“No stupid rules of engagement.” This is why so many generals think he’s a complete tool.

Minneapolis would like a word.

Those three downed jets run around $90 million each. It cost $20 million a year to operate the food kitchens serving 816,000 people in Sudan.

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The US Naval base in Bahrain has come under heavy bombardment from Iran. Previously only the docks had been targeted.

Man-made robot sends us incredibly clear pictures of her footprint on other planet. Quite a thought 👇🔴 #Mars

Trump administration officials acknowledged in closed-door briefings with congressional staff that there was no intelligence suggesting Iran planned to attack US forces first, two people familiar with the matter said reut.rs/46ybyTg

Geneticists must not become unwitting enablers of the resurgence of such pseudo-scientific ideas.

the thing about people like glenn greenwald saying that trump broke his promise to them is that you have to be the absolute stupidest motherfucker on the planet to believe that donald trump, violent racist bully, is a man dedicated to peace. 1

Cool hey did anything happen *before* 1979 between the United States and Iran

“Cut the utilities, condemn the building, demo it, take it under eminent domain, whatever you can do. Make it impossible for them to use our neighborhood for a concentration camp,” he said. “This will not be solved by a harshly worded letter or resolution. We need action.” wdet.org/2026/02/27/c...

we also got this shit, including People naming him one of the sexiest men alive I really cannot overstate how completely bonkers the Iraq War era was if you didn’t live through it

Glenwood Springs Co. July 1984. photo by Mark Williams. I was apparently working on a song that became Maps & Legends. Thanks Mark!!

How ironic that today in history was the founding of the Peace Corps in 1961. ✌️🔭🦛

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speaking as someone old enough to remember, the Cold War was very bad and imminently apocalyptic in ways our life today isn’t, but the psychic damage was different. We didn’t *know* about Able Archer until years later. I’d say this is much more of a constant assault on dignity and sanity.

About every 57k miles driven by Musk’s robotaxis one gets into a wreck. That’s four times the rate of humans.

Either Platner's a Nazi or he accidentally got a Nazi tattoo & kept it for almost 20 years, accidentally RT'd a guy who recently proposed a "final solution" for American Jews, & accidentally went on the podcast of a guy who thinks Israel killed JFK. If he's not a Nazi, HE'S EXTREMELY NOT BRIGHT.

What do you call it when there aren’t even “concepts” of a plan?

“When pressed on his plans for a transition of power, Mr. Trump said he hoped Iran’s elite military forces…would simply turn over their weapons to the Iranian populace.”

Gavin Newsom is the Martin O'Malley of John Edwardses. He is a de facto DINO, not the de facto head of the party.

The “big picture” here, to use Axios lingo, is that for a year team Trump has destroyed important counter-terror tools and diverted counter-terror personnel to immigration enforcement. And that Patel, Noem, & Gabbard have no qualifications and are riotously incompetent. www.axios.com/2026/03/02/i...

ANNA PAULINA LUNA: It is not the intention of the US government to invade RAMPELL: Did we not just invade? LUNA: Are you seeing boots on the ground there? RAMPELL: We just killed the leader of the country! The president has called it a war LUNA: Strategic strikes are not war JORDAN: Really?

“To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory… Even to understand the word ‘doublethink’ involved the use of doublethink.” - 1984, Orwell

The question that very easily blows up all this double-talk is: “Would it be an act of war if another country did this to us?” Because OF COURSE it would.

For those unfamiliar with history, it’s about to repeat. In 1953, the US’s CIA and UK’s MI-6 toppled Iran’s democratically-elected Prime Minister and empowered the Shah. This led to the 1979 overthrow of the Shah by Islamic fundamentalists and decades of terror and suffering.

Joe Biden withdrew from 🇦🇫 like everyone said they wanted, & the media decided it was a scandal worthy of destroying a presidency bc it wasn’t immaculately clean. Donald Trump just launched an unplanned illegal war & assassinated the leader of another country, & they’re fluffing the Shah’s son. 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️

Donald Trump is planning to use his attack on Iran to justify a power grab over voting in the 2026 midterms. The fact that the attack violates the Constitution won’t stop him from trying. It is our job to expose this plot and ensure that it does not succeed. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/trum...

A big part of the authoritarian playbook is war. War takes over the news. War blots out criticism. War divides a nation’s people, subjecting those against it to being called unpatriotic. War grants leaders all sorts of emergency powers. War consumes everything else. We mustn’t let this war do so.

This is a fake, and the post has thousands of likes and reposts inflated by a bot army. Report and block.

When a right-leaning magazine from another country that is primarily concerned with Line Go Up capitalism tries to tell you who the de facto leader of your party is, don’t listen.

This is just idiotic. Think of how many Taliban leaders we killed in Afghanistan. Guess who still runs Afghanistan?

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Democrats stop making “conceding points” your opening gambit, part infinity

Seems like the emerging policy is: you people out there are responsible for setting up your own governments, but if the US doesn’t like who ends up in charge we’ll just assassinate or kidnap them and then the ball is back in your court.

these people should all hang

When will Barron be enlisting? Let me guess, bone spurs?

Historian here interesting choices Catherine Beecher an anti abolitionist- feminist known for her crappy response to Angelina Grimke and into trad wife stuff. Booker T Washington publicly an accommodationist to the Jim Crow south and an opponent of WEB Bois’ civil rights activism. Kirk CC drop out!

this guy 👇 earned back his ticket price for the Mar-a-Lago Situation Room tour

Possibly because incels were as much of a, if you'll forgive me, breeding ground for fascists as Gamergate. Those funny funny meme words that have been floating around lately, including but not limited to max with two Xes, are straight from 8chan and company. Look no further than this for proof.

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

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people who continue to apologize for the guy with the Nazi tattoo continue to have to figure out new ways to contort themselves to evade the universal reality of “people show you who they are and you should believe them!”

I seriously worry about those who are serving now. Sadly, many don’t under that they are legally obligated to disobey unlawful orders.

Earlier: “Neutrality” is often a way to police whose stories matter and whose expertise counts. Knowledge rooted in lived experience is repeatedly framed as political, while dominant perspectives are treated as universal.

“Another way the Party controls the minds of the people is by destroying historical evidence that contradicts what the Party wishes the people to believe…” - 1984, George Orwell

These guys were selling t-shirts until they needed a war to cover up the intentional damage they did to the economy and the president's involvement in a pedophilia scandal.

A girl's elementary school.

Chris Murphy: "It won't be the billionaire children of Donald Trump and his buddies that die. It's going to be the children of middle class and poor families all across this country that are gonna die for a war of choice, a war of vanity, an illegal war."