just following onto this — trump picked up the phone from an *msnbc* reporter *in the middle of a war meeting* but sent jd to voicemail twice 😂

As @uhactually.bsky.social pointed out, Schumer is celebrating that we’re bombing Iran and trump is taking the political damage for it

don't want to talk to anyone who sided with western cluster ever again. CENTRAL CLUSTER STRONG

MELANIA: You want me. Out of nowheres. To remind every one. Of my best friend, and child sex monster. Jeffrey Epstein?? (squints evilly) NATHAN FIELDER: (voice over) The First Lady loved my idea.

The Trump administration: We know you're mad at us for starting another needless war in the Middle East, but don't forget that we're also all friends with the famous pedophile sex trafficker.

Cannot emphasize enough how much better off we'd all be if everyone treated these people the way you would a Serbian earnestly explaining to you the monumental importance of the Battle of Blackbird Field to his identity, language, and nation.

Gov. Pritzker: "I know the Republicans say Democrats aren't patriotic. We're more patriotic. We believe in this country more than they do. They're tearing down the laws. They're operating in an unconstitutional fashion. They elected somebody who is ruining our democracy."

This is a level of (mental) gymnastics that rivals what Simone Biles does

"I created a person in my head to get mad at" is unfortunately very common. Many of the people who were involved in pro-palestine protests are involved in No Kings. The No Kings protests I've been to have a *very* pro Palestine flavor

Again, infantilization. The reason the "good part" doesn't start until the SEVENTH paragraph is that the piece is rebutting the point made by the people the first SIX are describing! Do people usually give the last word in a written argument to the side that's wrong? bsky.app/profile/greg...

People are definitely out to get Hegseth

I think it's interesting that an Adelson paper in Israel can casually admit this fact - that Israel's latest bombing of Lebanon has been entirely unprovoked - but that would never be included in a description of the situation for American audiences.

As a general rule, a lot of people have a theory of mind problem where they assume everybody except them is maximally cynical. If I assume that everybody believes the same thing I do, knows the same facts with the same confidence, anybody who *says* differently is selling something.

Started/going, Sohrab Ahmari edition

As the comments point out, the only thing off is "US soldiers refuse orders to kill ISIS families." Nope, the military complied with orders to blow up civilian boats and a girls' school, and stood ready to carry out orders of "a whole civilization will die tonight."

Everyone’s going to be angry at this headline but the article is about how universities and the government have made protesting more dangerous! Which is true! This isn’t attacking the left.

Also seems like the knives are out for Hegseth

the way to read this article is "key principals in the administration have realized Trump is fucked, and are leaking to that effect" www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

Nailed it @fortunateramen.bsky.social

you can get to say slurs or you can have freedom of navigation, but it's one or the other boys

*talking to teenage militant atheist self* current me: okay so there’s a big fight between the government and the catholic church teenage me: got it, so we’re obviously on the side of the government current me: I, uh, you might want to sit down for this one

Oil call bros:

Elon Musk is either a credulous dope or a cynical propagandistic liar, episode 45,208: The chart being complained about here by a Daily Wire liar was clearly marked as being sourced from the internet, and students were asked to critically assess its accuracy, not imbibe it as truth.

This is what talking about Israel is always like; the fact that the State of Israel has been denying self-government or self-determination to 33% of its population based on ethnicity for seventy years is irrelevant because of the theoretical underpinnings of the concept of the idea of Zionism.

"Other countries are our property, and we dictate their behavior. You know, like women in marriage."

>catastrophically lose an expeditionary war of choice against Persia >threaten the Pope himself with personal violence >heavy handed promulgation of state religion for social cohesion >misguided attempts to shrink the central bureaucracy Fuck it welcome back Roman Emperor Julian the Apostate

LMFAO

WHITE SOX POPE HAT

We told whatever lies got Iran to say something the president could spin as them making peace so he didn't have to go through with his bluff. Now the truth is coming out but the ceasefire did its job

the implication of the FT reporting this morning is that the US effectively gave Iran what they wanted, and is now trying to spin that cave as something else. Which absolutely tracks.

New favourite clip from Japanese news just dropped

The thing that I find most remarkable about the kind of people who make shit like this is that they are always white, and they always cast non-whites as being completely isolated and removed from the American experience. John C. Calhoun was not more American than Frederick Douglas.

Trump now wants to TACO but Iran has made it clear that the only way he gets to TACO in a way that restores the flow of traffic is by US commitments against Israel/US activity

Tail wagged the dog but the dog is still the dog, dog can say no, dog didn't. Seems pretty simple to me. Incidentally it's interesting that so many Americans get tripped up on this, it is more or less the consensus view of Arabs in the Arab world.

like, both "this is trump's sole responsibility" and "this is all israel's fault" ignore the agency that both netanyahu and trump exercised. netanyahu did actually openly lie to trump, trump's just the first president in US history stupid enough to act on it (against the recommendations of his NSA)

a truly stupendous amount of this is Israel’s fault *but* there is going to be growing horseshoe pressure to claim that it is *all* Israel’s fault and I don’t think that’s true

Six stars for the six quarters it'll cost you.

I went to Costco this week for the first time in years and am ready to turn over management of the country to them

None of the people who pretended to care about this will care because Democrats are mom and did it because they are weak and manipulable whereas Republicans are dad and did it as a careful reward for good behavior.

your reminder that Ro Khanna spends his India visits palling around with literal nazis and supremacists and takes money from organisations affiliated with them for his political career and then comes and cries about the state of democracy in the USA for cameras

Electing the landlord pedophile and being surprised he dismantles free trade in favor of rent extraction.

I don't like how Ro Khanna is playing footsie with insane RWers

The worst thing about this is every Democratic member of Congress was loudly condemning Trump as soon as he threatened to erase the Iranian civilization, but Ro Khanna dismisses all of that by claiming Congress "barely made a whimper" while he praises two known right wing cranks by name.

Different audiences IMO. Tucker and Candace have more low-info voters and more young voters. Evangelicals are older, more informed, and more reliable voters.

Help my Secretary of Defense is talking like a wide receiver

Pete Hegseth worships a Canaanite war god, not Yahweh, the God of Abraham

Maybe if we contrast this with what the Pope just said about this we can start collectively considering the idea that heresy is not somehow intrinsically enlightened and progressive

Probability distributions, what are they?

you will never guess what this is a response to

After last night’s result in Wisconsin, remembering in 2020 when the a wisconsin supreme court justice criticized the covid restrictions because it wasn’t “regular folks” in meatpacking plants dying