Coons: "Right now, the clearest winner from this war in Iran is Russia. It's stunning that President Trump is on the phone with Vladimir Putin and spending more time consulting with him than he is with Congress and the American people."
The thing is, they don't even have to lay mines to create an effect
Some rumours of them laying mines, perhaps some satellite pics of them putting decoys in the water are enough to completely spook the insurance market
I'll this (insane thing) in all seriousness:
1. Dementia-addled leader who thinks he can rule the world using brute force
2. Cadre of advisors with billions of dollars available to buy then flip oil futures
3. War with Iran
“Founded by teenagers” feels exactly right. If you’ve ever had a kid tell that all you need to do to solve an intractable problem with contradictory moral frames is, ya know, “just let the phone do it!” then you actually understand today’s economic elites better than they do themselves.
uh this thing isn’t near the (Iranian part of the) strait, are they just hitting general traffic now
This year, Ukraine has supplied more direct military kit to the United States than the U.S. has supplied to Ukraine.
If anyone affected by this wants to find out what their legal recourse may be, I know some good class action lawyers.
2026: Grammarly zombiefies academics
2027: academics own Grammarly
Legally protective shellac or not, I really really really don't understand how any sane person could sign off on a program to, without so much as a courtesy call, exploit the names of actual breathing human beings oh whom am I kidding of course I understand it.
i am being absolutely serious here: CENTCOM had one job and it was literally to prepare for an Iran contingency
More like jump into it.
For those keeping score at home:
I informed Grammarly via email precisely what I thought of their appropriation of my name and reputation and received an email from their head of litigation promising a full response by the end of the week.
To be continued...
Uh oh
H/t @horadam.bsky.social
Hang in there, Bekka.
Two of the kids have been having really positive experiences with the counsellors and therapists that have been in town over the last month.
Since they have wanted me in the room with them almost every time, I've been getting some benefits too.
Even worse, he's Paydari Front. They got what they wanted, one of their own as Supreme Religious Authority. Since the top layers of the Quds Force & IRGC have been taken out, it means the Paydari Front bubbas below them have now moved up. All this has done is made Iranian government more extreme.
So many average citizens have stood up to Trump.
Alex Pretti went to the street to protect his fellow humans, who the Trump regime was harming. He lost his life for it. Renee Good lost her life for resisting.
And sorry, but—these fucking cowards in the Senate can’t vote against Trump nominees?
What an incredible, honest, and insightful thread.
also something happening here (you can see it w/ the price of oil today) that ties into my larger feeling of *too much happening and too fast.* struggling to explain it but it feels like the dynamics of the physical world have been replaced by online ones. you get trump trying to ctrl-z the economy
It's looking increasingly like these guys thought that if they could wreak more death and destruction than the other side then they would be respected as strong powerful men and they would "win" and that would make them big important heroes. Very possibly they had no rationale deeper than that.
"@gork how many hitpoints does iran have"
Academics heading over to the Grammarly head office like
And his enablers, like Durbin.
Hey, idiot. Your president threatens Canada yet again and you want to talk about carp? This is why Americans hate Dems and why Canadians increasingly despise Americans.
Do we all now have to check to see if Grammarly is pimping us out?
There's been a lot of hay made by Republicans about how bombing Iran "reestablishes deterrence" but what they fail to understand is Iran believed their ability to wreck oil prices WAS a sufficient deterrent.
As we can see, that wasn't the case for Trump! So now, they'll need something worse.
It's funny that the Democratic Party is so unpopular, but it's also a superlatively dangerous, flashing red sign of democratic crisis.
Opposition parties to elected autocrats can become very unpopular because they're trapped between 'business as usual' politics & escalating constitutional conflict.
