Mona Jones

Each one of those three missiles costs 33% more than the annual budget of the national park where I work.

that they have kept their relationship intensely private to the point that this is how we find out is probably the best sign they might actually make it

anyway, rules are rules, here is the exact moment she fell in love

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."

-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

Maybe it’s because I’m a colonial historian but so many of these white nation states seem to behave exactly like they did in the 19th century: ‘your leaders aren’t right for you,’ ‘we’re only killing you/colonizing you/installing puppet leaders for your own good’

“The righteous mission for which they gave their lives…” spoken by a slurring septuagenarian from his private resort in Palm Beach. A man so weak & morally bankrupt he hides out in Florida instead of facing a nation he has lead into infamy & rot. The worst POTUS in any lifetime.

I genuinely cannot get over him launching a war from his house in Palm Beach.

Three US service members and more than a hundred schoolgirls were just killed.

“The president is feeling like, ‘I’m on a roll.’ Like, ‘This is working.’”

This would make Pravda blush.

A reminder that fascist Mussolini invaded Abyssinia partly to divert from domestic economic troubles at home.

Currently trending on X.

It took just one phone call from Donald Trump for Starmer to jump into yet another Middle East illegal war, failing to learn the lessons of the tragedies of Iraq, Libya and Syria.

Gross.

The thrill Trump gets from having people blow up & kill other people, and from watching other people fight at UFC, comes from deep insecurity rooted in his personal cowardice. It makes him feel tough. It makes him feel adequate. Things he has never been but always wanted to be.

Today, US & Israeli forces bombed the Gandhi Children’s Hospital in Iran’s capital of Tehran.

Nurses supposedly risked their lives carrying newborns to safety from the rubble.

I’m having trouble finding more reporting about this, but here is at least a blurb from Reuters:

So many ostensibly straight news stories just flatly assumed that any friction in leaving Afghanistan had to be a result of incompetence by Biden, like there was a "no chaos" button he could have pushed to make the mass withdrawal of troops from an instantly failed state happen with no risk

Press gave Biden far worse coverage for a small number of American soldiers dying while leaving a war than to Trump for a similar number dying while starting a war for no reason. It makes you think!

"The Iranian #RedCrescent is literally listing the sites being hit: Khatam al-Anbiya, Motahari Hospital, and their own Tehran HQ.

201 dead and 747 injured in 24 hours. You don't "pave a path to peace" by bombing the people who treat the wounded. This is a war on survival.

#Iran #WarOfAggression

deja vu all over again

@zackpolanski.bsky.social : The US & Israel attack is illegal and unprovoked, the defence secretary & the govt won't condemn it, we have a PM who is incapable of standing up to Trump, and the worry is that we'll be pulled into another illegal war.

Spot on.

The stupid, it burns.

Are bonespurs hereditary?

Narrator: "I've been waiting FORTY YEARS for a POTUS to be dumb enough to give me the USA military as mercenaries"

A new Super PAC, "Chicago Progressive Partnership," just jumped into #IL09, opposing Kat Abughazaleh. Filings show they’re using the same vendors as AIPAC.

the war is unpopular but it's also illegal but it also doesn't serve any purpose but it also undermines diplomacy but it also is set to produce the opposite outcome as intended but it also already has hundreds dead and threatens more but it also will not make anything better for anyone but it also

Your voice shall be as strong as any man’s

Catherine Beecher is the perfect choice to juxtapose with Charlie Kirk. In the era when American women began advocating for suffrage, Beecher was a prominent anti-suffragist.

Seized Art, Eavesdropping Guards: Parents Describe a Clampdown at Dilley Detention Center as Kids Shared Their Stories Detainees told ProPublica that art supplies have been removed in room searches, immigrants have lost access to Gmail and staff hover within earshot during video calls.

Dilley detainees said art supplies have been removed in room searches, immigrants have lost access to Gmail and staff hover within earshot during video calls.

The Trump administration and private prison operator CoreCivic disputed detainees’ claims.

I feel so seen.

It’s not supporting the troops to send them off to kill and die in an illegal war of aggression whose purpose is to make sure that their votes don’t count.