MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM TELL THE IRANIANS ITS MY TURN TO USE THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ

Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations: Alphabet: 8.01% AT&T: 4.6% Meta: 3.57% General Motors: 3.09% Amazon: 1.37% Exxon Mobil: 1.31% Disney: -1.57% CVS Health: -3.88% Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5% This is what a rigged system looks like.

“Why aren’t college students protesting” stories are almost always wrong (they are protesting), omit crucial context (they were brutally punished for protesting before), and somehow suggest that 19 yr olds have more moral responsibility than elected officials three times their age

Today, all good people celebrate the April 9, 1865 surrender of the traitor Lee and his slavery-supporting army at Appomattox to the U.S Army led by General Grant.

Yup. Something’s about to drop. 🍿

She called on all of Epstein's victims to testify. That would include the woman who accused her husband.

US has let in 4,499 refugees since October - all but three were white South Africans www.bbc.com/news/article...

They put Michael Scott in charge of the FBI.

Fun fact: Lee was stripped of US citizenship and never got it back before that irredeemable asshole died. That gets me thinking how very aggressive Dems could turn the whole citizenship issue against Republicans.

Happy Shoulda Finished The Job Day

One thing city and state governments can do to help resist ICE is to mandate swift public release of bodycam footage any time police interact with ICE or CBP. D.C. passed a law like this and it's already uncovered an ICE shooting nobody had even heard about.

THEN THE SHOOTIN' STARTS

He needs to be removed from office and sent to a padded cell

This is the worst president in the history of United States.

Ok on a serious note, it cannot be exaggerated how bad formalized Iranian control of the Strait is for the world. The entire global economy rests on an American guarantee of free commercial shipping. That guarantee is gone. We don’t know exactly what will happen but none of it will be good.

We are the only nation to ever invoke Article 5

You never miss professional diplomats until they're gone

based mad

Q: As of today, who controls the Strait of Hormuz? LEAVITT: We expect that the strait will be opened immediately Q: Who controls the strait right now? LEAVITT: *refuses to answer*

“We’ve also destroyed our moral credibility: Trump may have TACOed at the last minute, but he threatened to commit gigantic war crimes — and for all practical purposes our political and civil institutions gave him permission to do so.” - @pkrugman.bsky.social on Trump’s #HormuzHumiliation

Iran shuts the Strait of Hormuz. How's your great victory going Mr Trump?

European markets - we want Fiestas and Focuses. Ford - But what about a nice F150 or Explorer? Europeans - Pass, I’ll buy a Golf or Astra Ford - WHY IS EUROPE AGAINST US :(

being a skilled engineer is more or less irrelevant to being an effective executive; plenty of people can be both, but they're not really complementary skills, tim cook's a supply chain guy and amazon didn't become amazon because of bezos' engineering chops

a *lot* of this is just founder mythos shit, which i hope the death of ZIRP eventually kills dead. if i never have to read the word "founder" about a tech exec again, it will be too soon.

Throw her ass in chains for contempt

What kinda janky-ass MOPs are these??? Just pulling anything that sounds big? People eat alot of shit at the MN state fair. Doesn't mean Minnesotans won the war against Iran.

fuuuuuuuck.

I’ve said it before & will say it again: free & fair passage of maritime waterways & choke points is a fundamental precept of the international economic order If we give that up to Iran for the SoH, it will set a new precedent w/substantial, negative economic & security repercussions for everyone😑

In the end, all Iran had to is cut President Trump into the action.

On consideration, I think if the deal stands along the lines that have been reported, with Iran continuing to extract its tolls and without making any other concessions, I'd say this is probably the worst the United States has ever lost a war. Truly a shocking outcome, if it holds.

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An end to the war that does the maximum amount of damage to the United States with the minimum amount of damage to Trump is admittedly the most Trump thing ever, and I grant unhealthy levels of bitter spite against the orange fuck is biasing me here but I don't see this agreement holding.

There is a greater than zero chance the ceasefire fails because other participants in the region are not obligated to it, nor shielded from it.

STUNNING: Trump is now bragging about agreeing to use Iran’s 10-point peace framework as the basis for negotiations. Here’s what that 10-point framework includes. There’s no other way to spin this—it’s complete and utter capitulation.

We can’t unring the bell of an American president threatening to do genocide

The thing is... Iran attacking Israel requires as little as a TBM launch that takes 7 minutes to reach Israel. Israel attacking Iran requires strike fighters and tanker support, which can take over an hour to arrange, assuming it wasn't preplanned.

He still needs to be removed from office. A war powers resolution will not suffice. He circumvented Congress to start the war. He circumvented them on tariffs and appropriations. Why anyone thinks he'd adhere to a Congressional war powers resolution is beyond me.

Jeffries calls for Mike Johnson to immediately reconvene the House to take up a war powers resolution

if this is how it ends - with iran actually in a stronger strategic position than before but with the rightwing propaganda ecosystem insisting that Trump still “won” something - then this whole crisis looks a lot like (a much worse version of) what happened with north korea during his first term

Underrated possible outcome is that Trump just walks away like he did with the Houthis last year and Israel and Iran just shoot at each other for another 6 months.

We are simply not going to get free of this until our political class accepts the fact that the entire GOP led us here and must be destroyed.

Hard to believe how much the worst man in the world has weakened America over a mere 15 months. It’s like it’s his job. But who is paying him? And America was always going to lose once Trump started threatening civilizations—he created a lose-lose situation.

Trump and Hegseth instigated a war with Iran that now has Iran attempting cyberattacks against U.S. infrastructure. And now we learn that the most powerful cybersecurity defense tool in the world is made by the one company Trump and Hegseth stupidly cut off from the U.S. being able to use. Unreal.

JD trying real hard to position himself as The Adult In The Room someone should tell him that the only way he has a chance to escape the stink of the administration is if he successfully pushes his boss out

BREAKING: Trump announces two week window for Congress to remove him from office

People rarely actually grapple with the fact that most *defenses* of Trump are also massive indictments of him demonstrating he should not be President.

This is a clarifying and revealing moment for many “leaders” in Washington. Remember who spoke out and who laid down.

Tucker Carlson is not and never will be a friend to the left. Ever. He is positioning himself to pick up the pieces of the MAGA movement, and draw in vulnerable liberals who think he has a point about Trump.