A few months ago, early March, CNN wrote.

The US government for decades shied away from targeting foreign leaders after embarrassing failures and unintended consequences from covert activities by the CIA.

The targeting and killing of Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, which opened an undeclared war with Iran, is the first time in modern history the US — in this case working with Israel — openly killed the leader of a foreign country, according to CNN presidential historian Tim Naftali.

I struggled with some demons; they were middle-class and tame…

A li’l frustrated with the lopsided goose:gander ratio on this stuff. It’s like he doesn’t even see other people as real people.

Arguably the initial strike could be seen as liberating; going after a dictator that less than a third of the population voted for and has approval ratings well under 40% and who has wrested direct control over national security and armed forces, been unbound by institutional norms, banned and bypassed journalists and congress in lieu of personal propaganda edicts, and ruled via a group of hand-picked loyalists overriding elected officials. But all that applied to Khameini too and that feeling of being liberated didn’t last long:

Then today, the US president said.

“1000 Missiles are Locked and Loaded and aimed at the Islamic Republic of Iran, with thousands of more to immediately follow, should the Iranian Government act on its threat, pronounced in many corners of the Globe, to assassinate, or attempt to assassinate, the sitting President of the United States of America, in this case, ME!,” he said in a Truth Social post.

“Orders have already been given, and the U.S. Military is ready, willing, and able, for a one year period of time, subject to extension, to completely decimate and destroy all areas of Iran.”

Sixteen counts and counting of the executive flagrantry disobeying court order. Make MAGA Go Away!

Why 1984 will be exactly like 1984.

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For climate change, I used to have the mental model that corporations, govenment, and consumers were blaming each other, passing the buck to each other for fixing climate change.

Now that corporations’ centuries-long, gradual takeover of government has suddenly kicked into high gear, we see how wrong that model was. Instead they’re immediately forcing the government to do even less to mitigate climate change.

Full text of Jack Smith’s filing.

Since Trump will lie that he’s not associated with Project 2025, it sometimes makes more sense to bring up Agenda 47 which is his actual official platform probably better known as a horror show.

Why is there no new episode of The Daily Show tonight, July 15.

Originally, The Daily Show was planning to have on-the-ground coverage of the convention with their correspondents, but following the event at Trump’s rally over the weekend, Comedy Central released a statement that there would be no July 15 episode of the nightly news satire. However, the show is set to return Tuesday through Thursday, but at their New York studio rather than at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee

Huh!

He predicted that if a president was involved in murder, he would be “speedily” impeached.

Darling, stop confusing me with your wishful thinking. We both know that wouldn’t happen, that the president’s party would jam those spokes. This is the end of the three separate branches of government.

All those “peak oil” fucks from last century are looking pretty damn wrong now. As I said back then and still saying now: We need to leave it in the ground. What’s in the ground isn’t the limit, what’s in the sky is. The lithosphere is limited but it’s still more than the atmosphere can handle.