This guy’s an immature asshole.

Every accusation is a confession, Uncle Ruckus. 🤡 ht @clarajeffery.bsky.social

Iran regime is growing more defiant and confident. Not in a rush for negotiations or ceasefire. It’s cutting side deals on Hormuz routes (French and Japanese ships crossed), maintains firing capability, clamping down domestically.

This is called infantile egocentrism and we're supposed to age out of it by the time we're 5 or so.

"No stupid rules of engagement" also means "no stupid rules of engagement" on the part of the Iranians towards American troops. Hegseth, like Trump, is in way over his head, and that's going to cost American lives.

Trump, the, bankruptcy king and genius:

“Everybody that has ​not called for force majeure we expect ⁠will do so in the next ​few days that this continues. All exporters in ​the Gulf region will have to call force majeure," Kaabi told the FT."

Let them go fight their own effing wars, if that's what they want.

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I use AI. And I know Anthropic is in bed with Palantir, so I'm using Claude now, while I wait for Mistral to be competitive.

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This is the headline the world will remember...

You can just say things.

Hope y'all are safe, my friend. This country is in the hands of idiots.

The US and Israel are bombing Iran. Anyone reporting it as “preventive” is engaging in propaganda, by definition. There is no interpretation of what’s happening as anything else than a crime.

You don’t have to like the Iranian regime to understand why this is bad.

I can't think of any immigrant in American history who has assimilated worse than Musk. The guy hates most of the people here and wants to hurt us, has open contempt for our traditions or values, and has spent billions trying to destroy our culture to replace it with that of his foreign childhood.

This is a big deal. Approval polls, like the media, courts, and Congress, can serve as vehicles for presidential accountability. We are watching in real time as the institutions that could hold this administration to account wither on the vine.

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Thank you for sharing this, Magali. 🙏🏽

Adam Serwer: “Donald Trump is still psychically wounded by the election of Barack Obama.”

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Some good news...
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They kidnapped this five year old when he was coming home from school and sent him to a jail in Texas. Imagine how terrified he must be.

You’re arresting terrified children and using them as bait. Arresting kids getting treatment at doctors’ offices. Blinding protesters. Illegally raiding homes. Making people terrified to leave their homes.

You want to pee in peace?

Quit your fucking job.

The answer to “How could it ever have happened back then?” is right in front of us, here & now.

In 2017 I read Valeria Luiselli’s book about her experiences interpreting for very young children facing deportation.

The name of the book, Tell Me How It Ends, is heart wrenching to think of in this moment.

100%

In art school we went over this and actually i kinda want to add that i think men are just not socialized to care about the subtle differences in these colors.
Cause i can tell that there is a difference in those nails and in the lip sticks and greyish nails in the video. -

Gavin Newsom is just a guy who's interested in power. He's willing to entertain a dialogue with execrable people like Shapiro. This is the latest version of Bill Clinton's "triangulation". He's dangerous bc he provides a platform for ppl who aren't engaged in any good faith arguments.

The response below: On-point. Ht @kdc.bsky.social

Louder. For the cheap seats in the back.

Also true.

Trump’s Own Advisers Suddenly Unnerved as ICE Raids Take Horrific Turn So the president doesn’t like the “optics” of what ICE is doing. But there’s no such thing as sanitized, popular mass deportations—and this is by design.

And with Trump suffering from increasing levels of dementia (allegedly), it'll be all Miller running the show.
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