"England 1819" = US 2026. King George III = Donald Trump
"An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying King;
Princes, the dregs of their dull race, who flow
Through public scorn--mud from a muddy spring;
Rulers who neither see nor feel nor know,
But leechlike to their fainting country cling."
--Shelley
What I've learned in 45 years of reporting on the military.
And why that makes the current reckless folly even worse than it looks.
(Most before paywall.)
fallows.substack.com/p/the-arroga...
"The Ukrainians have become the world’s experts in counter-drone warfare. After withstanding more than a year of American pressure to accede to Russia’s demands and essentially surrender, it’s not obvious Ukraine would still want to help us. We’re grateful they do." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
Trumplandia indoctrination by Murdoch franchises does not allow for actual facts to enter the game.
The opening scene of my 2004 article 'Blind Into Baghdad' is an interview with Feith, at the Pentagon, on why it didn't make sense to plan for "the day after" in Iraq.
20+ years later, applying same 'logic' to Iran
See also: fallows.substack.com/p/the-arroga...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
I understand that there are a lot of folks on the left who instinctively recoil from religious language, and with good reason given its use by the right.
But please listen to this, and focus on how he's trying to realign "Christian values" so they align with and advance progressive policy goals.
Headline and subhead: U.S. Tomahawk Hit Naval Base Beside Iranian School, Video Shows The evidence contradicts President Trump’s claim that Iran was responsible for a strike at the school that killed 175 people, most of them children.
Good for the hed/dek writers at @nytimes.com just now:
Not "appears to contradict" or "is at odds with" or "may give rise to suspicions that."
Flat out: "Contradicts." "Video shows." About the US blowing up a school full of little girls.
And of course, terrible for the world.
We need your drone interceptors for our war, but we won’t thank you and our propaganda will claim that we made them.
Just a reminder that Muslims have been on this continent since the first arrival of non-Indigenous people. They were among the first generation of Americans, and have been here ever since.
Avoid Tennessee.
Your Daily Reminder:
RFK jr is a menace to public health
He is not a doctor.
He is not a scientist.
He is a man who takes his grandkids
for a swim in feces and snorts cocaine off toilet seats
It rubs the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose again.
#movies #filmsky
Just finished The Library of Curiosities, a fantastic #middlegrade! Readers who like mysteries with high stakes, a low scare-factor, and a little magic thrown in may find themselves saying “just one more chapter” past lights out! #kidlit #librarians #teachers @jennylundquist.bsky.social
You were warned. 🤷🏻♂️
What is this CBS u reference?
Jesus, Japan’s Nikkei index is down over 4,000 points, over 7%
South Korea’s KOSPI is down 8% and hit a circuit breaker.
Tomorrow is gonna be brutal, but it will probably also eventually make Trump TACO.
boy in retrospect, really shouldn’t have elected the worst person in the entire country president. that, it appears, was less than wise
The head dope speaks. 🙉
At this point the smartest thing would be for Trump to just cut and run but he’s not smart so let’s just jump off this cliff and see what happens.
Last July. Art of the Deal.
POTUS = A 🤡.
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Clockwise, from top left: Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, and Uranus. None of the worlds is to scale, but all are imaged with JWST's near-infrared (NIRCam) instrument.
The giant planets of the Solar System, by JWST.
Well…he is a man of low intelligence so there’s that.
The response when progressive policies that help millions of people are proposed...
"How will you pay for it?"
The response when the richest 1% ask for tax cuts, or banks ask for bailouts, or defense contractors ask for more contracts...
"How much do you need?"
It doesn't have to be this way.
Hellfire and damnation.
The *nastiest* effects are going to be worldwide in short order. Naturally, neither Trump-Vance nor their army of oligarchs will personally feel any effects of their wars. No doubt, Cuba, Greenland & Canada are in their sights.
USA fast becoming Russia West.
Gotta vote while u can. 🇺🇸🗳️🇺🇸
Just admit we’re ruled by a billionaire, felon, convicted sexual assaulter, and a moran. [Rupert Murdoch laughs all the way to his bank(s).]
