"We demand you accept these conditions, and we will continue to try and kill you whether you do or not" we are adopting the Israeli approach to ceasefires, and we better get used to having an Israeli approach to Middle Eastern conflict, because this isn't ending anytime soon.
Not enough attention being paid to how fucking stupid it is to issue ultimatums to the Iranian leadership while simultaneously waging an existential war of extermination against the aforementioned leadership that is completely uncorrelated to whether or not they accept those terms.
Every day reveals a new post-Dobbs horror.
We don’t talk enough about the greatest wedding scene ever filmed 🎥
a take so repellent I recoiled from my laptop screen
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Leah McElrath @le... • 10/9/16 The MOST primitive defense is something called "annihilatory rage." Picture a newborn infant SCREAMING when its needs are not met. Leah McElrath @le... •10/9/16 g Annihilatory rage is "NO!" at its most primal form. We ALL have it within us. But people like Trump have little else. Leah McElrath @le... • 10/9/16 Annihilatory rage is NOT anger. It is the desire for "the other" to cease to exist or to *ever* have existed.
Leah McElrath @le... •10/9/16 J .... Imagine the danger of having a person with thinly contained annihilatory rage in charge of the most powerful military in the world. Leah McElrath @le... •10/9/16 g ... Imagine the danger of having a person with thinly contained annihilatory rage in charge of... Nuclear weapons.
I’ve been warning about Trump, annihilatory rage, and nuclear weapons for almost a decade now.
Here are parts of a thread I wrote before the 2016 election:
Donald J. Trump @realDonald Trump Iran had plans of taking over the entire Middle East, and completely obliterating Israel. JUST LIKE IRAN ITSELF, THOSE PLANS ARE NOW DEAD! President DONALD J. TRUMP
Annihilatory rage is a feature of malignant narcissism—and a dangerous one in a man with the capacity to launch nuclear weapons.
Trump: The Fake News Media hates to report how well the United States Military has done against Iran, which is totally defeated and wants a deal - But not a deal that I would accept! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DJT 5 ReTruths 21 Likes 3/13/26, 8:53 PM
“But not a deal that I would accept!”
Can’t believe nobody wanted to read the articles nobody bothered to write
lmao
Nazi rhetoric from the Nazi president of the United States of America
“At the same time, Trump’s team is privately trying to reassure the president that conservatives aren’t abandoning him. They have provided him with polling data in recent days that they say shows the war is popular with his supporters, people familiar with the matter said. Some Trump allies who have grown skeptical of the operation have coordinated behind the scenes to schedule appearances on Fox News and other TV networks watched by the president to sound a note of caution and warn against a deeper U.S. commitment. ” Excerpt From “Trump Knew the Risk of Iran Blocking the Strait of Hormuz. He Still Went to War.” Alexander Ward, Lara Seligman, Alex Leary, Vera Bergengruen The Wall Street Journal https://apple.news/AQpg4rm9_SKif_iKf6Pbzqw This material may be protected by copyright.
this is just covid II; a small, closed circle are feeding him constant horseshit and other conservatives are trying to get on fox news to warn him that he's in political danger
Can’t believe “Grammarly”, the company with an unclear purpose but seemingly unlimited YouTube preroll advertising budget, would do something annoying with AI
Haitian woman, 31, dies alone at Pittsburgh bus stop days after ICE released her to the streets far from home to perish. Rest in power, Daphy Michel: migrantinsider.com/p/the-loneso...
⚠️ The escalation of the Vietnam War to direct US ground combat involvement began on March 8, 1965, with the landing of 3,500 US Marines from the 9th Marine Expeditionary Brigade.
Chilling. The San Francisco Chronicle has received another letter from the man calling himself "The Woke Ginger," and cryptologists are reportedly no closer to cracking the cipher in his previous missive.
A Minneapolis woman who opposed ICE woke up to a drone outside her second floor bedroom window. A man delivering groceries to a suburban distro house for mutual aid recorded a drone hovering above the house. Whose drones and why? (1) www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Congressman Keith Self • • Follow X 1d• The Sharia-Free America Caucus has grown to 48 members spanning 22 states-and we're j... See more DEFEND SHARIA-FREE AMERICA CAUCUS Co-Chairs: Keith Self (TX-03) & Chip Roy (TX-21) Whip Tom Emmer (MN-06) Andrew Clyde (GA-09) Pat Fallon (TX-04) Russ Fulcher (ID-01) August Pfluger (TX-11) Mary Miller (IL-15) Craig Goldman (TX-12) Tracey Mann (KS-01) Monica De La Cruz (TX-15) Andy Harris (MD-01) Pete Sessions (TX-17) Eric Burlison (MO-07) Brandon Gill (TX-26) Mike Ezell (MS-04) Michael Cloud (TX-27) Addison McDowell (NC-06) Brian Babin (TX-36) Mark Harris (NC-08) Wesley Hunt (TX-38) Pat Harrigan (NC-10) Eli Crane (AZ-02) Michael Rulli (OH-06) Andy Biggs (AZ-05) Josh Brecheen (OK-02) Paul Gosar (AZ-09) Scott Perry (PA-10) Nick Begich (AK-at-large) Mike Kelly (PA-16) Barry Moore (AL-01) Sheri Biggs (SC-03) Aaron Bean (FL-04) Ralph Norman (SC-05) John Rutherford (L-05) Andy Ogles (TN-05) Randy Fine (FL-06) John Rose (TN-06) Cory Mills (FL-07) Mike Kennedy (UT-03) Mike Haridopolos (FL-08) John McGuire (VA-05) Anna Paulina Luna (FL-13) Ben Cline (VA-06) Byron Donalds (FL-19) Morgan Griffith (VA-09) Buddy Carter (GA-01) Riley Moore (WV-02)
In the 1920s, there was an enormous Klan-aligned caucus in the House of Representatives that passed an immigration restriction bill designed to keep out Catholics and Jews because they supposedly posed an existential threat to American civilization. 100 years later, here we are.
Fascinating conflation-of "the Jewish people" with "the Jewish state," in 1 breath-as being blamed for the war in Iran. Israel IS to blame for the Iran war! They're one of the nations waging it! The only people who agree with him conflating Jews with that are anti-Semites (who are everywhere lately)
The Strait of Hormuz is open for transit
Pentagon Sends Marine Expeditionary Unit to Middle East By Lara Seligman The Pentagon is moving a Marine expeditionary unit to the Middle East, as Iran steps up its attacks on the Strait of Hormuz, according to two U.S. officials. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has approved a request from U.S. Central Command, responsible for American forces in the Middle East, for the expeditionary unit, typically consisting of up to 2,500 Marines, the officials said. The move comes as Iran's attacks on the strait have paralyzed traffic through the strategic waterway, disrupting the global economy, driving up gas prices and posing a major military and political challenge for President Trump. A Pentagon spokesperson declined to comment.
WSJ: Pentagon Sends Marine Expeditionary Unit to Middle East
Completely forgot about this loser
4 troops died yesterday and hegseth is opening his presser by complaining about newspaper headlines
The Iran war and global energy markets are beyond Trump’s control. Like COVID in term 1, except this crisis is entirely of his own making.
In Minnesota too, bullying and a show of force didn’t work like he wanted, and he couldn’t BS it away.
Great to talk about this with @gregsargent.bsky.social.
I am old enough to remember the vitriol directed at random humanities scholars' work complaining about the totalizing tendencies of capitalism to corrupt, colonize, or co-opt everything. I also lived long enough to read long term coverage of the literal attempt to privatize thinking in the newspaper
