@tony-almquist
🌊🌈 Blue wave. ANTIFA Minister of Information. LGBTQ friend. #Resist! #Sober 5+ years. Retired and recovered lawyer. Retired military. Gulf War vet. #INFJ. #Iowa. Follow and find out.💙🌊🌐 #BlueCrew. Follow me on Substack https://substack.com/@tonyalmquist.
by @paulkrugman.substack.com.web.brid.gy “If the quantity of oil supplied to world markets can’t rise — which, as far as we can tell, it won’t until the mullahs decide to let tankers through again — the price of oil will have to rise high enough to reduce the quantity demanded”
by @lyz.bsky.social "Joe Rogan, that Kermit the Frog-sounding over-roasted turkey apparently just learned how to read, because he’s kind of mad at Trump about the war in Iran. Besides using critical thinking, how could Rogan have predicted that the president would indiscriminately bomb countries?"
by @briantylercohen.bsky.social “Just days after Trump started the war, Don Jr. & Eric announced they’d invested in a military drone company called Powerus. Don Jr. sits on the board of another drone company. They’re moments away from changing their LinkedIn titles to ‘war profiteer’”
by @joycewhitevance.bsky.social “Trump has had success at using his war to turn attention away from the Epstein files. But he knows he’s still vulnerable. His party is in danger and it’s in danger because of him. There is no telling what a man who cannot tolerate losing will do”
by @hcrichardson.bsky.social "NYT published a long exposé of the corruption of American politics by billionaires. They explain how underwriting political campaigns from school boards to the presidency has enabled the very wealthy to lock in their policy preferences"
by @michaelianblack.bsky.social “they’re fucknuts, sure, but they aptly represent a cross-section of men frustrated with a changing culture that, they believe, lay world’s problems at their feet. You know what? They’re right because, right now, the world is on fire and it’s their fucking fault”
by @frankfukuyama.bsky.social “The problem is thus not the concept of regime change, but what is required to bring it about. Despite its deep unpopularity, the Islamic regime is rooted in parts of Iranian society”
by @garykroeger.bsky.social “Trump didn’t create a movement, the movement created him, that’s why they’re inextricable. A bully-pulpit mouthpiece who scorns the eloquence associated with elites and speaks to people as they speak to each other; often crass, crude, and cruel”
“It’s an understatement to say that we are living through upheaval in the fourth branch of government, the press. It has been a struggle ever since the internet knocked out the business model. Now, much of the press faces a full-blown crisis of public confidence, as do so many of our institutions”
By @hcrichardson.bsky.social "Yesterday, after Reuters reporter Phil Stewart reported that as many as 150 U.S. troops had been wounded so far in the Iran conflict, the Pentagon publicly revised its estimate of fewer than a dozen U.S. service members wounded upward to about 140"
"When past presidents balked at the possibility of war with Iran, they weren’t just dodging a hard choice; they were deterred by all of the obvious reasons a conflict could perilously spiral. Nobody should be shocked that the expected is now coming to pass"
"Outdated targeting data may have resulted in a mistaken missile strike, according to the ongoing military investigation, which undercuts President Trump’s assertion that Iran could be to blame"
by @andertoon.bsky.social
by @jefftiedrich.bsky.social “because Donny is a supreme fuck-up who can’t ever do anything right, he evidently paid no attention to making sure everyone got the right size shoe.
“if you see any of Donny’s toadies with tears in their eyes, it’s because their shoes don’t fit, and they’re in pain”
by @k8brannen.bsky.social "Trump’s military habit will very likely be paid for by borrowing money, adding to the nearly $39 trillion national debt. Which means that whatever the other results of his military adventures, Americans will be paying for them for years"
by @laurarbelin.bsky.social "Jim Mowrer, a former Democratic candidate for Congress & secretary of state: 'As an Iowan and Iraq combat veteran, I cannot believe these Iowa politicians were smiling for a photo during the transfer of fallen American service members at Dover. That ceremony is sacred'”
by @eduardoelreportero.bsky.social “As Trump harangued his friends–rambling on about a wide range of disconnected topics—I was in Guatemala at a gathering of academics from across Latin America. Their sense of outrage was palpable. Trump was not offering cooperation. He was demanding submission”
by @terrymoranabc.bsky.social “Trump long ago showed himself to be the absolute worst kind of American politician: He will never accept the result of an election he does not win, or if he is not on the ballot, cannot call a victory”
by @50501movement.bsky.social March 28 Is 18 Days Away. Here Is Everything You Need to Do Before You Go
by @jenrubin.bsky.social “When the victims are foreigners, especially non-whites whom he dehumanizes, he revels in his secret police force’s brutality. When it comes to Americans, Trump defies critics and insists on maintaining counterproductive policies, without a care in the world about fallout”
by @garykroeger.bsky.social "The burden of paying for the exponential costs of war cannot be from bleeding or eliminating the services on which working class Americans depend. It cannot be from the DOGE-related gutting of programs and myriad other ways in which the working class is nickle and dimed"
by @nberlat.bsky.social “The stubborn simultaneous defiance of voters and of morality is enraging and can seem baffling—especially in hard-fought high-profile primaries where it’s clear that support for Israel is a vote loser. There are several reasons why Democrats continue to support Zionism”
by @lyz.bsky.social "It doesn’t have to be a game of who is losing more. But if it is, men and boys are always going to lose the least"
by @paulkrugman.substack.com.web.brid.gy “There’s no mystery about the motivation for banning Claude. Anthropic has said that it wants assurances that its products won’t be used for fully autonomous weapons or mass surveillance of Americans. This has enraged Trump officials”
by @lizdye.bsky.social “The anticompetitive conduct that maintains this flywheel is not subtle. Live Nation uses its dominance in concert promotion — control over which artists play where — as a cudgel against venues that dare to sign with a rival ticketer”
by @quinnae.com "This is the humanistic mainspring of feminism, and what universalism can mean. Not an obliteration of one’s unique needs or of one’s culture by a hegemon, but an understanding that the shared inheritance of our very humanity is something that can allow us to struggle together"
by @joycewhitevance.bsky.social "A law firm Trump wanted to prevent from litigating against his administration has taken on a major case. And the more he posts about it on social media, something he seems to lack the discipline to stop doing, the worse he makes it"
by @hcrichardson.bsky.social “Eisenhower recognized that economically dispossessed people were natural targets for political and religious extremists. They could easily be manipulated to back any cause—that promised to resurrect a world in which they had enjoyed prosperity and cultural significance”
