Remember when the Trump Admin held a press conference at the WH and the President said “Don’t take Tylenol, there’s no downside. Don’t take it?” My paper shows partisan differences in Tylenol use - but no partisan differences in non-Tylenol acetaminophen use. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A new article by myself and Daniel Simmons in @pgi-wpsa.bsky.social shows that criticism of #Israel from @jvp.bsky.social makes individuals more likely to blame Israel for conflict and support US policy taking a more pro-Palestinian stance. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

They think you're stupid.

The murders continue. The U.S. Has Now Killed More Than 180 People in Boat Strikes. We’re Tracking Them All @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2025/11/17/t...

Catholics for the past two decades have maintained their status as the only remaining "thinking" conservatives and this new crop of converts who know nothing about the Church, other than having some vague notion that it is misogynistic like them, are really do their best to undermine that reputation

Our complete cowardice is striking in comparison to the brave people of Iran who took to the streets months ago to protest their own government and now take to the streets to defend their country from an aggressor - facing death both times. Solidarity 🇮🇷

Nice job parroting government claims uncritically in your headline @latimes.com.

beautiful

Heavy suppression in a protest against Ben Gvir's execution law, At least three people arrested and a Journalist was injured after a water cannon direcly shot him

Humanitarian aid to Gaza has plummeted since the US and Israel waged war with Iran. Food prices have skyrocketed, and there is a growing shortage of medical supplies. Don't let the war with Iran provide cover for the humanitarian abuses in the strip. https://tinyurl.com/5n872ye4

ICE is out heavy today.

Nearly everyone expected this to be over by this point. Now, in the third week of the Iran War, Asian refiners are finally beginning to fill their supply hole with further afield barrels. This is how MidEast and Asian scarcity becomes global scarcity.

Israel is trying to destroy Lebanon and a bunch of academics on here are handwringing and debating exactly how much of the war you are allowed to blame on them. The more people waking up to the depravity of this state the better.

"I do believe I'll have the honor of taking Cuba." Journalist: "Taking Cuba?" Trump: "In some form, yeah. Whether I free it, take it..." "...I can do anything I want with it, to tell you the truth."

Lots of talk about people "cheering for the US to lose." I mean...am I supposed to cheer on a war of aggression that violates international law, kills innocent people, benefits a genocidal regime, and agitates targeting and surveillance of Muslims at home?

Still wondering why everyone decided to interpret Chalamet’s defense of the arts in the most uncharitable way possible. We have serious reading comprehension issues.

People saying OBAA won’t have staying power. IDK. As someone currently living under the regime of the Christmas Adventurers Club I feel like it’s going to resonate.

Tarantino about to call Javier Bardem the weakest actor in SAG.

Senior Israeli Official: “We are going to do what we did in Gaza.” AXIOS reports Israel is planning a massive ground invasion of Lebanon, where they plan to do what they did to Gaza. (The have already killed nearly 1000 there) www.axios.com/2026/03/14/i...

Israel intends to bomb all bridges on the Litani river, cutting off south Lebanon. At this rate neither UNIFIL nor the Lebanese army would be able to operate. Israel says they want Lebanon to disarm Hezbollah while being the ones weakening the state. Again: the goal is to destroy Lebanon itself.

A video verified by The New York Times shows ballistic missiles being launched from Bahrain in the direction of Iran, in what appears to be the first confirmed instance of an attack on the Islamic Republic originating from a Persian Gulf country since the war began.

Hard to believe they wouldn’t be doing this if the claims that the PMF shot down the US refueling plane weren’t true…

Contrary to US claims that the KC-135 refueling aircraft crashed in Iraq in "an apparent accident," the spokesperson for Iran's Khatam al-Anbiya Central HQ confirmed that the aircraft was targeted and shot down over western Iraq by air defense systems, resulting in the death of all crew members.

BREAKING: Chicago voters are blocking the doors to AIPACs Chicago HQ, after AIPAC staff refused to answer their questions. AIPAC and its billionaire backers have funneled over $20 million through dark money SuperPACs trying to buy Chicago elections. No AIPAC. No war.

Ladies and gentlemen, the greatest band on planet earth, still surprising after all these years: Broken Social Scene youtu.be/e6ip2jD2GQQ?...

Send him to the front lines. Put him on a tanker.

I’m going to lose my freaking mind.

We really should all be circulating the George Lucas apology form.

No one in the foreign policy blob ever believed Iraq would attack the US with WMD. But they did have a rational concern, which was an Iraq with WMD could deter the US & Israel from *attacking them* whenever we wanted. As Marco Rubio just explained that's also our worry with Iran:

Every single person in the entire chain of command that massacred the schoolgirls in Minab, and that is currently carpet bombing Iranian civilians, needs to be tried and jailed in The Hague. Sick, depraved monsters drunk on imperial hubris.

This is the end-game. They want to engineer Syria inside of Iran. Years of war. Millions dead.

Iran, Israel, Lebanon, the UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Oman, Jordan, Iraq, and Cyprus. That's 12 countries that have suffered human casualties or material damage since this war started. US-Israeli aggression is out of control and dragging the entire region into chaos. Disaster.

At least 1,097 civilians had been killed in Iran so far, including 181 children.

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

If Trump arms the Kurds to try to create a civil war in Iran, we can be sure what will happen next: Turkey or Iraq or Syria will get mad about it & we'll let the Kurds get slaughtered. This exact scenario has played out at least eight times in the past 100 years: theintercept.com/2019/10/07/k...

The IDF just ordered the *entirety of south Lebanon* to be forcibly displaced. They are emptying the land of its population, creating a massive crisis, and will now proceed to further annihilate large parts of Lebanon. The very nation state of Lebanon is being destroyed.

Contributor: Blocking aid, Israel escalates its cruelty in Gaza

Wars can be fought "forever" eh? I suppose we could call it a forev...wait a minute.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Fire and smoke are seen inside the US Embassy compound in Kuwait after an attack by Iran. @apnews.com

BREAKING There is a fire at the US Embassy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia after a blast. Via Reuters

Thank you Mr. President for keeping us safe!

"I can't find any reason to celebrate the assassination of the Iranian supreme leader because I think it's part of a package ... It's also part of the killing of Iranian innocent people," says Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi, a longtime critic of the Iranian government.

This is the kind of orientalist comment that ignores that Iran has been behaving like a rational actor in its dealings with Israel and the US for decades but passes for wisdom among many of the journalist class.

You know, most people go their whole lives without murdering dozens of young girls at school.

Headlines moved on quickly from the schoolgirls in Minab. We don’t know their names; no media profiles about their lives and aspirations. No smiling photos attached to quotes from mourning families. How unfair that some dead are memorialised while others are relegated to ‘estimated casualties.’

Trump & Co have been talking about US military action for weeks, if not months, and positioning the assets to do it - long before such intelligence ever could have become a factor. This is transparent nonsense.