This shit is why I have to keep updating the piece: every day they are coming up with newer and even more obviously insane justifications to see what sticks.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-reason...
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Some Dems are getting this right. But Schumer and others are saying Trump must merely divulge more details about the Iran threat. This implies there might be a legitimate case for war that Trump just has to be more open about. There's zero reason to grant that. 3/
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"Baby Olivia," a computer-generated video produced by an anti-abortion organization, may become a required watch in Utah school under a bill advancing this year.
Wrote about this: www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump...
#pairedtexts
Important piece on Rogan. He's just Rush Limbaugh on different pharmaceuticals at this point. And citing him is like citing Grok and the one or two good X Community Notes a month. It just legitimates the ruse that he's not a partisan actor.
1908: the Lancet, one of the most respected scientific journals, calls for 18 age limit on reading in bed amidst a moral panic surrounding children becoming "addicted" to novels, which were "designed to keep kids hooked" and destroy their attention/mental health
i would immediately dismiss as “too stupid to even consider” a fictional universe with betting markets on war that are being gamed by those actually running the war
Sarah Huckabee Sanders appointed 2 supreme court justices to "cement" court's conservative majority.
Arkansas' constitution banned them from seeking a full term for their own seat. They decided to circumvent that by... running for each other.
This Tuesday, one of them faces challenger John Adams:
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
When Trump came to power, he ripped up the peace deal that Obama had made, and used the uncertainty he created as an excuse to bomb Iran, insisting he had ended the problem he had created once and for all, except now he's bombing them again to solve the problem he created and previously solved?
I bet Betsy is for it.
over half the iranian death toll is little girls who were at school. We are the evil ones.
It’s tough being Trump!
Reason 2: Iran interfered with US elections.
True. But the admin and its allies punished the academic researchers and govt units who identified this interference, so its hard to believe its justification to attack Iran.
From @katestarbird.bsky.social:
katestarbird.substack.com/p/the-electi...
His mutants #Dead
Henceforth, I will be describing the way that U.S. men’s hockey spectacularly squandered good will, brand recognition, and fan loyalty as “pulled a Target.”
They pulled a Target.
Gotta love Anthropic, the "good" Ai company, getting a nice fat defense contract for the Pentagon to use Claude, and then acting all surprised like "Hold on, you're going to do evil stuff with this? Wait a second"
LongTime🤓FirstTime👨💻:
“Her 4 children are all U.S. citizens, but cannot afford to travel to El Salvador to visit her.
She said her only wish now is to return to Utah in time for her children’s graduations in May.”
That’s not what she said.
Trump is promising a long SOTU. I won't watch. He's going to lie relentlessly, except for the things he did to destroy my life, my career, and my community. He is going to pound the table with all the ways he made life for trans people in the US hell, like Hitler bragging he rid Germany of the Jews.
There is something more than a little skin-crawling about the way the notoriously racist and homophobic National Hockey League has been cashing in on Heated Rivalry
Maybe, Roger, men are able to achieve "real focus" because they've dumped all the work of care downstream onto women to manage, and leveraged their own privilege to keep those women from demanding more support from men.
What you idiot commies don’t understand is that if we tax rich people they will JUST LEAVE, depriving our nation of tax cheats, political bribery, and national acts of perversion
So if you don't get the abortion, you die, if you do get the abortion, you die. Men should not be deciding women's health and they had better think twice before killing them. Their own family line is at risk.
Every now and then, I remember that JD Vance smashed the "like" button after reading this tweet, then went back and unliked it five years later when he ran for the Senate.
same with "crackdown"
feels like i should re-post this every few weeks
