Every Man In This Village Is A Liar WOMEN’S WORK writer @nytopinion, once J'lem-Cairo-Moscow-B'jing @latimes;TX @AP etc
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Megan K. Stack retweeted
“A geopolitical Chernobyl.” That’s the stark assessment of the US-Israeli war with Iran, from France’s former prime minister Dominique de Villepin. “What we see is a meltdown of the core reactor that is the US leadership.”
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Amazing quote from Stephen Miller's high school classmate in this new Jazeera documentary on him:
"Having grown up with him, it makes you realize that it isn't the smartest person you went to high school with who's running the country. It's the most shameless person."
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Jun 11
Agree! The Capital Weather Gang (now just Capital Weather) was — well I don’t want to say the best thing at the Post, but it had to be the most popular/broadly used. Seems like it should’ve been a profit engine for the paper.
Jun 11
i dont, for the life of me, understand why the Post wouldn't find a way to keep this.
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Jun 11
There's nothing funny about it, so I'll just say it's surreal to see U.S. commentators so totally ignorant of Belfast they don't grasp that many of the rioters are unionist/loyalist and would fight you for calling them Irish. They do not want Ireland, back or otherwise.
Jun 11
Kilmeade to an agreeing Markwayne Mullin: "In Belfast they're standing up because their leaders have let them down. They're trying to take their country back. They want to label them as racist. All they want to be is Irish. They want Ireland back. And that is what we've been saying for the longest time. I see a lot of the same fights here."
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Jun 11
And yes it's kind of mesmerizing to think about the layers of this and immigration and identity and what any of it even means, Irish Americans who never understood anything about Northern Ireland now cheering for their "Irish brothers" against immigrants, there's a lot there.
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Also, from the reports I’ve read, these are more like pogroms than protests — masked gangs preying on anyone who’s not white and burning families out of their homes. Disgusting behaviour to cheer on from a distance.
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Jun 11
What control is he losing?
At what point, since bombing Iran in Feb, has Trump been in control of this mess?
Jun 10
“Trump is losing control,” said @stevenacook, a senior fellow for the Middle East at the Council on Foreign Relations think tank.
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Megan K. Stack retweeted
Not Overheard at the Pentagon (b/c I am not allowed to go there anymore), from GWOT vet in response to the proposed Global War on Terror war memorial, unveiled today: "My idea was to have an eternal flame at the bottom of a big hole that you could just throw money at. That would reenact the war for me."
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Jun 10
Imagine if the World Cup were all international good vibes instead of, you know, ICE and war and Trump.
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I know political coverage remains terrible bc I've been flooded with enough "political" coverage to know more than I ever wanted about both Platt and Platner (despite living in neither LA/Maine), but barely any of the coverage ever mentions what they'd do if elected.
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I watched an entire debate on Platner that ranged all over public morality and his behavior with women and what voters want in a man but nobody ever said a single word about his positions on basic issues or contemplated why a voter might make a strategic choice one way/the other.
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Do they address us this way bc we are idiots, or are we idiots bc we are addressed this way? Chicken, egg.
Or maybe we’re not idiots and people actually want something better?
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Megan K. Stack retweeted
Jun 8
"An assumption of impunity and the willingness to use violence as a political tool are turning Israel into a pariah,” threatening even the country’s "financial and diplomatic lifeline to the United States." trib.al/jHCq1V0
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Megan K. Stack retweeted
Jun 8
“The Golan Heights was, until recently, Israel’s buffer zone against Syria. But now Israel has carved deeper into Syria and is moving to populate the old buffer zone with people who will be protected by the new buffer zone.” nytimes.com/2026/06/08/opini…
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Megan K. Stack retweeted
Jun 8
@Megankstack names the whole game here: "The Golan Heights was, until recently, Israel’s buffer zone against Syria. But now Israel has carved deeper into Syria and is moving to populate the old buffer zone with people who will be protected by the new buffer zone."
"These days, Israel is trading peace for land."
I tried to take in the full picture of Israeli regional policy: On expansionism & Greater Israel, weakening & fracturing neighbors, the dystopia in Gaza & the WB, & whether the U.S. is deputizing Israel.
nytimes.com/2026/06/08/opini…
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Megan K. Stack retweeted
Jun 8
"In the past, Israel has traded land for peace. These days, it’s trading peace for land....Aggression and expansionism have come to define Israel’s foreign policy." trib.al/uz7tqN9
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"These days, Israel is trading peace for land."
I tried to take in the full picture of Israeli regional policy: On expansionism & Greater Israel, weakening & fracturing neighbors, the dystopia in Gaza & the WB, & whether the U.S. is deputizing Israel.
nytimes.com/2026/06/08/opini…
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A gift link for the unsubscribed:
nytimes.com/2026/06/08/opini…
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Can’t believe I’m still hearing “testing ceasefire” “despite ceasefire” etc.
There’s no ceasefire guys. There was a spotty, subverted effort to get/hold a ceasefire but even that is over. Iran & Israel are bombing each other.
There may be a ceasefire later. This isn’t one.
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“The parties are slaughtering one another. It’s unclear what this means for the ceasefire.”
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