Yes...ha ha ha...yes!

One Trump-allied company controlling more than 60% of local TV news in your city means: - Trump could have more influence over what you watch - Your prices could skyrocket - You could have fewer choices But state AGs are fighting this, and I'm with them. We've got to stop this.

When pro-democracy forces return to power, it is critical they take seriously the degradation and capture of the public square. We can't allow a tiny handful of corrupt, anti-human billionaires to control the production and distribution of news and information.

Increasingly seems to me like the WH has *intentionally* taken out a "blame Israel" insurance policy as a kind of fallback/escape route when and if things go sideways.

The pathetic groveling, and demand for groveling, bother me more than maybe anything else.

We are never going to make a deal with Iran or anybody else as long as Trump is in office. He's a serial liar and breaks his own "deals" all the time. Nobody is going to trust a liar.

If this was a freeway, the answer would be “dump money into this until it is done.” But it’s transit so…sorry Ballard.

All bad options, but Option 1 seems the least bad for ridership IMO. How the hell do they intend to build the new tunnel only to Seattle Center, though?

I don't really like the thing we're apparently doing now where we call a foreign government a "Terrorist Regime," and that I guess unlocks the right to ignore diplomacy, assassinate their leaders, and disregard civilian casualties.

Per Punchbowl's Jake Sherman, the White House has told Congress it's willing to give ground on a number of issues in the neighborhood of Dem asks. TBC this is not a full cave (not clear if any of this would even be codified), but it's definitely moving towards what Democrats have asked for.

We are moving like 2000 ground troops to the middle east. If this is the invasion force, we are going to fail. Iran is a huge country and has been preparing for an asymmetric fight for decades. We need literally x100 times that many soldiers to "take the straight by force."

This is a grim but accurate accessment of 2026.

This is insane, but also I think it explains a lot about why billionaires are the way they are.

Gas in Seattle. Thanks Trump!

TLJ would have been an okay (just okay IMO) movie as a stand alone IP, but it just does not fit as a Star Wars film. Either the rules of Space War matter, or Space War doesn't matter.

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Keep spamming the bomb and bluster buttons, maybe it’ll work this time. It’s totally a cheat code for capitulation. Any time now.

This was a really interesting article. It's a long one, but it brought a lot of understanding to the Iran conflict.

Nobody did anything to stop Iran from getting a nuke (except Obama, who made a deal which international bodies agreed Iran was abiding by and which President Dealmaker tore up out of spite)! So really, we had no choice.

The only surprising thing is that it took this long. You can't trust a serial liar!

You can't make deals if everyone knows you reneg on deals.

I think people are overrating the odds the ayatollah is a purely rational utility maximizer and underrating the odds the guy is rather upset about his father, wife, and daughter being incinerated and wants his pound of flesh.

This might be the greatest split-screen ever broadcast. They’ll play this in museums in future. (🎥 LCI 🇫🇷)

It's one poll, but wow. I'd love to see Talarico cross that 50% threshold, though.

"The US and its partners in the Gulf most likely burned through well over 1,000 PAC-3 interceptors alone. That’s almost twice the annual production of the weapons and more than the US and its allies have supplied to Ukraine since the Russian invasion four years ago, "

This is... really something, huh?

It’s not like mining will change the amount of traffic through Hormuz, which will go from zero to zero, but it immediately makes the fallout global and irreversible, by ensuring that traffic remains zero for the foreseeable future. Which is why it’s odd it’s getting only moderate press attention

“In my 15 years in the Senate, I have never left a briefing this angry. We are heading down a path toward sending U.S. troops to Iran as ground forces,” — Sen. Richard Blumenthal

For instance his recent militaristic streak very obviously comes from how well Venezuela seemed to work out. Because he is deeply stupid, instead of thinking "wow, I got lucky" or "I wonder why that worked so well" he thought "ah, if you do a war, the other side becomes a compliant vassal, neat."

Shocking and infuriating. Worth the read.

I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public. I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are. 1/ Here's what I can share:

i sort of think part of the problem here is that accurately portraying american sentiment about this war would shred a lot of other assumptions about the second trump admin that much of the political press have been running with since the start

Summing up Iran news today, I think. - US/Israel strikes continue - Iran doesn't want talks, still firing on neighbors - US asked Israel to stop hitting Iranian energy infra - US claimed to be escorting tankers - oops no it isn't - Mines in the water - ~80-90% of Iran mine laying capacity intact

AND YET! It turns out some of the country's most successful people wiped their brains of everything that happened from 2017-2021 and forgot elemental facts about Donald Trump's competence and character. www.offmessage.net/p/elites-mag...

We have successfully bombed a school, gotten 7 soldiers killed, disrupted the world economy, and replaced an 86 year-old supreme leader with his much younger, more hardline son who is more committed to building nuclear weapons. Operation Middle East Wing is all but complete. by Donald J. Trump

It's not a lie if you believe it!

Here we go

There are, right now, multiple ships approach the Straight of Hormuz from the east. These vessels are underway and headed for ports on the Arabian penninsula (particularly the UAE). I think in the next couple hours we'll see how serious Iran is (or isn't) about the straights being closed.

An hour apart. Perhaps we should stop treating the mindless weathervane spinning in the breeze as if it has a clear strategic direction we can ascertain.

Saving this as a reference point. It's hard to keep track of all the attacks!

This seems accurate. Unless the US can reliably and continuously keep the straight open our only option has only ever been "declare victory and go home."

The WSJ calls it “the most severe energy crisis since the 1970s.” ⛽️ @wsj.com www.wsj.com/world/middle...

Important article. should be gift link. www.wsj.com/us-news/immi...

Almost every single rural area in America is *heavily* dependent on the largesse of urban tax dollars, and not only do urban residents not realize this (even the liberal ones), they hate us for it.

Basically every middle eastern government is completely full of shit. Presumptively lying. I don't know what's happening at the Dubai Airport, but the local government is the last information source I'd trust.

Word: What do they mean?

Meanwhile, Hormuz not opening any time soon

The American political class is utterly delusional, adrift in a dream of normality, unable to process the actual reality of events on the ground, where the US just launched a completely unprovoked war against a massive country, murdered its leadership, and demanded its conversion to a vassal state.