Oh, my god

'A Warning To The Would-Be King, From The Radical Left' johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/a-warning-...

9/ CRISIS FOUR: Trump has no endgame. Iran and its proxies can create chaos indefinitely. So what’s next? A ground invasion?This would be Armageddon. Thousands of dead Americans. Declare false victory? Then the new Iranian hardliners in charge just rebuild what we destroyed.

8/ Other potential flash points lurk. So far, the Houthis in Yemen have been relatively quiet. Probably not for long. They can project power into the Red Sea. For Syria, this is the worst time for Trump to strike Iran. Syria could explode again.

7/ CRISIS THREE: A broader, regional war is breaking out as Iranian proxies in Lebanon hit Israel and those in Iraq target the U.S.. Israel is now threatening a massive ground invasion of Lebanon, which could become its own new crisis.

5/ CRISIS TWO: We can destroy Iran’s missiles but not all their drones, and war today is drone war. Iran can hit oil sites in the region indefinitely because they posses so many cheap, weaponized drones. And they are. They blew up a critical Oman oil depot two days ago.

4/ What about naval escorts for tankers? This is a possibility, but it’s harder than you think. First, it would require our entire navy. 100 tankers need escorting each day. Second, if we can’t destroy the mines and drones, our ships are at risk too.

3/ Right now, Trump has no plan to reopen the Strait. And a plan may not exist. The assets Iran uses to harass and attack tankers - thousands of small drones, speed boats and mines - cannot be eliminated. They are too numerous, too spread out and hidden.

2/ CRISIS ONE: Trump believed Iran would not close the Strait of Hormuz. He was wrong. And now oil prices are spiking. If the Strait stays closed, a global recession will result. It actually may already be too late. Gas prices are the first to spike, but food prices are next.

Important thread that concisely describes the multitude of crises that Trump and his fascist SecDef have plundered into

I have created a diorama of the Partridge family attacking the Brady Bunch family. My life is very boring.

Don’t let Fox get away with it this time. Spread the word. Fox & Friends Weekend replaced footage of Trump attending yesterday’s dignified transfer with a clip from 2025. They clearly didn’t want their audience to see him disrespecting fallen soldiers wearing a baseball cap. H/T: @BadFoxGraphics

JM's always-smart and thoughtful analysis on display; you NEED to sign up for TPM Prime (George Soros told me to say that).

TPM has done amazing and often groundbreaking reporting on important issues. The site does a wonderful job focusing on a modest number of stories and reporting the hell out of them. I find @joshtpm.bsky.social to be an exemplary thinker and a clear-eyed editor and commentator.

I’ve been a reader practically since day one and a member longer than most memberships have been around, but never once thought about dropping it as other paywalls came about. @tpm is the gold standard for news sites. Period.

I just contributed to the TPM Journalism Fund. talkingpointsmemo.com

I reget to inform you that Tulsi Gabbard was briefly right about something.

Donald Trump does NOT want you to share this footage of his pathetically tiny birthday parade crowd.

Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺

HASSAN: What is habeas corpus? NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country HASSAN: That's incorrect

He got unprecedented access to US data for his AI, enough federal contracts and government support for Starlink and SpaceX that they’re all set for money for awhile, and he made the government investigations go away. It was an astonishing payoff on his investment. And now he’s getting out of town.

We spend $800 billion a year on our military yet our greatest enemy lives in the White House and we fly him to his own golf course for play dates on the weekend. We also fly him abroad to facilitate his emoluments violations while we fly others to concentration camps. #RemoveTrump

Whenever you hear conservative politicians preach from the gospel of "fiscal responsibility," remember that one of the biggest drivers of deficits lately are the Bush and Trump tax cuts, which have added nearly $10 trillion to the national debt.

Nancy Mace is an evangenital

Honestly I just hate how angry I am these days. It's totally justifiable--these people are fucking monsters (and I'm certainly not policing anyone else's anger). But I hate it, I hate that feeling. I've spent so much of my life trying to get rid of anger. It's awful to be living with it again.

Looks like Elon lost bigly

BREAKING: I'm placing a hold on President Trump's nominee for U.S. Attorney in DC. For the past few weeks, Ed Martin has been a one-man wrecking ball. Threatening political opponents, firing public servants, and using his office to chill free speech. His nomination must be blocked.

Pete Hegseth Calls For Steep Cuts To Number Of Steps In AA Recovery

If you watch the raw footage of the Kristi Noem event, the guards chose men with a lot of tattoos, made them move to the front of the cell, and then stripped them down to nothing but shorts so they would be degraded. The dehumanization is the point. Fascism is here.

I appreciate that Jeffrey Goldberg did not sit on this news for a book that he writes two years from now

By publishing these stories, Goldberg risked retribution by the administration and its fanboys -- federal investigations, lawsuits, audits, swatting attacks, intimidation, death threats.

Himes: "Apparently all this mayhem is cheered by the president of the United States and by 20-somethings with laptops and names like Big Balls. But I've been doing this for a long time, and I know that Moscow and Beijing and Tehran and Pyongyang cannot believe their luck."

"Defies court order" is the new "lies"—the term media is loathe to use, dancing around it with euphemisms, even as it gets more blatant. If we acknowledge that the Trump admin has already defied court orders, the Constitutional crisis is no longer "approaching" or "near," and we can't have that.

These are the members of the Senate Democratic caucus who just voted to pass the GOP's Trump-backed budget bill, along with the year that they next go before voters—including primary voters.

If Chuck Schumer enjoys a single day in NYC for the rest of his life without being told to go fuck himself at least once, then NYC will have utterly failed as a society.

In Oversight today, my colleagues stuck to their usual script: blaming immigrants for all crime & claiming Dem mayors are too soft. Well, I was curious to know if they’ve ever had an immigrant with a criminal record that they could recall. Tune in!

I sure would like to know who has been buying the dips right before Trump announces he has changed his mind and reverses a tariff. Seems like valuable information in the markets to know when he announces a tariff and when he’s going to rescind it.

French Senator Claude Malhuret: "Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."

Let me assure Justice Roberts, his conservative brethren, and the FedSoc forces that put them there that the President of the United States is right: we won’t forget what you’ve done. We’ll remember where you’ve brought us.

Elon Musk shared a call from conservative political commentator Ben Shapiro urging Trump to pardon Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted in the 2020 killing of George Floyd.

Chair Comer just threaten to have the House Sergeant of Arms forcibly remove me from the Oversight Committee for calling out Grifter-in-Chief Trump for corruption and making money off of the American people.

Any house Democrat who votes with the Republicans on anything budget related needs to be primaried and their political life needs to be made absolute hell from the time they vote until we primary them out of existence. Followed everywhere while being recorded, taunted, etc.

Calling yourself a king doesn’t make you a king. A farcical aquatic ceremony does.

We’re witnessing a hostile takeover of our government by an unelected tech billionaire donor. Lives are being ruined and services undermined. It’s chaos. www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2...

This lie will be the pretext for appeasing Putin. Appeasing dictators didn’t work in Europe in the 1930s, and it won’t work now. This is a Russia First move.

When Americans need help the most, their plan is to turn their backs on them.

Vance visiting Dachau and then meeting w the AfD and urging German politicians to welcome them into government is a "gotta hear both sides" for the ages.

I am through with Twitter. Bye, girl!

Scoop: DOGE's Edward "Big Balls" Coristine launched a privacy-focused image-sharing site in 2021 that allowed users to create custom URLs. The URLs that redirected to Coristine's site referenced the sale of child sexual abuse material, racial slurs, and rape www.muskwatch.com/p/doge-teen-...