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Once you come to terms with how flatly stupid and evil Trump is, you're forced to ask fundamental questions about the systems that brought him to power that many still don't want to ask.
i am fascinated by the outright refusal of people in the professional political commentary class to just consider the possibility that there is no plan and that trump really is a braying idiot with the more acute case of narcissistic personality disorder on record
April 6, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Once you come to terms with how flatly stupid and evil Trump is, you're forced to ask fundamental questions about the systems that brought him to power that many still don't want to ask.
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What a perfect day for Newsmax to ring the opening bell on the stock exchange.
April 3, 2025 at 2:09 PM
What a perfect day for Newsmax to ring the opening bell on the stock exchange.
Yeah let's curb stomp Vietnam into the dirt with these tariffs, that makes perfect fucking sense
April 3, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Yeah let's curb stomp Vietnam into the dirt with these tariffs, that makes perfect fucking sense
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basically everything that is wrong in american politics is downstream of the fact that the legislature has chosen to stop functioning
April 1, 2025 at 6:35 PM
basically everything that is wrong in american politics is downstream of the fact that the legislature has chosen to stop functioning
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Nowadays we just randomly bomb whatever country we feel like, no matter where it is, and vaguely wave at the Iraq or Afghanistan AUMFs as a legal *domestic* framework for going to war without Congressional approval.
March 29, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Nowadays we just randomly bomb whatever country we feel like, no matter where it is, and vaguely wave at the Iraq or Afghanistan AUMFs as a legal *domestic* framework for going to war without Congressional approval.
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This is going to sound completely foreign to anyone under the age of 35 at least, but there actually used to be a time when it was accepted that you needed to get UN permission to legally go to war. Bush actually tried pretty hard to get it (before doing it anyway).
March 29, 2025 at 2:46 AM
This is going to sound completely foreign to anyone under the age of 35 at least, but there actually used to be a time when it was accepted that you needed to get UN permission to legally go to war. Bush actually tried pretty hard to get it (before doing it anyway).
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Maybe it all happens anyway, idk. Obviously the seeds were already present in Gingrich, Delay, Bush v. Gore, etc. But it's hard not to think that Iraq and Afghanistan were a big turning point that made it much harder for us to ever turn the ship around.
March 29, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Maybe it all happens anyway, idk. Obviously the seeds were already present in Gingrich, Delay, Bush v. Gore, etc. But it's hard not to think that Iraq and Afghanistan were a big turning point that made it much harder for us to ever turn the ship around.
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I think one compelling takeaway of *gestures broadly* is that terrorism works. 9/11 genuinely did destroy this country.
March 29, 2025 at 2:35 AM
I think one compelling takeaway of *gestures broadly* is that terrorism works. 9/11 genuinely did destroy this country.
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When a rich guy does something illegal, he "faces a major legal challenge." When a regular guy does something illegal, he gets arrested.
Elon Musk’s offer of checks from $100 to $1 million to Wisconsinites prior to Tuesday’s election faces a major legal challenge, as Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul seeks a restraining order barring Musk "from making any payments to Wisconsin electors to vote."
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Wisconsin’s AG Rips Musk’s Scheme to Distribute Checks Before a State Supreme Court Vote
On the eve of a crucial election, Musk stirred huge controversy with the promise of $1 million payments to backers of his crusade against “activist judges.”
www.thenation.com
March 30, 2025 at 3:20 AM
When a rich guy does something illegal, he "faces a major legal challenge." When a regular guy does something illegal, he gets arrested.
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- Rumeysa Öztürk has never been charged with a crime.
- Mahmoud Khalil has never been charged with a crime.
- Momodou Taal has never been charged with a crime.
- Badar Khan Suri has never been charged with a crime.
- Mahmoud Khalil has never been charged with a crime.
- Momodou Taal has never been charged with a crime.
- Badar Khan Suri has never been charged with a crime.
State Department spox Tammy Bruce just blatantly lies and says that students are getting visas revoked for "illegal activity" (Rumeysa Ozturk was not charged with a crime)
March 28, 2025 at 7:40 PM
- Rumeysa Öztürk has never been charged with a crime.
- Mahmoud Khalil has never been charged with a crime.
- Momodou Taal has never been charged with a crime.
- Badar Khan Suri has never been charged with a crime.
- Mahmoud Khalil has never been charged with a crime.
- Momodou Taal has never been charged with a crime.
- Badar Khan Suri has never been charged with a crime.
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Honestly—the near constant spam from the party and electeds has completely put me off from donating, even as I’ve reached a point in my life where I have disposable cash.
It’s March 2025. Could ActBlue and Democrats running in R+25 districts stop texting me every 7 minutes?
Never donate to the Democratic Party, is my advice.
Never donate to the Democratic Party, is my advice.
March 30, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Honestly—the near constant spam from the party and electeds has completely put me off from donating, even as I’ve reached a point in my life where I have disposable cash.
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This is why people who think imperial collapse will lead to a more restrained US foreign policy are deluding themselves. America will be absolutely unhinged once the treats dry up. The Treatlers will become the Troker.
