Russia supplies Iran with drones that are hitting US bases and allies. What does the US leadership do to stop this? They loosen the sanctions against Russia’s oil industry, enabling them to make more money and thereby supply even more drones to Iran.

Sure glad DOGE cut out all that government waste, because otherwise wasting all this money on a war that nobody asked for might look quite bad.

"Tampa Bay Lightning acquire forward Corey Perry from the Los Angeles Kings for a 2nd-round pick in the 2028 NHL Draft." That's it, the Kings will win the Cup this year.

An irony wrapped in a self-contradiction inside an absurdity.

In best case scenario, Trump has just reinvented gunboat diplomacy for the 21st century. For worst case scenarios, let your imagination run wild.

For Trump to exist, he needs to exist against someone. He constantly needs a nemesis. And with Maduro out of the picture, the Congress nice and pliant, the media caving in one by one, and even Mamdani turning from a "total nut job" to a nice guy, I conclude the following: the Ayatollah better hide.

At one point, Trump’s lucky streak will end. His enemy du jour won’t de-escalate, he won’t be able to contain the fighting to a weekend, and Americans will die. Trump, being Trump, will double down. After that it’s anybody’s guess how bad things will get.

So Delcy Rodríguez gets nine months to consolidate her hold on power. Also, in nine months time Trump will be dealing with the fallout of the midterms, whose free and fair nature is already under suspicion. Hardly the time for him to act as an election monitor in Venezuela.

After a lifetime of hard work, an average American faces financial ruin as the taxman threatens to reduce his wealth from 25 billion to 23,75 billion dollars.

Whenver Trump says the US should annex Greenland in order to defend it properly, the next question he gets asked must always be: "Mr. President, why aren't we trying to annex Taiwian?"

Again, and again, and again…

This is the second time an ICE employee has been arrested in in a Bloomington, MN underage sex trafficking sting www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...

A blockbuster it might very well be, but not in the way that Bessent thinks. "The term blockbuster was originally a name coined by the press and referred to a bomb which had enough explosive power to destroy an entire street," and quite possibly an entire economy.

Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”

It's been a long, dark winter in Ukraine. The usual ghouls eagerly expect its capitulation any day. But the winter won't last much longer and once it's over, Ukraine will decentralize most of its energy/heat production and what's left will move underground. And Russia will still be losing the war.

An abysmal new clip hyping Grok appeared on X today. Musk reposted it, surely thinking what an uplifting story it is. A triumph of reason over dogma, and so forth. In fact, it is a dispiriting window into the intellectual penury of his worldview. (1/8)

Grok calls the DSA "the most prominent far-left entity in the US" only to contradict itself as soon as it tries to define what the DSA actually stands for. It's 2026 and the best that LLMs can do is mimic the biases of an average shitposter.

It's late 2028 and Trump posts: "Our beautiful Capitol Building has been badly neglected by previous low-IQ presidents. Renovation to start immediately. Fortunately, the Trump International Hotel is available and spacy enough for a joint session, such as the certification of the electoral votes."

“Financial genius is before the fall.”

And yet they turned this kid into a hero for not only having brought a gun to a protest but also killing two people in the process.

I don't know how many times we will be told by the legacy media that Trump is moderating or backing off only to then see he is worse than ever. He is an authoritarian. He enjoys the cruelty. And the first thing he had Pam Bondi do after the shooting was to try to leverage it to get the voter files.

BREAKING: Trump doesn’t support the 2nd Amendment.

Acts of kindness do not need context, but evil only reveals its nature in aggregate. If democracies are ever again to have a morally-educated citizenry, critical thinking and media literacy skills must become a consistent feature of the elementary school curriculum.

Zelensky's critique of the Europeans at Davos was really good. "A salad of middle and small powers seasoned with enemies of Europe." He called for the "courage to act", in order to stop the fragmentation. But act how? Wish he had the courage to say that part as well.

So, what we've learned today is that #Trump could use force and nobody could stop him, but he won't do it. Phew, so #Iceland is safe. Wait, what?

