Jeff Nichols

With any luck, this failure will be so catastrophic it will make AOL-Time Warner look like brilliant business strategy in comparison.

Who got us into "a situation like this?" Comer on "boots on the ground" in Iran: "Sometimes that's unavoidable in a situation like this"

you have to marvel sometimes about the dramatic twists the world gives you

Painting of a wedding party outdoors in a hillside everyone is dressed in kimonos and Japanese traditional dress the bride and groom are under a big red round umbrella all of the members of the party have Fox heads has a Japanese Yokai except in the back there's one tall guy with a black head of a jackal that being the Egyptian god Anubis

The Fox's Wedding (Anubis Meets Yōkai) — Joanna Karpowicz, 2022
acrylic on canvas

It is wild to me that DOGE/Musk could dismantle so much of the government in just a few months from a combination of anti-regulatory personal greed and fascism-tinged stupidity and no one will ever face any consequence for it.

This is what weak and insecure people think confidence looks like: buffoonish bluster and swagger, like a 12-year-old bully. It doesn‘t inspire trust or security. It inspires grave concern for the lives of the people serving our nation whose fate is in the hands of these overcompensating oafs.

Saw a thoughtful thread about AI, don't want to QT or argue. But. The biggest rage factor with LLMs is the people who, because genAI is transformative for coding, think it's transformative for everything else, because they devalue every other form of work and labor and knowledge.

My thing with Hegseth is that he wants you to think he was a scary, war-criming, door-kicker when he was actually a Minnesota National Guardsman assigned to the 101st Airborne Division as a replacement in Iraq, then quickly pulled from the line and shuffled off to a Civil Affairs unit mid-tour.

So, in launching a huge bombing campaign on Iran they apparently didn't plan for:

- Who takes over;
- Interceptor shortages from sustained drone retaliation;
- How to defend US bases in the region;
- Threats to ships in the Strait of Hormuz; and
- How to evacuate Americans with airspace closed.

oh man, they didnt have a plan for this at all

Trump, suffering from dementia, is confused about where his father was born. It was in the Bronx, not in Germany. Trump's grandfather was an immigrant who came here after getting kicked out of Germany for evading the draft.

I feel like "Trump SUPPORTERS believe he will end the world" should have been a bigger part of the Harris messaging.

a man wearing a helmet and a headset says " this is when the fun begins " Alt: anakin says " this is when the fun begins "

they're shutting in rumaila, iraqi exports going to zero www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

See, the thing is we haven’t been—not because past presidents were perfect angels or thrilled with Iran, but because they didn’t want to close the Strait of Hormuz, evacuate American civilians from the whole region, and set the world economy on fire.

I'm sorry, if you're going to make a big show about how you've got a Department of WAR helmed by a Secretary of WAR and staffed by WARfighters, it's totally inane to then claim that your massive bombing of a foreign country constitutes something other than a war.

She's like an old samurai whose great battles are behind her but every once in a while she kills a man with piece of paper just to prove a point

Historian here, 😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱 *deep breath* 😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱

America's being led into war by a rambling, disassembling old man with no plan who gets distracted by the golden drapes next to his podium.

“We thought we were living in a politically neutral slave state.”

DOJ's recent 6th Circuit filing misspelled:

Voters as “Votors”
Emergency as "Emeregency"
United States as "United Staes"

And, it included a non-party in the caption.

These are the people who want access to your sensitive voting records and who my team fights in court every day.

Hail to the Cubs, Chicago 1907

Chicago 1907

The Department of Education has hung a massive banner honoring a racist college dropout who built a lucrative career out of targeting professors for harassment

I spent a bunch of time arguing that, based on available evidence, the Trump White House has no long-term plan for the Iran war, no answer for what happens next. Sen. Lindsey Graham confirms that, except I meant it as a criticism, and he, bafflingly, means it as a defense.

Got a little obsessed with this house a few years ago. Junot Whitehouse, the explosives exec this home was built for, is buried at Rosehill, having ended his days in the Elgin Insane Hospital labeled a "distracted person." The year before his death, there was all sorts of drama concerning his estate

“Epic Fury” sounds like it was generated by an AI developed by Radio Shack.

In a just world, every bad faith git with a platform who called Trump an anti-war president would be driving DoorDash for the next ten years. It was always such transparently false bullshit.

Big congratulations to the “no new wars” crowd.

There were many bad reasons to support (or anti-anti-) Donald Trump. But none with as much willful denial and reality inversion as yours.

The media simply refused to describe the actual, real world stakes of the 2024 election. The Republican nominee was a demonstrable violent lunatic hell bent on revenge and that man was covered like a normal guy who would tame inflation.

The state of the union address was like 72 hours before the US and Israel chose to attack Iran’s capital and call for regime change, and Trump did not even mention his policy toward Iran before Congress, much less ask for a declaration of war.