Tough to achieve coercive diplomacy against a people when you're already bombing their cities and turning their skies black with oil rain
10.03.2026 20:03
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Tough to achieve coercive diplomacy against a people when you're already bombing their cities and turning their skies black with oil rain
Marco Rubio's BFF is an accused foreign agent and money launderer. His trial is about to start — and Rubio is on the witness list.
My @vanityfair.com story on the legal bomb that's poised to go off in Trumpland.
www.vanityfair.com/news/story/m...
Hell yeah we're getting the band back together www.motherjones.com/politics/201...
Basically, take the amount of money you think your favorite author gets, halve it, and then halve it again, and you have a number that's probably a lot closer to their actual earnings from writing.
"But I don't think they make that much!"
Halve that. Halve it again.
When I joined as the head engineer of the Torment Nexus project, it was to work on fascinating technical problems and make the world a better place along the way. I am appalled to discover that the Torment Nexus would be used this way and, now that my options have vested, will be leaving the project
buddy every fucking day
In fact, under his leadership, V.F.F. soon ran up enormous debt, and financial records indicate that, by the end of 2008, it was unable to pay its creditors. The group’s primary donors became concerned that their money was being wasted on inappropriate expenses; there were rumors of parties that “could politely be called trysts,” as the former associate of the group put it. The early sympathizer said, “I was not the first to hear that there was money sloshing around and sexually inappropriate behavior in the workplace.”
Meanwhile, the finances of V.F.F. grew so dire that the group’s donors hatched a plan to take control away from Hegseth. The donors’ representatives hired a forensic accountant to review the books. The findings were appalling. In January, 2009, Hegseth sent a letter to the donors admitting that, as of that day, the group had less than a thousand dollars in the bank and $434,833 in unpaid bills. The group also had run up credit-card debts of as much as seventy-five thousand dollars. Hegseth said that he took full responsibility for the mess, but added that, unless the donors gave him more funds, V.F.F. would have to file for bankruptcy and close down.
How soon we forget www.newyorker.com/news/news-de...
Whole bunch of former Hegseth coworkers at Vets for Freedom and Concerned Vets for America reading this and thinking, yep, that's Pete alright newrepublic.com/post/207555/...
Mazel, your dad jokes finally caught up to you!
So the case for Congress is, once we have gone to war, if they don’t like it, they can remove the money? Congress does not have a constitutional role in the declaration of war. Congress has a role in cutting off funds for wars, which it has threatened to do. And the president doesn’t have to get permission. But yes, you can debate, you can decide. That’s his choice in how he wants to do it. I mean, here I will quote the Constitution: “The Congress shall have power to declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water.”
This woman has a Ph.D., but she couldn't be asked to read the Constitution’s ~4,500 words.
A DOGE staffer assigned to the National Endowment for the Humanities to flag grants for "DEI" tries to explain what "DEI" is. This deposition is part of a lawsuit by the @acls1919.bsky.social, @historians.org and @modernlanguage.bsky.social.
If it's real, hell yea
Spouse just told me we've reached the age where one has to let the other know if we're making toast, and that's why they smell toast
A Noem aide spent $3 million on pickup trucks emblazoned with the ICE name & logo, which ICE agents -- notoriously averse to advertising their presence -- will not drive, so they're just sitting in a lot, useless. The contract went to a Trump donor who owns a regional Chevy dealership.
President Trump wore a white “USA” baseball cap as the remains of six service members killed in the war with Iran were carried off an Air Force transport plane.
The hat appeared to be a model that retails on the Trump Organization’s online store for $55.
I’m not convinced Trump’s rewriting of the horrible bombing of a girls school won’t be Russia hoaxed, election rigged, and Chinese bioweaponed into Trumpist canon.
Q: You just suggested Iran got a Tomahawk & bombed its own school. But you're the only person in your govt saying this. Even your defense secretary wouldn't say that. Why are you the only person saying this?
TRUMP: I just don't know enough about it. It's something I was told is under investigation.
Shoutout to my late 90s Naval Academy debate teammates and our "Elite Nuclear Emergency Search Teams" affirmative case to solve for loose nukes, we were ahead of our time
They're calling it the (Other) Trump Tax
Cant imagine why the Iranian people are not rising up on our behalf.
Every damn day
"Who is this?"
"Collective Soul'
"Is this Christian rock?"
"NO!"
"It sounds like Christian rock"
"IT'S NOT CHRISTIAN ROCK"
"It says here they got their name from The Fountainhead"
"STOP RUINING COLLECTIVE SOUL"
key questions for journalists to ask: did the military consider any of the risks to human life or the environment when bombing an oil facility in/near a city of close to 10 million? if US did it, was it a result of hegseth's rejection of the law of war?
An Ayatollah Khamenei is Supreme Leader of Iran and oil is above $100 a barrel
www.ft.com/content/0b7b...
• Veterans who were discharged from the uniformed services due to sexual orientation or gender identity/expression. - They do not need to live in Washington. - They do not need to enter school within a certain amount of time after separating from the military. - They maintain resident student status as long as they stay continuously enrolled. - Does not apply to veterans who have a dishonorable discharge from the uniformed services.
TIL that military service members who were discharged for their sexual orientation or gender identity qualify for in-state tuition rates in Washington regardless of their residency!
wsac.wa.gov/student-resi...
“The war with Iran is little more than the joint targeting process unleashed. The Frankenstein’s monster that is the operational level of war, unsatiated after eating strategy, is now feasting on policy”. @bafriedman.bsky.social
Significance: 95 year old Ali al- Sistani has been at odds with the Islamic Republic, as @valinasr.bsky.social has pointed out the chasm between the two is “profound”, now he has thrown his full weight behind the resistance, “community defense”, just as new Supreme Leader is about to be announced.
DoD obviously knows where it conducted TLAM strikes and could have acknowledged responsibility for this tragedy even while it investigated the attack.
It's stiff competition, but Nellie Bowles may actually be the most evil, vapid person to work at her wife's stupid website:
