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For the most part, it was only MAGA sycophants handpicked be part of Hegseth's Pentagon press corps who got to ask questions this morning. There were a handful of actual journalists from legitimate media organizations who were allowed to attend. Of course, this is the way they were treated.

Is anyone else as confused by this Pentagon statement as I am? We were told that the Israelis and [we] Americans had achieved air superiority over Iran, but *now* we are being told that the Kuwaitis shot down 3 F-15s over Kuwait that were...dogfighting with the Iranian Air Force?

A fourth US service member has reportedly been killed in Trump’s illegal war And the Pentagon confirmed that three American F-15 fighter jets were shot down over Kuwait-apparently by friendly fire A despicable waste of life and resources in a wholly unnecessary conflict www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8x5atty/

for those of you who werent adults during iraq, its hard to overstate how much the media loves war porn. they salivate over pentagon spin briefings. they love stories about all the bombs and how supposedly infallible they are. they love the notion of the commander in chief, in the situation room etc

🚨 Trump Got US Troops Killed The president doesn’t even seem like he’s pretending to care about dead US soldiers, plus the Pentagon quietly admits Iran wasn’t going to attack the US. Read today's 'First Draft' from @swin24.bsky.social: zeteo.com/p/trump-iran...

Spain refused military support for the US-Israel operation against Iran, prompting the Pentagon to withdraw a dozen KC-135 tanker aircraft from its bases at Morón and Rota, Defense Minister Margarita Robles confirmed. #Iran

Sam Altman got played and spun it like a win - @haydenfield.bsky.social has the scoop from a weekend’s worth of reporting from inside the Pentagon AI negotiations. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

So the obvious question: Why the hell hasn’t Speaker Johnson brought it to a vote? This is literally Congress’ constitutional job. Khanna and Massie are planning to use a discharge motion just to force the House to do what it should have done months ago. 3. [The U.S literally started this war]

Speaker Johnson has said it isn’t the right time to consider it, so leadership hasn’t brought it up. Let that sink in. 📌 H.Con.Res. 38: Congress must authorize war with Iran. Rep. Thomas Massie announced it on June 17. Rep. Ro Khanna confirmed it on June 18. 2.

There was no imminent threat. The narrative keeps shifting. The nuclear claims are contradictory. So let’s start there. As we just saw in the Pentagon press-con, there is no clear strategy. This bipartisan Iran War Powers Resolution has been sitting with Speaker Johnson since June 2025. 🧵

Important: Pentagon admits that Iran was not planning on striking the United States, undermining Trump claims Hegseth says regime change is not the goal, undermining Trump Trump admits the U.S. killed individuals he expected to take over Pentagon officials grow paranoid over stockpile issues

Here's a Jan. 6 rioter posing with a press pass before Pete Hegseth's press conference, just to give you a sense of the type of "journalists" who were in the Pentagon briefing room this morning.

Wind Waker 🌊✨

I need season 2 NOW #dungeonmeshi

The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive

Pokemon news be like

Long live 2D animation (& practical effects).

Christopher C 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿☘️ The US and Israel, in the last 2 years have bombed Lebanon, Iran, Iraq, Syria, they’re starving the Cuban population, kidnapped the President of Venezuela and committed a genocide If you believe Iran is the biggest threat to the world you’re a gullible racist idiot.

We tried regime change wars in Iraq, in Libya, in Afghanistan. It never works. All we've done is killed millions and left chaos and ruin in our wake. NO WAR IN IRAN. Any politician not doing all they can to stop this must be replaced in 2026.

Fact-check: ❌. -It's much worse. I was a Senate staffer during the build-up to the #Iraq war, and all through that disastrous conflict. Bush's plans for what came next were absurd-- and obviously absurd at the time. But at least he HAD plans. Trump has no plans whatsoever. It's all fire-ready-aim.

Iraq was supposed to teach us the cost of lies, hubris, and endless war. Instead, we put the same mindset back in charge.👇

I say this as a professional who came up from fan translation and has friends at Sega who will likely never get to work on this officially: when you fan translate ANYTHING that was previously untranslated, you have a deep, heavy responsibility in setting people's first and typically only impression.

"'I was so sad,' he said. 'I love to eat.'"

Hell yeah, brother

Also! Here's his GoFundMe. Not sure how much his medical bills will be, but if you want to throw him some $, check it out: www.gofundme.com/f/help-lio-r...

I have since learned that Ms. Bumbleflower is a beast

Early voting in Texas has ended. To put in perspective what has happened, u need 2 know that Texas Democrats have exceeded the early vote in both 2022 & 2024, which was a presidential primary, & Dems essentially doubled the total early vote of both elections. Black Dems R on fire!!!! #TXsen

Texas turn all 💙 iiiiiiiii 💙💙💙 iiii Blue,!!!!!

here we go again

If you told me 10 years ago pokemon is making a SEA-based region I'd call you crazy. I'd tell you nintendo doesnt even have indonesia in their list of countries for miitomo. But here we are and its somehow the most awesome thing ever

this is what they said it would be like under socialism

Pombon, the goodest of boys. #Gen10

Happy Pokémon Day! #Pokemon30 #ポケモン30周年 #PixelArt #ドット絵

repost to give this dog a treat 🦴

Pokemon Winds and Waves Starters 🌴🌊✨

New family

I’m transgender, I live in Kansas, if you want to help rn donate to either the ACLU of Kansas or the ACE foundation in Wichita - the ACE foundation especially is the organization that will help people with money for groceries, rent, etc. More orgs also included in attached img acefoundationict.org

Welcome lil' silly guys! #animation #pokemon

this is my son chudbert, he has suffered multiple car accidents as a kid, he has glass bones and paper skin, he had to have his heart replaced, and he's only 4 years old. and he's green.

So let’s think about this. A private company refused - on principle - to yield to the government’s demands. The government then cancelled its contracts with the company and has set about destroying it

Anthropic has framed the issue well: "you can use our models for anything other than domestic spying or autonomous weapons." I am not sure how any of the other AI companies can comply without absolutely horrendous rep damage

So Anthropic, not known for its ethical boundaries, said no to automated killing and secret military mass surveillance, which was too much for Trump. Can we agree now that the US is not sharing our values and we should decouple from the mass surveillance automated killing team?

shorter Anthropic: lol fuck you, you’re way out over your skis and we’re going to beat your asses in court