I guess Venezuelan oil is going to go up in price! Gosh… How convenient for the person who now gets a cut of that.

If you are wondering why so many of us are posting about the fiscal impacts of the war on Iran, it’s because it is so clearly and cynically precipitated by a group of nutters in DC who see a way to make money fighting it.

This is going to play havoc with the carefully orchestrated number of days they are allowed to spend in their country of birth before they get caught in the tax net!

A not totally unreasonable point.

Won’t somebody please think of the Dow at 50,000?!

This is a war almost 40 years in the making. Trump said in *1987* that the US should attack "horrible, horrible" Iran, "and take over some of their oil." In the years since, Trump talked about seizing oil from Venezuela, Iraq, Syria, Kuwait, and Libya. www.businessinsider.com/trump-energy...

Let’s all call Massie today and get him to switch parties. Then force Gonzalez to resign. Then get the gavel, issue some subpoenas, and impeach some motherfuckers

The costs of this Iran war debacle will likely be more than the cost of extending the ACA health insurance subsidies. If you asked Americans, which do you want: another war in the Middle East or lower health care costs at home, is the margin 90 to 10? 95 to 5?

Russia's response to Trump and Israel destroying their military ally in Iran could not be any weaker. Russia is the weakest they have been in decades and everyone in Russia knows it now.

No, we would not have launched unprovoked wars with no explanation against Venezuela and Iran if Kamala were in charge. Trump is much worse than Kamala. Trump is much worse than even the despicable Cheney/Bush war machine. What's wrong with you people?

FACTS. The regime repeatedly broke the law in order to conduct the biggest coverup in American history. Tell Congress right now: DO YOUR JOBS and demand the DOJ release ALL of the Epstein files.

A big part of the authoritarian playbook is war. War takes over the news. War blots out criticism. War divides a nation’s people, subjecting those against it to being called unpatriotic. War grants leaders all sorts of emergency powers. War consumes everything else. We mustn’t let this war do so.

I get why/that people say this, but dont' underestimate this: all other social networks are invested in making sure that posts that link to journalism remain buried, or at least never go viral. BlueSky doesn't do that. That makes it very valuable to a ton of newsrooms righ tnow.

Rep @crow.house.gov

Not 4D chess. 5D chess.

Can’t believe it’s nearly December!

Trump was raised in a family that disparaged military service. He thinks people “dumb” enough to serve have what’s coming to them. Remember what he told the widow of the soldier who was killed in Niger: “he knew what he signed up for” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017....

Putin's Russia is so fucking needy. "PAY ATTENTION TO MEEEEE!!!!"

Too soon?

It probably goes without saying, but just in case: they don’t attack iran like this unless they know there *aren’t* nukes.

Ironically, if Donald had given Ukraine Tomahawks they could've wiped out the Shahed drone factory we built. Now Iran can get replacements from us when they run low.

International politics gets really complicated when 90% of the administrations are the bad guys...

Another nail in the coffin of the fossil fuel biz- Physics just don't care about your FF investments. youtu.be/qokwulKU9Bg?...

Made a few Shrig-alikes for my family when the kids were on their way-

When i leave the bedroom, the first piece of art I see is this, and it sets me up for the rest of the day-

Well, no, they’re not just as wrong. The bigger error is not seeing that “trying to win over voters from a party on the opposite end of the spectrum, whose values your core voters oppose” is not same as “chasing voters from party on same side ideologically whose values your core voters like.”

If you know someone who is really great at running an RPG, you have got to hold on to them, you know? Carpe DM, friends!

On top of all the reporting that this war of aggression was planned well in advance, it seems that the reporting also indicates that the US political leadership are quite literally too stupid to understand basic diplomacy. I mean literally not smart enough.

This will age as well as when @brianstelter.bsky.social wrote that tweet saying women shouldn’t be worried about Republicans going full Handmaiden’s Tale. Then they banned abortion. And he deleted the tweet and never referenced it.

I think bluesky would be roughly 300% better if people here were capable of reading “this is an assessment of the empirical reality of a situation” without assuming it comes with an implicit “and therefore I endorse the reality of that situation”

date: can you take off your work gloves Jim Henson: they have names

Trump’s regime change strategy is the same one I use to fix my PC. Randomly hit it on the side when it’s not doing what I want, in the hopes that fixes it.

I just saved you from a very tasteless Trump joke.

Thats some solid cynical humour!

it’s probably fine that this meme is one of the top posts on every military Reddit sub right now

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done - started a war in the middle east - completely destroyed the economy

Understatement alert

We should probably have realized when they insisted we call the Department of Defense, the Department of War.

The Oligarch's representatives-

It’s interesting to hear @kattybkay.bsky.social talk about this, because if I have understand her right, she believes that by US domestic law, Trump has not yet broken any rules…

Trump ripped up the Iran nuclear deal and created this mess. Now, he's putting servicemembers in harm's way with no clear plan and no Congressional approval. The American people deserve answers — and Congress needs to do its job.

I’m assuming the other side of the room is a large bay window on to the restaurant so diners can watch the President in action! 😂

I have no idea what Irans military are capable of, but i do agree that Trump’s love of using the military to get quick PR fixes is yet to face up to US casualties and how the nation might respond to that.

Just to clear things up… i don’t think the black curtains are there for “security.” They are there to make things look “serious,” and to hide the shitty decor at Mar-A-Lago, so that we don’t mock his terrible interior design and gold-trimmed everything.