CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@3x10to8mps …… and he’s white

“Fossil fuel folks in the White House [are] pushing an agenda where we will shut down alternatives like wind farms and solar buildout and start a war that will benefit American companies. A few do well. The rest of us around the world, not just Americans, are suffering because we are so dependent on this.” https://www.texasobserver.org/houston-oil-conference-protest-iran-war/ #FossilFuels #Iran #Trump #politics #USpol #news #energy #ClimateChange #war

@denny Carney: "If you're not at the table, you're on the menu."

The number of NoKings events across the US this Saturday March 28th is absolutely staggering! Bring your friends, some snacks, grab a coffee, and defend democracy at an event near you! It's kind of like tailgating before a football game - if that is something you like to do.Find the closest one to you here:https://www.nokings.org/#NoKings #USPol #Trump #MAGA #GOP #Republicans #RESIST

I'm seeing both claims that the US is about to deploy ground troops and that Trump is in the process of giving up.#Iran #uspol

@GurgelSegrillo you bet

@Phangurl This is what it made me think of.https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qu68Gym5PvE&t=108#AllStarTrek #StarTrek #StarTrekBeyond

@jonah hope my ubiquiti order ships...

The intellectual heft of the modern GOP is on real display here: a Senator’s big idea for getting a questionably legal bill to survive review is “maybe we should hire a lawyer”https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/are-republicans-trying-to-hoodwink-trump-on-the-save-act#USPol

Modern Israeli identity says "the only way we can survive as Israeli Jews is to be..constantly occupying Palestinian lands, attacking Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Yemen, God knows who else.""Is that what we're supposed to associate ourselves with & be proud with? As if somehow that makes us safer":Antony Loewenstein outlines the origins of the “strong Jew” identity in Zionism & the inaccuracies of the “passive Holocaust victim”. And more.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_75nWp5zuc #USPol #EUPol #IranWar #Zionism .

@DrALJONES He'll probably also mumble something about their nuclear program, without actually having seized the sizable amount of nuclear material that they've already produced. I think Trump is going to take his football and go home and leave the huge mess that he's created as a problem for others to solve. The question I have in that scenario is how does Israel continue to act and what do the other nations who wish to continue extracting oil from the Gulf do about that aspect of the problem.

A short but very relevant list of countries that are *not* insolvent:- Bahrain- Israel- Kuwait- Qatar- The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia- United Arab EmiratesY'all aren't nearly mad enough.#USPol #politicshttps://fortune.com/2026/03/23/us-government-insolvent-fiscal-crisis-fix/

@AkaSci Name a carrier after a clown, get a circus.

@Jeffrey @ai6yr you should have applied to Industry Canada. That's the kind of business plan they liked back then!

U.S. Treasury declares the United States as insolvent https://fortune.com/2026/03/23/us-government-insolvent-fiscal-crisis-fix/ #uspol

@Chip_Unicorn Yes, both is true, at least true enough to put the hurt on the final vote tally. Older people, esp in rural areas, use mail in voting more than younger people. For many years, the GOP worked hard to make that happen.I should also note, I don't use generational names in a derogatory manor. Ohio already changed the laws to mandate ballots arrive by election day. There used to be a post-marked grace period. As long as it arrived within so many days and was postmarked by election day, it was counted. Ohio ends post-Election Day grace period for mail ballots after DeWine ‘reluctantly’ signs billhttps://signalohio.org/dewine-signs-law-ending-mail-vote-grace-period/

"Imperial Decline in the Straits of Hormuz"The US - the greatest imperial power of this era - is now visibly shooting itself in the foot (if not the head)."The current U.S. intervention in Iran is the Suez Crisis". In 1956, Nasser cut off Europe’s lifeline to its oil fields in the Persian Gulf. By the time Britain retreated in defeat from Suez, its currency was at the brink of collapse, & "its global empire was heading for extinction."https://tomdispatch.com/imperial-decline-in-the-straits-of-hormuz/#USPol #EUPol #IranWar .

@moira There is no time. There is no time like the present.Stating the bleeding obvious really.Time to shut the shop.Let him win this?Then what you will have is #putin style 'elections'.#trump will be a NINETY YEAR OLD demented lunatic with TOTAL POWER.He will not GO.Want that? No?Total shutdown.Don't blame Democrats, they have little power.They are doing all they can.Who voted GOP?

https://youtu.be/er2ajrP1cp0 - Interview with Erin Reed, journalist tracking anti-LGTB+ legislation around the world and discusses her 'Anti-Trans National Legal Risk Assessment Map''Erin in the Morning' on Substackhttps://www.erininthemorning.com/p/anti-trans-national-legal-risk-assessment-a5d#LGBTQ #HumanRights #Trans #Video #USpol

If you want to know #Iran's strategy in this war, watch the attached video. It's classic "Tit for Tat".The irony here is that The Rand Corporation, a US Military Think Tank, is the one that conclusively determined that Tit for Tat was the best strategy to use in the face of an irrational adversary, they just didn't know it would be a US President that was the irrational actor.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mScpHTIi-kM#USPol #USPolitics #USPoli #GameTheory #TitForTat #PrisonersDilema