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:
Here's the article. People deleted and reposted for some reason.
people.com/kristi-noem-...
I don't know - I just noticed that. The info is good, though - I've seen it in other places.
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Also, y'all missed English lunch during which [student]
corrected
Kerry for saying octopuses instead of octopi, and it was like Kerry had been training her whole life for a student to make that mistake. Total lay-up, and my favorite part of the day.
Merriam-Webster
Merriam-Webster O
@MerriamWebster
Happy World Octopus Day!
octopi = from the belief that words of
Latin origin should have Latin endings
octopuses = an English ending to
match its adoption as an English words
octopodes = from the belief that bc
'octopus' is originally Greek, it should have a Greek ending](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xwg24vshr4rskn3hz5ztjzhq/bafkreifznnqc4b3f6pdxergcneppj32lwkz4dzdro3kl2bgxgtrauvw24q)
Text: Also, y'all missed English lunch during which [student] corrected Kerry for saying octopuses instead of octopi, and it was like Kerry had been training her whole life for a student to make that mistake. Total lay-up, and my favorite part of the day. Merriam-Webster Merriam-Webster O @MerriamWebster Happy World Octopus Day! octopi = from the belief that words of Latin origin should have Latin endings octopuses = an English ending to match its adoption as an English words octopodes = from the belief that bc 'octopus' is originally Greek, it should have a Greek ending
me: so octopuses…
student: do you mean octopi?
other professor: oh no you didn’t
student: I TAKE IT BACK
me: so, in English, we borrow not only WORDS, but MORPHOLOGIES, and since octopus is a Greek word borrowed into Latin borrowed into English…
Trump pick for State Department drops out after drawing heat for comments about ‘white culture’
The U.S. killed children out of sheer carelessness.
It is my most profound hope that everyone involved with this goes to prison for a long time.
Noem and her cronies funneled $220 million of taxpayer money into a 60-second ad and gave another $143 million contract to a company that was incorporated eight days earlier.
This is the swamp.
If you would enjoy seeing an Assistant US Attorney being shredded in the courtroom because he used AI to write a response to the court that was filled with errors and falsehoods, then this is the thread for you!
Disturbingly, all the errors had the same bias, toward restricting the court's review.
Maryland's attorney general is suing DHS because they "stonewalled" his attempt to investigate the conditions at the Baltimore ICE facility's hold rooms, @alexmann.bsky.social reports.
www.thebanner.com/politics-pow...
taschen needs to publish a high-quality oversized book with every hostess cupcake comic book ad
Exactly what people like me were warning about right from the start
Sen. Warren: The Trump administration cannot explain the reasons that we entered this war or the goals we're trying to accomplish. The one part that seems clear is that while there is no money for 15 million Americans who lost their health care, there's $1 billion a day to spend on bombing Iran.
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.
Like seven Newtowns
Watchmen issue #1
Discussion of Watchmen is dominated by the thoughts and feelings of male writers, so @shelfdust.bsky.social paid 12 female and non-binary writers to talk about each issue of the serial instead: shelfdust.com/tag/we-watch...
Everyone should commemorate March 9th every year by going out and ordering the most elaborate café drink in honor of Prof. Grygiel, let that be his legacy to the world
Any Republican condemn Rep. Andy Ogles, who tweeted that Muslims don't belong in American society?
Don't look away. These camps are unsafe for people's well-being and health, unconstitutional, and a stain on the US. If people want to have a convo about immigration, let's do it. This is not the solution. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Thomas Jefferson wrote, “Neither Pagan nor Mahamedan [Muslim] nor Jew ought to be excluded from the civil rights of the Commonwealth.”
I date the decline of Western Civilization from the introduction of Baskin-Robbins' 31st flavor.
Citizens Bank has largely flown under the radar as a major financier of ICE detention companies.
Not anymore. 🧵
Tomorrow!!
teewatterss on Threads: “losing an hour on international women's day feeling very 75 cents on the dollar”
10/10 take. no notes
remember when the IRS put out a a free online tax filing system where you could just do your taxes through the IRS and it was actually well made and was pretty well recieved and then the tax filing industry and Republicans killed it and now you have to use TurboTax again
I wonder what percentage of Americans knows that the CIA helped overthrow a democracy in Iran in 1953, installing a brutal dictator who tortured and murdered people. Republicans keep citing the 1979 Islamic Revolution as if that was the start of U.S.-Iran hostilities. Go back 26 years earlier.
Never miss a chance to tell my favourite science joke:
Q: What did Crick & Watson discover?
A: Rosalind Franklin’s lab book.
Reuters Exclusive
"U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school."
"The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the Middle East."
Let me be clear: I’m glad Kristi Noem was fired. But we still have to abolish ICE.
