I know a lot of people have decided that it’s not worth voting for “the lesser of two evils“, even though I hate that phrase, but it takes more than just voting once. It’s a slow process to do progress right 1/

War impasse may reveal if Iran is truly playing a long game. If they want to destroy the US, they'll start playing as if Trump has won (while substantively retaining control of the strait, enriched uranium, etc), & facilitate normal flow of oil...to help GOP win in Nov, so Trump's regime...

It's painfully ironic that the age of tech designed to suck the maximum price possible for *everything* from individual consumers coincides with an age of laws & gov policies designed to allow the richest 10% to suck up all the wealth from US economy. The well is running dry, fools.

Nutlick has a peculiar definition of Trump's 'working': "The president sleeps less than me. The president sleeps 4 hours a night, working all the time. Most impressive thing you've ever seen." If Trump's sycophants think hours of shitposting & TV-watching are impressive work, that explains a lot.

So many people complain about how Jeffries is terrible at his job, but I think most of those people don’t actually understand what his job is… 1/

Capitalism - you’re gonna have to get rid of that before your pipe dream becomes reality.

Trump was overheard saying he'd make a great astronaut because he already knows how to poop in his suit.

Asking someone to risk their entire career for a country...the same country that voted this moronic demon into power, TWICE and some voted for it 3 times, is asking a lot.

Satanyahu has no interest in negotiating peace anywhere, because if his wars end, he faces a trial for corruption. He has Israel fighting endless wars in Gaza, Lebanon & Iran now; which will protect him from facing Israeli justice. So it's up to the rest of the world to nab him for war crimes.

You know what's really embarrassing about this conflict? Iran has a 90 percent literacy rate while 50 per cent of the US reads at the 6th grade level or below. Iran sent Phds to the ceasefire talks. The US sent realtors.

Well, when the government allows corporations to self regulate you get obscene theft, so why not their consumers when we self checkout. Seems fair to me.

Iran is playing a long game with the Strait of Hormuz. They're undermining the "petrodollars" arrangement that has enabled US dollar to remain the world reserve currency. Bombing is inherently a short-term game: immediate gratification for war pigs, rarely resulting in positive strategic outcomes

9/11 was carried out by 19 men. Fifteen were Saudi nationals. We responded by spending 25 years bombing Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Somalia and now Iran. Nearly a million dead. $5.8 trillion spent. Bin Laden said bleed America through endless war. We wrote him the check.

"Just buy an EV" is the most privileged response to high gas prices, ever. If you think that is a solution, you've obviously never lived in an apartment building and depended on your 10 year old Corolla to get to your minimum wage job, just to survive.

It would be useful if the NYT explicitly stated that the pilot, if captured, would be a POW, that there are laws governing how POWs can be treated, that respect for international law on war shapes how the enemy approaches it, and this is why the US conduct of this illegal war has been so dangerous.

Iranian state media is more believable & more trustworthy than the President of the United States. Think about that. Just think about how fucked up, horrible, bad, & dangerous that is. But the people of the United States elected someone who lies as he breathes. So here we are.

The plan for Trump’s ‘excursion’ should have had a clear end state for operations, and then an exit strategy of how to get out and go home. In the inebriated videogame thinking of Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon I suspect there was no such thing. (Robert Fox)

"No American child from the blue collar or the middle class should have to die fighting in Iran. Let the Epstein class fight the Epstein War." (Wab Kinew)

US gov is overspending like crazy under Trump, provoking concern in the financial media. I haven't read one recent budget deficit story that mentions the solution: eliminate all Trump's tax cuts & raise taxes on wealth. Predictably: Dems will be responsible for restoring post-Trump fiscal sanity...

The rate of warming is entirely unprecedented. We certainly have never had eight billion people on the planet when it ever happened before. (Katharine Hayhoe, chief scientist for the Nature Conservancy)

Trump has no intellectual or philosophical concept of historical or political legacy. His idea of legacy is simplistic & concrete: his name on buildings. The best way to repudiate Trumpism on Trump's own terms after he dies would be to scrub his name from everything he's put it on & make sure...

This was all it was ever about. No one in power ever gave a single fuck about the people of Cuba or their rights or freedom. All we did for 60+ years was starve, immiserate, and kill its people so we could hand the whole country back over to the rich gusano pigs who enslaved them in the first place

Kiss Me Deadly, 1955: As he is dying, Dr. Soberin utters this dire warning about a mysterious glowing box which disintegrates anyone who opens it: "Listen to me, as if I were Cerberus barking with all his heads at the gates of hell. I will tell you where to take it, but don't... don't open it!"

