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If only Americans had a recent way to know how crucial immigrants were for the success of the Manhattan Project. A big Hollywood movie where a lot of the nuclear scientist characters speak with accents and talk about fleeing Europe that makes tons of money and wins a bunch of Oscars, perhaps.
Immigrant-hating Stephen Miller talks about Americans being "first to harness the atom." But the first controlled, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction was conducted by a team led by Italian immigrant Enrico Fermi, who didn't become a U.S. citizen until a year and a half later.
December 29, 2025 at 5:29 AM
If only Americans had a recent way to know how crucial immigrants were for the success of the Manhattan Project. A big Hollywood movie where a lot of the nuclear scientist characters speak with accents and talk about fleeing Europe that makes tons of money and wins a bunch of Oscars, perhaps.
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If you think too hard about how it feels like we're on a razor's edge between a Golden Age and total collapse you'll go insane.
GOOD NEWS! Researchers have shown Alzheimer’s disease can be REVERSED- not just prevented. Using a potent neuroprotective compound called P7C3-A20, they found RESTORING balance to a central cellular energy molecule (NAD+) not only PREVENTED disease features but REVERSED them, EVEN at late stages.
December 28, 2025 at 7:36 PM
If you think too hard about how it feels like we're on a razor's edge between a Golden Age and total collapse you'll go insane.
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and as several of us have said multiple times, Bukele needs to Go Through Some Things
We need Nuremberg trials for the Trump administration officials who illegally sent these men to a torture camp. No "forward, not backward" BS. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘We became famous, but at what cost?’: after the horrors of Cecot, the search for a normal life
After months of torture in the Salvadorian prison, the men deported from the US reunite with families in Venezuela
www.theguardian.com
December 28, 2025 at 3:42 PM
and as several of us have said multiple times, Bukele needs to Go Through Some Things
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Its insane this dude was the director of intelligence for CENTCOM, director of intelligence of the Joint Staff, director of intelligence for ISAF, and director of the DIA (under Obama)
1/ In a racist rant supported by a misleading graphic, Flynn proposes sending Obama “back to Africa” and suggests we “prosecute” Somalis on welfare.
December 28, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Its insane this dude was the director of intelligence for CENTCOM, director of intelligence of the Joint Staff, director of intelligence for ISAF, and director of the DIA (under Obama)
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Elder Dems have fundamentally misdiagnosed the problem. They’re like the leaders of a city during a bank-robbing spree, promising to pass more laws making bank robbery illegal.
It’s already illegal. The failure is along another dimension: you need to catch the robbers and put them in jail.
It’s already illegal. The failure is along another dimension: you need to catch the robbers and put them in jail.
I’ve seen no serious engagement from senior Dems about what, exactly, they plan to do in terms of reasserting congressional power, as in identifying the available tools and thinking seriously about ways to use them to dig us out of the current state of total constitutional collapse.
Pelosi: "Right now, Republicans in Congress have abolished the Congress. They just do what the president insists that they do. That will be over as soon as we have the gavel."
December 28, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Elder Dems have fundamentally misdiagnosed the problem. They’re like the leaders of a city during a bank-robbing spree, promising to pass more laws making bank robbery illegal.
It’s already illegal. The failure is along another dimension: you need to catch the robbers and put them in jail.
It’s already illegal. The failure is along another dimension: you need to catch the robbers and put them in jail.
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those of us near the metropoles, despite our fondness for visiting diners near airports, often struggle to internalize just how cooked a large % of the brains of this nation are
December 28, 2025 at 7:35 PM
those of us near the metropoles, despite our fondness for visiting diners near airports, often struggle to internalize just how cooked a large % of the brains of this nation are
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the Flynn Afghanistan report story and his crashout as D/DIA are genuinely important moments in the decline of american military professionalism/civ-mil relations
Its insane this dude was the director of intelligence for CENTCOM, director of intelligence of the Joint Staff, director of intelligence for ISAF, and director of the DIA (under Obama)
1/ In a racist rant supported by a misleading graphic, Flynn proposes sending Obama “back to Africa” and suggests we “prosecute” Somalis on welfare.
December 28, 2025 at 9:24 PM
the Flynn Afghanistan report story and his crashout as D/DIA are genuinely important moments in the decline of american military professionalism/civ-mil relations
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You ever wonder if the various scheming viziers around the President are using AI to do “Wag The Dog” for an audience of one?
