It's called fiscal conservatism, folks.
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It's called fiscal conservatism, folks.
5/ And on the Strait of Hormuz, they had NO PLAN. I can't go into more detail about how Iran gums up the Strait, but suffice it say, right now, they don't know how to get it safely back open.
Which is unforgiveable, because this part of the disaster was 100% foreseeable.
The good news is that if we lose in Iran and create horror across the region then Jesus comes back and fixes everything. Hegseth Doctrine.
jonathanlarsen.substack.com/p/us-troops-...
Donald Trump’s favourite poem: ‘The Snake’ by Oscar Brown Jr. | Form in Formless Times share.google/xlZ3QTOislaj...
HEY JOE
LET ME TELL YOU THE STORY WITH THE SNAKE
YOU DUMB MOTHERFUCKER
This is clearly fine with the GOP.
It's looking increasingly like these guys thought that if they could wreak more death and destruction than the other side then they would be respected as strong powerful men and they would "win" and that would make them big important heroes. Very possibly they had no rationale deeper than that.
so #OperationEpsteinFury is now becoming ... ?
seems we're going full circle here
A DOGE staffer assigned to the National Endowment for the Humanities to flag grants for "DEI" tries to explain what "DEI" is. This deposition is part of a lawsuit by the @acls1919.bsky.social, @historians.org and @modernlanguage.bsky.social.
This is how our government has been corrupted:
1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians
2) Elected officials rewrite rules in donors' favor
3) Donors make huge profit
4) Repeat
We must get big money out of politics. It’s the root of all evil in Washington.
Elizabeth Warren: "I am a hard no on a supplemental. This is not a war the American people want us to engage in. This is not a war that makes us safer ... No. No more money. The only thing Congress has the power to do is to stop actions like this through the power of the purse."
All thanks to the Roberts Court.
Some experts worry the younger Khamenei could take the step that experts say his father never did, and race to build a nuclear bomb. "A war that was meant to prevent Iran from having a bomb could be the war that actually pushed Iran beyond the Rubicon to reach a bomb," said Danny Citrinowicz, an analyst at the Atlantic Council, a think tank, and former head of the Iran branch of Israel's military intelligence.
“A war that was meant to prevent Iran from having a bomb could be the war that actually pushed Iran beyond the Rubicon to reach a bomb.”
Danny Citrinowicz, analyst at the Atlantic Council and former head of the Iran branch of Israel's military intelligence
(www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/w...)
Epstein video Q & A: https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/epstein-and-the-shadow-world
On Epstein, video, and AI, from an interview I did last month: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/epstein-an...
The health impact of this will play out over years, not days.
BREAKING: After badly losing the war he started for no reason, President Trump is carefully considering declaring victory and pretending he won 👀
#OperationEpsteinFury
#OperationEpsteinFury good one (heard on TikTok)
#trmp #iran #war #epstein
Attacks leave dead vs killed
OMG they released the deposition videos where they revealed that these two DOGE bros were just feeding grants into ChatGPT and saying "tell me if this is DEI in less than 120 characters."
www.techdirt.com/2026/02/19/d...
If your energy needs are met from solar, wind, tidal, geothermal and nuclear sources, backed by copious battery storage, you're far less vulnerable to sudden crazy oil and gas price spikes.
Trump's war on Iran is the best possible ad for accelerating the greening of the economy.
"Many Americans seem to have forgotten just how catastrophic US regime change wars have been in the past. So, with the risk of history repeating itself once again, here is Zeteo’s list of seven of the US’s most disastrous attempts at regime change, ranked"
Yesterday I filmed several baby birds walking across a street directly at my camera and asked Bluesky to suggest music
Several dozen folks did
Some even dubbed music over the original clip.
I haven't been able to get this out of my head.
So I give you
A Bluesky exclusive:
Reservoir Ducks
🐣 🪶
“An activist and former political prisoner…said the situation was ‘apocalyptic’…[and] ‘The situation is so frightening it’s hard to describe. Smoke has covered the entire city. I have severe shortness of breath and burning in my eyes and throat, and many others feel the same.’”
killing 150 schoolchildren?
1990
the entire album is *so good*
I remember strongly when I first heard it. a revelation.