"And the worst thing about it is American credibility, not just in dealing with the Iranian regime, but to the entire world—basically we show that Trump is incompetent, he is capricious, he's completely erratic, and he's basically psychotic. He … has no conception of reality."

Provide the social safety so that grandmothers don’t have to take multiple jobs to pay for their husbands cancer treatment

JD Vance is supposedly a Catholic who believes the pope is infallible on matters of faith and morals. The pope says the Trump-Vance conduct of the war is immoral. Vance’s rejection of the pope’s words raises the question of whether the VP is worshipping his faith or his ambition.

This chart is stunning.

Matt Schlapp grifting off Hungarian taxpayers comes to an end.

Hungarian politician Zsolt Hegedus stole the spotlight on social media with an energetic onstage dance moments after Prime Minister-elect Péter Magyar's victory speech.

Chinese Defence Minister Admiral Dong Jun with a message for Trump: “Our ships are moving in and out of the waters of the Strait of Hormuz. We have trade and energy agreements with Iran. We will respect and honour those agreements and expect others not to interfere in our affairs. 1/2

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz: "I was not surprised by the decision to break off the talks in Islamabad. From the beginning, I did not have the impression that they were really well prepared."

The UK will not be joining Trump’s blockade, Starmer says.

Swalwell has announced his resignation from Congress. It’s impossible not to ask why Texas Republican Tony Gonzales hasn’t done the same. And why the GOP doesn’t insist the Epstein files, which repeatedly mention the head of their party, be fully released.

A new report from the University of California shows that the state's decision to raise the minimum wage for fast food workers to $20/hr didn’t hurt jobs, or raise prices much. Data from over 2,000 restaurants shows that the $20/hr minimum wage didn’t reduce employment. /1

BREAKING: Eric Swallwell is resigning from Congress. After credible revelations came out that he was a predator, the entire Democratic Party turned their back on him & kicked him out of the garden. No excuses, not gaslight. We sure as SHIT didn’t elect him to higher office. We are not the same.

NBC: “Iran is not listening to your threats about opening the Strait.” TRUMP: “You don’t know anything. You’re fake news. We win, no matter what.” Triggered by the truth. (H/T @atrupar.com )

Corporations want you to think they're raising prices because they have to. The truth is that they're also raising prices to the point where they now have the highest profit margins in history.

Leo: "The message of the church, the message of the gospel -- blessed are the peacemakers. I do not look at my role as being political. I don't want to get into a debate with him. I don't think the message of the gospel is meant to be abused in the way that some people are doing."

The viral infection leaves millions with chronic pain, increased stroke risk, and lifelong nerve damage—yet vaccination rates remain dangerously low. www.wired.com/story/shingl...

Pope Leo: "I have no fear, neither of the Trump administration nor speaking out loudly about the message of the gospel."

Christian nationalists who support Trump won’t care about him posting a picture of him as Christ. The vast majority of them have always had pastors and leaders who continually positioned themselves as stand ins for Christ as they’ve committed Trump-like abuses. It’s systemic. Hope this helps.

OMFG. This is now on the FAA online job application form - for all positions including air traffic controllers!

JD Vance’s upcoming promotion of his “I’m Catholic Now” book got a lot more interesting tonight.

He is mentally incapacitated and needs to be removed from office via one of the legal and peaceful means available to do so

“Alaska is — I don’t even think it’s close — the most difficult place in the United States to conduct elections,” said state Senator Bill Wielechowski (D). The SAVE America Act’s burdens would fall hardest on remote communities that rely on online and mail-in registration. https://bit.ly/3QcX8m7

Something like this will have to happen in this country once Trumpism is defeated. In the absence of accountability, the world will rightly assume that it will happen again.

What Hasan argues in the clip is that it's important that in the process of defeating the Republicans, Democrats do not become the Republicans. I'm not sure what's so difficult to understand about this concept.

Carl, any idea when Wall Street will master object permanence?

Again there's simply no comparison between the scope, scale, & tone of the JOE BIDEN EPICALLY AND INCOMPETENTLY FAILED IN AFGHANISTAN coverage of August/September 2021 & the "just the facts, very measured" reporting of what's going on with Iran & Trump now.

i do want you to imagine, you know, for shits and giggles, what the media coverage of a democratic vice-president absolutely eating shit on not just one, but *two* incredibly important geopolitical events in which he was ostensibly the most important american in the room, all in the same weekend

This sizes up the Trump position in one 225-word sentence.

Q: "Is this all going to be enough to lower the price of oil and gas?" Trump: "Well, eventually it's going to go be lower. It might not happen initially, but it's going to go down…The stock market has not gone down very much at all…The gas hasn't gone up as much as I thought."

Ron Johnson: "It's not easy. And it could be longer-term ... we certainly have the capability of blocking oil from the Strait of Hormuz from going to China as well. We have plenty of power in this situation and we need to use it."

The strait is double blocked now. Take that

Ron Johnson on Iran: "By the way, this is exactly what nationwide gun control results in. The Iranian people are completely disarmed. It's gonna be very difficult for them to rise up. So it's a very difficult situation."

BREAKING: DOJ investigating Iran for Mortgage Fraud.

Those US-Iran negotiations in a nutshell: Iran sent 4 PhDs to Islamabad. The US sent a real estate developer, a son-in-law, a lawyer and a general.

NEW: Statement from Swalwell's senior staffers: "We stand with our former colleague and the other women that have come forward. We believe you should stand with them, too."

Marathon? He was there for a day.

As negotiations are falling apart with Iran, the US Secretary of State is clapping for the Cult Leader at a UFC fight in Miami.

Idiocracy is here

How the fuck is the president and Secretary of State at a UFC fight in Miami while war negotiations affecting the world economy are falling apart. And I know that MFer isn’t going to try to play golf tomorrow too.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio at UFC in Miami tonight as diplomatic negotiations with Iran fail (Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AFP via Getty)

REMINDER: Saudi Arabia does not want the war in Iran to end before there is regime change. The Saudis are paying a top U.S. negotiator, Jared Kushner, tens of millions annually. The negotiations just ended without a deal, exactly what the Saudis wanted.

The amazing, letter-perfect performance of NASA this week is a ferocious rebuke to the right-wing fools who constantly tell us that for-profit businesses always do a job better than the government.

I’m watching an ad on MSNOW for 50 ‘25 pennies being sold for $9.95 … like it’s a bargain. “Other sites are selling single pennies for $10/$20.” “Strict limit of 20 rolls”. Lolol Does this work? What are we doing here people?

Victor Glover is a kind, generous, bad ass. The example of masculinity we should be encouraging our sons to emulate.

Victor Glover for President

"In all of this emptiness — this is a whole bunch of nothing, this thing we call the universe — you have this oasis, this beautiful place that we get to exist in together.” — Astronaut Victor Glover

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Can we get a comment from fellow astronaut Katy Perry? #Artemis

Science is good. We should fund it.