Edgar Um

Putney Swope remains the greatest

So, in launching a huge bombing campaign on Iran they apparently didn't plan for:

- Who takes over;
- Interceptor shortages from sustained drone retaliation;
- How to defend US bases in the region;
- Threats to ships in the Strait of Hormuz; and
- How to evacuate Americans with airspace closed.

All I know is the absolute worst people America has to offer have wanted war with Iran as long as I’ve been alive so it’s pretty easy for me to be against it.

My zombie-based religion, in which god and a virgin birthed our future undead protagonist into the world, is the only rational worldview.

some pundit on my coworker's CNN car radio stream just said (regarding USA's actions in the middle east) "this is war time jazz" 🙄

Fascists who have mobilized their base via white supremacy will continue to win until white people who nominally consider themselves opposed to fascism, under any banner, learn the critical importance of creating a constant ethic that is informed by consistent principles that aren't solely selfish.

Screenshot of the top of staynebby.com 's site with the local jargon n'at. Nice work!

It should be much more at the forefront of our minds, the extent to which the most politically activated and politically empowered segment of the authoritarian American cult calling itself "Christian" see the apocalypse as something to hasten, not prevent.

Say what you will about the strikes on Iran and the resulting chaos, but Hegseth truly has captured the chivalric ethos of the original Crusaders (purposeless, unstrategic, basically slaughtering people for clout)

A disturbing and hypocritical ruling on so many levels. Especially the due process holding.

The court JUST said there’s no deeply rooted right for women to control their own bodies. But there is a deeply rooted right for parents to know if their kids question their gender at school? Come on.

Politico screenshot “Out of control: “Inside the Pentagon, and among some members of the Trump administration, there was deepening concern Sunday that the Iran conflict could spiral out of control, said people familiar with the situation. ‘The mood here is intense and paranoid,’ one person said. There is anxiety among senior leaders that the fighting will extend for weeks, further stressing limited U.S. air defense stockpiles, people familiar with the situation said.” Yet Trump himself has now made clear that he expects four to five weeks of military action, which poses the question — does America have the stomach for a long and painful campaign? Among the concerns being raised is the challenge posed by Iran’s mass-produced Shahed drones, which are cheap for the regime to keep building and flying — and upon which the U.S. and its allies are already expending large numbers of expensive (and rapidly depleting) interceptors.”

““Out of control: “Inside the Pentagon, and among some members of the Trump administration, there was deepening concern Sunday that the Iran conflict could spiral out of control … ‘The mood here is intense and paranoid,’”

Again even @playbookdc.bsky.social can’t spin Trump’s illegal Iran chaos.

Pentagon tells Congress no sign that Iran was going to attack US first, sources say Trump administration officials acknowledged in closed-door briefings with congressional staff on Sunday that there was no intelligence suggesting Iran planned to attack U.S. forces first, two people f...

"Trump administration officials acknowledged in closed-door briefings with congressional staff on Sunday that there was no intelligence suggesting Iran planned to attack U.S. forces first." www.reuters.com/world/us/pen...

feeling compelled to post this new yorker reject from years ago, for some reason

Ms. Wilkins, the daughter of a financial specialist in the aerospace industry (her mother) and a global consumer products executive for Gillette (her father), had lived in London and Switzerland, and for a time attended elementary school at Collège du Léman in Geneva. She is originally from the Boston suburb of Weymouth, but likes to emphasize her time living in Arkansas. "There are just some things the limousine liberal will never understand from the coasts," she recently wrote.

Kash Patel’s girlfriend is exactly the sort of country singer you’d think she’d be. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/u...

Wings doc is decent

How fitting that this illegal war was launched from the U.S.S. Gerald Ford, named for the man who launched the travesty that American presidents are above the law

This is an unjust, illegal war. It violates our treaties and our laws. Presidential impunity must end.

Jack Shanahan, retired US Air Force General and first Director of the Department of Defense Joint Artificial Intelligence Center:

Fakemink goes Purse First for Gucci

Our drunkard Secretary of Defense got into a contract he was too stupid to understand and is now losing his shit because he can’t force some nerds to build murderbots and spy on Americans for him.

Watching this country self-immolate is just excruciating.

Another local business shutting down 😔

meth lab bust on 18th Street in the strip #Pittsburgh

Image Designed by Adrian Shaughnessy, who designed (uncredited) the original Sun Ra Nuclear War 12" (Y Records 1982 UK).

“We’re Trying to Save Your Ass!” Sun Ra / Nuclear War Mega Mix (1982-1988)

🚨FIVE HOURS OF NOTHING BUT NUCLEAR WAR!🚨

Sat, Feb 28, 7-Midnight (ET) @wfmu.bsky.social

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A major shift, via Gallup. More from @joshuakeating.bsky.social www.vox.com/politics/480...

The Grifted Age

Here the demands US brought to Iran in Geneva: 1) Destroy all 3 nuclear sites: Fordow, Natanz, Isfahan 2) Deliver all enriched uranium to US 3) No sunset clauses 4) Zero enrichment, but can keep Tehran reactor 5) Minimal sanctions relief up front; more if Iran compliant

The biggest mistake Iran could make right now would be a genuine response to America's disingenuous bullshit. Make no mistake there is nothing Iran could do that would prevent the worst white people in the world from attacking them.

So I just got a statement from California AG Bonta's office:
"Paramount/Warner Bros is not a done deal. These two Hollywood titans have not cleared regulatory scrutiny — the California Department of Justice has an open investigation, and we intend to be vigorous in our review"

Time to start familiarizing folks with the concept of samizdat

sooner than later we have to start asking dem presidential candidates what their timelines are for razing the ballroom. because anything less is unacceptable.