If you're a service member being ordered to prep for deployment for the War in Iran and you have moral and/or ethical misgivings on all this, remember that you have the right to apply for conscientious objector status. Call the G.I. Rights hotline: 1-877-447-4487

Hegseth is achieving levels of dipshittery in these press conferences that makes it more and more difficult for Colin Jost to parody. At some point SNL will just play Hegseth.

Modern Republicanism is making up a thing to be scared about and then using that as the basis for policy

A cartoon by Ron Cobb (1975), showing a shadow of US B-52 bomber above cratered landscape. Two people who look like Vietnamese peasants look up; one says “they’re having problems with their economy again.”

War on Truth…

Per WaPo: A new statue of President Trump and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has popped up again on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.

Direct hit!

The shortest distance between where we are now and entrenched fascism is a terror attack. That is why we are at war with Iran. That is why Trump shrugs at the possibility of deaths on U.S. soil. And that is why Patel fired the FBI's Iranian counter-intel personnel before the first bomb fell.

Let’s talk about bossware and if you haven’t heard that term yet, here’s what it is. Bossware is workplace surveillance software. Software that tracks your keystrokes, monitors what websites you visit, takes random screenshots of your screen throughout the day,

Oh, this one's a classic: One shoe, two shoe, Stop blowing up brown children with my fucking healthcare money, you murderous ghouls. I do not like it in a dump. I do not like it by a trump. I do not like it over there. I do not like it anywhere.

“I didn’t vote for THIS,” say the manosphere podcasters who simply had no way of knowing that Trump would lie about being a populist to get into office and then govern like a autocratic lunatic once in power, other than the fact that he did it for 4 entire years before that.

republicans have literally made everything worse and harder and more terrible over the course of my entire life and somehow* they keep coming back to power bc of our feckless corporate press and a weak willed opposition 😒 *sob

Biden gave this to America and America hated it.

Lucifer has a point

What a worthless piece of shit.

Pam? Paaaaaaaaaam? Hey, PAM!?!?!

"She had taken the dog on as a hunter to help scare pheasants into the air and retrieve them when she sends them bleeding back to earth. But in its fourteen months it had discovered it much preferred bouncing joyously through the tall grass in erratic circles."

We bombed a girls elementary school.

Yeah, Orwell said that. I think it's the opening line of his famed "Homage to Catatonia." In his first novel, "The Road To Cory's Leer," he also wrote, "Some things seem to look good from one end of the bar, but if you get close and there's just lip filler and hair extensions? Run the fuck away..."

Very strong statement from the First Lady of Iraq:

Justice for Cricket!

If Trump wants Zelenskyy’s help against drones, I think JD Vance to have to fly to Kiev, and sit in the Ukrainian equivalent of the Oval Office and say, “Thank you.”

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

One of the problems with yamtits is the volume of drivel that pours out of his pie hole. Rapid and continuous shit spewing from that orifice is very difficult to call out in real time. It's like what triple-pen-needing, liver-spot-sporting, rheumy-eyed Steve Bannon says-flood the zone with shit.

Anybody going to let Pam Blondi know?

I hope the American people realize that this war is creating more veterans that will need care for decades to come. This administration has been attacking the VA pretty much since day one. Two weeks ago the VA was trying to sneak through a new rule that would cut benefits for disabled veterans!

Some say that Crenshaw’s opponent who defeated him is worse. That may be true. But Crenshaw voted with Trump 100% of the time and was an insufferable, smug, arrogant dick whose unhinged, drunken late-night Twitter feuds showed he needs counseling more than a seat in the House.

Theo Moudakis, Toronto Star

So we're to believe that taking out Iranian ships and missile batteries (none of which can hit mainland U.S.) will deter the largest state sponsor of terrorism? Does anyone in the WH have any fucking clue what weapons terrorists use? What tactics they use? What motivates them? This fucking guy??

Cartoon by Tommy Siegel

I gotta say-if this war doesn't do the trick, I am concerned over what he's going to try next to distract from the files...

Operation Epstein Fury

The infantile Secretary of Defense just said rules of engagement are stupid, then, in the same fucking 2 minutes, admonished our servicemembers to uphold the Constitution. Fuck you, Pete.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth blames three U.S. jet fighters being shot down in Kuwait on Scouting America’s transgender youth policy.

TWEET OF THE DAY 🏆

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

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

“President Trump's decision to bomb Iran is indefensible. This was not about preempting an imminent threat—it was a strategically misguided power play, with no discernible endgame,” Cato Institute’s Jon Hoffman says.

Final answer?

On immigration: "I often am asked to speak as an economist. And what we should never lose sight of is that each of us is a moral being. And you, as I, have to decide how we feel about this form of rhetoric."

Breaking news: Anthropic said that it will not concede to the Pentagon’s terms for full access to its AI tool Claude, saying it cannot loosen its restrictions against use in fully autonomous weapons or mass domestic surveillance.

When the toilet training finally works.