Reposted by @anniewalsh.bsky.socialEric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 23/03/2026Making the Strait of Hormuz safe for energy shipments would be a remarkable accomplishment, one that the world has never seen since the beginning of the month. 282756547
Reposted by @anniewalsh.bsky.socialJohn @johnlk.bsky.social · 22/03/2026I have no particular feelings one way or another about LaFlamme or any of the other non-Mills/Platner candidates, but I am not sure why Platner immediately got treated like a serious major candidate while a bunch of other people who were certainly not *less* qualified than him got treated as jokes. 1937278
Reposted by @anniewalsh.bsky.socialJohn @johnlk.bsky.social · 22/03/2026Costello and Wood, notably, have *actual qualifications* well beyond Platner's, and the rest are certainly not any less qualified. But for some reason it was decided that Platner was a major candidate. Why was that? Who decided that? 513420
Reposted by @anniewalsh.bsky.socialJohn @johnlk.bsky.social · 22/03/2026The answer seems to be "literally the political consultants who gave us John Fetterman found their next big star, possibly because he used to sell them cocaine when he was bartending at the Tune Inn". Which is pretty fucked. 622649
Reposted by @anniewalsh.bsky.socialDana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 22/03/2026Obvious proof Trump is deranged & a danger to the entire world is that over the last 3-4 days he’s gone from saying we’ll force Iran to open the Straits, to they’ll just magically open, to it’s up to everyone else to open them, to threatening war crimes against the civilian population of Iran 2569
Reposted by @anniewalsh.bsky.socialDana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 23/03/2026This gets at why Track AIPAC is so insidious. They apparently lump together contributions from organizations like J Street, which is solidly in #3, with AIPAC, which is pretty clearly not with #3, and if not under #4 or #5, is at best in favor of the status quo & opposed to #3. 14112
Reposted by @anniewalsh.bsky.social🏳️🌈🚲Cole🚄🚟 @coleurbanist.bsky.social · 23/03/2026They only lump them in sometimes though. And seemingly most of the time that they think JStreet is bad is when the candidate is Jewish. bsky.app/profile/cole... 1216
Reposted by @anniewalsh.bsky.socialMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 23/03/2026Again, the fact that Trump thinks this & acts like this is not a reason for everyone else in American politics to enable it. Or for the media to totally normalize it. We've had a decade to adjust to this. 46517
Reposted by @anniewalsh.bsky.socialGeoff Garin @geoffgarin.bsky.social · 23/03/2026Hegseth should be fired immediately if "nobody was even thinking about." It is called contingency planning. 13310
Reposted by @anniewalsh.bsky.socialDana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 23/03/2026Looks like Barrack is bailing him out. 162
Reposted by @anniewalsh.bsky.socialPage 🗽 @firbirdnc.bsky.social · 23/03/2026IDK about this situation, but there are definitely “activists“ who are funded by RW to sow division between groups who would normally find common cause. ADOS is an example. We had a pro-ICE Dem who IDed as ADOS in the state legislature who voted with Reps constantly. ibw21.org/commentary/u...ibw21.orgUnderstanding ADOS: The Movement to Hijack Black Identity and Weaken Black UnityBy Jessica Ann Mitchell Aiwuyor — The term ADOS was created in 2016 to describe and distinctly separate Black Americans from Black immigrant communities. The movement claims to advocate for reparation... 3172
Reposted by @anniewalsh.bsky.socialHouse Agriculture Committee Democrats @houseagdems.bsky.social · 23/03/202659% of rural counties have no maternity care. Republicans' answer? Let the ACA tax credits that millions of Americans rely on expire. Happy 16th birthday to the life saving law Republicans are fighting to destroy. 174
Reposted by @anniewalsh.bsky.socialBeachwood Reporter @beachwoodreport.bsky.social · 14/03/2026Reupping because Kat lying about her upbringing and *still* claiming she's poor should've come out much sooner and been a bigger story, which adds to what I've always seen as a bit of phoniness to her, including moving to Streeterville to run for a seat in another district. 0123
Reposted by @anniewalsh.bsky.socialBeachwood Reporter @beachwoodreport.bsky.social · 14/03/2026To NBC5 Thursday: "AM I poor right now? Yeah. I have depleted my savings. I have been financially independent since I was 21." She must be living in public housing in Steeterville. I bet her parents don't even let her bring her laundry home to the mansion. (She lives with the CEO of the Onion.) 5114
Reposted by @anniewalsh.bsky.socialDirk Lester 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 ✌🏾 @dirk2112.bsky.social · 14/03/2026Sketchy? It stinks as an old professor of mine used to say, like a dead fish in Denmark. 22510
Reposted by @anniewalsh.bsky.socialkatherinemary.bsky.social @katherinemary.bsky.social · 14/03/2026Every counterterrorism EXPERT was fired or left. But we’ve got THIS guy.. 😞🤦♀️🙄 1648283
