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Iran adds new urgency to Pentagon’s Ukraine drone deal Iran’s counterattack has exposed a vulnerability that’s left the Pentagon asking Ukraine for help.

But has JD Vance even said thanks to Zelenskyy once?

Iran’s counterattack has exposed a vulnerability that’s left the Pentagon asking Ukraine for help.

okay so this seems pretty clear. he knows what it is, he did it on purpose, he chose keeping it over his career with the Marines, if we know this then Susan Collins will also know it, it will 100% come up in the general, let's be done talking about this guy as a real candidate

In conclusion, Black people are the main characters. 🤫

Historians looking back on the 2026 midterms and trying to explain how the Democrats managed to thrash Republicans will point to many causes—but let me suggest that they should pay attention to these two words right here:

"I guess."

feels like a minute since i have pointed out that donald trump has pardoned more child sex offenders than every other president of the united states combined

Never forget that this what The Washington Post said when Noem was nominated.

None of this is new, none of this is different from what we have had in the past. It is worse that the era of "civility" produced this mess.

Maybe we can use this as a starting place to make some needed changes.

If you're at the airport and Kristi Noem is doing the ominous little message from the TSA screens, you no longer have to do anything she says. Leave your laptop in the case, whatever.

FIRST THINGS SUBSCRIBE ames Talarico wants to "reclaim Christianity for the left." That's the title of the New York Times interview with Talarico—currently running for Senate in Texas-and the phrasing is revealing. One does not reclaim what one currently possesses. The progressive mainline, whatever else may be said of it, has not possessed a vibrant, living Christianity in a very long time. That the New York Times would frame the question this way is, at least, an honest, if ironic, admission of defeat. That said,

My favorite piece of historical context for this argument is that conservative Christians (particularly, but not exclusively, evangelicals) have made almost this exact argument — verbatim — for more than a century* and it just never lands outside their own circles.

This is coming from an administration of the same party that worked so hard to spike Chevron deference.

Historian here history first time as tragedy the second time as farce.

@davekarpf.bsky.social says much better what I was trying to get at in my thread:

I saw on r/nursing this week that a nurse reported a colleague for wearing meta glasses to work. That has a billion HIPAA and other legal violations written ALL over it and that person should be fired

I agree. These physicians took an oath to “first do no harm,” but instead they are willfully rolling out extraordinarily damaging, dangerous MAGA/MAHA policies in order to please their masters, Trump & RFK Jr. Power corrupts.

Us. Each and every one of us.

"Democrats don’t want candidates who are willing to fold to conservatives on culture war issues, continue funding unconstitutional ICE activities or are wishy-washy on President Donald Trump."

That's the point you are missing. We have not left them alone for 50yrs and not confronted them. You have already been shown multiple examples of that.

I would invite you to hear what they and others are saying, that there are dangers and problems with storming into their churches, small and big.

Is a Senator who interferes with Capitol Police to break the bones of a Marine Corps veteran who's staging a protest subject to arrest for battery, or does that somehow fall under the Senator's constitutional privilege?

Nobody hates living veterans more than Republicans. Dead veterans they can exploit in videos. But living veterans with opinions and medical needs are literally offensive to conservatives.

Yes, I have seen you say each of these things to others. Even in those four posts, you continue to wildly change your point and ask.

Yes, fascists hoping for a theocracy control the U.S. government. Why are you devaluing the actions of Christians?

Like here, with clergy.
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why is so much of politics just this now?

Thank you for these clear and eloquentl words.

My heart goes out to you and every person who has served. I can only imagine the rage and sorrow at this shit.

I know that the people who need to read this aren’t here, but here goes:

Rules of engagement aren’t for the enemy. They’re for you. They’re for your soldiers when they’re captured or wounded. They’re for your civilians when they’re in range of the enemy. They’re for your allies, to reassure.

"how can you judge him by superficial issues like the racist tattoo he got for a decade and a half instead of the t-shirt he wore during our interview?"

man, something about this guy brings out the funniest possible defences

If that is something you are driven to do, then that is a powerful place to be.

At the same time, you have now moved the goalpost to expecting Christians en masse to do the same thing you value, or they aren't showing up.

Also interesting how you devalue the role of clergy who worked over decades.

Oooooohhhhh. That does make sense.

I thought there was some weird lake effect thing that I couldn't see.

What are we looking at?

"It is fraud" -- Neguse nails Kristi Noem for lying during her testimony yesterday when she told the Senate that DHS's $220m ad campaign starring her "went out to a competitive bid" (it did not), and tells her "I think there's gonna be accountability" (1/2)