honestly it's probably for the best if the First Things merger of evangelical Protestantism and neoconservative Catholicism collapse

“The Vicker of Christ is Weak On Crime” is honestly an incredible bit.

Glory to the people of Hungary

I see mutual aid bluesky has found this. A broad social safety net that takes care of everyone's basic needs is fairer and more equitable than a network of privatized interpersonal charity in which people's benefits depend on their ability to accumulate internet clout and perform abjection online.

It is kinda darkly funny how transparently obvious it was that Vance was trying to set himself up as a great statesman and the moment he stepped into the arena for real he shit himself and went home.

Current status of the Strait of Hormuz dispute

Median income for all age brackets is going up. Adjusted for inflation (I.e., costs going up). And it went up the highest for the worst off The fact our journalists don’t believe in science and are innumerate is a huge part of the reason we’re here

This is not true

One thing I think is being underrated is how Iran refusing our terms undermines the White House narrative: Iran was “begging” for a deal, but walked away from the table? There’s no spinning that. There’s no framing that doesn’t position Iran as our equal

for what it’s worth I think the skepticism of the claims against Swalwell is coming exclusively from people who haven’t read the claims against Swalwell

>JD Vance was unable to negotiate a comprehensive diplomatic agreement with Iran in like 12 hours No. No...this can't be right. I can't believe it.

I do think this is how the war will ultimately end

In 1998 I was inside the privately guarded RFE/RL building In Bratislava, where many people feared that Vladimír Mečiar would stage a coup After losing the election. Instead, he sang an emotional song on tv and left. Just to say that the worst scenarios rarely plays out in reality… #Hungary

man morale at the AP is real bad huh

“Got a great view of the moon out of window 2. Looks a little smaller than yesterday.” “Guess we’ll have to go back.” #artemisii

It does. The idea is that there must be exclusive Jewish sovereignty in land previously owned or held by Palestinian. As Jabotinsky and Arendt noticed this implied permanent violence.

i’ve also become section 230 reform pilled. i’ve decided all the arguments against doing that are basically libertarian dogma mixed with nostalgia for a version of the internet circa 2002 that in respect never had a chance and is never going to happen.

Yep. Section 230 itself as the means to do this I’m a little iffy on, but “people you may know” and “for you” pages are straightforwardly content that you are acting as a publisher for. If you’re uncomfortable with being legally exposed in that way, don’t have those features.

yep. and as a basical factual matter if you are deciding through a black box, proprietary algorithm what to show me on the app, you are a publisher!

Hitler's NSDAP never gained the support of more than one-third of voters in free and fair elections! Just like far-right leaders today, Hitler came to power because of the collaboration of right-wing elites, who either wanted to "fight off the left" or thought they could play the far right.

Billions must smile

Fun fact, maintaining the naval blockade through the armistice until the final peace treaty was signed was also what the Allies did to Germany after WWI, so there's real precedent for.

Oh cool we’re trapped in a remake of Groundhog Day set in hell

The sun never rises on the Trump American Empire

Oman and Iran seeing Trump somehow agreed to let them collect their entire GDPs in taxes on shipping

Whatever the politics of the op, this is a statement that’s fully in lockstep with the white supremacist project. “We, the true Americans, have always been on the side of racial subjugation” is the exact opposite of a radical statement. It is the most conservative statement you can make.

Iran is intercepting drones, Saudi Arabia is intercepting drones, Israel is bombing Lebanon, and Iran is promising retribution It’s been about 12 hours since the “ceasefire”

Call it what you want, what happened last night was proof Quiet Quitting is real and impacting the world economy

So did we surrender???

Hegseth: "Shot down on a Friday — Good Friday — hidden in a cave, a crevasse, all of Saturday. And rescued on Sunday, flown out of Iran as the sun was rising on Easter Sunday. A pilot reborn." the fighter pilot, you see, is jesus

The post-splashdown press conference

Beautiful day to fill the 100,000th pothole of the year.

They are doing a Jesus allegory for the pilot. What the fuck

the fact that this is what he does when he knows his base is starting to lose enthusiasm (they’ll never actually abandon him) should be a case-closed piece of evidence against any fool who spent any of the last 10 years saying MAGA was about economic anxiety rather than racism and sexism.

JOURNALIST (wearing a subtle but defiant pin on his suit): Good evening, Mr. President TRUMP (visibly decaying): whhat th hell did that little waiter just say to me

“We propose to settle all the difficulty of the Dred Scott Decision by putting it into the Constitution. If a man is not a citizen of the country in which he is born, in God’s name of what country is he a citizen? If he may not live there, where has he a right to live?“

Sure, the most influential accounts on X are all right-wing influencers who spew a steady stream of misinformation and hatred, but I'm sure you're not feeling any downstream effects from all of that. You're just too smart and savvy to be influenced by propaganda, not like literally everyone else.

The thing about Hasan piker discourse is ask a dem primary voter if they know what that is

I’ll give this to Shiesty: I would not rob a guy who’s most famous beef song is about how he killed a robber and beat the case www.theguardian.com/music/2026/a...

I’m glad Alex Trebek isn’t around to see how low Celebrity Jeopardy! has fallen

They did it Muslamically tho

"Asymmetric warfare" is when a country uses conventional SAM capabilities like a peer adversary to down aircraft the same way we would, yes, words don't actually mean anything

"Asymmetrical warfare" is when you recite the Shahada before firing the surface to air missile

Ohhh….its real www.yahoo.com/news/article...

It’s pretty awful that a lot of conspiracy theories from the Biden era have stuck around for Trump II. Don’t feel great about what that says for future politics

These are called heat seeking missiles. It’s not new tech. We were selling them to Iran 50 years ago We entered a war and now war is occurring. This breathless “breaking” format over every little detail distracts from the big picture, People Will Die And It’s Pointless

So Erin Reed blocked me over this one but I’m going to take a few minutes to point out why this “reporting” is so bad and repost a few times to hopefully spread the word. TL;DR Erin either doesn’t understand anything about NYC law or politics or is outright lying about what’s happening here.

It's like we're in a competition with Iran to see who can run out of general officers first