Mike Doughney 🇺🇸

This is a major aspect of fascism

Two unmarked grey cargo vans with US flag printed caskets with dead troops killed in another illegal war in the middle east stacked inside kind of haphazardly and arguably disrespectfulfully

Pst hey kid, you wanna see the world?

fully down with the anti-AI message at the heart of your comment, but must acknowledge that these moral black holes are standard-issue white supremacists. They knew what they were looking for.

A year of him insulting my country and now he wants us to bail out the USA from a problem entirely of their own creation?

Hahahahhahaha!!!!!

No.

The Fall of Roe v. Wade: A Cautionary Tale There will be a tendency to look back on the Trump ascendency as a sudden and inexplicable breach in the democratic order.

The Fall of Roe v. Wade: A Cautionary Tale
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It took U.S. years to lose a war in Vietnam. Trump lost one in days. | Will Bunch It's increasingly clear that Trump's war of choice in Iran has failed spectacularly. America learned nothing from past war failures.

U.S. leaders were told: "declare victory and go home" in Vietnam as early as 1966, but fought for 7 more years and thousands of pointless deaths

The Trump regime has lost an even more senseless war in Iran in just 2 weeks. The time for leaving is now

My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/iran...

Time to relearn the brutal lessons of Vietnam, a war that North Vietnam won 50 years ago this April.

A must read from @willbunch.bsky.social

This is indicative of a mindset which essentially says "there can be no such thing as scholarship or intelligence when it comes from a group I've been conditioned to demonize" and we'd all be better off if we realized these people are simply like this. There's nothing to persuade here, it's bigotry.

fantasy science fiction gadgets to exert control over the masses?

Playing Politics With National Security Is a Dangerous Game The Trump administration has gravely undermined counterterrorism work while also starting a war of aggression in the Middle East.

here's the piece! prospect.org/2026/03/12/p...

If we could just raise sea levels by 150 meters we get a backup Strait of Hormuz

If the Shoe Fits: Trump and the Florsheim You Can’t Refuse The strangely Soviet odor of the week’s weirdest story.

What are we to make of a corrupt wannabe autocrat foisting shoes on his underlings in a petty display of dominance disguised as generosity?

This Weeks Onion Magazine: Still Supreme! Iran’s New Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei On Faith, Fitness, And Supremely Good Sex After 50

This Weeks Onion Magazine: Still Supreme! Iran’s New Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei On Faith, Fitness, And Supremely Good Sex After 50

Trump’s military excursion, into an abyss The evident fact is that the president is nuts.

"It’s almost as if Trump felt that, as a would-be dictator, he had to have his own nihilistic war, just like his idol Vlad Putin. But Trump’s 'excursion' against Iran is nothing like Putin’s years long 'special military operation' against Ukraine — it’s actually more stupid." — @davidrlurie.com

I'm Sick And Tired of All The Winning Gulf War Three is not going well for the United States.

It’s become obvious that the Trump administration gave zero thought to how this war would play out. Even now, though, I don’t think they quite appreciate how locked in they are to a complete and total clusterfuck. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/im-sick-an...

another thing Trump has done is completely fuck up counterterrorism efforts. got a piece on this @prospect.org coming tomorrow

there is a child-like naivety to the way business leaders approach sociopolitical problems that would be really sweet if it wasn't coming from the leader of a company with 30,000 employees and 3 billion dollars in revenue

Relevant

Just everything is content creation

safe to say this was done on purpose. like cutting the brake lines on a car and watching it run into a group of children crossing the street

Good points in this thread.

To succeed, tactics must support a coherent strategy which accounts for 2nd and 3rd order effects. That strategy should support long term policy goals

The U.S. is operating in a policy vacuum.

Success whatever that might be requires more than ordnance and slopaganda

RFK Jr’s pick to review Covid vaccines authored misleading research, experts say HHS calls MIT professor ‘more than qualified’ for advisory panel and calls ‘attacks’ on him ‘politically motivated’

Retsef Levi, a member of the US health department’s vaccine advisory committee (ACIP) who has been tasked to review COVID-19 vaccine safety, failed to meet basic scientific standards in his own research and called them the “most failing medical product in the history of ...

TAT: [Attacking science]

I keep seeing people ask about the 25th Amendment.

Guys. His entire Cabinet is walking around in shoes that don’t fit because they’re scared to take them off.

The 25th is never happening.

A bewildered looking crew member with life vest on is in a lifeboat while behind him his ship is burning after an Iranian missile strike. He has the face of a man who believed Trump that the Strait of Hormuz was safe and is now regretting all his life choices

We may never see a photo that better captures the Trump era.

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Could special forces steal Iran’s uranium? Swiping it would require one of the largest raids in military history

I also wrote with Anshel Pfeffer on feasibility of a US/Israeli raid to seize Iran's highly enriched uranium. HEU not in one place & raiding even just Isfahan, where most is, would require the largest & most complex airborne raid in military history.
www.economist.com/middle-east-...

In cases you were wondering . . . this is a photo that annoyed Pete Hegseth so much because he thought it was "unflattering" so he got the photographer barred. I encourage all of you to use it as often as possible.

The Impotence of Drill, Baby, Drill America produces a lot of oil. It doesn’t matter.

"...widely presumed that US self-sufficiency in #oil would protect America from disruptions in oil supplies overseas...so US prices of #gasoline & other oil products reflect world #crude prices & the fact that America produces a lot of oil doesn’t matter at all......Oil traded on world mkts..." Oops

As @markpurch.bsky.social says

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U.S. Plan to Unblock Strait of Hormuz Collides With Realities of Global Insurance The U.S.-centric insurance idea runs counter to the realities of an international market, according to industry executives.

Yeah you get a Gift Link for this one.

www.wsj.com/finance/u-s-...