Really worthwhile piece www.foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/ukra...

"our monetization strategy? very simple, we create the Vile Offspring from beloved Charles Stross novel Don't Create The Vile Offspring, Did You Not See What They're Called"

Amazing that every US president, even Trump, ends up saying this

I met a group of dubai-brits in Prague and they were gushing about how they make about the same money as they did in the UK, but now they can afford a nanny, housekeeper, and cook. They also boasted how they'll sometimes just stop paying and see how long they'll work without pay. All while laughing.

One of the things living abroad taught me is that a) it’s very nice to have servants and b) a society which makes it possible for an upper-middle-class person to have servants is deeply unjust and inequitable.

IDK how significant these cracks are, but there are some bits of info here about Trump-Rodriguez collaboration apnews.com/article/vene...

Noncoincidental in a way - mineral revenue is associated with conflict

So Trump was recently claiming to have spared Iranian military leadership because they were "moderate"....but in fact a bunch of top military commanders have been killed. Maybe someone tried to brief him about the IRGC / Artesh distinction, IDK, but he's babbling. www.euronews.com/2026/03/21/a...

yet another example of "free speech absolutism with GOP characteristics" 🤐

Trump is going easy on illegal gun sales. Remember this, every time they try to exploit violence & crime as an excuse. www.propublica.org/article/how-...

Why *isn't* Mamdani arresting Smotrich? Basically a campaign promise that he would. Yes, it would be hard, NYPD disobedience and the ICC warrant not being final yet. But some Posters claim Mamdani "just does stuff" magically without letting phony obstacles stop him...

We’re living through Karl Kraus’ aphorism: “In war, one first hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that the enemy is suffering along with us; then, in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost.”

US military fires a *Hellfire missile* into the engine room of a cargo ship. There wasn't another way? www.reuters.com/world/middle...

The Anti-AbortionMovement’sAlarming ControlTactics newrepublic.com/article/2101... via @newrepublic.com

If some reporting & analysis is right, this is tipping the balance of the war kyivindependent.com/analysis-how...

Ray Bradbury hated TV so much that he said to Touch Grass while it's still legal. RIP, would he have hated social media even more?

Russia's using an expensive missile to throw chunks of iron. probably because that missile *could* carry nukes and they want to make that threat a little harder but they've made that threat so many times it's mostly ignored Tough talk is not a cheat code

"there was a stark contrast between the agents’ reactions to the footage and the public’s responses to it. " True for a lot of MAGA troll stuff! They don't know or care how it plays with a larger audience & we can't assume anything about the public from MAGA propagandist choices.

"my girlfriend is a vegetarian which pretty much makes me a vegetarian" MAGA claims this makes Samuel L Jackson's character weak and not a real man youtu.be/Mnb_3ibUp38?...

Their new girlfriend is women

More Catholic text on the internet / in the training data? Or a Jesuit plot?

Can't believe Hollywood spent millions to make this youtu.be/N1sD75s3A4c?...

I wonder if the GOP has done something stupid like, say, picking a fight with damn near every mainline denomination in Texas? In other news religionnews.com/2025/11/02/e...

Trump is refusing to let US citizens back into the US if exposed to Ebola...trying to make them quarantine at a facility in Kenya that doesn't exist yet. Not only does this punish doctors for trying to help, and go against public health advice, but excluding US citizens seems extra unconstitutional

Constituent Assembly to write a new constitution, like post-apartheid South Africa one person, one vote

I have kind of the opposite opinion. The richest people worked to become that wealthy precisely because they were unable to ascend Maslow's pyramid like a normal person would after making ~$20 million.

It doesn’t mean anything! Who gives a shit! It fucking goes! www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-y5...

ICE is targeting journalists at Delaney Hall. They’re hitting photographers, breaking fingers and smashing off lenses.

There's been some reporting on deployments of ships & aircraft to the Caribbean & possible escalation against Cuba. The blockade is plenty deadly already. A Marine unit is *ending* its deployment in the Caribbean, however. www.stripes.com/branches/mar...

The draft proposal being considered is for a 60-day ceasefire extension, not a lasting peace. It *might* lead to the blockades being loosened during the ceasefire, but even that seems uncertain.

/2 Federal perjury investigations for testimony in civil cases are incredibly rare. Nearly unheard of. And I have absolutely never heard of one launched against the prevailing party in a case. Wanton and open corruption.

My heart broke to see Americans fighting Americans in our streets yesterday. As I saw ICE agents tackling civilians and firing pepper balls into the crowd, I was overwhelmed by how broken we’ve become. We cannot normalize this violence. Here’s what happened at Delaney Hall: THREAD

"Paxton's Corrupt Adam Hoffman Pedophile Pardon" and then you start shortening it to "Paxton Pedo Pardon" or "The Corrupt Hoffman Pardon" or any other variation you can think of on subsequent mentions in the same appearance. bsky.app/profile/dext...

Reporters @thecity.nyc spent months acquiring & analyzing every habeas petition filed by immigrants around NYC We identified 430 street arrests, far outnumbering courthouse arrests 93% targeted Latinos Latinos make up 66% of the undocumented population projects.thecity.nyc/ice-street-a...

Modest effect, but against Trump

james talarico when the vegan police show up

"migrant workers" from other parts of China treated like illegal immigrants within one country but this is a partial improvement

The effort to boost the Galindo primary campaign: it's run by the treasurer of the House Republicans' main Super PAC. Dirty tricks by the Republican Party as a whole, to boost a crackpot who hates Jews. popular.info/p/a-gop-dirt...

Hypothetical polling showed Talarico doing about 1-2 points better against Paxton than Cornyn. That is not an earth-shattering difference — but it might be enough in a close race. Ds lost TX by 2.6 points in 2018, w a D+7-8 national environment. GB is on track for that now. It kinda... just adds up

So that's why they are going nuts.

CA chemical spill: risk of explosion gone, some evacuated people can return home. Firefighters & plant workers removed insulation from the tank & checked the pressure despite fears of an explosion. www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/article...

“donald trump makes everyone, including his supporters, angry and miserable” has been true for a full decade and yet people try to find alternate explanations for why so many people are angry and miserable

this website is not beating the allegations

The military NEVER says “Can’t do it boss, got nothing for that” even if it’s true: the incentives are always to say yes. Second, it has a lot of influence over the means (the instruments) even when it pretends not to have it. And they choose what they want, not what the right tool is.

There are valid reasons for that at tactical levels but as one reaches senior levels where the right thing for the country is sometimes to say, "Sorry, Secretary/President, great as our military is we are likely to fail if we try to do that"

Beyond that, it's military culture. Officers are developed in a system where you're always supposed to have a can-do answner, never bring your boss a problem without also bringing a solution, and accept taht if your commander orders you do to something hopeless, you do it

One thing I find striking - apart from the open admission that he's lying about what the law is to achieve his desired policy outcome (his 'moral position') - is the admission that the moment he made that (bad) argument, the press rushed to lift him up as an equal to the, y'know, real arguments.

I saw chaos inside and outside of the ICE detention center Delaney Hall today. Detainees protesting the lack of due process, the disgusting food and poor treatment while their families and advocates stood outside calling for help. 1/4