The US military has said the operation went as planned and that it was an “overwhelming success.”

Just to be clear, that can be true and the mission failed to do more than set Iran back a few months. They can have destroyed the targets they were told to destroy (success), but the targets may have been wrong or incomplete. Or, as the article suggests, the bombs landed where they were supposed to, but didn’t penetrate underground enough to do the damage desired.

Oh! TIL! Thank you!

Almost inhospitable to most life. This makes the time to spoilage as long as possible by slowing the growth of microorganisms as much as possible while keeping fresh food palatable for as long as possible.

Headline is badly written.

It’s not a “war powers resolution to authorize Trump’s Iran strikes” that Johnson is opposing.

It’s a “war powers resolution [which would prevent US intervention in Iran]” that Johnson opposes, and his opposition is supporting authorization of Trump’s Iran strikes.

So many nations over there proclaim a sort of “we stand with our brothers to the death” out loud while their actions (or lack thereof) say something completely different.

Looks like he’s feeling the sting of being ignored and has to pump himself up in an attempt to get the world to pay him attention.

So presidential.

Which can easily be twisted to include citizens. You don’t have to be a non citizen to be a “migrant worker.” One might say that someone who moves to a new city is a “migrant.”

Tangent: eye witness testimony is the worst kind of testimony.

Unless there’s a Sharpie involved, then all bets are off.

Did they even specify “non-citizen”?

The Democrats … didn’t bother for 2024.

At least there’s no genocide anymore! /s

Liberty isn’t inevitable, it has to be fought for.

That’s the fourth box.

So far.

When the ballot box fails to prevent fascists from getting elected, the ballot box has failed.

Edit: Because it’s the Four Boxes of Liberty, not the Four Boxes of Whatever People Vote For.

Oh look, defying another court order.

If you’re keeping track, that’s the third box that has failed.

Have the day you voted for.

Much like the night sky, humanity is largely a dark thing, speckled with occasional bright spots.

I’ve been listening to a great podcast series about Titanic. (This will come around, bear with me.)

One of the things mentioned in the latest episode is that it didn’t take long for conspiracy theories to develop about the sinking, that it had to have been done on purpose. Because there are a lot of people who didn’t want to believe the truth: that it was possible for the largest luxury liner ever built could go to the bottom of the north Atlantic in two and a half hours on its maiden voyage on accident.

The uncomfortable truth about this last election is that, yes, enough people willfully voted for fascism to put this administration in place. The United States is much further away from the ideal we’d all been led to believe it has strived to be, so far that it’s clear that it’s not even striving for that ideal anymore. That truth is so unconscionable to some people that accepting a conspiracy theory is more palatable.

That deadline nonsense is Little t trying to focus attention on this one thing.

Pay close attention to what other things go down in the next two weeks.