This is the best possible outcome and it still sucks. To end things, all Iran has to do is offer him some vague promise that he can sell as a win and never deliver.

What the hell? Most of my friends married in their 30s. So stupid.

Dems you better fucking fix this.

No justice.

A St. Paul police officer fabricated a massive sex trafficking case and had multiple people locked up under false charges. The Supreme Court yesterday affirmed a ruling that she can't be sued by her victims. She appears to still be employed by the St. Paul PD. ij.org/press-releas...

@gregsargent.bsky.social nails it here: Dems should be hammering the Trump administration for failing to make the case for war. At this point, it is clear that they cannot do so. newrepublic.com/article/2072...

"It's not going to change the price of the pump, because guess what? The US, we don't get any oil anymore out of the Strait of Hormuz," Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum said last fall. Crude oil prices are up about 20% RN. www.businessinsider.com/trump-energy...

politicize the heck out of everything polarize the heck out of everything trump is deeply unpopular jar people out of their algorithmic torpor and get them to take sides they will mostly side against trump so politicize the heck out of everything polarize the heck out of everything

This is what I wrote the song about. youtu.be/uL_fMHTyzq8?...

Did they… read my thoughts somehow?

Random 20-somethings wearing NIN hoodies will always make me smile.

Timeline cleanse. The idea that was Bowie’s attempt at being more commercial seems so wild to me considering that the first 3 songs are (wonderfully) batshit crazy.

One, two princes kneel before you That's what I said now Princes, princes who adore you Just go ahead now One has diamonds in his pockets And that's some bread now This one said he wants to buy you rockets Ain't in his head now

so far i think in the last 48 hours trump has called - michael scherer at the atlantic - jonathan karl, abc - jake tapper, cnn - axios - bret baier, fox news - the new york times - the washington post just noting that when he wants to sell a war, suddenly theyre not "fake news" anymore

Pete Hegseth just said: "We didn't start this war." The Trump Administration is blatantly lying to the American people about the war.

Back in the Iraq war, a running joke was the confusion that pro-war advocates could not distinguish between Shia and Sunnis, which seems like a degree of unbelievable sophistication now.

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.

They went to war with Iran (which nobody in America was asking for) so they could conjure an excuse to allow ICE to keep murdering Americans and teargassing schools here at home with impunity (which nobody in America was asking for).

Under a new policy released Thursday, the Trump Administration will test conversion therapy on trans people in prisons. It explicitly states that it aims to help trans people “recover,” all the while forcibly detransitioning them both medically and socially. transitics.substack.com/p/the-trump-...

Orwell smiled

It’s going to be exactly like Venezuela. Trump killed Khamanei; he’s going to walk away saying he solved Iran as Khamanei’s understudies remain in power. He cut off the head; another will grow, but he’ll have moved on. It’s all just theater to him.

It’s simple: no American is going to lose sleep over Khameni’s death. What we will lose sleep over is the Iranian government’s threatened retaliation, and an administration even more incompetent than GWB’s involving us in a new forever war.

I did a bit of a dive into Epstein stuff, and there really is no conspiracy—other than male prosecutors that didn’t consider the victims victims. Epstein and friends got away with their crimes because powerful men considered them entitled.

Their only issue with “media bias” was always that it wasn’t biased enough bsky.app/profile/junl...

Jesus. This is going to be apocalyptic.

sure the pedophile felon president just illegally bombed a country that may have nukes while federal forces under his command murder and harass people in america and immigrants are tortured and he moves forward with plans to build concentration camps and sorry idk where i was going fuck all of this

No wonder Trump went to war with Iran in the dead of night, with the Capitol empty, most Americans soundly asleep This war is illegal. Full stop. The worst abuse of presidential power in American history aims to cement a dictatorship on U.S. soil My instant column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

I remember discussing liberal interventionism in my IR classes in undergrad, and how the downside was an extended, difficult peacekeeping campaign that can fail despite good intentions. Trump looked at that problem, decided it was for suckers, and is just dropping a bunch of bombs to no real end.

Yep, it’s a bit of an act of desperation. Trump is trying to “deal” with these supposed thorns in the American side via brute force. “Only I can fix it.”

We’ve long known they don’t actually have any true beliefs, but now we have incontrovertible proof.

After the arrests of powerful men across the world, you might be asking why the US has so much trouble holding its leaders accountable for lawbreaking. Since Nixon, all three branches of government have worked hard to ensure they can break the law with impunity www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Mamdani and AOC prove who’s really the party of family values www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

be on the lookout for any national dems who speak out on kansas' new anti-trans bigotry statute

More state persecution of a marginalized group.

Today we learned that the Washington Post lost $100 million last year. At that rate, Jeff Bezos can only support it for the next 2,243 years before his fortune would be exhausted! Clearly the only solution is more layoffs.

The bottom line on this: Media figures are unable to grasp the possibility that most ordinary people don't agree that undocumented immigrants are dangerous criminals, and don't reflexively see them as inevitably locked in zero sum conflict with US citizens, so they think this just *has to* resonate

Appalling: ICE and CBP contracted for $144 million in weaponry and accessories in Trump's first year, per data obtained by Sen Adam Schiff. For ICE it's a fourfold increase, much of it for military-style weapons. A heavily armed secret police force. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2069...

They made another Pride and Fucking Prejudice?

There’s an easy answer to this — have the AIs play tic tac toe. “Would you like to play a game?” #wargames1983

Cool.

one of the basic problems of prediction markets that our brilliant economists clearly have not thought through is that the insider trading poisons basically everything in public life. everything is potentially untrustworthy, a set-up. the fix is always in.

Times and WaPo just dragging Trump across the fascism finish line like

So say we all. (Via @sashat.bsky.social)

Progressives aren’t so progressive now that I made up a thing they’re all saying

Remember, this guy then killed an MIT professor while they were stumbling to catch up

Oversight Dem Says DOJ ‘Appears to Have Illegally Withheld FBI Interviews’ Around Trump Accusation talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...

Sheeeeeezus.

You can’t make me listen that man for two hours. Fuck you. Fucking fuck you. And I know it’s done so people get exhausted by the sheer amount of shit he says. Still. Fuck you.

A gunman ambushed the imam of Utah's largest mosque and fired multiple rounds -- eight or more -- before driving off. Shuaib Din, who wasn't hurt, said: “Obviously, he knew my house, knew my car, knew my schedule." www.sltrib.com/religion/202...