Turns out, he did come back with a comically swollen right hand. Looks like a water balloon with a terrible makeup job. H/T: @atrupar.com

This Reddit post is formatted like a joke but it’s actually a very dry recitation - at times, direct quotes - of America’s public war strategy over the last month. This can’t go on. This is deranged. Impeach and imprison.

Even the worst version of JD Vance DOES have political incentive to round up cabinet votes for the 25th Amendment. Two years of Presidency guaranteed looks more attractive than trying to follow this shit show. Yeah, seems impossible. But so did Biden stepping down.

This is why we don't have to worry about bluesky dying right now. Clearly, we are holding out until this moment, at the very least.

Are we SURE sure this is real

We are seven months away from the most consequential midterm election in US history. Meanwhile, we are fighting a war. These are the structural conditions for a coup attempt in which a president tries to nullify elections and take permanent power as a dictator. snyder.substack.com/p/the-next-c...

Ridiculous that Trump can say the Strait will “open up naturally” and the coverage doesn’t straight up mock this with a comparison to when he said COVID will disappear “like a miracle” in… February of 2020, after our first death. He repeated the same 38 times over 8 months and 200,000 deaths.

Everything in tech works fine as is—data centers won’t solve our real problems, like Republicans breaking our healthcare to fund illegal economy-breaking wars.

The unsolvable issue with Bluesky: the power users are sane and principled and have good intentions, but live in an insane world filled with idiots and grifters. They can’t turn off the righteous rage, and are correct so often that the rage doesn’t recognize space for genuine disagreement.

All of this because we didn’t throw Trump in prison for trying to overthrow an election.

Literally enabling the proliferation of AI-generated CSAM. Sure would be nice to have effective corporate regulation in place right now!

CONFIRMED: A U.S. F-15E fighter jet has been shot down over southern Iran, according to Reuters and the Wall Street Journal, citing U.S. officials. Search and rescue operations are now underway for the crew. Their status is unclear.

americans have absolutely no idea how badly the war is going for the united states, all thanks to the gutless, witless journalists who refuse to cover the facts of the situation

The US reportedly waited to strike the bridge in Iran a second time until rescue workers and others in the area gathered to help the wounded, which then killed at least eight people. Authorities in Iran are describing it as an act of terrorism.

Raskin: "It doesn't give me a lot of comfort that Todd Blanche is now the acting AG. This is the guy who transferred Ghislaine Maxwell from the higher security prison to the low security prison camp in Texas."

The president's former personal lawyer taking over in a position he views as his personal lawyer.

Objectively, the plain evidence shows they are not close to "decimated": - they still have loads of missiles and drones and take out U.S. and allied targets every day. - they control the Strait for the first time - they still have a nuclear program - the regime is intact

Here is the Iran peace deal Trump is bragging about tearing up to spite Obama

Iran won’t close the Strait Iran better open the Strait Iran has 2 days to open the Strait Iran has a week to open the Strait NATO, open the Strait I’ll bomb your critical infrastructure if Strait isn’t opened I don’t care about the Strait No ceasefire till Strait is open

> starts war with Iran > gives operational control of the Strait to Iran > leaves what did Pete Hegseth and Trump mean by this

Start the fire. Walk away. Tell the world they’re on their own.

Can't overstate the impact that's coming down the pipeline to truckers, farmers, logistics, and beyond- the U.S. economy runs on diesel with several states setting new all-time highs for diesel, while others are seeing largest monthly increases of all time: AZ +67% NV +58% NC +58% TN +56% LA +56%

Trump has single-handedly triggered the worst energy crisis in living memory and virtually the entire American body politic is in this narcotized stupor about it, refusing to believe that anything could ever happen, or matter, and scared of being deemed overly partisan if they suggest it could

I said this in replies elsewhere, but I want to say it loudly here. Anything other than a fullthroated affirmation of birthright citizenship in this country by SCOTUS is an act of treason. It is grounds for immediate impeachment. It is a violation of every oath they have made.

get discharged if you have a beard but steal an attack helicopter for an unauthorized joyride to kid rock’s house for a political photo op and the secretary of defense will personally praise you while overruling and humiliating your commanders for pursuing basic disciplinary procedure

i love that the right treats kid rock like a make a wish kid

Congrats MAGA, America First became America Alone In The Corner while the world moves on and abandons us. Guessing that’s a familiar feeling for all those folks.

Project Hail Mary. Can’t stop thinking about how fucking great the movie was. And that if it happened to us for real, the only action Trump would take is to Truth at the sun to stop dimming and be warmer oR eLsE. Just kidding, the entire GOP would pretend it’s not even happening.

This might be the most unhinged thing he’s ever tweeted, and that’s saying something. He’s flailing. Has no idea how to get out of this war cleanly.

This is nuts. The only reason to do this is the cruelty and the racism. It will actively harm the U.S. economy. We're not talking about undocumented migrant workers here. These are legal PERMANENT residents.

Hard to overstate how obvious this was in Minneapolis. They'd roll around the neighborhood in full gear, doing nothing immigration-related at all, wait for angry crowds to gather, and then attack them with tear gas and pepper spray! It was a violent siege and the feds owe us billions in reparations.

well but have you considered that one time people on bluesky were very rude about a journalist who is my friend?

A week after the election, I talked with @anamariecox.bsky.social about our race, AIPAC, and how we’re trying to not just keep *our* mutual aid operation going, but make it a nationwide strategy: newrepublic.com/article/2080...

The fact that military officials can’t give the President of the United States an honest assessment of the war in Iran—and have to placate him by showing him videos of stuff blowing up—should be concerning to everyone.

Oh my g-d they’re 50 First Dates-ing him www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...

absolutely incredible. Trump might have done more damage to American imperial power than anyone ... ever?

Senate just confirmed a DHS Secretary who thought dueling was both legal and cool. If you put these goons into a movie, they’d feel like caricatures that audiences would universally know to cheer against. And yet.

There was ONE ATC in the tower at LGA during last night's crash. ONE ATC, at LGA!, dealing w ALL air and ground traffic, including a plane filling w a strange smell and no gate to return to. The Pentagon wants $200B for a vanity war, but our ATC towers are empty. Budgets are moral documents.

what a ripoff. I will not build a wind farm for the low low price of $995 million

I thought they were supposed to help out in some nebulous way. But they are just going to stand around menacing people huh?

again I point out how strange it is that high-level diplomatic negotiations of war and peace are being conducted by freelancers Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, both of whom have egregious conflicts of interest, and not the actual secretary of state

- Iran won’t close the Strait because that would be very bad for them - we knew they would close it, I expected oil prices to be worse - the strait will open itself - we don’t use it, allies should open it - OPEN THE STRAIT RIGHT NOW OR WE’LL DESTROY YOUR POWER PLANTS

This was so predictable. What a nasty, awful, indecent man with no redeemable qualities.

Nothing screams “we’re just winging it” like having to buy oil from Iran while in the middle of a war with Iran.

Chris Murphy would make a fantastic leader.