All of this is happening because Republicans in Congress, on the Supreme Court, and in the administration have enabled Trump through thousands of prior crimes including a coup, and because they continue to enable him now.

You cannot prosecute a war or conduct diplomacy if the guy in charge is incapable of holding a plan in his head for more than six hours. You cannot end a crisis if the guy tasked with ending it wakes up every morning and thinks “who can I threaten with death and ruin today, to fix things.”

Honestly I don’t think the rest of the political universe is conveying how much Trump and Hegseth are flailing. Each whipsaw change in direction is reported, sometimes critically, but it’s the accumulation of insanely reckless course changes - sometimes 180 degrees in 12 hours - that’s important.

It was only days ago that Trump was saying that he doesn’t really care if the strait reopens. Now it’s gonna be Armageddon in Iran because they didn’t reopen the strait. Mindless thrashing with zero plan or idea of how to fix anything.

but all of them will be jumping at the opportunity to one day stand on their feet and shout, "well i was maquis! i was at Vercors!" even if they were a clerk for the Milice

no one in a position of power, in or out of government, really wants to deal with the fact that we have a demented chief executive, because if they acknowledged that, they'd feel obligated to do something about it and they don't want to risk their own careers or status doing something about it

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

that the president is making unhinged threats of war crimes on easter sunday should be an immediate presidency-ending scandal and that the media is rewriting this as just a normal negotiating tactic should be a career-ending scandal for everyone involved

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.

TRUMP: "I'm gonna fuckin' blow up all the fuckers! I wanna use all the bombs before I die! Helter skelter! Helter skelter! Race war! Race war! Fuck Easter and fuck you, too!" NEWS: "Trump promises to strengthen military in early morning Easter greeting."

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The marginalization of human rights in global discourse, particularly the lack of attention to human rights in China, is having an worrying effect: more and more people around the world are coming to see the CCP's authoritarianism as a model to be respected and emulated.

All of that said, it is also the case that Iran has been an egregious violator of international law, both historically and currently, and that is has an awful track record of using "hostage diplomacy" as leverage against the US, the UK, France and other European states.

But let's be honest: there's a large cadre that basically cheers on chasing off any lib/centrist/academic who's the punchbag of the day. There's a culture of saying "fuck off back to X, then". And the anti- bedtime leftists set too much of the culture.

US aid to Israel is roughly 10 percent of the Israeli military budget, has very little to do with Israel having an effective welfare and healthcare system (and would be a drop in the bucket of existing U.S. welfare costs), and much of it is connected to the Camp David accord.

The thing about these guys is that they will never, ever admit to being wrong, despite it leading them to consistently attack the wrong targets. In that sense they are a lot like Jonathan Chait, a fact that I'm sure would annoy the hell out of them if they were capable of that kind of reflection

Kamala Harris was Prime Minster of Israel and commander in chief of the IDF. American voters opposed to Israel's actions kept her from becoming the US president, thereby changing Israel's behavior for the better, improving life for the Palestinians, and bringing peace to the Middle East.

The theory that Biden had dementia was always a conspiracy theory because it required a coverup. That’s why people were so excited about the Tapper book. But then he didn’t find a conspiracy and it’s 2 years later and Biden is doing public events and chatting up people on Amtrak.

"hostage crisis"??? It's called they're a fucking POW! Why the fuck are we governed by fucking children who don't understand the terms of their own enterprise? Why the fuck are their misadventures covered by people who don't appreciate the fucking gravity of their profession? Fuck all these idiots.

I know it’s competing with an illegal war and 10,000 other major scandals but I feel like people should be making a bigger deal out of the DefSec systematically trying to resegregate the military

yep, this is a case of hegseth wanting a whites-only military bsky.app/profile/nanc...

The New York Times rolling up its sleeves to do the hard work of normalizing the idea that women should not have the right to vote.

Started/going. We keep telling you we told you so (before, during, after) but some of you appear to lack the ability to comprehend this.

