they will happily sacrifice as many troops as they need. i don’t even know what to say anymore. anyone supporting this war is dumb as fuck and will lead to a less safe world every day this continues

Same as it has always been.

you are literally the one guy who isn't allowed to complain about this

schools are never valid military targets, on or off base if someone bombed a DoD school in Okinawa and killed a bunch of American 4th graders, that would be a war crime. The murder of Iranian schoolchildren is a war crime.

shockingly people are capable of simultaneously, 1. Hating their government 2. Hating the people who bomb and sanction their country, making regular life impossible and murdering members of their family, even more

these people should all hang

Since news is coming in drips and drops for the English speaking world, the short version is that Shogakukan (approximately Marvel, Image and King Features combined) knowingly hired a child rapist and hid his past from readers and even his assigned collaborator.

Chris Murphy: "We're gonna have Americans dying, and the end result is going to be hard line leadership continues in Iran and we don't get rid of their nuclear program. That's a moral and strategic disaster for the country."

lmfao

world-altering decisions are being made by a cabal of gambling addicts hell bent on self enrichment no matter the cost to humanity, we should look into that.

Good piece on the “brain drain” from the U.S. and the history of its “brain gain”. For the moment, while the numbers might be up, it looks like the real loss is in talented junior and future scholars, rather than senior “stars” (as most of these programs are not competitive for the latter).

Cap a Palma

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I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

She’s a serious candidate; at this point I think most people dismissing her seriousness are at least partially motivated by misogyny; and this is a clearer articulation of a progressive foreign policy than I’ve seen anyone else running for office make

Como todas las listas, incompleta, pretenciosa y superficial. Y aún así, mola www.theguardian.com/music/2006/j...

Tiniest violins for the many European tax exiles and gangsters who never quite understood how much of a geopolitical house of cards the UAE is

'Where Mandy, Indiana’s 2023 debut, I’ve Seen A Way, had a hazy, cinematic quality; Urgh is heavier and stranger, with Alex MacDougall’s expressive drumming bringing a Lightning Bolt-like intensity' Mandy, Indiana - Urgh is a Quietus Album of the Month for February 2026 buff.ly/JfdcLam

Several eyewitness reports are coming in that the Palms was struck in Dubai.

I can't fucking believe we're doing this again.

So many Jews thought it was a great idea to team up with a religious fanatic who thinks Christ will only return after Israel is destroyed in a nuclear war. 🤷

“Mr President, your approval ratings are in the toilet, the economy is looking increasingly brittle, and you are sailing one tide ahead of a swarm of personal and corruption scandals. The midterms are looking ominous.” “What if I started a war of choice and made gas $7 per gallon this summer?”

As a professional military strategist, I just wanted to make sure everyone has a full understanding of the American strategy in Iran, thank you for your attention to this matter

And the Special Military Operation in Ukraine was supposed to take 3 days. The enemy gets a vote, lads.

In the past, sometimes presidents have said it’s just a military operation or limited airstrikes to skirt Congress. Trump has unilaterally launched major combat operations, declaring war with the goal of regime change. A major violation of the U.S. Constitution, also illegal under international law

Obama signed a peace deal. It was working extremely well. Trump ripped it up and started a war instead.

When there are no consequences for the last bad thing, you'll get a next worse thing.

Israel assesses the assassination was successful; the likelihood that Supreme Leader of Iran Ali Khamenei survived the Israeli strike is slim to none. - N12

Rep Jim Himes (D-CT), top Democrat on House Intelligence Committee: “Everything I have heard from the Administration before and after these strikes on Iran confirms this is a war of choice with no strategic endgame…”

My statement on Trump's strikes on Iran.

These are criminal acts, and there is no way to find the other side of this without meaningful accountability for this—like “in the dock at The Hague” accountability.

US military base in Bahrain is currently under attack by Shahed kamikaze drones.

Si no te gusta la persona X o lo que escribe, puedes dejar de seguirla, silenciarla o bloquearla, y no la verás más. No hace falta que que los demás hagan lo mismo. Pero para algunos no es suficiente y además se dedican a investigar quién sigue a X para enfadarse con ellos. Es gente con vocación.

So this is what focusing on the Western Hemisphere looks like.

Va a haber boicot al mundial, zero dudas

need to be clear that by keeping Starmer until May even though almost all of them know he's not up to it, Labour MPs are basically sacrificing hundreds of councillors and dozens of councils on the altar of their own inertia and ineptitude

Just thinking about how lots of people in the White House are making money off of this

It does feel like Starmer and Mahmoud have seen Labour rejected by its own *actual* core vote (instead of its imagined one) in its heartland and decided that the answer is just to reject those core voters right back. Suicidal politics.

The timing of the initial strikes is unusual. Often you see these types of operations launched in the pre-dawn hours at the target site partly to limit civilian casualties. This operation began at the beginning of a work and school day, with millions of adult civilians and children in harms way.

Claims of 40 dead after an Israeli airstrike on a elementary girl’s school in Iran www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

Twenty-plus years ago, did big, long Atlantic story based on formal "war game" involving "preemptive" attack on Iran. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc... Lots of details have changed since then. But not the fundamental conclusion of the war-game: ARE YOU CRAZY?? DO NOT EVEN THINK OF DOING THIS.

The Constitution makes federal law and treaties the supreme law of the land. Federal law says the president may not introduce US forces into “hostilities” absent (1) a declaration of war, (2) statutory authorization, or (3) “a national emergency created by attack” on the US or its forces.

There are always tweets

Huh. He literally did the speech.

"They are 12 years old" theory, undefeated

seriously though, this is a thought you know some people are having