"Operation Epic FUBAR"...that's perfect. Tho "Operation Epstein Fury" has a nice ring to it.

it’s incredibly blackpilling to me that it takes rising gas prices and rising gas prices alone to have people turn against the war in iran, and not the american government murdering thousands of children and civilians in iran. americans are incredibly selfish

Yes *republicans* support him. It's who they are. It is who they always were. It's been 12 years of this nonsense and people act as if their support is still surprising. People simply need to get over this brain block and realize all trump did was show them they could get away with anything.

I think the world's response should just be: "Look Donald, we'll come and wipe your ass but not before you've finished shitting, ok?"

The question cannot be ignored: Why tf do any women vote for Trump & Project 2025 (outside of a tiny "trad wife" cult devoted to babymaking)? www.ms.now/ali-velshi/p...

I can't get over the resignation letter of U.S. Top counter terrorism office today. You need to read it as the media are not reporting the important bit!

"Democracy is practice and not just theory. We should use the malleability and degrees of freedom that software can give us to experiment with more radical forms of democracy in the platforms that run our lives." @tante.cc

Trump is obsessed w 2020 election having been "stolen" bc the fix was in & he was supposed to have won. He thinks he lost due to mail-in ballots, which couldn't be manipulated by Elon. Hence his animus against mail-in voting. Remember he thanked Elon for "knowing about voting computers" in 2024

When people who cheat at a game invite you to play with them, it is not for your benefit that they do so.

Part of the problem is that politicians think that Americans are just really stupid.... Another part of the problem is that politicians may not be wrong there

This was *the* case pro-Israel defenders would point at to say "See? Israel takes human rights violations seriously!" And after all that — including mobs of Israeli rioters and politicians storming a military base to protest the arrest of these soldiers — it's being dropped.

Of course, Joe Rogan says he's using Grok to distinguish real from fake Iran videos.

The entire Trump administration is just a historic smash-and-grab operation.

SC neighbor used to talk shit abt Biden, but never got *angry* over politics. Today he was red-faced w outrage re Trump & the war. I think that points to a significant difference between "bad feelings" that were stoked by anti-Biden propaganda & genuine disgust aroused organically by Trump's war.

"Forecasters had anticipated a gain of around 50,000 jobs. Instead, employers cut tens of thousands of jobs..." Really? Economists are that clueless? Anyone who works anywhere knows what's happening to jobs. Just listen to "the drum" at work...everyone knows jobs are being cut & no one hired

I don't know why msm insists on reporting how a prospective Trump appointee, eg. Steve Pearce for BLM, answers questions from legislators, as if those statements mean something about what the individual will actually do on the job. We already know Trump & his entire circle say one thing & do another

Analysts from the Penn Wharton Budget Model project direct military costs for Operation Epic Fury could reach $40 billion to $95 billion if it lasts 4–5 weeks. Add another $20B to that for military aid to Israel. But, yeah, US gov can't afford SNAP to feed poor folks.

Iraq fought an 8-year war with Iran & Trump thinks US can finish up in a few weeks. Good luck with that.

Since US strikes killed everyone identified as a possible successor to Ali Khamenei, that means the "plan" for Iran is chaos & no one knows wtf happens next. How reassuring!

Let's not forget: Trump & Netanyahu are both warmongers & corrupt criminals. Both control a bunch of nuclear weapons. Trump's past statements about nukes suggest he wouldn't object to their use in the Middle East. Many in Trump's base pray for the "Rapture" & destruction of Earth.

Satanyahu finally has a US president dumb enough to use his "Dept of War" to wreak havoc on behalf of Israel. Not that Israel hasn't been getting whatever it wants from USA forever, but this combination of pure evil + idiocy is something new.

Loathe to admit it, but Google search's AI mode has become my preferred way to use Google. Their regular search is horrible, top-loaded w garbage. In comparison, AI mode seems direct & efficient. Also provides info scraped from walled gardens like Facebook (I hate FB links in search results)

30 years. This video should be on every network.

Quite rare to see a chart that says quite so overtly that no one involved has the slightest clue what’s happening here