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All Hegseth can see is tactical success, so he’s mystified why people are reporting on strategic failure.

Pope Leo XIV, in a speech today:
"One might ask: do those Christians who bear grave responsibility in armed conflicts have the humility and courage to make a serious examination of conscience and confess?"

Trump I was mostly not a global catastrophe (until COVID) because the White House was staffed almost exclusively of pre-MAGA Republicans who knew Trump was insane and kept his worst impulses hemmed in.

Such people do not exist anymore, which is why Trump II keeps lurching from crisis to crisis.

Ah, our cool new strategy of 'stop losing.'

Got called a pussy by a conservative today because I sad invading Iran wasn’t going to happen and would be a bad idea lol

TUCKER: Mr. President, why did you launch this invasion as if Iran posed an imminent threat to America?

TRUMP: Tucker, you were a historian, yes? I will take a minute of your time to give you some brief background here. Let us begin with the Rashidun invasion of the Sasanians by Caliph Umar in 542—

Japel jeils

Correct.

Also probably a low-level Iraqi civil war, and another pointless bloodbath in Lebanon.

helpful thing when navigating discourse on here is knowing that when a leftist says "liberals" will do some heinous act, theyre actually talking about a specific person they dislike. when liberals say a "leftists" will do some heinous act, they are also talking about a specific person they dislike.

@oelayat Mufti Naomi Wolf has consulted the sacred texts (Google Al Overview) and issued her fatwa quote tweeting Dr. Naomi Wolf @naomirwolf I asked Al, "Can you wear a crop top for Iftar?" As Rama Duwaji is doing: Al Overview It is generally advised not to wear a crop top for Iftar. Ramadan is a time for modesty and respect, requiring covered shoulders and knees. Crop tops, which expose the midriff, are considered too revealing for traditional, public, or family Iftar gatherings. Opt for modest, loose, or flowing, comfortable clothing. It is super rude by the way, in observant Muslim norms, for the hostess to reveal her midriff at an Iftar celebration in the presence of men who are not her husband and in the presence of Mahmoud Khalil's wife, who is veiled as is far more religiously customary.

still losing it at “Mufti Naomi Wolf has consulted the sacred texts (Google Al Overview) and issued her fatwa”

Iranians rethink the price of regime change Destructive US and Israeli war and Islamic republic’s resilience have alarmed even those who supported foreign intervention

Terrific reporting, sad piece:

Chat, enhance

Our prayers of the faithful can be kinda long-winded but we get good stuff like praying for the soul of Jesse Jackson, Alex and Renee, "that our elected officials pass common sense and sensible gun reform", and for the victims of the "attack on Iran"

nigel farage tweet: The Bank of England is replacing Winston Churchill with a picture of a beaver on our bank notes. This is the definition of woke.

i, for one, am delighted that we finally have a definition of “woke”

"If we bomb for 3-4 more weeks surely the Iranian people will rise up" is batshit insane

I am *very* thankful for my parish

Trump has tremendous difficulty with principled people (even if as with the Iranian regime, the principles are bad). He assumes everyone is a transactional fraud like him. Works well with rich Americans and poorly with idealists of any stripe

Nice argument, but I've already depicted you as Padishah Emperor Leto II

I don’t think they’re aware what impact sustained closure of the strait will have on Asia and from that the world economy

Live look of Robert Pape

We Taught This Chimpanzee to Understand Commodity Markets and He Hanged Himself

“We’re going to look very strong at the straits” right before has me dying

when you’re arguing about politics here on bluesky just remember there’s a young sheldon spinoff called george and mandy’s first marriage that’s watched by millions of people

lol was just about to make that joke

Unhinged Elmo piñata

Idk if it’s bc it’s late but I am absolutely losing it over this piñata at a birthday party my kid went to today

Ok so I am not wrong lol

Am I wrong in thinking that if Iran is able to mine the strait that this conflict will be over and they will have won a strategic victory

Pretty sure it is hundreds. Now those can only do at most 3 mines at a time but