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“U.S. and Iran Edge Toward War Again” There sure has been a lot edging going on here…
i really, truly, find this offensive
Olga Nesterova@onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 2mo agoIn front of the Lincoln Memorial. This.
"Mr. Araghchi said for the first time in 47 years both Iran and the United States will say in writing that they respect one another’s sovereignty and rule." We've come a long way from "unconditional surrender"!
Update from Farnaz Fassihi
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I too think it’s suspicious when a process I barely understand in a context I find unfamiliar produces an outcome other than the one I said I wanted
Jordan Uhl@jordanuhl.com · 2mo agoExtremely funny to watch the right coalesce around “I’m in a bubble of morons, so this is impossible!” as an explanation for the LA mayoral results.
There’s been a lot of talk in this race about what makes a "real man." A man does what’s right when no one is watching. He upholds his commitments to his family and neighbors. He doesn’t lie, cheat, & steal his way through life. Real men serve others. Weak men serve themselves.
So our war of choice is making our war of choice more expensive by the day. Great job everyone!
Surging Fuel Prices Saddle Pentagon With $1 Billion in Unplanned Costs as Military Makes ‘Sweeping Cuts’ to Keep Up
Surging fuel prices could leave the Defense Department with $1 billion in unplanned costs amid the Iran war, according to officials and documents.
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Anyone else notice Steve Bannon is slowly morphing into Rosie O’Donnell?
I’m sure the guy who couldn’t book Milli Vanilli will win this war
Pretty much this. MAGA is going all in because they know if they lose the consequences are coming.
Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 3mo agoThe Roberts Court, the Trump White House, and the national GOP are acting like this is their one big shot. Either they secure the lasting end of US Constitutional democracy, or they’re in very serious trouble from the backlash. And they’ve already gone so far that there’s no other possibility.
An mRNA treatment for PANCREATIC CANCER was in trials, among many other uses. Choosing to end this research is choosing to sentence millions to an early, painful death
The UnPopulist@theunpopulist.net · 4mo agoKennedy canceled $500 million in mRNA research and announced no new mRNA projects will ever be initiated—killing the technology that produced the fastest vaccine rollout in human history.
And here the mob has been bribing judges all these decades when they could have used all that cash to run one of their own for president.
Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 4mo agoBREAKING WSJ: Trump has repeatedly promised his top administration officials pardons before he leaves office, according to people who have heard his comments. "I'll pardon everyone who has come within 200 feet of the Oval," Trump said in a recent meeting. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
you do not have to hand it to tucker carlson or marjorie taylor greene or alex jones or megyn kelly. they're all rats who see trump as a sinking ship and they're getting ready to jump in preparation for their next act. you do not have to fall for it.
the guys walking around in shoes that don’t fit are not gonna do a 25th Amendment
No one who speaks like this should still be president. If congress or the cabinet won’t or can’t remove him, let recent history by our guide. A mob should drag him out of the Oval Office and throw him in the ditch that used to be the East Wing.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4mo agoTrump: “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will … We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World. 47 years of extortion, corruption, and death, will finally end”
And it’s not like we’ve been all that great at managing resources to keep people alive on earth!
Josh Fruhlinger@jfruh.bsky.social · 4mo agoeveryone who thinks space colonization is going to be like earth colonization, either complimentary or derogatory, wildly underestimates how expensive it is to keep each individual person in space alive
NOTUS@notus.com · 4mo agoPresident Trump said he is going to personally attend the Supreme Court’s oral arguments on the constitutionality of his attempt to eliminate birthright citizenship. https://www.notus.org/donald-trump/trump-attend-scotus-supreme-court-hearing-birthright-citizenship-14th-amendment
Making Donald Trump President of the US has been a disaster for literally the entire planet.
Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH@gavinyamey.bsky.social · 4mo ago"Countries heavily reliant on US aid see a 10.5% increase in maternal mortality following a switch from a Democratic to a Republican administration—about 44.7 additional deaths per 100 000 live births." gh.bmj.com/content/11/3...
jfc. We've arrived at this point in our infantile adventure: "Hey, your dead I shot you!" "No, you didn't, I had a force field on." "That's not fair, you're cheating!"
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4mo agoLeavitt: "President Trump does not bluff ... any violence beyond this point will be because the Iranian regime refused to understand they have already been defeated"
Iran sent Trump a giant horse on wheels. It is about to be wheeled into Mara Lago's grounds.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4mo agoTrump on Iranian leaders: "They're gonna make a deal. They did something yesterday that was amazing actually. They gave us a present, and it arrived today. It was a very big present worth a tremendous amount of money. I'm not gonna tell you what that present is but it was very significant prize"
Less than a month in and Trump is openly announcing war crimes as our official strategy. I don’t know if Putin Lite really captures it. The chances Trump will nuke Tehran isn’t zero. He would rather destroy the world than have to admit he fucked up.
David Simon@audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 5mo agoRussia's degeneracy in Ukraine -- targeting the civilian utility grid to freeze out the population -- hasn't delivered victory. Trump now threatens the same in Iran, where the average daily temperature is about 10-15 degrees warmer in Tehran than Kiev. Putin Lite.
Kat ran a great campaign in a crowded district and nearly pulled it off. I know she's going to continue doing great things, for Illinois and the rest of the country.
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 5mo agoWASHINGTON (AP) — Daniel Biss wins Democratic nomination for U.S. House in Illinois' 9th Congressional District.
Iran may not have a nuclear weapon but it sure as shit sounds like they have a nuclear option…
"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux@bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 5mo agoSo honestly...if you were a member of the Iranian regime, the bet that you can outlast Trump - that you are willing to endure bombs and blockade longer than the American public will accept $100 a barrel (or $150 or $200) oil...that looks like a pretty likely bet.
“President Trump holds the cards. He’ll determine the pace, tempo, timing of this conflict. His hands firmly on the wheel.”—Pete Hegseth “War is hell. War is chaos…and, um, bad things can happen.”—Also Pete Hegseth
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5mo agoHegseth: "President Trump holds the cards. He'll determine the pace, tempo, timing of this conflict. His hand firmly on the wheel as well as on the throttle setting ... today will be yet again the highest volume of strikes America has put over the skies of Iran and Tehran. Ramping up and only up."
Exactly this. Biden’s approval rating first went down because of the Afghanistan withdrawal coverage and he never recovered. He won on competence and reason and the press declared him a failure for not delivering. Trump exploited that all the way back to the White House and now here we are.
Philip Gourevitch@pgourevitch.bsky.social · 5mo agofeels telling about American foreign policy punditry that while many decry the aimlessness of Trump’s monstrously wrong Iran war there were far more outraged columns over the harm done to US power and influence and standing and interests and example when Biden rightly withdrew from Afghanistan.