hey quick question, am I having a stroke

for reference and comparison: conservatively, the United States spent two-thirds of that figure in the *first week* of the war on Iran. it's genuinely difficult to overstate how many world-historical own goals US politics has accumulated over the past few decades

But people keep saying: Is that all there is? Is masculinity just being a certain kind of decent person plus superficial trappings like facial hair. Yes, that's it. If that interests you, go for it! If not, there are so many other options.

Omg fuck this guy (evergreen)

If for whatever reason you used to be a real piece of shit, and now you look back on that period of your life with regrets, that is good and laudable, and also, there might be some jobs that you shouldn't have. I do not find this to be especially complicated.

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Not that anything matters at this point, but the reason Saudi, Jordan, and Turkey have not “signed the Abraham Accords” is because the “accord” is to normalize relations with Israel, which those countries all did between 32 and 77 years ago.

"who was president from March 2020-January 20, 2021?" is one of the most fiercely contested questions in American politics

Come at me, nerds

This is monstrous, evil shit "Cemetery officials confirmed to Task & Purpose that the pages were unpublished” to meet recent orders by President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth targeting race and gender-related language and policies in the military."

Seems to work

the idea that this was a popular backlash to a socially dominant 'woke' worldview, pushing pronouns down all of our thoughts is absurd a decade ago most brits did not hold well defined views on this, there was a bi-partisan consensus for tolerance

this was HR 2616 which also bans books by or about trans and nonbinary people from schools START CALLING YOUR SENATORS NOW CIS FRIENDS TRANS KIDS NEED YOU

This is why the Democrats' current obsession with tax cuts is so dangerous. They're paving the way for more extreme proposals like ending progressive taxation altogether. Again, we don't need "Republican lite." We need a party that affirms that paying for the things government does is good.

Did you know violent crime and riots increase when the heat is worse? Anyway out AC is broken in 95 degree DC heat, so we’ll find out soon.

We used to be a real country

please comment and give the FCC hell ⬇️

Two people just shot up a mosque. Look at this three days ago:

You can get to a high-warming world without high emissions . That's the part of this week's "RCP 8.5 is implausible" discussion that's getting missed. A short thread on why the relief is premature 🧵

This better work

tomorrow, a rare opportunity to see both me and ben read essays written from the perspective of a young woman

Idea: The Supremer Court

Liz Cheney made a big issue of Jan. 6 and Trump’s coup attempt even though the GOP demanded she stop, served as vice chair of the Jan. 6 Committee and conducted investigations, got kicked out of the Republican Party for that, then endorsed the Democraric nominee for president. What has Greene done?

Biden and the Democrats called their big climate change bill the Inflation Reduction Act. Earlier a large Democratic faction called their climate proposal the Green New Deal. Presenting green climate policy as affordability is what they've been doing. If it hasn't worked, it's not for that reason.

under woke 2 we’re expanding the metro to georgetown just to torment these shitheads

Breaking: Tennessee Republicans pass new 9-0 gerrymander after SCOTUS destruction of Voting Rights Act eliminating state’s only majority-Black district & last Democratic seat. Splits Memphis, which is 63% Black, into 3 districts to disenfranchise Black voters. Quite literally a return to Jim Crow

New from me: We need to update our priors and start thinking about the problem of online political violence as it is, not as it once was. So I am nailing this to the wall: 14 Theses Concerning Online Political Violence medium.com/the-berger-d...

Just ate a financially irresponsible amount of Thin Mints, AMA

Some useful public speaking tips from Freud here.

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Unfortunately, this piece on The Great Resegregation has aged well. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

This is excellent.

Do men have any agency or bear any responsibility, or is it just the people trying to get men not to ruin their lives? No, apparently (white) men must be “honored” otherwise we just kill people and become fascist as a matter of Newtonian physics. Among other things it’s insulting as hell.

The court has simply recreated the pre-Brown world in allowing racial discrimination across a broad number fields as long as it is “facially neutral,” gutting the Reconstruction Amendments in the process.

“Bring back smoking” is a ridiculously dumb idea on the level of one of my favorite 30 Rock throwaway jokes, “The Committee to Re-Invade Vietnam”

I say it again and again: Because we don’t learn the real history of this country, we do not understand what this country is capable of. After 1870, 22 Black men served in Congress. By 1901, because of racist SCOTUS rulings, electoral coups and election cheating and violence, there were none.

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JFK did not kill himself. He was murdered. The truth is coming for us all. theonion.info

Prosecuting every one of the people involved in this is the moderate position and voters need to be reminding every single Democrat running that this is how it is.

listen hun if you can't handle the Washington Post editorial board at their the Texas gerrymander "freakout" is "not a threat to democracy" you don't deserve them at their "Virginia plunges America deeper into the gerrymandering abyss"

Starting a mid-decade redistricting war only to end up with -1 seats is the same fine strategic genius and subtle grasp of game theory that brough us the Strait of Hormuz.

My newest piece in @lawfaremedia.org warns of the coming El Niño, which will create heat and drought that amplify the food and energy shocks from the Iran war. Especially in a fragmented and underfunded landscape, this could dramatic risks for human wellbeing, peace, and stability around the world.

If you look at the @climateconnections.bsky.social polling, the only notable recent shift was among conservatives AFTER Trump came in (eg elite signaling). Support for climate action equals/exceeds when Paris was signed. Death of climate politics is greatly exaggerated.

Just checking on how the Invisible Hand of the Market is doing

I don’t necessarily think that it’s useful for serious political figures to endeavor to fully dissolve — as opposed to regulate and constrain — corporate entities, but I’d make an exception for Palantir. It cannot coexist with liberal democracy and it openly says so