Trump says this December 26 in an interview with John Catsimatidis that the US destroyed a drug trafficking plant in Venezuela on Christmas Eve.
“They have a big plant. A building from where the boats leave. Two nights ago we hit them hard.”
“They have a big plant. A building from where the boats leave. Two nights ago we hit them hard.”
December 28, 2025 at 9:08 PM
You ever wonder if the various scheming viziers around the President are using AI to do “Wag The Dog” for an audience of one?
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that's not analysis!
I regret to report that this is where we are with the anti-birthright-citizenship stuff papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
December 28, 2025 at 8:01 PM
that's not analysis!
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This is exactly how absurd you sound when you start bleating about the Highway of Death, btw
December 28, 2025 at 3:11 PM
This is exactly how absurd you sound when you start bleating about the Highway of Death, btw
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"Forget it, he's rolling."
December 28, 2025 at 12:55 PM
"Forget it, he's rolling."
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It really is crazy that the president has engineered a situation where the US government pays his companies tons of money whenever he goes on vacation, and now he just goes on vacation endlessly www.howtoreadthisch.art/president-ho...
December 28, 2025 at 3:05 PM
It really is crazy that the president has engineered a situation where the US government pays his companies tons of money whenever he goes on vacation, and now he just goes on vacation endlessly www.howtoreadthisch.art/president-ho...
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*Putting on my pedant hat*
None of these are war crimes because the Geneva Conventions weren’t until after the war
If you want you can argue they’re atrocities but that’s different
None of these are war crimes because the Geneva Conventions weren’t until after the war
If you want you can argue they’re atrocities but that’s different
December 28, 2025 at 3:26 PM
*Putting on my pedant hat*
None of these are war crimes because the Geneva Conventions weren’t until after the war
If you want you can argue they’re atrocities but that’s different
None of these are war crimes because the Geneva Conventions weren’t until after the war
If you want you can argue they’re atrocities but that’s different
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You don't need to be an anarchist to think that ICE should be abolished
You can be a good governance liberal who thinks that the agency has demonstrated an institutional disrespect for the Constitution, and therefore advocate for unwinding the agency and rolling its functions into a revived INS.
You can be a good governance liberal who thinks that the agency has demonstrated an institutional disrespect for the Constitution, and therefore advocate for unwinding the agency and rolling its functions into a revived INS.
ICE have revealed themselves to be nothing more than the partisan militia of MAGA. When Trump became president, he did not "execute Order 66." They have been yearning for the Day of the Rope since their founding, and all Trump did was give free rein to their basest impulses.
December 27, 2025 at 8:12 PM
You don't need to be an anarchist to think that ICE should be abolished
You can be a good governance liberal who thinks that the agency has demonstrated an institutional disrespect for the Constitution, and therefore advocate for unwinding the agency and rolling its functions into a revived INS.
You can be a good governance liberal who thinks that the agency has demonstrated an institutional disrespect for the Constitution, and therefore advocate for unwinding the agency and rolling its functions into a revived INS.
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Idiots are again arguing ‘Kyiv has so few civilian casualties, Russia must be intentionally avoiding them’
So let’s repeat: Kyiv probably has the most experienced AD of any city in the world right now, &
The civilians have nearly unrivaled experience with & access to bomb shelters
So let’s repeat: Kyiv probably has the most experienced AD of any city in the world right now, &
The civilians have nearly unrivaled experience with & access to bomb shelters
December 28, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Idiots are again arguing ‘Kyiv has so few civilian casualties, Russia must be intentionally avoiding them’
So let’s repeat: Kyiv probably has the most experienced AD of any city in the world right now, &
The civilians have nearly unrivaled experience with & access to bomb shelters
So let’s repeat: Kyiv probably has the most experienced AD of any city in the world right now, &
The civilians have nearly unrivaled experience with & access to bomb shelters
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Watching so many defense-related blogs and channels trying to somehow explain Trump's "golden fleet" and fixation on "battleships" like it's somehow tied to a real strategy and not a man-baby's fantasy.
December 27, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Watching so many defense-related blogs and channels trying to somehow explain Trump's "golden fleet" and fixation on "battleships" like it's somehow tied to a real strategy and not a man-baby's fantasy.
