valuable thread

Ossoff: "How does American politics really work? It's coin operated. Money goes in, favors come out. It's been running on secret money, corporate money, billionaire money ... all of this gave rise to a depraved president who exploits this rot to empower and enrich himself"

Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mention Kushner has received billions from the Saudi government (2/28-4/19):

NYT: 5 of 58
WashPost: 1 of 43
WSJ: 0 of 40
AP: 0 of 26
CNN Wire: 0 of 18
NY Post: 0 of 17
Chicago Tribune: 0 of 4
LA Times: 0 of 4
Boston Globe: 0 of 2

Aerial view of large scale devastation inflicted on the southern Lebanese town of Bint Jbeil, with an Israeli tank parked in the center of the photo.

This is what Israel has done to Bint Jbeil, my hometown in southern Lebanon

sadly, people of his ilk are never held accountable

Eric Swalwell resign bitch

was that Melania speech one of Iran’s demands

You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.

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

Living in Hell War crimes coming: A horrifying update

Don't think I've ever been as terrified in all the Trump security crises. As @pkrugman.bsky.social said, "It’s the most astonishing, awful thing that I’ve ever seen, and we’ve all seen a lot of awful things." Mainly as cope, and to teach it, I keep asking why. 1/ open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

State election officials testifying under oath say that voting by mail is secure. But an AI video in the MAGA2028 Facebook group says it’s rife with fraud. For busy Supreme Court justices, it can be hard to know who to trust.

gotta get the snackage

dude

IMAGINE

Christianity will triumph over Islam, a religion so monstrous that it forbids the use of alcohol.

by Pete Hegseth

Pete Hegseth is practicing day drinking the right way.

by Ezra Klein

Die Another Day

Bond girl Bondi thought that AGs were forever, but those Epstein pics of Dr. Donald with pussy galore were supposed to be for her eyes only. Could this thin thunderball land another gig on his majesty's secret service? Never say never.

by Maureen Dowd

The Department of State tweets a video of Secretary Marco Rubio. In the video, Rubio says: "Imagine if instead of spending billions of dollars supporting terrorists or weapons, Iran had spent that money helping the people of Iran. They would have a much different country."

FactPost News tweets a video of Donald Trump speaking at a podium. In the video he says: "We can't take care of daycare. We're a big country. We're fighting wars. It's not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these things."

hmm

NYT ran 2+ above-the-fold stories about how Biden destroyed our military & diplomatic mission in (necessary) Afghanistan withdrawal for 20 straight days. His approval rating never recovered. Repeated, negative, coherent narratives affect public opinion. They *choose* not to do this to Trump.

Trump’s heavily-trailed speech last night was, as expected, a pointless rehash of everything he’d said before. Instead of calming markets, he managed to spook them with a series of bellicose threats.

Flailing and out of his depth.

the main thing is being open-minded and reflective, which you clearly are

even cheaper is buying the big canisters of the powder

he wasn't drunk tho

ok but he is endangering other people

If the above article is correct, Platner was trolling people with his Blackwater cap eight months after the September 2007 Nisour Square massacre in which Blackwater guards killed 17 and injured 20 Iraqi civilians.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nisour_...

Damn who could have predicted the Nazi tattoo guy was a massive piece of shit

"Platner says he wears his Blackwater baseball cap just to get a rise out of those who remember the controversial contractor for its heavy-handed tactics."

"Heavy-handed tactics."

ngl that doesn't sound half bad

brap