Tom Nichols

For the many Platner fans here, Peters is a white supremacist, Holocast denying / antisemetic, virulently anti-trans anti-gay right-wing influencer. There's no lack of people making similar points that Platner could be reading and promoting who are not nazis.

You really do seem to spend a lot of time thinking that the world is run by purposive conspiracies. No offense.

I agree! But these people who are saying that the Washington Post should not have published him are losing their minds. Publishing him does not mean supporting him.

I agree! But these people who are saying that the Washington Post couldn’t have published them up and by him are losing their minds.

So, I don't have to agree with every opinion piece I read?
Game changer!

Sad day when that closed

Boy, you're not gonna like how Stalin's daughter was platformed here in the 60s and 70s

The Shah's son has been a visible opposition figure for years. Not my cup of tea, maybe, but the idea that the Post is somehow canoodling with tyrants by publishing an oped from him silly. Plenty of space in media pages for him and many others.

Well, that's a relief

And why should they have refused?

Oh, come on.
You don’t have to like it or agree, but it’s not like it’s an insane choice to publish it.

@radiofreetom.bsky.social

I am starting to wonder why Trump is only releasing short videos about a couple events, and no live appearences.

Good luck changing the constitution

People, this is by the son of the Shah. What did you think he was gonna say?

I ordered a vodka but all they had was meh vodka, so I lived it up

Are you crazy

Don’t judge me. It’s been a long weekend.

Not quite. A war with the Soviet Union in Iran.

Yeah, all respect to Sen Murphy, but the act says this. The law is a crap law and should be repealed and replaced.

Screenshot of X tweet reading, "Bubba Hearn @HearnBubba · 6h Replying to @CatoInstitute and @katherinet57 I did not see the Cato institute react like this when obama bombed 7+ countries, hypocrite much?"

Chowderheads keep trying to whatabout Cato on its criticism of the war but don't get far:

"I did not see the Cato institute react like this when obama bombed 7+ countries, hypocrite much?" -- Bubba [!]

A quick search of "Obama + bomb" on Cato yields 100s of hits:

www.cato.org/search?query... /1

#godfather_doctrine #potus | Nikolas Gvosdev Prior to the start of operations against Iran, some U.S. Naval War College colleagues and I were discussing John C. Hulsman and A. Wess Mitchell's book from the 2000s, the #Godfather_Doctrine. (https:...

Is U.S. foreign policy guided by Michael Corleone's dictum: "Today I settle all family business?" www.linkedin.com/posts/nikola...

My Friend, Stalin’s Daughter How “the little princess of the Kremlin” became the Cold War’s most famous defector, then struggled to create a new life in the United States.

Svetlana Stalin, Joseph's daughter, was born 100 years ago yesterday. She lived an extraordinary life and defected here in 1967. Late in life, I found her living anonymously in Wisconsin. We became friends and exchanged hundreds of letters.

Tom Nichols: Chanting USA is not actually a strategy. How do we know when we're done? Three Americans are dead, 48 Iranian leaders and a lot of other Iranians are dead. We need something more than a midnight video from a guy in a hat telling us everything's going to be awesome.

Honestly, telling the local cops to lay down their weapons is basically just telling them to blow their own brains out.

Well, it's not stupid *if you have an occupying force to whom you can surrender*

But...um

Trump’s Enormous Gamble on Regime Change in Iran A few paths to success, many to failure

Apt quotation from former US ambassador to Iraq: "there were 500 ways to do it wrong and two or three ways to do it right. And what we didn’t understand is that we were going to go through all 500.”

I like @radiofreetom.bsky.social ending: #InsideStraightOdds.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

oh yes