#1Phloop

@RoyClark381 @RaphaelEivots Also, think about Psalm 151: “scar tissue that I wish you saw. Sarcastic mister know-it-all. Close your eyes and I’ll kiss you cuz, with the birds I’ll share.”

@RaphaelEivots On the other hand, scar tissue is a sign of a battle fought, a wound created, and healed. We are all scarred physically, mentally, and metaphorically. God is our healer, inside and out.

Scar tissue prevents healing

@erat_perfect @KnoxEndemic This. 25 years bartending and you are 100% right.

@KnoxEndemic End game alcoholic is vodka soda Nobody is ordering 10 double screwdrivers

Screwdrivers are the end game alcoholic cocktail of choice

@RaphaelEivots @golfrulesguy The dumber the phrase yelled, the more lifetime the ban too.

@golfrulesguy Immediate removal, lifetime ban

This by a million!

@petermerelis @sdemarco89 @citrinowicz If you say so I guess.

@onlyphloop @sdemarco89 @citrinowicz A drone won’t be able to strike a destroyer.

The escalation now appears increasingly unavoidable, especially as President Trump significantly raises the stakes. Iran is unlikely to back down. It will likely test U.S. resolve by targeting American naval assets, while also attempting to disrupt commercial shipping through the Strait of Hormuz or deter tankers from transiting altogether. Such developments would almost certainly trigger a sharp spike in global oil prices, with cascading second and third order effects particularly across Asian economies that rely heavily on Gulf energy flows. At the same time, Iran will aim to project resilience and avoid appearing to capitulate under pressure. Further escalation would increase the likelihood of Houthi action in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, potentially threatening another critical maritime chokepoint. It would also raise the risk of Iranian strikes against infrastructure designed to bypass Hormuz, including pipelines such as the East-West corridor. While Iran would sustain significant damage, it will attempt to maintain oil exports through alternative routes like the Jask terminal, calculating that Gulf states may ultimately suffer greater economic harm. In any case, this is not a scenario with a clear winner, only varying degrees of loss. #iran

@petermerelis @sdemarco89 @citrinowicz You think there will suddenly be domestic support for boots on the ground in Iran bc a destroyer gets struck by a drone?

@sdemarco89 @citrinowicz When did you decide to start hating the west?

Those who pray are aware of their own limitations; they do not kill or threaten with death. Instead, death enslaves those who have turned their backs on the living God, turning themselves and their own power into a mute, blind and deaf idol (Ps 115:4–8), to which they sacrifice every value, demanding that the whole world bend its knee. Enough of the idolatry of self and money! Enough of the display of power! Enough of war! True strength is shown in serving life. #Peace

@Hlas @jeje66 Rahm is not close to “irrelevant” but it’s pretty obvious LIV has been bad for these guys competitiveness in professional golf

@jeje66 Yet, here you are discussing him.

Jon Rahm was pretty much on top of the golf world a fairly short time ago. Then he took the money. Now he’s completely irrelevant.

@DavidAstinWalsh @Dietz__Tweetz “Commitment to the Empire” is not reducible to “Gaza” as an OP tho 🤷🏻

@Dietz__Tweetz A function of the commitment to empire.

Gaza.

@RaphaelEivots The Pope’s.

When there is a war, you have to pick which side you are on

So God loves only American troops? Not innocent people who lost their lives in Iran? Where was God's "miraculous protection" for them? This is the inevitable result of believing that God is on "our side." It's making a false god in our image: a god who despises Iranians.

