Utterances that were once impossible to imagine and which, in fairness, are still pretty weird.

This is something @ndrew.bsky.social has been on for 10 years: If you want to expose your readers to authentic MAGA go hire one of the people talking about adrenochrome and cannibalism at their local school board. Conservative intellectuals are just as far from MAGA as your average liberal.

The extension of the Gaza genocide to the whole of the Middle East

It’s hard to blame woke DEI when the military is losing a war because of the straits.

The thesis of this article is that "opposition to Israel is central to Mamdani's worldview" and the evidence is that he posted a single photo with Mahmoud Khalil

in 2003 if you were around you were privileged to see a world-historical debacle unfold in slow motion and since you're around today you get to see one even bigger. astounding

CHIMING IN FROM OUT OF FRAME: also hundreds of children were killed

I thought it’d take a little longer to hit the Wehrkraftzersetzung stage of this war

“But, as you see, it's a beautiful day, the Strait of Hormuz is open and people are having a wonderful time.”

Not enough attention being paid to how fucking stupid it is to issue ultimatums to the Iranian leadership while simultaneously waging an existential war of extermination against the aforementioned leadership that is completely uncorrelated to whether or not they accept those terms.

Israel is a tiny country that absolutely has to obey the US and the idea that it has somehow tricked America into attacking Iran is both horribly antisemitic and, I have to say, a very foreseeable consequence of American liberals insisting the Gaza genocide was carried out over American objections

“We’re going to do what we did in Gaza,” a senior Israeli official says of Lebanon.

I'm sorry ma'am, but your son perished on Kharg Island in a valiant effort to create Wii Bowling meme videos for the White House X account. In the face of danger, he was not cringe; he was based to his last breath. Please have this commemorative Epic Fury challenge coin. Yes that's Punisher, ma'am

he still doesn't seem to understand that when you put someone in a no-win situation, and also prove yourself completely untrustworthy, then they definitionally have nothing to lose. whereas you have a lot to lose and literally not one coherently defined thing to win. deals master

Israel intends to bomb all bridges on the Litani river, cutting off south Lebanon. At this rate neither UNIFIL nor the Lebanese army would be able to operate. Israel says they want Lebanon to disarm Hezbollah while being the ones weakening the state. Again: the goal is to destroy Lebanon itself.

When the officer asks what’s in the water bottle

It’s like Trump’s people read warnings from market analysts as a f’ing checklist.

For at least 10 years journos have been working so hard to dissemble and obfuscate under the Honorable Notions of What Journalism Is and now even the people whose water they’ve been carrying are like wtf I’m trying to be racist

I wrote about congressional Democrats’ incoherent, AIPAC-friendly, lawyerly messaging strategy around Iran that largely focuses on Trump’s supposed lack of “planning” and “consulting Congress,” while deemphasizing—or outright ignoring—clear demands to immediately end the war.

Whining incessantly about domestic media coverage signals toughness and resolve to Tehran; lot of people don’t get this

yet another thing to put in our back pocket. "ship em to the Hague" is a completely valid option for a long and growing list of people who need to be dealt with

Rantoul, IL will never succumb to sharia law

If the government really is worried about Iranian sleeper cells, then it was probably a mistake to systematically reorient the majority of US counterterror resources toward arresting immigrant grandmothers and five-year-olds in bunny hats

I was thinking about how the single biggest driver of antisemitism right now is the actions of the Israeli government, combined with the insistence by orgs like the ADL that any criticism of Israel is antisemitism. You erase that line and it gives way too much cover to legitimate antisemites.

South Africa was supported while it was a useful wedge against African communism and truly became a pariah when the Cold War was won. Israel was a wedge against Arab Nationalism but is now just there to do what? Kill Muslims? How does that end?

From a friend in Beirut this morning, who in the last few days has seen several Israel missile strikes within walking distance of their home.

Materializing nude from a bolt of lightning in 2005 to show my younger self this image

even in a "history is written by the victors" sense, theres no alternate story here. neither nation believes it needs any kind of cover story where this savagery is justified or moral. they haven't even bothered to try and put together a rough draft. just wanton and gleeful butchery

put aside what israel is doing to palestinians, or lebanese, or syrians, or Iranians, etc etc. its weird as a lebanese person to say this but ive been very distressed seeing the enormous damage israel is doing to its own people, and to jews more broadly around the world. its distressing to see

It is easy now to forget that George W. Bush had a white-knuckled stranglehold on the title of worst United States president in history. It was like Wilt Chamberlain's 100 point game at the time. No one ever thought it would be possible to even come close, let alone beat it.

How do the natsec libs feel about the lifting of sanctions on Russian oil just for the sake of waging forever war in MENA to the benefit of basically only one country

A surprising number of Israelis seem to have already forgotten that they're the ones who started the war.

Ms Rachel talking to Deiver Henao, a 9yo in an immigration detention center www.instagram.com/reel/DVzUzoz... What a world

It's now obvious that the regime was comically unprepared for the possibility that Iran would fight back. In fairness, they're used to dealing with the Democrats.

that is the reaction of a guy who just saw a real ghost

Shouldn't be rare to see this said by a US senator

"The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand."

Making the dinner announcement at Davos

using public office to name and shame evil landlords into submission is so cool. i hope democrats learn from him

israel is the antisemitism lobby's greatest invention

it goes on b/c you put a 22-year-old in charge of counterterrorism, moved all your counterterrorism agents to arresting legal immigrants, and told liberal synagogues like the one that was attacked they no longer qualify for security grants, while saying any jew who doesn't support this is a traitor

National Science Foundation: $9 billion total in FY2026

kamala's last soldier found on remote island still fighting war against college sophomores 30 years later

Israel has achieved what generations of anti-semites could not: a forthright assertion of "blood truth" against itself.

The Defense Minister of Israel says it was "blood libel" to go after Israeli soldiers caught on camera raping a Palestinian.

It's awesome that people still like to say that this is some liberal democracy with an independent justice system that holds people accountable

Sodomizing a Palestinian prisoner with a knife on camera is apparently legal in Israel

The protests worked. They won the right to rape.

I don't know about a term but there's a quip: “A ‘sound’ banker, alas, is not one who sees danger and avoids it, but one who, when he is ruined, is ruined in a conventional and orthodox way along with his fellows, so that no one can really blame him.” (Keynes)