they didn’t do it with CA, but are now toying with the idea that the constitution means “Republicans get to gerrymander but Democrats can’t”

Lmao the GOP operatives with black robes are back at it again

As the laid off Middle East News Editor, I concur. Management eliminated the positions of every single staff correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East.

Kuwaiti air defenses shot down three US fighters www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

the very ethics of PROFESSIONAL JOURNALISM absolutely require that you lie in the first place. You have to pass along opinions that you know are wrong or hateful out of so-called objectivity but worse than that you then get to feel proud about doing so. www.welcometohellworld.com/youre-perfor...

the plan, such as it is, appears to be “bomb a country of 90 million people that is already facing a water crisis into a failed state, walk away and declare victory” this is a monstrous nightmare regardless of whether or not it “works”

Absolutely incredible. Weeks of war without any vote in Congress. And the current regime may largely be left in place. This isn't just a war of choice. It's a vanity war. If this is allowed to stand, our country is in real trouble.

The IRI will in all likelihood still exist and a dozen or more US troops and hundreds if not thousands of Arabs, Iranians, Pakistanis, and migrant workers will be dead for the aberrant, spasmic, nonsensical ricocheting mind of this decaying corpse of a man.

Putin is cold, man. His allies in Iran are getting slaughtered and he ... moves in to make up for their share on the global oil market.

im not a politics or international relations guy, but i it appears to me that once again this guy wants to see big explosions then find an exit. declare victory by killing a couple "important people" then wash his hands of it. can he pull it off again? i dont know

Not an expert on Iranian society, but I remember what happened in Iraq after the U.S. ejected Saddam's army from Kuwait in 1991. The Bush administration encouraged minority Kurds and Shia to rise up, then refused to offer support as they were all massacred and the Ba'ath Party retained control.

I’m sorry man, if you respond to this new regime change war that has already killed 3 American service members and that is deeply unpopular with the American people, with “I want to hear from the White House first” you’re giving the wrong damn answer.

This is right. And people hate to hear it, but Joe Biden’s single most important task was to Trump-proof the US. His task was to destroy the Republican Party to punish them for Trump, salt the earth over them, and implement big structural reforms to stop future R minority extremism. And he failed.

They don't *need* AI to make these decisions. But they *want* AI to make these decisions. Because the tech gives them plausible deniability--something to blame (other than themselves) when things go wrong.

U.S. military:

It’s the same guy you dumb shit

meanwhile, war rages on at home.

I wonder if a hard-line successor will assume power and further destabilize the region just like every other time this has happened

If you are an elected official that opposes military strikes on Iran, the head of CBS News will clap back at you. Will be interesting to see if she does this for other objectors, or just Muslim politicians, but it does raise the question how much her views of the Middle East shape the news.

New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

Running your war from a private club for millionaires — ahead of a $1 million-a-plate dinner — is a choice.

Wouldn't want a little war to get in the way of a golf weekend.

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done - started a war in the middle east - completely destroyed the economy

With alt text. I’ve…never seen a court talk like this before?

I love that we all know 90 percent of them will flip on a dime now, from “trump won’t send your sons to war” (like it’s only sons) to “trump is sending your sons to war and that’s good.”

Back in 2023, for the 20th anniversary of the war in Iraq, I did a "where are they now?" article about the pundits who cheered on the U.S. invasion www.readtpa.com/p/where-are-...

I think if I'd gotten away with attempting a coup, suffered no consequences for it, then won an election four years later, got away with executing citizens in the streets and foreigners in boats, and successfully abducted a head of state, I too might think I could just bomb my way to regime change

It’s crazy that it’s basically just a combination of the single worst most disastrous parts of every administration in history

Like so many of the people here, my formative years were spent in the Bush era, shaped by that disastrous presidency and its disastrous overseas wars. It shaped my priors around overseas wars and my skepticism. This will not work out well and will instead just lead to needless death of innocents.

what a crazy night for sam altman to be like "yeah we got that dept of war deal, and there's no moral concerns here"

All the warmongers in Congress and the administration have to do to convince the president, whose brain is leaking out of his ears, to keep doing illegal regime change wars is to convince the psychopath that all of these countries got involved in his 2020 election loss and he’ll jump at the chance

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The Pro-Peace Ticket, baby! Also, this a fucking absurd thing to say.

In case you’re just waking up, the U.S. has teamed up with Israel overnight to start an illegal war of regime change, apparently on a presidential whim with no involvement of Congress, and they are already committing horrific atrocities.

“if you won’t let us use your product to spy on Americans and kill without supervision we will single-handedly destroy your business by fiat” is the single most authoritarian anti-business action I can ever remember any administration taking

It's 2026, and you're learning about World War III from a c-tier podcaster who got fired from his only real job for plagiarizing listicles.

The "work-around" is that the Trump administration has physical control of the Treasury and Congress has no way to enforce how funds are spent because laws aren't real

Today’s pretty much the perfect day to support independent media, following, subscribing for free, becoming a paid subscriber. In a world where oligarchs are buying up the nation’s largest media outlets, it’s growing the reach of independent voices that will matter more than ever.

So I just got a statement from California AG Bonta's office: "Paramount/Warner Bros is not a done deal. These two Hollywood titans have not cleared regulatory scrutiny — the California Department of Justice has an open investigation, and we intend to be vigorous in our review"

The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

This is a fucking disaster on so many levels.

total disaster, holy shit complete control of most of the media in the hands of the fucking ellisons

Wow. Ellie Aghayeva — the Columbia student detained by ICE this morning — has been released and posted this on her Instagram. Comes after NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani expressed his concern on the arrest to Trump in a meeting just earlier.

Kansas is sending letters to trans people telling them that their licenses will be revoked as of tomorrow and that they risk arrest for driving on a suspended license. This is pure cruelty. www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...

We live in such a profound dystopia.

U.S. men's hockey with Curt-Schilling-in-Boston levels of good will squandering. A 25-mile lead in the good will marathon and they tripped on their dicks right at the finish line.

I’m getting a little sick of saying this, but I think it’s worth repeating, that this speech sounds no different than your average white nationalist website.

What does it tell voters, who have said unequivocally we want fighters, that you sit & silently witness your own humiliation? If you will not fight for yourselves, are we to believe you will for us?

This is why you do stunts. This is why you do stunts. This is why you do stunts.