jeffrey Goldberg @JeffreyGoldberg]

Admiral (ret.) William H. McRaven: "In recent months, President Trump, upon advice from Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, has relieved or forced the retirement of some of the finest officers that have ever served this nation."
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[The Law is King @pax747]

@RJancerak @FoxNews Mubarak in n nib bun m

[U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell @SenMcConnell]

It’s been a week since the regime in Tehran blacked out the internet, and 10 months since USAGM blacked out its transmitters for Farsi-language @RadioFarda_ from @RFERL. What a waste of America’s tremendous capacity to share the truth. The regime is using the cover of darkness to slaughter brave Iranians who have taken to the streets. When @POTUS speaks to the Iranian people, why on earth would we limit that signal?

[The Law is King @pax747]

@SpencerGuard Bravo 🙏

[The Law is King @pax747]

@SarahLongwell25 Best tweet ever. Unmatchable!

[Natasha Bertrand @NatashaBertrand]

Must-read from @TBowmanNPR. It’s important everyone understands that this document is not about press’ ability to “roam the halls.”
It equates asking for information—the press’ literal job—with criminal activity. The new rules even stipulate that sharing our contact information on social media and asking people to reach out could make journalists a “security risk” and be grounds for revoking badges. That is the real reason why no one — save one far-right outlet— is signing. https://t.co/951QICcujd

[Embassy of Israel to the USA @IsraelinUSA]

"There's just a different standard for Jews in Israel when it comes to prosecuting a war, they're allowed to fight back to a truce, but unlike America or any other Western nation that is attacked this viciously, they're not allowed to win a war. It's a double standard."

@profgalloway on the @Morning_Joe show - say it louder for the people in the back 👏🏻👏🏻

🎥 @MSNBC

[Caitlin Legacki @caitleg]

Just gonna start posting every night that Kay Graham published the second tranche of Pentagon Papers in the middle of an IPO, at the same time Nixon was threatening to pull her FCC licenses.

[The Law is King @pax747]

@politico Lm

[Peter Baker @peterbakernyt]

It would be hard to imagine an event that could have gone better from the point of view of the Russian leader, who made no public commitment to stop his assault on Ukraine and yet was treated as a valued friend. @katierogers https://t.co/PFkkOZy6vP

[Stuart Stevens @stuartpstevens]

Republicans could stop this. They could vote to give Ukraine the weapons it needs to defeat the greatest evil since Nazi Germany.

Most would like to do so.

Why don’t they?

Because being subservient to Donald Trump is more important to them than ending a war of genocide in Europe.

They each go to sleep with blood on their hands. They are the American Quislings who have betrayed the legacy of the Greatest Generation.

History will call them cowards and ask how “Never again” became “Yes sir, Mr. Trump.”

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

Permanent member of the UN Security Council bombing a European capital with a population of several million people this morning.

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

Mark Twain would have been absolutely brilliant on Twitter

[The Law is King @pax747]

@jacobkornbluh Netanyahu made support for Israel a partisan issue in the US - a short-sighted, selfish, infuriating decision, with serious ramifications.

[Bruno Tertrais @BrunoTertrais]

When I want to fall asleep I count Trump’s deadlines. (Ukrainians can’t sleep.)

[Ruben Gallego @RubenGallego]

Medical debt doesn’t tell you if someone is financially irresponsible. It tells you they got sick.

Trump’s decision to re-add it to credit reports will punish millions of Americans for having cancer, caring for a sick kid, or going to the ER.

[ChrisO_wiki @ChrisO_wiki]

For what it's worth, I think Trump's 50 day "ultimatum" is not aimed at Vladimir Putin but at Lindsey Graham and the other anti-Putin Republicans. It gets them off Trump's back for the next 50 days, after which he'll think of another way to kick the can further down the road.

[Peter Baker @peterbakernyt]

Trump's Russia announcement is being portrayed as toughening his stance, but in fact what he did was give Putin a 50-day free pass to do anything he likes in Ukraine without further US punishment as the Senate sanctions bill is now put on hold.

[Ted Deutch, CEO of American Jewish Committee @AJCCEO]

I spent 16 years in politics trying to stop Iran’s march to the bomb. When I see former colleagues from Congress claim last night’s strikes weren’t justified because Iran wasn’t days away from a deliverable nuclear weapon, I’ve got to respond - as the former Chair of the Subcommittee on the Middle East, North Africa and Global Counterterrorism.

1. The Iranian regime’s stated policy since 1979 has been “death to America” and “death to Israel.”

2. They have targeted Americans, Israelis and civilians around the world.

3. They’ve lied about their nuclear weapons program for decades – just this month, they were censured at the IAEA for deceiving the world about their nuclear program.

4. They enriched uranium way past the point of what’s needed for civilian use.

5. They continuously violated the JCPOA.

6. They built a secret enrichment facility with thousands of centrifuges deep in a mountain.

7. They constantly disregard their NPT obligations and treat the IAEA with contempt.

8. They sprinted to enrich and stockpile enough highly enriched uranium to make 10 bombs in 3 weeks. And evidence pointed to advancements in Iran’s ballistic missile systems.

Should the US have waited until this regime was capable of delivering a warhead? This was an imminent threat – to the US, to Israel, and to the world – that necessitated an imminent response. These limited, targeted US strikes were necessary, justified, and vital to global security.

[Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @DrewPavlou]

Honestly all these Middle Eastern wars for the last 80 years have started due to Muslim supremacy politics.

Why the fuck does it matter to Iran whether Jews have a country of their own in the Middle East? This is just mental illness. A constant refusal by Islamic supremacists to accept Jews living in the Middle East as equals rather than as Dhimmis, subjugated minorities.

This is the explanation for all these wars.