@nbcnews.com is acting like Pope Leo’s responsible for Trump’s attacks.

The Pentagon Threatened Pope Leo XIV’s Ambassador With the Avignon Papacy The Free Press has documented a closed-door Pentagon meeting in which a senior Trump official lectured Pope Leo XIV’s ambassador on American military supremacy.

UPDATE: Letters from Leo can now independently confirm that the meeting took place — and that the Vatican was so alarmed by the Pentagon’s tactics that Leo shelved plans to visit America.

Some officials saw their reference to an Avignon papacy as a threat to use military force against the Holy See.

Trump used the cover of his ridiculous and offensive social media posts as a smoke screen to strategically retreat from a war he started that had no exit strategy, let alone clear objectives.

The Use of Force is the Weakest Use of Power YouTube video by Liberal Currents

“Force is the least reliable form of social power. And this is something that is completely alien to the thought of idiots like Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth, who think you (. . .)punch someone in the teeth and that’s how you win. Well, Iran is already showing how realistic that worldview is.”

"Bloomberg examined Trump’s record of following through on threats to attack other countries and non-state actors.

"Looking at his first term, he made good on threats roughly 20% of the time.

"In his second term to date, that rate has risen to 50%."

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Why even bother with a caption. This sums it up right here.

Happy Power Plant and Bridge Day to all those who celebrate.

Are you going to impeach the president today? No?

Then you do, in fact, support making a whole civilization die.

So is Power Plant and Bridge Day part of the never ending Infrastructure Week?

As someone who has gone to archives & looked up foreign policy documents of different Administratoons. Are future generations required to read this? Is this post going to be in a Presidential Library? Is some grad student going to have to footnnote this thing in a thesis on Trump's foreign policy?

Average union soldier memoir: "at first I was like I signed up for this war, but is it really worth it? Then I saw the reality of chattel slavery and I had to be physically restrained from slaughtering every white southerner I encountered"

our band could be your life

D. Boon’s Death Shook Punk Rock. 40 Years Later, Minutemen Look Back.

My latest for The New York Times: a look at the life & legacy of the late great D. Boon. Visited San Pedro to talk to the surviving Minutemen, Mike Watt and George Hurley, as they continue to carry forward the spirit of Boon and the band. Gift link here: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/a...

This. Is. Murder. Even. If. No. One. Calls. It. That.

One of my mutuals posted a meme she'd found that said in part that Israel killed JFK, I very gently said that no they didn't, she deleted the post rather than digging in (thankfully), but the nazis are leaking into discourse here like shit from an overloaded nappy.

UPDATE ON THE HORMUZ COALITION (Mon, March 16):

🇫🇷 France: REJECTED
🇬🇧 UK: REJECTED
🇮🇹 Italy: REJECTED
🇪🇸 Spain: REJECTED
🇯🇵 Japan: REJECTED
🇳🇴 Norway: REJECTED
🇨🇦 Canada: REJECTED
🇦🇺 Australia: REJECTED
🇩🇪 Germany: REJECTED
🇨🇳 China: NO RESPONSE
🇳🇱 Netherlands: NO RESPONSE
🇰🇷 South Korea: NO CONFIRMATION

Dublin’s General Post Office

Snippet from @nickcohen.bsky.social that really resonates.

Sitting in a bar in Belfast, Northern Ireland

Trump says US Navy sank Iran's warship off the coast of Sri Lanka because "it's more fun" to sink ships than capture them.

What are words anyway

What's inescapable through all of this is the sense of the human form—particularly as a subject of violence or abuse-as a source of inextricably political and sexual excitement. Yes, this is especially true of Trump, but it's a generalized phenomenon on the right. There is, everywhere, a sense that our current leaders are aroused: aroused by one another, as in the case of Noem and her sordid alleged affair with Corey Lewandowksi; aroused by war against America's enemies; aroused by doing violence to the political opposition, especially as ICE is doing; aroused by domination and the thought of domination; aroused by resistance; aroused by their anger; and, perhaps ironically, aroused by their own internal revulsions.

Ultimately it’s about excitement, whether that’s bloodlust, rage, or attraction.

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In 1966 the New Jersey Young Republicans gleefully sang racist and antisemitic songs at their gatherings. The lyrics to one went “Riding the Reich in my Mercedes Benz, shooting every kike, saving all my friends." Hartford Courant, 13 February 1966.

The amazing thing about Trump is his inability to understand the importance of allies and “soft power.” The frightening thing is how many other Americans struggle to understand it as well.

This is inconceivable for the Irish government and their outriders... International law is not conditional on self-interest. It is also the case, as Alanna O'Malley argues in today's Irish Times, that multinationals won't leave behind their tax breaks because we defend international law.

Wow! He unintentionally made a parody video.

Breaking: The U.S. discovers top secret Ayatollah Khamenei production facility.

The imperial decline of the United States can be measured by how "the best and the brightest" led the US to war in Viet Nam, while now it's "dumb and dumber" who have led us into a war with Iran.

Trump Stays Out of Public View After U.S. Launches Military Assault on Iran

After Trump launched a new war on Iran, he did not rush back to the White House or make an Oval Office address to rally the nation as other presidents have done. He stayed at Mar-a-Lago to attend a glitzy political fundraiser. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/u...

They might as well just declare Trump “Augustus” and disband