The bombing of Iran, the starving of Cuba, the waging of genocide in Palestine. It's time to let go of the idea the role of the US is to enforce a rules-based order, and instead recognize the incredible harm our country unleashes around the world, and take meaningful action to reduce it.

The average US foreign policy Serious Thinker^TM

Fuck Trump. Fuck the puppeteers behind him. Fuck the GOP, especially congressional Republicans and quisling Democrats, who enabled him. Fuck the people who voted for this, and fuck the media for never reporting on him realistically. Fuck them all, for they have truly fucked us and the world.

my uncle runs a place in Anchorage that serves fish and chips, and he named the half portion the "Texas size" which is just an incredible troll

Israel has closed all the crossings into Gaza and reimposed total siege.

If I were a head of state, I would think setting a precedent that assassination is a legitimate tool of state competition would be unwise

Trump war inflation watch. Barclays says “Oil markets might have to face their worst fears on Monday. As things stand right now, we think Brent could hit $100/b, as the market grapples with the threat of a potential supply disruption amid a spiraling security situation in the Middle East.”

"The Islamists oppose women getting an education," I mutter, as I aim my missile at the girls school

Bloody backpacks. Your tax money at work.

The “Israel War Room” posts this clip of a worldwide children’s advocate and a mayor fighting for free childcare right after bombing a girls’ school and killing at least 85 students

not clear to me how we move forward without replacing our entire political and media apparatuses

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By the way when you see reports about how Israelis are going to bomb shelters, you should keep in mind that the vast majority of Palestinian *citizens* of Israel (in the 1948 territories, not the oPT) do not have a single bomb shelter nearby due to the apartheid system Israel has implemented.

From Hunter S. Thompson’s ESPN page 2 column one week after 9/11.

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your enemies fighting each other can be useful but it doesn't make them your friends. anthropic doesn't want to help with hegseth's apocalyptic fantasy *because they have their own* you do not, under any circumstances, gotta hand it to them

If you were at work today and you got a phone call from your wife that France just blew up your kid's school, your lifelong opinion of France is probably not going to be anything other than "Death to France"

Additionally, I want to speak directly to Iranian New Yorkers: you are part of the fabric of this city — you are our neighbors, small business owners, students, artists, workers, and community leaders. You will be safe here.

I can’t stop thinking about these girls. They woke up this morning, got ready for school- maybe giggled with a sister, teases from a brother, maybe excited to see their best friend at school, or hugged their mom. And then these children were murdered by America and Israel while at school.

That's why we pay the CIA the big bucks, to deliver hard hitting news like this Also doesn't hurt to target opposition figures like Mousavi and to hit political prisoner wings in Evin too! That way you ensure there's no legitimate opposition figures available, just clowns in Fairfax.

Saving the people of Iran from being massacred by their government in the streets by massacring elementary schoolgirls from the air.

We killed 85 schoolgirls. We are not the good guys.

Trump has decisively collapsed the US empire’s sleight of hand. There is no distinction or space between the brutality of the colony and the empire itself. ICE has brought home colonial barbarity. USAID has disappeared, along with the facade of imperial benevolence.

Once again, the founders foresaw Trump perfectly, what they failed to foresee was this supine Congress.

> @covie93.bsky.social

important to remember that, compared to party structures in the rest of the world, the Democratic Party mostly doesn’t exist. it’s a loosely affiliated collection of interest groups, donors, and consultants. fundraising texts are their most robust comms infrastructure.

don't let him think he won, so let your most vulnerable constituents get evicted

I'm still on my first cup of coffee and processing the news itself, so can't quite get my head around what Polymarket is saying here: Is it that Iranians should be monitoring Polymarket to see if their children will be murdered the next day?

correct! some are even saying they should start with Sean Wilentz's liner notes from The Bootleg Series Vol. 18: Through the Open Window 1956–1963

scrawny 18-year-old about to fall out of an army helicopter over tehran: this is so epic. this is totally sigma, right babe? AI e-girl operated by a balding intelligence officer in virginia: that's right baby, Iran is totally cringe

it sucks that climate change looms in the background of all of this and even if we have a better global politics in a decade or two it's going to be too late physically

Oh my god I just want a fucking bus that goes north every 15 minutes from my house. Stop spending all my fucking money on missiles you fucking pedophiles. This fucking country.

It's almost darkly funny that Hegseth spent yesterday shaking down the Boy Scouts over trans kids and publicly feuding with a chatbot company, knowing full well that he was about to throw us into World War III hours later.

Suppose dems do win in 2028. Every single other country on earth will go "why on earth would we make *any* kind of deal with you if 4 years from now some pedophile asshole can come in fuck it all up? It literally happened last time, dipshits."

By any reasonable standard, US media and political discourse are normalizing Trump admin actions in ways that are simply hardcore propaganda. It’s always been like that with wars, of course. Still, has to be said. “Risks being drawn into another protracted war.” What a sick, demented thing to write.

Almost certainly true, and another opportunity to remember that Netanyahu would willingly trade away the safety of every Jew on earth to save his own political career and avoid going to prison for his crimes.

this is why north korea built nukes

How hard is it to build a bar at the Pentagon?

Israel, immediately after vaporizing a bunch of little girls:

Love it when our nation’s defense contractors all spend their Friday nights subtweeting each other about killing everyone in the world

Increasingly convinced that no one who rose into leadership while fully protected by the rule of law is properly equipped to fight for and protect democratic institutions in this current era.

a whole lot of businesspeople learning in real time that a predictable and stable regulatory state - even if you don’t like some of the regulations - is vastly preferable to “boss man doesn’t like you so you’re fucked now”

Jack Dorsey renamed the company to Block because he thought blockchains would be the future, in case you were wondering what his track record of predicting long-term tech trends is