When "keeping it local" goes wrong

The matter-of-fact way she asks what investors should do if Trump destroys Iran. Absolutely wild. "Let's talk about tonight, this deadline that President Trump has set 8 p.m., has threatened to destroy a civilization. How does an investor process that? Is it a bigger upside risk or downside risk?"

People give @davidsirota.com shit about "Don't Look Up" but he nailed it, sorry

Late last week I heard a report that said this would amount to about a dollar a barrel on the largest ships.

$2 million per ship — to cross a Strait that was free six weeks ago. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/w...

For comparison, the JCPOA ('Iran Deal') payment that everyone in MAGA excoriates was $1.7bn. The $2m-per-ship toll regime on the Strait would generate at normal traffic something like $40bn *each year* for Iran (120 ships per day at $2m per split 50/50 with Oman).

Just thinking how Trump and MAGA media spent the past decade mocking Obama for sending $1.8 billion to Iran as part of the JCPOA. Now Iran gets $2 million (split with Oman) for every ship that passes through the Strait of Hormuz. Before Iran closed it, 135 ships a day sailed through the strait.

Why stop committing war crimes now?

I would note that a two-week ceasefire effectively ends US participation in the war unless Trump starts defying the War Powers Act entirely

Starmer said he wouldn't allow the US to launch attacks on Iranian infrastructure from UK military bases, but B52 bombers took off from RAF Fairford a few hours ago and Iranian infrastructure is currently being bombed by Israel. Whatever happens next, Starmer is an accomplice.

My denials of my plans to use nukes are raising questions....

Any regrets from the "Well, trump should ask permission but Iran was real bad..." Democrats? By which I mean NEARLY ALL OF THEM? A lot of you here took the same position? Regretting it yet?

It is the only appropriate location to found the third Republic

The fuck is this @cnn.com ? I don't know if i have seen worse fash propaganda in my life. This is anti-american and anyone who works there is an enemy of the people

Folks, I am BEGGING YOU Don't not credit the fascist marge green with ANYTHING. Stop. Please god stop. Stop saying that.

Another case of mistaking strategy for tactics

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

Democrats could have been running on an impeachment platform for the last 18 months. But because centrist leadership is extremely stupid and short-sighted... They have crushed any efforts to run on impeachment. over a YEAR of wasted political narrative building. So stupid

Yeah and I think the big disconnect is that people can't comprehend it. Why would the liberal media not be screaming and yelling about this guy debasing the office of president to this degree? And the answer is, I reckon "because that would be admitting it's possible."

One of the things to remember when seeing things like this, is that the media political establishment can only conceive of problems that are soluble by the solutions they approve of. If something is intractable within the bounds of Business As Usual, they will simply pretend that's not true.

Dem leadership continues to fail to meet the moment

It's so perfectly American to have "free speech" protected from the government But at the same time private TOS prevents discussion about how to resolve political questions surrounding the American President. My speech doesn't feel very free today.

Under international law, "genocide" is such a fraught term because it requires showing 'dolus specialis,' or proof that perpetrators specifically aimed to destroy a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group. Trump or someone on Trump's team intentionally crafted this to meet that standard.

In two weeks the national press corps is going to laugh at his jokes and applaud him at their annual Hilton dinner for being a fun and interesting president to write about

"rage is a resource"

damn aaron swartz tried to warn everybody about sam altman

Also: BAD, LOSING POLITICS this is what deciding to lose looks like

In unvarnished good news, my $2,000 Toyota passed its smog. I've applied for a change of registration and will be be scooting around central California in a 23-year-old Toyota in no time

This "by their own stated goals" approach to responding to the right from the right is so appealing to scriblers but as politics is utterly useless and silly. It pretends a world where conservatives were ever honest. The thing is they lie from the beginning. So their stated goals are lies

I have hear rumor of this kind of house purchase in CA but I have never SEEN one until now

“I never thought Elon would muffle *my* legitimate news sources” says guy who uses the “Elon muffles legitimate news sources” app.

There was a lot of suspicion during the last round of protests. Significant reporting that the nature of the protesters was very different and much more violent than prior demonstrations Confirmed, apparently

Positive update from CAHSR! says here they are bidding out for the material for track for the first section and it could go down starting this fall www.fresnobee.com/news/local/h...

One of the reasons I was against the Democrats who put out that " You can refuse illegal orders" Video is because now that we're in this war... You've set the predicate that if the military is doing it, it must not be illegal Because otherwise they would have refused the orders.

Co-sign this prediction

If the US does this, the appropriate response is a united global armed response to depose the American government and dismantle its military. This won't happen but its what *should* happen

wrote about how our sense of how political change happens is often backwards. we think changing beliefs changes actions, but often changing actions makes people change what they think. which creates obvious problems if you're just following polls. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/actions-ch...

Been calling this since nov 24. It just wasn't clear to me if alito, thomas, or both would step down But it was undoubtedly what would happen

Trump literally sees himself like Carmen sandiego He's going to like come walk up with a big bag and take the oil away.

I know this is not the main point... But it was always so infuriating to me that media would accept " well I'm not going to tell you what I'm going to do like a stupid person" from Trump. And then all he does is tell you what he'll do. Just openly repeatedly constantly

Sick!

New piece: Why Democrats are suddenly winning back the left — and the "double-haters" www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-04-05...

Republicans turned 1% of this into a massive "twitter files" scandal

A rare good Tom Nichols post

Seems to me if you think you have divine sanction for your warmongering when it goes badly you have to consider the opposite proposition but they never seem to!

Humiliating appearance by longwell and excellent work by Tim Miller. The most insane part of this is longwell says be wrote AN ENTIRE BOOK about Democratic and did not write a single paragraph about Hassan. Damning. Its the most important block of the party! youtube.com/watch?v=UR-H...

Cent-dems get furious that progressives demand more of the party But a party that gets this ON TAPE and cannot drive the man from politics is a failed party