Sarah Posner

We spent approx. $9B to murder those Iranian schoolgirls so now we can declare victory.

The law firm that challenged U.S. Border Patrol Cmdr. Greg Bovino in federal court last fall signals a forthcoming bid for a special prosecutor to "investigate crimes committed by federal agents under Operation Midway Blitz."

Press conference Thursday:

So, was it enough of a war to trigger Gog and Magog, or nah

“I don’t want to brag, but no other president can do the shit I’m doing," Trump told GOP members of Congress just now.

BTW, the Trumpified NEH, with the help of ChatGPT-powered DOGE, scrapped our grant 3/4 of the way through. We did finish it though: “In the Shadow of the Holocaust” was published last month as the book we had promised to the pre-Trump NEH @stanfordpress.bsky.social www.sup.org/books/jewish...

Both, of course, which we knew full well beforehand & didn’t need a wildly illegal war that violates both the US Constitution & the UN Charter.

Trump in the last couple of hours has said the US effort in Iran is “almost complete,” a “short-term excision,” and also, “we will not relent until the enemy is totally and decisively defeated.”

With all these options remaining, why does the fate of thousands of criminal prosecutions in this District potentially rest on the legitimacy of an unprecedented and byzantine leadership structure? The Government tells us: the President doesn’t like that he cannot simply appoint whomever he wants. Notwithstanding the chaos that pervades criminal prosecutions in this District, and without regard to the possibility that scores of dangerous criminals could have their cases dismissed or convictions eventually reversed, “the [E]xecutive branch, at least right now, is not prepared to . . . use [the legal] options.

A federal judge STRIKES DOWN the District of N.J.’s post-Alina Habba regime, consisting of a “triumvirate” of so-called “special attorneys.”

Judge Brann’s blistering opinion warns that “scores of dangerous criminals” can have their convictions reversed if Trump insists on illegal appointments.

As an IR professor, it's depressing that this is outperforming all others as the best theory of US foreign policy

US stocks recovered steep losses Monday, while oil prices hit the highest level in years and then tumbled after President Donald Trump hinted that the Iran conflict may be near an end. https://cnn.it/4aZvtgy

What have we won? A war crimes contest?

It's very funny (not ha ha funny, but you know) that he only wanted "to get rid of *some* evil." Like-- if there's evil, under your demented theology (such as it is) don't you want to get rid of all of it?

We will now spend 500 million dollars renaming the Department of War, the Department of Short Term Excursion.

I guess the TACO bell rang again

Ask not for whom that bell tolls, it tolls for Wall Street

a group of men are dancing in front of a screen that says weekend update weekend update weekend update ALT: a group of men are dancing in front of a screen that says weekend update weekend update weekend update

TACO TACO man

Depraved

Trump Now MoonWalking Away From Regime Change As Fast As He Can Yesterday UN Ambassador Mike Waltz announced that the US was moving ahead...

Trump Now MoonWalking Away From Regime Change As Fast As He Can

…telling the NEH that this or that project was "DEI" as the basis for cancelation is to miss the forest for the trees. What happened was about wiping the slate clean for the takeover of the NEH and for bringing what had been public humanities under the heel of a nascent authoritarian state. 3/3 End

"As another example, ChatGPT answered “Yes” for a grant awarded to fund a project called “In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Short Fiction by Jewish Writers from the Soviet Union,” which strove to provide “a critical, annotated translation into English of Yiddish and Russian works written in the aftermath of the most significant Jewish tragedy of the 20th century.” ChatGPT classified this grant as DEI because “[t]his anthology explores Jewish writers’ engagement with the Holocaust in the USSR [...].” Id. at I315"

The goons from DOGE helping the NEH cancel existing grants asked ChatGPT whether “In the Shadow of the Holocaust” was “DEI” and it said yes. I don’t know whether to laugh or cry. I thought that, per Dara Horn, (these) people (were supposed to) love dead Jews! [sarcasm] But to think that ChatGPT… 2/3

There is a direct reference to my & Harriet Murav’s “In the Shadow of the Holocaust” project in the summary judgment filed by @acls1919.bsky.social against the National Endowment for the Humanities for canceling pretty much all the grants a year ago. www.historians.org/wp-content/u... (see p.8) 1/3

Last week he said it could last four or five weeks or longer

New Quinnipiac poll shows Trump continuing to crater:

37-57 overall approval
39-58 on economy
38-57 on handling of Iran

The kicker: 55% say Iran did NOT pose an imminent threat to the US, while only 39% say it did

He's really settling in at that 38% number on many fronts, isn't he

Let's check in on the leading candidates to replace Marjorie Taylor Greene in tomorrow's primary.

The administration that cares so deeply about fighting antisemitism.

BIG SIGH

Trump Open to Khamenei Being Killed if Iran’s Leader Doesn’t Cede to U.S. Demands Hits on critical infrastructure were exchanged, with Israeli strikes on Iranian fuel-storage complexes lighting up the Tehran skyline.

What a wild headline.

"Trump open to Khamenei being killed if he doesn't cede to U.S. demands"

Who's ordering the killing? And we just do assassinations bow?

This reads like a Mafia hit. Gross, embarrassing, and, ofc, dangerous.

www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

REVEALED: What did Andy Ogles do with nearly $25,000 meant for child burial garden? He won't say Now, NewsChannel 5 Investigates has uncovered more questions that the freshman Republican won't answer.

Since Rep. Andy Ogles is back in the news for the typically bigoted, boneheaded reasons, it's another opportunity to point out that he once raised $25K to open a cemetery for miscarried babies. He then ditched the idea and can't explain what happened to the money.

Trump Insists ‘I Have a Plan’ as Oil Prices Surge on Iran War President Donald Trump signaled the US war on Iran could be ending soon, saying the operation was ahead of schedule as he confronted mounting pressures on the 10th day of the Iran war with oil prices ...

Friday: Trump demands Iran submit to an "UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER"

Sunday: Ayatollah's son is named Iran's new supreme leader.

Today: Trump says “I think the war is very complete, pretty much.”

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Just to corroborate: Speaker Johnson hasn't responded to me about this, either.

Mike Evans is trending here, so ofc I thought something happened with Christian Zionists