All of the people claiming without evidence that the WHCD shooting was staged makes it clear how someone like Alex Jones was able to keep Infowars going for so long.

Burchett is right: the most DC thing ever *is* a member of Congress blaming the city for something he and his colleagues did themselves.

it's so cool how comfortably employed legacy journalists can just follow a bunch of independent journalists, rip off their stories, and still pretend they are better than the rest of us.

For decades, birthday party clowns folded balloons and played games. John Wayne Gacy is taking a different approach.

There is going to be a ton of misinformation blasted out tonight, regardless of how this plays out. Some of it will be the normal online bad actors, and some of it will be directly from the Iranian and American governments.

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

“While the idea faces stern pushback from coastal cosmopolitans, the lunch building at this rural compound has a more considered view”

If I'm Noem or Bondi, I'm worried that Trump isn't going to remember me during the end-of-administration pardon parties.

I think tonight I'll rewatch A Bridge Too Far, a movie about what happens when you plan a military operation on the assumption that it can only good happen.

If the goal was to scare the Iranians by showing them the steely-eyed stare and cold will of the American president, I don't think that's going to do it.

Only another hour and a half until we hear about how Biden tricked Trump into going to war in Iran.

Everyone pony the fuck fpr the librarian who just got sacked for refusing to remove LGBTQ books from the kids' section of the library.

Kash Patel, the director of the FBI had his personal email address hacked by individuals linked to Iran. Kash Patel is the leader of the organization primarily responsible for counterintelligence and counterterrorism. In case you needed some indicator as to how this war is going so far.

If I was a Iranian sleeper cell or terrorist targeting America, I'd target the security lines in the airport. You'd have hundreds of people packed into a small space, and while airports do conduct surveillance and watch for unusual behaviour pre-security, there's no way that's effective right now.

Trump 2 started with companies paying corrupt bribes to Trump by “settling” totally frivolous lawsuits. Now Trump will order his DOJ to “settle” a series of frivolous lawsuits by his cronies as a mechanism for stealing your money straight from the federal treasury.

My favourite thing today is thinking about all the very serious political scientists and international affairs experts watching the Iranian Lego music video and trying to figure out how to reference it in their next journal article.

I think the USA is going to regret Trump declaring open season on power plants and electric grids. The US power infrastructure is already struggling with years of infrastructure neglect and massively increased demand. Adding increased threats of sabotage and cyber warfare seems like a mistake.

I’m waiting for the first reporter brave enough to ask if Iran holds all the cards in the Strait of Hormuz.

It's pretty clear that Trump, and by extension America, is paralyzed by indecision. With no good options left in Iran, Trump has frozen up, unable to make decisions, and is instead railing against all the people he thinks should be stepping in to save him from his own stupidity.

Anyone notice that Trump hasn't brought up the "person, woman, man, camera, TV" tests for a while? I wonder if he's not doing so well on them anymore.

American foreign policy is essentially playing the slots with bunker-busting missiles. Got a problem with a foreign leader? Drop a bomb on them, and see if the cosmic slot machine gives you a better result.

What's the difference between Iran and Vietnam? Trump knew how to get out of Vietnam.

John Roberts and Mitch McConnell are experiencing a similar phenomenon. They both care deeply about their legacies, and they've both realized that their only legacy will be to be an index entry in books that are really about Trump.

All this. Yes.

This does not suggest a naval presence that can be maintained for any real length of time. It's very concerning to think about what Trump will order in an attempt to break the stalemate, knowing that time is on Iran's side.

You know why Bernie Madoff is the only white collar criminal to actually go to prison in the US in the last 15 years? Because Madoff had the temerity to rip off really rich people...

There's a growing likelihood that, because Trump doesn't want to have to put boots on the ground in Iran, he orders US naval ships through the straits to try to prove he was right and it can be done.

America already lost the war. Now we all have to wait to see how many years it takes them to admit it.

One place that parts of the left and right seem to be united is the belief that the president can stop the war in Iran if he wants to. I think they’re going to be disappointed.

Trump has run into the thing that sunk him in his first term, which is a crisis he can’t undo by backing down on a previous decision. It doesn’t matter if he declares victory and withdraws because it won’t end the war that he started.

I’m taking a moment to consider how insane it is that Trump has led America into a war that has now driven oil prices up over $115 a barrel, and he has yet to make a public address to the American people to explain why he started this war.

I think this week is the week that a lot of people not in insurance learn what the term force majeure means for their daily lives.

I've been running gdcparties.com for a few years now. Some shitty company BlueberryAI decided they'd just take all the source code for the work I've done and reskin it, advertising it as their own. Jokes on them...it was still linked to my events spreadsheet, and now their website looks like this 😉

Trump can't simply say, "I won!" and stop the war because that would leave Israel vulnerable. Trump has committed you and your children to fighting in the Middle East forever without consulting you or your representatives in Congress. Netanyahu knew what he was doing when he engineered this.

I can’t wait to hear about how close Cuba is to developing a nuclear weapon.

People on here as the US Constitution grows massive biceps, bursts out of its display case, runs to the White House, and clotheslines Trump: “I told you the Constitution wouldn’t allow it!”

Obviously Iran having nukes would be a very bad thing. But given how the USA acts on the global stage, I don’t think you can blame other countries for believing they will be safer and more secure if they can get nukes.

As the USA careens into another unprovoked war in the Middle East, we should keep the Cheney family front of mind, as they are again reminded of how Dick-less they are.

This is a Nazi move. Stripping people of rights, invalidating their IDs, setting them up for criminalization and imprisonment. If you don't support trans rights, you support fascism.

It wasn't enough to send a racist paramilitary to invade Minnesota, now Trump is implementing a blockade of the entire state. We need our states to enact solidarity measures. Concrete action, not just words. Call your governors. @govpritzker.illinois.gov and @gavinnewsom.bsky.social, step up.

Has someone let Pam Bondi that the Dow is under 50,000 again?

I think some people are going to be surprised how little today’s Supreme Court decision affects the shift away from the USA in international affairs. Once a movement like that gets started, it creates its own momentum going forward, and it’s not like Trump has been removed from power

There is literally no better example of textbook fascistic thinking than "Who cares about human rights when the rich are doing so very well"

Fucking surreal that people dressed like this and carrying assault rifles are permitted to kidnap people off our streets

this story quotes: - A trump ambassador - A museum run by Trump appointees - Stop Antisemitism, an organization funded by right-wing donors ... aaannnnddd that's it! Not a single scholar of the Holocaust. Not anyone unaffiliated with Walz' political opponents.

I love my Eugene

Yes, liberals have guns too. You don't hear much about it because we treat our guns the same way Republicans treat abortions. We have them, but we just don't talk about them.

If they are doing this to white people in broad daylight imagine what they are doing to non-white people in detention facilities.

If you're renting a car, don't rent from Enterprise. Apparently, they are renting cars to ICE in Minnesota.