Yeah we’re going to see a lot of this here and abroad as people seek to justify the suffering they sought to impose.

And criminalizing Leftists. A lot of people seem traumatized by individual Leftists being mean to them. But that's an individual problem that some people have decided is a structural explanation.

Reminder that you don’t have to take them seriously

QNN: Gaza Bakery Owners Association warns of a worsening bread crisis, as the bakery's shortfall in meeting residents’ needs reaching about 50% amid declining supplies of flour and fuel. #Gaza

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This screen grab is from a video posted today by an Iranian bystander. It shows two helicopters refueling incredibly close to the ground in enemy territory. If everybody was flying like that, I'm not surprised so many got hit. x.com/RKhanizadeh/...

It’s “the little old lady who swallowed a fly,” brought to you by Lockheed-Martin

Losses are piling up quick today. Apparently now the F-15, A-10 Warthog, and a rescue Blackhawk were all struck by Iran.

NEW: @nytimes.com is reporting an A-10 Warthog was downed near the Straight of Hormuz. The A-10 pilot appears to have been rescued. *Note: A previous version of this post incorrectly said the A-10 pilot's status was uknown. I deleted it.

Feels like an awkward detail here that the US has also not ratified the Law of the Sea. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/w...

Experts in teleportation?

This is so depressing. But it does underscore something I encourage with my friends and will now with my Bluesky followers: stop donating to the Big Orgs. Give to small, upstart organizers. I have just seen so many idealistic people go to the big name places, only to be ground down by this shit.

A good overview that I suspect still severely understates the damage to US assets. The best case for the US is rebuilding for years, at massive cost to taxpayers, after an immediate ceasefire. It looks like the US could be set on escalating ecocide and sending in soldiers while increasingly blind.

“They have no anti-aircraft equipment. Their radar is 100 percent annihilated,” Trump said Wednesday. “We are unstoppable as a military force.” Today:

I will repeat this again and again: Israel’s goal in Lebanon is to destroy the country itself. Israel is targeting Lebanese Shias - a war crime - to push for civil war in Lebanon

All but three (!) of the 1,651 refugees admitted into the United States in the three most recent months we have data are white South Africans. For comparison, in 2024, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees. It's an explicit white supremacist project. www.rpc.state.gov/documents/Re...

it's never "meet the liberals pushing for nuremberg 2.0" is it?

“Kharazi has been seen as a potential peace negotiator in the current conflict given his role as head of Iran’s Foreign Policy Council. Two Iranian officials said Kharazi was attempting to assemble a meeting with U.S. Vice President JD Vance…” They bombed his home and killed his wife.

“The draft seen by Reuters authorizes the measures ‘for a period of at least six months ... and until such time as ​the council decides otherwise.’”

Did you know there are actually two sides to the question of whether women are people?

The New York Times rolling up its sleeves to do the hard work of normalizing the idea that women should not have the right to vote.

We've gone from "Palestinians are Amalek" to "Iran is Amalek" and I am SO ANGRY.

“The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel cited Othman Atta, the executive director of the mosque, as saying that deportation documents focused on Sarsour's arrest by Israeli authorities as a teenager living in the West Bank to argue he ​provided material support for extremists.” Sarsour is 53 years old.

I obviously have a long list of things that I expect and demand of the next Democratic president, but maybe one of the most easy to fulfill is blacklisting this piece of garbage from the White House for forever. Literally just laundering an abject lie. Trump says outright it's to punish civilians.

hmm

Liberals really did completely rewrite the horrors of the Iraq War cuz it was easier than self reflecting and acknowledging what decisions got us there

This is a bailout for tech companies who have embedded in Defense Dept. Americans are getting robbed.

Pretending that forever war in the Middle East isn't bipartisan is so deeply deranged. Embarrassing. Connect one line to any two dots.

If attacking Iran had worked out how Trump hoped, who would have been next? Iranians are tanking the US military for a lot of other people right now. The least we can do is avoid the racist, dehumanizing (to them and to ourselves) ways of thinking and speaking that make this and any war possible.

oh so they *really* want to pop off some nukes huh

Trump does not make sense. Musk, Andreessen and Vought being involved does not make sense. 'Flooding the zone' does not make sense. These things only make sense in the bigger picture — that Latour was right: the wealthy gave up long ago, and split from us. We cannot the wealthy in a FF free world.

This is all a charade. This is really about climate chaos — creating it, bringing forward what the wealthy see as inevitable. The wealthy do not see themselves as being in the same boat as the rest of us. Bruno Latour saw this coming. Know your people. Know your food. Know your water. Link in alt.

Bombing the largest civilian bridge in Iran and Iran immediately draws up a list of Gulf State bridges to target and it’s the end of the petrodollar I swear

Great overview from Peter. “This is how the center of the Democratic Party keeps the left at bay. They forge alliances to their right and leave the left isolated from power. Convening with the right is practical politics; convening with the left is beyond the pale.”

If he eats a rich person from the pulpit I think I'd swing by and check it out tbh.

I will not start going to mass again no matter how based the pope gets

little blue dot screen of death

Direct link to this post in the NYT live feed because it’s important to show this screenshot is real, but please do heap scorn on the NYT generally for promoting transphobia and sanewashing fascists. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04...

With alt-text

Imagine if we spent a trillion dollars per year on NASA instead of on bombs and killing machines.

I wonder how often people regret launching into space once it’s too late.

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

This is 100% ethnic cleansing. And Israel will keep doing it as long as the world keeps looking away with their eyes while reaching out their hands to help fund it.

This is a great podcast, if you haven't heard it. Well researched, funny, and very often relevant to our current circumstances. Robert & co also have a current events podcast called It Could Happen Here, which started out as a warning leading up to the election. It now chronicles current events.

Major General Gardner, Eagle 6, has just had his authority undermined by Hegseth. Every shitbird, Blue Falcon, & ambulatory disciplinary case in the 101st now knows they can get away with anything provided they can turn it into content for Hegseth.

Fundamentally, we have experienced a coup, and the sooner Americans realize their government is illegitimate and wishes them harm, the better.

Trump regime signalling to loyalists in the military that the regime will allow them to do illegal things in the United States to Americans.