the Iranians will cede to Trump Persian Golf in exchange for all their other demands being met.

an instagram feed of remarkable cemeteries, so people can tombscroll.

this administration is the chicken tax personified. and will do to American energy what the chicken tax has done to the American auto industry, ghettoed it into an expensive, destructive, globally irrelevant niche.

i think we should have no predators but recover the art of understated but affectionate ridicule for takes (from all quarters) that maybe should be taken back.

US historians: what are some decisions comparable in both rashness and stupidity to the current administration's attack on Iran? there must be comparables, but I'm a bit flummoxed coming up with any.

does it still count as a grave error if the court is doing it on purpose? ht @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social

whether they did or did not occur, i’ll score the conversations very productive as it seems unlikely the idiots will render the middle east uninhabitable today.

i mean to be sleeping, but i am frightened.

#evergreen

is there enough competence and leadership remaining in the military to effectively push back against orders that would result in predictable failure and mass casualties?

there's a thing the humans get caught up in where it becomes less important whether a thing is true or false than who the saying of the thing would be associated with.

kind of a rule of thumb is expect things to go haywire when you put fascists and/or theocrats in charge.

escalation dominance is just another word for nothing left to lose.

"I trust the marines." Who ultimately have no say in the matter, whose judgments about what they are being asked to do is ultimately private, who will do what they are ordered to do even if they consider it ill-advised.

“Literally, White treated corporations like children whose brains were too underdeveloped to truly hold them responsible for their actions.” @ddayen.bsky.social

failures of the neocons discredited idealism, but the current crew is managing to render publics cynical about cynicism itself. maybe there’s something hopeful in that.

having one of those days when my will is rather flagging in an optimism of the will kind of way.

“Power does not grow out of the barrel of a gun, cruelty is not the same as strength, and a politics built on such ideas promises ruin, delusion about the limits of our power and a betrayal of the promise of our founding.”