March 28, 2025 at 4:39 AM
This is why people who think imperial collapse will lead to a more restrained US foreign policy are deluding themselves. America will be absolutely unhinged once the treats dry up. The Treatlers will become the Troker.
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this is why i say it's a form of hegemonic suicide. america had the entire postwar consensus built around it and decided liberal internationalism was woke
NATO leaders now speak Gaullism with an accent. Atlanticism is their first language. I do not think that will be the case 15-20 years from now.
March 28, 2025 at 3:54 AM
this is why i say it's a form of hegemonic suicide. america had the entire postwar consensus built around it and decided liberal internationalism was woke
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I keep watching this clip with something approaching yearning and I’m realizing it’s because we don’t hear this level of strategic realism—that the old world is gone and the old rules don’t apply—from anyone in leadership in the Democratic Party.
Carney: "The old relationship we had with the United States based on deepening integration of our economies and tight security and military cooperation is over."
March 28, 2025 at 1:17 AM
I keep watching this clip with something approaching yearning and I’m realizing it’s because we don’t hear this level of strategic realism—that the old world is gone and the old rules don’t apply—from anyone in leadership in the Democratic Party.
This is good right?
Future flight bookings between Canada & the US have collapsed.
Comparing total bookings held at this point last year with those recorded this week for the upcoming summer season show bookings are down by *over 70%* in every month through to the end of September.
www.oag.com/blog/canada-...
Comparing total bookings held at this point last year with those recorded this week for the upcoming summer season show bookings are down by *over 70%* in every month through to the end of September.
www.oag.com/blog/canada-...
March 28, 2025 at 8:45 AM
This is good right?
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The people responsible for this should be fired directly into the sun
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/h...
March 26, 2025 at 11:00 PM
The people responsible for this should be fired directly into the sun
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/h...
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it's been years upon years of labored "campus culture" op-eds from salaried writers hectoring students about free speech, and now the state is kidnapping students for their speech in broad daylight
March 26, 2025 at 8:00 PM
it's been years upon years of labored "campus culture" op-eds from salaried writers hectoring students about free speech, and now the state is kidnapping students for their speech in broad daylight
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There has been a lot of accurate discussion about how Trump is not actually building a consolidated autocratic regime, and I think that's true, but in the short-to-medium term I don't think it matters because American civil society is preemptively surrendering.
Not only did Paul Weiss bend the knee, they offered to lend their expertise to Trump's efforts to also get universities to fall in line. www.semafor.com/article/03/1...
March 21, 2025 at 4:15 AM
There has been a lot of accurate discussion about how Trump is not actually building a consolidated autocratic regime, and I think that's true, but in the short-to-medium term I don't think it matters because American civil society is preemptively surrendering.
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Here's where I fall right now: Biden inherited one of Obama's worst instincts (uncouth to put your name on accomplishments) and paired it with a virtually nonexistent comms strategy in a worse media environment. The latter part is shit luck but the forst two could have been done better by anyone.
to be a little more of a political scientist about this: the net winners of Biden economic policy were lower income workers, who didn't or couldn't connect their situation to politics, and the net losers were higher income workers and employers, who sure as hell did.
March 19, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Here's where I fall right now: Biden inherited one of Obama's worst instincts (uncouth to put your name on accomplishments) and paired it with a virtually nonexistent comms strategy in a worse media environment. The latter part is shit luck but the forst two could have been done better by anyone.
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Facial recognition company Clearview attempted to buy Social Security numbers and mugshots for its database.
🔗 www.404media.co/facial-recog...
🔗 www.404media.co/facial-recog...
Facial Recognition Company Clearview Attempted to Buy Social Security Numbers and Mugshots for its Database
Clearview AI spent nearly a million dollars in a bid to purchase “690 million arrest records and 390 million arrest photos” from all 50 states, court records reveal.
www.404media.co
March 19, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Facial recognition company Clearview attempted to buy Social Security numbers and mugshots for its database.
🔗 www.404media.co/facial-recog...
🔗 www.404media.co/facial-recog...
who could have guessed
Two Republican senators told me tonight this vote shows they can execute the same strategy again — cut Democrats out of the negotiations on a gov’t funding bill, pass it thru the House, and expect Senate Dems to back down and not filibuster it.
“We liked it over here,” one said.
“We liked it over here,” one said.
March 15, 2025 at 5:05 AM
who could have guessed
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the number of yeses is high enough that you should assume there is broader support in the caucus for Schumer's approach, and also that he strategically allowed some of his members facing 2026 primaries to vote no (Hickenlooper, Warner, Booker)
March 14, 2025 at 8:57 PM
the number of yeses is high enough that you should assume there is broader support in the caucus for Schumer's approach, and also that he strategically allowed some of his members facing 2026 primaries to vote no (Hickenlooper, Warner, Booker)
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The thing about this that absolutely kills me is that this will only embolden Republicans to stuff *even worse* stuff in future spending bills, knowing that there are enough Dems who will vote yes on cloture no matter what.
March 14, 2025 at 9:14 PM
The thing about this that absolutely kills me is that this will only embolden Republicans to stuff *even worse* stuff in future spending bills, knowing that there are enough Dems who will vote yes on cloture no matter what.