How To Do Things With (Trump's) Words.
06.03.2026 21:47
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How To Do Things With (Trump's) Words.
Telling the world you are The Empire is a choice
This is one of the most jaw dropping moments of Trump’s presidency. Up there with brainstorming about injecting bleach and shining light up orifices to cure COVID.
So let me get this straight ...
1. US bombs Iran
2. Oil price goes up a bit, benefitting Russia's petrostate
3. Russia gives Iran targeting info
4. Oil price shoots WAY up
5. US unsanctions Russian oil
Why didn't the US consult Ukraine, the one country that knows how to country attacks from thousands of cheap drones?
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Reactionaries convinced us for decades that something like gender studies has no practical use in society, and I know many reasonable people also believe(d?) this. It was the butt of the joke for as log as I can remember.
But OMG does this video drive home the point they were wrong.
This is a real video from the official White House account on a war that is currently killing people. I don’t know how the US is going to come back from this.
The post was “JUSTICE THE AMERICAN WAY. 🇺🇸 🔥”
Mark Kelly to Undersecretary of Defense Elbridge Colby: "I'm trying to understand whether you believe Iran can be primarily contained by our regional partners, which is what you wrote a few weeks ago, or is it imminent threat to the US as President Trump just told the American people? Can't be both"
I hate it when my trolls claim NATO made a promise to Russia that Ukraine wouldn't be allowed to join. It means I have to post this video of Gorbachev himself saying it's a lie.
The idea that it was made as part of the Budapest memo is almost beyond parody.
Sen. Blumenthal has written a letter to Kristi Noem about her denial that Corey Lewandowski has a role in approving contracts at DHS.
"I demand that you amend your testimony" and "provide the basis for your apparent false statement on the record."
www.blumenthal.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
An ICE detainee in Arizona has died of a TOOTH INFECTION after it went untreated for weeks, a local official says. He was a Haitian asylum seeker imprisoned in Florence, Arizona. @emilybregel.bsky.social reports.
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For Cramer, the answer is always buy.
Being “grateful” = patriotic; asking questions = ungrateful = unpatriotic. Abuser logic right here
WASHINGTON (AP) — White House says Spain has agreed to cooperate with US operations in Mideast after Trump threatened financial penalties.
MADRID (AP) — Spain's government denies cooperation with US operations in the Middle East, contradicting White House.
Neguse: “Where's Safe America Media headquartered?”
Noem: “I don’t know.”
Neguse: “I don’t know either. We can't find it…You want the American people to believe that this is all above board, that a $143 million of taxpayer money just happened to go to this one company that doesn't have a headquart
Let me see if I get this straight: the 'f*ck your feelings' crowd went to war with Iran based on....feelings? Got it.
BREAKING: New York City reports the lowest levels of shootings, shooting victims, and murders ever recorded for the first two months of a year. Major crime is down nearly 8% citywide, burglary hit a record low, and retail theft dropped 25%
NANCY MACE: What is a woman? Have you learned that lesson?
WALZ: I'm the governor of Minnesota. I'm not here to be a prop for your obsession.
“Stop honoring our dead. You’re making us look bad” is the new “suckers and losers.”
Asked by Congress whether Corey Lewandowski has “a role in approving contracts” at DHS, Sec. Kristi Noem said: “No.”
Internal DHS records reviewed by @propublica.org show Lewandowski personally approved a multimillion-dollar equipment contract last summer.
www.propublica.org/article/kris...
The Trump DOJ has been taking down Epstein files.
The massive tranche of files the Justice Department currently maintains is more than 65,000 pages shorter than what the agency initially released, according to a CBS analysis — and the number continues to fluctuate.
The plan here is to turn an authoritarian theocracy that sponsors terrorism into an authoritarian theocracy that sponsors terrorism and sees no choice but to use every available means of self-preservation.
I dunno, that sounds like a way to make the situation worse, not better.
I think war is serious business, real life-and-death stuff, and should be taken seriously by people who initiate and prosecute it.
Sorry to get so partisan, but that’s how I feel.
Even putting aside the implications for the laws of war, someone who describes mass killing in this way is not well, nor is the society that empowers that person to kill.
"Trump's betrayal of his Kurdish allies in Syria should have been no surprise. A US policy shift following engagement with Damascus leaves the SDF without protection and highlights the fragility of Kurdish autonomy under American patronage." www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/trum...
Secretary Marco Rubio claimed no one died as a result of cuts to USAID. That’s not what we found.
After Trump officials cut food aid to Kenya, children starved to death in an American-made hunger crisis.
(Published Dec. 2025)
WSJ: “.. The withheld files included Federal Bureau of Investigation notes documenting a series of interviews the woman gave to agents in 2019 in which she alleged sexual misconduct by Trump and Jeffrey Epstein when she was a minor in the 1980s ..”
@wsj.com
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The White House has helped MAGA influencers escape the Middle East on a private jet while more than a million ordinary Americans are still trapped with no way out.
EXCLUSIVE: Trump’s Orwellian Board of Peace Consists Entirely of Human Rights Abusers
An Intercept analysis finds that every single Board of Peace member state has been rebuked for human rights violations.
theintercept.com/2026/03/02/t...
The Three Stooges Theory of Scandal Immunity strikes again: There’s SO MUCH naked corruption being flaunted on a daily basis that I doubt most voters will ever even hear about this one, even though it would be a massive, career-ending story in a normal administration.
