A.J. Manuzzi

POTUS has made no secret of his desire for a Nobel Peace Prize.

Some enterprising journalist should ask the President on camera how he squares that desire with his recent "determination" that the US is somehow in an armed conflict with a bunch of unspecified "designated terrorist organizations."

Donald Trump Will Never Be a Restrainer The final verdict is in.

Trump’s tariffs and pointless military displays are the opposite of foreign-policy restraint, argues columnist @stephenwalt.bsky.social.

Trump commits US to defending Qatar’s security | CNN Politics President Donald Trump has signed an executive order for the US to guarantee the security of Qatar — a significant commitment to a non-NATO, Arab ally.

Let me get this straight: American taxpayers pay for bombs and planes that the Netanyahu government uses to strike sites in Qatar, and now Trump enters into a security agreement where he promises to use American soldiers and money to protect Qatar?

Is this what he means by America First?

I believe that with just another $730 billion, our nation's top tech geniuses can build an innovative system which fills out spreadsheets at roughly the same rate that Brandon Weeden completed passes

#3 is incredibly relevant because what do you mean I’m starting Woody Marks in week 4

U.S. primacy is a paranoid boondoggle that detracts from our ability to get our own house in order and work collaboratively with other powers on the seminal challenge of our time- the climate crisis. We can either heed this lesson or let runaway militarism run its course while humanity suffers

If Isaac Chotiner asks you about your friendship with Henry Kissinger, you are already dead.

Easily one of the top 2 members of the Catholic clergy who famously supports Chicago area sports teams

congrats to joe brandon and all the purported defenders of democracy who normalized cracking heads on student protestors in order to cover for israeli genocide. you really greased the skids for ol donnie trump to formally submarine the first amendment

Dear Commissoner Carr,

The woke left has put Kershaw’s final start at Dodger Stadium on Apple TV+ tonight. Patriotic heroes like Joe Davis and Orel Hershiser should be calling it on SNLA instead. Please send help.

Just the paramilitary secret police manhandling an opposition political candidate.

build the DC stadium over the Heritage Foundation

Shohei Ohtani pitched 5 no-hit innings and hit his 50th homer of the year in a 9-6 Dodgers loss yesterday… is there a more glamorous name for when the Dodgers get Tungsten Armed, like a 1920s silent film star or something

Protect him at all costs. Give him a lifetime deal, Secret Service protection, the full nine yards

what ezra doesn't seem willing to accept is that charlie kirk was part of a political movement that does not think that "we are going to have to live here with each other" and is fact very interested in the elimination and/or subjugation of many, many people

The War on Terror Template For The Post-Charlie Kirk Crackdown Remember the last time a rabid government didn't let reality get in the way of a long-sought agenda once a crisis provided an opportunity?

The pretext will not be troubled by its disconnection from reality. This moment is no less frightening because of its familiarity from the War on Terror, down to the mass duplicity in pursuit of redefining huge swaths of Americans as “domestic terrorists.”

The Trump Administration’s “Wars on Terror” – Old and New | International Crisis Group The Trump White House is repurposing the potent framing of “terrorism” to go after a new set of enemies – drug cartels, migrants and domestic political opponents. Its words and deeds pose serious risk...

And given that the Trump administration has framed both immigrants generally and its domestic political opponents as "terrorists", the asserted prerogative to lawlessly kill "terrorists" is particularly ominous. 3/n

www.crisisgroup.org/united-state...

Blake Treinen of the Los Angeles Dodgers closeup, with "Charlie Kirk" and two crosses written on his cap in sharpie.

Given that, in the tenth, he faced one batter, who he retired, after which a different pitcher gave up the walkoff home run, Blake Treinen did not deserve the loss last night.

But given this, he totally deserved the loss.

Abolish The Atlantic

“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind

Screenshot: "On a bipartisan basis, our lawmakers have built and strengthened a post-9/11 package of powers that gets handed to each successive president, ripe for potential new weaponization and abuse. The targeting of immigrants and cartels as “terrorists,” including with the tools of warfare, is not a sharp deviation from our recent history — it is its logical conclusion."

My new commentary on how Trump is repurposing "War on Terror" mechanisms to target immigrants and cartels, and how we got here: (link below)

American Years of Lead Paint

"those 11 drug trafficker are no longer with us"

Drug traffickers as such are not lawful military objectives.

Marco Rubio& @marcorubio As @potus just announced moments ago, today the U.S. military conducted a lethal strike in the southern Carribean against a drug vessel which had departed from Venezuela and was being operated by a designated narco-terrorist organization. 1:09 PM • Sep 2, 2025 • 314.4K Views

shout-out to everyone who had Stupider Gulf Of Tonkin for Venezuela on their bingo cards

The anticipated performative attack on a suspected smuggling vessel in the Caribbean.

Standby to see whether this was operation was conducted with the Coast Guard pursuant to a law enforcement paradigm or whether the US Navy attacked this vessel as part of a supposed "armed conflict."

Rubio tweet

Rubio's framing this operation as GWOT in the Caribbean.

If you don't feel old enough today, the Mariners game just mentioned that Ben Williamson is playing against the team he grew up watching: the Washington Nationals