This is an act of war and illegal under both US and international law, let’s just be clear about that:

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The funniest part is that the whole point of funding the crusades was to send your potential sources of domestic political instability (loud, violent lunatics) off on a mission where, worst case scenario, they were out of your hair for several years or, best case scenario, they died.

I went to Texas to write about the sudden end of one of America's most successful experiments: the six decades of welcoming India's most educated and ambitious citizens. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/o...

This, combined with "vice signaling" (taking pride in antisocial behavior) has given us the reign of the Stupid Asshole, something most people are against, but can only be remedied if we're not too polite to talk about it

meanwhile the critique of popularism is "your own base will hate you for betraying them, people who really believe in this stuff will go full fash rather than support your half measures, and the waverers will take your capitulation as proof the fash are right" bearing out pretty well so far

Is it still necessary to point out that “human rights are a Soviet plot to use the inferior races to undermine and destroy white civilisation” is literal Mein Kampf stuff, by the way? I would like to think people can spot Nazi ideas when they see them, but it’s hard to be confident any more.

A really important piece. The times when we have opened our country to talented people from around the world are among the moments when America has been truly great. Trump is destroying that legacy and fomenting unconscionable racism. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/o...

I've seen people reference the claim that RFK Jr. believes the 1918 influenza came from lab research, but since no one provided a link, I was skeptical that even he could be that stupid. Boy, was I wrong. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

This is not idle speculation. The intercepts of the Witkoff/Kushner/Dmitriev conversations leaked by NATO intel services to various European and US publications show that this is _exactly_ what is going on. It's the most humiliating chapter in the whole history of US diplomacy.

Klein has always been a two-faced pig at the trough.

Trump's DOJ was monitoring all the movements of the Miami Herald reporter who was covering the Epstein case.

that’s a million users per week. — h/t @colincarlson.bsky.social for the arithmetic and refs in this thread: bsky.app/profile/coli...

i don’t see how any of the benefits of chatgpt and other consumer-facing LLMs can possibly outweigh their incredible ability to induce suicides

Remember: When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them. When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips. ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.

RIP Claudia Cardinale. Much like Robert Redford, she was a rare case of a beautiful performer with a filmography full of bangers who did NOT become right-wing later in life. Here she is punching fascist Brigitte Bardot in the face in Les Pétroleuses (1971).

Trumpists are gutter trash.

This whole fucking thread, man...

"Failing to create an obedient computer son after you couldn't control your trans daughter" is a step up in shadenfrauden over Frankenstein, tbh.

and they dont want me to do it folks, “you cant break the seventh seal of Valarynx” they say. “mr trump if you unseal the final scroll it will unleash a thousand years of darkness and pestilence.” i don’t know folks, what do you think should i break it? *crowd going absolutely ape shit*

This was Charlie Kirk's entire schtick. Dishonorable Romulan dog. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjEV...

Insane NY Post column suggesting that the new First Lady who is sad about leaving her longtime neighbors in a not fancy NYC neighborhood is an ungrateful brown woman

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

BUT HUNTER'S LAPTOP

In 1932, FDR was elected with 57.4% of the vote. He brought us the New Deal. In 1964, LBJ was elected with 61.1% of the vote. He brough us the Great Society. In 2025, Trump was elected with 49.8% of the vote. He's attempting to destroy everything FDR & LBJ built. The rest is commentary.

obvious but still significant that one of the primary and most socially tractable ways some people experience their own “whiteness” is when they decide they’ve been personally deprived something they’re owed, whereas when they get or have things, it’s what they’ve personally earned as an individual

This is a metaphor for the tech industry overall circa 2025

Side note: Sinatra’s mom Natalina “Dolly” Garaventa, a midwife by trade, ran an underground free abortion clinic, chained herself to a fence to fight for women’s suffrage and was an extremely influential organizer for the Democratic Party www.irishtimes.com/opinion/eamo...

It is EXHAUSTING not only being made responsible for coming up with new kinds of assignments for our students; it's also tedious reading op-eds that suggest the core problem is a crisis in teaching. But, as Chris and I lay out here, this isn't a crisis in teaching; it's an attack on learning.

It’s going to be some bullshit respectability from the center and some bullshit bleating about identity politics from the left and some bullshit religious forgiveness from the right. I’m just going to expire from unrequited rage.

Plato argued in the Republic that the 'tyrant,' or someone with unlimited wealth and power, would live the worst possible life because his soul would be devoured by lawless, unlimited desires that could never be sated. I think we've gotten confirmation of this from more cases than Trump lately

I always thought Plato was pretty pollyannaish on this point, but this is decent evidence for the view that a man of bad character will therefore be unhappy even with every external trapping of success and good fortune.

to the press, online spaces are somehow both the medium through which political actors and citizens form their views about the world, useful for gauging the temperature, and also, simultaneously, not “real” in the sense that certain trends or things that happen there are newsworthy

Go read Herman Melville's "Bartleby the Scrivener" if you think no one was on the autism spectrum until the twentieth century.

There's an actual audio version lol youtu.be/e5ZwDfY2aMs

Extremely funny to call the pope “holier-than-thou”

Imagine being so utterly incapable of joy

So I have the cover story in next month's TNR. I interviewed the heads of police groups; immigration defense attorneys, ex-judges and ex-prosecutors; former DOJ and DHS officials, and the former head of Border Patrol. They're all horrified at what we've seen, and they all fear what's coming.

Pardons, even ones that are the result of bribes, are "Official Acts", so the Sh!tbirds of SCOTUS say Trump can't be prosecuted.

Whats interesting is Shurkin in 2015 alerted us a potential genocide when Burundi’s autocratic leader in an attempt to stay in power (sound familiar?) killed *240* and drove out 200,000. Somehow Bibi killing 300,000 and driving 2 million out is not a genocide. Wonder what the difference is🤔🤔🤔

Hillary’s “basket of deplorables” speech *defended* conservatives. Paraphrasing: “Some call all Republicans racist, homophobic, and otherwise bigoted, but that’s unfair to millions. It’s only half, the rest are good people.” But the press made calling an openly bigoted campaign bigoted a scandal.

Treat yourself today to this video www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydvU...

Christ on a bike, this is brilliant. And disgustingly historically accurate. 10/10

“Miss, do you agree with the sign?” “Absolutely not. My great niece was 4 months pregnant and her fetus had no skull. And because of men involving themselves in women’s bodies she was forced to deliver the fetus… there’s a reason God created medicine.”🔥 #ForcedBirthNation

His entire career is based his anti-woke views! Without them he’d be an expat who couldn’t get published because his writing is almost comically bad. The anti-woke grift is all he has!

I'd be delighted to have a hairstylist or a youth soccer coach visit for a night

ICE is planning 7 massive human warehouses holding 5,000 to 10,000 people … with a smaller facility holding up to 1,500 people in Woodbury. wapo.st/4axtwZ4