“.. there is no such thing as a Trump doctrine. .. “.. the United States’ behavior can best be explained .. by the personal interests .. of the man [whose] head is full of resentments, anger, anecdotes, made-up facts, things he heard on Fox News ..” www.persuasion.community/p/theres-no-...

reminder that the number one issue that the press covered in 2016, the one they told voters was THE MOST IMPORTANT thing in the election, was Hillary Clinton's compliance with Presidential Records Act record-keeping

Perhaps the reason things have "vaguely felt bad" for the last 5 years is because you are literally holding a bad vibes generator in your hand all day, and it contains a million people all telling you that if you don't admit things are bad, you're a bad person who will be perceived as out-of-touch

Agreed. Also don’t recognize the “adult in the room” China that he imagines exists.

“You can only pass two laws within the space of two years before electing a new parliament” is real Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth shit!

🎥 Battle for Bakhmut: archive Groups of the 8th Special Operations Forces Regiment in urban battles held the defense in the most difficult conditions, defended their own land in every city quarter.

If Trump announced he'd signed a mutual defence treaty with the King of the Potato People, we'd get dozens of articles and tweets about what it means for NATO, Ukraine and tariffs. A brave few would note in the final paragraph that some people doubt the treaty's existence.

I do think that those lawyers and law professors who tried to fabricate a historical or legal case against birthright citizenship should be socially and professionally ostracized for their shocking cynicism and intellectual dishonesty as well as for their bald hostility to pluralist American values.

I think that at this stage it is already a settled matter that the future of Europe’s security lies in a direct military, economic, and technological alliance with Ukraine + a unified European nuclear deterrent.

I think it’s the first time in human history that a country fighting a full-scale, protracted war against a vastly superior aggressor gets slammed for managing to avoid societal collapse, keeping life across most of its territory as close to normal as possible, and keeping the economy running.

still funny to me that president pedopile campaigned on bringing industry back to america and

The fact that Trump is going to oral arguments to pressure the justices to acquiesce to his attempted nullification of a constitutional amendment and create a stateless class for the first time since the civil war, illustrates what is really at the core of the Trump project and it isn’t tariffs.

Honestly, the imperial presidency is the defining problem of our republic. He is, at most, one third of our government, not the team captain, not the leader (also the branches are not 'co-equal;' congress is supreme).

I hate how they all try to talk like him. I did not realize how fucking *annoying* being ruled by a cult of personality would be

A single vote for Trump in the birthright citizenship case would be as bad as anything the Court has done since Bush v. Gore. This issue has been settled for more than a century. It is the jurisprudential equivalent of asking what 2+2 is. Any answer other than 4, something is deeply, deeply wrong.

The 'before close of market' vs. 'after close of market' talk difference is so astoundingly obvious and yet apparently impossible for the markets to comprehend.

This is the second time in a week a smart person on this app has been subject of a pile on because people refuse to read

This is probably the most Bsky post ever, lmao

East Germany apologists have to be the funniest. Lads they had to literally build a wall to keep the population in

yeah I pretty much automatically block for "shitlibs," it is literally a 99 percent indicator that the poster has nothing useful to say and never will.

FYI: I am going to stop summarizing Supreme Court decisions on here as they come down. One comment has been plucked out of context of all my reporting, misread, and used as the basis of a mean-spirited pile-on. I am not going to subject myself to this. If this was your goal, then congratulations.

I think we do not observe enough that this too - where Hegseth says it is up to King Trump to decide if we honor treaties ratified by Congress - is part of MAGA fascism, the abrogation of all power to the Dear Leader.

It is so striking how all this resembles Covid so much. The primacy of the power of positive thinking, arbitrary deadlines where they announce something out of their control to be over, large portions of media/business believing them, because "wouldn't it be great?"

I said this in replies elsewhere, but I want to say it loudly here. Anything other than a fullthroated affirmation of birthright citizenship in this country by SCOTUS is an act of treason. It is grounds for immediate impeachment. It is a violation of every oath they have made.

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