We are spending billions to keep our entire navy in the Strait to fecklessly fail to open a waterway that wasn’t closed until Trump’s pointless war of choice closed it.
He’s just burning your tax money.
Surely she can afford a first name
A couple points on this manifesto, apart from the racial superiority subtext others noted.
Palantir is a company built on public contracts, they bill the state billions to surveil and target the state's population. The manifesto exists to justify their demand for even more.
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Josh Rogin: “Somebody shorted the oil market today by hundreds of millions of dollars exactly 20 minutes before Trump made his announcement—
If you see that once, it could be a coincidence. But that's happened at least three times, if not more, since the war began — that's a pattern”
Jared received $6 billion from Saudi Arabia, the UAE, & Qatar-the governments he is negotiating with on Middle East peace. Don Jr. and Eric Trump have drone companies competing for Pentagon contracts in the war their father started.
Today Eric has $400 million and Don Trump Jr. about $300 million.
No one in this thread wants to examine WHY we spend the way we do on Israel. No one is curious about 0UR motivations. And we have agency over our government in a way we do NOT over Israel. Examining out foreign policy interests seems beyond y'all
I didn't say it's JUST a proxy state. I said we USE it as one. You want an argument that I'm not making and are ignoring the one that I am.
What the fuck are you on about? Who said Israel has no culpability? Thank you for reminding me why arguing with the internet is always a bad idea. 🙄
None of this is funny
Of course! Our track record is sickening. I'd like to see more conversations about that.
Pretending that irresponsibility online does not end up in reality is a HUGE part of why our country is in the shit show that it's in right now
What they're doing is fucking atrocious, but advocating that the United States invade them to change their government is irresponsible and if I actually have to explain that to you you're a bigger idiot than I thought
Your post advocated invading a sovereign nation because you don't like what they're doing. What the fuck are you even talking about? Your post wasn't about Israeli crimes, your post was about advocating for criminal actions from the United States towards Israel. Go read a fucking book
Who the fuck is defending what Israel is doing right now? I'm asking you to focus your attention on the things that you can actually change. It doesn't sound like you want to. It sounds like you want to bitch into the ether. And the bitching that you're doing is ill informed about foreign policy
Fuck off with being so focused on other people's problems instead of our own.
People with very good intentions are unintentionally fueling real world harms on a Jewish population that has nothing to do with what the state of Israel is doing.
The post I was replying to was talking about us needing to force regime change in Israel. My point is let's focus on the genocidal tendencies in our own country. And I'm not accusing anyone of anti-semitism. What I'm saying is that the obsessive focus on Israel is a thin veneer for anti-Semitism.
No, but the super weird obsessive focus on their war crimes instead of our war crimes is my issue and it's what bumps up so close to anti-Semitism that we're seeing a huge global increase in crimes against the Jewish community and it's irresponsible.
The conversation isn't ABOUT Israel then. It's about how we use it as a proxy state for our interests. The focused on Israel is a very thin veneer for anti-Semitism and I'm so sick of seeing it from the left. There is a way to separate the two and this isn't it.
So then the conversation is about how we support our interests abroad. Don't fool yourself into thinking that the money is spent over there isn't about us and our economic interests.
Why are you having this conversation about ISRAEL and not the country that YOU'RE in charge of? The US is no bastion of liberal democracy nor does it lead with a peace-first mindset. It's too hard for us to clean our own house and so we focus on other's atrocities and it's irresponsible
🔥SEN. @ossoff.senate.gov : “Ivanka’s husband Jared Kushner’s on the Saudi payroll for $2 BILLION— as he leads 🇺🇸 diplomacy + asks sheikhs for billions more… Never have we seen so little effort to hide so much corruption. The Mar-a-Lago mafia taking corruption to spectacular new heights.”
A private corporation is building a sloth zoo in Orlando & marketing it as a conservation experience supporting wild sloths.
Except they are filling their zoo by kidnapping wild sloths from rainforests in Guyana. They have taken 69 sloths & more than 31 are already dead.
It’s still moving forward
We have an apparent cure for most people with pancreatic cancer—a profoundly swift, deadly cancer—and the position of the U.S. government is that it should be banned. This is real fall-of-empire stuff.
God forbid a woman have a hobby
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...
“It’s a couple of things that work beautifully in concert. First: no music. Audiences are so sophisticated, but what they’re not accustomed to is not being told how to feel,” Wyle says. “You take all that out and it forces a level of engagement where you’re now looking for clues within the frame of the screen, which forces you to look up from your phone. And I think that is extremely engaging, especially to young viewers who aren’t accustomed to being asked to participate in a nonpassive way in the viewing experience.
![“Second point, shooting it with almost exclusively 50-millimeter or 65-millimeter lenses, which is the most comparable to the human eye—and only shooting from the point of view of a human being that’s present in this space. There are no cameras on gurney wheels going in the hallway. There’s no cameras on the ceiling looking down from a God point of view. You are limited to the perspective of a participant. You can look away, but you can’t leave, and it becomes an endurance test for you to stay on your feet as long as we’re on our feet. Which [brings me to my] third point: real time. Real time has an aggregate sense of tension that you don’t get in any other form of storytelling. What happened before is happening now, and these two things are going to add up to the next thing. And if we throw more ingredients into this cooker and keep ratcheting it up, it’s going to pop.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:guthikarwozoldkzhueivkl6/bafkreihklvhtymho7wpemo5mj2f7xaiq6ulvfvcwnzo6hjstg3wixzgesy)
“Second point, shooting it with almost exclusively 50-millimeter or 65-millimeter lenses, which is the most comparable to the human eye—and only shooting from the point of view of a human being that’s present in this space. There are no cameras on gurney wheels going in the hallway. There’s no cameras on the ceiling looking down from a God point of view. You are limited to the perspective of a participant. You can look away, but you can’t leave, and it becomes an endurance test for you to stay on your feet as long as we’re on our feet. Which [brings me to my] third point: real time. Real time has an aggregate sense of tension that you don’t get in any other form of storytelling. What happened before is happening now, and these two things are going to add up to the next thing. And if we throw more ingredients into this cooker and keep ratcheting it up, it’s going to pop.”
Wyle makes eye contact for his next point, delivering it with a Robby-esque matter-of-factness. “Fourth point: The election went the other way,” he says with a shrug. “We could have been a really good show with a lot of nice things to say in a perfectly normal Kamala Harris universe. And instead we became almost a beacon of hope and humanity in an alternative universe. But in the midst of that, fifth point—this is essentially competence porn. You’re watching really smart, dedicated people do what only they know how to do at a level that you don’t know how to do it, and you’re so fucking glad that they’re there doing it, and compartmentalizing their own stuff to put your broken pieces back together. You’re so reassured by knowing that there are people out there that laugh and joke and have the ability to lock in like that.”
this is fucking unreal stuff from Noah Wyle on the magic of The Pitt. www.gq.com/story/noah-w...
a map from 1918 showing the interurban network sprawling across Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio
One side obsession from my research into the 1920s is the extensive network of ELECTRIC trains that used to connect cities and towns across the central Midwest called the Interurban. We had this more than a hundred years ago. The things we had and the things we lost.
