That's too bad. Said no one. Ever.

U.S. offers India a 30-day waiver for buying Russian oil as Iran war deepens energy supply worries

FFS people.

First, a bit odd to be fighting a war where our main ally is Israel and the others are Muslim and imply we are fighting to stay "Christian nations under God" 🤨

Current mood

I suppose there might be some value in laying down this marker — that the House should consider any deployment. But also: There is no actual deployment on the table. There's not even a notion of a deployment. www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...

Why don't they just refuse to allow him to caucus with them anymore?

WTF is wrong with these people?

On it!

Telling my grandkids this was The Shield of the Americas.

Oh, FFS

I feel a song coming on...

What the hell is the "Special Envoy for the Shield of the Americas"?

Come on people!

i really don't think Hegseth realized the diplomatic consequences of that strike

Isn't it illegal to publish footage from US submarines?

Roh Roh

Not enough PNG'ing of ambassadors going on.

"The Dena sent a distress signal after it was hit. The Sri Lankan Navy sent ships to help and was able to rescue 32 Iranian sailors. At least 80 people on the ship were killed, according to the Sri Lankan authorities."

Stephen Himmler says what?

Again, a central reason we are here again now is because the <only> people who went to jail, even briefly, for Iran-Contra were low-level functionaries like this guy. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

If Labour really wanted to become popular again...

The reason I should not be a national leader is that I would not be able to stop myself from adding “say thank you” to my list of demands.

Tax Bezos (and the rest) out of existence.

He's saying we're not going to participate in offensive actions against Iran, but might need to defend our allies. Chill, people.

Just sharing this as some have raised questions about the credibility of this particular story (not to negate the many other things we should be worried about with respect to the war). #civmilsky www.friendlyatheist.com/p/before-you...

The dumbest Globe and Mail take:

This also seems like an act of war:

Spain denied any change to its position of not allowing the United States to use its bases to strike Iran, shortly after the White House claimed it had agreed to 'cooperate' u.afp.com/Su7A

He's not wrong.

Oooh some great reporting from my friend and fellow journalist @christysomos.bsky.social!! "Exposing the flimsy legal shield protecting Canadians who are likely involved in the U.S. military’s Op. Southern Spear - and the hard questions Ottawa hasn’t answered." open.substack.com/pub/thestate...

Confirmation?

spot on by Profs @mikeschmitt.bsky.social and Marko Milanovic

You know things are bad when ...

Still can't pay with your phone.

There is an unresolved tension between Carney’s desire to project a new, purely realist Canadian stance driven by pragmatic need, and his desire to create a break from the U.S. sphere and play a major role in the alliance of surviving liberal democracies, defending their values. Visible here.

Paraguay's intervention in the Gaza genocide case offers a preview of Israel's legal arguments: - Attacks on military targets that also kill civilians cannot constitute genocide - Genocidal intent cannot coexist with other motives - UN and NGO reports cannot prove genocide 1/🧵

BREAKING: An American submarine sank an Iranian warship with a torpedo in international waters, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says.

This at the UN, not NATO. Iran is not in NATO. Mike Waltz is the US Ambassador to the UN, and he's threatening Iran's UN Ambassador, who is explicitly not on US soil when he's at the United Nations. Mike Waltz knows that and is behaving like a lawless thug anyway.

War criminal gonna war crime.

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This is the way. And I hope more EU leaders follow suit. It would be particuarly good for Merz to have a call with Sanchez today and affirm full German solidarity with Spain.

This is illegal. It also counter-productive. It’s literally what caused Hezbollah to form. This might work in the short-term but Israel can’t sustain this over time. And the blowback, which high may be years in the making will come. And it will be bad.

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