Now its just called TACO Tuesday.
It was a stupid and dangerous tactic then, and its even more stupid and dangerous now - Trump is nuts himself and he is surrounded by sycophants whose actions he cannot anticipate or control. Iran is just as desperate.
It was a terrible, frightening day.
This post has plot twists, cliffhangers, and no adult supervision.
— ππ¦ππππ πΎπ¦π£π (@sundaedivine.lol) April 7, 2026 at 6:46 AM
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This Trump language to permanently end Iran as a civilization seems to be code words for the employment of nuclear weapons. Congress and the Supreme Court need to carefully watch this. We are standing on the edge of a cliff.
— Barry McCaffrey (@brma64.bsky.social) April 7, 2026 at 1:18 PM
What is frightening about this moment in history isn't the madman with the nuclear codes threatening to destroy a civilization but the failure of the political, legal, media, business establishment to stop him. I was a witness when the monster took the stage. My latest: substack.com/home/post/p-...
— Charlie Angus (@charlieangus104.bsky.social) April 7, 2026 at 5:09 PM
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Tuesday night the US and Iran finally took an off-ramp, apparently constructed by Pakistan with an assist from China. Sort of.According to the NYT, Trump just announced a "two-week ceasefire" - in other words, he is declaring victory and leaving. He thinks he can avoid impeachment or Article 25 by trying to put the genie back into the bottle - I hope he doesn't succeed.
— Cathie from Canadaπ (@cathiecanada.bsky.social) April 7, 2026 at 5:14 PM
Some commentary about today:It’s taco Tuesday all over again!
— Tea Pain (@teapainusa.bsky.social) April 7, 2026 at 4:51 PM
Paul KrugmanThis is why I try to protect words for when they are needed to convey the immediacy and threat they represent. What Trump is threatening in Iran is *genocide*, pure and simple. Of course, that word doesn't land the way it used to.
— Tom Nichols (@radiofreetom.bsky.social) April 7, 2026 at 1:33 PM
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...All of this is made possible by the lockstep slavish obedience of Republicans. Nonetheless, Democrats have a role here, too. And this is not a time to attack Trump’s war because it costs too much money or to attack it because it’s bad for energy markets or raises the price of groceries. I mean, it does do all of that. All of that is true. But we’re way past that point now. We’re at the point where you need to unambiguously condemn the immorality and criminality of what’s going on. No mincing of words.Timothy Snyder
Damned if I know what’s going to happen. I mean, at some level, I think that the civilization that may be destroyed tonight is our own....
...Around the president there will be people, sadly, who work deliberately to normalize the language of genocide. There will be other politicians who find the right words to reject it. One can hope that there will be politicians who find the courage to remove the man who speaks genocide from office. And these words should lead to resignations by everyone who works closely with the president.Wesley Wark
But we cannot count on politicians. This is ultimately up to us, the citizens: for our own sake, for the sake of the future of the country, for the sake of a possibility of new beginnings, we need to say something, to someone else, to ourselves: this is simply wrong...
...About the only thing that can be certain is that a peace deal will not be hammered out in two-weeks. Negotiations with hit walls built by both Iran and the US. There will be no trust between them. The talks will show determination on both sides to claim victory very publicly, and deny anything that might spell a climb-down. They will get under each other’s skin, and Trump’s is notoriously thin. Both parties are very far from any psychological understanding of the mind of the other, and neither will have good intelligence to assist them in fashioning a peace.
If the outcome of the US-initiated war is an Iran left with an uranium enrichment capacity and stronger control of the Strait of Hormuz, this would not come close to a publicly sellable deal for the US president. He would have to look elsewhere to proclaim victory, and might well look to controls on the Iranian military and on some kind of Middle East non-aggression pact that would, from a US perspective, have to be seen as protecting Israel and offering a shield for the Gulf States.
So, breathe one sigh of relief, but one only.
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I'm not sure this is true, but I guess we'll find out eventually:
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So the state-of-play here as I understand it is that the USA and Iran both agreed to a two-week ceasefire, but understand themselves (or claim to) as agreeing to a ceasefire on different terms re: the strait of hormuz, so it is a kind of 'clap your hands if you believe' sort of ceasefire.
— "Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux (@bretdevereaux.bsky.social) April 7, 2026 at 5:15 PM
ISSUES WITH THE NEW CEASEFIRE 1. Israel is not a party and cannot be trusted. 2. It is not locked in until the Strait is open. 3. The BBC reports a soft mutiny inside the Pentagon that could complicate Trump efforts to break or violate the ceasefire. 4. Lebanon is not covered.
— Seth Abramson (@sethabramson.bsky.social) April 7, 2026 at 5:13 PM
this is the ceasefire agreement that trump agreed to, which to me looks like an insane strategic defeat for the US
— onion person (@junlper.beer) April 7, 2026 at 6:21 PM
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The world was glad to hear about the ceasefire, no matter who "won" or "lost". But it also seems too many will now be eager to trivialize Trump's threats as just "bluster" - I guess so they don't actually have to do anything about them like impeach or 25th Amendment.This outcome is better than a ground war or any of the other options that Trump was thinking of to soothe his ego. This, as @CedricLeighton just said, is a strategic victory for Iran, but it's better than just pouring more effort into a bad bet. /2x
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) April 7, 2026
Including Chuck Schumer. As the New York Times reports tonight:
“I’m glad Trump backed off his threat to wipe out a whole civilization and is searching for an offramp from his ridiculous bluster,” Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the minority leader, said in a statement late Tuesday.Thanks for standing tall, Chuck..[/sarcasm].
Now Trump sounds terrified. Serves him right.The idea of Trump looking for an easier win after a humiliating loss is not comforting
— Bruce Arthur (@brucearthur.bsky.social) April 7, 2026 at 6:13 PM
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Moving on to something more uplifting - here is my Artemis II Briefing
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Artemis II astronauts make long-distance call to space station as they head home from moon ->Los Angeles Times | More on "Artemis II lunar mission communication" at BigEarthData.ai | #Astronaut #SpaceStation #Moon
— Climate, Ecology, War & More - Dr Glen Barry BigEarthData.ai (@bigearthdata.ai) April 7, 2026 at 11:20 PM
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www.nasa.gov/artemis-ii-m...
— laart20 (@laart20.bsky.social) April 7, 2026 at 11:29 PM
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People are wondering whether the astronauts are really missing Earth these days:
(FYI, this relates to the Moon's Haunted meme from 2017.)The Moon: oh wow you guys decided to come back Artemis II crew: earth’s haunted
— Eric Haywood (@erichaywood.bsky.social) April 7, 2026 at 9:24 AM
And on Wednesday:I dunno. If I were on Artemis II, I'd be asking, "Do we really have to go back to Earth?"
— Rob Archer π️ (@robarcher.bsky.social) April 7, 2026 at 11:24 PM
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"Moon Joy" is the new meme:
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