"The attack came despite US intelligence assessments that Iran was unlikely to pose an immediate threat to the US mainland within the next decade." So why do it? "A weeks-long lobbying effort by Israel and Saudi Arabia..." Ah. Not just weak, but cheap, too. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Push from Saudis, Israel helped move Trump to attack Iran

President Trump launched a wide-ranging attack on Iran after weeks-long lobbying by an unusual pair of U.S. allies in the Middle East: Israel and Saudi Arabia.

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Putting aside legality or propriety or morality, MAGA folks bragging about the unqualified success of the attack on Iran tweet as if history is a 24 hr news cycle. As if nothing could possibly go wrong afterward. Iraq and Afghanistan would like a word. As would 1953 Iran

1/ I'm not here for anyone's hot takes about how Rev. Jackson was a "sellout" bc he worked within the admittedly limited framework of the Democratic Party, or whatever the fuck "more radical than thou" bullshit certain among the more vulgar leftists have to offer, and which, I've heard today...

It’s amazing how easy it is to NOT end up in the Epstein files. 1. Don’t be a rich, entitled asshole. 2. Don’t appreciate the company of rich, entitled assholes 3. That’s it. That will ensure you’re not wrapped up with the pedo ring of a rich, entitled asshole.

The Epstein Files show what happens when misogyny and patriarchy go unchallenged. Men abusing girls because power allows it. If you want to stop this abuse, smash those two things

MAGA insists people should fear Black folks, brown skinned immigrants, gay men, and trans folks… and yet, none of these are in the Epstein files. Just a lot of rich, straight, cis white dudes. So who are the real predators?

When Black folks disrupt white folks’ places of worship they do it peacefully. When white folks disrupt places of worship they murder people. Birmingham, Charleston, Pittsburgh, etc. Seems like a pretty important difference

So, apparently Google is too afraid to make their MLK Day Doodle about anything connected to KIng's actual life or work...instead they made it about marching bands...awesome

Conservative media are promoting a GiveSendGo fundraiser for the ICE agent who killed Renee Good. The page includes the following statement from the organizer: "But this didn't happen in a vacuum—it's the direct result of anti-American traitors like Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (who is Jewish)"

Renee Good's last words were "I'm not mad at you" to the guy who shot her. Yet MAGA calls her a "radical lunatic." Meanwhile, here is the person they hail as a martyr and patriot. This unhinged freak. youtu.be/twQ5BEFlNCQ?...

Ashli Babbitt RANT

YouTube video by Tik Tok Must See

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My victim impact statement, delivered in the sentencing hearing for a Nazi terrorist who was just sentenced to 30 years for a number of crimes, including plotting to have me killed, among others. timjwise.medium.com/heres-what-i...

Here’s What I Said to the Terrorist Who Solicited My Murder

Reflections on hate, redemption, and what it means to be human

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Progressives who mock Stephen Miller bc he "apparently doesn't know" Dean Martin & Sinatra were children of immigrants are embarrassing. He knows. He doesn't care. He's not anti-immigrant, y'all. He's a white supremacist. Italians are fine bc they're European. He hates black & brown people. Period.

The president is a fucking psychopath.

Oh wait so ya mean it wasn’t bc of DEI? Hmmm imagine that

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U.S. admits liability in Army helicopter collision with American Airlines jet that killed 67 people www.cnbc.com/2025/12/17/u...

Imagine Pam Bondi’s DOJ just secured a 30 yr sentence against a Muslim or left wing terrorist. Do ya think they’d be shouting it from the rooftops? So why aren’t they doing that today after securing that sentence against a Neo-Nazi terrorist leader? You know why. We all do.

What do you call a South Asian Cracker? A) Papadum B) Kash Patel C) Both #PapadummyPatel

It’s unfair to analogize Trump supporters to supporters of Jim Jones. At least Jones’s followers knew when it was Kool-Aid time. Not advocating it. Just noting the substantial difference in commitment to one’s cause

Irony: if Charlie Kirk had been speaking in Chicago, L.A., etc., they'd have swept the rooftops and had tighter security. But Utah? Nah...So, the myth of white innocence, which he believed in, got him killed. Fascinating. My latest piece explores this, below... timjwise.medium.com/the-myth-of-...

