When all this is over, I'll keep coming back to the fact that the US both 1) un-sanctioned Iranian oil and 2) blocked Iranian oil exports within a 30-day period as the best encapsulation of the strategic incoherence of this whole war.
NEW—I got an exclusive excerpt from a USAID whistleblower's new book that made me gasp multiple times. It details Trump's dismantling of the humanitarian aid agency & his team/DOGE's shocking ignorance to public health.
'Into the Wood Chipper' by Nicholas Enrich is out tomorrow. Read excerpt here:
Any government that isn't right now accelerating plans to transition to 100% clean, renewable energy is either:
a. Incompetent
b. In the pockets of people who'd rather they didn't
c. a & b
A lot of Orbán's American fans are saying that this election proved he was never an authoritarian in the first place.
This is completely wrong — and, in fact, betrays a complete misunderstanding of both Hungarian politics and modern authoritarianism.
Here's why.
The Secretary of State attending a UFC fight while wartime diplomatic negotiations fail would generate an explosive, front-page, above-the-fold headline for any previous administration
Joe Rogan spent the entire election cycle campaigning for the far-right candidate, now he says he wants a "logical centrist government". Bro, Kamala Harris WAS the centrist, which you would have seen if you weren't a racist piece of shit who went out of your way to ratfuck her comms team.
Not great that our diplomacy and foreign policy literally seems to be dictated by "whoever talked to Trump last" rather than having a functioning diplomatic corp.
For those asking on illegality: The threat itself is a violation of IHL, incorporated into the U.S. DoD's Law of War Manual under 10.5.3.2: "Collective penalties and likewise all measures of intimidation or of terrorism are prohibited." And, if carried out the way he makes it sound --> genocide
Have not drawn anything by hand for a while. Now I have.
Are you going to impeach the president today? No?
Then you do, in fact, support making a whole civilization die.
Graph titled“Trump wants to spend 1.5 trillion on the military, $260 billion more than at its World War II peak” the graph shows World War II spending as the previously highest point of US spending on the military followed by a drop. Peaks during the Korea and Vietnam war are noted as as a peak during the Reagan era and post 9/11 era and Trump’s proposal nearly off the chart
Chart by @stephensemler.bsky.social shows the disgusting amount of spending we’ve already been doing in alleged peace time and now for Trump‘s wars of choice and authoritarian ambitions.
Cartoon consisting of two panels. In the first panel, we see a billboard with a graph showing the rising number of victims of the war in the Middle East. People are walking and driving by, ignoring the billboard. In the second panel we see the same billboard and graph, except that the graph is now showing the rising gas prices. Cars have stopped in the middle of the street and people are looking up in consternation and panic at the billboard.
What we get upset about. Cartoon for Dutch newspaper @trouw.nl: www.trouw.nl/cartoons/tje...
#GasPrices #oil #OilPrices #Iran
Jealous
When the US admits that they killed any “military-aged men” who walked within 3km of a downed pilot they mean any boy lanky enough to be a teenager and any middle-aged man able to walk unaided with a cane got shot in the head for the crime of walking.
Remarkable that the US is bombing a country of tens of millions of people and crashing the world energy market, but the American mainstream media is captivated by a pilot rescue story.
Ed Baldwin eating spaghetti with a lot of cheese
for every 20 likes, I will give Ed Baldwin more cheese on his spaghetti
Is the "ecosystem broken" or are you simply posting on an overwhelmingly fascist microblogging site?
lol, he has Russia Today as neutral
Today, MSF is going public with something we've been fighting behind closed doors for months: Gilead will not sell us their new HIV drug, lenacapavir.
The sticking point isn't even price, they just refuse to sell.
Open letter linked + explainer 🧵1/
www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/gilea...
The 2025 numbers are really striking.
www.kielinstitut.de/fileadmin/Da...
Factcheck: Yes, Ed Husic is right. Australia exports gas so cheaply that Japanese companies profit from on-selling our gas
thepoint.com.au/factchecks/2...
Countries banning all teenagers from social media because "their brains aren't developed enough to handle it", meanwhile nobody's talking about the percentage of retirement-aged adults who have irreversibly cooked their fucking brains on Facebook since 2020.
It's probably a good idea to listen to the people who were saying "abolish ICE" ten years ago and pay attention to what dangers they're pointing out now and maybe get on board with that stuff too
honestly don't see the value of "markets" which shoot up or drop precipitously based on the unmoored ravings of a pedophile with Alzheimer's
In this week's Ragebait, I highlight the latest version of Trump sanewashing by the New York Times, with a big helping hand from @mattnegrin.bsky.social
zeteo.com/p/cbs-owner-...
The fact that he can spend $45 million on lobbying would seem to demonstrate why he can pay more in taxes. (He is worth $247 billion after all.)
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
It is nuts how much everyone on the Australian grid is being protected from fossil fuels by renewables and storage, and even more nuts how much its being broadly ignored in some of the bigger media outlets
Well, then. This is even more shameful & inexcusable.