I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public.
I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are.
1/ Here's what I can share:
Holy shit - this would be very, very bad:
"The databases, called “Numident” and the “Master Death File,” include records for more than 500 million living and dead Americans, including Social Security numbers, places and dates of birth, citizenship, race and ethnicity, and parents’ names."
I wrote a couple of weeks ago how our current medical establishment is recycling COVID myths to minimize measles.
I'm disappointed that many journalists writing about Prasad's demise at the FDA treat him as a reasonable, good faith actor with communication problems, when in reality, he was a COVID disinformation doctor and pro-MAHA propagandist.
He allegedly said "he needed help transferring data from a thumb drive “to his personal computer so that he could ‘sanitize’ the data before using it at [the company.] ... [and] that he expected to receive a presidential pardon ... ." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
"The destruction that Kennedy has wrought in 1 year might take generations to repair, and there is little hope for US health and science while he remains at the helm"
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Today, Father Pierre Al-Rai was killed by Israeli army artillery shelling.
Performative public lying is a hallmark of far right authoritarian parties
Also, he is what Jake Tapper & Alex Thompson told everyone Biden was. Their silence now is deafening. And damning.
The data economy has made us dumber in ways that also make us vulnerable to authoritarian takover. We are have become both cynical and gullible in the sense we think we are too jaded be fooled and as a result are tricked more easily www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
If an official commits an impeachable offense and nobody acts to impeach, it is no longer an impeachable offense.
People who oppose impeachment as “pointless” because it seems unlikely to result in removal do not understand this very simple point and seem unwilling to even try to understand it.
This is some monkey’s paw shit for a guy who thinks oil is the only thing that matters.
Probably a good time for Democrats to point out Trump has never once pumped his own gas in his whole life. He has almost no idea how much gas costs or how it impacts normal people's budgets.
Statements like this from Trump will make the oil market reaction *worse*
No one who has any idea how the oil market works is buying it—all this does is make it seem like Trump believes it, which means the base case length of this disruption is growing ever-longer.
Tick. Tock.
She plays Daniel’s mom in The Karate Kid
Holy shit. Crude oil futures going nuts tonight.
This repeats yet another pattern from the Iraq War. When the Iraqis did not behave as the Americans wanted — without the deference and gratitude that a foreign military occupier felt it was due — they became targets.
My deepest condolences to you and your family.
Nothing “inadvertent” about that.
I think this deserves at least as much sustained attention from US media as Claudine Gay's dissertation
A 6,000-year-old city that’s home to 9 million people is on fire because our leaders don’t give one shit about the laws of armed conflict.
Rights Group Says Massacre at Iranian School Should Be Investigated as 'War Crime' | "Trump loves putting his name on things, but this should be the only building for which he is remembered by history."
Russia tells UN: “Schools must not be attacked even during an armed conflict.”
Forgot to Mention: Russia has damaged or destroyed over 1,600 schools in Ukraine.
Border Patrol is detaining another US citizen and lying about it.
She’s part of a group of citizens and green card holders who have been disappeared after their travel plans were disrupted.
The US decision to torpedo an Iranian ship thousands of miles from conflict suggests America is no longer a responsible presence in Asia's waters
“My total and utter victory over my ex-wife will be signified by her moving in with that guy Rick.”
Critical thread on Platner, who is becoming the Democrats' Roy Moore (i.e. a test of whether we have any boundaries at all).
Exactly right.
The Civil Rights Division was able to show that it took exhaustive (and exhausting) work to litigate even the most obvious violations of the voting rights protections in the 1957 and 1960 acts, which ultimately convinced Congress and then SCOTUS that a much broader law was needed.
In every Republican presidency of my lifetime there's been a recession and a new war in the Middle East.
This is not good.
Tate was trying to get to Dubai on a bus.
When they got to the Saudi border everyone was told to get off for passport and baggage checks and Tate decided to stay on - presumably because the bus was air conditioned and he didn't want to stand in a queue.
He then got detained by Saudi guards.
