This Trump tweet is a work of art and needs to be kept for posterity. It turns out that the US has destroyed 100% of Iran’s military capability. Yet, to combat a military with no capability he is left pleading with allies he has regularly insulted to save him in the Gulf.
Donald Trump is notorious for filing lawsuits at the drop of a hat. He's filed over 4,000 of them. Many for defamation.
But Donald *will not* sue Ted Lieu for defamation. Why? He's been told by lawyers that in defamation actions, truth is an absolute defense.
plus ça change 😏
The narcissistic inability to realize that other countries, like other people, also have agency. Not surprising, given that everything Trump does stems from totally out of control narcissism.
Sweden is stepping up the shadow fleet game with another violent boarding of a stateless tanker, last one less than a week ago.
Minister Bohlin surely does not sound like this is the last of it.
Previous boarding has led to detention of vessel CAFFA and charges against crew.
Trump during the campaign: “I will end that war in 24 hours. It won’t even take that long. There will be no more bombing of Ukraine and Russia and everyone will be happy. It wouldn’t even be that tough. I know just what to say to each of them. It will be over in one phone call.”
this is your reminder that @anneapplebaum.bsky.social has a supremely excellent podcast series called Autocracy in America, and the new season is essential listening.
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Trump: All of the people that died through the roadside bombs. Died and are right now walking around with no legs.
Trump announced lifting of some oil sanctions on Russia.
The SAME DAY we send OUR soldiers to defend YOUR bases with weapons developed at the cost of Ukrainian lives, you let those who killed them rebuild their cash reserves so they can kill more of us.
FUCKING UNBELIEVABLE!!!!
So Russia is helping Iran target American troops. Ukraine is offering drone defense.
Guess who Trump NEVER ONCE has EVER criticized?
Correct. Russia
FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?
Ukraine, the country that Trump has ignored, pressured, and publicly humiliated, is being asked by the U.S. for help intercepting Iranian-made Shahed drones, apparently having noticed that Ukraine has become remarkably good at shooting them down after, you know, years of being bombed by them.
Chaos spreads from the first border the world lets be erased. Italy’s PM Giorgia Meloni told TG5 the Middle East explosions and drones over Cyprus follow the collapse of international law—and warned Europe against calling Ukraine “distant.” If law breaks in Ukraine, it breaks everywhere.
You cannot talk like this about any other minority in America.
And if it was any other president’s adviser who said something like this about any other minority, it’d be the instant end of their presidency.
The Swedish Armed Forces confirm that the drone detected at the vicinity of the nuclear aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle during the visit in Malmö was launched from the Russian SIGINT ship Zhigulevsk. The drone was intercepted using EW, either returned to ship or downed
the current position of the US government is that NVIDIA should be allowed to sell chips directly to China but banned from using Claude, because the latter is a larger national security risk. that is the level of absolute insanity coming out of the White House & Pentagon nowadays
Years - 4
Victories - 0
Casualties - 1,260,000🌻
Coups -1
Ruble -💩
War crimes -♾
NATO -🇫🇮&🇸🇪
Goodwill gestures - 🤷
Warships -Submarines
Submarines -Sub marine
Aircraft - 🚀💥
Refineries -🔥🦩
Raccoons -1🦝
Tankies - 😭
Tanks -🚜
Red lines - ➡️
I remain a master strategist
US Rep. Balint after reviewing unredacted Epstein files:
"They are a bunch of sick fucks. So many people knew." She confirmed Trump lied about kicking Epstein from Mar-a-Lago. Other files show the relationship continued for years.
#OpDeathEaters #EpsteinCoverup #EpsteinFiles
More insanity out of the idiots running Nat Sec in Washington.
Do these people have zero critical thinking skills, perspective, and a sense of consequences?
Rep. Stansbury on the Epstein files:
"Congress is controlled by Donald Trump's allies. He is being actively shielded by members of his own party. We need to hold these people accountable. And my message to Donald Trump is we're coming for you.
We are not moving on."
It’s important to realize that the subtext of Trump freaking out at Kaitlan Collins when she asks him what he’d say to the Epstein survivors is that she may in practice be asking what he’d say to the *Trump* survivors, and they both know that. A well worded question
The people of Minneapolis have been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. The first time a city's population has ever been nominated.
"You have to put a lot of effort into not going mad." - @rolandoliphant.bsky.social relaying a message from his friend in Kyiv
Almost 4 years into this full scale war and Russian tankers are now using NATO territorial waters in order to avoid being attacked by Ukrainian drones.
You read that correctly. Russians hiding behind NATO, because they lost control of the Black Sea.
Movie review from Guardian on Melania.
No, the election wasn't stolen
No, Antifa & FBI didn't attack the Capitol
No, the J6 hearings weren't a partisan witch hunt
No, the insurrectionists weren't tourists
No, we won't forgive or forget
#ProudBlue #Pinks #SheShed #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice
Lyrics Nice 👍
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This is my Hebrew school teacher, Ann Jaffe.
I was nine years old when she told us how her family hid in a forest for two years to survive. She showed us the number burned into her skin. She never dramatized it. She just told the truth — because she believed we had to carry it forward.
Abolishing ICE is not enough.
They must be publicly identified.
They must be prosecuted.
They must be punished.
Justice must be served.
