Regime Change in Iran, Underpants Gnomes, and the Phase II Problem U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu started the Iran war off with a bang — not just the bang of bombs and rockets,

The most common path out of dictatorship isn't sudden collapse. It's slow, internal reform. The Iran war has taken most of those tools off the table.

“…Germans?

“Forget it. He’s rolling.”

His ability to absorb humiliation is surpassed only by that of Usha.

@houlahan.house.gov where are you?

Signed,
A constituent

“I love you, sir.”

Not a cult. Totally not a cult.

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

Y'all there is a woman and a black man circling the moon and NASA's mission control+ science teams are so diverse and people are nerding out about science and exploration this is all a gigantic middle finger to the stupid and hate and grotesque ghouls running our country

The speed we moved from “the war is waged to free the Iranian people” to threatening being their exterminator is breathtaking

Like I said, I have no independent evidence one way or the other and I’m glad her behavior has been investigated. But so should the rather egregious signs of insider trading we see now surrounding White House policy announcements.

Ok, so that concludes “So, is Nancy Pelosi Guilty of Insider Trading?
There’s no conclusive evidence of that, and her husband’s professional investment background provides plausible deniability…”
Which I’m confident isn’t for lack of trying to find conclusive evidence during years of GOP House rule

Yes, let’s. If it’s true (and it might be, I have no idea) I’m kinda surprised the Bondi DoJ didn’t go after her ferociously.

“…allies question U.S. reliability”….?? Did you write this in May 2025? We are WAY past “allies questioning”, now to “former allies planning among themselves on ways to counter a predatory U.S. bent on spreading Russia-style chaos.”

Our Military, the greatest and most powerful (by far!) anywhere in the World, hasn’t even started destroying what’s left in Iran. Bridges next, then Electric Power Plants! New Regime leadership knows what has to be done, and has to be done, FAST! President DONALD J.TRUMP

Trump is committing war crimes in Iran and is threatening more and worse ones. His entire war strategy at this point is war crimes. A functional Congress would be far down the road of impeachment and removal.

Not a great scale to use. That’s like asking how many miles is it from my couch to my fridge.

OK for fun: top funniest tweet ever? I am torn between "moon's haunted" and "Denise I was at your wedding."

Stairs that lead nowhere is quite the statement about this administration

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier (REUTERS)

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier delivered a brilliant and important speech today to mark the 75th anniversary of the German Federal Foreign Office.

Here are the best excerpts.

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Cut me just a wee 5% of your profits and I won’t tell *anyone*, promise

Google Has a Secret Reference Desk. Here's How to Use It. 40 Google features to find exactly what you need, the alternative search engines that do things Google won't, and the reference desk framework underneath all of it.

I know this has circulated with alacrity recently, so you may have already seen it, but if you haven't... WOW BOY HOWDY it's the most useful thing.

Thank you cardcatalogforlife.substack.com -- this is a very very very helpful public service:

cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/google-has...

As an American, I most unfortunately must concur.

He’s the toddler who waddles into your formal cocktail party and pees on the carpet in front of all your guests.

“…just got a lot more complicated…” assumes the US gov cares about Constitutional rights or the rule of law. If you care about neither then citizenship doesn’t really matter.

Fairly frequently they execute themselves by riding between the lanes in traffic jams.

Europeans when asked to unblock the Strait of Hormuz:

There's just no pretense whatsoever about being loyal to or even understanding the constitutional order of this country. Trump thinks this country should be run like a mafia state and he's equal parts angry and confused when it's not.

DoD civilians planning the Iran war

Kennedy Center’s President Is Leaving After Tumultuous Year

Now that he has nearly destroyed the Kennedy Center, doing damage to other DC institutions along the way - the National Symphony, the Washington Opera - Ric Grenell is leaving, perhaps to ruin something else
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/a...

Surprise! A spectacularly ignorant sociopath surrounded by bootlicking sycophants makes uninformed decisions.

Who could know?

That’s one of my all-time PJO faves