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You know, I prefer DefSec Pete Hegseth’s fuck-the-rules-of-engagement honesty to StateSec Marco Rubio’s murky doublespeak. Aggression is aggression no matter how you try to dress it up. bsky.app/profile/atru...

You know, I prefer DefSec Pete Hegseth’s fuck-the-rules-of-engagement honesty to StateSec Marco Rubio’s murky doublespeak. Aggression is aggression no matter how you try to dress it up. bsky.app/profile/atru...

If Iran has a full copy of the Epstein Files, they should release them. They’ll do more damage than any ballistic missile.

Doing that in wartime is a bit different.

Like all of us, Sen. Fetterman has the right to his own opinions, but not his own 'facts' For his full-throated support of the Iran operation, the one-time maverick politician John Fetterman of Pennsylvania has roused considerable ire among many Democrats. Fetterman has said he is baffled ...

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‘Natural gas’ prices in the EU have shot up ~40% in a day on news that Qatar is ceasing liquid ‘natural’ gas production at the world’s largest plant.

In related news, sunlight and wind remain free.

Why Electricity Bills Are So High—and How the Blowback Could Hit Trump - Inside Climate News As Democrats and climate activists seize on energy costs as a political issue, new data shows electricity rates rose 5 percent nationwide in 2025. The figures were much higher in some states.

Chances are your electricity bills are way up. Here’s a look at how a typical bill has changed in each state during Trump’s first full year in office.

I guess the senator is too young to remember President Obama, who made negotiations with Iran work before Trump trashed the agreement. cdn.bsky.app/https://cdn....

1953. CIA and the Brits engineered a coup, leading to installation of the Shah, a playboy, and oil concessions for U.S. and U.K. oil companies. With help from the CIA, the Shah built Savak, a secret torture police.

The other time the U.S. decided to overthrow the Iranian government, this didn't include killing the nation's leader.

Why izzit that so many movies these days look like permanent twilight in the outdoor scenes and as if photons didn’t exist indoors?

Global race to secure critical minerals for weapons threatens climate, warns report Study reveals US earmarked billions to stockpile critical minerals for military use, including precision-guided weaponry and AI-driven warfare

Global arms race is hindering action on climate change as critical minerals used for weapons not energy transition www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The other time the U.S. decided to overthrow the Iranian government, this didn't include killing the nation's leader.

it’s an irony of ironies that a nation demanding Iran not build nuclear weapons or enrich uranium anymore is spending nearly a trillion $ upgrading the world’s 2nd largest nuclear arsenal while Russia, China, France & the UK are all upgrading their own nuclear arsenals at a cost of more trillions.

I guess the senator is too young to remember President Obama, who made negotiations with Iran work before Trump trashed the agreement. cdn.bsky.app/https://cdn....

While bombs are falling on Iran, Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries are arguing about process instead of clearly saying this war shouldn’t be happening, and that’s not leadership.

Still true

Opinion | The Case for Striking Iran

Bret Stephens had an epiphany after Greenland trip & topped being a climate science denier. But his view that the assault on Iran was a good thing suffers from the same ills as that earlier writing, including a distorted take on the IAEA inspection regime in Iran.

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As the Iran situation unfolds, remember the perils of the fog of war. Some of that comes from often fast-moving circumstances alone, but some is manufactured specifically to deceive. Both good reasons to be cautious about what information you accept as true and amplify as this conflict rolls on.

As the Iran situation unfolds, remember the perils of the fog of war. Some of that comes from often fast-moving circumstances alone, but some is manufactured specifically to deceive. Both good reasons to be cautious about what information you accept as true and amplify as this conflict rolls on.

Media should start calling them the Trump-Epstein Files every time they are mentioned. Headlines too. Of course, that’s not gonna happen.

Media should start calling them the Trump-Epstein Files every time they are mentioned. Headlines too. Of course, that’s not gonna happen.

The U.S. Senate must be clear: no war with Iran.

North Dakota judge finalizes $345m judgment against Greenpeace in pipeline case Judge slashed a $667m damages award to Energy Transfer over Greenpeace’s role in Dakota Access Pipeline protests

A North Dakota judge on Friday finalized a $345m judgment against Greenpeace in a lawsuit pursued by pipeline company Energy Transfer over the environmental group’s role in protests against the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline.

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it’s an irony of ironies that a nation demanding Iran not build nuclear weapons or enrich uranium anymore is spending nearly a trillion $ upgrading the world’s 2nd largest nuclear arsenal while Russia, China, France & the UK are all upgrading their own nuclear arsenals at a cost of more trillions.

No war with Iran

ICE took their papers—and won’t give them back Immigrants are being released from detention without documents proving their status.

“I can’t think of a client I’ve had detained that did not have their documents taken,” says a Minnesota immigration attorney. “As far as I can tell, it’s the practice of ICE to throw everybody’s documents into a black box and then lose it.”
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Love it when our nation’s defense contractors all spend their Friday nights subtweeting each other about killing everyone in the world

Having once worked decades in both alternative and major mainstream print media, I can attest that it is not the reporters at fault most of the time, although there’s plenty of self censorship from those who’ve banged their heads against the PTB at their respective venues.