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It's so funny the centrist tried to relaunch neoliberalism as get-things-done Abundance, but were too fond of billionaires, ICE, and Israel to do it. So now the country is begging for socialist governance.

@Timodc @sarahmccammon As a journalist, perhaps it’s worth watching the statement before you take a bad-faith interpretation of an out-of-context snippet of a call at face value? The risk was not calling out an obviously anti-Semitic attack. The risk was placing in its full context.

The right-wing press does not want to discuss the basic facts: the Trump administration is deliberately terrorizing the already-poor people of Cuba by denying them electricity. They want to make it a story about Hasan Piker or communism. We must stay focused on barbaric US policy

U.S. inching closer to war with Iraq again

Chinese bonds are the new safe asset. @Gavekal

Regardless what happens he will always loyally support Israel for religious and tribal reasons that supersede any other consideration and utilize the influence he has accrued in America for that purpose.

IRIB (Islamic Regime's national TV): "If the United States makes a mistake, Armed Forces of Iran are capable and prepared to seize the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain coasts and fundamentally alter the regional landscape" #Iran

americans want the war in iran to end as soon as possible.

The Idea that Iran, a country that hasn't bombed a single ambulance or hospital in any country it has targeted during this war, despite their hospitals and schools (120+) being routinely hit, are somehow behind the arson of 4 Jewish ambulances in London, is frankly preposterous.

Oh. The Army is raising the maximum enlistment age to 42, up from 34. Go join, MAGA.

A lot of words to avoid saying occupation and land theft

If you’re a wonk denying the Gaza genocide, I expect a full paper articulating what you think the International Association of Genocide Scholars got wrong and why we should trust you over the most prestigious expert group on earth.

Obama in particular deserves more criticism. He ran on codifying Roe and had for a time 60 Senate seats.

Updated number of U.S. troops injured in ongoing combat operations targeting Iran, per CENTCOM: Approximately 290 wounded (up from 200 last week) 255 have returned to duty Number of seriously wounded remains at 10. 13 US service members have been killed in action to date

Ugandan wildlife authorities have reintroduced southern white rhinos into the Kidepo Valley National Park, a remote protected area where they were once poached into extinction. wapo.st/4sXXGum

Aging well

Back to $104

The $200bn request by DoD has a pretty clear signal that the US is planning to send in ground forces. That will be just of the first of the checks American taxpayers will be writing. People really need to understand that the commitment of ground forces cannot be short-term, not just due to the abstract logic of mission creep, but because the overriding objective that it driving the commitment is Iranian control of Hormuz. And that cannot be secured and mission accomplished declared in months; it will take years at the minimum. The idea that you can just seize coastal beachheads and thereby protect traffic through Hormuz is logically-challenged. Iranian missiles and drones have ranges around a thousand kilometers — that is how deep you must occupy Iran to protect Hormuz. In fact, a ground war will inevitably turn into a full-scale occupation bc the overriding instrumental and operational objective has to be disarming Iran, making sure it cannot hold US forces and gulf traffic at serious risk. The only way to secure that objective is regime change and full-scale occupation. But a full-scale occupation cannot work because of the unforgiving division math: even if all the Western powers send all their divisions, there still won’t be enough to effectively occupy half of the territory of Iran. So this is guaranteed to be a catastrophic quagmire. And a really big one at that. Bigger than Vietnam and Iraq and Afghanistan combined. Cut your losses, man.

How can you not find DSA inter-politics entertaining

Outcome of the Iran war if we head for a ceasefire: - hundreds of children killed in Iran - regime in Iran emerges as a regional hegemon