Dave Czaja
@dzaia40.bsky.social
When in the course of human events ... Still evolving. New Englander re-wilded in the PNW. Your religion is not our problem. The Earth is on fire. Living in Obscurity, WA.
FT: "... Since attacking Iran in February, Trump’s immediate demands have shrunk from a sprawling list of concessions .. to just one: that Iran allow the Strait of Hormuz to return to its prewar state ..” @financialtimes.com #SuezMoment www.ft.com/content/87b0...
Donald Trump trapped between escalation and an Iran deal on Tehran’s terms
US president faces few good options to exit a war he once said would end swiftly with the Islamic republic’s surrender
ft.com
I read this as put the anus of responsibility on the press and thus on ICE, and it kind of worked.
The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 29m ago"The shocking number of cases like this puts the onus on the press to not just scrutinize ICE’s claims but to assume by default that they are untruthful." ICYMI:
I can think of 787 millions things that came out of Fox
Media Matters for America@mmfa.bsky.social · 43m agoLaura Loomer: "Nothing serious comes out of Fox News. Okay? It's basically TV for stupid people. It's TV for stupid people."
Laura Loomer: "Nothing serious comes out of Fox News. Okay? It's basically TV for stupid people. It's TV for stupid people."
Because Russia is so great. Because is a great man. Right Maga? Right Tucker? "Huh? What are we doing? Is this the rule now?"
Igor Sushko@igorsushko.bsky.social · 43m agoRussian soldier wearing a dress getting beaten with a dildo by his commander.
Donald relentlessly using the words “dumocrats” and “communists” proves his childishness is only exceeded by his ignorance.
Trump’s recent Saudi nuclear deal puts his use of the presidency for personal profit on full display. It will be up to the next Democratic-majority Congress to open investigations and make clear the consequences of compromising our national security for profit. More from Tom Malinowski:
Trump's Rare Feat in Iran
The president announced a deal framework that nearly everyone hates.
contrariannews.org
SCHIFF: You told my staff you stood by your article in white nationalist website VDARE where you wrote, 'Muslim immigrants & their kids seem prone to terrorism' C: I wrote that article in support of Trump's travel ban S: Do you stand by it? C: I stand by that article S: That's all I need to know
holy shit -- Schiff ties Trump's judicial nominees in knots by asking them who won the 2016 before *before* asking them who won in 2020, which results in them sounding like election deniers about Trump's victories!
SCHIFF: When Trump ran against Hillary Clinton, who won? CANDEUB: Um. Trump was certified as winner S: Did he in fact win? C: He was certified S: Do you have some doubt about if he won? C: I have no doubt he was certified S: When did it become so difficult to answer such a simple question?
When your party leader is a president with historically low approval ratings, who has raised prices through tariffs and wars, uses disaster relief and science grants to punish states that didn’t vote for him, and has agents shooting people in the streets, this is what you do.
The USDA released this photo of Andy Biggs during a meeting about allowing the import cattle into Arizona during the ongoing screwworm outbreak
"influencer" is one of the most desirable jobs for young people, according to polling at least, but to me it sounds like one of the worst jobs imaginable vulture.com/article/infl...
The Influencer Recession
Once upon a time, lifestyle influencers could post cute photos and make millions. Now they are forced to pivot.
vulture.com
Max Miller on why he's staying in the race: "When we go back to 2015 and 2016, & people in the media looked at President Trump, & everyone came out with allegations. Dozens of women, dozens of crazy allegations, dozens of nasty criminal misconduct. And you know what he did? He stayed in the fight."
Though Republicans will be anxious to portray El-Sayed as another “socialist,” he is not a democratic socialist, and he has not been endorsed by the Democratic Socialists of America.
Fuentes: “It's not outside the realm of possibility that in the next Republican administration you've got a groyper cabinet official”
Nick Fuentes revels in groyper infiltration of Republican politics: “We'll be influencing policy at the highest level. This is what they fear. This is how power works.”
mediamatters.org
Trump targets El-Sayed, suggests voter irregularities after Michigan primary “Wayne County (Detroit) in Michigan is one of the most corrupt voting areas in the United States, if not the World,” he wrote on Truth Social. www.politico.com/live-updates...
Trump targets El-Sayed, suggests voter irregularities after Michigan primary
“Wayne County (Detroit) in Michigan is one of the most corrupt voting areas in the United States, if not the World,” he wrote on Truth Social.
politico.com
The audience needs to be reminded that Jared Isaacman is an Elon Musk protégé who was put in his position at NASA at Musk's insistence. His job is to transfer the budget of NASA to SpaceX to the extent he can possibly do so. bsky.app/profile/atru...
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5h agoNASA Administrator Jared Isaacman on rockets crashing into the moon: "It's not a big deal right now. The moon has clearly seen better days."
A significant, graphically enhanced fact check of Musk's business and financial claims. Any other CEO would be fired for speaking the way Musk does. But for Musk, his wealth furnishes an impenetrable barrier to accountability
In fact, the tariffs have been so fucking incredible that the Trump administration is paying $100 billion in tariff refunds to major US corporations.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 15h agoFOX: What's your big message on the economy? TRUMP: Tariffs have been incredible
Why are Wyoming, Montana and Alaska the suicide belt in the US? "Isolation of living in a sparsely populated state and easy access to guns. Suicide attempts are typically more impulsive than the common understanding suggests, and those made with guns are far more likely to be lethal.".
Opinion | The Suicide Crisis in Wyoming
Wyoming has one of the highest suicide rates in the nation.
nytimes.com
Corporal Bonespurs does the stolen valor thing again
BIG: Kansas just rejected a ballot measure that would have required state Supreme Court justices to be elected rather than appointed by the governor — dealing another setback to Republicans trying to overturn a decision that established a constitutional right to abortion.
Next step in the biggest pump and dump scheme in stock market history. www.ft.com/content/41f7...
Elon Musk’s SpaceX unnerves investors with lavish AI spending plans
Shares slide even as group says its quarterly revenues nearly doubled
ft.com
Axios has a perfect record of serving as an uncritical manipulative mouthpiece for Trump, Kushner and Witkoff. Why should this be any different? The Iranians even intimate that Axios is engaged in corrupt insider trading with Kushner and Witkoss, which strikes me as just plausible, and horrific
U.S. nears Hormuz deal, aiming for Wednesday announcement
The deal received signoff from Iranian leadership on Tuesday.
axios.com
JENNINGS: “This continued demonization of AIPAC. AIPAC is jewish Americans.” PHILLIP: “Bernie Sanders is jewish.” JENNINGS: “That doesn't absolve him…”🤔 lol ok Scott Jennings (From @acyn.bsky.social )
On nights like this it’s kinda wild that @abbydphillip & @CNN don’t feel the need to mention @ScottJenningsKY’s podcast bosses at Salem Media are running a pro-Israel influence operation — and that he gets paid by them while he’s on CNN trashing Bernie, @AbdulElSayed, etc
