Great example of mainstream journalism’s historical illiteracy. Politico sucks. Gorbachev was straining with every fiber of his being to preserve the Soviet Union, but the Beltway prefers to glaze him as a romantic suicide.

the JD Vance follower tag never fails. One of the worst things someone has ever said to me on here.

there’s really no other way to view an NYT that takes this approach to a bill that will gut social programs for tens of millions of people except as people who literally support what Trump is doing. This is absurd.

QED. Like dude, what is happening here?

oops guess mine is more recent than yours

@ryanlcooper.com ‘s piece is excellent as usual, but amusingly, the final collapse of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire was precipitated by an Elon style DOGE cost cutting spree under true all time historical idiot Andronikos II Palaiologos. Nothing ever changes.

it’s more biting than that