Gray Flannel Man
@grayflannelman.bsky.social
Husband, father, businessman. Fan of the Stoics though not always so stoic myself.
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Why am I so unimpressed by these strikes? Israel and the US have failed to target significant elements of Iran's nuclear materials and production infrastructure. RISING LION and MIDNIGHT HAMMER are tactically brilliant, but may turn out to be strategic failures. 🧵 1/17
June 23, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Why am I so unimpressed by these strikes? Israel and the US have failed to target significant elements of Iran's nuclear materials and production infrastructure. RISING LION and MIDNIGHT HAMMER are tactically brilliant, but may turn out to be strategic failures. 🧵 1/17
Lisa Fremont
a woman in a dress is holding a brown purse in her hands .
ALT: a woman in a dress is holding a brown purse in her hands .
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June 22, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Lisa Fremont
It’s a terrific resource. I have watched courses on history, philosophy, and music.
June 22, 2025 at 10:58 PM
It’s a terrific resource. I have watched courses on history, philosophy, and music.
Silly?!….it’s a lie that is corrosive to our system of checks and balances.
June 22, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Silly?!….it’s a lie that is corrosive to our system of checks and balances.
In the early 2010s I was at a dinner party with a group of affluent Rs. They were singing GWB’s praises including the war in Iraq.
When I asked how they would feel if the draft was reinstated it was revealing. They quickly came up with ways they would keep their son out of the draft.
#chickenhawk
When I asked how they would feel if the draft was reinstated it was revealing. They quickly came up with ways they would keep their son out of the draft.
#chickenhawk
June 22, 2025 at 10:54 PM
In the early 2010s I was at a dinner party with a group of affluent Rs. They were singing GWB’s praises including the war in Iraq.
When I asked how they would feel if the draft was reinstated it was revealing. They quickly came up with ways they would keep their son out of the draft.
#chickenhawk
When I asked how they would feel if the draft was reinstated it was revealing. They quickly came up with ways they would keep their son out of the draft.
#chickenhawk
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Imagine seeing news travel in a flash w/the telegraph
Imagine seeing electricity for the 1st time
Imagine seeing the internet for the 1st time
Imagine seeing US democracy failing wholesale
MASSIVE changes
Some seen w/in our lifetimes.
If you're reading this, you're seeing the last one
#RESIST
Imagine seeing electricity for the 1st time
Imagine seeing the internet for the 1st time
Imagine seeing US democracy failing wholesale
MASSIVE changes
Some seen w/in our lifetimes.
If you're reading this, you're seeing the last one
#RESIST
June 22, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Imagine seeing news travel in a flash w/the telegraph
Imagine seeing electricity for the 1st time
Imagine seeing the internet for the 1st time
Imagine seeing US democracy failing wholesale
MASSIVE changes
Some seen w/in our lifetimes.
If you're reading this, you're seeing the last one
#RESIST
Imagine seeing electricity for the 1st time
Imagine seeing the internet for the 1st time
Imagine seeing US democracy failing wholesale
MASSIVE changes
Some seen w/in our lifetimes.
If you're reading this, you're seeing the last one
#RESIST
Thanks for the great article. You saved the most chilling analysis for the end:
June 22, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Thanks for the great article. You saved the most chilling analysis for the end:
I’d like to report that everything related to the Confederacy - from slavery to violent rebellion - was negative and any type of monument honoring their efforts to destroy the Union is disgraceful.
June 22, 2025 at 6:05 PM
I’d like to report that everything related to the Confederacy - from slavery to violent rebellion - was negative and any type of monument honoring their efforts to destroy the Union is disgraceful.
My wife once gave me a set of CD’s of back issues of the New Yorker.
Only wound up reading one article and it was how Congress passed the Glass Steagall Act.
Basically, Congress held hearings where they excoriated Wall St and other business executives.
It was performative and effective.
Only wound up reading one article and it was how Congress passed the Glass Steagall Act.
Basically, Congress held hearings where they excoriated Wall St and other business executives.
It was performative and effective.
June 22, 2025 at 5:59 PM
My wife once gave me a set of CD’s of back issues of the New Yorker.
Only wound up reading one article and it was how Congress passed the Glass Steagall Act.
Basically, Congress held hearings where they excoriated Wall St and other business executives.
It was performative and effective.
Only wound up reading one article and it was how Congress passed the Glass Steagall Act.
Basically, Congress held hearings where they excoriated Wall St and other business executives.
It was performative and effective.
Again, Trump is the arsonist looking for applause for putting out a fire he started.
A reminder of how the number of centrifuges in Iran soared after Trump’s 2018 JCPOA withdrawal.