Reposted by @anniewalsh.bsky.socialChris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 14/03/202610/ All of this was totally foreseeable. Frankly, it’s why previous presidents weren’t so stupid to start a war like this. Trump has lost control of the war. His best course now is to cut his losses and end it. That’s the only way to prevent an even bigger disaster. 24366881332
Reposted by @anniewalsh.bsky.socialChris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 14/03/20269/ CRISIS FOUR: Trump has no endgame. Iran and its proxies can create chaos indefinitely. So what’s next? A ground invasion?This would be Armageddon. Thousands of dead Americans. Declare false victory? Then the new Iranian hardliners in charge just rebuild what we destroyed. 653820740
Reposted by @anniewalsh.bsky.socialChris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 14/03/20268/ Other potential flash points lurk. So far, the Houthis in Yemen have been relatively quiet. Probably not for long. They can project power into the Red Sea. For Syria, this is the worst time for Trump to strike Iran. Syria could explode again.csis.orgThe War with Iran Threatens Syria’s RecoverySyrian interim president Ahmed al-Sharaa has a strategy for Syria's recovery. The war with Iran could jeopardize that. 153052509
Reposted by @anniewalsh.bsky.socialChris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 14/03/20267/ CRISIS THREE: A broader, regional war is breaking out as Iranian proxies in Lebanon hit Israel and those in Iraq target the U.S.. Israel is now threatening a massive ground invasion of Lebanon, which could become its own new crisis.wsj.comIraq Becomes Battleground for U.S. Forces Once AgainThe U.S. is targeting militias that have carried out dozens of attacks in a show of support for Iran. 353289698
Reposted by @anniewalsh.bsky.socialChris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 14/03/20265/ CRISIS TWO: We can destroy Iran’s missiles but not all their drones, and war today is drone war. Iran can hit oil sites in the region indefinitely because they posses so many cheap, weaponized drones. And they are. They blew up a critical Oman oil depot two days ago. 343384693
Reposted by @anniewalsh.bsky.socialChris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 14/03/20264/ What about naval escorts for tankers? This is a possibility, but it’s harder than you think. First, it would require our entire navy. 100 tankers need escorting each day. Second, if we can’t destroy the mines and drones, our ships are at risk too.thehill.comWhy naval escorts through Strait of Hormuz are so riskyThe U.S. has yet to begin escorting oil tankers through the treacherous Strait of Hormuz, something that increasingly looks like a high-risk proposition during the war with Iran. President Trump, w… 353539693
Reposted by @anniewalsh.bsky.socialChris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 14/03/20263/ Right now, Trump has no plan to reopen the Strait. And a plan may not exist. The assets Iran uses to harass and attack tankers - thousands of small drones, speed boats and mines - cannot be eliminated. They are too numerous, too spread out and hidden.foxnews.comIran deploys explosive ‘suicide skiffs’ disguised as fishing boats in Strait of HormuzIranian forces deploy explosive drone boats disguised as fishing vessels in Strait of Hormuz, defense expert Cameron Chell warns, marking new phase of hybrid warfare. 413639761
Reposted by @anniewalsh.bsky.socialChris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 14/03/20262/ CRISIS ONE: Trump believed Iran would not close the Strait of Hormuz. He was wrong. And now oil prices are spiking. If the Strait stays closed, a global recession will result. It actually may already be too late. Gas prices are the first to spike, but food prices are next. 723823855
Reposted by @anniewalsh.bsky.socialChris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 14/03/2026It’s crystal clear now that Trump has lost control of this war. He badly misjudged Iran’s ability to retaliate. The region is on fire. 1/ I’m going to explain to you in this🧵what I’ve learned - in part from closed door briefings - about the four biggest current crises. 333109944506
Reposted by @anniewalsh.bsky.socialChris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 14/03/20266/ If Trump paid any attention to the Ukraine War he would have noticed how warfare has changed. But he didn’t. And he blundered. Worse, the Gulf states are running out of interceptors to stop Iranian missiles and drones - meaning that soon more oil sites will be vulnerable. 444149727
Reposted by @anniewalsh.bsky.socialChatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 14/03/2026kicking the problem down the road is often good policy, because by the time you get to it again you're better equipped to respond to it 1132
Reposted by @anniewalsh.bsky.socialKendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 14/03/2026The REAL cultural story IMHO is how many people are willing to burn down their own lives and this country so they can be bigots. 10709132
Reposted by @anniewalsh.bsky.socialKendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 14/03/2026You are not going to get me to empathize with these grown men - Cavanaugh was 28, and Fox was 27 (they are 29, and 28 now IIRC) You can argue they didn't know it was potentially criminal but even if what they were doing was legal it was steeped in bigotry. They don't get a pass on that. 16861133
