This story is wonderfully written.

While this may be true, never forget that what he says has no connection to the truth and are purely reflective of whatever words will produce the outcome he wants at a given moment.

I get the logic. But it’s still really dumb.

This is truly an April Fools-level move.

The US is closing the Strait? The generals couldn’t open it, so Hegseth said, ‘Okay! I’ve got it! We declare that WE’RE closing it, NOT THEM!’

How … is this better?

Wow that’s… kinda fire. Ngl.

I’m not a big fan of the IRGC, but that’s a banger of a diss track.

It’s pay walled for me

Wow, I’ll admit my guess was wrong: that’s a pretty clear endorsement of terrorism. I still don’t think she should be arrested.

Also I think it’s terrible journalism that they didn’t say specifically what she posted. That’s necessarily context. Thanks for sharing it.

This whole thing is Orwellian, but nothing more so imo than when stories like this report that someone was arrested for speech but doesn’t actually tell us what the offending speech was.

I think it’s pretty obvious that they know that they’ll get in trouble with the same people if they share the message. It’s quite sad.

I’m generally supportive of diplomacy, but I suspect that these delegations are only finding common ground on the worst fucking things.

I would second all of this, except for the suggestion to delete it. It’s a common question.

To reiterate, “biologically male” means very little scientifically. Sex in biology is far more complicated than most people understand.

It doesn’t matter, because when we discuss gender socially, we’re not describing reproductive capabilities. We don’t stop calling women women when they go through menopause, for instance.

If someone wants to debate it, say no thanks. It’s a waste of your time. If someone asks in good faith, you can explain it if you feel capable, or shrug and say you’re not really sure, but it doesn’t matter.

Astronaut with gun: Always have been

That freak out about Drop Site News is wild, because it’s so counter protective.

DSN is such a small outfit, and Trump is simultaneously showing how vulnerable he is in his reaction and also doing such promotion for a news magazine that is otherwise not that heavily read.

It’s great though, because I love DSN.

100%, although let’s be real: would it surprise anyone if Starmer responded by apologizing firing his press secretary, claiming he was misrepreaented, and jumping into the war in Iran before announcing the UK’s withdrawal two weeks later after some British troops are killed on an accidental Israeli airstrike?

I don’t think there’s a bottom to his craven incompetence.

I could be wrong here, but I suspect the headline is another unfortunate example of Israeli Palestinian erasure.

When they say that this is widely supported across Israelis, they likely mean Israeli Jews.

It’s sad to see from the middle east eye. Obviously Israeli and American media promulgates the myth that to be Israeli means being Jewish. But I would hope that at least Arab media would constantly remind audiences that one in five Israeli citizens are Arabs living without meaningful political agency under a ruthless Apartheid regime.

I suspect they’re less enthusiastic about another ethnonationalist religious imperialist war of aggression. But it’s hard to know what they think, as I rarely see their preferences interrogated or reported on, except perhaps by +972 Magazine.

This article points out something I think a lot of Americans – particularly younger, educated ones – don’t know about: America has for a long time actually been a place people around the world dream about. That includes dreaming of coming here, either to study and return; to move here permanently; or just to emulate in their own countries.

I think most American millennials were told this, but as they learned that most of what they were told about our country – its fairness, commitment to justice, opportunities – were lies, they assumed the concept of the American dream abroad was another myth.

I think more people – particularly American leftists – should understand that despite so many other failings, the American mythology has some value. Rather than deride it as anither imperialist lie, we should recognize that it has had some truth to it in the past. And we should aspire to actually make it real in a way it has never quite been.

Respectfully, this is kind of incoherent. I can see that you disagree with the characterization of America’s poverty trap, but I didn’t really understand what part of the fundamental thesis of the article you dispute.

It’s unclear who this is directed at.

Ok. That sucks.

It seems like this is kind of a problem in Venezuela, what with both major parties appearing to participate in kidnapping the rival’s leader.

I don’t know quite what to do with this information other than oppose US involvement in Venezuela.

This article is very unclear. Why is the word kidnapped in quotes? Was he not kidnapped? Where is he? Was there a ransom? Why did the government respond by accusing him of violating his parole?

I do not understand what happened.

Ulgggghhhhhh

I try and read news through the lens of what can be done. Times like these offer painfully few answers.

I believe justice will one day come. But its pace is infuriating.