Axios is now backing off this reporting and a Kurdish official says no Kurds have crossed the border

Worth a read, but it doesn't answer a question I have. What does Turkey think about this?

@radiofreetom.bsky.social Burning question in my mind is if they consulted Turkey?

I would only add that winning wars requires winning the politics of those wars.

The people who say it's transformative for coding aren't professional software engineers. It's the dunning kurger effect. A lot of people confuse the marketing departments of silicone valley or the ramblings of people like musk for actual tech wisdom.

Eh I mean the military has known about them for a long time, so I can't believe they are surprised to see them.

Mowing the grass.

Hush! We can’t let China know!

This cartoonishly childish Hegseth persona is an insult to the American military, the American people, the Iranian people, and just about everybody affected by this war. It is absolutely incredible, in the literal sense, that this man is at the hinge of the chain of command in this spiraling war.

Generative AI is just going to hasten the intellectual collapse already underway in this country.

Dave Wasserman says he’s “seen enough” and says James Talarico has beaten Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett in the Texas US Senate primary.

Boys, I'd be careful up there. That Kuwaiti pilot only needs two more to become an ace.

MAGA should sign up and show us all how warriors get the job done.

EVERCORE, on Trump’s risk insurance: “.. given concerns about the safety of crews and vessels moving through the Strait, .. will likely not be sufficient to meaningfully increase traffic. The heavy use of drones and potential for sea mines have changed the calculus for many.”

Ohhh

Mad hatter shit.

I stressed in the build up to this whole situation that Israel would start escalating even when we wanted things to calm down because this is a once in a lifetime opportunity for them.

Very real possibility by next weekend everyone's kind of sitting around going "huh anyone have any thoughts on what we do next?"

The Speaker of the House defending the outsourcing of the decision to go to war not just to the executive branch but to a foreign government. Article I Crisis on steroids.

So much peace and stability restored to the region by the administration.

is everyone on glue

I mean, the official position of basically the entire department outside of CENTCOM, iran murderhawks, and the MENSA gallery that is OSD politicals was "man this is gonna be fucking stupid"

Awful big talk for a guy who lost three f-15s to friendly fire this morning.

Yea this is a mow the grass operation at best.

Any hope of a good outcome is so far away that we can't even see the light of it.

Someone has been watching the hateful eight.

I just learned that Ayatollah Khamenei and Ayatollah Khomenei are not the same person. Here's my plan for regime change in Iran....(1/23)

This is exactly why we should just stay out of the business of regime change. We're too stupid for that kind of job.

Tom Nichols: Chanting USA is not actually a strategy. How do we know when we're done? Three Americans are dead, 48 Iranian leaders and a lot of other Iranians are dead. We need something more than a midnight video from a guy in a hat telling us everything's going to be awesome.

I'm on a wait and see approach here. I'm not sure it's clear who is doing the attacking.

I think the IRGC will have the final say on who is supreme leader. They are the real power behind that regime. In addition, I also think countries like Saudi Arabia have little interest in seeing a free Iran so close to home. This is a "mow the lawn" doctrine.

I think intellectual collapse is the best way to describe the state of America

This is scandalous.

The last time they had a new one within something like 24 hours. IRGC is the real power.

This is what I've been waiting on.

Ships are still sailing through #Hormuz

Those types hate the democratic party for not throwing them a pity party.

Well let's see if they can hold it for any length of time.

These people want to take us to the middle ages so that nobody is smart enough to know how stupid those people are.

You know it's even worse than that because generative AI can't think.

Agreed.

I think AI will indeed reduce the number of jobs but not in the way people think. Many tech companies are getting into debt up to their eyeballs, and they aren't going to make returns on those investments. I think we're heading into tech winter.

@radiofreetom.bsky.social Let's hope they negotiated a face saving routine.

Horseshoe theory proven.

"Should Ford remain deployed until mid-April, it would have broken the post-Vietnam War 294-day record for carrier deployments ... If the carrier is out until early May, it would match the 300-day-plus deployments that carriers conducted to the Gulf of Tonkin" news.usni.org/2026/02/17/c...

I'm skeptical that democrats can control enough seats with a strong enough margin to throw their weight around. Last time, they had Joe Manchin and others that had to sign off on anything that got through. I'm sure this next time will be no different.