Laura Jesse

With Military Strike His Predecessors Avoided, Trump Takes a Huge Gamble President Trump is betting the United States can repel whatever retaliation Iran orders, and that it has destroyed the regime’s chances of reconstituting its nuclear program.

News Analysis: Over the past two decades, the U.S. has used sanctions, sabotage, cyberattacks and negotiations to try to slow Iran’s long march to a nuclear weapon. In Iran, President Trump unleashed a show of military might that each of his last four predecessors had deliberately avoided.

If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people:

1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money
3) We won’t need a lot of troops
4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq
5) We’ll find WMDs
6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators
7) It will be easy
8) It won’t take long

All lies.

We expected 2,000 people out in GOP-held Greeley, Colorado.

11,000 people showed up.

Something special is happening, folks. Now is the time to organize in every dimension possible and get to work.

Thomas Jefferson enslaved people.

Whomever is advising the Democrats right now is criminally bad at their job. The notion that they can meme their way out of fascism is truly incredible.

I've been thinking a lot about that bumper sticker which says "everything looks like a conspiracy theory when you don't understand how anything works" and folks it's pretty obvious to me that the people in power right now have absolutely no desire to understand how anything works.

All this business I am reading about social security is nonsense. My mom died on 2/18. My dad got a letter yesterday informing him her benefits were ending and he had to repay the February payment because they don’t give a payment in the month someone dies. They know where every dollar is.

Trump backed GOP into a big corner with his “balanced budget” point.

The ONLY way House GOP could even think about upholding their “no cuts to Medicaid” swing seat promises and their spending cut mandates is deficit spending and bad math.

Now they have to gut Medicaid & hand it to Elon in public.

This is as far as I could make it through Mango Mussolini's verbal jackoff.

The news I needed today.

The stock market is tanking so badly it almost feels like we are being governed by someone who went bankrupt six tim— oh.

Fourth option: he's simply a senile lying asshole.

They just fired hundreds of FAA employees.

A drug addict who makes cars that spontaneously explode, plows into cops, and crash at much higher rates than other cars, is going to fix the air traffic control system? I'm not getting on a plane until this drug-addled illegal immigrant is deported or imprisoned.

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general.

If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

what the last 2 weeks of American politics has taught us is that we need to put Kendrick in charge of the DNC

The cognitive dissonance of getting up every morning and making coffee and walking the dog and going to meetings and answering emails and wondering what to make for dinner while there is a real live actual coup d’etat happening is BONKERS

A while back I read about how aggressive the males can be when mating. Some female dragonflies will feign death to avoid them - like stop flying mid-air and just fall. And if the male detects another male's sperm in his mate, he will spend hours scooping it out of her before dropping in his own. 👀

A memo listing all of the clubs eliminated by USMA.

The United States Military Academy has just eliminated all Cadet clubs and activities for POC. Most of these have existed for decades like the Society of Black Engineers. They were there when I was a Cadet in 1987. All of the religious ones remain. This isn’t DEI. It’s white Christian Nationalism.

The same people wailing about DEI literally can’t spell their own job title.

I have told so many people about this and tried to practice it, too. I had a day of rage posting and nonsense last week, none of it was productive. So, like @samsanders.bsky.social, I am stocking that shit up for where I can best use it.

I treasure your voice. Let me know when you figure out the shopping v. half-marathon craziness for an ACLU fundraiser. ❤

I look forward to this podcast more than ever now. When I find myself about to spiral, I either recall their wisdom or go revisit an episode to center myself. If you haven't checked out #VibeCheck, you must. Right meow.

Chat is it time?

Are eggs cheaper yet?

You're absolutely right and anyone disparaging Dr. Fauci needs to educate themselves about his expansive career. He chose a thankless path in public health to better the lives of millions of people around the world, not just in the United States.

ICE and Immigration rights Red Cards - template to print your own t.co/qWvVQqBgKP

Jumpin' Jesus on a pogo stick, you're a complete twat over here, too. You can't even switch up your trolling for the platform. That's social media 101.
Journalism 101 would be not trolling your educated audience at all, no matter the platform.