Sure did not expect to hear Mark Carney quoting from Václav Havel's Power of the Powerless in his Davos speech. Havel would have so loved the absurdity of that.

It's only the third week of the year but NATO's already on the brink of destruction and US army soldiers might soon roam the streets of an American city with rifles in their hands.

Enough already with the “Trump is mentally unwell” takes. He’s no crazier than the guy who told you to inject bleach or the guy who tried to have his own VP lynched. What’s changed is the complete removal of constraints on his behavior. It’s not Trump’s mind that’s decaying, it’s your democracy.

That's the second time that al-Sharaa guy launched an offensive and defeated his opponent within days. Let's hope his brilliant military career is thereby over and he'll only focus on rebuilding Syria from now on.

One reason I'd never pay for Youtube is the ads. They are hilarious. "Work isn't working because we're using too many apps. Here's one more app!" "Running kills, tai chi heals. In your fifities? No sweat. In three weeks you too can look like an AI-generated body-builder."

Could be a simple accident as the report says, but given how little we know, it could also be an opening move in a war of succession.

Can’t have a republic without the rule of law. At this pace, there will be little left to celebrate this Fourth of July.

She will try to bribe him with the prize and he will, of course, accept it, the Nobel committee be damned. Perhaps then we can finally retire this charade of an award that already lost all credibility when Kissinger got it. #forecheck

It’s just a matter of time before ICE kill another unarmed civilian that will be promptly labeled a domestic terrorist. That’s when it needs to sink in that anyone not fully cooperating with anything ICE does will eventually receive the same brand and the same treatment. #forecheck

If you're a family that earns a dollar over $100,800 your income tax goes up by 10%. If you're a freaking billionaire, say Larry Page of Google, you will rather spend $173.5 million on properties in Miami than pay a one-time tax of 5% because.... no, I got nothing.

The only consequence of this insane policy will be a spike in child mortality in the US, while their autism rates will rise merrily along the current trajectory, simply because doctors are getting better at spotting it. #forecheck

What a pity it would be if this man escaped punishment by dying in his bed. Still, will be fun seeing how his little fiefdom falls apart after he checks out.

Fact Forecast of world politics for this week is out. Check it out and let me know your own predictions.

This is your regular reminder that authoritarianism is just domestic abuse writ large.

Let the pundits pontificate about the oil reserves, the international law or the Monroe doctrine. Referring to concepts that most people can't follow helps them justifiy their salaries. Meanwhile, it's just the little Marco Rubio scrambling to get anointed as Trump's heir. #venezuela

The reason why NATO cannot work with a president like this. He learned the meaning of the word ‘protection’ from the Gambino family.

Trump's too scared to take on Venezuela's ramshackle army, so I don't believe he'd ever shoot at soldiers from an allied country in order to sate his billionaire friends' greed for Greenland. He'll keep coming up with more harebrained schemes for taking it, though, just to look as if he's trying.

When you think of all the laws, court rulings, and indeed the Constitution being broken, ignored and brazenly violated every day, I just don't see how people can still have any faith in the midterms possibly making any difference at all.

Exactly the opposite conclusion you should have arrived at.

"A U.S. military takeover [of Greenland] could be achieved without much difficulty," says Politico. Well, not if Denmark decides to fight for it and at least some NATO allies choose to help. Yes, it's an unlikely scenario, but we've lived through too many unlikely scenarios lately to ignore it.

One reason why I’m glad the AI bubble hasn’t popped yet is that Trump, despite having taken credit for supposedly having made America the hottest country on Earth, will definitely try to blame Biden for anything that goes wrong. The further into Trump’s term we get, the fewer people will buy it.

There are no rules, they don’t actually care about respect, decorum, bipartisanship or debate, and only pretend to do so to browbeat you into submission. Nothing is going to change until more people realise that and respond accordingly; including to the media and politicians who have failed them.

Some of the organizations and causes that are as of today officially deemed contrary to the interest of the United States: International Institute for Justice and the Rule of Law. International Union for Conservation of Nature. International Law Commission of the UN (the list continues below)