reposting with alt so i can share!

The appropriation of the language of peace and conciliation on behalf of some of the worst regimes on the planet has done a lot to push me away from pacifism on even a conceptual level.

When you summon the strength to let the bad post go by without responding

I did not guess.

No! It’s because I’m disassociating!

It’s so morbidly funny that 1920s WASP fever dreams are coming true but for a good cause

I've run out of responses. A functioning country would have already handed out life sentences so far down the line of succession that some of the verdicts would be the first time you ever heard their names.

People on here like to say "your plan can't just be to vote for Democrats forever" and yeah that's a good point, but we're not going to to be able to turn things around at the national level if people aren't willing to at least vote for Dems more than once.

You don't have to give it a chance. It's bad. They're going to call you a smug liberal either way, might as well live in a nice place and have correct opinions while they're doing it.

Just once I'd like someone to say, "Our next speaker needs no introduction" and then silently walk off the stage.

"This is not who we are" should always be understood as an aspirational statement that carries forward the legacy of countless Americans who fought and died to make it as true as possible, to create the space for you and I to take up the rallying cry.

In the Name of Venus

human shields is a war crime too, not like anyone cares at this point

Netanyahu has been trying to convince the US to go to war against Iran with Israel for years. There's a chance he's the dog who caught the car.

this whole thing is very much like being locked in a room with a guy with a grenade who keeps being like IM GONNA DO IT IM GONNA PULL THE PIN and then is like “actually nah” and then everyone sighs but you’re still locked in the same room with the same guy and he’s still holding the same grenade

The threat itself is an impeachable offense. Don’t let it slide.

Personally I think when a world leader announces “Tune in tonight at 8pm Eastern to watch the world end” like it’s the fucking season premiere of Roseanne we should have a different leader the next day.

oh lol I missed that he has declared a two week cease fire that it appears Iran has neither proposed nor agreed to, but whatever. glad we all survive another day on the likelihood that the pedophile king will chicken out

Look that fucker dead in the eye and dare him to kill you both. Let him know you will take him down with you. That's what Iran's doing, and look how it's forced him to act. Look how *weak* he seems in the face of actual resistance.

"Netanyahu convinced our Big Wet Idiot President to bomb Iran because he's operating at a toddler level of intellectual horsepower" is a cousin to "we were lied into war," but I feel like it implies pretty different things about how to approach this going forward.

In case I have any Army generals following me, it’s pronounced “hoon-ta”. Military “hoon-ta”. Don’t let your fear of pronouncing words out loud that you’ve only read in text stop you from bringing up important conversations.

Players learned they had been secretly filmed after their soccer coach's arrest in 2023. Some vomited when they found out. Some needed to leave the club. Others sought psychological help. He's still allowed to coach in most of the world: www.nytimes.com/athletic/716...

Come on then, and remove him.

Anti-War protest tonight at 6 pm at the White House. Spread the word!

You know what? I'll admit it. The credible threat by a madman to wipe out a nation of 90 million people for basically no reason (presumably using nuclear weapons) successfully distracted me. I am now distracted.

One extremely depressing takeaway from this is that JD Vance is now what qualifies as an adult in the room.

Yet be well assur’d You put sharp weapons in a madman’s hands.

What I want from Democrats, based on what I think their actual options are. (1/3) 1. Fly to DC, sit themselves down in the Capitol building, and refuse to move until Johnson reconvenes. Call every media contact they have and do interviews from the chamber.

listen, I am trying to be reasonable here, but if you are an In The Know Political Person and you publish a memoir with damning information that you kept secret in order to get a big book advance, you should be skinned alive over several weeks

When you talk of mob violence you, like the Sons of Liberty, only imagine the politican, the tax collector and the profiteer, but eventually violence is always turned upon those who are already considered different in one way or another, and have no power to resist.

The important full circle on this, of course, is that of all the city councillors who approved of the data centre the one whose house got shot at was black.

in persian culture, telling someone "we're going to kill you all" is considered deeply offensive

The Moon: oh wow you guys decided to come back Artemis II crew: earth’s haunted

Like… We cannot go ahead and have the World Cup now like nothing is going on. Regardless of what does or doesn’t happen tonight. Countries should simply refuse to send teams. The rest of the world cannot treat us as a remotely normal country after this

I want to remind people of Quaker House as a source for members of the military who want to pursue conscientious objector status, as well as those seeking clarity on their moral objections. bsky.app/profile/vele...

Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are war criminals for both practicing and threatening the destruction of civilian infrastructure without military necessity for the purposes of collective punishment of the population.

one challenge to any kind of dramatic, theatrical opposition to this is that Democrats have zero guarantee their congressional leadership would back them up and defend them publicly. that's what Jeffries not whipping against the Al Green censure means.

my youngest grandson returns from The Waste. No food again, just metal scraps. But he's so proud, and wants a reward. "Tell me again about The Great Before. Tell me why The Green went away," he begs. "in the Before," I begin, "people had questions about who should participate in women's sports..."

"The common sense of mankind demands that law shall not stop with the punishment of petty crimes... It must also reach men who possess themselves of great power and make deliberate and concerted use of it to set in motion evils which leave no home in the world untouched." —Robert Jackson, Nuremberg

The media told us, based on the amount of coverage they devoted to it, that the number one military-related issue of the 2024 campaign was whether Tim Walz retiring from the National Guard after 21 years was too soon or not.

Susan Collins grimly standing up, walking across her office, and with a heavy weight bearing down on her weary shoulders, moving her doomsday clock from "concerned" to "worried."

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

love too wake up to see both a stunning picture of earthrise from the moon and a pronouncement of genocide from the mad king

These are orders given "under a black flag," and US military personnel should refuse to carry them out.

There’s a whole group of people who think they want a violent revolution, correctly don’t want to do any of the things that would be involved in that, so instead take perverse pleasure in individual violent acts as if they are part of that non-existent revolutionary movement

I think people are allowed to draw conclusions about the American people based on their decision to put this man in office bsky.app/profile/pear...

i think we should be clear that just because the astronauts did not immediately declare the moon haunted, does not mean it is not haunted it may mean that the astronauts are now themselves haunted have we prepared for this eventuality and if so how

Again. We are not going to be receiving ultra high-resolution images, and *definitely* not video, from the current Artemis II mission in anything approaching real-time. Be very wary out there.

Nate figured it out? Nate? Well, this is a real low point, this one hurts.

a consistent feature of these guys is that they go “I have an amazing idea nobody ever thought of before” and the reason nobody ever thought of it before is that is astoundingly world-historically stupid and evil