This is correct but actually misses the category error here: the REASON they’re doing “The New York Times supports” IS THE SAME REASON that Jamelle becomes conflated with the NYT. WRITERS ARE NOT THE PUBLICATION. PERIOD FULL STOP. Opinion pages aren’t news pages but WRITERS AREN’T THE PUBLICATION.

Over the night Hezbollah joined the fight against Israel from Lebanon. Israel responded by assassinating senior leaders of the group and is now likely to carry out extensive operations against the group that extend beyond what it’s been doing since the ceasefire at the end of 2024.

I’m so tired of seeing this line about restoring trust repeated. Appreciation for public health reached a new high with the pandemic. The majority of people understand that science made *incredible* progress in a staggeringly small amount of time. The people who “lost trust” never did to begin with.

Proving one thing: they fully intended to put some IRGC general in charge, likely one who happily ordered the killing of protesters Implying another: they accidentally killed a bunch of the high level guys who were on the Mossad payroll.

We're still not there, but that "قريبا" at the end elevates the threat level a notch. The Houthis are much more willing to go down fighting for Hezbollah than Iran.

the world began in 1979 and it's been downhill ever since

What a mess... Chaos, uncertainty, distrust...

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For ppl who aren't aware: Old temperate forests are insanely rare nowadays and extremely important ecosystems lost forever once cut. They're not just "old trees" but intricate networks of trees, fungi and all kinds of living creatures. You CANNOT replant this!! Once it's gone it's lost FOREVER!!!

There was a point last year when the following dialogue happened: Me: “As I say all the time, commitment to the bit is the highest virtue.” My interlocutor, a warm acquaintance: “I have heard you say that. All the time.” I had a few moments of self-criticism. But you know what? TAPS THE SIGN.

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Plus there’s horrible biases built into these LLMs news.northeastern.edu/2026/01/20/p...

it sure sounds like he has no war aims and the length of the war will be determined simply by how long he feels like killing people.

How this St. Paul Saints jacket became THE must-own local clothing item last weekend.

Iraq war was started on a presidential lie but it feel like somehow the Iran war was started on something worse: a total presidential failure to comprehend even the most basic facts of the situation

Which is why reducing polling places, reducing early voting, absentee voting, implicit poll taxes, over-zealous scrubbing of voter rolls and changing the postmark rules on mail-in ballots is anti-democratic disenfranchisement.

Shocked, I am. #Satire www.propublica.org/article/elec...

okay so sounds like some of what's happening here is that he's deliberately letting the word "oysterman" do an ENORMOUS volume of misleading rhetorical work here, when in fact he's something more akin to a high-end specialty restaurant supplier??? lmao oh my god what a transparent grift

The first person in Bahrain to be confirmed to die was a migrant worker from the debris of an intercepted missile

Pair the below with this and it seems the "plan," to the extent there is one, is to hope Iran descends into chaos as no clear successor makes competing factions fight for power. Good odds what happens instead is the current structure remains but with a more radicalized leadership.

Turns out that elected politicians retaining and acting on any sort of shame was a load-bearing part of the US Constitution

okay, this *specific* part feels like a parody of the actual iraq war

fucking brilliant work, guys. what an accomplishment, you took out the IRGCAF's gate guards. you are winner. we're throwing away a year's production of precision-guided munitions to vaporize a bunch of broke-dick museum pieces which probably haven't seen so much as a taxi test this millennium.

I hate how accurate this tweet is.

A key difference between Hezbollah and the Houthis is Hezbollah viewed Iran's Ayatollah as a great spiritual leader, especially after Nasrallah's death, whereas Abd al-Malik al-Houthi thinks he could replace him

Jessie Buckley has won the Golden Globe, BAFTA, Critics Choice, and Actor Award for her performance in ‘HAMNET’. Only award left is the Oscar.

Like, I just want to post silly videogame nonsense and stupid rec league soccer updates, and in this day alone we had a government-approved Charlie Kirk banner at the DoE, multiple US service members dead, and an update that the ghouls who started this war have no fucking idea what they’re doing.

Increasingly feeling like Timothee Chalamet is going to win his first Oscar on his ninth try in 2061 for playing Lyndon Johnson on his deathbed.

Wrote about how from Minneapolis to Iran, Trump’s strategy is to threaten and kill civilians as a way to force concessions. That’s terror. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/trumps-str...

So we just live in a Black Mirror episode now huh

It's kind of funny that as he ages, Trump looks increasingly like the Disney Hall of Presidents robot from 2017 that I'm still convinced was originally a Hillary robot that had to be hastily refashioned after the election.

The number of leaders in history who have made dumb claims about short wars and been massively wrong…..is very, very, high. Bet the rate’s even higher for illegal warfare.

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I just read this and found it surprisingly gripping. He says no doctrine would seem “more sinister and alarming than that a President [...] can vastly enlarge his mastery over the internal affairs of the country by his own commitment of the Nation’s armed forces to some foreign venture.” (p. 642)

The Economist had better content when they posted camels fucking.

If our demand is "we will bomb you until unconditional surrender and you accept Pahlavi as new shah and nobody ignores him or shoots him or we bomb again", well, we probably have a lot of bombing to do.

OK, we've said no boots on the ground but I'm sure JSOC could carry him along with several changes of suits, a laptop and Starlink, a megaphone, cash, even an aide d'camp, and place him in a prominent square in Tehran. What then? Seriously, what then? www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

The Israeli army has begun a wave of airstrikes on Lebanon in response to Hezbollah firing rockets towards Israel.

We got hit all the damn time. C-RAM isn't gonna get them all. Shooting down incoming missiles has always been a Hail Mary play

Once again Trump demonstrates what a weak president he is. He's so weak he didn't think he could get even the limp-dicked yes-men in the GOP Congress to vote for his policies. A pattern for the senile, old shit.

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Constitutionally, the Congress gets to decide. Practically, if they decline to exercise their Article 1 authorities, they are complicit. The U.S. system is designed for civilian-on-civilian dispute over war powers, we ought not leave it to military lawyers.

"The president has frequently railed against judges when they rule against him. What often happens next is a barrage of violent threats from his followers against those judges. We spoke with 26 federal judges– 9 Democratic appointees, 17 Republican, both sitting and retired." @60minutes.bsky.social

It could be a couple things 1) Possibly tactical to save powder for later 2) If you look at Houthi discourse for the last 1-2 months, they haven't been hot about getting into a conflict for Iran. Before 1-2 weeks ago, they were still stressing Gaza. 3) They're in a tricky spot w/ the Saudis.

Trump’s own business interests are now coming under fire from Iran. It’s likely the bulk of the Trump wealth is now tied to one Middle Eastern royal family or another—Qatar, UAE, Saudi, etc. So: How will he balance what’s good for the US vs. his business partners? www.wired.com/story/5-big-...

Notable. But still some need for greater public education on this front.

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There will be more, but three is too many military casualties for an ill-conceived and needless war, as 100 is too many schoolchildren. That’s why something of this magnitude should be run by sensible people and a public process, not a would-be autocrat’s whims.

the most amazing thing today was every single person that came to me with a need and asked “can you take this on?” i got to say YES and we cleared our sheet! (for today. tomorrow we begin again)