Xarkgirl

I see lefties are still lobbing grenades at allies deemed unworthy. Reliving texty zingers will be a comfort at the repurposed Amazon warehouse, I guess.

If a monkey hoarded more bananas than it could eat while others starved, scientists would study it to understand what the fuck was wrong with it. Scientists would then watch as all the other monkeys took turns beating that one monkey to death with sticks.

The White House is cutting off $250 million for Minnesotans health care.

There is a seriousness of helium waste most people don't seem to comprehend. We can't make helium, there's no chemistry we can do - it's incredibly rare on Earth.

DISGUSTING

Japanese PM Sanae Takaichi's reaction as Trump says "Who knows better about surprise than Japan? Why didn't you tell me about Pearl Habour?" Undoubtedly the worst American diplomatic gaffe in post-war US-Japan history.

Our courts are often overlooked, but the past few years have made one thing clear: the decisions made in our courts – whether local, state, or federal – shape lives far beyond the courtroom in which they are decided.

It's almost like Citizens United is bad.

A reminder that the USA executed Renee Good. Then blocked all investigation into her murder. It's time the USA was liberated.

HANDS OFF: 1300 events NO KINGS 1: 2100 events NO KINGS 2: 2700 events NO KINGS 3: 3000 events and counting Let’s make history. Again.

Abolish super PACs. All of them.

I prosecuted the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers, and then Donald Trump himself. One week after he took office again, he fired me. Now I’m running for Congress to defend our democracy and restore the rule of law.

This is what happens when women's healthcare is controlled by the state.

DOGE didn’t do shit but steal our social security numbers.

For all those who celebrate across North Carolina, we wish you a peaceful and blessed end to Ramadan and Eid Mubarak to your loved ones. ☪️

Oh no, a radical activist accused of terrorism who fought for liberation of the oppressed

One of the dumbest means of sowing division in America is using generational categories arbitrarily based what year you popped out to pretend we aren't actually family.

This is probably the most important article of the month: an op-ed by Oman's Foreign Minister, who mediated the talks between the U.S. and Iran, in which he writes that the U.S. "has lost control of its foreign policy" to Israel. He repeats that a deal was possible as an outcome of the talks (something confirmed by the UK's National Security Advisor, who also attended: x.com/i/status/20341…) and that the military strike by the U.S. and Israel was "a shock." Interestingly, given he is one of Iran's neighbors and given that Oman has been struck multiple times by Iran since the war began (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Iran…), he writes that "Iran’s retaliation against what it claims are American targets on the territory of its neighbours was an inevitable result" of the U.S.-Israeli attack. He describes it as "probably the only rational option available to the Iranian leadership." He says the war "endangers" the region's entire "economic model in which global sport, tourism, aviation and technology were to play an important role." He adds that "if this had not been anticipated by the architects of this war, that was surely a grave miscalculation." But, he adds, the "greatest miscalculation" of all for the U.S. "was allowing itself to be drawn into this war in the first place." In his view this was the doing of "Israel’s leadership" who "persuaded America that Iran had been so weakened by sanctions, internal divisions and the American-Israeli bombings of its nuclear sites last June, that an unconditional surrender would swiftly follow the initial assault and the assassination of the supreme leader." Obviously, this proved completely wrong, and the U.S. is now in a quagmire. He says that, given this, "America’s friends have a responsibility to tell the truth," which is that "there are two parties to this war who have nothing to gain from it," namely "Iran and America." He says that all of the U.S. interests in the region (end to nuclear proliferation, secure energy supply chains, investment opportunities) are "best achieved with Iran at peace." As he writes, "this is an uncomfortable truth to tell, because it involves indicating the extent to which America has lost control of its own foreign policy. But it must be told." He then proposes a couple of paths to get back to the negotiating table, although he recognizes how difficult it would be for Iran "to return to dialogue with an administration that twice switched abruptly from talks to bombing and assassination." That's perhaps the most profound damage Trump did during this entire episode: the complete discrediting of diplomacy. If Iran was taught anything, it is: don't negotiate with the U.S., it's a trap that will literally kill you. The great irony of the man who sold himself as a dealmaker is that he taught the world one thing: don't make deals with my country. Link to the article: economist.com/by-invitation/…