Donald Trump started 2020 with an assassination of an Iranian general that risked igniting a war with Iran, it magically and thankfully didn't lead to that outcome, and we threw that good fortune away.

To be clear: you aren't just up against an effort to stop AOC from winning the Democratic nomination for President, you're up against a concerted effort to stop Democratic candidates from winning elections ever again.

Germany—a current NATO ally, and the most signifcant historic enemy to the United States during World War II—is expressing condolences for a United States civil rights leader.

Here's the asymmetry that you're up against if you're a Democratic voter: there are mainstream media barrages against AOC for not answering a certain question perfectly, but there aren't currently mainstream media barrages against Donald Trump for trying to have his own VP lynched over 5 years ago.

Oh, we’re at *that* phase of the fascism now. Got it.

TIRED: Graphics card shortages due to cryptocurrency mining. WIRED: Hard drive shortages due to AI data centers.

Even if you didn't know the candidates' names, the 2016 election was a case where Senate Republicans deliberately kept a Supreme Court seat vacant based on the chance a potential Republican successor could fill it (and this gamble paid off). The entire reason to vote Democratic in 2016 was this.

"I won't for the Democratic nominee if it's X" is just a socially acceptable way to say that you still don't care about courts, and you intend to die on the hill of not caring about courts.

Russia no longer cares about the Budapest Memorandum, the US no longer cares about NATO, and now the US is undermining its policy with Taiwan to China's advantage. If I'm the leader of a foreign nation watching this spectacular breakdown of treaties, I'm starting a nuclear weapons program.

Given that there’s already a pipeline connecting random right-wing bloodlust on social media to the Secretary of Defense announcing new kinetic strikes, this… isn’t great.

We should be encouraging people to wear visual signs that they are not cowards.

The author of this piece on rethinking on how War Colleges are run, btw.

"[Donald Trump] speaks with experience." THE EXPERIENCES: Coercing a foreign power to investigate his political rival, inciting an insurrection/attempted coup in which he tried to have his own Vice President killed.

I'm saying this as someone who fell for "Sparta was society at its peak" bullshit: it is literally one of the worst civilizations that mankind has ever created. Terrorized its own children (the Agoge), secret police (The Krypteia), large slave class (the Helots). No wonder Republicans love it.

There's a statistically significant chance that the libertarians who claimed "We told you so about Donald Trump" will vote for JD Vance in 2028.

This Democratic messaging puts Republicans in the position of being forced to argue that ICE is good and immigration is bad... which is exactly why Democrats should adopt it.

When we made a vaccine for the viral pandemic, the right's priority wasn't taking it to protect themselves and help end the viral pandemic, it was reflexively refusing to take it because the libs wanted them to, even if this killed them. That's how they'll behave towards your economic solutions.

Donald Trump's original plan for Gaza was the United States taking it over, and he shared an AI-generated video of "Trump Gaza" where there was golden statue of him. Meanwhile, this article just presumes his board's plan to rebuild Gaza must be serious and doesn't mention these details.

Prohibiting Ukrainians from using US weapon systems to hit military targets deep inside Russia was a completely stupid policy. I understand Joe Biden ultimately ended this policy before leaving office, but it never should have existed, and we should say so.

There was a common sense bipartisan border security bill in the Senate, Donald Trump told Senate Republicans to kill it as a means to undermine Joe Biden’s presidency, and they did. Read the room.

There's a very good chance that the final list of Donald Trump's abuses will surpass both in number and magnitude the grievances that led the United States to fight a war for independence from a British King. You can't just stick to talking about "affordability" when these are the conditions.

Let me be clear: $38.3 billion worth of warehouse space is part of a plan that will *NOT* stop at detaining immigrants. This is "lock up all of *those* people"-level of spending, and one day, this administration may conclude you're among "*those* people" and lock you up in one of these spaces.

The shitlibs know that the first guest on Gavin Newsom's podcast was Charlie Kirk.

There is a symbiotic relationship among universities, the private sector, and the military that has existed since World War II, it’s a major structural advantage for the United States, and Republicans are destroying it for literally no compelling reason.

Donald Trump views Greenland the same way that Adolf Hitler viewed the Sudetenland... which explains why the Germans are getting the answer to this question right.

