Rubio was the same damn message with a slightly more "traditional diplomacy speak" wrapping. His speech boiled down to "Embrace ethno-nationalism, put the far right parties in charge (or the US will meddle in your elections to do it), and maybe we will continue some NATO deployments."

Newsom's "Trump will be gone in three years" approach misses the point. Offering foreign policy reassurance is hollow unless it's paired with a commitment to domestic accountability and reform to ensure the US promises can be taken credibly. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Tired: 30-50 feral hogs. Wired:

Privately, some Evil Inc employees have concerns over the company's death ray division. After all, they signed up to work on projects like "ocean draining" and "blotting out the sun."

The universe owed Seattle at least one big interception in this game. Glad to see it paid up.

Speaking as someone who loves dogs, that ring search party thing is creepy as hell

Perhaps my most upstate NY trait is my deep, deep desire to see the Patriots lose

(Still) Waiting for Podot

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The year is 2030. There are whispers of a time when the Washington Post - a collection of three underperforming podcasts and a Substack - used to be an actual news outlet.

Option 1: Mike Johnson doesn't understand how counting works. Option 2: Mike Johnson is a POS who's happy to use the "election was rigged" lie to justify his party's longtime policy goal of rigging elections.

The Friends of Epstein have some thoughts on scouting

"Fascism with guardrails!" brought to you by @democrats.senate.gov

ICE is averaging 3.5 violations *per day.* It's mission & approach are fundamentally at odds with a rule of law society. You can't reform that. No number of body cameras can fix it. You can't train your way out of it. Sorry, @schumer.senate.gov. You know what you can do? Abolish it.

Senate Democrats are chomping at the bit to negotiate some ICE reforms to go with those previously negotiated ACA tax credit extensions. They'll look great on the shelf next to the Epstein files bill. You know, the one the DOJ keeps ignoring. That one.

"That pack unites a lot of (elected, chickenshit) Dems (who are generally terrified of actually rising to the moment)." Just filling in some of the unspoken bits in Murphy's statement.

"Rulemaking by AI slop," the latest front in the GOP's attack on federal regulatory system

Concentration camp victims protest! The incredible bravery and fortitude and care involved in doing this ✊🏽 ‘some of them holding signs that included “Libertad para los niños,” or “Liberty for the kids.”‘

Imagine being so fucking dense that you think the murders are a mistake or a side-effect. The violence is the point.

Walz and Ellison have a very clear question here - is murder a crime in Minnesota? If so, the next steps are very fucking clear.

The pro-gestapo wing of the party

"I’m not really a tech guy...So I wouldn’t have thought I’d be ahead of the curve here" You aren't ahead of the curve. You're ill-equipped to realize how behind you are.

🧵ICE's tactics for arresting and holding observers and protestors is ever-shifting, and I'm hearing lots of different stories. Right now, my perspective is that these are your best practices:

The EU is correctly reading this as a lane change, not a U-turn.

You don't reform this. You don't 'improve the training.' You abolish it, you prosecute it, you excise from civic life like the cancer it is.

Torched US-Europe relations and shredded NATO but hey, we've reached the outline of negotiations to maybe eventually create...the 1951 Greenland Defense Agreement.

They're actually concocting a way to enable Trump's "agency rampage" while giving their investment portfolios a bit of protection.

The "military is off the table" thing was meant to be palatable to one incredibly dumb audience, by which I of course mean Wall Street.

Charles Ponzi had similar concerns, back in the day

So, today I learned that @pitchfork.com basically uses the Dutch grading scale pitchfork.com/news/how-to-...

Out with democratic peace theory, in with competitive authoritarian aggression theory

If your goal is to undermine the UN system (e.g. Trump, Putin, Orban, Netanyahu, etc.), $1 billion is a pretty good deal. It doesn't even have to do much to make a return. Otherwise, why anyone would join this - much less PAY to join - is beyond me.

Hate to rain on anyone's World Cup parade, but at this point, "most effective" and "least disruptive" are mutually exclusive.

Of all the hires the Lions could have made, this is certainly one of them.

Sisyphus doesn't have shit on trying to write a chapter on current US and EU views of international law

Peaceful protests in Minnesota divert arctic warfare resources away from threatened Greenland invasion 🙃

Mark Rutte like likes this.

"This is not who we are," he says to the guy who has spent the last decade being exceedingly clear that this is, in fact, who he is.

Pituffik (the US base in Greenland) is 1500km (straight line distance) from Nuuk. So this is like deploying troops to Kansas City in order to raise a flag in Washington DC, while everything in between is frozen.

The simulation in question:

NATO's center flank has emerged

Senior Pentagon folks might not mind planning an aggressive war but they certainly aren't keen on taking NATO out behind the barn.

Rep. Williams wants everyone to love the taste of boot as much as he does.

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So, what happens if the BCA just...continues its investigation? Serious question. The FBI can refuse interviews with ICE/CBP, sure, but it isn't like they can stop interviews with bystanders or prevent the collection of (the copious amounts of) publicly available footage.

one net effect of this will just be to make life a little harder for Americans in ways, they can’t quite put their finger on, because some of these organizations do the invisible work of multilateralism that enables contemporary life; another will be to hold up progress on most shared global goal…

Damn, talk about a good day for the PRC's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Wishful thinking as foreign policy

Not a whole answer, but Nuremberg was accompanied by trials in the control zones and recently liberated states.