La vache est fachée

It just doesn't seem correct that a week of air strikes and zero boots on the ground will entirely defeat a country 2.5 times the size and population of, say, to pick a comparison totally at random, Ukraine

And yet that seems to have been the entirety of Trump's plan

I need to stress something here:

The US destroying Iran’s navy is about as impressive as prime Michael Jordan dunking on a toddler.

I know the administration needs something to brag about, but this outcome was literally never in question.

When we talk about Baby Boomers not getting off the stage: In 1997, the US president was born in 1946.

In 2007, the US president was born in 1946.

In 2017, the US president was born in 1946.

And next year in 2027? The US president will have been born in 1946.

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.

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.

Screenshot of a 3hr old post from the GW Hatchet: “BREAKING: GW sold its Virginia campus to Amazon Data Services, an Amazon subsidiary that manages the company's data centers, for $427 million on Friday. The deed, obtained by The Hatchet, authorizes ADS to develop the campus into a data or information technology center. STORY TK”

GW‘s student newspaper appears to have broken the story that the institution has sold a satellite campus to Amazon to be turned into a data center, which is just about chef’s kiss for the state of American higher education rn

The Government Just Made it Harder to See What Spy Tech it Buys On Wednesday, the government stopped supporting FPDS.gov, an indispensable resource for finding what ICE, the FBI, and every other agency is buying. Its replacement site completely sucks.

New: the government just made it harder to see what spy tech it buys. This includes ICE, the FBI, essentially any agency. Why? Because they decided to retire the perfectly good system for searching contracts and replaced it with one that fucking sucks

www.404media.co/the-governme...

8 months out from midterm and the guys who promised nativist isolationism just started Gulf War III.

They are just starting to realize the depth of their error, and they are going to come SO hard for our last vestiges of democracy.

They are completely backed into a corner.

I don't see a way the regime isn't fucked on midterms after this.

They didn't sell this to anyone, they ran on doing the opposite.

They are going to be desperate to throw these elections, now, even more so than they already were.

Cheryl Mills vs Lauren Boebert is like bringing in a siege engine to crush a walnut

This is Cheryl Mills.

The ONE moment they put this dude on the hot seat WITHOUT her, he gave us, “It depends what your definition of “is” is.” 😏 (I know she was pissed!)

Happy Black Women’s History Month!

It’s a problem that the president is a world-class imbecile with zero capacity to think strategically, understand the basic context of his decisions, and who makes those decisions in chaotic spasms.

It’s a much bigger problem that our political system finds it impossible to say this out loud.

Minnesota launches investigation that could bring charges against US immigration officers US county attorney is ‘confident’ her office will be able to pursue charges in cases which led to criticisms of use-of-force policies

Hennepin county attorney Mary Moriarty reports that her office is looking into 17 cases that might result in charges against ICE officers, including Bovino

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Military leaders pushing 'Armageddon views' on troops as Iran war begins: complaint A combat-unit commander told non-commissioned officers Monday that the Iran war was part of God's plan to usher in the End Times and bring about Jesus Christ's second coming, according to a complaint ...

This is insane. Trying to convince these young people to embrace becoming cannon fodder.
www.rawstory.com/military-267...

Question:

Should those of us who recently made content about renewable energy and made an argument that electric cars should be seen as a national security benefit because we can use energy sources other than oil, um, press on that?

Kinda of hard to resist but y'know doesn't feel very kind.

Trump and Hegseth both opened the door to boots on the ground in Iran today.

Who the fuck voted for that?

a thing historians will marvel about when they study this era is the extent to which the "war is a thing that happens to poorer, browner people" class went about systematically dismantling every aspect of the global political order that confined the costs of war to poorer and browner people

This is eugenics

Woman sues Kenbridge, police after chief allegedly tipped off shooting suspect The town of Kenbridge and its police department are facing a lawsuit of more than $140 million.

A woman’s ex boyfriend, who is a cop, threatens to shoot her

Women are at the highest risk for being killed when they try to leave a relationship.

She calls 911 for help & the Police Chief WARNS the boyfriend instead.

Boyfriend opened fire on her car

We aren’t angry enough.

I lived a few streets down from the site where the Philadelphia Police Department firebombed an entire city block in 1985, and when I mention it in lecture most of my students seem absolutely incredulous

Minnesota would like a word.

Good thing for Trump that he did such a stellar job pivoting us all to renewables and electric vehicles

Secretary of Warfighting Pete Hegseth will solemnly perform ten (10) pushups for every American soldier lost in this war.

The entire millennial identity is being prepared and groomed for a version of the world that stopped existing by the time we reached it

we slammed into a horizon painted on a brick wall like fucking looney tunes

my problem with these takes, is it's like imagine if you were being attacked by a tiger at the zoo, and the zookeeper was over there kinda halfheartedly going "hey. come on now. get off him" and you went HEY WHAT THE FUCK! and the zookeeper went "uh don't oyu think you should be angry at the tiger?"

I am definitely not leaning hard into a mild case of the sniffles because a Bluey pjs day is all I have the emotional capacity for right now

It's Official: the Cybertruck is More Explosive than the Ford Pinto - FuelArc News We now have a full year of data for the Cybertruck, and a strange preponderance of headlines about Cybertrucks exploding into flames, including several fatalities. That’s more than enough data to comp...

This comes on the heels of a report that Musk built a vehicle more explosive than the Ford Pinto, which was considered a death trap.

By Tesla's own math, it reveals that its robotaxis are 4x worse at driving than humans, with redactions hiding even more details | Fortune By NHTSA standards, the Tesla Robotaxis are 8x worse than human drivers.

About every 57k miles driven by Musk’s robotaxis one gets into a wreck. That’s four times the rate of humans.

I get it, I do.