JB Pritzker led the creation of a Holocaust Museum, was a funder of the Cambodia Tribunal Monitor (which covers the Cambodian Genocide), and his family came to the US to escape Russian pogroms. I don't have to wonder if he understands what's happening under Donald Trump. He does. Hence:

Legacy media outlets would be calling for a Democratic president who had these polling numbers to resign.

Something to bear in mind when we're debating whether "Abolish ICE" goes too far as political messaging is that Donald Trump functionally presided over abolishing USAID, this decision killed hundreds of thousands of people, and this is what USAID funds are now being used to do.

I've been an Apple computer user since their computers were referred to as Macintoshes, and if you're wondering if Steve Jobs would have handled this era any better, the answer is that he probably would have believed that RFK Jr. has the cure for the form of cancer that ultimately killed him.

Again, conservatism is just a socially acceptable form of the suicidal school mass shooter mindset.

Breaking: Judge grants Mark Kelly a preliminary injunction against Hegseth, who is reconsidering his rank: "This Court has all it needs to conclude that Defendants have trampled on Sen. Kelly's First Amendment freedoms & threatened the constitutional liberties of millions of military retirees."

ICE has way more in common with cartel operations than the people protesting ICE operations do. Mexican cartel members frequently wear masks to conceal their identities too.

“This is 100% and exclusively about abortion." This isn't a Democrat saying this. This is from somebody who worked in Donald Trump's first presidential administration.

In a political-media ecosystem that even semi-resembled a level playing field, Donald Trump would be constantly bombarded with calls to disavow Nick Fuentes's views, and that these two people have a history of dining together would be treated as a scandal.

"I urge Russia and Ukraine to intensify their efforts to ensure the safe return of every child to their families and guardians." This was an attempt at "Both sides!"-ing the conflict. It suggests there's an existing Ukrainian effort to kidnap Russian children when there literally isn't.

It's not great that the federal government is talking about Minnesota with the same language that would be used in the context of a US military occupation of another country. It's also not great that there's a significant chance that the federal government is very likely lying about its intent.

"I didn't think Donald Trump would do what he said he would do and what I voted for him to do." Just because he's reassessing his comfort level with what's happening doesn't mean he didn't vote for what's happening. He did.

Let the record reflect that Ari Drennen's political assessment was simply "A Gavin Newsom presidency wouldn't be as bad for trans people as a JD Vance presidency", and she's being attacked on multiple social media platforms for making a completely rational political assessment.

I don't envy a parent trying to raise a child in the United States. You are surrounded by cowardly institutions that all want to treat a pedophile president like a king.

As objectively deranged as Donald Trump threatening to block a bridge between the US and Canada is, it's still nowhere near as deranged as Donald Trump expressing his desire... to acquire Canada. That was Donald Trump handing Democrats a weapon for 2026 too.

This figure really foregrounds how when Republicans say they're voting Republican "based on the economy", this rationale makes zero sense.

Pam Bondi is channeling this energy right now.

On a related note, The Washington Post’s Editorial Board’s endorsement of confirming Kristi Noem to Homeland Security literally began with the words “Dog jokes aside…”

Donald Trump's origin story in modern US politics was claiming that Barack Obama's US birth certificate wasn't real to argue that his entire presidency was illegitimate. Something to bear in mind if you think having legal documents on your person will protect you from Republican bullshit.

It's a lot easier to understand Republican psychology once you just completely accept the fact that it's a socially acceptable form of school mass shooter psychology.

Shutting down a major United States airport for over a week during a hiring slowdown is literally the recipe for a recession. People who are good at playing city-building video games wouldn't do this shit.

There is literally no compelling United States defense interest advanced by this decision, and there's a very good chance that's why Donald Trump presided over this decision.

Belgium is a NATO member-state—and therefore an ally to the US under our nation's existing treaty laws. Belgium is questioning a continued stable trans-Atlantic alliance with the US... but to be clear, the current President of the US called into question the value of this relationship first.

If everything in these files come out, and Donald Trump were on the ballot again, his base would vote for him again. The thing they like about Donald Trump the most is that he can abuse and get away with it, and that's an ability that they want for themselves.