Judge Reyes' opening statement to the DOJ as the hearing begins: "I am thoroughly unamused right now."

There will be a lot of equivocating about all the times search warrants have been executed on members of Congress for corruption investigations and the like, and it can't be stressed enough in how many ways HSI raiding Ilhan Omar is extremely not like that.

Once again...

Old enough to remember when Senators rallied around Jeff Sessions in the name of collegiality when Trump said mean things to him about appointing a special counsel.

Trump's options are even more limited now -- even if he made a deal tomorrow with maximum humiliation (just conceded), the war dynamics involve many more actors now. Other countries/groups always had agency in this war but now they're fighting and escalating.

Will never not be shocking...

Put differently, Trump's options in the Iran War used to be humiliation or escalation; now, they are humiliation, escalation, or escalation-by-others-adding-to-his-humiliation

Trump's options are even more limited now -- even if he made a deal tomorrow with maximum humiliation (just conceded), the war dynamics involve many more actors now. Other countries/groups always had agency in this war but now they're fighting and escalating.

Recap: Putin launches full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Ukraine defends itself valiantly with US support, West adapts a little to energy shock with more on the way, Trump returns to office, cuts aid to Ukraine & renewables, launches a war of choice causing new energy shock, imports fuel from Russia.

Christ, they are using this to start the process of ending sanctions on Russia.

Even if the goal is strategic retreat from overseas positions, this is not the way: destroying material, morale, & credibility, hurting friends & helping enemies, all while killing your world-leading research ecosystem. This is what you get when you purge expertise & experience from decision-making.

In-between, humiliation of Zelensky in Oval Office, red carpet at US airbase for Putin for summit that achieves nothing, destruction of US credibility, destruction of US bases in Middle East (you may want them closed, but not like this), no aircraft carrier in the Indo-Pacific, trade war w/ Canada.

Recap: Putin launches full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Ukraine defends itself valiantly with US support, West adapts a little to energy shock with more on the way, Trump returns to office, cuts aid to Ukraine & renewables, launches a war of choice causing new energy shock, imports fuel from Russia.

RIP Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russian and Iran Act. b. 9/16/26, d. 10/9/26.

How much money is the American taxpayer sending to Putin for this? This is revolting.

"Rubio’s speeches are dime-store rhetoric grasping at profundity and failing. Because Rubio is play-acting as an adult. A real adult would acknowledge after eighteen months that it’s insane for a single person to serve as secretary of state and national security advisor."