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United States Central Command did not say where the troops were killed, but said that several other troops “sustained minor shrapnel injuries and concussions and are in the process of being returned to duty.”

"... the Pentagon said ..."

He doesn't have that much real hair.

Sure, let's just end them because they didn't perform the way we would have liked.

Trump bears 99% of the responsibility for this. The men's hockey team did not react as we wish they had, but they're young guys who spend most of their lives playing hockey - not political pundits and doomscrollers.

So, they're on a post-victory conference call with the President, everyone's laughing, emotionally intoxicated, and the President makes an inappropriate wisecrack, and everyone is supposed to react with scorn? That's just not realistic. We really shouldn't declare people worthless in this context.

100% true. The primary objective of people in Congress is to remain in Congress. And that means avoiding doing anything that could be a mistake.

The job is too good. If we can't fix this with term limits, then we need to do something to attract better people to serve.

The carefully curated open-collar, weekend warrior look.

Penultimate means second-to-last.

$1.2 million is pocket change for Trump's family.

Banning will help in the future, but how about requiring disclosure of the identity of the winners -- including individual names, not shell companies.

I wonder how much overlap there is between that 21% and the 40% of people who think Trump is doing a good job?

This is an important perspective. Progress isn't linear. Hints of fascism are always lurking.

I think a lot of folks on the left would agree that there was a solid basis to keep nukes out of Iran's arsenal. And many would even support a military action to do that.

What's stunning is that the MAGA right is so quiet about it. This is the kind of thing Trump said he would not do.

So, Georgia sent a "letter of reprimand"? I sure hope it was a stern letter.

I'd rather have Collins plan it than Trump and Hegseth.

So, when Patel entered the locker room, the US hockey team was supposed to go silent and bow their heads in protest? Let's be real. They're hockey guys who are practicing hockey while we doom-scroll on Bluesky.

You will get a five minute major penalty for insufficient virtue signaling.

"I am writing this with brain cells the likes of which have never been used before ..."

Trump Administration launches a preemptive lie using the future CNN News Director.

Who, exactly, is he talking about? These Republicans have vivid imaginations.

Meaning, either no casualties, or lots of discussion about what to report.

What was one way they could have stopped this? By running a better candidate who didn't support a genocide in the 2024 election and winning it. Anything else?

In case you were worried that discourse couldn’t get more stupid (the “they” in the first post is Democrats, the “this” is the ongoing military action in Iran):

"See what you made me do? Don't make me do it again."

So, no report of any US casualties.

... Meghan McCain wrote, "Remember when every maga personality screamed at the top of their lungs that anyone with the last name McCain was a blood thirsty neocon warmonger... and had no place in the Republican Party? Yea I didn’t forget that either."

I'm not sure what she means here.

We've been here before.

Even when we had smart people in the White House, we often forgot that the Middle East is defined by Islamic sects as much as national borders.

So, killing the Ayatollah is going to war with Shiite Muslims within and beyond Iran.

The war against Iran may be short, but the war against Shiite Muslims is just getting started.