Prof. Robert Pape:

"I have studied every air campaign since WWI... I've modelled the bombing of Fordow and regime change in Iran for 20 years... We are now in the grip of the escalation trap... This has never worked in over 100 years... Trump is up against the weight of history".

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done

- started a war in the middle east
- completely destroyed the economy

CNN reporting that the strikes on Iran tonight are joint US and Israeli strikes.

Which means Donald Trump should be impeached for a third time.

What he has done tonight is illegal under the US constitution and the UN charter.

CHINA: "The US is a war addict. Throughout its over 240-year history, it has been at war for all but 16 years. The US has 800 overseas military bases in over 80 countries and regions. The US is the main cause of international disorder, global turbulence, and regional instability."

Where is the lie?

I am hopeful that the war in Iran will bring needed democratic change to … the United States of America.

I grew up in NJ near NYC in the 60s. Even in my quiet suburban town, I learned to “act first, ask permission later.”
The attitude was pervasive in the culture.

It's 'real estate developer' policymaking - demolish it first before asking for planning permission.

The East Wing is a literal example.

This is amazing.

www.getyourfuckingmoneyback.com

Hillary Destroys the Republicans They’d soon regret sending her a subpoena.

open.substack.com/pub/borowitz...

His work is new to me. Thanks.
Wonderful that your subject matters compliment each other so well. Would like to see you on a panel together!

Compelling cover art; does the stuff beneath GW represent a shredded Constitution?

A reminder that America supplied Iran with its civil nuclear programme with no regard for who might come after the Shah. If there's an emblem of consistent US foreign policy blunder over the last 60 years it is Iran. Alas, it will continue to be Iran.

A predominantly green colored Apple map with a large, red, push pin in the middle; reads: Place of Death Palm Springs, California, USA Here, reality intervenes to tell us something we knew inherently.

This map came up when I hit “Place of Death” on Hutton’s IMDB page 🤣🤣🤣

Federal courthouse in Nashville

HAPPENING NOW: Good morning from the federal courthouse in Nashville, Tennessee.

A federal judge is set to preside over an evidentiary hearing on whether the United States government is vindictively prosecuting Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

I'm here for @lawfaremedia.org. Follow along ⬇️⬇️⬇️

JB Pritzker's Invoice: Payback's a Bitch - emptywheel Among the reasons why JB Pritzker's demand that Trump make Illinois families whole for the money Trump illegally took from them is that the amount Pritzker demanded -- $1,700 per family -- is not far ...

Reup: By demanding that Trump pay Illinois households back (which won't happen), JD Pritzker makes Trump's theft politically toxic.

Trump destroyed soybean farmers, bankrupted countless small businesses, and cost average homes $1K+ a year, and it was all illegal.

emptywheel.net/jb-pritzkers...

“Love thy neighbor as thyself.” It’s not complicated.

In the words of (good trouble) John Lewis on his Birthday…

They are all the Parasite Class.

This is true! I said these words! And meant them!

The Public Scholar is a superb book; you should preorder it!

Watching from New Zealand we keep hearing this. “It’s time to remove him. It’s time to impeach him. It’s time he was in jail. It’s time he was made accountable “. It just never ever happens and he continues his rampage. FFS, where are your boundaries America? Where are your laws? Do something!

As an attorney with occasional experience with the Equal Time rule, I can explain what's going on here and how the FCC's Brandon Carr is leveraging his position to force late night and daytime talk show hosts to exclude Democratic candidates.

First I need to explain the Equal Time rule itself. 1/

Psst! L'il Marco Rubio? Don't Lecture Europe When You're One Face of a Chaotic Suicide Pact! - emptywheel Even as the grandson of an "illegal immigrant," Marco Rubio, attempted to lecture Europe that immigrants would destroy their shared civilization, the Secretary of State dodged his own role in the chao...

Psst! L'il Marco Rubio? Don't Lecture Europe When You're One Face of a Chaotic Suicide Pact!

emptywheel.net/psst-lil-mar...

More open-window living 🏖️🎡

This thread seems to confirm my very strong prior that a big part of what's wrong with DHS is that it blurs foreign and domestic authority, and by doing so inherently promotes bringing military and intelligence behavior into the civilian world

We were off-grid for 10 days after 9:11. I heard about the creation of the new department on the drive home. I remember thinking, “homeland, homeland❓‼️Why did you use that fucking word for America❓The name alone gave me chills, even then.

bsky.app/profile/worl...

These bollard people bring me joy.

YouTube video by Vlad Tretjakof TWIN PEAKS 2017 THE RETURN | KEEP THE BLOOD | HARRY DEAN STANTON SCENE

Reminds me of this incredible scene from Twin Peaks the Return: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQOE...

Best advice. Marriage as a system is in many ways deplorable, but it is a system in which we live.

Take care of yourself. Look out for yourself. If you have to get married to do that, hold your nose and do it. For you.

My sister resisted the institution. It didn’t end well.

in the blink of an eye [things seen and watched and read and thought]

I've disgorged the contents of my brain into a few paragraphs, and a plethora of footnotes, with a little something, I hope, for everyone.