Meanwhile Avril Haynes becomes the new Carnegie Endowment president.

Akbar Shahid Ahmed@akbarshahidahmed.bsky.social · 4d ago

“As numerous Biden aides have asked me, can you really blame bureaucrats for implementing the whims of an obstinate president? In “Crossing the Red Line,” Akbar Shahid Ahmed offers the first comprehensive opportunity to evaluate this scapegoating exercise” responsiblestatecraft.org/biden-gaza-s...

While it's important to remember that the Memorandum of Understanding with Iran doesn't *actually* end the war, it's also important to laugh at how sorrowful and furious it's making those who pushed for this war for decades.

14 points, $300 billion, and not one line on Iran's missiles.

The full U.S.-Iran text is public — and Israel was still bombing the missile supply chain on June 8.

mefinsider.meforum.org

Just a disgusting, inhuman way to talk about war. We must never get used to this

Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · 4mo ago

US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee: “Things may get a bit spicy in the neighborhood soon.”

So you’re saying there’s a chance to force Vance to destroy his career by casting the tie breaking vote to continue the Iran War?

This is so stupid. Why would James Talarico insult Arch Manning? He went to UT! He's a Longhorns fan!

Alex Shephard@alexshephard.bsky.social · 4mo ago

"politicians should just be normal" is maybe the oldest take in politics. it's also one of the dumbest www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

(buying a cabinet in Judaea in 29 AD) wow the craftsmanship on this is really incredible Furniture salesman: yeah it’s

Baseball America@baseballamerica.com · 5mo ago

Jesús Made uncorked a 100 mph throw across the infield yesterday. No Triple-A or MLB infielder has done that in the Statcast era 😳 buff.ly/71INB7N

Terrific discussion with @ajmanuzzi.bsky.social and the Security Dilemma pod about #ChasingBandits. Download it for a listen here and/or get the book at @uncpress.bsky.social or Amazon.

A.J. Manuzzi@ajmanuzzi.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Greatly enjoyed our conversation on the podcast with @mikeneagle.bsky.social about his fantastic book, Chasing Bandits: America's Long War on Terror! Check out the book and listen to our episode as we discuss how America's "bandit wars" relate to the War on Terror. open.spotify.com/episode/4YZa...

Greatly enjoyed our conversation on the podcast with @mikeneagle.bsky.social about his fantastic book, Chasing Bandits: America's Long War on Terror! Check out the book and listen to our episode as we discuss how America's "bandit wars" relate to the War on Terror. open.spotify.com/episode/4YZa...

Chasing Bandits: America's Long War on Terror with Michael Neagle

open.spotify.com

let's be clear about what's happening: donald trump and benjamin netanyahu, whose countries have been committing genocide in gaza since 2023, unilaterally started a war with iran, and are now threatening genocide there.

“A whole civilization will die tonight” is the most vile thing a US president has ever said, certainly during the post-1945 era when they’ve had the power to kill civilizations with the dropping of a bomb. I’m staring into the darkness. May this not be one of the most fateful days in human history.

never forget when the Easter Bunny sent Teddy Roosevelt to the shadow realm

The Hudson Institute means this as a good thing; or this was written by a brave comrade who infiltrated the think tank to discredit them

Specifically having 2.1 pounds of weed when 2.2 pounds is drug trafficking… high IQ move, bumping him up my draft board

Bryan Toporek@btoporek.bsky.social · 7mo ago

2.1 POUNDS??? Not ounces but POUNDS??? www.espn.com/mens-college...

An overconfident Team USA getting embarrassed by a much smaller country in front of a global audience is their last and most beautiful tribute to the American military yet

our second times have never been more farcical, you're hearing it more and more

utopia deferred@utopia-defer.red · 7mo ago

I’m sorry, the suffering is infinite and things are genuinely fucking dire, but it is truly hilarious that the nazis ran into the middle east while screaming “logistics and diplomacy are fake and gay” and now they’re trying to ask everyone else to fix the strait of hormuz because tfw no more THAADs

For years on my old blog I published the names of servicemembers who died in Iraq & Afghanistan. No other outlets were. These are the first 4 Americans to die in the Iran War. Capt. Cody A. Khork, 35 Sgt. 1st Class Noah L. Tietjens, 42 Sgt. 1st Class Nicole M. Amor, 39 Sgt. Declan J. Coady, 20

Inhumanity and insanity. The sort of thing a dying empire does.

“I Never Thought He Would Ask Me To Build Doombots,” said the contractor who builds robots for Doctor Doom

This is the singular legacy of the Biden administration, the failing that preceeded all subsequent failings. What good there was (and there was real tangible good!) will have to be excavated from a legacy of failing while in power to punish the plotters and beneficiares of an attempted coup.

Jake Grumbach@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 7mo ago

If somebody attempts a coup, and then they’re not held accountable by elites and institutions, the public will draw the conclusion that it’s not a big deal.

[Looking at an agency whose agents shatter glass onto newborns as they abduct fathers] body cameras will fix this

It’s easier for them to believe — or just to argue; whether they ‘believe’ is immaterial — that Aunt Barb is a disciple of Abu Mus’ab al-Suri than it is to accept that their death-squad tactics have inspired mass resistance of everyday people. These same delusions also occurred in Iraq & Afghanistan

Jeet Heer@jeetheer.bsky.social · 8mo ago

MAGA military geniuses are talking about Minnesota protestors like they are the Iraqi insurgency, the Taliban, and the Viet Cong all rolled into one.

A reminder that before France & the US overthrew Aristede in 2004 they called him & his circle drug traffickers too. Their real reason: stopping Aristede from pressing a case for reparations, not only for slavery but for the Indemnity (debt France made Haiti pay for *depriving slaveholders* of $)

Drug Traffickers Find Haiti a Hospitable Port of Call (Published 2004)

nytimes.com

Disappointing to here Joe Tess rattling off anti-G5 talking points from the booth here. This game has sucked and the JMU-Oregon game will be a slaughter, but the point is the rest of the season. You either drastically trim whose season "matters" or you acknowledge the Playoff is a source of meaning

Who wants to read one of the most racist and antisemitic memos in the history of the FBI?

The Time The FBI Tried To Get Meir Kahane's Jewish Fascists To Murder Black Panthers

Picture it: New York City, 1969. COINTELPRO is in full swing. And the special agent in charge of the New York field office has an idea

forever-wars.com

If a stranger told you they were raising their newborn on advice from the chat robot you'd rightfully contact child services

More Perfect Union@moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?" Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."

They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.

Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz

Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison

forever-wars.com