Not having a plan to demine Hormuz is a ‘no winter clothes to invade Russia’ level planning error
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Not having a plan to demine Hormuz is a ‘no winter clothes to invade Russia’ level planning error
(Guardian) — Iran has spurned two messages from Donald Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, seeking a ceasefire as its leaders sense it is not losing the war and the US president is at the minimum feeling the political pressure.
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most of my anger towards dems is they repeatedly invoke this trope and then do not govern, either in majority or minority, as if it was true. whereas i actually often do believe it and believe the responsibility to act like it’s true extends past the first week of november
i’d like for some people to grapple with the fact that “the most important election of our lifetime,” if you actually mean it, implies that the governance period following it is also the most important governance period of our lifetime, and adjust their demands/expectations/behaviors accordingly
this is also my ongoing frustration. you can not run for office on "democracy is under threat" and then lose and go "oh well, nice game everyone"
they put us in a constant state of hypervigilance & terror begging for our last $5 to save the country and then they do the joint softball game.
The US has, in slightly over a year, torched what was once one of the best repositories of legal talent (the DOJ) in favor of...uh...total hacks now struggling under an impossible workload made all the more impossible by an administration that is acting without even the faintest color of law.
democrats still seem to be laboring under the delusion that they can introduce stuff to pass while trump is president and they, not trump, will somehow get credit for it. they learned nothing from trump taking credit for covid stimulus checks
Sun Tzu (D-NY) - “When your enemy is making a mistake, fix it for him at great cost to yourself.”
Matthew Yglesias is poking fun at the White House finally realizing its policy is too unpopular to run on? The guy who spent all of 2025 and until circa February of 2026 arguing Democrats shouldn’t even talk about Trump’s immigration/deportation policy? That Matthew Yglesias?
Difficult to emphasize just how much a generation of kids has been taught that being dishonest, superficial, and narcissistic is the pathway to attention and therefore success
Joe Rogan says “people feel betrayed” by Trump's war in Iran: “He ran on no more wars”
i am far less interested in why trump voters like rogan feel betrayed and far more interested in why they believed trump in the first place, given his previous presidency
trans lives aren’t a negotiating point or political bargaining chip either; trans people are valuable & beloved, trans people are our community members & trans rights aren’t any less important than anyone else’s, as all of our rights are intersectional anyways
James Fishback tweet: Great to catch up with the incredible @bariweiss tonight in DC. With pic of them looking dreamily at each other. https://x.com/j_fishback/status/1881154604630753482
Bari Weiss has found common cause with Nazis for years. The fact that it's not inconsistent with her Zionism or disqualifying in the eyes of Jewish communal leadership would be an unending scandal if we weren't living in Hell.
Whoa. This is big. "The U.S. Navy has refused near-daily requests from the shipping industry for military escorts through the Strait of Hormuz since the start of the war on Iran, saying the risk of attacks is too high for now." www.reuters.com/world/middle...
NYT: Rashida Tlaib’s Expletive-Laden Cry to Impeach Trump Upends Democrats’ Talking Points
NYT search result showing no results for Andy Ogles
NYT when a Muslim congresswoman says “motherfucker”: This is a problem for Democrats
NYT when a Christian Republican congressman says “Muslims don't belong in American society”: 0 results
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1) March isn't even halfway over yet.
2) ICE activity has been trickling upward since last week, with more sightings yesterday and already this morning.
This story just didn't need to be published? Maybe they'll surge and maybe they won't, but reporters offer no insight one way or the other.
Anyway, here are the same ICE agents some may recognize from immigration court arrests (tall skinny unidentified guy plus his boss/team lead #7880, name still unknown) grabbing someone in the West Loop this morning.
I talk a lot about my work on here but less so about my job(s). Well...with a week left until the IL primary, I'd like to ask you to read this report about some of where Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi gets his campaign money and why it's so important to this election.
I see a lot of people (mostly non-locals but also some locals) not understanding what this news is: a last ditch attempt to work around the fact that the tepid prosecutor who succeeded Foxx isn't prioritizing this work within CCSAO. A response to perceived failure of CCSAO to seek accountability.
ISLAMIC REVOLUTIONARY GUARD CORPS: ANY ARAB OR EUROPEAN COUNTRY THAT EXPELS THE AMBASSADORS OF ISRAEL AND THE UNITED STATES FROM ITS TERRITORY WILL, STARTING TOMORROW, HAVE FULL AUTHORITY AND FREEDOM TO PASS THROUGH THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ
Shorter: Rep. Jaime Andrade is flat out lying.
Rich Miller on Jaime Andrade's "hallucinatory campaign"
The Surgeon General of Florida just announced ALL VACCINE MANDATES IN FLORIDA will be ENDED, and the room erupted.
All. Not just COVID. ALL.
I'm on the livethread team here with my colleagues.
Please, if you see vehicles/have a report/know info/etc. in the Chicago area, let me know: r.ottignon@dailynorthwestern.com / DMs open (Signal or phone # on request).
Federal agents were seen in Park Ridge on Monday at around 1.07 p.m., according to an ICIRR alert at 1:59 p.m. The agents were traveling east on Oakton Street at the Northwest Highway in a black Nissan Pathfinder and black Dodge Ram, the alert read.
The violence must end. All war must end. Our government is responsible for this instability.
This is all murder. It is treason.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/w...
NO NO NO YOU DON’T
GUYS LET ME PLEASE SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF FREE TAX USA
federal is free, state is $16, handles even my chaotic freelancer taxes just fine, same step-by-step “designed for normies” kind of interface as TurboTax but NOT EVIL
tell everyone you know
www.freetaxusa.com
boy in retrospect, really shouldn’t have elected the worst person in the entire country president. that, it appears, was less than wise
