Text from a friend: "This is John Gill territory"

I agree. And I think it was important to have the justices have to look over and see him expecting them to kneel. Alito and Thomas will probably be okay with that, but others might not be.

Yes, I'm gonna watch the speech. Yes, I'm gonna write about it. You don't have to. You're welcome.

Nobody tell him what happened next.

Both true stinkers

Both true stinkers

Armin Tamzerian

Instant classic

As someone who studies politicization of democratic militaries this statement on X is a five- alarm fire. It creates an undeniable permission structure for overt partisan behavior by mil. It's part of a concerted effort by civilian leaders to turn the U.S. military into a partisan aligned force.

“We must sweep away capitalism by any means necessary. Also your words are literally killing me.”

Trump is trying to threaten Iran into submission—while also attempting to convince markets that negotiations are going well. Yes, it’s as contradictory as it sounds. @jonathanbchait.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Laura Secor visited Iran five times from 2004 to 2012. By getting to know her government-assigned handlers, she saw how some people came to accept a brutal regime—and how others resisted:

Emotionally unstable and cognitively impaired president

I’m sure that’s how he wanted to be perceived. Ended up more like this.

Sam Alito asking an extended hypothetical question about whether members of an Iranian sleeper cell would get U.S. citizenship is only lending further support to my theory that season 5 of '24' pickled the brains of an entire generation of Republican voters

Some of us know you can not say a word and still get on the wrong side of a judge.

He made a serious mistake going to the Court.

We are ruled by morons and it makes me want to light my law degree on fire

I’m suddenly realizing this looks a lot like the Americans helping the Afghans in Afghanistan against the USSR, except the Afghans were not omnipotent beings

My wife is the most patient and tolerant person I know. (Of me, that is. Don't cross her if you're not part of the fam.)

"Okay, you're going to send B-52s, they can drop a lot of bombs. What is the endgame? What is the point here that you're trying to get to?" @radiofreetom.bsky.social and @crampell.bsky.social discuss the White House's strategy - or lack of one - in Iran.

This is everything that makes my life happy. (The lady, not the car. Although the car is pretty awesome.)

"Our allies have to contend with the reality, unfortunately, that tens of millions of people put this guy in office a second time. The first time around they could accept it as a strange one-off. The second time around, it looks like a sea change in America. - @radiofreetom.bsky.social

TONIGHT: Trump to address the nation about the war in Iran and says he doesn't need a 'deal' to end the conflict – Crude oil has its largest monthly gain in nearly four decades and U.S. executives warn that the war could trigger a recession – & GOP fears about the midterms grow.

A lot of small accounts insisting that big accounts should just be able to shrug off a mob of strangers wishing them harm and accusing them of insanely hateful shit AND asserting that they themselves are just little birthday boys who should be able to shit all over other people without any blowback.

Okay, one more time without the Oops: I'll be on 11th Hour on MSNBC at 11pm ET tonight. Join us.

There has now been a second wave of assholes quote-tweeting the post below in equally malicious ways and, Jesus Christ, Bluesky.

As civ mil scholars point out often, it’s a shame that this subject gets short shrift in mainstream academia because it’s really really f-ing important to constitutional governance

This is what I mean by vice signaling

Always a grift

Uh what?

They shouldn’t let him talk to the public while he’s sundowning

Trump has now said at least a dozen times that Iran has had regime change

The country is at war and energy prices are spiking and all he can talk about is his precious ballroom. He knows more about the construction and detail details of this white elephant than he does about the people that are overseas fighting right now.

"The reason that no one steps up now is that Republican members of Congress like being members of Congress, they like being in Washington, they like their jobs...and they don't want to have to go home and live among their own constituents after they get primaried." - @radiofreetom.bsky.social

it was definitely this guy

Wooooo the fun of live TV! My screen went black, thought no one could see me and I couldn't hear or see anything

Uh oh tech glitch

Coming up on MSNOW at 4pm ET - on my way

BREAKING Trump’s executive order directing federal agencies to stop funding NPR and PBS is “unlawful and unenforceable,” a federal judge ruled. Doc buff.ly/WcnQN4A

Hegseth’s prayers suggest God approves of as much killing as possible. @briankaylor.bsky.social “told @gregsargent.bsky.social that the secretary gets to this conclusion by cherry-picking various bloody passages from scripture, using them in a ‘kind of a Mad Libs mash-up of biblical violence.’”

Well done everybody

"Even if Trump declares unilateral victory in the Gulf, Iran would still have more influence than him over US inflation. Iran's regime has stumbled on a weapon that can induce Taco." Me on Trump's declining fortunes at home & abroad. as.ft.com/r/c336f5ca-a...

Intriguing finale for Paradise. Happy to say that they gave enough clues that I saw it coming: [REDACTED] is a [REDACTED] that is messing with [REDACTED] Which will allow next season to reset, with the same characters.

Keep going. www.mediaite.com/politics/is-...

Hegseth’s embrace of vice signaling is most obvious in his efforts to combine his adolescent, gung-ho excitement about war with Christian prayer, which results in a rancid mess that should offend believers and nonbelievers alike. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

“Christian thinkers have always insisted that princes and generals approach war with a sense of grave responsibility. Hegseth, however, sees war as just another opportunity to display depravity as if it were a martial virtue,” @radiofreetom.bsky.social argues. theatln.tc/OGI0SjpH