So Trump starts a war at great cost to the US and when the easily foreseeable consequences come about used that as an excuse to reward Russia. Meanwhile, Ukraine is sending drones and drone experts to help protect our military bases.
It sure paints a picture.
NEW. 👀😳 Trump fundraising email "promises that members will “receive my private national security briefings, unfiltered updates on the threats facing America" & "includes an official White House photograph showing Trump saluting during a dignified transfer at Dover Air Force Base ..."
Here's why any attack on Iran's Kharg Island oil shipping terminal would be a nightmare for energy markets
People sign up for many reasons but it isn’t to die. This is incredibly disrespectful.
It’s quite obvious what is happening here. bsky.app/profile/seth...
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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.
“You’ve heard of the Deep State. This is the Derp State.”
“Forbes reported in December 2025 that Ramaswamy’s net worth had nearly doubled, from about $1 billion to about $1.8 billion, since he announced his candidacy in February 2025.”
It’s so nice to see someone getting ahead with hard work and by pulling themselves up by their bootstraps. (Sarcasm)
I haven’t looked at any polling on this race recently, I’m glad to hear he’s not doing well.
Last year, The Atlantic gave me $10,000 to gamble with. What started as a journalistic gimmick turned into something more... unnerving.
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“Today Trump claimed the U.S. has hit “28 mine ships as of this moment,” prompting Chris Cameron of the New York Times to note that “[t]he president sometimes exaggerates or is imprecise when giving figures.’”
Well that quite an understatement.
In the last 24 hours, Iran has:
- Struck three ships trying to cross the Strait of Hormuz, disabling a Thai cargo ship
- Blown up a large oil storage facility in Oman
- Struck two oil tankers at harbor in Iraq, setting both ablaze.
- Blown up oil storage tanks next to Bahrain’s main airport
This is just evil.
(Sen. Rosen) warned that Trump could not simply stop the war and have everything go back to the way it was on February 27. The Middle East has sustained too much damage. “You see the bombs, you see the destruction. It’s not going to stop just because he wishes it to be so.”
She’s right.
This is true, but also, I think what people don't understand is how informing on kids who are trying out a nickname and a pronoun raises the stakes in way that could drive the inappropriate transitions and regret, the thing we're supposed to be so scared of.
Let me explain.
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:
First, the masks are unacceptable. If the vice people are worried about being outed they shouldn’t be there. Second, surely there’s some way to verify whether they actually inspected all of these other bars that night and if they did so in a similar fashion.
I knew someone would mention this!
In the Navy steak and lobster is how you know your deployment is getting extended. I imagine it’s similar in the other branches.
“Andrew Egger of The Bulwark explains that the Trump administration didn’t bother to have a theory for why the U.S. was going to war with Iran—, because they didn’t think there was going to be a war, just a fast, hard strike that would enable the U.S. to put a new Iranian leader in place.”
Crazy!
Great 🧵, it turns into people telling all the ways their moms and grandmas earned money during those years when women "didn't really work"
“The official social media account of the White House has portrayed its military adventures in Iran as a movie, or a game, splicing images from what appear to be footage of U.S. military strikes with clips from adventure movies and video games like Call of Duty and Grand Theft Auto.”
Everyone is 12
I hadn’t thought of this. You don’t even need bone spurs anymore.
“The American military is given tasks— and then it breaks those instructions down into discrete and granular missions against particular targets. The pilots and planners can execute those missions with courage and professionalism, but they cannot force them to make strategic sense.”
“America is not like a blanket—one piece of unbroken cloth, the same color, the same texture, the same size,” (Rev. Jackson) said. “America is more like a quilt: many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven and held together by a common thread.“
RIP Reverend Jackson
I cannot tell you how wild it is to me that Poland is ahead of the US on this. Poland!
Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) was more direct in (response to Kristi Noem): “Turns out lawlessness is not a winning strategy,” he posted. “See you at Nuremberg 2.0.”
Wyden’s parents both fled the nazis in Germany. I think he recognizes what is going on right now.
I’m not sure I want to know.
Yaaaay! Congratulations.
