@tomhjhill
Doctor of Wars. Former special assistant to Kofi Annan. Founder, the Center for Peace Diplomacy (CPD). Former prof at SIPA Columbia. Visiting Senior Research Fellow, Department of War Studies, KCL. www.peace-diplomacy.org
we should make American voters get a tattoo on their arm that says DON'T TRUST THE REPUBLICAN PARTY because otherwise they're basically all that guy from Memento every second election cycle.
“-I want to see how a war is fought … so badly.
-You’ve come to the right place, Bob. A war hasn’t been fought this badly since Olaf the Hairy ordered 80,000 battle helmets with the horns on the inside”.
If dems don’t break up the maga media conglomerates as soon as they can they have no sense of self preservation bsky.app/profile/atru...
A government of the morons, by the morons, and for the morons
“Planning around preventing this exact scenario — impossible as it has long seemed — has been a bedrock principle of US national security policy for decades,” a former US official who served in Republican and Democratic administrations said. “I’m dumbfounded.”
I have had friends call me from their boats and their in-ground pools to tell me how much this country screwed them
We could make this complicated for ourselves or get to the simple truth of the matter: these people are really really stupid
Whoever is the next Secretary of State is going to have some big shoes to fill.
It's amazing how utterly dumb the DOGE bros are and how little they let their total lack of intelligence, accomplishment and talent get in the way of breaking things that actually intelligent, accomplished and talented people had built.
He knows exactly how stupid his audience is. And, boy, are they stupid.
as someone who monitors right wing media, its under discussed right now but i can tell you conservatives are absolutely terrified of the way talarico is using religious messaging against them
This is how you talk to people you think are stupid … and unfortunately this crowd is indeed extremely stupid
The US bombed that school by accident, but the war is deliberate. And that's the context in which we have to judge it. We, the United States, killed those little girls, for what? www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/u...
ISIS like barbarism
None of this is necessary
NEWS: The Trump administration confirmed it bombed a girl’s school in Iran.
It's one of the most devastating military errors in decades.
Trump lied about it. Pete Hegseth gutted the office preventing civilian casualties.
175 are dead. Most were kids. Hegseth should be fired.
This is terrifying
There’s a clear thread between this stuff and the culture of violent gangsters. E.g. the immortal line from the gangster movie, Layer Cake: “f***ing women is for p**fs”.
There is apparently credible evidence that the president of the United States is a pedophile. The comforting phrase “accused him without evidence” no longer fits this situation, and journalists must resort to the more perfunctory “hasn’t been formally charged.” www.thedailybeast.com/key-details-...
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Richard Haass in the FT. Striking reminder of how disloyal MAGA is to American national interests.
I do not like this hellish cocktail one bit.
Both Iranian and US Evangelical millenarian extremists are rubbing their hands together with glee about this conflict heralding the apocalypse. And both have significant influence over their government.
Combine with breakdown of singular Iranian command and control and all that nuke material.
as far as i can tell the ADL believes that antizionism is antisemitism, which i suppose is defensible as an overcorrection, but also that literally nothing else is antisemitism, including heiling hitler
America’s unilateral withdrawal from the JCPOA, against all evidence, was an egregious act of self-harm.*
*The nuclear risks are now so high and so hard to control that Trump is - against all domestic political incentives - very seriously feeling the need to authorize boots on the ground.
There's something deeply obscene and broken about the fact that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are bombing elementary schools in an illegal war of aggression, and there's still a sense among the opposition that it has to be explained in terms of gas prices in order to get American voters to care.
Was the poll unanimous as well
