Patrick Mullen

It makes me so happy to hear you (specifically) say this ❤️

“Mission Accomplished”

Lindsey’s diplomacy working wonders in UAE.

Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.

Enthusiastic recommendation: “Inventing the Renaissance”, by Ada Palmer (@adapalmer.bsky.social).

Ngl, the book plays on so many of my intellectual chords, that it felt as if it were written for me, personally, as if I were a rich Florentine merchant living the life in the 1400s.

Worth watching the whole clip, but purely in propaganda terms it seems to me, admittedly just an amateur observer when it comes to war fighting, that it may be useful to send the message to the 91+ million Iranian civilians that we are not trying to kill them.

U.S. May Have Committed War Crime In Sinking Of Iranian Ship The Geneva Conventions say nations have a duty to “take all possible measures” to help rescue victims of shipwrecks. A U.S. submarine left that to Sri Lanka.

“The 312-foot Dena and its 130-member crew, many of them musicians in the Iranian navy band, had just finished participating in an Indian government naval exercise and cultural exchange that the U.S. Navy had also participated in and were on the way home on Wednesday.”

Azerbaijan just closed airspace "in the south of the country" per Bloomberg macro squawk. Losing that link would have a massive impact on Europe-Asia (incl the Indian subcontinent and ANZ) air travel.

It's judicial calvinball. They get away with it through procedural posturing and how they grant cert to particular questions. They specifically avoided granting cert on parental rights to the supportive parents of trans youth but acted on an emergency basis for transphobic parents.

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A United States senator from the president's own party, one who serves on the Select Committee on Intelligence and the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, has no idea what's going on as America goes to war with Iran.

Eyewitness News, With Tom Denardo and Cheryl Clayburn … All those stories and more on tonight’s Eyewitness Newscast. Good evening, I’m Jarrod Palmer. Tom Denardo is off tonight. Dana Gibson is also off...

"Good evening, I'm Jarrod Palmer. Tom Denardo is off tonight. Dana Gibson is also off tonight. James Hastings and Kevin Bosley are off tonight. Molly Hutchins is off tonight. Amanda Carlson is either sick or on vacation, or she's off tonight. I think she's off tonight."

Oh no! I walk past it all the time. I hadn’t realized.

His shop is a delight.

This is a weird delight of a read. What a weird, unexpected mashup. I particularly love how well the Marsh-wiggles are written. (I heard over the weekend from a friend that this piece was passed to Tony Bourdain before he died, and he admitted it was really well done.)

Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses "The legislature did not include a grace period."

It seems all Kansas-issued trans drivers' licenses are invalid, effective tomorrow

It is now illegal for trans people to drive a car until they surrender their license at a DMV (that most will need to drive to) and have it reissued with the wrong gender marker

This was never about woman's sports

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Nurul Amin Shah Alam, Blind Rohingya refugee dumped by CBP, dies in cold "They just left him."

A blind Rohingya man survived a genocide in Burma, escaped to the United States, and then died because immigration officers treated him with such callousness. This story is a tragedy www.motherjones.com/mojo-wire/20...

From St. Louis, can confirm this is how we do it. Though now I’m wondering if there’s some third topping that goes in the middle? What are we missing here?

My friends (rhetorical): Can we bring anything?

Me (deadly serious):

This is exactly how I feel too. And Bluesky is much much closer to the the former than the latter.

The 15% global tariffs is partly because he’s a petulant child, sure, but also because he wants his slush fund he can point to as some magic solution to whatever problem he’s caused. That money has been ear marked for so many things and giving it back exposes the lie.

Trump's pick for Secretary of Commerce...

A lot of people have asked what this opinion means: Are ICE tactics likely to change because of the court's holding in this case? So let's talk for a minute about what the court is doing.

This is deeply revealing. On some level, he knows he is lying & cheating & getting ahead *by virtue of exploiting a rule-based system that someone else created & maintains*. In other words, someone else is in charge of holding things together. Someone else is the mom. He's the naughty boy.

March 27, 1936: Portraits of the Führer are raised on official buildings across Berlin. This one at the Potsdamer Railway Station reads "Freedom - Peace"

Mia Valentina Paz Faria A 7-year-old from Venezuela who was living in Austin, Texas Detained for 70 days “I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

UPDATE: Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children. This is in response to the ace reporting by @micarosenberg et al for ProPublica:

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.

Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.

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There is no content beyond career retrospectives. There is no economy beyond Polymarket death pools. There is only Remembrance, and people we once assumed were our peers reminding us of our own proximity to death by innocently asking “Wait, who is that?”