Kari Zander

this is beyond parody, folks. a complete mockery of the DOJ.

As we all learn in elementary school, everybody is presumed guilty under the law.

this is another example of what they all learned from the kavanaugh hearings.

when you’re losing, when you’re worried he’s going to throw you under the bus, you have to go totally feral.

you have to embarrass yourself by trying to brute-force a narrative shift from being on defense to on offense.

"There are so many ways the Iraq War hangs over all of what's happening in Iran right now. But by comparison, Iraq was a comprehensive, well-executed propaganda campaign ... this is the most unpopular war in American history." — @paulwaldman.bsky.social

Full ep: www.publicnotice.co/p/nir-and-ru...

Watch this clip.

Professors will recognize this kid as the student who didn't do the reading but still has very strong opinions about how it's all "bullshit," except this time he's not the callow student who's going to fail your course, he's the reviewer who's going to cancel your grant.

this means it is not open for transit

as Trump reportedly considers sending ground troops in to open the straight of hormuz, it's worth remembering how much extra, unnecessary danger it puts US troops in to preemptively declare "we will murder soldiers who surrender to us" (which is what "no quarter" means)

"I texted the family group chat. I felt naughty sending it to my NPR-loyal parents, which gave me a rebellious thrill." Good God this woman is insufferable.

Every time I see people describe Janet Mills as a centrist I realize there is an imaginary Janet Mills that exists in people's brains that they've invented out of whole cloth in order to justify supporting Platner, and then when Platner was exposed as a Nazi they just refused to update their priors.

I keep seeing people ask about the 25th Amendment.

Guys. His entire Cabinet is walking around in shoes that don’t fit because they’re scared to take them off.

The 25th is never happening.

Chat is it normal to be doing pre-emptive cope eight months before an election because you’re very mad that your side is going to win

so Janet Mills was on the board of directors of a civil rights organization for 20 years, and while it was a women's rights org her co-founder of The Maine Women's Lobby, Lois Galgay Reckitt was a Lesbian and the origination fought for LGBT rights

20 years worth of work shows she fucking care.

these guys are gonna pop back up when a dem is president and like nothing happened opine that some policy or other is "bad for the economy." they must be mercilessly struck about the snout with rolled up newspapers and ordered to lie down.

i think jamelle bouie is where i got this point from (though its obviously not unique to him): trump doesnt escape consequences so much as the institutions designed to impose consequences refuse to penalize him. this is absolutely not the same thing. hes not magic, people are just lazy and stupid.

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The horseshoe is complete.

The Unspoken Cost of War: How Women and Children Pay for the Conflicts of Powerful Men. Across modern conflicts, the wars waged by so-called powerful men continue to leave women and children carrying the heaviest burden—through displacement, violence, hunger, and death.

The Unspoken Cost of War: How Women and Children Pay for the Conflicts of Powerful Men.
open.substack.com/pub/thewomen...

The situation in Iran has exposed how much of today’s western “activism” is driven by aesthetics and tribal belonging rather than principle.

Real activism costs social standing, it doesn’t elevate it—and that’s a lesson much of today’s trendy social justice culture still hasn’t learned.

Ukrainian missiles strike “critically important” Kremniy El microelectronics plant supplying Russia’s air defense, at least six killed On the afternoon of March 10, missiles struck the Russian city of Bryansk, located less than 100 miles from the Ukrainian border. Pro-Kremlin outlet Mash reported that at least one of the strikes hit ...

Ukrainian missiles strike “critically important” Kremniy El microelectronics plant supplying Russia's air defense, at least six killed

37 people were also injured and taken to a hospital. The plant in Bryansk, less than 100 miles from the border with Ukraine, is a major supplier for Russia's MoD.

i am far less interested in why trump voters like rogan feel betrayed and far more interested in why they believed trump in the first place, given his previous presidency

Here's a thread featuring clips of key moments from the DC Metropolitan Police body camera footage of the March 17, 2025 DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace that I obtained as a result of my FOIA lawsuit:

Trump did not announce a U.S. policy then walk it back. That is not what happened, and media presenting it that way does a disservice.

Trump said words he thought might appeal to his audience in the moment, with no connection to actual policy, then did that again with a different question/asker.

AOC came out swinging against age verification legislation and somehow the entire tech press seems to not have noticed?

The words coming out of Trump's mouth are 100% reactive, a reflection of what he believes will impress/pressure/deceive the people he's talking to. Again, the most useful comparison is an LLM trying to complete the prompt. He's doing autocomplete all the time, independent of truth or reality.

Trump just claimed the Tomahawk missile that destroyed an Iranian girls’ school, killing 160 children, “could have been anyone’s.”

Question: Has someone in our government been illegally selling them to Iran, or is he lying?

Either option is bad. One is a lie, the other is treason.

Instead of being amazed that Cheney endorsed Harris despite agreeing with Trump on 99% of his policies, people treated it as though her endorsement meant Harris now agreed with Cheney on 99% of policy. Dumbest electorate in the world.

An absolute madness rune for the Extremely Online Left is that people like Stephen Miller were deliberately echoing their talking points vastly overemphasising/lying about Liz Cheney's role in the Harris campaign because they correctly sensed that doing agitprop about it was demobilising.

Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.

You cannot do this to people and expect Iranian Delcy Rodriguez to emerge to make peace with you. She pulled it off only because the U.S. operation in Venezuela killed mostly security personnel (and indeed, mostly Cuban security personnel)

I think we should do a "Iran Reset" but instead of presenting the Iranians with a ceremonial red button, we give them Pete Hegseth hogtied with a bag over his head

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