Slightly diminish a book Paradise Misplaced

When you point out how destructive Trump has been by, say, dismantling Pepfar or canceling vaccine development funds, you're implicitly acknowledging that those programs were *good* and, thus, that the US did at least some good things for the world

The Clausewitz Conundrum

A fun exercise is to ask Americans how unequal wealth distribution is in the US today (they vastly underestimate it) and what they think wealth distribution *should* be (they propose a society way way way to the left of even the most collectivist Nordic social democracy).

The reason people keep doing crimes for Trump is that you get rewarded for doing them, congratulations to Colorado's Dem governor for making sure we get more people trying to overturn elections on his behalf bsky.app/profile/kyle...

One reason FDR's court-packing plan failed to catch on is that the Supreme Court was perceived by many Americans as apolitical and therefore a victim of unwarranted aggression from the president. This court, however, is nakedly partisan. And any Democrat in power should be saying so early and often

Slightly increase a band Tuscany + the Machine

Voting rights

What if Woodrow Wilson had successful brokered peace in January 1917?

Slightly diminish a book The Satanic Prose.

Folks look at you like you’re crazy when you say we’re in the midst of the worst, most unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis in American history, & yet this man is still in office acting like a Mad King & getting away with it 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️

Reminder that LOCAL ELECTIONS MATTER. When ICE comes to your district to buy a warehouse to turn into a concentration camp, commissioners and city council members can make it difficult. Refusal to allow utilities, zoning rules, etc. Vote on behalf of every human in danger of being detained.

All of this has happened before, and all of it will happen again!

Americans every time another country removes an authoritarian or pedophile from power

First Canada Then Australia Then South Korea Now Hungary Next — America Fascism is failing - democracy is winning

JD Vance is single-handedly saving democracy

Also kind of embarrassing to America that Hungary’s right-populist yahoo can actually concede with grace, while ours cannot…

We elected you to Congress to be a check on executive power, not a spectator. You swore an oath to defend the Constitution, not to protect a man who threatens democracy, threatens war, and threatens the future. Stop hiding behind voters. Stop punting responsibility. DO YOUR JOBS.👇

My sinking gut feeling yesterday was that we had just witnessed America's Suez Crisis moment...and that feeling is not going away today.

This is more-or-less the plot of Event Horizon

It would be very helpful for Democrats to establish now, IN ADVANCE, that future Democratic administrations will allow any relevant criminal proceedings to go forward, and that decisions made by military leaders today could have life-changing consequences for them in the future.

In 1993, "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" made a Black man the star of a major sci-fi franchise and his character was like the Platonic ideal of a loving father, a great cook, a man who uplifted others, who was kind and tolerant but MILITANTLY so, and who also had flaws like any other human. Hail Sisko

The British told me that Napoleon keeps smashing their coalitions, só I asked how many coalitions they have, and they said they just form a new coalition afterwards, só I said it sounds like they’re just feeding coalitions to Napoleon, and then William Pitt started crying.

It takes a lot of humility for a British newspaper to use a Napoleon quote, and I'm just só glad they put that humility to such great use!

sun tzu: "my lord, i beg you to understand, while logistics may be gay they are also very, very real"

really can't be said enough that this case was decided by the same court that decided plessy v. ferguson. if they could have found a plausible rationale to limit birthright citizenship they would have done it. but there is none! the text is as clear as constitutional language can be.

Goddamn. Brutal.

acho que anos atrás um editor da Wikipédia pegou uma pata de macaco e falou "eu quero que a wiki vire uma fonte confiável" e daí começou a IA generativa

I was rereading @bretdevereaux.bsky.social 's blogpost about how fascists are notoriously bad at waging war and it was [morbidly] funny how much of it is applicable to the current administration.

I have a papyrology joke bu[t ca. 15 ].

The Choctaw Vampire Hunters from Sinners need a spin-off.

Don't let this get lost in the news deluge: Israel is using the Iran bombing as an excuse to starve Gazans of food, water and medical supplies.

Turning & turning in the widening gyre The beluga cannot hear the marine biologist

F***ing love this movie; I am só excited!

I will never get over how the "Harry Potter Wizarding Schools Map" is literally just Huntington's "Clash of Civilizations" map with very minor alterations.

Re: Minnesota I think it's important to both recognize they're lying about a full retreat and recognize it as a victory that they're cognizant enough of the PR disaster to feel the need to lie.

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Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”

My attention of late has been focused on the ongoing house of debased horrors that the United States has gone public with. But I am still watching Ukraine, moving towards its fifth year of war, and my hopes and fears and agonies for a better world are still playing out. The free world is Ukraine.

Never mind jobs you had, tell me five classes you took at university. 1. Sea Power 2. John Milton 3. The League of Nations & the Middle East 4. Celtic Literature 5. Comparative Empires

This is why I say state officials need to prosecute ICE goons. To claim federal immunity, ICE will need to argue that their conduct is an essential part of federal policy— essentially announcing “you cannot separate Trump’s goals from the way we’re implementing them”

Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Local police chiefs* breaking publicly with ICE and distancing themselves from it is an absolutely good and important development. * who, yes, still have many of their own real problems, thank you, no one hear needs this lecture right now, thank you, yes, I'm glad you took a class on it, thank you