When pondering “lethality,” this quote from Sherman in 1865 comes to mind: “War means success by any and every means; it is not fighting alone. Bulls do that, and bears, and all beasts, but men attain objects by intellect, and the introduction of physical power, moved upon strategic points."

It is a weakness of our system that the murder of 160 schoolchildren does not result in an immediate dissolution of the government.

Back in Catholic high school, my most humiliating day was when I forgot my black shoes in the choir room , and didn't have a pair of dress shoes to wear. Not knowing what to do, I scrambled in the closet and found a pair of my brother's dress shoes that were roughly about twice the size of my feet.

"i think he bought the wrong size"

The Emperor is fully dressed, has excellent taste in footwear and knows my size. Truly, he has been sent by God to lead us.

Back in Catholic high school, my most humiliating day was when I forgot my black shoes in the choir room , and didn't have a pair of dress shoes to wear. Not knowing what to do, I scrambled in the closet and found a pair of my brother's dress shoes that were roughly about twice the size of my feet.

I think Trump knows exactly what he's doing with the shoes, it's another humiliation thing. If it wasn't, they'd just rebuy the exact same Florsheim shoe in the right size and wear that. But they know he'd notice those aren't the clown shoes he gave them, so they can't do it.

It gets better. Here's Vance and Rubio in the Oval Office...

tariffs happening for no reason and theyre making your life worse, secret police kidnapping people for no reason and making your life worse, firing thousands of government employees for no reason and making your life worse, going to war with iran for no reason and making your life worse

Literal LOL 😂😂

We have terrible thing to Iran, and Iran is now going to wreck the economies so badly that even Trump doesn’t dare try this shit again.

This thread reads like a litigator’s fever dream.

This hearing is a good reason why attorneys should be terrified of using AI to draft motions or find caselas or anything.

On the one-year anniversary of his detention by federal authorities, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and First Lady Rama Duwaji welcomed Mahmoud Khalil, his wife Noor, and their baby boy, Deen, to Gracie Mansion to break the fast together.

I've always found it ironic that the left came up with postmodernism but the right actually lived it, perfected it.

His press conference has serious March 2020, and he tries to bullshit his way out of a terrible mess he helped create.

Just war crime after war crime after war crimr

To complete the 'time is a flat circle' discussion we're having rn about this being nearly 6 years to the day where Trump started bullshitting us about how bad covid was, the likelihood that we get some form of "like a miracle, it will go away" about high gas prices from him today is pretty high

I can't compete with this.

I had a relative who started giving people ball point pens when her dementia got really bad, don't know what made me think of that just now

It is not my district, but I do think it would be awesome if IL-9 elected @katmabu.bsky.social We genuinely need more left flamethrowers in Congress, and she seems able to navigate the social media hellscape better than any other candidate.

I find it extremely difficult to believe that anyone experiencing what honestly looks like the apocalypse is going to regard it as a form of liberation or that anyone responsible for it actually cares about how Iranians regard it at all.

Gallup Poll (3/5/26): Do you approve of $8 gas No: 99% Yes: 1% Do you approve of Donald Trump's $8 gas policy No: 46.6% Yes: 38.9% Unsure: 14.5%

boy in retrospect, really shouldn’t have elected the worst person in the entire country president. that, it appears, was less than wise

it cannot be emphasized enough that the only reason Donald Trump was the first person to try to bomb Iran into submission is that he was the first US president dumb enough to try

anyone who has been on social media for the last 15 years has ptsd for this exact thing when the charts start to buck and the smart weirdos start to flail and vaguely gesture like this

Someone quick. Dump some Epstein files to cover up the Iran War before this gets out of hand.

I’m just a simple country (war powers) lawyer, but there could be reasons that the US Constitution and the UN Charter sharply restrict recourse to the use of force. www.wsj.com/world/middle...

What madness we have done. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

These are my friends and loved ones. These are people I grew up with, I went to elementary school with all the way through high school. Utterly shameful that it has come to this after all our decades of work and warnings to governments

A refresher on what Rubio once said about the Jan. 6 insurrection that Tarrio helped provoke: "3rd world style anti-American anarchy" “disgusting” “unpatriotic" “inexcusable” "national embarrassment" "one of the saddest days in our history"

Pause for a moment, and read... • Donna Ashworth •

This is nightmareish.

It looks like the war on Iran is going about as poorly as the regime’s previous wars against Chicago, Minnesota and Los Angeles.

I don’t see how you can look at the infernos raging in Tehran right now and say we’re just trying to do right by the Iranian people.

the reverse version of those “evolution of man” drawings

This is no different from Putin saying MH17 was shot down by Ukraine or Assad saying rebels gassed themselves.

Renee Good was also shot at point-blank range through her side window by an ICE agent who was in no danger Alex Pretti wasn’t in a car, but he too was shot at point-blank range by an ICE agent who was in no danger It seems every time ICE kills someone they lie to cover up shooting innocent people

These places attract the worst people, and bring out the worst in them.

So almost exactly how Renee Good was executed

Not to repeat myself but: DHS lies brazenly because lying brazenly works It's what police depts around the country do on a regular basis when they have unfavorable facts. Honed to perfection, amplified by media stenographers. Recall, this is how they initially described George Floyd's murder:

i don't care about any arguments against this. right now the sum total of my political advocacy is: crush the Republicans and make them pay. i don't care what comes after because until we do that nothing better is possible.

They've now killed four people -- three U.S. citizens and a Mexican national. They've shot several more. They've lied about all of them. They haven't shaded the truth. They haven't "misled" us. They've brazenly, knowingly lied while in possession of the evidence disproving their lies.

I love it when @dael.bsky.social dives deep.

This woman, US citizen living in Skokie, was detained at Ohare yesterday, taken to Broadview, then transferred to a detention facility in Wisconsin, now released. We know all this not because of DHS, who repeatedly denied that they even had her, but because her phone was pinging in those locations.

Goldberg learned nothing from the Iraq war he cheered for, but since he suffered no consequences for his idiocy, he remains, somehow, a respected figure. Despite being, objectively, an idiot.

One of my favorite lines from Russell Hoban's novel The Medusa Frequency: "In the morning I came awake as I always do, like a man trapped in a car going over a cliff."

I genuinely love the movie Rudy (like any good Notre Dame football fan) but the cynical part of me always thinks that it is a dark fable about how a person should have better dreams than getting to be on the field for a single play in a football game.