@oxfordcomma
High school English & social studies teacher. Grad student. History, literature, sociology. Mom. Liberal. Regular desert woman in Michigan. Every account of mine inevitably becomes a political account, so assume that's where this train is headed as well.
me and the other scheming viziers are wearing shoes gifted to us by the king that are way too big. we look ridiculous. the whole court is laughing at us behind our backs. honestly this is a pretty low point for us, the scheming viziers
“Republicans have repudiated Christ to the point that we can accurately call them heretics” is a thing that sounds melodramatic but is actually true.
Bad pun dog
Has anyone considered opening the Bisexual of Hormuz?
the most thoroughly vindicated man in hollywood.
trade disputes and conspiracies ✔️
republic subverted over sex hangups ✔️
“sand people” killed, royalty indifferent ✔️
naive idiot casts vote for tyranny ✔️
villains with silly names like “dooku” ✔️
powerful clerical order screwing up ✔️
list goes on
The bottom line is Trump sacrificed 8 American lives (& counting) and more than 1,000 Iranian lives (& counting) for nothing. He hurt the US & global economies, destabilized the Middle East, & will pull out with the same Iranian regime in power. There's no silver lining.
A senseless, criminal waste
in case you've never seen it, this is Roger Ebert on The Mummy
Every day of life under Trump is waking up to a headline like, “Wyoming is missing”
Things look grim in the markets right now, but at least the U.S. economy wasn’t already being propped up by a massive speculative AI bubble that is highly sensitive to rising energy costs.
someone at the pentagon frantically typing “Claude, open the strait of Hormuz for me, quickest possible strategy, make no mistakes.”
Also, now that the Dow is so far off of 50,000, I believe that according to the Pam Bondi Rule we are legally allowed to care about the Epstein Files again?
they're not going to do this and don't need it, but as the white house's politics advisor, i am going to loudly insist that they keep repeating it
Pete Hegseth's murderous buffoonery, coming amid a lifetime in which he's betrayed everyone close to him and failed up from one disaster to the next, is a perfect example of how the appeal of Trumpism is that it creates a permission structure for people to openly be their worst selves
Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs
DHS keeps the fuck plane. Lewandowski stays on it and he has to fuck. Markwayne's problem now.
This post is how I found out Kristi Noem got fired.
Todd @ Why are we bothering with the Strait of Hormuz when we could simply do this? Explain it to me like I'm 5. Canal RIOS 508 MOUNTAIN HARD AND BIG, WATER NO UP. MANY MANY DIG DIG.
They killed 180 children and their teachers in a double-tap strike on a school. The girls were 7 to 12 years old.
I’ve seen enough. Not about the election. Just generally.
If you’re an academic with even the slightest bit of drama in your romantic life, I’m BEGGING you to allude maladroitly to it in the acknowledgments of your monograph. Please. Do it for me and grad students everywhere. Just a crumb of joy.
Ongoing “lol” at every entity that cuts a lopsided deal with this guy rather than telling him to fuck off
On the other hand Biden did once say “Macron” instead of “Mitterrand” in an otherwise perfect cogent anecdote about a French president in the 90s so who can say
Seems bad the president is visibly decaying at the same time he’s started a war but doesn’t appear to know why he did it
While operations are coordinated at a members-only, private beach club — in between fundraisers and parties.
They went to war with Iran (which nobody in America was asking for) so they could conjure an excuse to allow ICE to keep murdering Americans and teargassing schools here at home with impunity (which nobody in America was asking for).
If it was me I’d shoot the rough beast slouching towards Bethlehem. Simply not interested in seeing where that goes.
For example: I think it’s very bad Republicans have decided to unlawfully attack Iran for no reason and I am very mad at them for doing so
A lot of people think this is Canada capitulating because it's afraid of the US. No, that's ridiculous. It's just that Iran has so completely and utterly torched its credibility that even countries with reason to be pissed at us are shrugging.
Sen. Chuck Schumer is calling for Congress to come back to Washington immediately and vote on a war powers resolution regarding Iran.