Lawmakers call for use of 25th amendment after president brazenly threatens to commit war crimes in Iran

As Donald Trump unleashes curse-filled threats against Iran, Democrats are raising alarm over his mental stability and calling for his removal from office – while Republicans remain conspicuously silent.

Democrats are escalating their rebukes as the 79-year-old president delivers rambling, incoherent speeches, hurls puerile insults at US allies and brazenly threatens to commit war crimes. He used an Easter Sunday social media post to warn Iran to “Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell”.

The president followed up by insisting that a “whole civilization will die tonight” if Tehran does not meet his latest deadline to agree to a deal that includes reopening the strait of Hormuz.

By Tuesday afternoon, more than 20 Democratic members of Congress had called for Trump’s cabinet to invoke the 25th amendment to the constitution to remove a president who is deemed unfit for office.

Once a staunch supporter of President Donald Trump, conservative political commentator Tucker Carlson has fully turned against him over the war in Iran, going as far as to liken Trump to the Antichrist on his eponymous podcast.

“Could there be a spiritual component to this?” Carlson said on The Tucker Carlson Show on Monday. “Is it just a conventional escalation ladder in a badly thought out war … [or] could it be something bigger? Is it possible what you’re watching is a very stealthy yet incredibly effective attack on what, from a Christian perspective, is the true faith: belief in Jesus?”

Carlson went on: “Is it possible that the president sees this in bigger terms? Sees this as the fulfillment of something? An elevation of some higher office beyond president of the United States?”

NASA astronauts begin journey home having collected eagerly awaited images of impact craters and ridges

Nasa’s Artemis II astronauts have described the powerful emotion they felt while soaring over the moon as they photographed impact craters, cracks and ridges and began their long journey home.

Among the eagerly awaited images captured by the crew, who worked in pairs at the Orion capsule windows, are those of the Earth rising from behind the moon, a solar eclipse and parts of the 590-mile (950km) wide Orientale impact basin that have never been observed with the naked eye.

Further images are expected to shed light on the brown, green and orange hues the astronauts reported on the greyish landscape, and possibly faint layers of moondust that may have been visible during the Earthrise.

Guess what? He chickened out again. Batshit insane coward.

cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/44626939

Lyons said in a written statement that officers conducted a traffic stop Tuesday in Patterson, which is about 80 miles south of Sacramento, “to arrest Carlos Ivan Mendoza Hernandez, an 18th Street Gang member wanted in El Salvador for questioning in connection to a murder.”

Lyons stated that when officers approached his car, Mendoza Hernandez “weaponized his vehicle in an attempt to run an officer over.” Officers then fired what Lyons described as defensive shots.

Mendoza Hernandez was subsequently hospitalized. It is unclear how many times he was shot or what his condition is currently. ICE declined to provide further information on Mendoza Hernandez, in response to a question by a reporter for The Sacramento Bee.

ICE agents have been involved in at least six other shootings this year.

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A huge upshot to using a laptop is you have a built-in UPS and KVM.

It's TACO Tuesday!

Lyons said in a written statement that officers conducted a traffic stop Tuesday in Patterson, which is about 80 miles south of Sacramento, “to arrest Carlos Ivan Mendoza Hernandez, an 18th Street Gang member wanted in El Salvador for questioning in connection to a murder.”

Lyons stated that when officers approached his car, Mendoza Hernandez “weaponized his vehicle in an attempt to run an officer over.” Officers then fired what Lyons described as defensive shots.

Mendoza Hernandez was subsequently hospitalized. It is unclear how many times he was shot or what his condition is currently. ICE declined to provide further information on Mendoza Hernandez, in response to a question by a reporter for The Sacramento Bee.

ICE agents have been involved in at least six other shootings this year.

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Context: Why Did Trump Say ‘Praise To Allah’ In Vulgar Easter Message Threatening Iran?

What might have made a difference is that a chunk of Democrats in congress started openly discussing impeachment and Republicans started leaking details about how the war started

I saw this news on ABC but I could not for the life of me find an article that wasn't just part of an ongoing liveblog. FFS Aunty.

As calls for Donald Trump to be impeached flooded social media after his genocidal threats toward Iran on Tuesday, the Senate’s Democratic leaders put out a statement late in the day that merely condemned Trump’s comment without any vow to take action. In a joint statement on Tuesday afternoon, Democratic leaders Senators Chuck Schumer (New York) and Jeanne Shaheen (New Hampshire)…

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