Reposted by @anniewalsh.bsky.socialLynn Jackson @lynnjuk.bsky.social · 14/03/2026Good developers I know love Claude. But then they’re good developers. It’s when you let the good developers go that bad stuff happens… bsky.app/profile/dann... 181
Reposted by @anniewalsh.bsky.socialMike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 01/03/2026"Oops he went on the nazi podcast" wasn't oppo, it was "well I googled if he went on the nazi podcast and whaddya know he did" whenever someone gets around to dropping real oppo still putting even odds some version of this is a part of it 27010
Reposted by @anniewalsh.bsky.socialMike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 01/03/2026this was an attempt to cargo cult the traditional trapping of the presidency into this clown show, but his brain could only do that for 20 seconds before donnie reasserted itself 619139
Reposted by @anniewalsh.bsky.socialMike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 01/03/2026service secretaries have literally nothing to do with operational anything aaaaaahhhhhhhh 515018
Reposted by @anniewalsh.bsky.socialPolling USA @usapolling.bsky.social · 01/03/2026Generic Ballot Polling: DEM: 50% GOP: 41% Public Sentiment Institute / Feb 28, 2026 110619
Reposted by @anniewalsh.bsky.socialgubbbo.bsky.social @gubbbo.bsky.social · 01/03/2026I think they've some times said that he has mis-spoke. Once I remember even a mistruth. 0221
Reposted by @anniewalsh.bsky.socialRemember Kevin Willis? @lzrwolf.bsky.social · 01/03/2026It’s been a decade and the media hasn’t once said trump is a liar, or has lied, or is lying when he lies so I assume they’ll both sides this too 3695
Reposted by @anniewalsh.bsky.socialMicah @rincewind.run · 01/03/2026maybe the media can take five minutes off from warhumping to register that the president could very obviously not give less of a shit about The Troops 1064869
Reposted by @anniewalsh.bsky.socialMicah @rincewind.run · 01/03/2026I have never seen a politician more directly copy this speech in my lifemedia.tenor.comshrek is standing on top of a set of stairs with two knights .Alt: Lord Farquaad Some of you may die but it’s a sacrifice I am willing to make gif 3079492060
Reposted by @anniewalsh.bsky.socialJill Sargent Russell, PhD @jsargentr.bsky.social · 28/02/2026The most spectacular thing about this is how many people in the replies, QPs, and comments elsewhere did not read all three of these screenshots. 🤦♀️ 1104
Reposted by @anniewalsh.bsky.socialDana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 28/02/2026They paid a foreign policy advisor? I’m assuming they thought “we’re getting these questionnaires & don’t want to answer them ourselves,” so they hired some guy who just graduated college, & he wrote whatever he wanted & they never read what he wrote But again, they paid a foreign policy advisor? 1127
Reposted by @anniewalsh.bsky.socialDana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 28/02/2026I love how people are saying versions of “I’m glad those are her positions” when the takeaway should be that the campaign chose to not affirm those are her positions, and Dropsite quotes someone saying that in fact those are not her positions. 3155
Reposted by @anniewalsh.bsky.socialDana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 28/02/2026It’s not good for your campaign if the candidate has to clarify a statement or position at 10:30 on a Friday night. 2204
Reposted by @anniewalsh.bsky.socialBen McAdams (The Resurrection Arc) @purrtah.bsky.social · 01/03/2026There’s “man rich people suck” and then there’s this level of irresponsibility where everyone is basically Enron and it never ends wells 0313
Reposted by @anniewalsh.bsky.socialJosh Grubbs @joshuagrubbsphd.com · 01/03/2026Maybe it will happen tomorrow 1468
Reposted by @anniewalsh.bsky.socialDana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 01/03/2026That cap-wearing three-named NYU grad/humanities prof at Bates or Bowdoin, the one who said something about Trump not sending Americans to war in the Middle East? Yeah, fuck that guy all the way to hell. 0313
Reposted by @anniewalsh.bsky.socialladyggkittynumnums.bsky.social @ladyggkittynumnums.bsky.social · 28/02/2026 1120566
Reposted by @anniewalsh.bsky.socialZeddy @zeddary.bsky.social · 01/03/2026Petraeus really feels like the inflection point for the death of shame in American elite circles. If you just keep talking as though nothing happened even as all the sordid, lightly treasonous details keep pouring out you get to keep your seat at the table. 414135
Reposted by @anniewalsh.bsky.socialLaurasaurus @laurasaurus.bsky.social · 01/03/2026If you told early 2000s Republicans that their party would develop a cult of personality around someone who talks about The Troops the way Trump does, they would not believe you. 15913
Reposted by @anniewalsh.bsky.socialZeddy @zeddary.bsky.social · 01/03/2026The guy who leaked classified war plans on Signal is mourning our war dead with the flag emoji and a Wal-Mart-ass slogan the South Park guys parodied 20 years ago. 112332
