Y'all are just haters. I'm looking forward to the imminent appointment of the US Navy's first ever Witchfinder Admiral.

Chat do we need a SecNav to make ships???

<taps sign, rather frustratingly> (written a month ago in @liberalcurrents.com, full piece here: www.liberalcurrents.com/what-if-iran...)

Jennica is obviously fucking insane, like "has cooked her brain to the point she's indistinguishable from someone with schizophrenia" but dort, boy, I dunno Kinda seems suboptimal a FGO is applaudingly RTing stuff saying his service secretary is part of a jew plot to depose the president

Tasnim: Iran is out, not sending a delegation to Islamabad. AP: US is out, not sending JD Vance to Islamabad.

The thing is you have a Secretary of Defense who quite literally does not think germs are real, he explicitly rejects germ theory The question to ask isn't "why did pete do (x)," it's "why did roger wicker vote to confirm a guy who literally doesn't think germs are real"

Too much marketing hype for too little delivery combined with "what you actually want if you succeed sounds horrifying" has a way of alienating people, it turns out. The question is: will they learn from this? Everything I see suggests "no."

Trump, who said in the 2024 campaign that Kamala Harris would start World War 3, compares his war against Iran to World War II

We're reaching levels of CUAS that shouldn't even be possible.

It’s inaccurate to say Mario is brave and Luigi is cowardly Luigi is afraid of death, so he runs away from danger. Mario is afraid of living, so he runs towards death. Both brothers are cowards in their own way

Katy Perry Strait of Hormuz timeline. You, change your mind, like a girl, changes clothes. You’re hot then you’re cold. You’re yes than you’re no.

A lot of Cold War policies were deeply immoral, but the formation of NATO, western European unification, collective security etc were good and acceptable responses to what the USSR was up to.

I'll never understand why anyone in lib land thinks we need a guy like this. We're already got full up on midwit commenters.

BREAKING The Speaker of Iran’s parliament says that President Trump has repeatedly lied today and that the Islamic Republic of Iran is closing the Strait of Hormuz as long as the US military’s blockade remains in place.

It's been hard for me to accept, but as I head into middle age, I'm forced to realize: I will never be able to rock the golden suit Martin Fry wears in the music video for ABC's Poison Arrow youtu.be/a70yJwgQtzo?... Jury's out on Singing Telegram outfit but it's not looking good.

yeah I have definitely met this guy in a New Orleans thicket before

NATO is a vaccine created to protect us all from all-consuming global war. Calling it a Cold War relic is the same logic as “we don’t need measles vaccines because measles doesn’t exist anymore.”

Golly, I can't believe I got to visit Bluesky headquarters and sample the local cuisine

RIP to everyone getting the "Rate Limit Exceeded" error but im different. and better. maybe even better than the Rate Limit.

Trump threatens to leave NATO if European countries don’t join the US war on Iran, but it isn’t working because he has no credibility. Who trusts that he’ll honor NATO commitments? Who buys that Europe joining the war would make him back NATO? Who believes he’d even tell the truth if they did help?

If you take nothing else from the war in Ukraine, take this.

my newest in Liberal Currents: in celebration of Tax Day i make the case for liberals to collect more taxes, not less www.liberalcurrents.com/actually-col...

a thing that is going to suck a lot is that democrats are going to have to get religion on revenue, funding and spending

WE DIDN'T START THE FIRE

Trump: 2/6-“They want to make a deal badly 3/2-“They want to make a deal badly 3/16-“They want to make a deal badly 3/24-“They want to make a deal badly 3/25-“They want to make a deal badly 4/1-“They want to make a deal badly 4-13-“They want to make a deal badly 4/14-“They want to make a deal badly

JD Vance would sell his soul for 2¢ in his pocket and 2% in the polls, what exactly do think he'd sell yours for?

wasn’t really familiar with the “clavicular” kid but i think just noting his name is braden and he went to something called seton hall prep ought to put an end to whatever nonsense he does pretty quick

Reading for fun is valuable, and even if you're reading basically nothing but trashy fiction, you're sharpening your mind and it's good for you. For this reason, but also many others, libraries are inherently priceless.

"liberals are actually intolerant of other perspectives" mate, our team includes bush era neocons, communists, nurses, teachers, most unions, basically *every* academic, all the social justice movements, & the supreme pontif of the catholic church

It's broken my morale. Every time I hear something cloaked in marketing gibberish, my brain immediately goes to "scam."

“He’s not sleeping He’s pretending to be Jesus He’s posting all night He’s not well” kind of lines up with the chorus of Panic by The Smiths.

I hate Chuck Schumer because of the way he fumbled the messaging over the potential March 2025 shutdown vote, but I really think it's unbecoming of you to bring up how Hasan Piker has opinions on what kind of woman is most deserving of rape.

Trump is demonstrating the importance of credibility in international relations. He is not credible. He’s shown that others can’t trust what he says, and can’t act as if his stance will be the same tomorrow. He can’t communicate demands or make reliable offers. He made America’s word is worthless.

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Piker is very useful us. It’s good to have the opportunity to demonstrate that we have real principles that people on the left are not exempt from. This guy sucks and anyone who’s afraid to say it is not just a coward, but one with terrible instincts.

Pobre Tottenham, tan lejos de Dios … y tan cerca de la Championship

here's Trump entering a UFC event as Vance says that negotiations with Iran have failed

The Bot learned about the VPO Commissariat, it seems.

I'm shocked, shocked to discover gambling in this establishment.

welcome to deals with donald trump you stupid motherfuckers

tbh i want joe rogan to be politically homeless; he’s obscenely wealthy with totally incoherent low information politics, i don’t *want* there to be a party for him

Family Guy is better than The Matrix.