Mark Cutis

@highbrow_nobrow @Frances_Coppola @Acyn Everybody upset in comments below, just because the president is lying. So what else is new? No news here. My favorite is actually the people who are nodding and grinning in agreement. The proverbial boot lickers continue to fascinate.

Useful reminder at a time when misinformation is the order of the day. Totally unnecessary, as most everything can be fact checked easily by Grok. So Mohammad Mossadegh was deposed by the British in a coup d’état , but was not democratically elected leader of Iran. He was appointed by the Shah.

Amazing! What a world we live in.Who would’ve thought psychedelics are useful for more than just seeing all the stars in universe. Looks like Psilocybin is a more effective cure to see smoking other fixes.

Blaming Israel misses the point, or worse, becomes a convenient way to absolve the person who made the call. Trump was drawn to the illusion of a quick win, despite clear signals this would be anything but. Iran is not a marginal actor, it is a 4,000 year old civilization with depth, patience, and asymmetric capability, and that was either ignored or discounted. Add to that a weak advisory environment, including figures like Pete Hegseth, that failed to challenge assumptions, and outcome becomes predictable. This was not a trap set by others, it was a self inflicted strategic error driven by overconfidence, short term thinking, and a fundamental misreading of the adversary. An American tragedy that will affect many, and in time will ricochet back onto the Republic itself.

“Before the war, Bibi really sold it to the president as being easy, as regime change being a lot likelier than it was. And the VP was clear-eyed about some of those statements.” That is a US official speaking to Axios about a phone call between Vice President JD Vance and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday. The call was tense. Vance confronted Netanyahu directly over predictions that had not materialised after 28 days of war. No popular uprising. No regime collapse. The hardliners tightened their grip after Khamenei’s killing. The war Netanyahu said would be easy has consumed 11,000 targets, 300 wounded Americans, 13 dead, an AWACS on the ground, a carrier in Croatia, and Swiss accounts raided for interceptors. The day after the call, a right-wing Israeli newspaper owned by GOP mega-donor Miriam Adelson published a story claiming Vance had yelled at Netanyahu over settler violence. Multiple sources told Axios the story was false. Vance’s advisers believe it was planted by Israel to undermine him. A US official said: “It’s an Israeli op against JD.” This is the most dangerous moment in the US-Israel relationship since the war began. Not because the alliance is breaking. Because the man who opposed this war before it started is now the only person positioned to end it. Axios reports that Trump made Vance’s role official in a Cabinet meeting on Thursday, asking the VP to give an update on Iran and noting he was working alongside Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner on negotiations. A senior administration official told Axios: “If the Iranians can’t strike a deal with Vance, they don’t get a deal. He’s the best they’re gonna get.” Vance is an Iraq War veteran who has publicly opposed open-ended Middle Eastern conflicts for years. Before the war began, he was one of the most sceptical members of Trump’s administration, expressing concern about the war’s length, goals, and impact on US munitions per Axios citing US sources. He met Wednesday with senior Emirati officials and Thursday with the Prime Minister of Qatar. Both meetings focused on the war, Iran talks, and military assistance. He has been “extensively involved” in diplomacy with Iran both before the war and in recent days per a US official. Here is what the structural arithmetic reveals. Vance is the intersection of three forces that nobody else occupies simultaneously. He is the VP of a president who launched the war. He is a veteran who opposed the doctrine that produced it. And he is the designated negotiator for a deal that Iran has so far refused. The Iranians rejected the 15-point ceasefire proposal. Pakistan is mediating without result. The April 6 deadline is eight days away. And the only American official Iran might accept as a counterpart is the one whose own allies are trying to undermine. The war that was sold as easy has produced the opposite of every prediction. No uprising. No collapse. No quick exit. Instead it produced a three-star general telling 35,000 reservists to pack desert gear. A carrier pulled out by a laundry fire. Fertilizer plants shut across South Asia. Russian satellites photographing American bases for Iranian targeting. And a vice president sitting in the middle of it all, trying to find the off-ramp that the man who started the war promised would not be necessary. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

While some are dying others play the wheel of fortune with odds stacked in their favor. haaretz.com/israel-news/is….

