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Chris Braunsdorf

@vslacks

I’m just sitting here watching the wheels go round and round.

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I think there would be downside consequences to rendering unlivable a country of 80 million people.

10.03.2026 00:34 👍 408 🔁 63 💬 27 📌 5

This is one of his most terrifyingly stupid performances ever, this one’s a Hall of Famer

09.03.2026 22:26 👍 1459 🔁 192 💬 99 📌 9

If you are watching Trump's presser right now, you are seeing beyond reasonable doubt a person not mentally suited for any position of responsibility. Even running a small store.

GOP members of the House and Senate: You are seeing this too.

09.03.2026 22:35 👍 4128 🔁 1097 💬 116 📌 52

This Clevelander approves of your shirt.

09.03.2026 22:44 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

There’s no bottom.

09.03.2026 22:13 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Global energy markets are like COVID — too big, with too many second- and third-order effects impacting too many people for Trump to bully into submission or lie his way through.

09.03.2026 14:26 👍 136 🔁 21 💬 7 📌 2

Why is there a lime green shag carpet behind him?

09.03.2026 12:52 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Gotta say this is a very challenging geopolitical environment in which to keep one’s nervous system regulated.

08.03.2026 04:19 👍 300 🔁 28 💬 16 📌 4

Counterpoint: Limiting how US troops can be used illegally in unconstitutional wars of the president’s own choosing *IS* supporting “the troops.”

08.03.2026 15:47 👍 4717 🔁 1031 💬 155 📌 35

If this keeps up, threat of boycott of World Cup in US will become pretty serious: hard to get people to come to country that is destabilizing world with wars of stupidity AND is notoriously tossing visitors into concentration camps. Regardless, our tourist industry is smoked.

09.03.2026 01:43 👍 389 🔁 75 💬 11 📌 3

Wow. That is just sad.

08.03.2026 19:10 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

16th century emo boy.

08.03.2026 18:51 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
US soldiers carrying a casket draped in an American flag while a war criminal and rapist wearing a baseball cap gives an empty salute

US soldiers carrying a casket draped in an American flag while a war criminal and rapist wearing a baseball cap gives an empty salute

extremely tanya donelly voice/

🎶 take your hat off boy when you’re talking to me and be there when i feed the military industrial complex

08.03.2026 18:41 👍 63 🔁 3 💬 3 📌 0

huh, makes the whole 25 year period when the Shah was our top ally kind of awkward

08.03.2026 17:34 👍 3098 🔁 527 💬 71 📌 20

I get yelled at for saying this but for many hundreds of years people went to university not to get diplomas or be employable but because immersion in the humanities was considered foundational to a good life, and school must return to its original purpose: the joy of learning.

08.03.2026 00:22 👍 12352 🔁 2708 💬 228 📌 189

the reverse version of those “evolution of man” drawings

07.03.2026 23:43 👍 13445 🔁 2626 💬 447 📌 86

Dude, put on a mask!

08.03.2026 14:44 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The media often treats Trump like some sort of Zelig-like character, a mere bystander in his own administration w/no agency or ability to shape decisions. It's really infuriating considering Biden and Obama were both expected to own everything going on in the country all the time.

07.03.2026 13:27 👍 1844 🔁 424 💬 101 📌 25

You cannot do this to people and expect Iranian Delcy Rodriguez to emerge to make peace with you. She pulled it off only because the U.S. operation in Venezuela killed mostly security personnel (and indeed, mostly Cuban security personnel)

08.03.2026 02:59 👍 826 🔁 155 💬 11 📌 6

It’s gonna be Cuyahoga by the Cuyahoga on Tuesday night.

08.03.2026 04:20 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I’m sure Iranians will be very open to a leader chosen by the people responsible for this.

08.03.2026 03:43 👍 737 🔁 206 💬 21 📌 2
Statement of Cardinal Blase J. Cupich, archbishop of Chicago, “A Call to Conscience” - Statements - Archdiocese of Chicago - AoC Portal As more than 1,000 Iranian men, women and children lay dead after days of bombardment from U.S. and Israeli missiles, the official White House X account on Thursday evening posted a video of scenes fr...

Please please read this from the archbishop of Chicago

www.archchicago.org/statement/-/...

08.03.2026 03:46 👍 5747 🔁 2235 💬 164 📌 159
The meme with a guy and two girls. The guy is labeled 1:59 AM. His girlfriend islabeled 2 AM. The cute girl coming the other way is labeled 3AM.

The meme with a guy and two girls. The guy is labeled 1:59 AM. His girlfriend islabeled 2 AM. The cute girl coming the other way is labeled 3AM.

The US and Canada go to Daylight Savings Time tomorrow morning.

08.03.2026 01:24 👍 4406 🔁 919 💬 89 📌 137

Never criticizing a political candidate or party no matter what they do or say so I can fight [checks notes] fascism.

07.03.2026 22:37 👍 109 🔁 18 💬 1 📌 0

Americans are not prepared for the reaping of what our government is sowing.

07.03.2026 23:08 👍 670 🔁 142 💬 27 📌 10

“MAGA’s fundamental shared quality is a total lack of theory of mind for other people” is a theory that keeps getting validated by reality - look at almost every decision they’ve made in the war with Iran, and how they seem constantly surprised by the unanticipated actions of other parties.

06.03.2026 14:20 👍 2999 🔁 625 💬 61 📌 69

there's a thing I like to call "load-bearing assumptions", that you don't notice until they're suddenly gone (e.g the air you breath has oxygen in it).

the post-ww2 order is a load-bearing assumption for basically the entirety of american life. trump took a sledgehammer to it in the last 90 days.

06.03.2026 17:44 👍 3373 🔁 850 💬 56 📌 36
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The Most Chilling Detail in the U.S. Attack on an Iranian Naval Ship The Iranian warship was taking part in an international exercise with many other countries—including the United States.

That Iranian Navy ship we torpedoed had no ammunition on board because that was a requirement to participate in the MILAN 2026 exercise (organized by the Indian Navy).

The US Navy knew this because IT ALSO PARTICIPATED IN THE EXERCISE. What a national embarrassment.
newrepublic.com/post/207429/...

06.03.2026 16:40 👍 849 🔁 356 💬 55 📌 39

For people who blather so much about Western Civilization and how they’re supposedly saving it, it’s like they’ve never heard of the canonical Ancient Greek concept of “hubris.”

06.03.2026 15:08 👍 254 🔁 45 💬 16 📌 0
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Trump demands Iran's 'unconditional surrender' as Israel says it hit leadership bunker 'with 50 jets' Tehran residents tell BBC Persian

In just six days we’ve gone from “Iranians take over your country” to “we’re open to talking with the new leadership of the regime” to “I want to pick the new leader” to now “unconditional surrender”.

A “concept of a plan”, indeed.

www.bbc.com/news/live/ce...

06.03.2026 14:26 👍 108 🔁 41 💬 0 📌 6