Between the war of choice, economic instability, constant government propaganda, and the inability to schedule basic medical services without waiting a week+, or to even be able to reliably refill my prescription bc its always backordered - this is not a superpower nation. This is a collapsed state.

No one talks about how hard inflation hit the bun industry

Yes! This! Weird analogy but it’s like in the end of the world movies, where someone who thought there were only 2 or 3 people left looks out across a vast distance and sees hundreds of little campfires burning

The first year we did the women’s march in NYC I climbed onto a garbage can to take a photo of the people stretching down the avenue. When I snapped it I just started crying. An NYPD officer came over, looked at me and said, “you do need to get down, but I get it.”

I think often of a New York Times photo of a little Iraqi girl tending to her parakeets in a bombed house, probably from 20 years ago now. I will think of this man and his sweet dog often now too. People just want to love what they love, care for their little beings, and instead we do this to them

Does anyone else cry when they see these videos? I’m not even an easy crier, and I don’t know what kind of bottled low grade trauma is living in my subconscious that makes this a constant, but whenever I see these the tears just come.

What if all the European leaders just got together and bought him a big trophy like You did it! Congratulations you are the strongest boy! I feel like that could work

Men love admitting they want to date a tiny frightened child, but with cooking skills

FM Araghchi: “as a matter of fact the Strait of Hormuz is open. It is only closed to the tankers and ships of our enemies; to those who are attacking us and their allies. Others are free to pass. Of course, many of them prefer not because of their security concerns, this has nothing to do with us.”

Yes this is definitely the takeaway you nailed it

* ASKED WHETHER ANY NAVAL ESCORT WILL RESOLVE ISSUE OF TRANSIT IN HORMUZ, QATAR FOREIGN MINISTRY SPOKESPERSON SAYS A VIABLE SOLUTION WOULD BE TO STOP ATTACKS ON OUR ENERGY FACILITIES @reuters.com

Just killed a man's whole family and accidentally installed him as leader of Iran. We created Super Vengeance Boy and are just assuming he'll leave us alone.

I sorta appreciate the tacit acknowledgment that, “no, no we can’t substantiate this claim in any real way …” If the war can just get past the motion to dismiss, Iran will be forced to settle!

“Upon information and belief, Iran was planning to take over the entire Middle East” - Donald Trump in a presser just now, using the legal language of every bullshit civil lawsuit he’s ever filed to justify waging war on a sovereign nation

The US and Israel are rogue states.

Confirmed Deaths — 1.671 = Caused by attacks launched by US & Israel — 44 = Caused by attacks launched by Iran If we start the war, we target schools and freshwater facilities, and we out-murder the other side 38:1, what does that make us? Who wouldn’t hate us for this?

Bombing a desalination plant supplying freshwater to 30 civilian villages is absolutely depraved. Doing it to a country that has famously harbored *various* bioterrorism extremists who hate America for exactly these reasons is almost unimaginably reckless. Almost.

Few things are more terrifying to mediocre men than a woman with enough experience to know how completely unimpressive he is.

No one could've foreseen this.

At least six US service members are dead and the US Embassy has been bombed, despite our own government confirming that Iran posed no nuclear threat for at least a decade and Iran being clear that if we attacked, they would retaliate. How is this not at least Benghazi by orders of magnitude?

Also, these people aren’t just betting on outcomes. They’re actually driving them. The Army wrote about using Polymarket data as an important input to their analysis and decision-making process. mipb.ikn.army.mil/issues/jul-d...

I’m actually not sure we can come back from “prediction markets for war crimes”, as a society. I think this might be it for us.

Fundamentally just a very degrading line of work to get on the horn with Donald Trump while he's at one of his little clubs, some shithead chiropractor's second wedding going on 50 feet away, and ask "so what did you have in mind there?" where the question concerns bombing a bunch of foreign kids.

One of my favourite sides of politics/media.

Well at least we’re all getting a case study in why a pattern of bad behavior makes you a national security risk - it’s not just that you’re willing to do bad things, it’s what you’ll be willing to do to protect your friends’ secrets.

