Yeah Max Verstappen is retiring, if GP is going to McLaren, that means Max is done.

"Where are all the campus protestors?" ask the grinning ghouls who cheered on the brutal suppression of campus protests

We were on the brink of a possible nuclear first use, and they still did NOTHING to stop him.

Quite stark comments from Zelensky on the repercussions of surrendering the rest of the Donbas. He speaks quite openly about the potential for losing the army's support and the economy crashing. I wonder how this tweet will look on the day Russia eventually captures the region completely.

Finally got this 2022 Bathurst winner model by IXO. The detail is great.

Al Gore should drop a one hour video of him facing the camera in his office just rolling and smoking joints without saying a word at any point.

Oh man, you know that's a deep diving Christian probably on loan from the Heritage Foundation...

Al Jazeera being absolutely brutal about Trump's 'feels' approach to grand strategy, lol.

"The Pope? How many Divisions does he have?" Hegseth or Vance, probably. Maybe someone else from history....

Vance is just utterly useless as a human being. He could have led a charge to 25th Trump and did nothing, now he's riffing about how he doesn't let his wife have any free will.

I like this because it articulates the conservative concept of freedom in a nutshell. You have the freedom to do x, except you don't, because I don't want you to. bsky.app/profile/atru...

You know she tried to jump on the flight....

So... uh... does anyone know where the B-52's parked themselves last night after flying all that way?

🇮🇷🛳️❌ FARS reports that the Strait of Hormuz is completely closed.

He just pivots from disaster to disaster, all at Putin's bidding.

Prior to 2015 or so, they were pretty hard to find. But troll farms artificially boosted this and other conspiracies well beyond their natural sourcing, and pretty soon you had others who simply jumped on the monetization train. They always engage with other conspiracies because one isn't enough.

The footage of the bombed areas in Lebanon is heartbreaking. A guy helping with the recovery ops described a 3yo child with shrapnel in their head. We should be bombing Israel instead of Iran.

I remember when Tom would occasionally go on one of his Christianity rants back in the day on the other place.

Seriously, all of you former Republicans built the hate machine that got Trump elected. You were happy to pander to the mouth breathers when it got Reagan and the Bushes elected. It would just be nice if you guys apologized.

A clear indication of Trump's madness. In the midst of negotiation to stop a war, a shiny dollar sign popped into Trump's head and his monetary greed took over. Impeach this war crimes madman.

Iran posted this. What a humiliation for Trump.

The USA is supporting fascists in Europe as a matter of official foreign policy.

None of this is over. Putin still hopes for a Spring offensive or pivot to the Baltics before the US potentially ousts the Trump regime.

One silver lining is that it may be difficult to attract Donny’s attention back to Iran once he’s decided he doesn’t care. He extracted himself successfully here no matter how badly he lost, so all he has to do is spin it to the media and move on.

Once again Trump sheds American power and prestige so that Russia and our other adversaries benefit and we have only a few weeks before there’s another artificial crisis that will do it again.

You know a lot of Republicans are absolutely seething that Trump backed off the apocalypse. I heard even Jesus had to cancel his flight.

Iran fucking won the war. I don’t like their regime, I don’t really think this is a normatively good thing, they killed a ton of protestors earlier this year. But they clearly won by any reasonable definition of the term.

So who does Trump fire in retaliation for this humiliation?

He gave them a massive victory and he’s just gonna lie about it

So Trump didn’t know that Iran’s 10 point deal was public and so he announced his own version of the arrangement and is now lying about the fact that he agreed to everything so he could bail.

All day long Republicans were talking about the necessity to finish the job and to eliminate Iran’s nuclear stockpile and now they’re gonna pivot to peace?

It’s great if both sides walk away and declare victory but aren’t we back to nuclear weapon rhetoric in a few months again?

So Israel will immediately lose patience with any ceasefire because there will be too much pressure to end Iran and they’ll initiate strikes again within days. Iran will respond and Trump… nobody knows what he’ll do.

AL Jazeera reporting that military exchanges are still happening

Two weeks to remove him. Now.

In other news we probably spent a billion dollars just positioning strikes assets into the region only to call them off. Money saved I guess.

TACO

The problem with the ceasefire is that Iran has zero motivation to just reopen the Strait. What good does it do them? Trump will just walk away and let Israel start bombing them again in a few months.

The Vice President is overseas campaigning for a dictator, because I guess there’s nothing going on here that warrants his attention.

How can either side be making good faith negotiations when they're all intensifying their attacks?

Not one damn thing about tonight will do anything to open the Strait and rescue the international economy.

You know this all reads exactly like every runaway escalation scenario you read about, saw in fiction, etc. Textbook.

Or beginning precisely at 8pm EST on live television, simulcast with the Artemis II coverage via split screen.

It does my mental state no good that I have been reading Richard Rhodes’s ‘Dark Sun’.

Granted, there are few targets to be crippled that are 'best served' being hit with a nuclear weapon due to how accurate most of our ordinance is these days, but if your intent is 'they will need a decade to rebuild' then yeah, plenty of targets are suited for a nuke.

The problem with Trump's 'civilization ending' rhetoric is that HE likely understands it as a threat to their infrastructure, but everyone else will understand it as something far worse, which of course it can be, but it will make it hard for anyone to walk him back over a conventional escalation.

Fuck the United States military. You had a choice. You have a choice. Don’t ask for my support. Not after today. We have become the antithesis of everything America claimed to stand for. If the military won’t honor their commitment, then they should get fucked.

Every single US pilot, aircrew, ship crewman or other US trooper, if they press any buttons at 8pm EST will be officially a fucking war criminal.

Aviation groups posting images of Strategic strike aircraft outbound from the UK B-52 with at least 12 JASSMS plus more internal

Iran closes all diplomatic and indirect channels of communication with the U.S., suspending the exchange of messages, following Trump’s threat to kill Iran's "whole civilization." -Reuters