Phil Denton

who up makin defense department shrimp linguine

Just so we're all clear, this is a war crime and would be punishable by life or death under U.S. law.

30 years ago tonight:

Here is my story about the benches. nashvillebanner.com/2026/03/13/n...

suggesting lol. do better

This is a good lesson for journalists: Use plain language to state true things clearly.

tired: harassing athletes for not covering the spread
wired: harassing journalists for not making things up

Mayor to people who campaigned for him because they wanted to stay and who are simply trying to create community and public safety in this increasingly technofascist city where only the ultra-wealthy are comfortable: drop dead

We WILL repeat this mission for our 17 benches currently being held hostage.

FREE OUR BENCHES

The Pentagon realizes the Strait is vulnerable. “‘The simple answer is yes, they can block it,’” stated Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin Dempsey on January 8, 2012. For the past twenty years, Iran has invested heavily in the asymmetric capabilities needed to bypass the more powerful U.S. fleet and disrupt merchant shipping and threaten naval forces in the Strait. Iran has concentrated on acquiring naval mines, fleets of heavily armed speedboats, and powerful anti-ship cruise missiles, secretly situated along the bottleneck. The regular Iranian Navy is relatively professional, and it operates an aging conventional surface fleet that is the remnant of the Shah’s constabulary force. The more politically favored and far less predictable Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy (IRGCN), however, is the country’s guerilla force at sea. The IRGCN has responsibility for security in the Strait of Hormuz, and since the early-1990s, it has invested heavily to keep U.S. forces off balance. The highly ideological IRGCN has 20,000 personnel and 5,000 Revolutionary Guard Marines. These forces regularly exercise war plans to close the Strait. The force operates from bases at Bandar Abbas and Qeshm along the Strait, practicing small boat swarm exercises against international shipping traffic with as many as forty boats. Iran’s naval inventory includes cruise missiles, marine mines, Kilo- and Yono-class submarines, and Peykaap fast attack craft, the latter of which are armed with cruise missiles and torpe- does. These proxy forces are dispersed and mobile, and have mastered swarm techniques to overwhelm more powerful foes. More than a decade ago, a classified Department of Defense war game concluded that agile swarms of IRGCN speedboats could inflict major damage on the U.S. Navy’s powerful warships in a conflict. In the game, the United States lost sixteen major warships, including an aircraft carrier, to swarms of enemy speedboats.

a fun thing to do is to search things like "Iran blockade Strait of Hormuz before:2016" to remember that both the Pentagon and Iran have been well aware of the possibility of exactly what's happening now for a very long time and the idiots in charge right now were just like "nah that won't happen"

An expert says his plan would slash energy bills by 30 percent Unlike groceries and rent, electricity costs are closely regulated by states. That means state regulators could try to rein in utility companies’ profits to reduce customers’ bills.

As rising energy prices become a potent political issue, one Vanderbilt University expert is pitching regulations that he claims would reduce the average household’s monthly electric bill by almost a third, without requiring any government subsidies.

Modern Republicanism is making up a thing to be scared about and then using that as the basis for policy

in many ways, nashville is a caricature of a city more than it is an actual city

looks like we traded generations of healthcare for 4 days worth of missiles

The killing of schoolchildren should shock our conscience and cause us to recoil in horror. A nation whose leaders can so easily shrug off the death of children, no matter the cause, is in need of moral repair. There must be accountability and lessons learned from this tragedy. And we must never forget that Iranian children, too, are children of God. 7:08 PM · Mar 12, 2026 · 7,179 Views

Shouldn't be rare to see this said by a US senator

using public office to name and shame evil landlords into submission is so cool. i hope democrats learn from him

I’m looking to talk to gamers who have been diagnosed with dementia as part of a story I’m working on. If you are that person or know someone who might be willing to talk, please hit me up! Thanks.

Ms Rachel talking to Deiver Henao, a 9yo in an immigration detention center

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What a world

The Iranian football association has responded on social media, hours after U.S. President Donald Trump posted that Iran's participation would not be "appropriate ... for their own life and safety" amid the countries' ongoing war.

Some folks treated me like a naive child for believing we had the money to cancel a portion of student loan debt

one upside of all of this is the revelation that the swinging dick bankers and big rah rah capital execs and billionaires are actually meek little scared dogs and president AOC or whoever (god willing) should walk them on a leash and make them drink out of a bowl

This might be the greatest split-screen ever broadcast.

They’ll play this in museums in future.

(🎥 LCI 🇫🇷)

screenshot of 2019 fda notice that says: Public Notification: Big Penis contains hidden drug ingredient. The Food and Drug Administration is advising consumers not to purchase or use Big Penis, a product promoted for sexual enhancement. This product was identified during an examination of international mail shipments. .

"The Food and Drug Administration is advising consumers not to purchase or use Big Penis"

it’s completely fucking insane that the *treasury secretary* is out here pretending to give military briefings, and in a normal administration, he’d get fired for this

every “serious analyst” needs to get it through their heads that there is no plan and anything that passes for one can be tossed out at the mad king’s whim

I Watched 6 Hours of DOGE Bro Testimony. Here's What They Had to Say For Themselves The hours of videos provide fascinating, or perhaps horrifying, insight into the thinking of someone inside DOGE.

I have watched 6 hours of a DOGE bro deposition. The whole thing, start to finish. It's a fascinating, and horrifying, look at the people who caused so much damage, didn't really achieve anything at all, while still being so sure they are right. Here's what they said: www.404media.co/i-watched-6-...

This escalated fast, in a good way.

“the best way to honor the legacy of one of the biggest basketball sickos of all time is to not go for it when you have the chance”? that’s the argument? foh

we remain firmly on track for 'republican president leaves the country an omnishambles, next democratic president is punished for not cleaning it up fast enough'