In 2028, the Republican is going to run on bringing back the good times of 2021-2024 before Biden and the Democrats destroyed America.

There is an equal chance this is pre-negotiation posturing to try and get Iran to bend and that this is true.

A lot of people have negatively polarized themselves into caping for Iran and man it's time to take a breath. It is fully possible -- dare I say factual -- that there are no good guys in this war and *everyone* is lying.

Remember when we built up an enormous armada during negotiations w/Iran & declared a breakthrough. Our media credulously transcribed the "success" & then we bombed Iran to hell 2 days later. That was less than a month ago. Today, that same media is doing the same credulous transcription.

Just ran into one of my all-time favorite former students and now I'm in a really good mood.

Remember when we built up an enormous armada during negotiations w/Iran & declared a breakthrough. Our media credulously transcribed the "success" & then we bombed Iran to hell 2 days later. That was less than a month ago. Today, that same media is doing the same credulous transcription.

Biddy Masons life was amazing and here in Los Angeles she has a memorial wall that tracks her life with a mural and informative plaques. It's hidden in an alley behind a parking garage.

NIMBY powers being used as a force of good.

Time to play Bluesky's new favorite game: Cat Post or Pocket Post!??

kalshi coders now quite the national security risk

Trump shutting down the entire mechanics of govt during a war in order to do 2 of the least popular things available, both of which are doomed to failure, would be funny if it wasn't immiserating thousands and thousands of people.

Is it possible to learn who these trades were made by without a warrant?

Still think there's a pretty good chance the US and Israel destroy the Iranian power grid on Wednesday anyway. That's what they did 2x before.

Still think there's a pretty good chance the US and Israel destroy the Iranian power grid on Wednesday anyway. That's what they did 2x before.

However hopeful the markets are today, currently the only vessel in the Strait of Hormuz is an Iranian "pleasure craft."

Mechanic's Bank took over my mom's Home Street bank and I've been on hold for almost an hour bc they locked us out of her account. Still waiting.

The lead --> thug railroad we grew up with in the 70s & 80s is enormously difficult to describe to people who weren't there for it. "So yeah, 40% of everyone you knew had no ability to control their violent tendencies and you never knew what would set them off" was a hell of a lifestyle.

However hopeful the markets are today, currently the only vessel in the Strait of Hormuz is an Iranian "pleasure craft."

The lead --> thug railroad we grew up with in the 70s & 80s is enormously difficult to describe to people who weren't there for it. "So yeah, 40% of everyone you knew had no ability to control their violent tendencies and you never knew what would set them off" was a hell of a lifestyle.

(also, it’s probably a good idea for Xers and elder millennials with abusive parents to look up smelters in the area where the parent was a child. It doesn’t excuse the abuse, but having a better explanation than malice and evil can be freeing. Ghu knows there were enough dirty smelters.)

TFW you realize that, while one’s parents weren’t living in Tacoma in the post-war boom, the violent one lived directly downwind of two Midwest versions of Asarco (East Chicago and Hammond) and worked in a third. And that if he’d been just a little closer, he’d probably be on a serial killer list.

That is fucking terrifying.

If the beard is Krugman, you're good, man. If the beard is Kruger, school shooter.

ICE in the airports sucks, but I think we should all remember that the reason ICE is in the airports is because it has become politically impossible to "surge" them in cities so they have a surplus of agents.

Safe-Line Defense should market a kevlar belly-extender.

ICE in the airports sucks, but I think we should all remember that the reason ICE is in the airports is because it has become politically impossible to "surge" them in cities so they have a surplus of agents.

Why would The Jews invent fall injuries in the elderly smh

The good news is that Cornyn's only going to be this big an asshole until May 26th, after which he'll spend most of the rest of his term golfing and shit-talking.

Josh articulates it better than me, but yeah.

Shit we're not just losing the real war, we're losing the meme war, too.

New candidate for the You-Should-Fall-For-It-Again award yearly prize:

I think it's likely that Southern Command did in fact tell him this because it was easier and simpler than explaining the technical details and nuances surrounding prisoners and maritime law.

Al Jazeera: "Welp. Could be peace, could be total war. Who the fuck knows."

Bad news: Trump is president & continues to fuck things up. Good news: ICE is in airports bc it's now politically impossible to surge them in the streets. Trump is "talking" to Iran because it's politically impossible to do anything else. The SAVE act is dying. Epstein is still in the news.

I think we may have to shut down the whole blue-checking game developers thing until we figure out what the hell is going on. Until then, block these assholes.

Anybody know if there's anything to the reports that another F35 was shot down over Kuwait?

Anybody know if there's anything to the reports that another F35 was shot down over Kuwait?

He must've not seen the news about every single person in Iran calling bullshit while on the plane.

Al Jazeera is sharing photos of the gas lines in India.

If this whole "negotiations" thing turns out to have been a combo TACO/market manipulation as it now appears to have been, I think it's important that the Iran compensation fund be monied with wealth stripped directly from the Trumposphere profiteers who cashed in on Iranian destruction.

At this point I don't wonder how much insider trading is going on. I wonder how much policy is being made with the purpose of insider trading on it.

Deal that satisfies all sides: 1. Complete denuclearization 2. End of Iranian support for proxies 3. No Iran ballistic missiles 4. Open strait 5. New Iran regime 6. Full guarantee against future attacks 7. Compensation for damage Mostly incompatible and nobody is in a position to force or relent.

True or not, Israel probably signed his death warrant by saying it was him

The funniest part is that Biff Tannen who was based on Donald Trump isn't 100% going for Donald Trump

Deal that satisfies all sides: 1. Complete denuclearization 2. End of Iranian support for proxies 3. No Iran ballistic missiles 4. Open strait 5. New Iran regime 6. Full guarantee against future attacks 7. Compensation for damage Mostly incompatible and nobody is in a position to force or relent.

If you think this is fine because of Israel, unfollow me and never darken my door again

It seems Israel does not want these talks to continue.

So evidently the talks are real but I can't see what Iran hopes to get out of them except a week to shore things up. They've got the upper hand but they're not going to give Trump any of the 3 main things he wants.

This is probably a lie, but if it isn't a lie it means Trump might be just admitted we have an American asset high in the Iranian govt.