Red Panda

the classic "its the mystery staffer's fault, no I will not be revealing which mystery staffer or punishing them in any way" move

Chris Murphy: "I Just came from a two hour, closed door classified briefing on the war. It just confirmed to me it's totally incoherent. We are not gonna be able to achieve any of our stated objectives ... this is a disaster of epic proportions, a 10 day debacle"

If you’re roughly my age, it’s wild to reflect on the optimism for the future Americans felt when Obama was elected — young Americans spontaneously took to the streets to celebrate! — and contrast with what we face today. The falloff over the past 18 years is hard to process.

“Iran has Tomahawk missiles, a fact we disclosed only after a Tomahawk was caught on camera striking a school, in Iran, during a US bombardment consistently of hundreds of Tomahawk missiles”

-if your news org isn’t openly attacking this claim you may as well run Sandy Hook false flag theories too

So much “winning.” 🙄

It could not be more obvious that the president does not care about US service members and in fact regards their deaths as mere political inconveniences. He has more sympathy for Putin than Americans who died because he decided to wage illegal war. Just listen to him.

Labour just announced energy price cap dropped.
Oil just spiked, completely undoing that.
Given 50% of UK energy is from renewables, now is the time to renationalise and drop the dumbass marginal price system that makes green energy needlessly as expensive as gas.

The killing of Iranian children during an illegal war is an impeachable offense (not to mention a grave crime) and Congress should really act like it.

15 Republicans in the Senate could end this nightmare before it somehow gets even worse.

I am now in my 55th year of being an imminent millionaire.

Violence breeds violence. Imperialist warmonger and terrorist Trump needs to wake up. If Trump doesn't stop his illegal war, he may find other world leaders and foreign citizens vying to remove him permanently.

as a constant-yet-fluctuating disaster, which for most people mostly happens in the news, but if you work in a related field it's changed everything, and at any time the effects can randomly devastate someone you know or somewhere you live,

this presidential administration is weirdly like COVID

“thank you sir for firing me like a dog, which seems distinctly preferable to other ways one might deal with an unwanted dog”

Moskowitz: "Let me congratulate the former Homeland Security Secretary on her appointment to be the Shield of Americas, which I'm pretty sure the president came up with when he watched the last Avengers movie"

the thing about “we’re not going through the strait of hormuz because we might get hit by missiles” is that even if you do actually take out Iran’s capacity to do that you’ve gotta convince the people actually piloting the ships that it’s safe

and this is not exactly the most trustworthy group

They really all do have social media brain, don’t they? You do the big thing, get your posts in, tell everyone to like and subscribe, and then the next day it all resets - come back, do it again. Unable to comprehend that some bells can’t be unrung. Some events can take on a momentum of their own.

trump said in an interview the new leadership of Iran has reached out to him and wants to negotiate.

They have not yet elected a new leader, and have said it would take one or two days.

trump lied, again!

I served in the military for 20 years. Afterwards, I devoted another 25 years directly supporting the military, as contractor and civilian.

For those serving now, you are either participating in or supporting an illegal war. The orders to commit were illegal. You have an obligation to resist.

Mark Warner: "I saw no intelligence that Iran was on the verge of launching any kind of preemptive strike against the United States. None."

A post from Mark Pocan: Last night, Donald Trump put American troops in harms way without Congressional authority. He is liable for every drop of blood spilled. Congress must immediately vote on a War Powers Resolution to end this illegal war before Trump destabilizes the entire region.

Sorry, I care more about the children and citizens these troops are killing than the troops themselves.

I generally like Pocan, but I hate this dogshit argument that the biggest reason to oppose this war is because of how it affects the troops.

Out like a martyr for the party, successor setup with a natural external enemy to rally against

The thing is, Khamenei was 86

ICE recruits should be the first ones shipped off for “war.”

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres: “Military action carries the risk of igniting a chain of events that no one can control in the most volatile region of the world"

This administration is driven mostly by shouting loudly that they can do something they cant actually do and expect people to fall in line, but Ive already heard from admin people the line that frequently gets people to back off dumb orders ‘please explain the legal precedence for this request’

The situation in Minneapolis: even though the ICE presence in the city is greatly reduced, and national attention has moved on, a huge portion of our population remains essentially in hiding, devastating the schools and economy. In particular, much of the education system remains in crisis

Every ICE officer who has broken the law should be arrested, tried, and imprisoned for their crimes.

Update: Trump announces end of business with Anthropic, unclear if they are going to invoke supply chain risk designation.

Calls it a “radical left, woke company” after it rejects demands for AI usage in mass American surveillance and autonomous killing drones.

Wild timeline.

the current position of the US government is that NVIDIA should be allowed to sell chips directly to China but banned from using Claude, because the latter is a larger national security risk. that is the level of absolute insanity coming out of the White House & Pentagon nowadays

bluesky: the headline