How’s this supposed to bring the regular people around to our side?

I know that the people who need to read this aren’t here, but here goes: Rules of engagement aren’t for the enemy. They’re for you. They’re for your soldiers when they’re captured or wounded. They’re for your civilians when they’re in range of the enemy. They’re for your allies, to reassure.

As I said the other day: It’s only a war if it comes from the war region of France. Otherwise it’s just sparkling military conflict

"As someone whose kids won’t die fighting in the war, it’s important that you understand the flimsy, morally bankrupt justifications for war, and why it’s vital for you to throw more of your children's lives at this one." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...

My “Following” timeline is filled with news from the war in the Middle East, but I also still want resolution on the Epstein files.

How long until the US pursues a “Golden Beam” system?

Every senator who voted to confirm RFK Jr owns this tragedy. Every single one.

Seriously, the guy says “never been seen before” so many times it’s like before him people were just sitting around waiting for something to happen

My memory of past presidential statements about military operations they have ordered may be fuzzy, but I feel like most of them contained phrasing where the president took responsibility for the decision, e.g. “I have ordered US forces to…” Nowhere in today’s statement is there anything like that.

I’m going to guess it was some young political appointees trying to flex in front of their friends.

the guy who wrote the literal book on this stuff is dunking on the admin:

Hi! I was one of the Army's first C-RAM operators, with C-5/5ADA. My Battery installed the 6 C-RAM mounts in Balad. They are not autonomous. The system requires a human to send a fire-permit command upon visual confirmation the gun is pointed at a non-aircraft. 1/

Think of the munitions being used against Iran that could’ve helped Ukraine.

Operation Epstein Distraction

I wonder how ISI feels about the Pakistani army fighting their army.

8 August 2025: in a dramatic plot twist, Trump marks the deadline Russia has completely ignored by announcing that he'll be rolling out the red carpet for Putin in Alaska at the first US-Russia summit since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Thanks?

NEW: NBC News also now confirming my reporting that DOJ is withholding at least three FBI interviews with the woman who accused Trump of assaulting her when she was a child nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Why didn’t the Army expedite the CMH process for nominees who fought in Iraq or Afghanistan? Not trying to take away from this Soldier, but if it can be done for him, it should be done for others.

I didn’t watch the SOTU, but I imagine it went something like this.

He still has no idea what a tariff is.

If the Italy trip wasn’t personal travel… does that mean he’s partying with athletes on the taxpayer dime? Shouldn’t the Director of the FBI be a little more focused on urgent priorities, like sex trafficking or Nancy Guthrie’s kidnapping?

Loving how he frames social collapse like it's due to flaws inherent in the makeup of liberal democracies, instead of the direct result of ongoing acts of fuckery by him and his fellow billionaires. "Dunno how that got so fucked. Certainly wasn't down to me sticking my dick in every chance I had."

Getting into a diplomatic spat with France is a classic blunder, right up there with getting involved in a land war in Asia. Only a complete rube would even attempt it.

This should lead to his firing.

This guy thinks his job is to be a celebrity.

Aide Wearily Begins 5th Explanation Of Why Trump Can’t Pardon Prince Andrew https://theonion.com/aide-wearily-begins-5th-explanation-of-why-trump-cant-pardon-prince-andrew/

These are depraved, irredeemable people.

Leaders who fail to do these things are unfit to order anyone to take lives or lose their lives for their country. The level of betrayal I’m talking about is a sure fire path to moral injury for those sent to fight. It is itself an act of profound injustice. And it isn’t “supporting the troops.”

What is Jared Kushner’s official role?

@jakubkrupa.bsky.social does it again.

“Name one time Trump was racist? Ok, I will…”

DHS budget is paying for ads to tell us how good ICE is. I want DOGE to investigate fraud, waste, and abuse on this one.

Why Miami? If they really wanted to end the war, they’d meet in Dayton, Ohio, as they did for the Bosnia War. No distractions really focuses the mind.

What’s the opposite of review bombing? #MelaniaMovie #Melania

Xbox LIVE was willing to do in 2013 what the entire US establishment was not.

I would also like to know where things stand with the people eating dogs and cats in Ohio and how things are going with taking the Panama Canal back.

We have received 0 assistance from occupied Poland.

ICE and Border Patrol agents are not the victims. For crying out loud…

He is so off-base here. Our Allies weren’t “back from the front lines.” First off: Front lines? It wasn’t the Western Front in WW 1 in Afghanistan. But more importantly, our Allies followed us there and put their troops in dangerous places, where many were killed. This makes my blood boil.

Whatever is in the Epstein Files is so explosive that the leaders of the Department of Justice are openly breaking the law every day to keep us from seeing it. (Just a reminder amongst all the other stuff flying around.)

Trump promised a lot of stuff in the first year of his second term — and an awful lot of it, as usual, went nowhere.

@nhledbetter.bsky.social That was a positive turn of events, no?

We need a constitutional amendment banning reality TV people from holding office.

It’s wild that a Border Patrol agent detains a man WITH THE SAME ACCENT as him. Also, the comments: “Melanie has an accent.” 💀 youtube.com/shorts/jK4g9...

Just Say No!

Are these ICE agents all ASVAB waivers?

Is this going to be SecDef’s “Sen. McCarthy moment”? www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...