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Trump's talent pool

If you're at the airport and Kristi Noem is doing the ominous little message from the TSA screens, you no longer have to do anything she says. Leave your laptop in the case, whatever.

As Abe Lincoln once said. "People are going to attribute all kinds of half baked shit to Orwell."

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

How dare the media report about dead American soldiers?!

Oh sweetie, it’s day 5; you may yet get Paul Bremer and the nation building. 🙄

This man cheated on his wife with his aide, who later committed suicide by burning herself alive. The fact this is even a run-off...

Pete Buttigieg: They cut Meals on Wheels for seniors, doctors for the VA, and food for American children - but send billions of taxpayer dollars to the Middle East for an unnecessary war of choice.

Scoop: U.S. ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee joked to embassy staff about procreating while sheltering in place on Tuesday in a memo one U.S. official described as “awkward” and “odd.”

I mean when has a hopeful moment of popular uprising against a despised regime ever given way to a new revolutionary government that came to be just as corrupt and repressive and sclerotic as the one it replaced. Certainly never before in Iran.

🍿 MTG still making sense. This past year really has felt like we’re living in the upside down.

The Catastrophic Stupidity that May [Have] Set Off a Larger Religious Conflict - emptywheel Donald Trump started an illegal war of choice to prevent US forces from being targeted. And yet, no one considered the possibility that the Arab states hosting those US forces would themselves become ...

The Catastrophic Stupidity that May [Have] Set Off a Larger Religious Conflict

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I really did think the Riyadh Comedy Festival would help bring peace to the Middle East

Siri, show me how to end the war in Iran immediately

TRUMP (2/28): this will take 2 weeks
TRUMP (3/1): this will take 4 weeks
TRUMP (3/2): this will take 5 weeks
TRUMP (4/1): April fools, it's actually a forever war like I promised never to do

Trump’s War on Iran Is Illegal Neither a future threat nor regime change can be legal justification for war without congressional authorization.

Trump's war on Iran is illegal — full stop

No Congressional authorization, no imminent threat, no legal basis under the Constitution, the War Powers Resolution, or the UN Charter

A president does not get to start a war alone

- TN

everything theyre saying now they said during iraq

Pentagon Threatens Anthropic as AI Company Refuses to Bend Safeguards for Military Use - Mississippi Free Press U.S. military officials warned Anthropic that the Pentagon could designate the AI company as a supply chain risk, cancel its contract or invoke the Defense Production Act if it doesn’t accede to…

Anthropic said it sought narrow assurances from the Pentagon that Claude won't be used for mass surveillance of Americans or in fully autonomous weapons, but the AI company said the Pentagon’s new contract language “would allow those safeguards to be disregarded at will."

You cannot talk like this about any other minority in America.

And if it was any other president’s adviser who said something like this about any other minority, it’d be the instant end of their presidency.

She surely doesn’t mean one who has ever faced consequences.

They’re toddlers

If Khamenei is dead, that's a great thing.

He was a prick whose obsession with power made him a cruel dictator who ruined his country and spread damage far beyond its borders.

That said, he's really not so different from Trump or Netanyahu, and they still did it the wrong way.

We’ve bombed Iran. And dismantled our joint terrorism task force. And sent a third of the FBI to help ICE. And gutted the National Security Council. And a drunk guy is in charge at the pentagon. And our intelligence allies probably won’t share intel with us. Because people couldn’t vote for a woman.

an extremely mixed reaction on SNL for the arrival of Jack & Quinn Hughes and an extremely not mixed reaction for the arrival of Hilary Knight & Megan Keller

the difference in applause between the 2 men and the 2 women from the USA hockey team on SNL just now was music to my ears 👏🏼

Winning hearts and minds, as always 🤦🏻‍♀️

The FBI being on high alert for terrorist actions is important right now.

Too bad they fired and gutted their counterterrorism capacity