Again, and again it’s the same story. Stay away from seed oils. Once you ingest them in your body, they have a half life of 2 1/2 years.

“The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today is Christians who acknowledge Jesus with their lips, walk out the door, and deny Him by their lifestyle. That is what an unbelieving world simply finds unbelievable.” – Brennan Manning

The Ukrainians aced learning how to use Patriot missiles. Is it surprising!? They are defending homeland. Armies fight battles, but people defending what is theirs fight wars differently.

@highbrow_nobrow @Frances_Coppola @Acyn Everybody upset in comments below, just because the president is lying. So what else is new? No news here. My favorite is actually the people who are nodding and grinning in agreement. The proverbial boot lickers continue to fascinate.

Trump on 9/11 attacks: “You know I wrote about Bin Laden one year before the World Trade Center. If they would’ve listened to me, they wouldn’t have the World Trade Center tragedy. I predicted Bin Laden. Did you know that?” Fact-check: False. @Acyn (2026)

@Jason___YYC @Kathleen_Tyson_ That’s a highly contentious comment. Do you have a shred of proof? If you did, would be ground breaking. Otherwise it’s a fabricated story to elicit an emotional reaction.

Americans literally told Cuba they would not allow oil to go to Cuban hospitals to keep their power on unless they privatized them with American companies There isn’t a grave deep enough for these fuckers

La bella Italia

@TIME Jesus how bad is that. How much more insensitive can our draconian system become?

An Iranian gay couple seeking asylum in the U.S. now faces deportation back to Iran as immigration policies tighten and deportation flights resume, despite fears of persecution and death time.com/article/2026/0…

Resetting, my reminding the cells, their original function, apparently restarts the aging clock. Basically what they’re saying, you can reverse aging and conquer all the diseases that have afflicted humanity. Even if it’s half true, that’s “big stuff”!

MAGA crowd now competing for God’s favor with Iranian Mullahs and Orthodox Jews( Haredim). Reminds one of the Germans in WWI who went to battle saying Gott mit Uns. Jokes aside, have we forgotten separation enshrined in Constitution between church and state? And can’t the Shia turn this into a religious contest with an Army that sounds like Crusaders?

Not only are they learning life skills, which will prove invaluable for later life; but looks like they’re getting an early tutorial in useful occupational lines like cutting hair and cooking. Interesting as always, to note the relative size of their population versus us back at home.

@Linahuaa Tragically died young. Also don’t forget the famous Danish proto-existentialist, Soren Kierkegaard.

My favourite philosopher and teenage crush. What I like most about him is that he's handsome and cool. Nietzsche and Sartre are ugly and bitchy

This is the former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Israel. Message is simple. Israel has become a one religion ethno state where the law is administered selectively, based on people’s ethnicity and religion. Is that what we went to war for against the mullahs?

Every day we are subjected to a barrage of nonstop stupidity and craziness. There is nothing that’s off the table or nothing that cannot be said. Sadly the Commander in Chief is leading the way and the primary architect of this descent into a world of nonstop nonsense.

Ah those persnickety Danes. They’re at it again. Protecting the individual from unscrupulous whatever! Good for them. We need more concerned citizens like that. This measure may not be perfect in its construction, but it sends a powerful message.

3 quick snippets capturing state of play. Pres’wife on being a visionary ( Like her husband). Zambia being asked for quid pro quo for HIV drugs. Dawning realization that we can easily bin Taiwan. Just another day!

@ChibweChikwa @Gerashchenko_en This is only one type of armament. Ukraine on the other hand, is 1/6 of Russia and fighting for its life. So needs a whole host of weapons to survive.

@markcutis @Gerashchenko_en If Ukraine can afford to export it's weapons why does it need U.S weapons?

Their [Ukrainian] level of innovation is out of this world - US Lieutenant General Steven Whitney, director of force structure, resources, and assessment of the Joint Staff. Comment from me: Ukrainian defense industry is a very powerful player.