The Myth of White Innocence Got Charlie Kirk Killed

If he’d been speaking in Chicago, Los Angeles, or anywhere with lots of people of color, they’d have checked the rooftops

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And finally a piece in which I don't mention Kirk at all, but address one of those issues he was particularly obsessed with and hateful about...trans athletes medium.com/@timjwise/th...

There’s a Revealing Flaw in the Attack on Trans Athletes

And what the transphobes don’t talk about gives the game away

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And another one, offering a theory of the motive behind the killing of Charlie Kirk, which holds that it was only marginally political, and really based more on intense and almost entirely personal passions, disconnected from any larger political project. medium.com/@timjwise/th...

There’s a Simpler Explanation Than Politics for the Killing of Charlie Kirk

Although everyone wants to blame the other side, the real reason may be more personal and frankly even more tragic than that

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Here's a piece responding to one of Kirk's many absurd positions: that testosterone is linked to voting behavior medium.com/age-of-aware...

Charlie Kirk’s Views on Masculinity and Politics Were Amazingly Ignorant

And despite his death, those ideas live on, and deserve to be utterly repudiated

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Next is, I think, an important piece about the silos people are in, which keep millions of people from knowing what most of us on the left know about Kirk, and why humility about other people's knowledge base is important. medium.com/@timjwise/ma...

Many Charlie Kirk Supporters Don’t Realize What He Actually Believed

The scary but true reality of media silos in America

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Next is my piece replying to the notion that Kirk was some kind of Socratic intellect whose penchant for debate was genuine, or that debate itself is a positive way to de-escalate political tension. It's not, but I offer an alternative... medium.com/@timjwise/ch...

Charlie Kirk’s “Debate Me, Bro” Act Wasn’t Politics “the Right Way”

Debate isn’t the answer to political violence. But there might be another, better option.

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Then, my piece responding to calls for "toning down the rhetoric" in the wake of Kirk's murder... medium.com/@timjwise/ca...

Calls for “Toning Down the Rhetoric” are Incredibly One-Sided

The right wants the left to abide by rules of decorum that they reject daily

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Next, the first piece I wrote after Charlie Kirk's killing. More to follow, in which I respond to his awfulness directly. But the day it happened, I felt it necessary to say this for both moral and practical reasons. medium.com/@timjwise/no...

No, Charlie Kirk’s Ideas Don’t Make It OK to Cheer His Murder

Murder is wrong. Period. And it’s not OK to advocate it, celebrate it, or shrug it off with FAFO memes

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Then here's my piece rebutting a common right-wing talking point, which they use to downplay the extent of racial inequity in earnings and employment... medium.com/@timjwise/ed...

Education Doesn’t Close Racial Employment or Earnings Gaps

And no, it’s not because whites and Blacks get degrees in different subjects

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Been neglecting to post here lately. But I'm now going to post the essays I've written in the past month in the order I wrote them. Beginning w/this one on how the Labor Department has consistently minimized the extent of racial disparity in unemployment medium.com/@timjwise/he...

Here’s How Government Data Minimizes Racial Inequality

The Labor Department cloaks the real extent of white advantage in America

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ICYMI: we tackled healthcare grifters like RFK Jr and Florida's Dr. Ladapo with Dr. Peter Hotez, the Epstein cover-up with Rep. @robertgarcia.bsky.social and #magacancelculture with @karenattiah.bsky.social @lizzwinstead.bsky.social & @timjacobwise.bsky.social www.youtube.com/live/ULh1UDg...

MAGA Cancel Culture | The Joy Reid Show LIVE!

YouTube video by The Joy Reid Show

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When will we learn that toppling other governments almost always makes things worse? Indeed, had we not overthrown the Iranian government in 1953 and installed a vicious dictator, we never would have ended up with the Mullahs we now insist we must topple. Pay attention.

Wow, look at this description of the mayhem in L.A. Man, sure am glad Trump sent in troops! (Oh wait, this isn't re: L.A...it's a description of the white boy riot to protest crackdowns on underage drinking at Washington State University in 1998. Never mind).