Dave Robinson

This is hilarious.

Also, completely enraging.

Must-read thread from Sen. @chrismurphyct.bsky.social

If this factoid isn't plastered across every paper and news show. The parents of the dead and injured Americans need to know this stuff. But I have such little faith in the big outlets that I expect it won't show up as a headline.

Vietnam all over again. Both the lack of planning and the lying

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.

4/ Ok, so what ARE the goals? It seems, primarily, destroying lots of missiles and boats and drone factories.

But the question that stumped them: what happens when you stop bombing and they restart production?

They hinted at more bombing. Which is, of course, endless war.

3/ Second, they confirmed "regime change" is also NOT on the list. So, they are going to spend hundreds of billions of your taxpayer dollars, get a whole bunch of Americans killed, and a hardline regime - probably a MORE anti-American hardline regime - will still be in charge.

2/ Maybe the lead is that the war goals DO NOT involve destroying Iran's nuclear weapons program. This is, uh...surprising...since Trump says over and over this is a key goal.

But then of course we already know air strikes can't wipe out their nuclear material.

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:

4D chess: appointing a leader who is already dead so Israel can't kill him.

US Navy tells shipping industry Hormuz escorts not possible for now The U.S. Navy has refused near-daily requests from the shipping industry for military escorts through the Strait of Hormuz since ​the start of the war on Iran, saying the risk of attacks is too high f...

Whoa. This is big. "The U.S. Navy has refused near-daily requests from the shipping industry for military escorts through the Strait of Hormuz since the start of the war on Iran, saying the risk of attacks is too high for now." www.reuters.com/world/middle...

💯 this

Dems are winning special elections because those are new candidates. Republicans hate Dems but Dem voters ALSO hate Dem leadership (Chuck, Hakeem) for folding on literally everything. Dems will win big in the midterms, but incumbents are gonna get rinsed in the primaries.

I'm still hung up on Rubio's brother-in-law being a former cocaine trafficker: www.miaminewtimes.com/news/marco-r...

Iranian Missile

"In memory of the victims of Epstein Island"

This Texas Democrat won a race he thought he dropped out of. Now what? The bizarre outcome has thrown what would have been a low-profile race into chaos. It's unclear who will face state Rep. Ellen Troxclair in November.

i'm sorry this story from @taygoldenstein.bsky.social is one of the funniest things i've ever read. guy gets towed at SXSW, can't pay his debt to the towing company so he gets a job there, stays for a decade, runs for office, spends no money, wins primary: www.houstonchronicle.com/news/politic...

Summing up Iran news today, I think.

- US/Israel strikes continue
- Iran doesn't want talks, still firing on neighbors
- US asked Israel to stop hitting Iranian energy infra
- US claimed to be escorting tankers
- oops no it isn't
- Mines in the water
- ~80-90% of Iran mine laying capacity intact

18 Dems just voted *today* for Trump’s agenda. Does it make sense yet why they’re so unpopular?

Earlier I implied that I escorted yo' momma through the Strait of Hormuz. I apologize for the misinformation. Yo' momma's too fat for such a narrow passageway and whatnot.

Haven't seen a Tudor fucked by the Spanish like this since Katherine of Aragon

In today’s game of Make Millions With Market Manipulation:

1. Energy Secretary posts that a tanker has been safely escorted through Hormuz.
2. Oil price falls 10%, friends buy.
3. Energy Secretary deletes post.
4. Oil price rises 12%, friends richer.

Thank you for playing, see you all tomorrow.

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."

US INTELLIGENCE SOURCES SAY IRAN IS STARTING TO PLACE MINES IN THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ, A KEY SHIPPING PATH, ACCORDING TO CBS NEWS.

'Even if his opinions are totally bollocks and he made them up on the spot'

Incredible stuff, truly.

Marco Rubio’s Florida Bestie Is an Accused ‘Foreign Agent’ Set to Go on Trial— With Rubio On the Witness List David Rivera and Rubio bought a house in Tallahassee when they were coming up together in Florida politics. But he’s been a headache for the secretary of state ever since, and now he could be one for ...

Marco Rubio's BFF is an accused foreign agent and money launderer. His trial is about to start — and Rubio is on the witness list.

My @vanityfair.com story on the legal bomb that's poised to go off in Trumpland.

www.vanityfair.com/news/story/m...

Because dictators always want their underlings to be fighting each other so they don't organise against them. This is really basic stuff.

DOJ Sitting on Documents Involving 13-Year-Old Trump Accuser Pressure is increasing on the DOJ to declassify documents that detail interviews with a woman who accused President Donald Trump of sexually abusing her.

Dozens of documents detailing FBI interviews with an Epstein victim who accused Donald Trump of sexually abusing her as a high schooler are being kept under wraps.

KENNEDY: You said, 'Republicans think can troll their way to ethnic cleansing.' Did I read that correctly?

BIER: DHS tweeted for 100m deportations. That would be ethnic cleansing!

K: You don't think it's hyperbolic?

B: I think advocating 100m deportations is ethnic cleansing. Yes. Your time is up

🚨 WATCH: Labour MP Charlotte Nichols reveals she was raped as an MP as she opposes the jury trial reforms

"I waited 1,088 days to go to court. We've been told [by the Government] that if we have concerns about this Bill, it's because we've not been raped"