Helen Kennedy

nyt website currently resembles one of those mock covers people made before 2016 election: economy floundering, war in the middle east, scandal-plagued cabinet sec, brazen corruption....

Didn’t they re-top for the afternoon papers?

Trump has posted 25 times since the jobs report came out - 8 times alone about how much Bill Maher sucks. (No argument here.) None of the posts have addressed the jobs report.

Cannot, or will not?

Dollars spent don't capture the human cost of this war, but the dollars spent represent a stark choice.

"Priced at around $2.2 million, a single Tomahawk missile could cover 775 children on Medicaid for a year or provide more than 3,600 children with meals in the National School Lunch Program."

I was planning to watch this but now I think I won’t.

A story that is not being told enough about the Iran War is that the U.S. and Israel have totally different, incompatible goals. The U.S. says it’s targeting weapons systems. Israel wants regime change and a failed state. This conflict leads to total incoherence.

The print press should always quote him exactly and TV should quote him exactly too, the way they do here:

My school district is being forced to lay off several educators and a librarian because of a $500,000 budget gap, or roughly the amount spent on the war while I was typing this post.

A potential bad scenario is that he gets frustrated with Iran, gas prices, the economy, etc. and wants a quick win on something (as he understands "win"). And that's a road that only leads to Greenland.

This is so entertaining. Thank you. I love watching horrible people fight each other.

“Unconditional surrender” was the Allies’ demand in WWII. They backed it up by occupying Germany, Italy and Japan.

Is Trump prepared to send hundreds of thousands of troops to occupy Iran, a nation of 93 million people, and to risk the resulting casualties? If not, this is simply bluster.

Take a moment to read this essay by Daryl Hannah and then take the rest of your life to boycott Ryan Murphy's hit job, "Love Story."

Just the latest "debased on a true story" garbage from Murphy, who famously kept his productions going during the writers strike.

Honestly, I started off thinking this illustrated American imperial decline but by the, um, climax I really wanted to try it.

You really should be getting paid megabucks instead of whoever is.

It takes real galaxy brains to mass cancel solar and wind projects and then start a pointless unpopular war that sends oil prices soaring.

Get some suits out there to apologize lavishly and promise immediate change and you could pull it off for a couple hundred bucks.

I think they might have better luck spending two thousand dollars holding a press conference where they detail who made the key decisions to collaborate with the Trump administration, how and when they were fired, and explaining what would stop that from happening again.

It’s been oddly surreal to hear the news framing the news around regime change in Iran and Cuba as the culmination of decades of shared agreement when Obama did significantly change US policy towards both in pretty recent memory.

A few hours after NYT reported that the U.S. bombed an elementary school in Iran, killing many children, the White House last night posted this video mixing airstrike footage with Top Gun, Iron Man, Gladiator, Halo, Breaking Bad, Star Wars, John Wick, Superman, Transformers and Dragon Ball Z

So Philip Glass just joined TikTok. He only has like 4 posts and they’re simply him in what I assume is his living room playing the piano. First comment on one I saw was “your piano is too close to the fireplace, you’ll dry it out” and if that’s not the internet in a nutshell I don’t know what is.

In every Republican presidency of my lifetime there's been a recession and a new war in the Middle East.

And then it vibrates….

Script and chyron both wrong? 🤔

Trump will call this fake and defend Putin. Watch.

Where’s the fun in that?

Folks with expertise are still there, apparently: bsky.app/profile/erik...

The soundtrack here.

either they’re actually so wildly incompetent they genuinely never thought about defense against Iranian Shaheds or (more likely) Hegseth et al are lying about why they’re screwing this particular operation up so bad.

Neither option is good