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Exists simultaneously as wave and particle. Occasionally pretends to be a writer. See the rest of my nerdery at @progresscityusa.com Formerly @MiklCraw4d at The Old Place™
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I was briefed on the intelligence last week. Iran posed no imminent threat of attack to the United States. Iran was not close to building a deliverable nuclear weapon. The negotiations Israel scuttled with their strikes held the potential for success.

submitted 14 hours ago • 448 comments

Yeah, if some nation bombed our nuclear facilities and then said it was not at war with us, I’m sure we’d accept that.

submitted 5 hours ago • 58 comments

Word for word the same argument that got us into the Iraq War: "Look how bad this country is"

submitted 6 hours ago • 83 comments

Japan’s Taco Bell mascot, Taco-Man

submitted 5 hours ago • 17 comments

We could have just arrested him after January 6. Imagine the number of people who would be alive today. Who wouldn't die as this continues to unfold. The best case scenario is that we'll remain enough of a country to reckon with this mistake later.

submitted 5 hours ago • 9 comments

One thing the Dem establishment never really got over was the fact that Hillary Clinton lost the 2008 nomination because she supported the Iraq War. Denial and anger followed rather than learning from that decision.

submitted 15 hours ago • 40 comments

By the way, one of the reasons it’s terrible all of these people lie all of the time about meaningless things is it makes it impossible to believe them when they’re talking about incredibly consequential things.

submitted 5 hours ago • 86 comments

Somehow the man makes Dick Cheney look like a reasoned, dignified and competent statesman, which is not something I thought anyone else would have the ability to do in my lifetime.

submitted 4 hours ago • 60 comments

This is a defining moment for the Democratic party. We need to stand against war with Iran. I am sending a Dear Colleague letter tonight asking every House member to sponsor my & Rep. Thomas Massie WPR to stop this war.

submitted 14 hours ago • 153 comments

The JCPOA was one of the greatest diplomatic achievements of the 21st century. Multiple nations, several powerful blocks, a ton of oversight and the entire time diplomats were working it out domestic American media & politicians were demonizing it, lying about it, and trying to sabotage it. They won

submitted 13 hours ago • 30 comments

Iran’s stockpile dropped to 0 after Obama made the Iran Deal… until Trump pulled out of it (against the advice of his own Defense Secretary, General Mattis… because he hated Obama) Feels pretty relevant in this moment.

submitted 18 hours ago • 60 comments

My statement on the Trump administration's illegal military actions and the wars that must end.

submitted 15 hours ago • 41 comments

I think the brave masked patriots of ICE should be the first group given the privilege of suiting up and going off to fight Trump's new war

submitted 14 hours ago • 0 comments

Amy Klobuchar is going to say something identical to this the next time she’s in front of a TV camera.

submitted 14 hours ago • 3 comments

My kingdom for anyone with the power and willingness to enforce the law.

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

Don’t worry, everyone! Chuck Schumer is writing a sternly worded letter as we speak!! Then it’s off to another billionaire’s wedding on Martha’s Vineyard.

submitted 17 hours ago • 169 comments

My very apolitical friend just said to me ‘No one f*cks with North Korea. Why do you think that is?’ Yep. There’s a clear message for a lot of Global South and Middle Eastern countries tonight. Sadly. And it isn’t a nonproliferation message.

submitted 17 hours ago • 118 comments

"Where are the leaders of the land? Where are the swells who run this show?"

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

Hey check out this fucking loser

submitted 19 hours ago • 15 comments

They have made the world living hell for no reason whatsoever. People will ask why this happened in a decade and there will be tremendous effort to make it more complicated than “they were evil, stupid, and bored”

submitted 19 hours ago • 118 comments

Maybe another book about Biden will fix this. Perhaps the PodSave folks can help.

submitted 18 hours ago • 1 comment

hey panera can we have the lemonade that kills us again

submitted 18 hours ago • 2 comments

I hope Merrick Garland is having a wonderful weekend

submitted 18 hours ago • 1 comment

yup

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

man it really sucks to live in the era of every craven conservative dream of the last several decades coming to fruition all at once

submitted 19 hours ago • 5 comments

We’ve bombed Iran. And dismantled our joint terrorism task force. And sent a third of the FBI to help ICE. And gutted the National Security Council. And a drunk guy is in charge at the pentagon. And our intelligence allies probably won’t share intel with us. Because people couldn’t vote for a woman.

submitted 19 hours ago • 2614 comments

It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this

submitted 18 hours ago • 757 comments

I just want to say for the record that when the history books are written centuries from now, I believe the election of Donald Trump in a free and fair election in 2024 will go down as one of the most senseless and self-destructive own goals in human history

submitted 141 days ago • 1343 comments

and some now-prominent pundits legitimated this nonsense

submitted 18 hours ago • 65 comments

An opinion piece SO HORRENDOUS I remember it nine years later. God help us all. www.nytimes.com/2016/05/01/o...

submitted 18 hours ago • 16 comments

Do you think CNN will just run the MISSION ACCOMPLISHED sign as a banner ad?

submitted 17 hours ago • 10 comments

somebody should draw up articles of impeachment over this immediately. I don’t think it’ll happen because we’re too worried about a rally-round-the-flag effect that won’t happen and it’d be a coalition splitter for that reason. but it should

submitted 19 hours ago • 132 comments

He was selling sneakers months ago.

submitted 17 hours ago • 20 comments

Absolutely nothing learned, apparently

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

CNN is a plague

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

Way, way too much of my adult life has been spent living among the debris left by Republican presidents and I'm really pretty resentful about it

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

Pretty sure America just went to war because nobody liked Donald Trump's military parade.

submitted 17 hours ago • 61 comments

We'll be dealing with the fallout from this for decades after he's dead

submitted 17 hours ago • 1 comment

Netanyahu has spent the better part of two decades trying to strong arm the United States into an unprovoked war against Iran and finally found a president stupid enough to do it for him. Unbelievable.

submitted 18 hours ago • 546 comments

I’m sure this notorious psychopath who just unilaterally started a war because he was bored will wind this down with great care.

submitted 17 hours ago • 117 comments

YUP

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

We have a madman in the White House who is actively trying to trigger total war. If Jeffries, Schumer, or any other Democratic leaders try to justify this, shrug indifferently, or write a strongly-worded letter and call it a day, they need to step down or be aggressively primaried.

submitted 17 hours ago • 1100 comments

at least he didn't do something truly reckless like try to forgive student loans

submitted 19 hours ago • 81 comments

I was thinking that maybe, more than 20 years after the start of the Iraq war, media coverage would be more skeptical and less sycophantic No such luck

submitted 17 hours ago • 979 comments

This is called a concentration camp

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

A boomer senator saying that nobody should pay more than $100k to go to med school when the median cost at public university in 2025 is $286k really sums up the state of American politics right now. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

submitted 20 hours ago • 13 comments

We still have no idea who the ICE agents are. They could be insurrectionists, extremist militiamen or criminals themselves, chasing law-abiding citizens down the street for recording their kidnappings. The odds they aren't are low. Congress must raise hell about this. A masked gang runs our country.

submitted 1 day ago • 1195 comments