DC folks actually sort of need to demand that heads roll over this. It’s a real problem if law enforcement in the capital is so pathetic, weak, and supine that their instinct is to act as stormtroopers for illicit federal power grabs.
This raises the obvious question of what kind of thing the Trump admin might need the National Transportation Safety Board to do that a conscientious Board member would reject.
Anyone repeating this line clearly doesn't know anything about Iran.
You can safely presume anything else coming out of their mouth about Iran will be at least as stupid.
Normalize asking American tourists where they were on January 6th
Every single professional journalist who uses the phrases “Department of War” or “Secretary of War” without scare quotes should be lined up on a public viewing stage and bopped on the head with a giant inflatable hammer that says DUMB DUMB on the handle and makes fart sounds.
Cosmically, there is something very darkly funny about spending an entire decade of American politics obsessed with repudiating the mistakes of the Iraq War, and then immediately doing it again at the first opportunity, but with even less justification, planning, strategy, or foresight.
One of the lessons of the Iran war is that it was a huge mistake not to even try to put any of the Iraq war architects in prison. We shouldn’t make it again.
scoop -> Israel's strikes on 30 Iranian fuel depots went far beyond what the U.S. expected when Israel notified it in advance, the first significant disagreement between the allies since the war began, according to a U.S. official, Israeli official and a source with knowledge. Scoop: U.S. dismayed by Israel's Iran fuel
This should for all intents and purposes be treated as a straight up lie and misinformation on the part of the US until proven otherwise
It isn't really surprising, but such a clearly unplanned and under-explained war of choice really does expose which commentators are actually engaging their brains of national security and which succumb instantly to "hurt the BadGuy instincts."
Obama made a deal so that Tehran didn't get a nuke and then the GOP nuked it because they thought they could force Tehran to accept better terms
Blackwater operatives murdered innocent Iraqi civilians, including an acquaintance of mine and his mother in Baghdad 19 years ago.
So you admit that you have no idea what consciousness looks like and thus can't tell if Claude is conscious. Sounds like that's the thing we should be putting trillions of dollars into and not fancy autocomplete.
The White House just tweeted "Touchdown" and showed a bunch of clips of guys getting hit trying to catch the ball. Literally the opposite of a touchdown. The only people who write that sports are right-wing coded are people who don't understand the right wing and don't watch sports
this is explicitly genocidal
One of the instances in which it is actually emphatically true that by stifling left-liberal criticism of Israel on a liberal basis you just leave open room for nutjobs to do it and fill the space instead
Of course Platner knew what his Nazi symbol was. It changed his life. His tattoos were reviewed when he asked to return active duty; a trained officer looked for violations. The sleeve tattoos were OK. The Totenkopf was not. Platner chose to keep it. Somewhere in DoD, it’s all written down. 5/
Back to 2009: Platner had finished 4 years active duty and enrolled in college, but quickly dropped out and wanted to go back to war. The Gulf War was raging; the Marines were so shorthanded they were recalling servicemen to duty. But they didn’t want Platner. 3/
I believe it was @golikehellmachine.com who first observed here that if he ever had his shirt off in front of a tattooist while getting his other work done, they would have noticed his Nazi tattoo & engaged him forcefully on the question of why he had it, & whether he wanted to be rid of it
SCOOP — Body camera footage obtained as a result of my lawsuit against the DC Metropolitan PD confirms DOGE and the Trump administration openly admitted they were entering private property when they raided the building on March 17, 2025. That didn't stop MPD from breaking down the doors.
My report:
Only ones that stalled negotiations is Idrael and the US as they planned their strike plans.
If you truly believed Graham Platner is not antisemitic at all, you would be sending him to synagogues in Maine to speak to Jews and reassure them of that. That is what Mamdani did during the NYC mayoral election. The fact they are not doing that is... telling.
This is the thing about bathroom bans targeting trans people - assault is already a crime! Indecent exposure is already a crime! And laws that protect trans people don't suddenly make them legal
A while back we were joking here about how a little over a year ago, some economist must've looked at a monkey's paw and said "I wish regular people appreciated textbook economics more."
I'm unsure how people really think people were downplaying a virus that can kill you, make you go blind, wipe out your immune system for years, and oh yeah come back and kill you a decade after you thought you'd shaken it.
These statistics literally mean fuck all because they are measuring efficiency, not effectiveness
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bsky.app/profile/rgoo... try asking experts if its a war crime or not
The rightlib fantasy is of the bold pioneer living in a cabin on the edge of settled territory, defending home and family against bandits, nature, and circumstance. It is an ideal sold to them by capital to induce moving westward into unsettled lands.
