There's a hauntingly beautiful irony in these morons thinking that carefully crafted American hegemony was actually weak and woke, and they would be the ones who would do Power and Dominance properly, and immediately bringing everything crashing down

Re the Hormuz, not saying I'm an expert on the sitch, but are we really too proud to try historically vetted measures like sacrificing a high ranking member of the royal family to propitiate the sea god

I cannot adequately explain how fucked up the World Cup situation is wihen the president of a host nation *threatens the safety* of one of the participants (Iran). The USA should be removed as a host nation and if it's not, the games shoud be boycotted and ANYONE WITH A MORAL CENTER should see that.

Watching these guys learn basic geopolitics in real time is incredible. Ah so that's why you need allies. I see

Quick: fantasy casting for live action Thundercats? Assume Jason Momoa can only play one role.

Thinking about how 20% of Bluesky would lose its collective mind over a live action Thundercats.

“Platoon” remake for the 21st century: all the characters are quadcopter drones.

The latest White House thinking on the Strait of Hormuz.

As depressing as all this is, it’s more depressing that about half the country prefers it to a Harris presidency.

Oracle: if you attack Iran in February, there will be regime change in November. Trump: hell yes.

The crime is not just the killing of people who surrender. The crime is telling the enemy that if they surrender, they will be killed. Because when the enemy hears that they cannot surrender peaceably, the war changes from a strategic conflict to a blood-soaked deathmatch.

Folks, don't lie to your lawyer. We're gonna find out, and you just make our jobs harder when you do.

The Strait of Hormuz is open for transit

This is actually the United Bee State District Court for the District of Buzz and Federal Building.

JFC. Impeach and remove this lawless man, you fools.

An astounding statement from a federal judge about the executive branch, generally; the Justice Department, more particularly; and these subpoenas, specifically.

War crimes tribunal prosecutor: Mr. Hegseth, ignorance of the law is no excuse. Hegseth: What about ignorance of [gestures at everything]?

yet another thing to put in our back pocket. "ship em to the Hague" is a completely valid option for a long and growing list of people who need to be dealt with

The most pathologically destructive belief about law on social media is that a person can always sue someone to correct a perceived wrong. Causes of action and remedies are often unavailable or limited. One of the crucial insights of the Trump administration is how limited lawsuits are.

Let’s goooo Ides of March

can this be a solution?

So I don’t think a sitting president has ever threatened the life of a soccer team coming to their country’s World Cup?

Someone in NYC should do interviews with middle-school kids who take the subway to and from school every day, to see if they have any advice for Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy who can't seem to go a single day without pissing himself in fear over them.

When Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei joins Bluesky, let’s all not be weird and bombard him with erotic Alf memes, okay?

The new Ayatollah’s use of the gender neutral term “Great Satanx” could cost him support among working class Iranians.

Billionaires’ % share of federal election spending in: 2008: 0.3% 2024: 19% @nytimes.com #GildedAge www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/u...

Me, heading to Ocean Beach:

Who could possibly have foreseen that war on Iran would (a) make Iran retaliate by closing the strait of Hormuz, which (b) could disrupt world oil markets, enriching Russia and penalizing most everyone else? Who, indeed, except EVERYONE WHO HAS EVER THOUGHT FOR ONE MINUTE about the situation.

It’s unfair to expect detailed war planning from Donald Trump, the dove.

Apart from the moral repugnance, this is so revealing of how ignorant conservatives are about poverty. Poor people have to think about money ALL THE TIME. They worry constantly about what everything costs, how to substitute one purchase for another, what bill can be put off until payday, etc.

You have to make sacrifices for the very clear and articulated objectives of our War in Iran that is also not a war that we’ve also already won

24 hours later -- not a peep out of any House Republican leaders or any Republicans in Congress or the Tennessee GOP at all about this. I go no responses from anyone I reached out to. Guess they're all fine with comments like this!

Democrats: what if we let the most capable, inoffensive Black guy you’ve ever met have a turn as President? Republicans: I guess we’d … destroy the world?

Which we know because that's the exact minute when the Hancock clock stopped

When a 20-something sees me type an emoticon instead of an emoji:

It’s unfair to expect detailed war planning from Donald Trump, the dove.

i don't know a single attorney who wouldn't simply die rather than go thru this hearing

This thread reads like a litigator’s fever dream.

Top Microsoft Minesweeper players of the 1990s being called up to defeat the Kodan Armada.

If you’re roughly my age, it’s wild to reflect on the optimism for the future Americans felt when Obama was elected — young Americans spontaneously took to the streets to celebrate! — and contrast with what we face today. The falloff over the past 18 years is hard to process.

Trump's decision to bomb Iran is now the greatest windfall to the Russian war effort on record. If it continues, it might save the Russian war economy.

ok this is at least very funny

we have saved daylight but at what cost

The way I’ve come to see it is this: leftists view liberals as people who share their worldview but have actively decided to be on the evil side. Whereas they view conservatives as good people who just have a mistaken worldview, and they think any minute they’ll figure it out and become leftists.

The Harris campaign performed well, as far as campaigns go, in that she was multiple points closer in the swing states the campaign focused on, and had a smaller loss than most of the world's incumbent parties. There wasn't One Weird Trick she didn't do, nor One Big Mistake that cost it all. Sorry.

Four years later and we’re still surprised rival militaries are using cheap drones.

The saddest five-word story ever written.

Dario Amodei looks like a Fred Arnisen character to me. I think it every time I see a photo of him

No company lays off 40% of its workforce except when it can’t afford to pay them or wants to kill itself. AI hasn’t changed that.