I mostly avoid commenting on what President Trump says from day to day, while pulling no punches in my assessments, whether positive or negative, of his policy. His Iran ultimatums feel different. Making such threats is a policy. If he were to follow through on them, the consequences would be immediate, irreversible, and catastrophic on a world-historical scale. So while some will inevitably insist he should be “taken seriously rather than literally,” or that he is executing a sophisticated “madman” strategy in a complex game of 5-D chess, or that he needs everyone’s steadfast support to maximize his leverage, now rather than later seems the time to say that the actions that he is proposing would be a disaster for our country, both strategically and morally, which makes the remarks themselves a terrible mistake. Simply put, what’s the point of all this? If these are empty threats that we all know he will not carry out, then they are ineffective threats (the Iranians are on X too!), merely making the president and our nation look foolish. If they are not empty threats, then the president is asserting the American position that such actions are acceptable in this situation and ones we are willing to take. We are not living in some quantum thought experiment where he simultaneously is and is not serious. We cannot expect the Iranians, but only the Iranians, will believe him. Whether the threats are empty or not, we should be willing to say: This is wrong. We should not establish a pattern of threatening escalation from a blockaded strait to elimination of a civilization. We should not launch strikes intended to devastate the lives of millions of people and take our nation to total war without indisputable justification, or before the American people have deliberated upon and assented to the path with full understanding of what total war might mean for them. Those principles are vital to our Republic, independent of whether the strategy could “work.” But it’s also worth emphasizing that the strategy is a dead end. This war is actively weakening American power, increasing the danger to American citizens, and frustrating the president’s important efforts at addressing our many domestic challenges. It has closed a strait that was previously open, strengthened the incentive for other nations to pursue nuclear weapons, and in this most recent rhetoric made more plausible their use. Our choices for continuing the war appear to be catastrophic escalation of the air war or extensive deployment of ground troops, neither of which were planned or had support at the outset. Stepping back from these threats and admitting such actions do not offer a path to resolving the conflict may be unpalatable, but it is by far the least unpalatable option available. Let us all hope cooler heads prevail.

It’s April 7th 2026 and if we wake up tomorrow and our military has *only* committed a major war crime by blowing up Iran’s entire civilian energy infrastructure with conventional weapons, and not nuclear ones, it will feel like a relief.

Anyone who thinks a POTUS threatening to destroy a whole civilization is an ok (or even laudable) thing to do doesn't care if they're a "baddie" or not. And thats how we get blowback events like 9/11 and then wonder why. This is stupid, reckless leadership of ONE MAN.

@RaphaelEivots What an incredible run.

The better team won. That Iowa competed the way that they did says everything you need to know about them. Illinois was classy the entire game and should be proud

@CycloneLarry69 Make excuses?

I can’t do this anymore

@edyang73 @NateSilver538 Pffffffffffffft

@NateSilver538 Or maybe Trump did what’s best for our nation irrespective of political consequences? That’s true courage. He doesn’t have the luxury of being a peanut gallery pundit.

From a purely electoral standpoint (not that I don't have opinions about it from a non-electoral standpoint) Iran has to be one of the dumber moves in recent memory. Maybe the base case is that things get back to normal, but the risks for Trump are weighted to the downside.

@dilanesper @XericDayXploit Tbf Kobe was every bit the dominant scorer as any of the other three — and Jordan especially among them played quite a few years in the NBA under Doug Collins where scoring as much as he could was how the entire offense was built, and he had monster games but never close to 100

@XericDayXploit i think Jordan could have. Kareem could have. Shaq could have. but as you note, it's not the goal.

His death (a result of a reckless decision to fly in fog) was a tragedy, but I don't understand the veneration of Kobe Bryant. He was a very selfish basketball player and bought his way out of a credible sexual assault charge.

@fshakir Well also it was a stupid economic idea to start with so…

What happened to Trump's purported desire to cap credit card interest rates at 10 percent? It got no mention last night. Bank lobbyists won. Affordability issues for working Americans remain.

@ScottDochterman @tawiiams @W_Drehs Also, Chicago and the state of Illinois are winners here. Chicago will keep pretty much all of the tourist business associated with the Chicago Bears and shift the tax burden for the new stadium to taxpayers of Indiana. Not saying it’s right — but they come out pretty well.

@tawiiams @W_Drehs My preference is Chicago, secondly the west suburbs. But Hammond is closer to Soldier Field than even Arlington Heights. Not defending Bears management or a semi-broken system but they’re spending $2 billion on the stadium.

Always respected Rachel the journalist but this is an uninformed hot take. 25 min from Soldier Field to the site. You can punt from site to Chicago city limits. SoFi? Ask Groenke about tax certainty, which IL won’t give Bears. Team putting in $2 billion. Name change talk is silly

@PatrickHeizer @MartinekSt63312 The American independent small farmer™️ Brought to you by DeKalb

@MartinekSt63312 There is, which is why we need to organize around the American independent small farmer, rather than the European feudal manor.

I can't think of a better life than stewarding chestnut and olive groves with my family.