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International security | democratic backsliding | occasional exasperation

Usher and Common at an Earth Day concert on the mall. April 2015.
Democrats @TheDemocrats shut up you ugly fuck
"Somebody asked me, 'Is this a challenging time? Are you afraid?'" Mr. Bunch said, referring to White House pressure. "I said, 'Afraid was trying to walk home with people trying to beat me up in New Jersey? This is not something to be afraid of. This is something where you stand firm to make sure that the integrity of this mission is protected."
Black Baseball cap embroidered with: 你好，我正在迷高姜国百午屈暑，请同 里可以买到浪 Baja Blast？ hello, i am fleeing the American century of humiliation. Can you show me where to buy Mountain Dew Baja Blast?
Nate Silver tweet from 1/3/22: It's probably foolish to think a NYC mayor will successfully translate into being a national political figure, but I still think Eric Adams would be in my top 5 for "who will be the next Democratic presidential nominee after Joe Biden?".
Picture of Justice Alito’s home after the 2020 election. It features an upside down American flag on a pole. A caption reads: “Justice Alito flag flap”
Lee surrenders at Appomattox
Lee surrenders at Appomattox
Screenshot of tweet by Darren Rovell: "i feel bad for our country. But this is tremendous content."
Via NYT: Trump Is Said to Be in Talks to Send Afghans Who Aided U.S. Forces to Congo A U.S. aid worker said that the Afghans, who were evacuated to Qatar, would face a choice between moving to the Democratic Republic of Congo and living under the Taliban.
President Donald Trump: I want to help you help us. I believe in you, not fully at present, but there is something very special about you. You came in 2016 and handed us all money in that catastrophe- no president has ever done such a thing and I remember Biden cancelling aid immediately upon winning the house. You can turn this presidency into a transition for the Golden Age you want so badly! I want to help you with the science of PR. Free America's foreclosed homes. Let us get housing- we want to pay a reasonable amount for accommodation- too much or too little feels like a scam or communism. Put a cap on private land ownership. Save our parks and use those to build jobs and careers. I love working for the parks department and stewarding our planet is a fine pathway for a leader to bring to his people. Imagine industry and science working hand in hand to bring us the innovations that could ensure our survival. You want to REALLY unleash a Golden Age? Listen to me, Artemis, not Israel. Their prophecy is tainted by old knowledge and bad will.
Via Natasha Bertrand on X: Iran's new national security chief Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr's views "were so extreme that one of his subordinates—Qassem Soleimani, the notorious Quds Force leader later killed by the U.S. —temporarily quit in protest." WSJ: Iran's Regime Has Changed—for the Worse The U.S.-Israeli attack fast-tracked the ascent of hard-liners and apocalyptic religious followers
"One thing I thought of while you were talking, . » he added, gesticulating wildly with his hands to conjure the image in his mind. "If you can make one of those maps like they have in Outbreak, where it shows the red growing over time as the disease spreads? You know, like the zombie apocalypse? That would be great, very effective." The thought that Adam might have the most health expertise of anyone in the agency's leadership made me shudder.
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Nixon, disgusted, with the words “My God” appearing in the lower thirds
A flustered Naryshkin. Subtitles say: "No, I, erm..."
Meme in the format of the "They hated Jesus" template. Top text reads: "Most people rejected Bidenomics." The center panel shows the October 19–25, 2024 cover of The Economist, headlined "The Envy of the World: America's Economy: A Special Report," with an image of a roll of $100 bills launching like a rocket. To the right, a crowd of robed comic-book figures says "Shut up!" in a speech bubble. Bottom text reads: "They hated Bidenomics because of rancid post-COVID vibes (end of ZIRP)."
Phil Stewart * @phildstewart X.com SCOOP!!! -- The United States can only determine with certainty that it has destroyed about a third of Iran's vast missile arsenal. The status of around another third is less clear but bombings likely damaged, destroyed or buried those missiles in underground tunnels and bunkers, according to the U.S. intelligence, our sources say. w/@idreesali114 @JonathanLanday
Screenshot of a tweet by Damien Owens (@OwensDamien) that reads, “I’m 50. All celebrity news looks like this: ‘CURTAINS FOR ZOOSHA? K-SMOG AND BATBOY CAUGHT FLIPPING A GRUNT’.”
Kaitlan Collins c @kaitlancollins "Pete didn't want it to be settled," Trump says regarding the Pentagon chief's reaction to him saying the Iran war could end
Nixon, disapprovingly: “My God”
Via Politico: “Despite the pause, it's unlikely that the United States or Iran will be able to find compromise for a solution, Mattis said. While U.S. missiles have laid waste to military targets in Iran, they haven't done anything to cement U.S. strategic interests in the war, he said. "Neither side has the ability right now to move the other side off of where they're at," Mattis said. "Never in history has air power alone changed a regime.”
Screenshot from a text convo: $82 for 20gal. Sender says “woof”
Via NYT: U.S. Prosecutors Investigate Colombia's President, a Onetime Trump Foe The Justice Department is examining whether President Gustavo Petro of Colombia has ties to drug traffickers. President Trump, who has frequently wielded criminal inquiries as a cudgel against his rivals and enemies, has harshly criticized him, calling him a "sick man.”
SCOOP: The Pentagon asked the White House today for more than *$200 billion* for the Iran war supplemental, sources say Some White House aides think Congress won't support b/c it's so big Will tee up giant battle in
Tenet told us that in his world "the system was blinking red." By late July, Tenet said, it could not "get any worse."30 Not everyone was convinced. Some asked whether all these threats might just be deception. On June 30, the SEIB contained an article titled "Bin Ladin Threats Are Real." Yet Hadley told Tenet in July that Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz questioned the report-ing. Perhaps Bin Ladin was trying to study U.S. reactions. Tenet replied that he had already addressed the Defense Department's questions on this point; the reporting was convincing. To give a sense of his anxiety at the time, one senior 260 THE 9/11 COMMISSION REPORT official in the Counterterrorist Center told us that he and a colleague were considering resigning in order to go public with their concerns.31
Doc Brown tells Marty: “Where we’re going, we have a Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action and we’re going to ratify it”
The dumbest thing ever. A map of the areas surrounding the Strait of Hormuz. Oil tankers bypass the straight by using a water slide.
Since the January uprisings and massacres, I had been doing interviews and writing publicly that Pahlavi had no experience and was being positioned by Israel and the U.S. the way Ahmed Chalabi had been positioned before the invasion of Iraq: a diaspora figure of convenience, palatable to western interests, his actual relationship to the Iranian people a secondary concern. For this, I was being called pro-regime. Not by tne Islamic Republic but by Iranians, some of whom I had known for years.
CNN’s Zachary Cohen on X: “Russia is providing Iran with intel about the locations & movements of American troops, ships & aircraft, sources to @NatashaBertrand, @jimsciutto, @jmhansler & me. (confirms WaPo) US also has intel suggesting that China may be preparing to provide Iran with financial assistance, spare parts & missile components, per multiple sources, though Beijing has stayed out of the war up until now.”
Damage from the terrorist attack on the USS Cole
Bart Simpson, looking defeated. “He tells it like it is”
A man about to hang asks “first time?”