There are two wolves inside you (they’re the same wolf)

Nothing says "back" like "we can't get our enemy or our ally to abide by the terms of a ceasefire we desperately tried to hype up as a win for everyone"

The AI Overview actively gets things wrong about me and my career, how can I trust it with things I don't already know about

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Now that the United States and Iran have declared a two-week cease-fire, the question is whether the war’s economic disruption will be short-lived or lasting,” Jamie Martin writes in a guest essay.

I have a feeling the U.S. negotiating team is like five people who are plugged directly into the WH and who no fucking idea what they're doing and zero process

Sort of incredible-but-not-really that the biggest persecutors of Christians in the world are conservative white Christians.

Oh, so you are saying that just before we embarked upon a war that turned out badly for us, our leaders engaged in some all-star hubris towards the representative of a deity? Really getting pretty classical in here.

The fact that someone with the power to do so threatened to bring down the Vatican and i am unhappy about this is just, one of the crazier things in recent history

Me, an atheist: Your holiness I stand ready to join the crusade against these heretics

I think this is true, and part of the Everything is Gender theory. We are governed by that section of the populace that believes that Father having violent tantrums until everyone else cowers, even as his life falls apart around him, was an aspirational display of power and mastery.

Yeah, it does not look like Israel is gonna let this deal happen, and Iran isn't showing enough forbearance and patience to make the blame cleanly fall on Israel, which may draw the US right the fuck back in.

ONLY THE BEST CEASEFIRES. ONLY A VERY STABLE GENIUS COULD PULL OFF A CEASEFIRE LIKE THIS. BIG STRONG MEN, WITH TEARS IN THEIR EYES, TELLING ME THEY'VE NEVER SEEN A CEASEFIRE LIKE THIS.

Imagine for example if a warlike foreign power that had already for example murdered thousands of Hungarian civilians in unprovoked attacks had for example threatened to kill Hungary’s entire civilization, never to return again, if their demands were not met by say Tuesday.

in any event, the main thing the US did to "deserve" 9/11 was backing the royalty of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

This war went so badly it made Ben Rhodes right about something for the first time ever. Totally unprecedented.

Old: Freedom of Navigation New: Joint Trump-Ayatollbooth

NYT reporting that under this ceasefire each ship will pay $2M to pass through the Strait of Hormuz. It was $0 before Trump launched this illegal war. 100-130 ships pass the Strait daily. Trump just gave Iran an extra $100M-$130M per day. Masterful gambit, sir. Impeach and remove this fascist—NOW.

Losing a war *and* creating a nasty inflationary recession is something that can topple fully consolidated totalitarian regimes. Breaking a mere aspiring-dictator caudillo and his movement is easy mode.

After Trump wrote, in reference to Iran, “A whole civilization will die tonight,” the entirety of the House Democratic leadership issued this joint statement:

"If you remove him you get Vance." You're familiar with Donald J Trump's foreign policy where we remove a country's leaders one by one until we get to one we can do business with? No reason impeachment can't work the same way

Imagine being a moderate Republican and getting outflanked on decency, morality, and basic humanity by these four nutters

Completely unstable and perilous. The House must bring up impeachment articles, and the Senate needs to remove a president who wants to commit war crimes. We cannot sit idly by as Donald Trump threatens to end an entire civilization.

This is a far simpler answer than people would like to believe. Trump issues the order via the National Military Command Center to the commander of Strategic Command, and then STRATCOM carries it out directly. There is no second vote, no veto, no check-and-balance.

The man who coined the term genocide, Raphael Lemkin, defined it as a greater atrocity than mass murder explicitly because it involves the intentional killing of a civilization.

Along these lines, this is how Alex Jones is responding to the latest.

Nuremberg was an important symbol of German nationhood so I say with 100% sincerity that this is a job for Philadelphia

Speaking of Threads, this one got me in the feels.

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

The Article I Crisis: Mass Atrocity Edition.

Prosecuting and purging the Republican Party was Biden’s one job. When he failed to do his duty it was just a waiting game to this moment.

Dude, forget funneling our wealth. He's literally destroying our wealth by bringing down an inflationary recession. This disastrous war *is* the main political issue.

It should be 100% legal for every person in the US to try.

Splendid

The only rational thing to do when someone is going that insane with fantastical threats. Trump, of course, will take this as a dare to engage in as much murder as he can.

18 U.S. Code § 1091

jesus christ

The conversation I had with the clerk at the grocery store yesterday about the status of food prices, an unnecessary war, and how she has to work two jobs to get by is a small glimpse of simmering anger boiling at the voter level Maybe Congress should go talk to actual people

Mamdani is not just filling the potholes with the crew. He's creating a visual and personal reminder of the dignity inherent in all of these anonymous government jobs.

For his entire life, this is what the “Art of the Deal” president understood a “deal” to be: threaten others until they give you what they want. He has no grasp of actual negotiation or dealmaking - only shakedowns. Combine that with a war he’s desperate to end and you get genocidal threats.

As it turns out, doubling the size of the conference, extending it from coast to coast, & being able to buy most of the best players in the transfer portal from all the other schools every year is a winning strategy.

This is explicitly genocidal

Exhibit A at the most important trial ever held, which is to begin no later than January 21st, 2028.

F-15E was brought down by a regular MANPAD. We saw some of the IRGC guys in the area where it was shot down carrying Iranian MANPADs.

Wait, that's James' ring music I hear

The FBI is “proactively” identifying “domestic terrorists,” including anyone with critical views on “capitalism,” “Americanism,” “Christianity,” “migration,” “race,” “gender,” and “family.” Essentially, every single Bluesky user. www.kenklippenstein.com/p/fbis-new-p...

This is: 1. Deeply moving. 2. The first time I've ever seen a real-life astronaut be anything other than serious or happy in space. Obviously they have been (they're human), but folks on earth have only ever seen this in movies or on TV. Imagine watching your tears of grief float around you.

Today's press conference: We pulled of a risky rescue and we're going to tell the world exactly how we did it. Our administration leaked about the second airman, endangering his life. We're super good at endangering more lives to clean up messes of our own making.