Asking again whether the people who write headlines at the Times have ever looked at a comparative politics flowchart of power in the Iranian regime.

Curing cancer is Woke I guess?

On Earth the Strait of Hormuz Was Briefly Open

If you presented the Iran War to film critics it would be dismissed as an Idiot Plot.

Oh boy

beyond parody

I’m sure there’s no downside to the president telling everyone what they’ve agreed to before they’ve agreed to it.

Outlining some reasons why the blockade isn't working and isn't likely to work for @thenation.com. Yesterday Trump was back to his signature move of governance-by-Polymarket, making wild claims that appear to be contradicted, as usual, by a quick glance out the window.

lol well played

Sitting down to make annual health insurance decisions and gripped with the desire to scream endlessly into a void.

Probably! But I’d rather not find out

Oh man someone called Mom and Dad

From a golden age to “How much pain can you personally endure for my vague and unarticulated geopolitical goals?”

Feel like people are maybe not giving enough thought to what happens when a Chinese-flagged oil tanker runs into the U.S. naval blockade of Hormuz.

adds up!

I’ve never been and I’m sure it’s lovely. But the way the MAGA weirdos talk about it, Hungary is Valhalla.

The way the American right went nuts for a middle income country with fewer people than the Chicago metro area will never be anything but deeply bizarre.

You’re such an optimist

You just put more thought into it than he did.

FDR says U.S. will respond to Pearl Harbor by intentionally sinking all the aircraft carriers that weren't there.

Starting to think maybe the president doesn't understand the problem he's created.

Nothing says "It's perfectly safe for unarmed commercial shipping vessels to transit the Strait of Hormuz!" quite like sending several of history's most advanced and expensively-equipped combat ships into the Strait and then immediately turning around.

It’s probably like three 26-year-old Heritage staffers who read some Bernard Lewis and subscribe to the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies newsletter

No one knows. What I can say is that as someone who has been married into an Iranian-American family for more than a decade, I have much, much more experience negotiating with Iranians than anyone we sent.

Can't believe the president's son-in-law, one of his golf buddies and the author of "Hillbilly Elegy" were unable either to correctly pronounce the word "Iran" or to resolve a decades-long dispute in 21 hours.

All four astronauts standing in the aisle with their roller bags waiting for the door to open.

Vile. Never liked this guy’s vibe one bit.

Is there an evocative word or phrase for the ten minutes between when your house is clean and when your kids destroy it again?

have the markets figured out that Hormuz is still closed or no