Journalists should be accurately describing the current war whenever time and space accommodate it. This is not "War with Iran" or the "Iran War." This is "Trump's unconstitutional war on Iran."

It’s crystal clear now that Trump has lost control of this war. He badly misjudged Iran’s ability to retaliate. The region is on fire. 1/ I’m going to explain to you in this🧵what I’ve learned - in part from closed door briefings - about the four biggest current crises.

Jürgen Habermas, whose work on communication, rationality and sociology made him one of the world’s most influential philosophers and a key intellectual figure in his native Germany, has died. He was 96.

This administration is committing Watergate level crimes multiple times per week—and those are the ones we know about. It’s crazy to think about what else will come out after. It’s absolutely essential these criminals are held responsible for their crimes. We must end elite impunity.

Trump's language here is similar to the way he spoke about COVID at the start of the pandemic, as he tried to pretend that the impact would be minimal and brief.

Putting Erika Kirk on the US Air Force Academy Board of Visitors doesn't have quite the same ring as putting a horse in the Roman Senate, but the sentiment is the same.

It's psyops season in NYC, with a supposedly pro-Khameni demonstration in Washington Square with pro-Israel counterprotestors and a full-on anti-Muslim hate rally at Gracie Mansion organized by a J6er with possible IEDs thrown at police. Flash mobs for a fascist regime.

I know it's trite to say that every accusation is an admission from Trump, but when he dismissed concerns about the US destruction of an Iranian civilian desalinization plant by talking about decapitated babies, that was 100% him talking about things he did and are in the unreleased Epstein files.

Kristi Noem isn't the only one who is disappointed that she isn't getting that $70 million DHS private jet.

I feel disgust at any white person saying "y'all," regardless of where they came from, and I'm not ashamed to admit it. I don't care how long white Southerners have been appropriating AAVE. It's still not yours.

Of course. No one wanted this war. They wanted food and health care and energy prices to go down. Now all those things will cost more. It's a war of folly by a doddering old man who likes when things blow up and needs to distract us from the child sex ring he's connected to.

I work in this business, too, and what makes me so livid is this kind of crap insulting the readers intelligence. The editors at the paper understand the marching orders. Pretending op-ed is just one persons opinion and not part of a larger agenda is silly and disingenuous.

Watching "The Ultimate Computer" at this moment, as the regime wages an illegal and unconditional war on Iran and as AI companies are being pushed to give the regime access to their products so they can be used in autonomous weapons, is... fascinating.

“Democrats in Congress are giving mostly weak statements about egregious lawless war and need to do better and loudly assert the need for consequences” (true) is simply not the same as “Democrats in Congress could have prevented this” (false).

Killing a bunch of elementary school girls to distract from having raped a bunch of middle- and high-school girls is pretty fucking grim.

The state of the union address was like 72 hours before the US and Israel chose to attack Iran’s capital and call for regime change, and Trump did not even mention his policy toward Iran before Congress, much less ask for a declaration of war.

You know, even if Lurch here has a war boner, he could stand up for the Constitution and condemn acting without congressional authorization. It’s only his goddamn job.

The future of this country isn’t MAGA. It’s the sleeping people who didn’t know what they had, until MAGA took it away and the people who stood for justice. I can’t wait until the criminals among you are behind bars and the rest of you live the rest of your miserable existence hiding in shame.

Over my career of more than 25 years, I have been laid off only twice: Once was during the first Trump administration. The other was today, during the second. Everything Trump touches dies.

What utter ignoramus wrote this? What dolt was the lead reporter here? What boob was the editor? All of you, quit your jobs.

I've never been much for sports nationalism, and I've never rooted for athletes that choose to represent an autocratic regime. Maybe I'm unreasonable, but I don't care. I do judge all US athletes this year for not pushing to be Independent Olympic Athletes or declining to participate.

