I've now seen a couple John Oliver on General Hospital clips and all I can say is YES.

Appreciate a pundit admitting a mistake. More of this, please, on many issues. #accountability

“A February survey by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York found that 10% of households nationwide said they had been forced to skip meals because they didn’t have enough food, the highest level in the six years of the survey, including during the height of the pandemic.”

It’s that companies could do basically anything they wanted to in order to stop or bust a union. They could hire spies. They could hire a police force. They could kill union organizers. They could fire you for joining a union.

I AGREE!!!

Please read and call. Flood the zone.

a deadly thread

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It takes 1.28 seconds for a message to reach us from the Moon. It takes as little as 35 minutes from Jupiter. It takes as little as 4.5 hours from Pluto. It takes at least 6-12 months from NYT reporters, plus $35 for the book containing it.

An Orlando green card applicant was given permission to travel to Egypt after his father’s death. When he returned, ICE sent him to a PA concentration camp for six months. During which he suffered vision loss and lost 45 pounds. He wasn’t informed of kidney disease diagnosis for 2 months.

That paragraph nicely sums up the Trump admin approach to capitalizing on conflict

Blanche v. Lau is devastating for green card holders. It means that if they leave the U.S. then return, a border officer can claim they committed a crime at some point, revoke their lawful status, and confiscate their green card without meaningful evidence of wrongdoing. It's really, really bad.

I'm gonna go out on a limb here. The reason, dear @washingtonpost.com, that the President has not provided *any* evidence that vandals gashed the Reflecting Pool is because the story is made up. It didn't happen.

brought in a contractor whose work is now under intense scrutiny, and ignored scientific expertise in favor of dumping large amounts of hydrogen peroxide into the water. The result? Wildlife was harmed, the coating began peeling, and taxpayers are left paying for a preventable mess.

We’re having fun with the memes, but this situation is ridiculous. The administration is now doubling down on “Algaefa” instead of addressing what actually happened. They awarded a no-bid contract,

Fascinating

Yes, I'm cranky again about @nytimes: "Diplomats Work to Preserve Iran Deal with a New Lebanon Cease-Fire" (headline) Maybe the NY Times should consider that the "deal" was *always* less than meets the eye. When in doubt, go with (empty) spectacle + grift.

Gift link. A real “holy shit” story one paragraph after another. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/u...

How to win friends and influence people?

Destroying weaponry can buy time. But if you fritter away that time, destroying weaponry is a strategic deadend. Becomes a tactic for avoiding politics and diplomacy. See Israel's so-called "mowing the grass."

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This kind of magical thinking results in one-side so-called agreements that are not in the US interest.

Just summarizing the obvious, as other have said: Iran-US interactions, the sort-of "agreement," seem to be US concessions and Iranian wins. Big money for Iran.

It is amazing how many people seem to think that the overarching, strategic purpose of war is to kill leaders and destroy weapons

If Trump actually ends his War on Iran it will be the single best decision he's made in the conflict, regardless of concessions. He disproved a core belief of the Iran Deal critics, that a better outcome existed through threats and force. Catastrophic failure, bombs cannot secure what diplomacy did.

I will comment very little, if at all, on whatever has been arrived at between the US and Iran until a text is released. What I see is recycled surmise and superficial takes, which is all anyone can do in the absence of information. We don't need any more of that.

Reminded me of an article I wrote: "The US Failure in #Iraq Post-2003 and Backlash against US Foreign Policy." The claim that the Iraq war failed due to poor implementation, ignoring the inevitability of nationalist pushback to intervention and occupation archives.norwich.edu/digital/coll...

Why does Sanger report on the closing here like it is a genuine policy option? Bizarre.

The Iran MOU is such a win for the US Trump has decided he can't show it to anyone.

Imagine being a kid and learning both your parents were arrested by ICE. You’ll have to pay rent and survive on your own. I shadowed four siblings—US citizens near Mar-a-Lago—as they try to do that. I'll be thinking about their story for a long time 1/x www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Netanyahu is now trying to convince the Israeli electorate that the war achieved exactly what he planned for it to achieve. His Feb. 28 statement declaring the war, with its repeated reference to regime change in Iran, suggests otherwise. www.gov.il/en/pages/sta...

Why is this not being universally acknowledged as a humiliating defeat for Trump, who achieved none of his purported aims? How is opening the Strait being seen as an achievement when it was open before this useless, destructive, and wasteful war?What about those 156 girls he killed?

If they’re spinning the Iran deal without showing any text, pretty good sign it’s worse than Obama’s Iran Nuclear Deal.

Sacrificing human life and expending resources to get nowhere is a wartime loss.

Wait, a large gap between Trump claim and reality on the ground?

I can't wait for the rival NYT and WaPo tick tocks of the scaffolding going up and the name coming down.

What I imagine will be the first of many times in the coming years we will see his name or vanity projects taken down.

people who work and invest in AI frequently ask me why their work polls so badly

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Worth noting that they are clearly “allowed” to be as racist as they want they are just also demanding a right to be liked despite being racist. No sorry people can draw conclusions that you’re a miserable person they don’t want to associate with.

I will say, it is also more unambiguously booing than it was on TV.

This has been studied before — @djpressman.bsky.social examined American efforts to pressure Israeli leaders throughout their joint history He found a mixed record, but pressure often worked when it was clearly communicated ahead of time and the U.S. President was actually prepared to impose costs

Always respect @silvermansecurity.bsky.social’s analysis but I don’t agree here If Trump called Bibi tomorrow and made a clear, targeted threat that Bibi thought he’d follow through on — for example, you have to withdraw from Lebanon or we cease all weapons deliveries — I think Bibi likely complies

US leverage over Israel example in @nytimes.com story on Israeli use of white phosphorous in attacking Lebanon: "Israel uses American-made 155-millimeter M825A1 artillery projectiles that contain 116 felt wedges, in the shape of pizza slices, coated with white phosphorous." See the word "American?"

Dear ABC and @espn.com, Please don't edit out the boos Monday night at MSG. ~ All of us

If you have to keep saying out loud that you call the shots, I have news for you.

GEO Group staff wouldn't allow Sen. Andy Kim to talk to any of the prisoners inside Delaney Hall when he went to visit yesterday, so there's no way of knowing who this person is or what is wrong, only that she requires medical attention asap.

Difficult really, to think of a single, more disgusting act a journalist can commit than lying to the public to justify someone being murdered by their government for activism. But this is who these people always were.