Fred Little

There is a new axis of evil in the world: Trump, Putin and Netanyahu.

Quote from Washington Times editorial board "[Radical liberals] don't realize that, when they express contempt for the man who holds the country's highest office, they reveal their contempt for the Americans who put him there."

Uh no...we definitely realize it.

These were all "untimely and suspicious prevention of popular regime change death events" with US Government connections of various kinds.

Yes. It *does* matter but not in the good way.

Maersk halts Suez and Hormuz transits as regional war disrupts shipping <article data-history-node-id="434510" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/maersk-halts-suez-and-hormuz-transits-regional-war-disrupts-shipping" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/maersk-halts-suez-and-hormuz-transits-regional-war-disrupts-shipping" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Maersk halts Suez and Hormuz transits as regional war disrupts shipping</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p data-end="91" data-start="0">Global trade faces fresh disruption as Maersk suspends key shipping routes through two of the world’s most strategic waterways, citing escalating security risks linked to the widening US-Israeli war on Iran.</p> <p data-end="532" data-start="302">The Danish shipping giant announced on Sunday that it will stop sending vessels through both the Suez Canal corridor and the Strait of Hormuz, a move that underscores how rapidly the conflict is spilling into global supply chains.</p> <p data-end="678" data-start="534">“We have decided... to pause future Trans-Suez sailings through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait for the time being,” Maersk said in an online advisory.</p> <p data-end="761" data-start="680">“The safety of our crews, vessels and customers’ cargo remains our key priority.”</p> <p data-end="877" data-start="763">The company also confirmed: “We are suspending all vessel crossings in the Strait of Hormuz until further notice.”</p> <p data-end="1286" data-start="879">Maersk joins a growing list of maritime operators scaling back operations after Iran’s Revolutionary Guards declared the Strait of Hormuz closed on Saturday. The waterway handles nearly a quarter of the world’s seaborne oil exports, making it one of the most critical energy chokepoints on the planet. Any sustained disruption there threatens to send shockwaves through global oil markets and freight costs.</p> <p data-end="1649" data-start="1288">The Suez Canal, meanwhile, serves as the principal shortcut between Europe and Asia, linking the Mediterranean to the Red Sea.&nbsp;</p> </div> </div> </article>

Maersk halts Suez and Hormuz transits as regional war disrupts shipping - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/maersk-halts-suez-and-hormuz-transits-regional-war-disrupts-shipping

how’s that old saying go…

bombing for peace is like fucking for virginity?

They went to war with Iran (which nobody in America was asking for) so they could conjure an excuse to allow ICE to keep murdering Americans and teargassing schools here at home with impunity (which nobody in America was asking for).

New law opens door to citizenship for ‘lost Canadians’ in Bellingham and beyond | Cascadia Daily News Canadian Bill C-3 allows descendants of people born in the country to claim citizenship

Thousands of people are working to get their Canadian citizenship under Bill C-3. The new law addresses what has been called “unacceptable outcomes” for people whose Canadian parents were themselves born abroad — a group often referred to as “lost Canadians.”

For all the pedants who keep quoting the part of the war powers act that says Trump only has to notify congress after 48 hours of troops being entered into conflict: first, stop being nerds, second, putting troops along Iran’s shore with the intent to attack counts, and he did that months ago. It’s an illegal war.

For all the pedants who keep quoting the part of the war powers act that says Trump only has to notify congress after 48 hrs of troops being entered into conflict: 1st, stop being nerds, 2nd, putting troops along Iran’s shore w/ intent to attack counts & he did that months ago.

It’s an illegal war.

The Presidential Election of 1980 was a choice between global democracy and human rights or global US hegemony, and hegemony won.

Israel always says this about Palestinians but then it either assassinates them, locks them up or finances their rivals. Weird, init?

There is also the Oath:

On my honor, I will do my best
To do my duty to God and my country and to obey the Scout Law;
To help other people at all times;
To keep myself physically strong, mentally awake and morally straight.

Iran has a great many Mandelas and Walesas. Most of them are in a prison that Israel bombed back in July.

Feeble Criticism of War With Iran Echoes the Lead-Up to War With Iraq We need to take a firm stand against this reckless and pointless war, not fixate on whether or not it was done the "right way."

"This was still an argument about means, not ends, that put undue trust in Bush’s willingness to seek alternatives to war. A more effective resolution would have required Bush to get explicit UN Security Council authorization to use force, but this was eschewed by the Democratic leadership."

He started a war without getting congressional approval WITH A MAJORITY. Side stepping your own party means there’s no more separation of powers. It’s just all Trump.

Gottheimer and Moskowitz, also known as Mike Lawler's bipartisan friends with benefits.

Yeah we're going to kill the government officials, also we're going to kill the opposition, also we're going to kill the retired politicians, also we're going to bomb a school of children.

❗️Shahed-136 strike on an ammunition depot at the US base in Erbil, Iraqi.

Secondary detonations and a powerful fire are visible at the site.

Critical tweet of Mike Lawler’s misunderstanding of the War Powers Act

Critical tweet of Mike Lawler’s misunderstanding of the War Powers Act

Critical tweet of Mike Lawler’s misunderstanding of the War Powers Act

Critical tweet of Mike Lawler’s misunderstanding of the War Powers Act

My idiot Congressman Mike Lawler got dragged yesterday for his fundamental misunderstanding of The War Powers Act.

Big thanks to @indivisrockland.bsky.social for compiling the responses so that I didn’t have to.

#NY17

Another Eagle Scout here. (Troop 63, Blue Ridge Mountains Council, Martinsville, VA).

Pro Tip: Never mistake a Scout's performance of "Courtesy" (as below) for weakness.

So that second telephone in the pic, the one on the right. See that yellow bar at the bottom of the screen indicates thephone is rated Top Secret/SCI. If it's not just sitting there as a visual prop, but is actually plugged in, they've just compromised the JWICS network.

Israel's systematic attempts to kill the entire Iranian opposition leadership in Iran is indicative of what (some) of us have been saying— Israel doesn't not want to turn the IRI into a democratic republican state, it wants there to be no state. It wants a rubble-state, Gaza or Yemen or worse.

Congrats to all the politicians who have made statements supporting this bullshit while Ted Cruz finds a spine.

John Fetterman, come collect your prize!

A reminder that there are more Christian Zionists in the United States than Jews, Zionist and otherwise

And they are all both batshit crazy and high on their own supply to a degree inconceivable for most humans.

To sum up: two federal judicial DISTRICTS have held that not only does the DOJ or ICE have no presumption of regularity, they also held ICE—as an agency—is engaged in action—so unlawful, it is now an not only unconstitutional, it is anti-constitutional, and subject to civil and criminal contempt.

This reminds me of that Frankie Boyle joke about how Americans not only come to your country and kill your people, they also come back twenty years later to make a movie about how killing your people made their soldiers sad.

A very interesting and underreported story is that, while Iran has not yet closed the Straight of Hormuz by mining it (which would instantly stop 20% of global oil traffic), they may have the same chokepoint effect on the oil supply because they have raised enough risk that insurers are bailing

There's an interesting argument to be made re: Kennedy, Milk, even George Wallace as early examples of "stochastic terrorism," and it's important, but I think that's distinct from clearly state sponsored assassination.

I hope you aren’t drunk and took your staff’s advice, Rashida and I don’t know this man and feel confident he didn’t care about us. Please restrain from drinking too much as you have been warned from your staff and stay off social media when you are drunk. I pray in his holy month you find peace and respect for your self,

uhhh oh my god