well that’s good at least

human shields is a war crime too, not like anyone cares at this point

Take notes…everyone else.

Donald Trump is an unhinged warmonger and war criminal using violence for personal gain and profit, while innocent people pay the price.   Congress must reconvene to pass the War Powers Resolution. The 25th Amendment must also be invoked. Congress has to do our damn job. War powers and Impeachment.

the thing about Bluesky is that it’s not perfect, but it’s also not owned by a genuine and inarguable actual genocidal maniac - which is what both Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg are

Whatever happens, this is a deeply shameful episode in American history that will leave a permanent stain on the country. Repeatedly vowing to commit war crimes against millions of innocent civilians is beyond the pale.

Republicans are shit. I blame them entirely. Dems still have the ability to control the words that come out of their mouths. This is apparently difficult and in order for me to say the latter I need to throat clear with the former every time?

Reminder that Trump has no war goals and hasn't posed any clear demands. And he keeps killing the people he should be negotiating with. There's nothing Iran can do to satisfy his ultimatums, and even if there was, Trump would interpret it as weakness and escalate anyway, immediately or later.

stop polling, start prosecuting

The United States is behaving in a way that is indistinguishable from how an advanced Third Reich would had it emerged victorious from World War 2, and nearly every leader in the developed world is now abandoning their duty to confront it, having acclaimed and legitimated it every step of the way.

they don't do this in america because your local government cares more about the safety of people inside the car than outside

They oversaw a very important social media influence operation for the Kremlin, got caught, fled. And now they're not just back, they're guests at Donald & Melania Trump's Easter Egg Roll at the White House.

I mean the fact that the fucking Catholic Bishop in the military is the only institution that can outright say "this war is unjust"—recall the understanding that he holds God's law higher than any Empire's—is profoundly embarrassing. What is the most prominent secular institution to oppose this war?

Yes, it *is* very tedious that the "paper of record" sucks so much shit now, and it *is* very revealing that the median user here has enough object permanence to notice how much shitthe NYT sucks now. Good job noting facts instead of being a useless dumbass scold.🤗

Portnoy, Barstool, Polymarket (with Trump spawn on their board) as neutral....jail for a thousand years for all gambling addict degenerates like Silver

Bro lol

Is there such a thing as a New Deal conservative? Is that what I have become? Taxes are what we ALL pay so that we can ALL enjoy public goods. They are not — and CANNOT be — a punishment! A tax cut cannot be a cute little treat for the most deserving. That undermines the WHOLE POINT

Bombing To Win, which I am sure most American foreign policy experts have read

It will almost certainly result in the introduction of MUCH higher consumption taxes, which are regressive, thus screwing over the people it is supposed to help, and will worsen government services, screwing those same people again. This is an absolute shit idea.

polymarket, barstool and *russia today* are neutral?

Ukraine is defeating Russia thanks to four years of drone innovation. Here’s why everyone should buy drones from my kids. by Donald Trump

conservative pundits, GOP apparatchiks and their various enablers spend 10 years insisting that racism is marginal to trump and trumpism trump:

Here are the stories of some of the human beings who died horrific deaths from preventable disease because Trump and Musk and their flunkies decided to murder them by gleefully destroying USAID and the entire global aid system:

Just once I’d love to see a Christian athlete speak on the fact that Jesus rarely spoke about himself/pushed his beliefs on others. He led by example and it was those around him (the apostles) who said “oh wow look at the great lessons he teaches us!” You want to be like Jesus?There’s your lesson!

Not sure where Nate's getting the idea that Dave Portnoy, Russia Today, Barstool Sports, and the Polymarket account are politically "neutral" voices, but ok

the fact that this is what he does when he knows his base is starting to lose enthusiasm (they’ll never actually abandon him) should be a case-closed piece of evidence against any fool who spent any of the last 10 years saying MAGA was about economic anxiety rather than racism and sexism.

Me, joking: I can’t believe we chose “destroying the economy” and “losing wars” over “being nice to trans people occasionally” Conservatives, dead serious: it was a tough choice, but I’m glad we picked “destroying the economy” and “losing wars” over “being nice to trans people occasionally”

America’s universities have been a beacon to the world, attracting brilliant people and exporting American values — a perfect vessel of soft power. And Vance et al. want to tear it all down for nothing.

A big part of Donald Trump's appeal among his ~30%, ride-or-die core is that he's the first president to be sincerely, authentically stupid and incurious in the exact same way as the fabled Median Voter. *Nothing* about his unintelligence is a gimmick or a put-on.

what all Democrats everywhere have to look forward to if we fuck it up and nominate Graham Platner

Unfortunately I have very little doubt at on how that is going to turn out. If there ever was anyone at that level prepared to burn down a career over illegal target selection, they got purged by Hegseth a while ago. The military will not save you from the voters' bad political decisions.

'inside the red-faced hawk is a dove, with an almost physical horror of violence' 'Trump is as close as a pacifist as we've seen in the White House' Pure pundit brain from Ian Leslie in March 2025

I feel like I’m losing my mind, he’s just threatening millions of civilians with unimaginable suffering in direct contravention of every rule of conflict we have and everyone’s just okay with it? what the fuck

Leaving out key parts of a direct quote from the president is lying.

This isn’t journalism. This is creative writing by fascist sycophants.

There you go @nytimes.com

It’s pretty interesting to compare Easter messages from political leaders and then consider which ones the media treats as being out of the mainstream or dangerous

The New York Times deleted Trump’s “open the fuckin’ strait” line to make him look less insane Their write-up falsely says his post says only “Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!!” and “Praise be to Allah”

Trump advisers think the age of imperialism ended because of wokeness, not because 1) colonized peoples made colonialism untenable 2) technology made territorial empire unnecessary. They thought mere brutality and perceived genetic superiority would make wars against countries like Iran easy.

I'm a bit of a broken record on this, but usurping the power of the purse isn't just one constitutional violation among all the many others. It is, uniquely and singularly, the death of constitutional government altogether. Game over, end of story, you now live in an autocracy.

Two weeks ago, the Hungarian opposition was bracing for a false flag operation, an "emergency" that would allow Viktor Orban to turn the tide or even cancel an election he is losing. Now it appears to have arrived

I used to write the WaPo editorials on US-Africa policy, as well on as human rights and politics on the continent. To describe hundreds of thousands of deaths on the continent as “messy” is an absolute abomination.

For years I've been looking for the right guest to do a pod on this. The car-sales model that is dictated by law in the US -- you must go to a dealership & suffer for hours in order to buy one -- is one of the most nakedly anti-social special interest giveaways in history. Needs to be killed dead.

“Does someone have a more chill way to describe 762,000 African deaths?” “Let’s go with messy.”

The @washingtonpost.com describes the deaths of an estimated 750,000 people to date as "messy"

The best name I've heard for the proposed operation to take the uranium is "HEU Dien Bien Phu"

It's impolite to call Musk a genocidal white nationalist because "civility" in American discourse functions not as a neutral procedural norm but as an asymmetric weapon to shield the powerful from accurate moral characterization while policing the tone of those who object.

People are still afraid to call Elon Musk an anti-Semite despite the posts he made that are very explicitly and incontrovertibly antisemitic. Not to mention the sieg or the 88 and 420 numerology