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.

Being polite. The world is full of raging assholes (especially since we were locked in for covid, pretending happy hours in drawers on zoom was fine) and saying please and thank you and meaning it goes sooo far these days.

We'll be closing the store for the final week of March so I can recover from surgery, which means selling as much as we can now. Great time to buy something & force me to actually recover from surgery by not working! (hey I ADDED ALL THE DINOSAURS!) http://thebrokencirc...

Bumping this. And much gratitude to those who have helped me get the word out.

oh good another round of "apparently everyone on bluesky is a doctor who can diagnose the president"

please help danny if you can!

lol www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/u...

just gonna leave that skeet in drafts

this one fucked me up so much. guy turns his life around after a drug conviction, becomes a happy, beloved, pet rescuing houseboat dad who undersells his mechanic services so poor folks can afford them. ICE grabs him one day out of the hospital for heart problems which then kill him. horrifying

Me: And now for sleep. Brain: Ever wonder what Stranger Things would be like in the 90s? Me: No? Brain: While the boys play Shadowrun, Eleven, an orphan raised by a shadowy megacorp, jacks into the Cyber, where she encounters a monster that will eventually be known as The Shredder. Me: plz stop

Hegseth is a violent psychopath who sought his position because it offered a semi-legal way to kill lots of people. He fetishizes violence and death. This is the mindset of a serial killer, not a warrior, and when you start to think of him that way, he makes more sense.

HEGSETH: *points to general's ribbon bars* "What'd you get that one for? Fucking your mother?" GENERAL: *sternly* killing vietnamese children

imagine spending your career working to get all those lil patches only to end up taking orders from donald trump lmao

guys i know we all hate pete hegesth but you have more friends and followers who struggle with addiction than you know, and they're the ones seeing your shitty posts about alcoholism

I think Platner is actually a very talented political communicator and that this talent is tied to a dude who is either Nazi-adjacent or a stone cold dipshit with horrendous instincts - or both - is Not Great

. @thescatto.bsky.social got these for me as a gift, and I can confirm that they are awesome!

this dumb motherfucker

The “Nazi tattoos are fine” people are one hundred percent going to find a way to defend this.

Scouting America says transgender kids are still welcome after Pete Hegseth claimed they weren’t- "We have transgender people in our program, and we’ll have transgender people in our program going forward,” the group's CEO, Roger Krone, said. www.advocate.com/politics/nat...

date: can you take off your work gloves Jim Henson: they have names

He is one person we never need to hear from on any topic ever again

I feel like this gets overlooked or misunderstood a good bit It’s not just that the world has been utter shit for the vast majority of our lives, it’s that most of us spent the first part of that life *surrounded by promises that everything it is now was everything it would not be*

“.. The attack came despite U.S. intelligence assessments that Iran’s forces were unlikely to pose an immediate threat to the U.S. mainland within the next decade.” @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Area Man Pauses Despair to Go to Work

I am pro Iranian people. I stand with them against their own government’s repression AND against the imperial violence in the form of bombs dropped from the sky from Israel & the US who have already killed hundreds. I support neither imperialism or dictatorship. Sahar Delijani said it best:

Woke up to this lovely review in @cjtavares.bsky.social’s newsletter. 😊

They have moved into the regulatory equivalent of a surprise proposal Announcing things in hopes of people not being willing to tell them no . Or just doing a smear campaign hoping folks will be too reactionary to be willing to wait / check

i lived in weymouth for 10 years the only country thing about it is the abandoned military base

The elder millennial existence consists entirely of alternating geopolitical and financial crises

why are so many lawyers pro bono but no one seems to be pro the edge? he’s a critical part of the band

we’ve invented the Power Vacuum from the landmark book Don’t Invent the Power Vaccum

Once again.

For no reason at all, here are some poems about war, destruction, and how awful humans can be, from my poetry collection MEXICANS ON THE MOON. 🙂 Much love to all.

objective 1: pull the USA into a war with Iran objective 2: ok have fun bye :)

bloodthirsty corrupt white supremacist pedophile podcaster regime that murders its own citizens for recording the activities of its secret police which is snatching people off the street and throwing them in concentration camps promising to liberate Iran by bombing the fuck out of them

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

go out in the streets as we are dropping bombs. a brilliant call to action.

Nothing is a distraction from anything else, they just have limited mental capacity to be mad and we don't, so multi-task that rage, y'all.

let's also stop pretending that we need a "distraction" from the Epstein files when it's perfectly clear that no one with one iota of power to do anything about it gives a fuck about abused and trafficked girls

not now, moon

let’s stop calling each new outrage a “distraction” from the last outrage and instead call it what it is: a vast ongoing machine of death, kidnapping, graft, abuse, and larceny built to operate on many fronts simultaneously at home and abroad for the benefit of the wannabe god-emperor and his toads

Resist the thought terminating cliché. It minimizes what's happening to a chess game. These are all real people's lives. They deserve more than to be called a distraction.

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"

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The timing of the initial strikes is unusual. Often you see these types of operations launched in the pre-dawn hours at the target site partly to limit civilian casualties. This operation began at the beginning of a work and school day, with millions of adult civilians and children in harms way.