I fully believe Hegseth has it in him to lose an entire ship, up to and including an aircraft carrier, and more importantly I think there's no one in the White House who would argue against risking it

what are you waiting for, @massago.bsky.social? trans youth across the state need action now

I think it means people should not interpret polls for a living

"Tapas" is now to be called "Freedom Apps" bsky.app/profile/fint...

Watched it, it's really bad, I'll maybe do a thread later so you don't have to. Brett's purpose here is to sell the war, Colbert asks no difficult questions and does not follow up on anything, and it ends with Colbert offering himself up to lead Iran as a laugh line.

just to get out ahead of any "what do you mean we" commentary. we produce guys like this in greater numbers than any civilization in history. there is currently no plan whatsoever to stop making guys. we should have a plan. we need to hobble these guys with crippling taxes and restrict their rights

And they keep saying Bluesky doesn’t have the juice…

I assume this is correct, we're a country that has 3,000 M1 Abrams tanks parked in the desert or whatever, but also I'm not sure if we make "medium and upper medium grade" interceptors that actually work. Which means the war would be politically untenable regionally well before we run out of bombs?

Personally I think it's funny that a bunch of young men signed up to kill foreigners for material gain only to find out their superior officers were religious nutjobs reaching spiritual ecstasy at the idea of throwing their lives away

peggy flanagan’s campaign manager on twitter reporting that angie craig is down 13 points in the minnesota senate primary with 75% of voters saying that her vote for the laken riley act is disqualifying, which would certainly explain her suddenly apologizing for it just days after standing by it

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Mar 2 NYT NY Atty Genl Leticia James orders NYU Langone Hospital to continue offering GAC to minors just 2 wks after it stopped, pointing out that it may be violating state anti-discrimination laws which bar treating a single class of patients differently.

If they were planning ground deployments of significant size they'd be impossible to hide.

"Relentlessly lethal" yes, agreed, to little Iranian girls, troops sitting in a trailer like 2 feet away from the Iranian border, F-15s, and also oh yeah the entire regional security architecture of the Middle East and maybe world

A New York judge has tossed out Columbia University's unprecedentedly harsh discipline against students accused of occupying Hamilton Hall during the 2024 Gaza protests, calling it arbitrary and capricious: hellgatenyc.com/columbia-exp...

Preparing the graves for more than 150 elementary school girls who were killed by an Israeli-American strike. Photo: IRNA #Iran

"listen to local voices" invariably means "listen to this one guy i found who agrees with me that bombing them is good for them"

One of my favourite sides of politics/media.

"According to the…annual Harris Poll, for the 1st time, a majority of Americans believe billionaires are a threat to democracy. A remarkable 71% believe there should be a wealth tax. A majority believe there should be a cap on how much wealth a person can accumulate." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/o...

The "job" of an op/ed page isn't found in nature, it is not some objective thing you are revealing to us here. What determines the "job" of an op/ed page is the result of decisions made by that paper's editors. Consequently, it is always a choice to provide a platform for propaganda.

Live in Maine. Not a fan, but I know why people like him. 1.) He's very accessible -- shows up at all flavor of public events, protests, etc. He's shown up to University of Maine twice, Bangor (smaller urban town), Portland (larger urban town), etc. Chances are if you're...

Makes one wonder what "not v online" Maine voters see of the guy. Presumably they aren't logging on to the microblogging website that's been posting nonstop about his Blackwater/tattoo/racist podcast appearances. So what version of Platner ARE they getting that's putting him over 60% in their polls?

Also not for nothing but you couldn't ask for a better example of blowback than the Islamic Republic, a government that only exists because we deposed a popularly-elected leader

Really can't be left unacknowledged that every single state in the region that houses US military personnel, except for maybe two, do so against the will of the supermajority of their own public's opinion but it does not matter because most of these states are US backed dictatorships.

If you presented me with two allegedly leftish political candidates, one having an old Nazi tattoo and the other having joined Blackwater in the late 2010s... I'd find both suspect but the latter even more so. That it turns out they're the same guy is, well, not surprising.

what on earth happens to arsenal's passing at the ends of matches

🚨"My family in Iran doesn't like the regime but what Iranians distrust more than their own government is America. Most Americans forget: We ended the Iranian experimented democracy in 1953." -One antiwar protester in Chicago told Status Coup's @jtcestkowski.bsky.social ⬇️

Another Winter Olympics in the books and my quest to be the last white man with nothing to say about curling continues.

in case anyone ever needed confirmation that it's not about building a democratic Iran, it's about collapsing Iran and turning it into a land of rubble that can be bombed every six months

I think I've read variations on this post a half-dozen times over the last couple of decades. Beginning to suspect that their interests in doing so are not related to whatever the US is doing, or they don't actually want to.

success, she was totally fooled. idiot.

Not a single one of these psychos cares even a little bit about the people being bombed. I hate them all

It's remarkable how dimwitted everyone is about the argument that the Democrats being hawkish opened a lane for Trump *to lie about* being dovish. It not only made for popular rhetoric, it did so from a position authentically hawkish Democrats couldn't effectively attack.

On top of all the reporting that this war of aggression was planned well in advance, it seems that the reporting also indicates that the US political leadership are quite literally too stupid to understand basic diplomacy. I mean literally not smart enough.

puppy is out of dog food, she cried when she knows im out. operation wait for her to sleep is a go

like venezuela, this is yet another thing trump would not have done, would never have done, if he were actually a russian asset. but that doesn't stop the theorizing.

How to explain the virtues of strategic ambiguity to a mixed Bsky audience... if PRC and the USA are both bad, then vaguely agreeing to ignore the huge potential flashpoint between them is beneficial not only to both parties and the world at large, but also specifically said flashpoint.

Israel has closed all the crossings into Gaza and reimposed total siege.

indiscriminately bombing Iran is not a distraction of the Epstein files, it is a validation of their significance as more than a sex pest hunt. this is what elite impunity for morons looks like. a school turned to rubble on a whim.

If true this will increase the chances Iran actually decides to develop nuclear weapons, on account of Khamenei being opposed to doing that.

Why don't Zionist Democrats (and also all half dozen moderate Republicans) notice the writing on the wall and follow polling? In a way they are. They know the domestic political environment for Israeli impunity will only get worse from here, so they're going for it.

It's superfluous to say it, one feels stupid saying obvious things, but the most-of-the-Democratic-party that said yes to doing a genocide of the Palestinians is saying and will say and has said yes to starting a ludicrous and obscene and criminal and existentially dangerous war with Iran.

Trump's contribution to American politics is showing that pretense isn't necessary. You don't have to shake your head somberly when you do evil, you can say you're doing it because you want to. Why bother with PR when no one can stop you?

Wanna know why I didn't care about his special little speech in front of the billionaires? Because he didn't mean a fucking word of it.

Underrated just how much the US and Israel have been desecrating the very idea of diplomatic engagement by doing these obvious bait and switches. This is the third time now that negotiations were used as cover to prepare for a war already decided. The lesson is to never speak to the US.

Not seeing how worrying the United States and Israel, who are currently lying to justify attacking Iran, would in the future also lie to justify attacking Iran is antisemitic.