I wish some major media outlets would do broad reports on the impact of death threats on our politics, and on who's doing them (MAGA men mostly from what I can tell), and why law enforcement appears to be doing so little about them. They are such a big (submerged) part of our politics now.

so Iran has apparently knocked out and destroyed / disabled to some extent two U.S. THAAD batteries This is a massive deal. Aside from the expense, this is not a weapon system we just have a ton of lying around. You don't replace these easily. defencesecurityasia.com/en/irgc-dest...

Him and Zach Levi are both big "dang I liked stuff they were in, it's too bad they revealed they are terrible people"

This really ought to be terrifying. We literally have people making decisions to drop bombs in the grips of apocalyptic fantasies.

And they should go much harder, to keep this administration on its heels. Right now, public support is heavily against the invasion, but the White House and their media outlets are going to be pushing the propaganda hard and a lot of their base will rally around Trump again soon.

"U.S. officials and lawmakers with access to classified information ... say the administration’s assertions are incomplete, unsubstantiated, or flat-out wrong." - Wall Street Journal

The Republicans seem to be prepping an argument that any domestic terror attacks in the aftermath of their Iran attacks will be the fault of Democrats for shutting down DHS funding, so I'd like to remind everyone of this appointment:

Viewpoint diversity, FTW!!!

Raytheon Executive: I know you’re skeptical about buying American again. But hear me out. The MIM-104 Patriot is the only surface to air missile system with a proven track record of success against the US Air Force. Danish Defense Minister: Continue.

We cannot possibly engage on the distracting subject of just and unjust wars until every last Oberlin sophomore has been put in their place

"No stupid rules of engagement" is how you shoot down three of your own F-15s in one day. Just a shocking display of martial ineptitude.

I don't understand this coordinated response of Dems going, "Trump owes us an explanation for attacking Iran!" Do they expect his failure to provide one will produce a politically advantageous gotcha? Come on. Just say the war is stupid, wasteful and it should cease. Stop being weak and terrible.

Reading this, again, you get the sense that someone at Anthropic knows how the intel community misleads by using definitions of words that are different than everyone else believes. And the people at OpenAI simply don't know or don't care about that.

This is right. And people hate to hear it, but Joe Biden’s single most important task was to Trump-proof the US. His task was to destroy the Republican Party to punish them for Trump, salt the earth over them, and implement big structural reforms to stop future R minority extremism. And he failed.

I remember when trying to forgive student loans was massive overreach of Presidential power.

I’m voting for the candidate who promises to imprison everyone who makes money insider trading on war.

Each one of those three missiles costs 33% more than the annual budget of the national park where I work.

It should be much more at the forefront of our minds, the extent to which the most politically activated and politically empowered segment of the authoritarian American cult calling itself "Christian" see the apocalypse as something to hasten, not prevent.

> @covie93.bsky.social

congress sounds cool i wish it was real

This is an illegal war. The Constitution makes it clear that CONGRESS has to declare it. There is no “as long as you brief us first” exception. As one of your constituents, I am BEGGING you to assert Congress’s constitutionally OBLIGATORY role here, even if you (unlike me) agree w the attacks.

The party of limited government, free markets, & the marketplace of ideas, folks.

I heard this guy give a talk a few weeks ago where he claimed that Trump wanted to "revitalize United States R&D" which was an interesting claim to say the least.

This guy should not have this much power.

Oh hey, this sounds familiar encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/t...

The Founders were so concerned about bribery that the Constitution forbids it three separate times (the two emoluments clauses and as the only name impeachable offense besides treason). Exactly for this reason. A US president pocketing funds from foreign govts leads to actions against US interests.

No one who is at all concerned with the national security of the United States can possibly support Trump. This is simply a hideous betrayal of the country and its future in exchange for a bribe.

Bruh...

I’m all for welcoming converts. But Rufo isn’t a slow learner. He’s an architect of this hellscape. If he’s truly repentant, he needs some time in the wilderness. And maybe — *maybe* — after that . . . he can go fuck himself.

Progressives aren’t so progressive now that I made up a thing they’re all saying

I found that this is wrong. Democracy actually is a powerful motivating force for a critical slice of the population *if they perceive a real threat*. I call this the "legibility" theory of democratic backsliding: the more legible the threat, the more likely it is to prompt effective pushback.

If you're interested in learning more, please read the whole piece here (GIFT LINK). It represents the results of months of research, distilled down to a (hopefully) readable form. Let me know what you think! www.vox.com/politics/479...

The left is going to end up with the CIA in the national divorce because educational polarization means knowing anything about China or Iran at all is woke coded, let alone leaning their language and history.

what could go wrong

is life just a series of days where you're tired in the afternoon and wide awake at night, running behind on weekly deadlines, and seeing pants get slim and big and then slim again over the years until you die?

The Ford Pinto had a death rate of 85 people for 10 million cars sold. The Cybertruck hasn't sold 10 million, but the fatality rate so far maths out to 1,452 people killed per 10 million sold. The Cybertruck may be the deadliest road car, for the occupants, ever sold. fuelarc.com/evs/its-offi...

if these people don't want to lead, then i ask them not to run for leadership positions

Absolute shocker of a rights grab - academics may want to push back hard

certainly makes me feel less than enthused about the US hockey team but I continue to hold that Kash treating the FBI director job as an extended make-a-wish trip is the absolute least damaging thing he could do with the position given this administration's goals

The reason we're here is that tens of millions of people will punch a hole in a wall if they hear someone used food stamps to buy soda but they're fine if the right-wing podcaster turned fbi director uses his taxpayer funded private jet to go party whenever he feels like it bsky.app/profile/thed...

"You now live in a country where volunteers deliver babies at home, in secret, off the books, because mothers fear that if they go to the hospital, they will be abducted by masked, armed agents of the state while giving birth. This is not a hypothetical. It is your lived reality. It is America."

INBOX: the police chief of Quakertown, Pa., led a group of plainclothes officers to disrupt a peaceful high school student sidewalk protest yesterday. They threw an underage girl to the ground, choked her, and disconnected all calls to the detention center where she and others are currently held.

It is shocking how quickly one of the biggest benefits of U.S. higher education, the ability to recruit the best students from around the world, is eroding.

anyway time for me to re-up my view that when you make claims like that as a journalist you should be able to answer the simple question “who said this and why do they matter?”

if anyone is tempted to briefly hand it to John Roberts remember that he is about to finish his life’s work of destroying the Voting Rights Act and save yourself the trouble

"We owe conspiracy theorists a huge apology" No we fucking don't. They were talking about a secret conspiracy of gay trans Jewish lizard people. The Epstein files uncovered a conspiracy of rich, straight, white, right-wing Christian men, which these motherfuckers never even considered.

the glorious constitutional principle of "the president can't fuck with Supreme Court justices' investment portfolios" stands strong

look at my country man, we’re getting out-No Kings’d by the fuckin’ british

It is notable that Andrew has been arrested for "misconduct in public office", which is precisely what the US Supreme Court decided no American president can ever be charged with.