Ain't no party like an....ahem....Israel, US, Lebanon party.

The thing I would really like people to understand is that policymaking is all about choosing between imperfect options and doing nothing is very often a much worse choice than doing something that has some downsides as well as upsides.

Shut the fuck up, Jesus Christ.

As always wishful thinking from the western media. Putin did not ask for talks, he in the nutahell just said that they need to continue with agreements from Istanbul. Those unagreed "agreements" were the capitulation of Ukraine. Nothing changed.

a reminder that watergate was legitimately bad. nixon weaponized presidential power to cover up crimes committed by his subordinates, illegally spying on americans and using agencies like the IRS to harass political opponents.

He just went out and said it huh?

Sad and pathetic.

See also Istanbul "agreement".

Oh no, oh dear!

Oil price coming down much faster than Hormuz crossings are going up. @bloomberg.com

“Propaganda always fails when the gap between the fantasy and the reality becomes so large that even the uninformed and uneducated can see it.”

Reminder that Musk literally shared Russian disinformation to justify his USAID cuts

Consider not, only do.

Lol, russia's budget is about to be in a world of hurt. uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/oil-mar...

The power dynamic between Ukraine, Belarus and Russia has changed, as Lukashenko's fold on the issue of drone guidance repeaters today has shown. Ukraine's military power is enough to make Lukashenko back down, while at the same time he doesn't fear a weakened Kremlin's ire.

I find the Usha-Vance stuff deeply fascinating in a morbid sort of way. The things they subject themselves to for proximity to power....

When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.

Trump's Reflecting Pool fiasco is directly linked to his ballroom, the arch, and his bottomless corruption, says @mjtoma.bsky.social. It's all about erasing republican governance and replacing it w/the imperial court of a "czar." On the pod Mike is great on all this: newrepublic.com/article/2121...

Genuinely hate all those Instagram reels about how great the UAE is because they don't have to pay taxes unlike us silly Westerners. It's from slavery, dawg. What they're glorifying is the master's freedom. UAE glazing is unironically a sign of moral decay present at the highest levels of power.

This is one of those things that's 10 times cooler with sound on.

I am *never* going to get over the Court holding that targeted student loan forgiveness was a "major question" that Congress needed to weigh in on, but refusing to intervene to stop the dismantling of the entire cabinet agency overseeing the student loan program.

Repeating a point @dov.bsky.social made much better than I: the ZSU is the most moral army in the world today and it is not at all close.

Kind of insane how this administration taking a chainsaw to our institutions is indistinguishable from how the Russians would gut them but no one wants to put two and two together

Describing the average day in this administration to another person makes them call in a health and wellness check on you at this point

Once again I ask you to consider whether this move helps or hurts Putin's geopolitical interests.

One of the many things that I find strange about the whole Iran thing is that barely anyone mentions the fact that we killed a good chunk of their senior leadership in the first days. Including their demi-god like Ayatollah. It's not one of those things that you say "oh well forget all that" about.

Hormuz vessel crossings: @bloomberg.com

Feels like we're in stage 4 at the moment.

This is one of those hard-to-measure-but-very-true things in immigrant community politics, info sources for US political news among ESL or non-English speaking folks, esp middle aged and older people, can be a truly weird and wild grab bag of social media, small scale radio, group chat links, etc.

"The Americans can't get the slime out of their capital's monument pool and will arrest you for touching it," sounds like the sort of lie they'd tell us in the Soviet Union so we'd stop bitching about bread lines.

The arrests for "vandalism" around the reflecting pool are in principle the same thing as Russian soldiers being forced to record false captures/flag-raisings on the frontlines– the deforming of the state into a tyrant-soothing bouncy infant chair

The excitement you are seeing from people on the left for Vance, a reactionary fascist, because he criticizes Israel makes it pretty clear that we are going to see antisemitism as the glue of red/brown coalitions in 2028.

Lol. Iran has us over a barrel and they know it.

There's so little separating most of us here besides the burning desire to dunk on the imagined worst versions of each other.

The Young Turks, Jimmy Dore, and Brianna Gray are not "American leftism." They're a weird red-brown/dirtbag subset of the left that hates "shitlibs" worse than fascists. And calling them "leftists" at all is being charitable -- they're arguably more akin to Strasserites.

If the rumours about a Russian mobilisation in the poorer cities are true, then I am going to bet that the next Western commie propaganda narrative will be "Those evil Ukrainians are slaughtering the poor young innocent Russian conscripts"

"The Russian Federation prefers for the special military operation goals to be achieved through diplomacy and is not saying no to negotiations" Seems like something left an impression them today. lol.

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Tragic, the worst person you know made a good point.

❗️Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha responded to Moscow refinery strikes, saying Russians asking “what is happening?” should remember their country launched a war of aggression and has killed Ukrainians for years. He told them to ask Putin when he plans to stop. #Ukraine

Call me a godless radical, but I think it's somewhat more damaging to society to concentrate so much wealth and power into the hands of a literal nazi supervillain than it is to contemplate the idea that non-whites might also deserve to live.

Good tzar, bad boyars.

half the republican party are now antisemitic groypers and netanyahu has spent the last 18 years telling american liberals to eat shit and die, excellent work, team

Please see this handy chart for how much winning we're doing. 🤦🏻

Understanding the implications of the MOU, it seems like DJT and his MAGA cohorts may have led the US to its biggest strategic defeat in the 250 years since its founding.

Here's the Iran-US MoU, and it's pretty much a severe strategic defeat and capitulation for the US and a massive strategic and economic victory for Iran. Really an utter humiliation for the US thanks to Trump's naked incompetence. edition.cnn.com/2026/06/17/m...