The "not a surrender" is a complete humiliation for Trump and the US.

Donald Trump tried to ‘use nuclear codes’ claims: what we know Larry Johnson - a retired CIA analyst - claimed Trump tried to access nuclear codes but was stopped by the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Newsweek had somewhat more detailed reporting on Larry Johnson's comments than The Mirror. Couldn't verify his claim.

Take this with a big grain of salt.

Happy TACO Tuesday!

Trump extends ceasefire indefinitely.

He'll wait as long as it takes for Iran to come up with a proposal.

Trump doesn't have the cards. 😂

New poll: Is Iran's leadership better or worse than before the war?

Despite the Trump/Hegseth propaganda machine's claim of Iranian regime change, only 13% of Trump voters say Iran's leadership is better.

17% say it's worse!

The war propaganda machine is starting to lose even the Trump voters!

Somehow, it's worked his whole life.

He creates his own reality out of whole cloth and talks it into existence.

Or you could say he's a pathological liar, and millions believe him.

He's never learned to push any other button. He's never had to.

Trump 47 is historically unpopular for this point in a presidency, at -22.

The only recent president in the ballpark is ... Trump 45.

It had been neck and neck with that previous worst president ever, but now Trump 47 has him handily beat.

www.gelliottmorris.com/p/data

Why Democrats with 2028 hopes are calling Lina Khan – and what she’s telling them about remaking the economy | CNN Politics Lina Khan is getting constant calls from Democrats, many of them thinking about presidential runs, to sound out problems and workshop potential solutions. That’s a shift from when she was Federal Trad...

Lina Khan, smart hard-working fighter against monopoly power as FTC chair.

Now a guru to be consulted by Dem presidential candidates seeking affordability / anti-oligarchy creds.

And she's only 37. 🔥

Fixed it. 😂

A single hyphen could have saved that headline. Alas.

Have a nice fall, see you in jail!

"I'm five months, okay? Five months!"

The Trump War in Iran did not start in November.

Dementia Don losing track of time.

Trump 20 minutes ago: "I have all the time in the world." 🤷

"The United States can't take care of daycare... We're fighting wars. We're buying airlines..."

He lies. He may know he's lying. (Or he may not. He's not all there.)

Everyone around him certainly knows he's lying.

But he can say whatever he wants. And people go along with it.

The mark of a tyrant.

Things he could do about that:

Restore the US's lost AAA credit rating. Tax the billionaires and pay down some of the debt.

Stop playing around with the dollar's status as the world reserve currency. Does he even know what the petrodollar is, and how much he's damaged it?

Except he's not negotiating because the people around him no longer believe he's capable.

Keep Dementia Don out of military ops planning and high-stakes negotiations.

Just let him sign his name really big on pieces of paper and smile for the cameras.

Regarding military:

I see "no more pointless wars" and "we are sending American taxpayer dollars to underwrite the starvation of Gaza".

He also wants to fight waste, profiteering, and anti-competitive practices of defense contractors.

Sounds pretty good to me!

www.grahamforsenate.com/platform

Bailouts of foreign countries that have bribed him.

Disaster relief only for red states that voted for him.

I'm sure he's thinking about how to lower gas prices. For red states only, of course.

An insecure, petulant, miserable, senile narcissist should not be president.

Absolutely. Stop the kleptocracy. End the oligarchy.

Ossoff's focus is spot on.

Hassabis worries at least as much about the crisis of meaning as he does about the economic impact of mass unemployment.

Mass unemployment is a solvable problem (if extremely difficult/unlikely) with UBI.

The crisis of meaning requires new philosophers, a new concept of what it means to be human.

Yeah, if you play it right, Peacock is by far the best streaming deal out there for sports.

They used to do $20 for a year around Black Friday, but didn't do that this past year.

So cancelling and re-upping with a better offer is the way.

Nailed 1 and 2 from the World Economic Forum's top three reasons why AI is the fastest-growing risk to society over the next 10 years.

Mass unemployment -> economic and social instability

Inferiority to machines -> crisis of meaning

Yep. Example of the idiocy. The underlying data looks bogus, and the analysis derived from that bogus data is even worse.

Detrimental to planning for the rescue, so he wasn't allowed in the room.

Detrimental to negotiations with Iran, so JD's doing it. JD! One of the least experienced, most loathsome negotiators ever!

Except Trump still manages to foobar the negotiations because he can't put down his f**king phone.

Excellent:

Kapur: As the minority, is there anything the Democratic party could be doing that they're not?

Platner: "Yeah. Organize an anti-war movement."

The party "has forgotten that power derives from more than just the institutions.... Power can be secondary, outside the institutions...."

This criticism of @grahamformaine.bsky.social is bass-ackwards.

Yes, Bernie and Warren are too old, like Mills.

But they're also the progressive elders in the Senate, and their endorsement, passing the baton to Platner, so to speak, is high praise.

Love this. All-star bat boy.

Meanwhile, Hassabis denies that Google is behind in agentic coding. 🤷

Example of the drivel Trump posts to his quantitatively illiterate followers.

Repeat after me:

Correlation

does not equal

causation

www.newsmax.com/mclaughlin/m...

"There has been an industry-wide hiring freeze for 18+ months, during which time nobody has been moving jobs. So there are no clued-in people coming in from the outside to tell Google how far behind they are"

Some interesting observations. And then he got ratioed by Hassabis.