bibi is just descriptively correct and the next dem needs to just sever all ties with israel. defense, trade, all of it. even thinking on utterly cynical grounds: israeli political leadership and overall politics is overtly opposed to the american left-of-center project

Short 🧵 1) Stories of this category have *entirely* outlived their usefulness. "Insights" are pre-determined by tiny group you choose. Could find any six people to say the exact opposite. Could find any group to to make this case "smartly," or stupidly. Then sold as "Do voters agree?" But wait..

a reminder that Graham Platner is the grandson of the designer of the "Windows on the World" restaurant at the WTC, has considerable family money, and his main business is selling oysters to his mom's two restaurants. These people are fucking marks.

So, so instructive to compare media response to Afghanistan withdrawal -- months of hysterical garment-rending & catastrophizing, relentless criticism of the admin -- with the response to an unprovoked, unmotivated, illegal war of aggression, ie, "some critics say maybe Trump should have reasons."

This is a joke at this point right?

One reason why I *think* where I land is “I wouldn’t use either neoconservatism or imperialism to describe this, at least not yet”, is that these isms’ main utility is helping us to understand what comes next. And I don’t think that either really does.

This is consistent with what one hears from serious analysts all around. The US negotiating team, led by two New York real estate developers with a reputation for incompetence at that and no serious diplomats or nuclear experts, were a bunch of ignorant pikers incapable of engaging in serious talks.

see this is actually a quite good statement

Additionally, I want to speak directly to Iranian New Yorkers: you are part of the fabric of this city — you are our neighbors, small business owners, students, artists, workers, and community leaders. You will be safe here.

if i told the average human being what is happening in prediction markets they would call me a lunatic but that’s the genius of it, it’s all happening right out in the open.

See, it's easy to denounce this straight up instead of politely asking the administration to pretty please give the American people an explanation when they have a sec

I can’t help but remember that an attempted regime change in Tehran was like the fantasy position of the fringiest group in Dick Cheney’s Circle 20 years ago

We had a deal with Iran to ensure limits on its nuclear capacities. Trump ended that deal. Now he says that sending our young people off to fight and potentially lose their lives for this country is just a ‘cost of war.’ This is the cost of his broken promises. No war with Iran.

As a professional military strategist, I just wanted to make sure everyone has a full understanding of the American strategy in Iran, thank you for your attention to this matter

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i think left-liberals sometimes have a hard time seeing what's going on here because "capitalism" has come be a substitute word for all social ills. but american media consolidation is a nascent planned economy.

Let's try this again 👋 Hi Bluesky - I'm Massachusetts' Attorney General. You might know me from suing President Trump nearly 50 times, beating Uber and Lyft in court, or being the first woman of color elected to statewide office in MA. I officially left X today - help me find my MA people?

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Judge Cannon claims that she *strains* to find an example where a special counsel released a report after in indictment that did not result in a finding of guilt. Here’s one off the top of my head: Sussman, who was charged and acquitted, is mentioned 311 times in Durham’s final report.

“I am not happy a Nazi owns the commons” seems like a failure to consult the dictionary.

I think once they're posting conspiratorial claims about the Rothschild family, they've already arrived at full-blown antisemitism.

Lakshya Jain and the Argument fled this website because they couldn't take the criticism and now he's advocating for Dems to abandon trans issues with polling about 'gender surgery for minors' a thing that is not real

just like, the worst nightmare that you can imagine

i hope you and your social media team at least consider delay-posting to vichy-twitter (posting there only an hour after you post on other platforms - if they want to see potentially news-making statements immediately they then need to leave X)

given that we now know that the X algorithm is rigged to push right wing narratives, we should recognize that this effort is hopeless and instead focus on getting journalists and pols off the platform.

👀The federal judges in West Virginia, where ICE has been pulling over and detaining people on the freeway, are literally screaming about ICE's tactics. "It is an assault on the constitutional order," Judge Goodwin says. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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NEW FEATURE: How did the Celtics become what they are today? What really happened? They studied. An endless devotion to being the smarter team, highlighted by a one-of-a-kind film session back in December. An exclusive behind-the-scenes story for BSJ: www.bostonsportsjournal.com/2026/02/16/t...

Stephen Colbert blasted Brendan Carr after FCC scrutiny led CBS to pull an interview with Texas State Rep James Talarico. Instead, 'The Late Show' posted it to YouTube.

This is the interview Donald Trump didn’t want you to see. His FCC refused to air my interview with Stephen Colbert. Trump is worried we’re about to flip Texas.

How is it possible that Kristi Noem still has this job. Imagine if you’re a family member or a shipmate of this guardsman. www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...

Especially from people with a track record of being (in the kindest construction) indifferent between liberalism and fascism at the ballot box, “you have to earn my vote” means “my vote cannot be earned”

American culture of the 1840’s would have been *very fucking surprised* to see the Irish considered as co-founders. Elon’s an ahistorical dipshit, but its always worth saying some stuff out loud: if you‘re a fellow Irish-American and you aren’t 100% pro-immigrant, you’re a fucking embarassment.

The successful effort to force Biden out signaled to elite media that they had a veto over Democratic Party primary voters. Whether they successfully exercise it or simply try to in 2028 is an open question but bet your sweet nippy they’re going to try.

Hegseth (boorishly): Russia's cool. NATO sucks. Your security problem, Europe, is you're too brown and gay. Vance (condescendingly): Russia's cool. Your security problem is you're too brown and Muslim. Rubio (politely): Who cares about Russia. Your problem is you're not white or Christian enough.

Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?

Terrific piece by @rexhuppke.bsky.social on Elon Musk, White Nationalist

There are very few things I believe more strongly than this: If you orient your politics around things that you know are not true, or don’t care if are true, whether because it sounds good, or you think it’ll impress people, or any other reason, you are planting the seeds of your own destruction.

feels like every week i hear about another instance of ICE doing some shit that would get your entire village incinerated by a vengeful god in ancient time these are moral boundaries that have probably existed since before written language

Platner's dismissive comments about sexual assault in the military were so disgusting that a candidate who had experienced assault in the service dropped out to endorse Mills rather than risk Platner getting into the senate. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/progressiv...

Some people are calling it the flag of Woke 2

For those not fully in on the joke, the German far-left party (KPD) denounced the center-left party (SPD) as “social fascists” and believed allowing the Nazis to win would better set up conditions for a Marxist revolution. The leader behind this strategy wound up executed in a concentration camp.

Well his name isn't Thomas Readerton

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Voters didn’t fail “Democrats,” they failed to take seriously the obligations of self-governance in a democratic society.

This is a factually inaccurate claim. Polls indeed show voters say they trust the Republicans more than Democrats to "handle the issue of immigration", but (a) the GOP lead is within the margin of error & (b) this is not "firmly behind Trump's handling of the issue" www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/u...

Walz: "The federal government needs to pay for what they broke here. There's going to be accountability on things that happened, but one of them is the incredible and immense cost borne by the people of this state. The federal government needs to be responsible."

CNN: "Another photograph - these are notes AG Bondi brought to the hearing today. This shows a list of Rep. Jayapal's search history. Lawmakers are allowed to go to a DOJ facility to search unredacted files. We learned from this photo that the searches are apparently being tracked & read by the DOJ"