Using the US Navy to shakedown the rest of the world for 20% of global traffic through the Strait? This will never happen, but it's possibly the most destructive idea I've ever heard from him, and that's a high bar

The fundamental distinction in Democratic politics right now is that there are those who understand that this is a moment that requires a revolution, and those who don't

The 14th Amendment is actually really great, and I am a big fan

We all know that Roberts is going to leave the 7-2 decision upholding birthright citizenship for the end to make people think his court isn't hopelessly corrupt, right?

Never seen the USMNT so clearly outclass a team like this at a World Cup. Paraguay's no powerhouse, but there are many worse sides in this expanded Finals

USMNT playing really lovely soccer, flowing and unpredictable

This is total word salad except for the "I love the inflation" part

Venal corruption is a massively important driver of much of the Trump regime's actions, and it's not mentioned enough

I feel like whoever wrote the original algorithm for what gets promoted on this site had a pet die on them when they were little and still isn't over it

A little late now, but someone should pull together a "Real America" concert series on July 4th with actually great acts playing in multiple cities, partially to chap Trump's ass but mostly to highlight that this country still has a lot of great things and a lot of great people

Trump's skill is a finely tuned sense of where he has power and an insatiable drive to flaunt that power. Right now, almost the only place that's true is among the small rump of GOP primary voters, so he psychologically *has* to go there for his fix

People really underrate the effects of the collapse of the US global public health presence over the last decade. It was a very underreported story of COVID

John Roberts has always struck me as a mid-tier actor playing for a director who told him, "look sober and thoughtful" www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

1. What I found in Trump's new 113-page financial disclosure report. It doesn't look good.

"Leading by example" works to shame the other side into doing the right thing, but I think we all know by now that Republicans do not feel shame. They just think Democrats are dupes for giving up power levers voluntarily

It's breathtakingly obtuse and morally bankrupt to equate racism simply with, "activity which is primarily designed to hurt a minority population." I mean, taking Alito on his terms, chattel slavery wouldn't be racism to him since white people were making money off of it

Cybertruck is like if you asked an AI Agent, "create 'cringe' and add wheels to it."

I don't know the law, but I do know politics, and I know how the justices will rule every single time

MLS thought they were going to be the next big American sports league, and then the WNBA just completely ate their lunch. Pretty strong argument that the WNBA is surpassing the NHL at this point

Haha, we've come to the "maybe capitalism is actually bad and we should ignore it?" part of the LLM AI business model journey

Big “Are We The Baddies” energy in this one talkingpointsmemo.com/news/staff-a...

It's like every petroleum oligarch wished, "I want an American President that will do whatever I want" over the same monkey's paw

The petro-state oligarchs thought they hit the jackpot with Trump getting re-elected as President, but they forgot the central rule of Trump: he destroys everything he touches. He's managing to do more to destroy the fossil fuel economy than anyone

This is so so huge. Orban was symbolically and practically acting as a perceived vanguard of right wing authoritarianism in Europe. He was seen as a model on how to build a 21st century autocracy. To see him get turned back is just a tremendous victory

Underrated part of the last few decades of American political history has been the fossil fuel companies holding the country back. In the end, they mostly won, and the country lost while the rest of the world moved on

Calling Donald Trump the worst President in history is an insult to James Buchanan and other terrible Presidents. Trump is on a while different plane of terrible. Commodus levels of world historic terribleness

Oh dear, he doesn't understand the problem at all www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Not many Americans understand what a big deal Orbán's defeat would be. He's a really central figure in the rise of the European authoritarian right

I saw some debate whether there was ever a player like Pritchard, a 6'1" guard who lives in the paint the way he does, but it's a product of the spacing of today's game. Plenty of guys *could* (Iverson a prime example), but there wasn't the space in the paint to hang out there and shoot fadeaways

Well, first of all, ominous. And second of all, this is a pretty great way to kill MAGA support in young men once and for all www.aol.com/articles/fed...

The Trump Administration and Trumpism make so much more sense if you think of them as members of an increasingly desperate petro-oligarch status quo. Maduro had many bad qualities as a leader, but his big sin to them was being "petro" without cozying up to the "oligarchs" part of that

Like many right wing ideas, it is both reprehensible and incorrect. This was a massive, massive strategic defeat, quite possibly the worst in American history. Trump's genocidal threats were products of weakness and immorality, not strength

It's not war that authoritarianism needs, it's enemies. And Americans don't think of Iran as some threatening enemy, we just don't

The 25th Amendment is actually harder to get than an impeachment conviction because it needs, in the face of opposition from the President, 2/3 vote in *both* houses to stick, PLUS majority of cabinet PLUS VP. Impeachment just needs majority of House and 2/3 of Senate

Sigh

Every word in this post is dystopian

This seems inarguable. As of now, I'd put this as the biggest strategic defeat in American history. Vietnam was a significant strategic defeat, but I don't think it fundamentally altered the US position as strongest country in the world. I think this one will

"Trump Threatens War Crimes In Profanity-laced Social Media Post" is the only journalistically defensible headline

Just thinking about the Celtics trade for Derrick White and that if it didn't happen, White and Wemby would be playing on the same defense right now. The whole league should be thanking the Celtics for saving them from that fate, good lord

Trump has managed to put Iran in the driver's seat, asserting control over the passage of 20% of the world's oil. Iran may emerge from this conflict stronger than it has been maybe in decades. This is an almost unimaginable strategic defeat for the United States, beggars belief

Do you know how crazy you have to be to make *the NFL* look inclusive?

Stephen Miller demanded that ICE-holes “force confrontations” with protesters because “anti-ICE could not be viewed as successful.” He repeatedly said that protesters “need to be vanquished by any force necessary.” Later, ICE-holes murdered Alex Pretti. #ProudBlue #StephenMiller #FuckICE #AlexPretti

Trump's entire life has been about breaking things and trying to get other people to clean up them up

This is possibly central danger that the Founders feared about mixing religion and politics, that there's a "higher law" you are acting in service of which conveys a kind of inherent morality to all that you do

The blockade of Cuba is immoral and unjust, but letting a Russian ship through is just peak loser energy from Trump Admin www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/w...

Republican ideology is that there's plenty of money to destroy schools in Iran but no money to build schools here

It's deeply, deeply funny that Donald Trump may do more to destroy the fossil fuel economy than anyone else ever www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...

It's really mind boggling how much human suffering is being caused by Donald Trump, and it's going to get much worse

Pathetic, embarrassing

I would bet my life savings that the Trump family and its allies are banking a significant portion of that $1.25B