Uh oh H/t @horadam.bsky.social

Exploding the deficit and making it impossible to properly fund all the important government programs liberals hold dear but progressively for no real reason

Iran's government is more hardline, its people are poorer and more isolated, the region's on fire, and the global economy feels like its about to go into shock If you want to know why people wanted to avoid war with Iran for so long, you're finding out in real time

chat is it good when the oil lines go vertical chat come back here chat stop screaming

America and Israel raining down darkness on Tehran?

christians looking for jesus in every war we start, every missile we fire, every conquering despot we crown, and never in the one place jesus promised he could be found: among the poor, the starving, the oppressed.

I have a piece coming on this early next by Alireza and Nik, who were sounding the alarm on the water crisis before this all started. foreignpolicy.com/2025/11/11/t...

boy howdy

Now more than ever I’m convinced losing Anthony Bourdain meant we lost probably the biggest person on tv who advocated for the wonders of meeting new people and calling anyone online who hated learning new cultures the children they were, ruthlessly to the camera.

If you’re a former dem nominee and can’t understand how pro wrestling motivates audiences, presents moral judgements, and displays the social structure in front of you and behind the scenes … there are bigger issues here than liking the sport here, Pam.

The asymmetry of the value placed on human life is so striking. Israel has a goal to recover 40-year-old remains; to do so, it invades a sovereign country, and the lives of 26 Lebanese are an afterthought. Their names not even worth printing in the New York Times.

they made a warfare situationship 😭

There was MUCH less evidence for antisemitism from Mamdani than there is from Platner, but the fact that some Jews had concerns led Mamdani to do lots of Jewish outrage, meet with Jews, go to synagogues, and such. Platner is notably not doing that.

Oil is actually much harder to transport while on fire. Petrochemical engineers refer to this as the ”Owie-Burney Effect.”

free idea for anyone who wants to run for mayor: policy proposals pegged to Chicago turning 200 in 2037. "Chicago200". like 200 new miles of protected bike lanes. 200 new public bathrooms. 2000 new bus shelters.

“fact-based feeling” is unfortunately an instant classic

It should be a scandal that APNSA Marco Rubio has kept Secretary of State Marco Rubio in the dark like this bsky.app/profile/edac...

I want you all to guess how much Graham Platner’s grandpa’s chair costs

just remembered this and I now have a much funnier explanation for the purges.

Netanyahu: "This is not an endless war. This is something that will usher in an era of peace."

EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war. The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been “inundated” with more than 110 complaints. One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus…

U.S. Marines opened fire on demonstrators during the storming of the Karachi consulate over the weekend, two U.S. officials said on Monday.

third way really has its finger on the pulse with its opposition to a billionaire tax. really smart election-maximizing moderation here folks

this remains one of the most interesting uses of the tool Counter frog-boil numbing by objectively confirming just how out of distribution a given event is

"Spain’s defense minister, Margarita Robles, said on Monday that while there was an agreement with the United States on the use of the bases, Spain believed it only extended to use within the framework of international law." Spain views US war on Iran as illegal. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/w...

The first person in Bahrain to be confirmed to die was a migrant worker from the debris of an intercepted missile

The energy crisis of the 1970s was the last thing that made railroad executives take electrification seriously. Don’t let this one go to waste.

the NYT updates on the war are like 2003 updates about the Iraq War run through some kind of Idiocracy translator

Reports indicate at least 100 children have already been killed in strikes on schools. That is unconscionable. Three U.S. service members are dead as a result of this entirely preventable war of choice. The blood of these service members, these children, and every civilian rests in Trump’s hands.

could a dying empire do THIS

There is no coherent plan for regime change because that's not the goal. What they want is a perennial bad-guy punching bag they can go hit every few months whenever they want in perpetuity.

Incredible. 19 of the 137 Venezuelans whom Trump sent to CECOT under the Alien Enemies Act, & who were swapped back to VZ & then escaped to 3d countries, seek to come back to the US to contest their Tren de Aragua designation—knowing they'll be detained (& God knows what else) by the Trump Admin.

It’s cool how it took a crooked New York real estate guy and shitty guy from the Philly suburbs to show that international law is completely meaningless

Iranian Shahed-131/136 drone impacts the floors above them in Manama, Bahrain.

Update from Iranian state media aje.news/p4rw7y?updat...

Israel, immediately after vaporizing a bunch of little girls:

Voters don’t think the Democratic Party is too progressive, they think it’s weak and ineffective www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-poll-d...

Sam Altman picked a hell of a day to basically urge the world to trust the morality and legal restraint of the Department of Defense

prison for everyone involved in this illegal war of aggression

if you believe in any form of free enterprise at all, the idea that the Pentagon can not only cut off your contract but designate you a supply chain risk and prevent other companies from buying from you just because you won't build killbots for the government should be terrifying

It bothers me how nobody seems to understand that this, trans people getting booted out of the military without their contractually obligated benefits, etc. is ultimately about if the promises of the government are worth a goddamn thing as long as the Republican Party exists.

This is the worst case scenario occurring at almost all turns. - Tased and struck over misunderstanding - Stays in jail for a year because of slow wheel of justice and ICE fears - PD screws up in releasing him - Border Patrol release catastrophically screwed up - PD blows off missing persons report

RIP to the SS Totally Not the CIA and its crew of four employees of a Reston VA LLC who were out on a pleasure cruise and accidentally wandered into Cuban territorial waters doing 70 knots.

So the BBC promised Davidson and StudioCanal (who made I Swear) that any swearing tics would be edited out from broadcast, and instead they left them in despite a two hour delay, and even put a fucking microphone right in front of him to ensure they picked it up - he was sat at the back of room.

IMHO, it is important that Woke 2 be deemed "excessive" by historians, "sweeping too broadly" with "punishments too severe." It cannot be merely a course correction, it must be an overcorrection. Nothing less will serve as an adequate deterrent against the fascists and their collaborators.

Saw this in Discord and it’s amazing

it's going to be a showdown between member-driven NYC-DSA and leadership-directed WFP in the Commie Corridor