Much as a single or a couple burning ships is sufficient to ‘blockade’ the Straits: Lloyd’s of London can be expected to provide the majority of coercive power that freezes Gulf shipping. 3/

E.g. Iran seems to have realized that simply putting a few unsightly drone-shaped holes in Gulf State high rise hotels is entirely sufficient to threaten-cripple theit guest worker/expat economies…. 2/

Conversely, US planners may have drunk their own (and Israeli) Kool Aid and forgotten the degree to which a ‘terrorist’ state might be judicious and strategic in its uses of violence: in this case “terrorism” tends to underestimate operational and strategic sophistication. 1/

Asymmetrical and hybrid warfare… Ironically, one suspects Iran‘s keyboard warriors were paying attention to Ukraine’s propaganda successes.

*Cohn.

I didn’t realize exactly how effective he would be a getting GOP to reveal its essence.

… except with brutal animated Lego memes.

… “the bomber [won’t] always get through“ but Douhet’s emphasis on political will and social resilience may still be instructive. 3/

It’s as if they actually do view proportionality as a significant element in the prosecution of warfare... They saw how 9/11 transformed USA into a rampaging geopolitical elephant, and have so far refrained from poking us again. 2/

It’s also worth noting that the Iranians have — beyond hacking K$sh Patel’s email — refrained from
the kind of mischief (assassinactions, sabotage, cyberwar) that they are capable of in CONUS. 1/

It’s interesting that both Boehner and AOC were bartenders.

I mean, not a job I’d want to do, but it‘s not a job where you can ‘focus group’ your interactions with customers.

Not that Boehner covered himself in glory as the last sane Republican… and they ditched him anyway.

Reporter: What do you make of Republicans saying that Virginia—

AOC: Wah wah wah.

We have asked Republicans for 10 years to ban partisan gerrymandering. And for 10 years, Republicans have said no.

What they’re just mad at is that they have been accustomed to a Democratic Party that rolls over.

Cohen worked for Joe McCarthy, almost certainly has a very large file in KGB archives: because KGB had a very significant interest in 'tailgunner Joe's' counterintelligence work.

Would the KGB have dug for compromising material on Cohn?

Trump officials consider sending 1,100 Afghans who aided US forces to Congo Discussions reportedly come after Trump’s decision to stop initiative that allowed group to apply to resettle in the US

Just like the trump regime to want to send a bunch of women, children and people related to U.S. service members to the war torn country of the Congo. These people either helped us or are the family members of those who helped us in Afghanistan.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

This reveals something fundamental.

RFK doesn’t grasp he’s the medical establishment now.

It’s not his job to judge who caused this epidemic (though we all know who).

It’s his job to stop it.

He’s failing.

Trump may do more for the energy transition than any other individual through sheer incompetence, just like JD Vance may do more than anyone else for the cause of global antifascism simply by being viscerally repellent.

Also, even if that were true, that’s fucking monstrous? Are we not supposed to care when people who have other health problems die?

I was wondering why his name was back in the news.

I knew it couldn't be for a good reason.

But it's a particularly bad reason.

If I recall correctly, the woman he was chasing, Marx in hand, was Philip Jessup's granddaughter.

Especially Barack HUSSEIN Obama: sure win, cause Hussein was such a popular name at the time.

Should have been Former President Gore.

The icing on the cake in Trump/Abbott’s gerrymandering scheme will be when a couple of Republicans lose their elections in Texas in the midterms specifically because their districts were weakened by the dummymander.

Congress Turns Up Pressure on DHS Over Palantir’s Role in Immigration Crackdown Democrats are demanding answers about Palantir and other surveillance firms powering Trump’s hard-line immigration enforcement agenda.

Taxpayer-funded mass surveillance shouldn’t be used to increase the cruelty of Trump’s regime.

My colleagues and I demand answers about how Trump's masked ICE and Border Patrol agents use Palantir's tools to carry out his inhumane mass deportation agenda and monitor Americans.

one of the best days on social media was in 2021 when trump was banned from every single network. you saw him repeatedly trying to make alts before each one got banned too, like a poster trying to escape a game forum permaban

Interesting take on Platner’s anti war stance, almost more interesting are the notes of regret from Ben Rhodes — an echo of Obama Administration’s struggle with ‘the blob.’

Opinion | Graham Platner Went to Hell and Back. He Has a Simple Message for Democrats.

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Of course he would, but he an idiot

It’s probably worse than this because their redistricting wasn’t designed for a D+12 year, they may lose some of their newly redistricted seats because they shaved their own margin for error.

Starting a mid-decade redistricting war only to end up with -1 seats is the same fine strategic genius and subtle grasp of game theory that brough us the Strait of Hormuz.

The security guard in the foreground: “They really don’t pay enough for this”