A big shout out to everyone who helps bring people into the world- the OB-GYNs, nurses, pediatricians, and all the other medical people and hospital staff — you do so much!
I’ll be taking a break from my day job (and posting) for a while to spend time with our baby daughter.
House Guy —> Dad Guy
Apart from the sovereignty issue, that's about 22% of annual US production of Tomahawks flying past there.
This isn't a sustainable campaign.
"On the topic of immigration and border enforcement, Mullin took positions that were directly contradicted by publicly available evidence or were deeply insensitive to the families of the ICE victims. He has never recanted or walked them back."
Crazy video of 20 Tomahawks flying through the Iraqi Kurdish mountains near Sulaymaniyah (filmed by someone standing *above* them), seemingly fired from Navy vessels in the Mediterranean
Nepotism and corruption…
In addition to oil, the war has bottled up the world’s main supply of sulphuric acid, setting back a lot of heavy industrial supply chains. theoregongroup.com/commodities/...
It is interesting to me* how this total military, geopolitical, & economic omnishambles is not being covered in the press with remotely the same fierce EPIC DISASTROUS FAILURE urgency that Joe Biden’s not 100% surgically clean withdrawal from 🇦🇫 was covered 🤔
[*It is not remotely interesting to me]
Note: the phrase "700,000 people" refers to 700,000 actual human beings who have been forced to abandon their homes, flee, live in fear and worse.
And then what?
Good for you, Senator, saying words that make you feel big on TV. But even if the US killed every Iranian leader, there’ll still be a large country with 90 million people in a strategically important location.
Someone will lead it, or there’ll be failed state / civil war. Then what?
An apocalyptic view of Tehran with an orange glow and thick black smoke rising on the skyline from a bombed oil refinery
Spent some time today trying to fathom why the markets don’t seem to care about an unfolding catastrophe.
Then I remembered it took them 6 weeks to realise there was a global pandemic, even with wall to wall footage of dead bodies around the world.
Chevron’s hometown paper is quiet on climate. Guess who owns it?
Another hush money payment.
A really good work if you're trying to understand the origin and history of the modern Conservative Movement is the first season of the podcast series THE DREAM about the history of MLMs and how they intersect with this sort of self-help philosophy podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
And this is a huge issue for the whole world because this is TRUMP’S ONLY TACTIC. He can’t solve anything, can’t understand anything, can’t out-negotiate anyone. He has no capacity to end a war. He will just keep making increasingly delusional pronouncements in an attempt to manifest reality.
Trump’s power and by extension his entire movement are built around the idea that by asserting something you manifest it in reality. Even if it’s not true many people will behave as if is so you can get away with it.
It is alarmingly effective in law, domestic politics. It cannot unblock a strait.
I know this is a crazy idea, but do any of the commentators who got snookered by anonymous Republicans into sticking with "Trump is strong on immigration, the public actually loves deportations" for far too long feel like it's time to ask themselves why they got so easily taken?
So much ink will be spilled but bookmark this from @abuaardvark.bsky.social which probably explains 99% of it. The other 1% was Witkoff and Kushner.
Good for her!! More reporters need to start calling out his lies to his face
New Pentagon estimates reveal the U.S. government spent over $11.3 billion in the first six days of Trump's Iran war.
Someone else breaking a window, justifies shooting someone else...
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Totally not an extremist who thinks everyone is an enemy out to kill him...
Very serious thinker, thos one.
Someone else breaking a window, justifies shooting someone else...
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Totally not an extremist who thinks everyone is an enemy out to kill him...
Very serious thinker, thos one.
Someone else breaking a window, justifies shooting someone else...
👍
Totally not an extremist who thinks everyone is an enemy out to kill him...
Very serious thinker, thos one.
It seems our fleet of 23 $500 million littoral combat ships aren’t fit for *checks notes* a little littoral combat.
I just heard Ron Filipkowski say, after weeks of moving ships into the region, no one brought our mine sweepers...
They're all sitting in Japan.
bsky.app/profile/carl...
Seems like it was a bad idea to put a sociopathic megalomaniac in charge of the most powerful military in human history
Speaking in Kentucky, President Trump said that “we hit 28 mine ships as of this moment.” The president sometimes exaggerates or is imprecise when giving figures. U.S. officials previously said that the U.S. military had struck 16 mine-laying ships near the Strait of Hormuz.
Understatement of the year from the New York Times: ”The president sometimes exaggerates or is imprecise when giving figures.”
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Musk’s perverse pay-go ‘verification’ system continues to create situations like this
