Sam (ABeardedPanda)

there are a lot of you who should legitimately know better by now than to base your anger on a politico report that attempts to make senate democrats look bad with one line quotes

In some sense of the word Russia genuinely has the world's /only/ truly high quality information warfare operation, in that Israel, KSA, Iran, China and indeed the Republican Party of the United States of America are all genuinely quite bad at it.

Bernie about Platner,

“In all due respect, all right, what I'm worried about, 50,000 Americans may die unnecessarily? And you're worried about a tattoo?"

When I asked about his comments about sexual assault, he said "Have you served four tours of duty?" I said "I have not."

Bernie: "Ok"

"We only had 30,000 or so observable Shahed variant attacks in Ukraine, but the targets were woke, so our Chief Technology Officer decided not to study them"

I could have told you this and I'm an unemployed bozo who has never been anywhere near the military...

US air defenses may not be able to intercept many of Iran’s one-way drones | CNN Politics Trump administration officials told lawmakers during a closed-door briefing on Capitol Hill Tuesday that Iran’s Shahed attack drones represent a major challenge and US air defenses will not be able to...

Wonder if the US has any European security partners with relevant expertise with Shaheds?
edition.cnn.com/2026/03/04/p...

*laughs in Ukrainian*

81% of Israelis back Iran strikes, INSS poll finds - i24NEWS 63% want Operation Roaring Lion to continue until the regime falls

This kind of poll result makes it much harder to support the argument that the Israeli government ≠ the Israeli people. The American and Israeli publics seem to be moving in opposite directions.
www.i24news.tv/en/news/isra...

"Another riding"

This loser broke the man's arm as he was being dragged out by three other cops and now he's preening about it. Simultaneously casting himself as the saint ("help", "deescalate") and the victorious underdog warrior (he was being violent and seeking confrontation). Incredible lie density here

I find the 'how many weeks will the war go?' questions odd.

The war is going to continue until Iran no longer has the capacity to block shipping traffic in the Strait of Hormuz or chooses to stop doing so.

Given the economic impact of strait closure, it really cannot end before that.

“We are in an undeclared state of war.”

After Mike Johnson says the US is not at war, and Donald Trump says it is, Lindsey Graham tells @premthakker.bsky.social a third answer: an “undeclared state of war” — which, he suggests, allows the US to illegally strike ships in international waters.

I think it's factually correct to say that some of the other Gulf States view Iran as a regional adversary and are very interested in countering them and their proxies but also that they were not on board with this war because it would escalate that proxy conflict into a real one

Oh yes okay come with me new people on this horrible journey into Porn Wars Theory

This will be a thread and an extremely bleak one

The world we live in is a world where wars are not fought for any strategic power competition reasons at all, but one where they are fought specifically to generate imagery of suffering for sadistic perverts to get off to without any more thought put into why than that

The Columnist I perceive myself as being someone who takes the agency of individual people very seriously, and think that It’s important to remind ourselves, continuously, that our choices actually do matt…

i've always wondered what the job of newspaper columnist is like, so, for this month's WORK IS FOUR LETTERS, i decided to go ask a newspaper columnist about it. @jamellebouie.net was kind enough to make time to talk to me about his work, and i'm really pleased to share it with you.

It appears that possible DHS agents or bounty hunters? (still unclear) fired a weapon towards protestors yesterday in Minneapolis. They were seen leaving the area in a white van with a fake business name and disconnected phone number.
Source of video: www.instagram.com/p/DVeSrXdDzN0/

"There's too many unknown chemical additives in the foods that you can't even pronounce, you should shoot up this mystery vial I bought on Alibaba that says it will increase your midichlorian count"

RFK Jr. Tells Joe Rogan He’s About to Unleash 14 Banned Peptides RFK Jr. plans to reverse a sweeping compounding ban of certain peptides issued by the FDA in late 2023.

This is madness. I wrote about "peptides" a few years ago, before the trend really hit. People are injecting themselves with black-market liquids purported to contain experimental drugs that were abandoned for failing to show benefits or being unsafe.

gizmodo.com/rfk-jr-tells...

The solution is microdosing caffeine (put white monster in your water bottle)

So MattY, the Pod Bros, Gallego... Is anyone else noticing that a *lot* of folks who've had rumors of cocaine/stimulant abuse swirl around them are all ride-or-die for a guy who's been rumored to have dealt cocaine in DC right when they were all up-&-comers in town?

"I'll vote for a known lying antisemite because I think he's not lying about this"

Every single Dem but Fetterman votes to restrain Trump, so this is a good time to f—k off with the both-sides-ism on war

The US govt mixing video of real violence in a war it started with a video game scene feels like crossing a(nother) line.

I’m not sure what to say. I don’t think war is a game. And even when I think military action is necessary, there are real human beings on the other end, not pixels that respawn.

For years they told us video games would make young people callous and indifferent to real-world violence. Instead we have old people callously sending young people to die and using video games to produce viral content for armchair warriors.

i feel like 155% tax rate for billionaires, 155mm for autocrats abroad is just going to be the 2028 platform now

This is the core of Republican "manhood" in one video. The whole political project is window dressing for the desire to do violence to those who annoy you, but only if they can't fight back. If they can fight back, political power will be turned to the end of destroying that ability to fight back.

Felony assault charges against this fascist pig. Immediately. Unfit to serve the good people of Montana. Unfit to do anything but mop penitentiary floors.

Calling Klipp stupid is actually way too charitable, this guy is a ratfucker