“War is the unfolding of miscalculations.” — Barbara Tuchman 🌏🕊️☮️

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When he speaks of bombing Iran back to the Stone Age, Trump is plagiarizing Air Force General Curtis LeMay, who made the same threat against North Vietnam. Trump would be better advised not to invoke that particular conflict. (LeMay went on to be George Wallace’s running mate in 1968.)

The death of a nearly blind refugee from Myanmar who was found on a Buffalo street in February — five days after Border Patrol agents left him at a doughnut shop — has been ruled a homicide, authorities said Wednesday. https://to.pbs.org/3NZGHsz

Porca miseria! 🇮🇹 At Syracuse, Classics, Ceramics and Italian Out as Majors in Overhaul www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/n...

I lost track of the time frames of Trump’s successive apocalyptic ultimata (open the Strait of Hormuz or else we’ll destroy your power grid), but I believe that there are about five days to go. So, it seems like an odd time to give an address, unless he wants to extend the ultimatum yet again.

Balancing Act. 🐈‍⬛

With regard to our berobed and beshitted Justice Alito: If the Founders had no capacity to conceive of illegal immigration, then they also had not the imagination to conceptualize automatic weapons. Originalism is and always was a pathetic, desperate lie of miserable, ideological shitheels.

That’s one hell of a cover…..

There are apparently ways to bet on what Trump will say during his address this evening, using “prediction markets,” such as “Polymarket.” I don’t understand how this is supposed to work, considering that Trump often manages to say, simultaneously, two things that are diametrically opposed.

“Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.” — George Carlin 🌏🕊️☮️

I love angels. They help us. I liked this beautiful painting. 😘👼

Somewhere in France... Photo by Elliott Erwitt.

The cruellest month. 🫣

Iran provided significant support to the U.S. in its fight against the Taliban in Afghanistan after 9/11. Iran was de facto aligned with the U.S. in its fight against ISIS in Iraq.The cross-currents in the Middle East shift constantly and violently. Don’t expect Trump to even remotely grasp this.

I think that Hegseth just said that there has already been “regime change” in Iran. What more do we want? Two regime changes? 🤷🏼‍♂️

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Why would Trump balk at destroying civilian infrastructure in Iran? He’s already killed 163 civilians in his “kinetic strikes” in the Caribbean and Pacific, not to mention his having destroyed the 48 vessels that the victims were on at the time.

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“Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of the river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarreled with him?” — Blaise Pascal 🌏🕊️☮️

I’m starting to wonder whether, at least as far as the Middle East is concerned, nuclear weapons are almost redundant, considering that entire countries can be rendered uninhabitable by the destruction, by means of “conventional” weapons alone, of a few strategically selected desalination plants.

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We always have the choice to pull ourselves up and go on…

European allies say Russia is helping Iran more than the U.S. has publicly acknowledged, sources say. www.cbsnews.com/news/russia-...

Holy New York.

It’s been mentioned already but this had some real “Ceaușescu last speech” vibes going on.

My beloved mountains of the Catalan Pyrenees. Aigüestortes National Park. Catalonia.🌲🌲

If, in the context of warfare, for a country to surrender means for it to relinquish its sovereignty and be ruled by the military or civil authorities of the supposed victor, does either Israel or the U.S. really want Iran to surrender? I think that the answer is pretty clearly, “No.” 1/2

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Believe this may be just stalling tactics to get ground forces in place.

"Fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous communist plot we have ever had to face." Sterling Hayden - #BOTD - in one of his best performances as General Jack D. Ripper in "Dr. Strangelove" (released in 1964).

Generalissimo Trump already “turned back” from his 48 hour ultimatum issued last Saturday morning. We’ll see if he “turns back” from his substitute 5 day ultimatum, which is due to expire this Saturday morning. In any case, Trump is the last one who has any right to say, “There’s no turning back.”

Generalissimo Trump says that Iran is (1) “obliterated” and (2) “close to defeat.” Strange how a country can keep on fighting after its obliteration. Iran War Live Updates: Trump Mixes Diplomacy and Threats in Effort to Pressure Iran www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...

The strange, and almost surreal, nature of Trump’s War might derive from the fact that the aggressor nations (U.S., Israel) seem unwilling actually to invade and occupy their declared enemy (Iran), and yet they expect their enemy effectively to surrender.

This cartoon is from 2007. What does that tell us?

The old country. 🌳🌿

"With open eyes, you watch; with closed eyes, you see." -- Dejan Stojanović, "A Book". #BookSky

Any war that loses a measurable amount of popular support just because drivers have to pay a bit more to fill up their gas tanks is probably a war that should not have been started in the first place.

If Lindsey Graham thinks that there is any parallel between Iwo Jima and Kharg Island, someone should remind him that gas was rationed during WWII. If you are fighting a just war, it is not likely that reluctance to incur higher gas prices would serve as your primary motivation to seek peace.

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