Patrick Meyers

Putting Souza at LB (which is a big ask for the kid) would also have the positive knock-on effect of letting Archie play in midfield, where he is good at Doing Stuff.

The continuous blind clearances kill us every time.

It feels like there's a bunch of Frankball stuff that is still hard-coded into the players and it's killing us (specifically the long throws and the backwards passing, plus this instinct to just blindly clear the ball directly into the opposition).

How do they not have better answers than this for a war polling at 21%? Getting snippy with Welker doesn't help when it comes to expressing any sort of competence or planning either.

Lovely work from Tel and Archie too.

Was he the one who stopped running after Smith-Rowe too? That was bizarre.

Amazing how many people are so determined to deny that Republicans have any power or agency that they will just tweet out that they would fail a junior high civics class

Well, given that it's a pretty weird time to start airstrikes (9:15am Tehran time), I'm assuming the rushed nature was due to this all about trying to kill the Ayatollah (and the israelis had intel about when and where he'd be meeting his national security leadership).

While the other half of your national security team is still in DC. Something is very strange about this?

Also, Trump and the military leadership is at MAL and Vance, Bessent, and Gabbard are in the Sit Room in DC? Does that sound like a thing you would do on purpose?

Also that Trump, Hegseth, and Caine are at MAL?

Given how weird the PA campaign has been here (weird Trump video in the middle of the night, no press conference or presidential address) and the seeming lack of preparedness to deal with the Shaheds, is there a non-zero chance the Israelis just called us last night and told us they were going?

The lack of an address is really, really strange. I wonder when the video was pre-taped, as well. I can see Trump thinking he doesn't have to make a case, but it's unlike him to not do like a triumphal statement tonight.

I feel like New Yorkers should film a response that’s just people hanging out in Prospect Park on a spring day and having a cold one at Sharlene’s interspersed with clips of RSF war crimes and slave labor camps outside Dubai.

Not a TikTok user, but I didn’t realize it was this bad re: propaganda. No wonder the zoomers haven’t boycotted them yet (and they’re still allowed to sponsor the NBA and similar).

It’s only a country of almost 100M people, what could go wrong? It’s not like we have examples of civil wars in smaller countries completely destabilizing the region in recent memory.

Feels like this is CIA messaging “we told them not to do this shit, so don’t blame us”

The absolute diminution of Congress as an institution under the current GOP leadership is breathtaking and scandalous. Abdicated war powers, abdicated spending powers.

And all in the apparent bet the tables won’t be turned onto the Republicans the next time Democrats have unified control.

Exactly what are we preempting? A deal on enriched uranium?

White House officials believe ‘the politics are a lot better’ if Israel strikes Iran first As the administration mulls military action in Iran, officials argue it’d be best ifIsrael makes the first move.

On the other hand, there were definitely some people in the WH signaling hard earlier this week that this was the ideal outcome…

Notably, they also had State appointees crying about it last night and this morning, which suggests a more…holistic approach being run out of an IPC or Deputies Committee meeting.

(Laudatory)

That also has been cranked up to 11 since the DOGEing began - I know a lot of very staid and bland civil servant friends who have gotten pretty radicalized in the past year.

Oh I hear you, I'm just saying that not everyone in Dem stafferdom is like that (but I think it helps if you've spent more of your career outside the DMV). There's also a generational divide I think, so you see more millennial staffers attuned to this stuff due to general tech skepticism.

Prosecutors Plan to Drop Some Charges Against Alexander Brothers

Thoughts on this story, given their starring role in a lot of the recent allegation?

I made the mistake of watching the entirety of Person of Interest while trying to find a post-2016 election job and boy did that make me paranoid about the Trump I administration.

I'll say this much - if you asked me who represents the America I want to see: this guy or Noem & Lewandowski, this guy wins by a mile.

Prosecutors Plan to Drop Some Charges Against Alexander Brothers

I'm a bit surprised that 1) the defendants aren't being hit with witness intimidation charges here and 2) that this article doesn't mention the word "Epstein" given that there are quite a few allegations against the Alexander brothers in there...

Boy are the replies and quote tweets with this one deranged!

Instead of, you know, reading the article and noting some of the more interesting aspects (meeting with AOC at her request, mentoring Sarah McBride)...