Glimsnatch

The devastating earthquake and tsunami 😔

As long as you don’t need gas, groceries, affordable healthcare, retirement savings or constitutional rights, things aren’t so bad.

It sucks the president is a pedophile who is trying to destroy the constitution, but it’s honestly funny his supporters think that’ll Make America Great Again.

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.

Benjamin Netanyahu and Vladimir Putin.

"Ode to the city"

Berlin’s beat, London’s rhyme,
New York’s rush, Tokyo’s time—
not just streets, but sparks that rise,
where every wall has dreams inside.

From neon glow to subway’s roar,
you build the future, evermore;
not just stone, but soul, so wide—
the world’s bold heart, alive.

Oh 🙃 But beautiful and calming nevertheless!

Almost hypnotic! Might even be philosophic! But not yet able to understand what your son (i guess) is saying here 😬

Great sitting down with Brian Tyler Cohen to talk about everything from the courage we saw in Minnesota, to how Democrats can be true to our values and get stuff done, to how we’re building a community of changemakers at the Obama Foundation. youtube.com/watch?v=uI-hgSE5QIw

Free and fair elections are the cornerstone of our democracy. But right now, they’re under attack.

Several Republican-controlled states have redrawn their congressional maps to give themselves an unfair advantage in the midterm elections.

Ready, Set, Collide 💥

The Large Hadron Collider (#LHC) is gearing up to resume proton collisions. In this concluding physics run of #LHCRun3, proton beams will once again be delivered to the LHC experiments.

So far the war in Iran has cost an estimated $5.5 billion.

That's roughly $1 billion per day.

$41,666,667 per hour.

$11,574 per second.

People do not want this.

They want a living wage. They want healthcare. They want to be able to afford a home. They want their basic needs met.

Hegseth: Media focus on troop deaths is to make Trump “look bad”.

No dude, Americans dying in a war we didn’t want is bad.

Really bad.

AOC: We already have multiple American service members who are dead for an illegal action that the president has pursued with no plan out. They don’t know why they got into this war. They’re talking about a hundred different reasons, and they don’t know how they’re getting out.

AOC: He impulsively went in on Venezuela. He impulsively went in on Iran. It led to increased global instability and every time he’s done that, it has been consistent with a spike in what is happening with the Epstein files. I think that he feels existentially tied to it.

AOC: This is about actual crimes happening in front of us. This is about shredding the Constitution and plunging us into war. This is about taking crypto money and money laundering… So if you’re asking me if I’d support impeachment, I do

A cartoon from the 1950’s that’s more relevant than ever 💔

Spanish PM Sánchez responds to Trump:

"Spain is against this disaster... Govts are here to improve people's lives... It is absolutely unacceptable that those leaders who are unable to fulfill that mission use the smoke of war to hide their failure, and in the process, fill the pockets of a few."

I'm sorry, if you're going to make a big show about how you've got a Department of WAR helmed by a Secretary of WAR and staffed by WARfighters, it's totally inane to then claim that your massive bombing of a foreign country constitutes something other than a war.

Honest question: Why do exactly those people who are unsuitable for this want and have a lot of power?

Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez on Iran: “Spain is against this disaster. Because we understand that governments are here to improve people's lives, to provide solutions to problems, not to make people's lives worse.

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U.S. Troops Were Told Iran War Is for “Armageddon,” Return of Jesus Advocacy group reports commanders giving similar messages at more than 30 installations in every branch of the military

EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war.

The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been “inundated” with more than 110 complaints.

One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus…

Seems like the media should at least express some curiosity about this.

open.substack.com/pub/jonathan...

"The Trump administration’s stated justifications for going to war with Iran were already a jumbled and self-contradictory mess. But on Tuesday, Trump made it even worse — laying waste to the administration’s confusing explanation from Monday." | Analysis https://cnn.it/4aXX1la

Be right back. Gonna punch my neighbor before he can punch me for getting punched by some other guy.

I would be having an argument with someone in London and I would want to get in my car and drive off dramatically after the best last word ever and smugly get in the wrong side of the car opposite of the steering wheel.

The Epstein files are redacted so hard they look like televisions when they're turned off.

Again, I will be strongly engaged in the primary process for the Democratic Party's nominee for President in 2028.
But I will support whoever wins, even if it's not my preferred candidate.
The stakes are too high to be selfish.

😬

So they will be?