Running for Congress on a platform of sneaking into Polymarket HQ and unplugging all their stuff. Overflow crowds at a local Knights of Columbus hall roar with delight as I promise to pour Florida's Natural Grapefruit Juice (with pulp) into the USB-C port of every computer in the damn place.
We bombed a girls elementary school.
Probably first major US loss of the conflict when it comes to ballistic missile defense. One of TPY-2 radars belonging to the THAAD battery deployed to Muwaffaq Salti Airbase in Jordan seems to have been struck. The full radar set goes over $200M.
To the surprise of some officials in Kyiv, no one from the U.S. bothered to ask Ukraine to share its expertise in how to defend against drones before starting the offensive in Iran, Simon Shuster and Nancy A. Youssef report. theatln.tc/AFPCstm6
It’s hilarious how much Congress hates OSD and the strategy cheese in particular rn
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Seems relevant to the upcoming war powers vote in the House.
It implies that we are visitors in someone else’s country.
you can genuinely watch the news anchor not compute in real time
Obviously will want to verify this further but this certainly looks like a double-tap strike on first responders in Beirut, moments ago on the AP livestream. The fire burning was started by an air strike about three or four hours ago.
The restrictions Miller and Hegseth railed against were designed to prevent us from doing things like slaughtering children en masse.
ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.
They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.
The JSOC experience: arrive, murder a member of the armed forces of a nation who we want to be a partner, leave.
The use the language of "clash" but the additional reporting is that a column sent out to investigate what was happening got air striked with no warning.
www.rudaw.net/english/midd...
Just gonna leave this here: danieldrezner.substack.com/p/why-trumps...
on this team and gonna keep saying: behind the extremely thin veneer of concern and responsibility of anti-Bluesky takes is the desperate attempt to portray something that is obviously their problem as though it were our problem. nice try. go with God, have a blessed day
Deep dive, geeky take on the missile/interceptor technology that is being used by the Iranians, Israelis and the United States.
Meanwhile, why are Iranian drones getting through American defenses?
www.iranwar.news/p/iran-missi...
Sen. Blumenthal has written a letter to Kristi Noem about her denial that Corey Lewandowski has a role in approving contracts at DHS.
"I demand that you amend your testimony" and "provide the basis for your apparent false statement on the record."
www.blumenthal.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
thank you to Sharon for brining to my attention that since at least 2012, Marco Rubio has confused Chiang Kai-shek for something he imagined:
www.nytimes.com/2012/01/29/m...
NEW: When asked if top aide Corey Lewandowski has “a role in approving contracts,” DHS Secretary Kristi Noem replied, “No.”
But internal DHS records contradict her testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
By @josh-kaplan.bsky.social @justinelliott.bsky.social
Essentially, the Republican foreign policy establishment has lobotomized itself. It's incapable of thinking coherently about FP.
After saying it would de-emphasize wars in the Mideast, Trump is playing second fiddle to Netanyahu. No one who is thoughtful and independent is allowed to talk to Trump.
Kurdish Iranian dissident groups based in northern Iraq are preparing for a potential cross-border military operation in Iran, and the U.S. has asked Iraqi Kurds to support them, Kurdish officials said.-AP
apnews.com/article/kurd...
Quite literally “we have always been at war with Iran.”
NANCY MACE: What is a woman? Have you learned that lesson?
WALZ: I'm the governor of Minnesota. I'm not here to be a prop for your obsession.
A US submarine sinking a lonely, dinky Iranian surface ship an ocean away from the theater of the main conflict—and 9000
miles from North America—makes it pretty clear the US is fighting a general war, without the declaration required by the Constitution. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...
I've seen enough: James Talarico (D) wins the #TXSEN Dem primary.
All were assigned to the 103rd Sustainment Command in Des Moines.
They were killed during a March 1 drone attack on a commercial port in Kuwait, a U.S. ally.
From @statesnewsroom.com
www.foreignaffairs.com/taiwan/taiwa... Cheng Li-wun published in Foreign Affairs.
www.foreignaffairs.com/taiwan/taiwa... Cheng Li-wun published in Foreign Affairs.
www.foreignaffairs.com/taiwan/taiwa... Cheng Li-wun published in Foreign Affairs.
"The Peace President."
