THIS 🧵👇

Love this!!

Iran says - desperately — that the tit for tat is now over. From New York. A) don’t make threats from US soil. B) Iran doesn’t get to decide when this is over.

Foreign policy isn’t complicated. When you signal you might pull support for an ally like Israel, you diminish deterrence. When you diminish deterrence, the enemy feels emboldened to strike.

Then you have to actually consider getting involved in a war because you were too…

Leading contender for the dumbest take so far - not surprisingly from the Quisling Institute

JUST IN: Several Iranian drones flying toward Israel were intercepted over the sky in Erbil, likely by American Patriot air defense.

Fifth column behavior.

Neither is voter suppression, regardless of “Jim Crow 2.0” conspiracy theories

But not on Mike Johnson’s speakership!

Wow. 🧵

This really is one of the most grotesque ongoing performances in recent memory. To justify illegal and immoral executive action, the White House is lambasting a bipartisan law passed by Congress that was implemented exactly as it was written.

Agreed. So Michael V. Drake what are you going to do about it? Will these law students be expelled? Or will you plan to give UC law degrees to these rabid antisemites?

Re-upping this: If Republicans want to help Trump, they should pass Ukraine aid now washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/…

Buy Krispy Kreme!

FFS

To achieve 100% solar or wind electricity with sufficient backup, the US would need to be able to store almost three months’ worth of annual electricity. It currently has 7 mins.

Just to pay for the batteries would cost the US five times its current GDP.

nypost.com/2024/04/09/opi…

US Navy shipbuilding is entering its version of the 'doom loop' with a budget for today that shrinks the fleet further *and* cuts new ship investments for tomorrow--ensuring there are no plans for recovery to grow the fleet again anytime soon ⚠️

aei.org/foreign-and-de…

I think the dean needs to have a conversation with the admissions office to find out how these people got into Berkeley law school.