@davidaugust@mastodon.online2026-06-20 21:41:34
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I also think it was obvious, basically everyone with sense said that Iran could win the war simply by outlasting US resolve, and they did precisely that. Trump basically thought the Iranians would fold like the Venezuelans did after Maduro, he was wrong.
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Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom
Unless you're an brain-wormed partisan,
"Iran is an evil regime," "this preventive war was stupid and should never have been launched," and "this peace …](https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/116/784/600/296/658/717/original/849edf4a8fcf95df.png)
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@McFaul
This agreement is far worse than I expected.
To reopen the strait— a strait that was open before the war- we and our partners are transferring billions to the autocrats. We get nothing else— no elimination of enriched uranium, missiles, or terrorist support. And to add one final gift, we agree to not help the Iranian people pursue their democratic aspirations. Just incredible.
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Farnaz Fassihi @farnazfassihi
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@cdarwin@c.im2026-06-19 18:14:17
it was pulled and banned in Pittsburgh - because Ukrainians protested furiously.
Apparently inside the Ukrainian egg is the soul of Jesus Christ.
https://apobangpo.space/@jodmentum/116777961138464777
@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-19 20:12:06
The DoJ civil rights division has seen dramatic changes since Trump came back into office last year and installed Harmeet Dhillon, a former Republican Party operative in California, to lead it.
Dhillon has fired employees in droves,
pushed out others through separation incentives tied to pressure campaigns,
reassigned staff
and rewritten the mission statements for each section in the division.
She has vastly reshaped the types of cases the office pursues
…
@azonenberg@ioc.exchange2026-05-18 18:09:45
My daughter just had a routine medical appointment canceled due to an Internet outage at the provider's office.
Silly me, i assumed that even in the days of electronic cloud medical records that those were cloud *synced* and the office maintained local copies of their patients' data that they could access offline then push to cloud when the connection came back.
But no, they're down so hard they couldn't even cancel her appointment without the office manager calli…
@dawid@social.craftknight.com2026-05-16 14:35:16
Wjeżdzając do Doliny Aosty (autonomiczny region we Włoszech) strasznie padało, ale zapowiadali jeden ładny dzień. W górach wszystko sie non stop zmienia, ale zaryzykowaliśmy i przejechaliśmy na prawie sam koniec aż do Val di Rhêmes.
Był tam darmowy kamperstop na samym końcu doliny, nad górską rzeka - więc nawet jakby była obsuwa z pogodą to mogliśmy poczekać.
Miejsce okazało się niesamowite - byliśmy w 2 kampery tylko, w ciągu dnia było tylko kilka samochodów.
Dolina była …
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-06-11 23:25:55
Sanctioning Cuba's State-Owned Oil and Gas Company Unión Cuba-Petróleo (Marco Rubio/United States Department of State)
https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/2026/06/sanctioning-cubas-state-owned-oil-and-gas-company-union-cuba-petroleo/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260611/p131#a260611p131
@skington@glasgow.social2026-05-16 00:23:33
@… The obvious ordering is that Sandre is the one who dies, and I think Devin gets to fork (he’s so young) so Baerd is blessed, but the beauty of that ending is that any permutation is possible.
@seeingwithsound@mas.to2026-06-09 11:33:18
It's all about wrong incentives: We stopped extending the runway while the planes are still in the air #US
@davidaugust@mastodon.online2026-07-12 06:48:47
Graham had been advocating for much stronger sanctions on russia. Super lucky for russia: he’s gone now.
“The office of U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham says the South Carolina Republican has died following a brief and sudden illness.”
“In a statement released Sunday, Graham’s office said he passed away Saturday evening, July 11.”
“Graham had recently returned from a trip to Kyiv, Ukraine, where he met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday.”
@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-13 14:52:21
The U.S. Department of Justice and the Pentagon
have created a joint task force to identify and prosecute what Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth described as
unauthorized disclosure of sensitive information to news media.
"I have delegated tasking authority to the War Department's Office of General Counsel,
empowering OGC to request and receive all information, records,
and support across the department concerning media leak investigations,"