10/ All of this was totally foreseeable. Frankly, it’s why previous presidents weren’t so stupid to start a war like this.
Trump has lost control of the war. His best course now is to cut his losses and end it. That’s the only way to prevent an even bigger disaster.
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The is the federal government telling news stations to provide favorable coverage of the war or their licenses will be pulled.
A truly extraordinary moment.
We aren't on the verge of a totalitarian takeover. WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF IT.
Act like it.
one of the great many things i hate about donald trump and this second administration is that the social media posting is so much more stupid, bombastic and illiterate this time around, it's almost a parody of the first admin
BREAKING: Bipartisan group of Senators call for an independent audit of the Justice Department’s protocol when redacting the Epstein files.
It's important to note that even the smallest perceived slights against the administration are turned into threats to be eliminated or silenced in an attempt to limit criticism.
LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
A headline reading “Camel pageant thrown into chaos after 20 competitors disqualified for using hump-plumping injectables”
Yes everything is terrible but let’s not lose sight of the fact that someone has written the Headline to End All Headlines.
The Trump DOJ gave Ticketmaster a sweetheart deal that keeps their monopoly intact & does nothing to stop their ridiculously high prices & fees.
The deal was so good, their stock price jumped 6.2% after the news broke.
Once again: Trump's putting corporations over consumers.
everyone is extraordinarily desperate to pretend that Donald Trump is a coherent individual with a real plan who understands what is happening in the world and none of that is true
We are in history's classroom and the teacher is going to keep making the lessons easier and easier until we get it.
ah, that lovely refrain of middle age, am I mildly uncomfortable in the expected way or secretly dying
NEW “We’re celebrating a tradition that is at its core about resisting occupation and maintaining community in the face of horrors. You can’t keep politics out of Irish music. No one should try, for two reasons. First, it’s ahistorical. Second, Minnesotans are ready for a big anti-fascist party.”
Moskowitz: "Let me congratulate the former Homeland Security Secretary on her appointment to be the Shield of Americas, which I'm pretty sure the president came up with when he watched the last Avengers movie"
Breaking: Trump abdicates security of our homeland, shrugs shoulders at terror attacks.
Trump, 79, lives in one of the most secure buildings on the planet & has an armed security detail 24/7.
His travel is protected by the fullest of modern tech & military support.
He can afford to shrug. Can you?
How electrifying a Bay Area rail system made trains faster, cleaner, and more frequent | grist.org/transportati....
This is what Rumsfeld would call an Unnoem Unnoem
I do ONE DAY of field prep work on the farm and Kristi Noem gets fired
great news, I got a bunch more to do for the coming week+
Polymarket has created a market that would monetize a nuclear attack amid increasing concerns that bets are happening among government insiders who can make military decisions.
What stage of the apocalypse is this?
polymarket.com/event/nuclea...
Again: Not hyperbole, misinterpretation, or a joke that Christian Dominionism is a strain of apocalyptic accelerationism which VERY LITERALLY SEEKS to hasten their vision of the Biblical end of the world, & the people who believe this have VERY CAREFULLY worked their way into the halls of U.S. power
I get what people are going for with the "Draft Barron" stuff but I think it would make the point better if it was someone Trump knows personally
But I was told that the OpSec was clean.
The president didn't bother to make the case for war in a marathon State of the Union address and then he fucked off to his sweaty gilded country club so he could literally phone in an unconstitutional war.
Every single Democrat needs to be screaming about this at full volume.
every single psycho thing Donald Trump does he does only because almost every single federally elected Republican has chosen unilaterally, independently, and with complete freedom to go along with it unconditionally
We need to talk about how basically every major rolling stock procurement for every major US passenger railroad is a no-win scenario with unacceptable compromises that force locking in bad outcomes for the rest of our working lives. I don't know how to solve it, but it's a big problem.
The best Twitter riposte of the day is a community note.
"We now have the Proud Boys trying to take people's tax dollars and act like they were the victims on Jan. 6, which we know is patently false.." says Rep. Deborah Ross (D-NC)
www.cbsnews.com/news/house-b...
there are some who caught on after J6 but at what point are elected Democrats going to realize the pleasantries behind closed doors are performative and this is genuine, not the other way around
Thanks to the OBBB, Amazon’s tax bill for 2025 is $1.2 billion, down from $9 billion the year before despite a 45% jump in profits.
this but “arrest rich pedophiles”