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it's 2025. how long do we have to live in 2016. how fucking long
December 17, 2025 at 6:41 PM
it's 2025. how long do we have to live in 2016. how fucking long
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I told my story. It's behind a paywall, but here it is. www.sfchronicle.com/california/a...
A California National Guard pilot warned about Trump for years. Now she’s being forced out
Brynn Tannehill is a Navy-trained helicopter pilot who joined the California Air National Guard in 2023. She says she’s being kicked out for being transgender.
www.sfchronicle.com
December 27, 2025 at 10:32 PM
I told my story. It's behind a paywall, but here it is. www.sfchronicle.com/california/a...
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Mutual aid thing great example of the stancil discourse cycle:
-he takes strong position on complex issue with grey areas
-a few nuanced critiques are made
-drowned out by hundreds of insane people arguing with imaginary version of him
-shifts to different argument between him and inane people
-he takes strong position on complex issue with grey areas
-a few nuanced critiques are made
-drowned out by hundreds of insane people arguing with imaginary version of him
-shifts to different argument between him and inane people
December 27, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Mutual aid thing great example of the stancil discourse cycle:
-he takes strong position on complex issue with grey areas
-a few nuanced critiques are made
-drowned out by hundreds of insane people arguing with imaginary version of him
-shifts to different argument between him and inane people
-he takes strong position on complex issue with grey areas
-a few nuanced critiques are made
-drowned out by hundreds of insane people arguing with imaginary version of him
-shifts to different argument between him and inane people
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LOL Matt Taibbi hasn't once mentioned Bari Weiss turning CBS into Trump TV and killing the 60 Minutes story
December 27, 2025 at 6:48 PM
LOL Matt Taibbi hasn't once mentioned Bari Weiss turning CBS into Trump TV and killing the 60 Minutes story
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Tbch everyone wants to make this a problem of bad information environments (i.e., we need better progressive FoPo outlets) but it’s pretty clear that the campist/isolation-curious axis is fairly in line with progressive donors and rank-and-file. Heaven knows how much Soros spent on Quincy
The problem with this premise is a hypothetical president AOC or (insert progressive here) would almost certainly be filled with a bunch of overconfident, uninformed ninnies albeit for reasons entirely different from those animating Sullivan and co.
Has anyone written the definitive piece about Jake Sullivan’s world-historic errors on Gaza and Israel that got Trump elected, and how he and his team were a bunch of overconfident, uninformed ninnies who should be nowhere near power ever again?
We need a President AOC just to break from this past
We need a President AOC just to break from this past
December 27, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Tbch everyone wants to make this a problem of bad information environments (i.e., we need better progressive FoPo outlets) but it’s pretty clear that the campist/isolation-curious axis is fairly in line with progressive donors and rank-and-file. Heaven knows how much Soros spent on Quincy
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Virtually everybody involved in American politics accepts the implicit premise that that Republican voters are owed deference while Democratic voters exist on sufferance.
why are there rarely articles written about liberals in red state urban centers (e.g. Salt Lake City) being gerrymandered into some rural conservative representative?
December 26, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Virtually everybody involved in American politics accepts the implicit premise that that Republican voters are owed deference while Democratic voters exist on sufferance.
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personally if my political movement depended on high social trust in order to work i'd avoid promoting antisocial behavior but that's just me
I love that I come on here and find people who are against loss prevention at stores
December 27, 2025 at 3:49 PM
personally if my political movement depended on high social trust in order to work i'd avoid promoting antisocial behavior but that's just me
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it’s almost like most terminally online leftists aren’t committed to actually building the structures necessary for a socialist society to work because they’re instead actually libertarians who say “Give me, give me, chicken tendies; Be they crispy, or from Wendy's”
stancil said anti-spreadsheet communism leads to replicating non-progressive individual charity in the form of mutual aid, and that folk who go all in on this cannot functionally develop societal aid structures that don't involve passing around the same money until it all gets eaten by gofundme fees
December 27, 2025 at 2:59 PM
it’s almost like most terminally online leftists aren’t committed to actually building the structures necessary for a socialist society to work because they’re instead actually libertarians who say “Give me, give me, chicken tendies; Be they crispy, or from Wendy's”