About to give a talk at the University of Vermont and deeply jealous of the faculty offices that have this view

Senior US military sources:
The target of the Israeli strike was an Iranian military base in Isfahan near Natanz, not the nuclear facilities themselves. “The Israelis hit what they intended to strike,” I am told. The targets within this strike included Iranian air defense systems…

Lord, give me strength

Oh FFS

Similarly, JD Vance smuggled into his New York Times Opinion piece the idea that 'we' (the US) will 'prolong' war by renewing aid and that *Biden's* refusal to negotiate is keeping it going. Surprised NYT let him get away w/erasing Russian agency so deceptively. 5/

newrepublic.com/article/180808…

You're doing irreparable damage to public support for action against the climate crisis -- so much so that it makes me wonder whether you're fossil fuel operatives intentionally trying to make climate activism look awful and self-defeating. Are you?

Great news, but hello, The Hollywood Reporter, Walton Goggins is not an 'undead ghoul,' he's just a non-feral ghoul. Sheesh. |'Fallout' Officially Renewed for Season 2 by Amazon hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/fal… via @thr

And, yes, indeed, the word 'enshittification' appears in this piece. theatlantic.com/newsletters/ar…

Putting aside whether this decision is right, I just want to note that an educated student who says she is against genocide and violence has a literal hammer and sickle in her bio.

This seems incompatible, no? The Soviet Union is responsible for the genocide of millions…

This is what authoritarians do: incite violence against anyone seen as having the power to harm Cult Leader. This is also designed to make it very difficult to find jurors and thus proceed with the trial. It is form of sabotage of our democratic justice system.

I think this explanation makes a lot more sense than MTG, Russian Agent

I've been pretty hard over on dissauding people from thinking that dumb and odious people like MTG are knowing Russian assets, and that they're mostly performance artists. But yes, someone on her staff (or some other Republican staff) had to cough up 'Transcarpathian.'

Why did the Kennedy family endorse Joe Biden today, instead of their brother and cousin RFK Jr.? Start with this single paragraph from my piece this week The Bulwark: thebulwark.com/p/crank-politi…

An actual Russian agent wouldn't be this stupid and obvious.

Me thinks Tom Nichols had a point about the commodification of colleges encouraging students to feel like they're in charge of the colleges

Easier to prosecute the mafia than it is a former commander-in-chief, who was entrusted with the constitutional requirement that the laws be faithfully executed

“If Russia succeeds in Ukraine, then the whole transatlantic community will not be trusted anymore,” warns Czech President Petr Pavel Petr Pavel. “We are talking about protecting our values – but we are not doing enough to protect them in practice.”

NBC News: Trump is using his phone in the courtroom, openly flouting the rules of the courtroom. Blanche just told him to stop and Trump tucked the phone in his pocket while looking annoyed. MSNBC

“Openly Jewish”. My God, what has Britain become?

Marjorie Taylor Greene Files Amendment to Israel Aid Bill for Space Lasers — And It Just Gets Weirder From There mediaite.com/news/marjorie-…