holy shit -- one of Trump's toadies just passed out and the White House event is brought to an abrupt end

Now that the dust is settling and a broader war looks increasingly unlikely, it’s worth discussing how decades of bipartisan consensus on the consequences of striking Iran’s nuclear program were upended by an orange fool. Why did so many get it so wrong?

A ceasefire is good, but the long-term struggle with Iran will continue until their foreign policy changes. Israel and the U.S. have likely set its nuclear program back by years, maybe decades. Iran’s “ring of fire” has been degraded, and Middle East geopolitics has changed.

After Iran chose ro de-escalate, Trump followed suit and announced a ceasefire between Israel and Iran. Good development. Risk of a wider regional war and American mission creep is going down precipitously. www.axios.com/2025/06/23/t...

Iran chose to save face and deescalate. Trump accepted the deescalation. This is a good outcome. Iran's nuclear program was destroyed without a wider war that many feared would come with such an endeavor.

Anyway the war, or at least American involvement in it, is probably over also

Per the NYT, Iran gave the U.S. a heads up about the strike in Qatar. No casualties are being reported. Iran chose to save face rather than escalate. So much for all the obnoxious WW3 shrieks on this site, but good choice by Iran.

So to recap some of the politics around the Iran strikes: -Germany and France supported Israel, many elected Democrats don't -Trump is currently feuding with Russia and pro-Russia MAGA -Iran is reportedly bombing an American base in Qatar, the country which funds Hamas & is friendly w Iran

My only real NYC mayor's race take is that it seems very unwise to treat it as primarily a vehicle for factional fights -- a lot of people live in that city and deserve a good mayor, and it is famously easy to be bad at the job.

Kids too young to speak are being forced to navigate our immigration system alone—often in a language they don’t understand. Trump’s attempt to stop funding legal aid for unaccompanied minors has put thousands at risk. I led 77 colleagues demanding transparency on these proceedings.

Everyone on this website is dumber for being here

Exactly. This is literally EXACTLY what we told you would happen. You screamed “they are the same and it couldnt be worse”. Well welcome to reality 🤷🏻‍♀️

I love that leftists can't pick their narrative about what they did in the election. For the record, if you behave this way, I'm going to argue Dems are better off getting centrist votes than work with you.

Uncommitted spent the *general election* protesting Harris. You pricks are the ones retconning history instead of admitting you got played to help elect the orange fascist.

A new Yiddish curse was born

This site is unbearable today. Every pathology on the left on full display. There is no nuance, no shades of grey, only sloganeering by people who are too educated to be this dumb.

Great analysis.

A lot of people who supported the Uncommitted activists or stayed silent about them when many of us warned that Trump and Harris are in fact different on foreign policy are now big mad at Trump. What are you mad about? You got the outcome you wanted. Harris lost and Trump is doing what we expected.

Smart early assessment from @ghoshworld.bsky.social

Thoughts on U.S. strike on Iran, a thread.

Breaking: The Trevor Project received a stop-work order last night on its contract with the national 988 suicide prevention hotline. The Trump administration is eliminating the option for LGBTQ callers to the hotline to press 3 and connect with someone who specializes in LGBTQ mental health.

Helps explain why the candidates in the Democratic gubernatorial primary who built their campaigns around opposing congestion pricing ,,, stalled out

The U.S. Holocaust Museum pushes back: “Exploiting the Museum and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising to sanitize ‘globalize the intifada’ is outrageous and especially offensive to survivors... All leaders must condemn its use and the abuse of history.”

The Trump Organization’s newly announced smartphone will most likely be made in China, experts say, despite claims that the device will be manufactured in the U.S.

There are people who are loath to acknowledge the death toll from USAID and PEPFAR cuts, because it would mean acknowledging that the US government can be a source of good in the world.

This makes no sense. (Of course.)

"When the IDF presented its plan to the Israeli Security Cabinet a year ago, Hanegbi said, it was for the operation against Iran to be carried out by Israel alone." jewishinsider.com/2025/06/isra...

ICE's arrest of New York City Comptroller Brad Lander is a shocking abuse of power. No one should face fear and intimidation in a courthouse, and this administration’s continued rampant targeting of New Yorkers makes our communities less safe.

US strikes on targets inside Iran, including nuclear sites, are “on the table” at a National Security Council meeting now underway in the Situation Room, officials tell Fox News.

Disgraceful behavior toward an ally.

Masked ICE agents just violently arrested a US citizen —and elected official — for simply asking to see a judicial warrant. This is authoritarianism. Comptroller Lander must be released immediately.

I am watching Sen. Alex Padilla talk on the Senate floor about being assaulted last week, as I watch New York City controller Brad Lander get assaulted at immigration court. In between reports on the two MN Democrats shot, one murdered, last weekend. But both sides, people, both sides.

Germany's chancellor comes out in support of Israel's strikes on Iran, saying "This is the dirty work Israel is doing for all of us." www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...

Hahahahaha

Russia signed a mutual defense pact with Iran in 2025.

My concern with America joining offensive operations against Iran is not about Fordow, which I believe should be destroyed. It's about the fact that small entries into war have forced men smarter than Trump into long wars they didn't seek.

Israel is repeating the Hezbollah playbook against Iran. New Iranian army Chief of Staff eliminated just days after eliminating the previous one. www.ynetnews.com/article/19ll...

Not everything is the Iraq war.

In a weird way, all the storm of this weekend averted people's gaze from a colossal TACO moment where Trump had to hog tie Stephen Miller and tell ICE to stop deportations in three whole industry sectors taht employee a huge percentage of undocumented immigrants.

PUTIN WAS KICKED OUT OF G8 in 2014 WHEN HE ANNEXED CRIMEA. TRUDEAU WAS ELECTED IN 2015. THANK YOU FOR THE ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.

New rule: when bitching about the policies of the Jewish establishment, be specific and name the org or be treated as a know-nothing. AJC, HIAS, JCPA, and Bend the Arc, all legacy Jewish advocacy orgs, have publicly and repeatedly condemned Trump's immigration policy and tactics.

Trump’s attempts to dehumanize large segments of the American people in order to use military force against them fits the classic definition of “tyranny,” and right wing rhetoric using the phrase “third world” to justify it is no accident (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

I had been wondering about this, that Boelter wanted to and was actively planning to kill a lot more D legislators. visited at least two other homes.

Spray paint a Tesla: domestic terrorism Targeted political assassination spree: not terrorism

Writers of this season of reality are injecting too many plots, viewers can't keep up with this

Four days apart.

That's my read as well. Rare to agree with the Times, but they went about it in the most convoluted way possible, as is typical for their engagement with politics.

Vance Luther Boelter, 57, was captured late Sunday in Minnesota and charged in the assassination of former state House Speaker Melissa Hortman (D) and her husband, Mark, and the attempted assassination of state Sen. John Hoffman (D) and his wife, Yvette. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

Trump just fired one of the Democratic commissioners of the NRC — a major escalation at an agency once considered independent.

In a democracy, shitty people get to vote too, and you have to outvote them every. single. time. That's just how it works. There is no "win condition" after which you have permanently defeated bad politics people and you can just ignore politics for the rest of your lives.