@taulby
US South & Appalachia. Research: historical & cultural memory; race & white nationalism. Most recently writing on Gone with the Wind, plantation tourism, and campus racism. Horror enthusiast. Sports watcher. Dad.
i cannot get over how incredibly insane it is to think you can pull the same move you did on maduro against the entire regime of iran. in time this will be recognized as caligula-level insane. totally bonkers. hard to even fathom how someone could think this.
I feel like people are hedging on Platner by saying that they "don't think he's a Nazi," just a troll or dumbass etc. I personally would bet on him being a Nazi, given what we know about him. And it becomes more likely with each new revelation, a trend which I suspect will continue. Why wouldn't it?
Just yesterday, experts released a draft report--initially quashed by Trump 2.0 in its first ill-wrought days--revealing the grim reality of the country's ecological health. And yet politicians in Congress are poised to hand the keys to our future over to EnergyTech industries?
GTFOH.
Morale is woke.
I'm sure US troops are thrilled that Trump and Hegseth declared open season on unarmed soldiers no where near combat.
I've seen lots of coverage including in the international press. What I haven't seen is Democratic electeds bringing it up daily therefore driving coverage.
Unarmed and was part of an officially sanctioned Navy exercise organized by India, in which the US was also involved. 80+ dead and 60+ missing.
Reuters Exclusive
"U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school."
"The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the Middle East."
ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.
They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.
This type of thing exactly. It's not this specific instance per se, it's that any expert would immediately look for background information, doesn't even matter what type of expert you are. But these idiots don't think about things because they don't think they need to.
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This actually isn’t surprising in the slightest from an American POV. The only people trying to actually learn from this war are like Mike kofman, Rob Lee, 4 rando freelancers, and 7 people on here
Unless you were born 1945 or earlier, you've never lived in a world where the US military was this unprofessional and degraded in competence.
Gender (and race) all the way down.
Been thinking about the military more and more, despite it being a long-time point of criticism, because not only is Trump and Hegseth degrading it from the top-down, most of the GOP and a couple Dems are still on this rah rah tough-guy warfighter bullshit that accomplishes nothing but death.
"You can only be decent because we are horrible" is a very, very popular line of thinking among horrible people.
What a coincidence, so is the Republican Party.
"You know all those concerned parents in the 1950s waving Confederate flags at Black kids? Come on, they had Black housekeepers and nannies that they loved like family, as they often said. You think they knew it was racist?"
So that's how they double-tapped a girls school, with "the most advanced AI" they've ever used.
At this point, it's safe to assume most of the Republicans are talking like nazis in their group chats.
I'm tapping this sign quite frequently now.
The professional career civil servants who normally would effectively handle this were run off by Trump, Musk, and Vought.
Map showing Dahieh in red and orange
The IDF just ordered the forced evacuation of *all of Dahieh* a day after ordering the forced evacuation of all of South Lebanon.
Israel is taking advantage of the focus on Iran to destroy Lebanon
Balint to Noem: "You're the secretary of DHS -- for now. And you think you're immune from accountability. But I promise you this: one day he is not gonna be president anymore. And when that day comes, we will still be here. And in hearings like this, we are going to continue to prove your guilt."
“No front-page stories in NYT, WSJ, WaPo. No mention on NBC and CBS Sunday Shows. No stand alone segments on Evening News shows. A death count on par with the OKC bombing is relegated to the back page.” www.columnblog.com/p/corporate-...
Israeli map showing all of southern Lebanon in red with yellow arrows pointing to north of the Litani river
The IDF just ordered the *entirety of south Lebanon* to be forcibly displaced.
They are emptying the land of its population, creating a massive crisis, and will now proceed to further annihilate large parts of Lebanon.
The very nation state of Lebanon is being destroyed.
The GOP hates the troops. "Suckers and losers," I believe is what the top Republican called them.
We've been doing this "it was a one-off, unintentional" charade for almost three years now, and across two administrations, as the US, Israel, and Russia continue to mass murder civilians in schools, hospitals, hotels, and apartment buildings.
Concentration camps doing what they do.
Here's Another Moron Who Believes Some Flagrantly Self-Contradictory Bullshit Representative Greg Landsman explains his hope that the conflict remains limited but also creates an entirely new Middle East. By Isaac Chotiner March 4, 2026
I guess they just stopped trying to come up with new titles for these www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
Don't worry, the president thinks that any soldiers who lose their lives are suckers and losers anyway.
