Jimmy Kimmel put together an amazing compilation of Donald Trump saying all the words from the birthday letter he wrote to his best friend Jeffrey Epstein

Fat Man and Little Boy bombed.

This

Live your life in such a way that, when you die, people directly quoting you does’t sound like a personal attack on your character.

I know Charlie Kirk valued debate and free speech because he blocked me for fact-checking his lies on Twitter and then put me on his organization's Professor Watchlist for writing a book he didn't like.

Kirk’s Assassination Brings Trump’s Authoritarianism into Even Clearer Focus By blaming his enemies, Trump seeks to mobilize his followers, discredit his critics, and justify repression. - my latest column @lincolnsquare.media open.substack.com/pub/lincolns...

Full series of events

Amazing

I was briefed on the intelligence last week. Iran posed no imminent threat of attack to the United States. Iran was not close to building a deliverable nuclear weapon. The negotiations Israel scuttled with their strikes held the potential for success.

TANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank

I just want to say for the record that when the history books are written centuries from now, I believe the election of Donald Trump in a free and fair election in 2024 will go down as one of the most senseless and self-destructive own goals in human history

Thinking about this quote, from JPMorgan's Michael Cembalist, today: www.jpmorgan.com/insights/out...

The people running our country are sick

We will not blindly follow illegal orders because Donald Trump wrote them down on a piece of paper. Illinois follows the laws of the land – not the decrees of an aspiring king hell bent on disenfranchising millions of voters who deserve to have their voice heard.

I would like to nominate Maxwell Smart for national security advisor.

I think Hegseth is going down on the security breach fiasco. They're all incompetent and guilty as sin, but spilling the attack plans in detail, like a schoolboy trying to impress the teacher, stands out for its stupidity and lack of judgment. His pathetic attempt at damage control was obscene.

Are you against America having a Golden Age?

From an operational security perspective, this is the highest level of fuckup imaginable. These people cannot keep America safe.

WARNING: This is a heartfelt explanation by George Conway of his disappointment with the Paul Weiss law firm’s succumbing to Trump’s extortion via a bogus Executive Order filled with false accusations. An example of successful authoritarianism, and a crippling of our system. youtu.be/bi25VIQcbN8

(1/X) Can this country to back to the way it was before Trump? No, it cannot. Narcissistic sociopaths break things in ways that can't be fixed.

The Charlie Angus resistance tour will be in Toronto for a town hall on Monday night. I will join the protest at the American consulate at 4pm. Hope to see people there.

Trump:Canada::Putin:Ukraine Mutual role models. Allies in imperialism. Using the same script. @saletan.bsky.social documents the precise parallels in how Putin justified his invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and what Trump is now saying about Canada. open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

"The gates of hell are open night and day; Smooth the descent, and easy is the way: But to return, and view the cheerful skies, In this the task and mighty labor lies." -- Virgil, The Aeneid, Book 6, lines 126f (tr. Dryden)

A top economics reporter goes off script on national TV: “I am going to say this at risk of my job, but what President Trump is doing is insane.”

One at a time.

There is something depressing about that rhetoric: You’d think people could get sufficiently outraged by the deprivation of basic rights without needing to imagine themselves personally at risk. It’s like we’ve decided appealing to morality is pointless; it’s got to be pitched as self-interest.

"Antisemitism in the Oval Office: A confrontation seen with a historian's eye" snyder.substack.com/p/antisemiti...

A little short-term "disturbance" is a small price to pay for permanently higher prices, permanently reduced real wages, permanently impaired national productivity, permanent conflict with betrayed ex-allies, and permanent surrender of global influence to China.

The fundamental weakness of Elon Musk is lack of it.

I'm starting to think of elite rationalizations of Trump's insanity as a kind of highbrown qanon. It's the fantasy that things can't be as fucked as they seem and that in reality there's a secret plan being carried out by competent patriots

Smart thread here

That flag hangs in a Ukrainian brigade’s r&r house near the front in Kharkiv region, where I was visiting some infantrymen in September. I was proud to see it.

The attempted mugging of a visiting president was about the world war that Musk, Trump, and Vance have chosen. If we attend to what Vance and Trump said yesterday, we can work our way to the unreason of American policy, and to the chaos that will follow. snyder.substack.com/p/the-war-tr...

There it is! "Putin went through a hell of a lot with me. He went through a phony witch hunt." He is referring to them weathering their collusion becoming public, and now is the big payback: together until the end.

A terrible moment for the United States and the world. youtube.com/shorts/c_-JI...

Here I react to the shameful encounter between American leaders and media and the Ukrainian president. No doubt there were more, but I saw five failures on our side: of hospitality, decency, democracy, strategy, and independence. Please watch and share. snyder.substack.com/p/five-failu...

Trump wanted to treat Gavin Newsom the same way as Zelensky when he flew out there. But Gavin met him on the tarmac and bodied him. And that was that. Because face to face, man to man, no bros around to back him up, Trump is the biggest coward on earth.

Trump and Vance have repeatedly claimed that Zelensky has not been sufficiently grateful for U.S. support throughout the war. We compiled instances where Zelensky has publicly expressed gratitude to the U.S., its people, and its leadership for being Ukraine’s largest supporter.

I am writing today in support and defense of personal liberties and free markets. I am writing today in support and defense of personal liberties and free markets. "A Washington Post submission: Satire today, straight-faced critique tomorrow, I promise" snyder.substack.com/p/a-washingt...