Cookies, deodorant, socks. Iran war puts military packages in limbo Thousands of boxes sent to service members in Middle East are stuck in limbo. The Postal Service has indefinitely suspended delivery amid Iran war.

This and "an army marches on its stomach" we know from the most basic of military history. Like even if you sleep through class you somehow know it.

I just cannot understand HOW someone is this dumb. We'd be better off with SecDef Hologram Forrest Gump.

This is 100% true. And from a fighting perspective, it's not just about mortality rates. Sick soldiers in hospitals = fewer men fighting. This is the reason why the military went from an abstinence only STD platform in WWI to handing out condoms in WWII.

Given that the minions end up killing all of their bosses inadvertently (Gru being the one exception), them working for Hitler might accidentally prevent the Holocaust.

Choose the bear. Always the bear.

Trump Is Said to Be in Talks to Send Afghans Who Aided U.S. Forces to Congo

I'm ashamed of our country.

this admin? yes. this is the work of twisted craven men.

but the whole country. for decades, we simply didn't care enough. collectively. caring about the destruction we left in our wake, was simply too much of a bother

Sad and ashamed.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/w...

Let me ask you this: If he wasn't trying to use a dog whistle, why does his characterization of "American Zionists" play into stereotypes about American Jews, ignoring that the majority of "American Zionists" are Christians on whom those stereotypes don't have precedent?

The sexual assault/DV support org I work with has a core policy that no one — no one — deserves to be hurt and everyone deserves support, which means that even if we don't believe the person who comes to us, or think they're the actual abuser, we still affirm their right to freedom from violence.

Red Ed let's gooooooooo

The problem is that anyone powerful enough can take away your rights by simply deciding to ignore and abuse the system

"Kallas rejected criticism that the bloc’s approach to Israel suggested a double standard, a charge levelled by some EU insiders, while raising doubts about the impact of sanctions. “A suspension of the association agreement, will it stop the expansion [by Israeli settlers] on the West Bank? You know this is probably also not true.” From https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/21/eu-foreign-ministers-reject-proposal-suspend-association-agreement-israel

A similar line from Kallas to the Biden administration's - "Israel is going to do this anyhow, our sanctions wouldn't make a difference".

Sanctions would absolutely make a difference: they'd empower those who are trying to stop the pogroms. By not taking steps you are empowering the Kahanist govt.

They told us to log off

Paywall free link: archive.is/Yqc5f

Really great, short, succinct assessment of a question that gets asked all the time without its core phrase ever really being truly defined.

Maybe it's just me but I don't think Jeffrey Epstein's clients should be the ones to decide if Jeffrey Epstein's clients should be prosecuted.

This would be more persuasive if there wasn't really clear evidence of large persuasion gains, especially outside of Dixie.

Congress thinks my college is failing on antisemitism. My Jewish students disagree A new House report on campus antisemitism seems to have involved minimal engagement with actual Jews at actual universities

The IHRA definition of antisemitism could make it impossible to teach Yeshayahu Leibowitz. forward.com/opinion/8197...

The cease fire with Lebanon is widely seen in Israel as a humiliation. Some have supported expanding the war, but even those who don't see the Israeli government u-turning following US diktat and unable to explain the decision to their voters.

Netanyahu is keen to keep Israel in perpetual state of war and emergency. If the war in Iran and Lebanon is indeed ending, the next targets are likely to be Gaza. The failure to reach an agreement on Hamas disarmament would be used as a pretext for Israeli invasion.

International journalists have been barred from Gaza for two years and seven months.
It's been seven months since the "cease fire" came into force, and two months since the Rafah crossing started to operate.
Israel continues to prevent the entry of journalists.

1) The "Palestinian national consensus" is for a two state solution. Yes, any enthusiasm is long gone, viability is widely doubted, but there is no consensus on anything else, not even a coherent alternative.

2) International law on Palestine is all framed through partition and two states.

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Blowing up civilian homes as "terror infrastructure" as revenge for IDF's failure to occupy the village in 2006.

"I've come for payback. To kill the murderers of Hezbollah, and to blow up their homes, which became terror infrastructure".

Israel's hegemonic ideology is Kahanism: pursuing a Jewish non-democratic one state where Palestinians are subjugated, expelled or dead.
Some say this is an inevitable continuation of Zionism, others that it is a corruption of Zionism.
I disagree with both accounts, but don't mind either.

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I've long stopped caring about what zionism means to anyone. I care about the outcomes and minimizing bloodshed.

"Kahane believed that most Arabs living in Israel are the enemies of Jews and Israel itself, and that a Jewish, Halakhic state, in which non-Jews would have no voting rights, should be created…" 🔗 w.wiki/AxeH

Rabbi who boasts of bulldozing Palestinian homes will light torch for Israel’s national day Human rights campaigners say honour for Avraham Zarbiv endorses ethnic cleansing and war crimes

War criminal celebrated as a national hero.

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flipping through a proof of yet another book from a somewhat well known liberal voice diagnosing “where the left went wrong” and i’m struck, again, by the fact that a large part (if not most) of the liberal commentariat simply does not believe that the political right has agency.

No Is a Complete Sentence

You do not owe anyone an explanation of why your answer is no. You do not have to justify your limits or apologize for having them. 'No' is not rude. It is not unkind. It is honest — and it is yours to give freely.

Where in your life does a boundary need honoring?

It is a personality flaw! Not wanting to have your own children is a totally legitimate life choice. Not liking *any small children* is literally just soft bigotry.

Oh, they've "raised questions," have they?

So, Israel soldier punished for damaging statue, yet the dozens who murder women children and medics in cold blood - nothing. Israel is a pariah state. We should cut all ties, cease all arms sales.

Israeli soldiers punished over vandalism of Jesus statue in Lebanon