@brendannyhan.bsky.social
@brendannyhan.bsky.social
June 22, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Again, Trump is the arsonist looking for applause for putting out a fire he started.
These guys would make George Orwell blush.
June 22, 2025 at 4:47 PM
These guys would make George Orwell blush.
Also, according to the VP the appropriate response to a country with no nuclear weapons who is stonewalling negotiations is to bomb them?!
June 22, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Also, according to the VP the appropriate response to a country with no nuclear weapons who is stonewalling negotiations is to bomb them?!
The spirit of George Santayana right now:
a man is screaming with the words have you learn nothing written below him
ALT: a man is screaming with the words have you learn nothing written below him
media.tenor.com
June 22, 2025 at 4:15 PM
The spirit of George Santayana right now:
3/
3) Trump claims that Iran can’t have a nuclear weapon but he canceled the JCPOA treaty that was preventing that from happening. His maximalist pressure campaign failed.
Isn’t this a case of the arsonist wanting applause for putting out the fire he started?!
3) Trump claims that Iran can’t have a nuclear weapon but he canceled the JCPOA treaty that was preventing that from happening. His maximalist pressure campaign failed.
Isn’t this a case of the arsonist wanting applause for putting out the fire he started?!
June 22, 2025 at 12:59 PM
3/
3) Trump claims that Iran can’t have a nuclear weapon but he canceled the JCPOA treaty that was preventing that from happening. His maximalist pressure campaign failed.
Isn’t this a case of the arsonist wanting applause for putting out the fire he started?!
3) Trump claims that Iran can’t have a nuclear weapon but he canceled the JCPOA treaty that was preventing that from happening. His maximalist pressure campaign failed.
Isn’t this a case of the arsonist wanting applause for putting out the fire he started?!
2/ The DNI testified under oath just weeks ago that Iran didn’t have this capability(roll tape).
2) Under what legal authority did Trump launch this strike? This is clearly an act of war and Congress didn’t declare war. The US was not under imminent threat (see 1 above).
2) Under what legal authority did Trump launch this strike? This is clearly an act of war and Congress didn’t declare war. The US was not under imminent threat (see 1 above).
June 22, 2025 at 12:56 PM
2/ The DNI testified under oath just weeks ago that Iran didn’t have this capability(roll tape).
2) Under what legal authority did Trump launch this strike? This is clearly an act of war and Congress didn’t declare war. The US was not under imminent threat (see 1 above).
2) Under what legal authority did Trump launch this strike? This is clearly an act of war and Congress didn’t declare war. The US was not under imminent threat (see 1 above).
1/ Here’s the line of questioning I hope the MSM takes when WH officials or R’s come on their shows and insist that POTUS had to launch this strike:
1) Iran wasn’t within weeks of having a nuclear weapon. Netanyahu has been saying this for decades (roll tape).
1) Iran wasn’t within weeks of having a nuclear weapon. Netanyahu has been saying this for decades (roll tape).
June 22, 2025 at 12:50 PM
1/ Here’s the line of questioning I hope the MSM takes when WH officials or R’s come on their shows and insist that POTUS had to launch this strike:
1) Iran wasn’t within weeks of having a nuclear weapon. Netanyahu has been saying this for decades (roll tape).
1) Iran wasn’t within weeks of having a nuclear weapon. Netanyahu has been saying this for decades (roll tape).
Ok…good news, but can we avoid the 600k dying this time?
June 21, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Ok…good news, but can we avoid the 600k dying this time?
Great thread:
🧵 I often talk about VDA, Verification, Deliberation, Accountability, as the core functions that make democracy possible. But to understand what’s gone wrong, we need to look at how those functions have changed.
June 21, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Great thread:
Summer outdoor wedding: the plan vs reality:
June 21, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Summer outdoor wedding: the plan vs reality:
This is the reductio ad absurdum version of Conan O’Brien’s college prank:
www.snopes.com/fact-check/r...
www.snopes.com/fact-check/r...
Urban Legend: Roadwork Prank
Pranking college students pit street repair crew against police.
www.snopes.com
June 21, 2025 at 7:10 PM
This is the reductio ad absurdum version of Conan O’Brien’s college prank:
www.snopes.com/fact-check/r...
www.snopes.com/fact-check/r...
Great thread right here that contextualizes the far right.
The paper this Nazi law student in Florida won a prize for makes an argument that's only a sharper, & more explicit version of the history of the founding taught at Christian Nationalist schools like Hillsdale College, and which will inform Trump's 250th celebration. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/u...
A White Nationalist Wrote a Law School Paper Promoting Racist Views. It Won Him an Award.
www.nytimes.com
June 21, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Great thread right here that contextualizes the far right.