Sat 6/21/25 - ‘Midnight Hammer’ (Iran bunker busters) Fri 12/19/25 - ‘Hawkeye’ (Syrian ISIS targets) Thu Xmas Day - ‘Christmas Present’ (Nigerian ISIS targets) Sat 1/3/26 - ‘Absolute Resolve’ (Venezuela) Sat 1/10/26 - Hawkeye 2.0 Fri 2/27/26 - ‘Epic Fury’ (US-Israel joint action against Iran)

This tweet preceeds and anticipates deaths in Operation Epic Fury by almost 15 years

Sat 6/21/25 - ‘Midnight Hammer’ (Iran bunker busters) Fri 12/19/25 - ‘Hawkeye’ (Syrian ISIS targets) Thu Xmas Day - ‘Christmas Present’ (Nigerian ISIS targets) Sat 1/3/26 - ‘Absolute Resolve’ (Venezuela) Sat 1/10/26 - Hawkeye 2.0 Fri 2/27/26 - ‘Epic Fury’ (US-Israel joint action against Iran)

Secretary of Warfighting Pete Hegseth will solemnly perform ten (10) pushups for every American soldier lost in this war.

Operation Epic Fury continuing the Hegseth department policy of using deeply aggressive sub fantasies as mission names

Dusting this one off again:

The biggest tell of the Iran invasion is that Trump didn’t talk to anyone about it beforehand. I don’t just mean getting approval, I mean, we have moved beyond the administration believing it needs buy in from anybody - even the base - to do anything. There are no checks left.

The biggest tell of the Iran invasion is that Trump didn’t talk to anyone about it beforehand. I don’t just mean getting approval, I mean, we have moved beyond the administration believing it needs buy in from anybody - even the base - to do anything. There are no checks left.

This is disgusting. Rationalizing the bombing of a school that reportedly killed 108 girls. But since she asked, "Currently, 161 public schools operate on military installations across the United States." www.militaryonesource.mil/education-em...

Evergreen

In case you’re just waking up, the U.S. has teamed up with Israel overnight to start an illegal war of regime change, apparently on a presidential whim with no involvement of Congress, and they are already committing horrific atrocities.

I dont think irans nuclear program is located in elementary schools for young girls but apparently thats what we’re bombing

They’re attacking Iran because they want to, and not for any other reason. But they don’t even know why they want to.

Just want to note that 3am in Washington is like 11:30am in Tehran. The American people are the ones he snuck up on in the dead of night to conduct this illegal attack, not the purported enemy.

Jack Hughes, on the USA men’s team laughing along with making a joke out of the women’s team: “Everyone is giving us backlash for all the social media stuff today…they are just trying to find a reason to put people down and make something out of almost nothing.”

An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump. n.pr/4qTItsU

That’s not enough for me. The women should get their earned recognition for what they accomplished and the men should get their earned recognition for spitting in their teammates’ faces.

There’s a lot of awful things going on, the US president is headlining a lot of them, and we all know he’s a raging misogynist - but it’s so fucking sad to listen to him mock the gold medal winning women’s hockey team, not because I expect better, but because all those boys fucking laughed along.

Every time I hear the wind whipping outside I feel so grateful to have a place inside and blankets.

Over here just in a blizzard doing blizzard things living my best blizzard life (eating).

I recently saw another of those “dudes-are-big-mad-about-women-ignoring-them-in-public-spaces” tiktoks and guys, from the bottom of my heart, please rest assured in knowing that we’re simply treating you like you’re treating the Epstein files.

7/ Whistleblower alleges that an SSA “database called the Numident, which is the master database of ur personal info, was uploaded to an AWS cloud environment.” [Numident’s data is now allegedly linked to the Save System to facilitate voter purges. This is a centerpiece of the Save America Act]

5/ The “SAVE” system at the heart of the Save America Act was “expanded” by DOGE & the DHS to “check the citizenship status of all U.S. citizens w/o providing info on how this was accomplished or the accuracy of the resulting tools. Early reports suggest an error rate as high as 17%” 8/2025

Are we going to talk about the fact that the Venn diagram of Joe Rogan’s societal influencers guest list and the Jeff Epstein friends and co-conspirators list is a near perfect circle

The idea that the Chamber of Commerce is "left-wing" is beyond insane. It is completely disconnected from reality. Chamber of Commerce was to the right of Reagan.