Sorry world it's just too fun for us to help Israel genocide various Arab populations, no more oil and fertilizer!

It's ugly to see a former IDF soldier call for an investigation of an American news outlet. But this is a step up from the standard Israeli response to journalists, which is to kill them.

guy who converted to Catholicism out of love for hierarchy and the ancient traditions of an institution that is famously in the world but not of it: ok Mr “pope” idk who the fuck you think you are but just war theory since Augustine has always allowed white phosphorous munitions

Ten years ago today, in April 2016, the Boston Globe printed a satirical front page imagining a future Trump administration. The page was called "alarmist," "hyperbolic," "dystopian." But we’ve put up with so much since then it now looks like . . . a slow Thursday?

First time I'm seeing this: one of the Harris apologies is to beg that Gaza isn't important to most voters but she couldn't afford to alienate the Zionists. Turns out the median voter does care, and has for some time. (That number's going to go to 80 if they don't resolve this oil crisis soon.)

I’ve been thinking about this guy almost daily for ten fucking years. essentially my entire 30’s. when he finally croaks I imagine I’ll let out a sigh so deep it realigns my fucking spine

Completely understand people's desire to use favored acronym for Trump's predictable threat-withdraw pattern but hard to imagine a situation in which its less apt. Threatening war crimes whether immediate or on time delay is a war crime.

Oman receiving revenue for doing nothing

They don’t have a war opposition because they don’t oppose the war.

People complain about bluesky bubbles but there are lots of people I don't like on here too.

Good morning and Happy Easter everyone.

Almost all millennials and the oldest members of Gen Z can say that the US president has been a white guy born in the summer of 1946 for the majority of our life. Bill Clinton: August 19, 1946 George W. Bush: July 6, 1946 Donald Trump: June 4, 1946

i'm an athiest so i don't want to speak for anyone but what an honor it would be as a servant of god to be fired by a drunk sadist under the thumb of a guy best described as "dumb antichrist"

this is weird

We have a very simple solution to universal programs benefiting the wealthy. You claw back the money through taxes on the back end. Everyone has known this for 100 years, but people get to pretend they don’t when it’s convenient for their ideology.

@hillelwayne.com I was definitely waiting for the pivot to category theory or something. Sometimes a pizza is just a pizza I suppose 😁 www.hillelwayne.com/post/pizza/

Progressive internationalism usually doesn't directly address the issues that are most salient to the majority of people but Trump is doing his very best to solve this problem www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Finally got around to this. Depressing stuff. Born in 1941, major establishment player and apparently hasn't learned a damn thing from Vietnam or Iraq. We cannot allow our enemies to grow stronger, so the solution is to try to annihilate each one in sequence. www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

We need a Joe Rogan of the left but one that always respects our party elders and key donors.

Never get between a senstor and his 38 annual weeks of vacation

Beautiful, gutting stuff. I wonder if @patblanchfield.bsky.social has read it; seems a rich expression of our national death cult, where the only real dangers are brown strangers.

tired: blood for oil wired: blood for oil forecasts on polymarket

Gwynne Dyer on March 9: "Indeed, I suspect that there is already a clandestine race going on in which Israel is trying to identify and kill potential collaborators inside the regime before Trump’s people can make deals with them."

He really thinks he's clever, parceling out WWIII in little weekend spurts and acting normal during the business week.

All this discourse about how the dangerous thing about the Iran War is the rise of antisemitism reminds me of early 2020, when the faux-sophisticated take was that the real risk of COVID was overreaction.

The founder view: violate the US Constitution to kill millions of people

You know how small children and psychopaths don't truly think other people are real? More than anyone outside of an absolute hereditary monarchy, could anyone be surer of that than Trump? He can truly do anything and the consequences are only ever felt by others.

Why won't these civilian sailors from other countries martyr themselves to keep American gas prices low before the midterms?? www.mediamatters.org/us-iran-rela...

Things keep on escalating so quickly it feels like (regular army) ground troops are coming and maybe even conscription.

Imagine thinking that your little nests of herbs and fruit leather insects and pickled kelp or whatever are worth ruining people's lives and literally beating up a generation of restaurant workers for. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/d...

Amazing that the moderate half-loaf position he found is supporting the most politically toxic aspect of the war. Oh, you're only in it to support the foreign aggressor in whatever they decide to do? That should put your constituents' minds at ease!

Genuine question: back in the heyday of the 20th century CIA assassination regime, would liberal congresspeople just blandly commend the death of whatever head of state they targeted?

Using primaries to predict general is generally pretty silly but: vastly exceeding the party's presidential vote count in a midterm primary is nuts.

I'm going to try a prediction: this war will lead to US troops formally expelled from at least one country.

a thing historians will marvel about when they study this era is the extent to which the "war is a thing that happens to poorer, browner people" class went about systematically dismantling every aspect of the global political order that confined the costs of war to poorer and browner people

And so ended the political career of one Dan Goldman. He will be missed by his fellow centimillionaire heirs like the publisher of the New York Times.

Honestly I think the leadup to the Iraq war was worse than all this because the buy-in was so all-encompassing. I keep asking myself how anyone could fall for it again but the thing is, they mostly haven't

We live in a world in which its entirely possible that Iran negotiations failed because people involved bet the under.

I've had an inkling of this since the toppling of the Islamic Courts in Somalia back in the late Dubya admin, but it's now very clear to me that US intervention policy has shifted decisively away from regime change to regime collapse. Leave No State Behind.

If Labour were a psy-op to make the Democrats look good by comparison, what would they be doing differently?

And the reason they can't fight is that their public positions are insincere. Sometimes it's corruption (AI, crypto, Israel), sometimes it's that their actual opinions are unpopular (Israel, free flow of capital and labor) so they hide them, and usually it's that they take polls as marching orders.

this article features an incredibly offensive choice of photo and fifteen different quotes from Israel hawks complaining about how unfair it is that their actions have had consequences jewishinsider.com/2026/02/jewi...