This is so much worse than the deal Trump abandoned.

A 30 day ceasefire seems unlikely to "open" the strait in practice. Are tankers really going to set sail for the Strait in a scenario that it could be closed again by the time they get there? Keep in mind I assume Trump will be threatening to restart the war every day

Do we really think the Washington Times has the inside scoop?? Well DW is also suggesting something is coming, but the finalization of a draft peace deal is not a peace deal. Im not sure Trump or IRGC is going to go forward , and this is hardly a ringing endorsement. www.dw.com/en/us-iran-s...

So the Xi/Trump summit didn't accomplish anything other than the few token agreements that were little more than a minor step back towards the previous trade status quo and aren't even deals per se as they are nonbinding claims to "look into it"

Yeah they're going to do something stupid again.

..... I'm not sure how much I buy the official explanation of her husband's bone cancer.... it'd certainty be a factor but in a world where it wasn't likely for her to get fired in a few months, do with think she'd have still resigned?

I for one thought a lot of it had to do with the MSM repeatedly putting out stories that just said "voters hate inflation" over and over again, adding almost nothing of substance but cementing in the vibecession. It is curious why it continued absent the deluge of those stories.

Donald Trump has made it impossible to observe that societal norm in which even those we detest are granted an if-you-can't-say-anything-nice silence when they expire. When his stain is wiped off this vale, I'll use all the maledicta I know and dance in the street with the best Americans I can find.

Its very hard to have viewpoints diversity when some viewpoints openly disregard reality and would rob your political voice if given the chance.

This is an issue. It is not *the* issue. *The* issue is that everything about this is illegal and corrupt as fuck. Relenting to a $2 billion theft for Trump and his cronies because at least the money won’t go to people who assaulted cops would be the most Susan Collins move ever.

GOP senators translator: do it but don’t involve us

Frozen food from the store is so good now, too! Like the technology has come so far

they are really looking at the iran debacle and going, yep, can’t see any red flags here, we’re gonna go invade Cuba

Something people don't really remember but is true is that one of the *top* political issues the media covered in the runup to the 2014 midterms was the idea that Barack Obama had badly mismanaged an Ebola outbreak because 10 total Americans had gotten it

If we do get a deal on Iran I expect Trump to sharply pivot to another war. They have been crowing about Cuba for months, and would have certainly acted on it already if Iran hadnt near instantly become a quagmire.

It disgusts me these blatant lies in service of creating a hagiography of Trump, a stupid beast with no redeeming qualities.

This is technically true, but Bezos is the worst person to say it. You really cannot raise the tax base if you are only focusing on billionaires or even just millionaires. You'd fundamentally have to increase taxes broadly across the board to some degree.

Everything that happened politically in my teens and early 20s was apparently this Kafkaesque joke whose punchline only came to fruition in my late 30s

Further proof these guys all caved to Trump because of political reasons not fear for their safety. (This has always been my belief)

Hmmmm, I don't really think this is going to help the situation TBH. I think it gets jammed up in the House, or baring that, it gets vetoed by Trump, no? Regardless too much damage is baked in.

Inability to deliver material goods that the population expects exposes a lack of capacity/competence in government that can lead to it being toppled. People often realize that a dictatorial regime that's too incompetent to get bread to the capital is also too incompetent to defend itself

i think this is just how it always is. the french revolution wouldn't have happened without spiraling bread prices. the protests that toppled caeusescu were in part because of shortages of cooking oil.

Oh yeah, people who insist "this is what the Ellisons wanted" are wrong, you don't invest billions just to kill a property. He got high on his own supply and actually convinced himself Bari was smart enough to turn CBS News into Fox News 2.0

I keep telling you: Bari Weiss is extremely bad at the day to day aspects of her job and it’s embarrassing for everyone involved, especially her the Ellisons wanted a propaganda empire, not a laughingstock

I asked elections expert @kevintmorris.bsky.social about the centrality of gerrymandering cases, especially the 2019 Rucho case that Alito relied on in Callais, to undermining representative democracy.

Wait, wut? He made a whole big show of stopping a supposed attack, at a time no serious *public* negotiations are taking place, and it's just a 2-3 day delay?

One of the things that struck me in that whole debacle was win the EIC was sneering at the public and saying something to the effect of having had many interview subjects later complain about being tricked into interviews under false pretenses after the interviews were published...

The trick is to be bold when interacting with them in the replies, it will lead to a bunch of their fellow travelers blocking you without effort on your part, however you must block them if they ever quote post you, don’t want their clique to sense blood in the water.

all claims barred by statute of limitations, the jury finds

We are watching the worst people in the world rip the copper wiring out of the country and gleefully wave it in our collective faces.

Monstrous

This is the correct way to report it. They dropped the case to AVOID the court reviewing it. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/05...

You know it had occurred to me how odd it was that the price of whiskey hasn't really gone up recently.

Starting to think this GOP strategist might have been wrong.

At this point, journalists who still persist in declining to talk about racism and cruelty as key GOP motivators are essentially colluding in writing fiction about the present state of politics and of the country.

Iran had discussed widening their target list if the conflict resumes, this may have been a warning shot.

As a Texan I cannot stress enough that this is bullshit. Also this is a breakfast burrito, not a breakfast taco. I know of no one who calls them breakfast tacos

These are sort of strange demands, in that it doesnt mention the Strait

I'm not saying Comey deserves to have the Trump admin going after him, I'm just saying he's annoying. Seriously though it's weird that Trump is going after him so hard given that Comey really didn't do anything other than explain the circumstances of his firing.

Partly yeah, but I think mainly this is because he knows he's dying and can't accept it.

I mean it has to be like 85 percent. Trump is looking for a magical solution and will convince himself that more strikes are going to do that.

When a Democrat is president, the press only cares about the swing voters who oppose him. When a Republican is president, the press only cares about the conservative voters who support him.

The thing about Astead is he swore up and down that Biden publicly promised to be a one term President, based on a thinly sourced Politico article that only claimed Biden “signaled it” privately, an article that Biden explicitly denied on the record at the time.

One of the things that gets me is this fanatical obsession (which feels genuine) about protecting Mississippi from the governance of “others” even though Mississippi is by almost all objective standards reliably one of the worst states in America

Also: "Trump is funny" is frequently flagged as a reason for his electoral success, but precisely zero of his supporters find him funny in the way these guys do. To the extent they find him funny, it's for stuff like making fun of that disabled reporter

People should not be fooled by what Third Way is doing here. They're deliberately raising the profile of DSA candidates who, to date, have not performed well in Democratic primaries.

This is just all astroturf isn't it. All these guys jumping in with "Wow great ad" in response to a 3rd party spoiler candidate coming in right after the Dem primary is over for a district that Dems could in theory flip, but absolutely cant with a 3rd party candidate in the field.