Never forget who is really winning this war. www.ft.com/content/37d4...

In a supreme irony the Catholic Church, due to its glacial pace of change and reflexive conservatism, has become the defender of liberal values in the 21st century as multiple developed nations gallop headlong into postliberalism and fascism

This section resonated with me "So our Creator removed us from that state and handed us a different task: galut. Where the rules we should live by are not those of domination and control, but of interrelation and coexistence."

Millions of people displaced. Illegal chemical weapons like white phosphorus being deployed. Double-tap strikes to bombard the same target twice in a row. Bombing people’s homes and tents. Decimating entire residential areas.

I’d love to say, “I’m shocked! Shocked I say!” But I just can’t. How can one be shocked by this anymore when The Grift is so bloody obvious with these people? 😕🤬

UPDATE ON THE HORMUZ COALITION (Mon, March 16): 🇫🇷 France: REJECTED 🇬🇧 UK: REJECTED 🇮🇹 Italy: REJECTED 🇪🇸 Spain: REJECTED 🇯🇵 Japan: REJECTED 🇳🇴 Norway: REJECTED 🇨🇦 Canada: REJECTED 🇦🇺 Australia: REJECTED 🇩🇪 Germany: REJECTED 🇨🇳 China: NO RESPONSE 🇳🇱 Netherlands: NO RESPONSE 🇰🇷 South Korea: NO CONFIRMATION

Strike has begun, 3,800 meat packing workers in Colorado have walked off the job

This is a performative war of macho posturing by third rate figures who mistake the audience of social media and right wing cable TV for the gravitas (?) of diplomacy and foreign policy. It would be comic if it was not so painfully tragic.

ICE has killed someone new.

Not a good sign when he overreacts every time he's asked if we're sending in ground troops

Quite a few things have felt off to me about this war on Iran and one of them is that this would have been a weeklong story a few years ago and it won't rate at all now. There would have been chatter, columns, etc... about callousness and disregard etc... But now and with this guy, nothing.

Remember: There is nothing natural or inevitable about extreme inequality; it’s the result of an economic system that values wealth and power over human dignity and justice. It doesn't have to be this way.

China is gonna end this war by convincing the US to back down aren't they?

Jews are targeted in shuls & online. Brown & Black people are abducted and sent to concentration camps. Muslims are openly targeted by politicians. Activists & journalists are targeted by the FBI. Trans & queer people are being outlawed. We are in this together. This is why solidarity matters.

Undercover Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank shot and killed a Palestinian couple in their car and two of their children, aged five and seven. Khaled, the oldest child who survived, recounted that the soldier declared "we killed dogs", then took him out of the car, and beat him.

Things people would not believe if told about this 20-50 years ago.

I think fighting domestic antisemitism and standing up for the rights of Palestinians and opposing their genocide have to go together, personally.

Says it all, really.

Except this time there's no respawning

Feels exactly like what the US just did with Iran.....and we'll get sucked into another quagmire....this time in our own hemisphere

Trump begging China to bail him out is the most pathetic goddamned thing.

can only imagine the conversations Chinese officials are having behind closed doors about this right now. "he wants what? are you sure?"

wait is he going to delay the meeting until Xi sends the PLAN to work alongside the US Navy??? i'm fucking dying

The medium term alarm going off everywhere in the Middle East no matter what side they're reluctantly or willingly on in the current war is: Israel is moving to seize and occupy half of Lebanon, and this time they're probably not going to give it back

Let Trump cook, let him keep demonstrating how irresponsible the USA: he is setting the scene for a complete overhaul of alliances for every one of the USA's former allies.

Oh now he asks......🙄

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Ask the Kurds I’ve literally lost the number of times we’ve fucked them over

They would've used this guy for fundraising messages

Donald lies about everything—even the Oscars. Michael Jackson's This Is It earned over $267 million. Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11 made over $200 million. In contrast, the flop Melania grossed only $15.4 million, failing to recoup its $75 million in costs.

I do wonder how the public will react when an American servicemember is on the receiving end of an FPV drone video, because it seems like when, not if

This war is such a perfect distillation of the Trump admin's combination of stupid and evil (or incompetence and malice). It's immoral and illegal AND they also did absolutely nothing to plan for it. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Everyone’s talking about Sinners tonight. But the real sinners are greedy CEOs and the system that protects them fighting workers who organize. Plot twist: Workers are organizing anyway. Join a union. #Oscars #Sinners #UnionStrong

depressingly accurate analysis of the situation

"Don't desecrate the nature!", Soviet poster, 1970s

The Old Testament is not contrary to the New:

My Ides of March fun fact is that the place where Caesar was stabbed is now a cat sanctuary, and I think it’s beautiful that creatures with tiny knives on their feet live there

Having a hard time believing this ides of March story, you're telling me senators did something other than send out fundraising texts

Hello, Gaius Cassius Longinus here. I have a favor to ask you. Julius Caesar has DECLARED himself DICTATOR FOR LIFE! I need you to send a denarius to Save The Republic PAC RIGHT NOW so we can stop Caesar from making himself a king.

If they had understood that they could not defeat the Soviet Union by an initial overwhelming attack, planning for a number of things would have been fundamentally different. If the US had understood that Iran isn’t Venezuela… well the sentence finishes just the same way.

"But someone will say, 'You have faith, and I have works.' Show me your faith apart from works, and I by my works will show you faith." - James 2:18 ⚓️ 🕯

The element of surprise against our own Pentagon

"no plan survives first contact with the enemy" clearly is irrelevant when you have NO FUCKING PLAN AT FUCKING ALL - something the trumphumpers in the pentagon should consider - and a message to them; we will remember and sort you out in time should you fail to destroy the u.s. -

Jesus H Christ. And I thought I was a terrible liar. The least Trump could do is unleash the strategic oil reserves. But that bastard has so much "short term profit" dementia that he'd rather get rich at $200 barrel price than care about supply chain set backs.

Remember when that answer is what they said about covid? I recal this same prez saying not even 100,000 would catch it...

However much you think capitalism hates you I promise it’s not enough.

The Grifter-in-Chief.

tired: harassing athletes for not covering the spread wired: harassing journalists for not making things up