Andrew Siciliano surely declined otoplasty at some point in his career, despite an agent or loved ones recommending it, right? Real Olympics questions

"Skimo" looks like something from The Ocho. Are we getting SlamBall in the Summer Olympics? Soap hockey?

Karoline Leavitt took questions for more than a half hour today and not a single one of them was about Trump's role in the ongoing Epstein coverup

Seeing RFK Jr and Kid Rock share a glass of warm jizz in the grotto does not, in fact, make America healthy again.

This is the interview Donald Trump didn’t want you to see. His FCC refused to air my interview with Stephen Colbert. Trump is worried we’re about to flip Texas.

Today is Washington's Birthday. There is no Federal holiday called "Presidents' Day," "Presidents Day," or the ridiculous "President's Day." You may live in a state that may have a state holiday by one of those names. I don't, and I'm glad. Today is Washington's Birthday.

I'm a Gallup pollster. You can contact them at [email protected] to let them know what you think of this.

She really just said why are you talking about the mass coverup of child rape when you should be talking about money

She spent the whole morning performatively screaming at Congressmen, but this image of Bondi saying nothing and refusing to turn around will be the only real takeaway from her testimony today.

Lieu plays Bondi the infamous clip of Trump & Epstein partying together & asks her if there were underaged girls at any party the two attended "This is so ridiculous," Bondi says. "There's no evidence that Donald Trump has committed a crime" "I believe you just lied under oath," Lieu replies

Jayapal asks Epstein survivors in hearing room to stand and raise hands if they still haven't been able to meet with Bondi's DOJ. Every single one of them doe. Jayapal then gives Bondi an opportunity to apologize. She responds by trying to attack Jayapal and Merrick Garland but doesn't apologize.

Not to sound like an asshole or to be insensitive to the real trauma that the Guthrie family is experiencing, but the amount of attention that the media are devoting to the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie is bizarre in this time of pedophiles, fascists, oligarchs, and pedophile-fascist-oligarchs.

[frantically raising hand] ooh, ooh. I know. Because Americans have a constitutional right to vote but don't have a right to open a bank account or drive a car.

Someone who complains that they can't enjoy a song with Spanish lyrics because they don't speak Spanish but who also says that they like a song with the lyrics "Bawitdaba, da-bang, da-bang, diggy-diggy-diggy" is not a serious person.

That highly classified whistleblower report Tulsi Gabbard covering up? Guardian reports it’s an NSA intercept of a call between a close Trump associate and “an individual associated with foreign intelligence.” Sounds similar to Trump’s campaign chair meeting Russian intel and sharing data in 2016.

Wasn't the reason "disastrous" become an obligatory attachment to Biden's withdrawal from Afghanistan that he wasn't able to get all the Afghans out who had worked with us? Now that Trump is just sending them back, I guess this was just the media's way of trashing Biden in "news" stories.

Wonder Man is really great. That's all. Carry on.

“I'm all for removing illegals, but snatching dudes off lawn mowers in Cali and leaving the truck and equipment just sitting there? Definitely not working smarter,” writes one forum user. www.wired.com/story/inside...

I love Bluesky because I can have zero regrets blocking every account I come across that uses a BenJammins GIF, knowing that I will never again encounter whatever other vapid horseshit they may have to say.

#nowspinning #nowplaying Buddy Holly > singles > Coral

I am calling on @icegov.bsky.social Director Todd Lyons to immediately confirm or deny the existence of a “domestic terrorist” database. If true, you’re violating the Constitution. If not, maybe talk to your “border czar” to get your stories straight. This isn’t a game–it’s the Constitution.

"I am my own original sin. One someone is always willing to forgive. Until enough of you demand that I be better."

"Abolish ICE" is popular, but I think that if you asked people whether they support splitting ICE back into investigative and interior enforcement programs and tearing apart DHS back into the Customs Service and the Immigration and Naturalization Service, like before 9/11, even more would approve.

Been thinking about how we’re not okay here in Minnesota and how events and the state of affaires are echoing in our day to day world. A thread. cw: suicide