A couple things… The “conflict“ in Iran *IS* a war. It is a war of choice. It is warfare without conscious. It was unprovoked. And I’m sick and tired of people suggesting & implying the only tragedies herein are that US Service Members have died. The people of Iran are innocents in this conflict!

Mexico's President Sheinbaum opposes US and Israel illegal war; "The UN has stopped fulfilling its role ... Countries with greater military power prevail, that cannot be." "It's not about who opposes or supports a regime; it's about civilians who pay for it, the bombing of a school full of girls."

After 30+ years, thousands of lives and trillions of wasted dollars, most Americans know this much. Stay the hell out of the Middle East. Watching the most delusional and incompetent administration in our lifetimes try to convince us otherwise, would be comical if it wasn’t dangerous.

ABSOFUCKINGLUTELY BERNIE......

Publicly, Sam Altman claimed OpenAI is amending its agreement with the Department of Defense(lies). Behind closed doors, however, he told employees during a Tuesday all-hands meeting that the company doesn’t “get to make operational decisions” about how its AI technology is used by the DoD. #QuitGPT

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Excellent advice right here.

Most telling part of this rant: That the war will go on until "we decide it is over," not until the aims of the war are achieved - because there are no stated aims; and Trump prefers having none, so any result will allow him to try to claim a "win."

Even Matt Walsh isn’t buying it

Be right back. Gonna punch my neighbor before he can punch me for getting punched by some other guy.

Football players will pay no taxes in Mississippi on their licensing deals, which can sometimes be very lucrative in the millions. Teachers, cops, firefighters, construction workers - they still have to pay taxes on their income.

I hate to say it, but the worst violence from Iran is yet to come. The regime has a long history of targeting the softest possible targets, particularly civilian sites. We are about to see some truly ugly events across the Middle East and beyond. Brace yourselves, but don't give up on humanity.

The Declaration of Independence says that we not only have the right but we also have the duty to alter or abolish any government that does not secure our unalienable rights, including life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. www.learnliberty.org/blog/the-dec...

so far i think in the last 48 hours trump has called - michael scherer at the atlantic - jonathan karl, abc - jake tapper, cnn - axios - bret baier, fox news - the new york times - the washington post just noting that when he wants to sell a war, suddenly theyre not "fake news" anymore

for those of you who werent adults during iraq, its hard to overstate how much the media loves war porn. they salivate over pentagon spin briefings. they love stories about all the bombs and how supposedly infallible they are. they love the notion of the commander in chief, in the situation room etc

When your political belief resembles religious dogma, there's a problem. Its one thing to learn from various thinkers, take the good and leave the bad, its another to argue about who has the "right" interpretation of white men from a hundred years ago like they're your unquestioned infallible gods 🙄

If this war is retribution for all the years of Iranian aggression against America, why were we even at the negotiating table with them? It’s a different spin every day.

Khamenei ruled for 40 years. His repression was real. But “we’ve waited long enough” cuts both ways. Removing a dictator isn’t building stability. Speed looks strong. Preparation makes it legitimate. Durability > spectacle. open.substack.com/pub/faultlin...

ChatGPT is shedding users fast. Since yesterday alone, estimates suggest more than a million accounts have been deleted and the boycott continues to gain momentum. Incredible work, everyone!

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

Heavy week. Real escalation. That’s why Sunday Build exists. While governments posture, people still feed neighbors, expand mental health access, organize locally. Capacity doesn’t disappear when headlines darken. Less reacting. More building. open.substack.com/pub/faultlin...

Three Americans dead and Trump’s UN Ambassador waves it off with some bullshit jingoism. From the people who wailed about Benghazi for a decade. Absolute soulless ghouls.

This is disgusting and should be illegal.

You can't prosecute people or states based on vibes and social media engagement stats. If you want justice and accountability, the legal processes, groundwork, and bureaucracy required to achieve them must be understood and supported.

BREAKING 🚨 🚨 🚨 Three U.S. service members were killed and five were seriously wounded as part of Operation Epic Fury, U.S. Central Command said today. www.nbcnews.com/world/iran/l...

I'm struggling to understand the present-day "peace through strength" concept — where some dictators are eliminated, while one particular dictator is offered generous business opportunities and full impunity for genocide.

Billions of $ will be spent to attack Iran while in the USA, Americans can't afford healthcare, millions have lost food stamps and countless people are barely being able to make ends meet. Why not invest in the people of America first?!!

As I scroll through triumphal pro-war tweets, thinking about this image a lot today:

Constitutional and Congressional limits on the President’s war-making and foreign policy powers have become much like international law: there exists a body of law that clearly says the President’s actions are unlawful, but the failure to enforce those laws over decades has rendered them a nullity

Congress must be rolling over in their graves right now.

Democrats should say that Trump’s attacks on Iran are unconstitutional. The American people do not want a war in Iran. The Congress did not authorize a war in Iran. It is an entirely illegitimate action that has no legal or constitutional basis. It is the act of a lawless regime.

See, it's easy to denounce this straight up instead of politely asking the administration to pretty please give the American people an explanation when they have a sec

Trump bombed Iran to distract from the Epstein files. Sure. Not containment doctrine. Not oil chokepoints. Not alliance politics. Not defense industry gravity. Not great-power rivalry. Just the files. Because empires launch wars for PR.

Make no mistake, Democrats and Republicans alike will all back a resolution now to be at war. Left wing. Right wing. Same flightless bird. America needs better. The world deserves better.

What "it's a distraction" people fundamentally need to understand about fascism is that fascism's entire mode of operation is diverting popular anger/anxiety/despair into channels of violence against the Other (both internal and external). It's not flailing, it's the whole strategy.

Allegedly.

We killed 85 schoolgirls. We are not the good guys.

The regime change the world needs is American.

Perhaps the terrorist state with nuclear weapons is …. {checks notes} … the United States of America?

Just so we know, the US is chill with: 1. Kidnapping and jailing a leader of a country 2. Targeting and bombing a country’s leader and heads of their military Sovereignty is gone. Just putting that out into the ether for other countries’ leaders to do with that information what they like….

The United States and Israel have apparently bombed a school in Iran, resulting in the deaths of approximately 40 students and injuring 48 others.

Pay attention, this attack on Iran is the same strategy Netanyahu used to stay in office and stop elections.

This isn’t about distraction. It’s escalation. Preemption becomes retaliation. Retaliation becomes sustained engagement. Sustained engagement becomes another long war. The U.S. and Israel expanding strikes into sovereign territory isn’t strategy — it’s overreach. We’ve seen this pattern before.

Trump doesn’t want a free Iran. He wants an Iran controlled by Israel. Israel has an horrific record when it comes to freedom and human rights.

File this under Aged Poorly.

The United States has just begun a massive, open-ended war — and nobody knows why

Resist. At every opportunity, resist. But also build. Block what harms. Construct what replaces it. Resistance slows decline. Building shapes what comes next. Do both.

America treats political voice as binary: citizen or nothing. If someone lives, works, and contributes to a community for years, should they remain permanently voiceless there? What would a layered path to membership look like? faultlinesandfoundations.substack.com/p/designing-...