If the Senators go home without a deal, the airports in DC should deny them CLEAR or PreCheck, make them stand in the long lines, and stick a note on their back reading "US Senator forcing you to stand in this line".

Good luck, Europe. en.defence-ua.com/news/with_40...

In the US we are all immigrants or descended from immigrants, even those who were here first. Demonizing immigrants is demonizing ourselves.

"Now the general who wins a battle makes many calculations in his temple ere the battle is fought. The general who loses a battle makes but few calcula- tions beforehand. Thus do many calculations lead to victory, and few calculations to defeat: how much more no calculation at all! - Sun Tzu.

Time to start a new wall for the new war. Better make it big. This one's full.

If Trump suddenly walks away from the war he started, the straits may never open. If Trump insists on fighting forever, the straits may never open. The only way to win is not to play. Too late.

Killing someone who was there but did not shoot anyone, while the actual shooter only got life, is wrong. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

As I expected, oil is heading towards $80 as I expect edthe fair value to be given the demand and supply limitations. However, should the war continue, and if more infrastructure is damaged, it might go up again with a new fear premium.

Oil is atm down to $95. Given only 20% or so of the oil is currently blockaded, and the fair price recently was closer to $60, I would expect it to drop to $80 at worst. Other countries output can make up 20% or so. The premium over fair value is mostly fear based.

Anyone want their children/grandchildren to die in a foreign war? Ask the relatives of the 58000 names on a wall in DC how they feel.

The Commander of the sub that sunk an Iranian ship far from Iran (near Sri Lanka) should be court-martialed for following an illegal order. There is no declared war, the ship was no threat, it was not in a designated war zone, and I don't care if he was ordered to do it, he is still guilty.

If the Israeli Intelligence was smart enough to hack Iran's traffic cams to track their leadership so they could kill them in one blow, how could they miss Hamas building up for years for October 7? I am sure they knew it was coming, but did nothing.

Watching a documentary about the war in Vietnam, I am struck by how little we have learned. Nixon was elected to end the war, and only made it worse, before losing it bigly. Also, officers acting like Pete Hegsheth seemed to not come home for some reason...

Kash fired all the Iran terrorism experts at the FBI recently. Gee, I wonder why...

My biggest fear is that the war starts going badly when we run out of munitions, or some terrorist action or assassination happens, and Trump orders a nuke strike on Tehran.

The best time to attack an enemy, or an enemy's allies, is after they waste their military on a stupid adventure, and leave themselves unable to respond. China and NK paying attention.

The longer this war against Iran goes, and the more ordinary Iranians die, the more ordinary Muslims in other Arab countries will begin to see this as imperialist west hating on their brethren, and that will become a problem for their country's leaders. Sunni/Shia are still both Islamic.

Most Americans have no experience with war. Some even relish it. But war is never just "over there"—eventually it comes back to bite you in your complacency.

Every country in the Middle East should now be aware that they could be a target of Donald Trump and Netanyahu.

We started a war with a country known to sponsor terrorism around the world. We are protected by a puppy-killer-mile-high-flyer, a party animal, and a drunken Fox News host. Feel safe yet?

We really need to take back our country.

A good article about the war v Iran. responsiblestatecraft.org/iran-war-gul...

When a stronger power attacks a weaker power, the weaker power should fight asymmetrically. See Vietnam. For the opposite, see Iraq. If Iran has any clue, when they are attacked they will fight dirty, and all of us might be the target. If they are stupid, they will be like Iraq, and lose.

From Frederick Douglass's 1867 "Composite Nation" speech, a defense of Chinese migration to the United States at a time when anti-Chinese sentiment was intensifying. teachingamericanhistory.org/document/our...

“The disorders & miseries which result [from factionalism] gradually incline the minds of men to seek security & repose in the absolute power of an individual.” A despot will exploit this for “his own elevation on the ruins of public liberty.” —Washington www.americaamerica.news/p/washington...

Different decade, same energy. #SuperBowl

Watched a football game with lots of foot hitting balls. Also a lot of hacky-sacking.

If the root "-gress" means "to step, move, or go", then the word con-gress means to go nowhere.

Because

I happened upon this on Instagram and I laughed more than I should have.

Trump posted a long demand that people vote in Texas for a State Senator. Next day, she lost bigtime, and Trumped claimed he knew nothing about an election. Someone should have shown the Truth Social post and asked him if he has Alzheimers since he can't remember anything.

Plus, it would likely trigger reciprocal requirements in the EU. www.cnn.com/2026/01/28/t...

well I did not expect to hear Stephen Miller namechecked in a Bruce Springsteen song but here we are

One of the best things I’ve read in a while:

After today's murder, the chances of ICE coming up against someone who is armed and capable and will do all in, is almost certain. What then, massacres by ICE? Followed by a civil war? People forget that 500m guns are owned by citizens, which is like 50 times the number owned by the military.

It’s all the ineptotism

This is what happens to concentration camp guards and leaders when the party is over.

Matt. 25:40-45

People who attack others by calling them "socialist" or "communist" should be challenged to define what they mean. People who use these terms as slurs can't.

What My Mom’s Dementia Tells Me.

“He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it” - MLK

The US has always (not perfectly by any means) been made up of generations of immigrants who started as despised but eventually add their flavor to the melting pot. Even the first people here came from somewhere else and evolved their own unique culture. To deny our unique composition is silly.

These two bumbling idiots need to go. www.commondreams.org/news/governm...

Trump says he will attack the cartels in Mexico soon. There are 1.6 million US Citizens living in Mexico. You do the math.

What happens when a US Citizen in a stand your ground/open carry state meets a trigger happy ICE person?