Our media will of course learn no lessons from this, but the initial ICE narrative about the two murders it committed here in Minneapolis was 100% false, slanderously depicting the victims as aggressors attempting to kill federal agents. Literally zero reason to believe ICE here. Zilch. None.

I kind of think this stuff is a bit of cope because the first round of greenland talks were all fun and games in trump I. By trump 2, all those fun ideas become policy and people think about them. By the next republican president, all of those people will be the bureaucrats they pull

I also cannot recommend you buy Tarkov because the developers are quietly pro-war and flagrantly sanction busting if you absolutely must play that game, go buy it from one of the account resellers because supporting people who do credit card fraud is more ethical

little to add to Platner discourse that others haven't said better. so i'll just say once again that the era of consequence free politics is no good and it is important to bring back shame

one thing about people thinking Platner changed is that he didn't actually say he did, apologize for anything he'd done in an unqualified way, or do anything to indicate that this was the case. the idea that he had was fully confabulated by his supporters.

the other thing is that Platner is not an oysterman. he is unemployed. he is not paid a salary for "his" oyster company. his wife is paid a "salary" for "selling" oysters to his mother, in what is more or less a fraudulent transaction. what money does not come from his mommy comes from tours.

Wait a minute, the Maine DSA were telling people that they didn’t endorse Platner, and it turns out that that was just a lie by omission because they had actually “recommended” that you vote for him??? Fuckin hell that’s weasel shit

We were massively rewarded for replacing Biden with Harris. We did not make it over the line, but we were on track to lose New Jersey. The comparison to pushing Biden out is a great argument in favor of pushing Platner out

We are going to have to atone as a nation after this is over.

I get the sense that a lot of Congress still view Trump as some sort of interloping curiosity or oddity causing a brief disruption in their precious system and that they'll just adjust and move on. Very very damning to say the least of their judgement.

Kinda become a "draconian enforcement of norms" guy

This is the kind stuff that makes me sick to my stomach

Hey Katie Miller, straight to jail

we joke about the "two states" thing but this is exactly how the Mexican American War went down: invade a sovereign neighboring country in an unprovoked war of conquest, then add states in pairs of two to preserve the partisan balance

"Can you blame people for being nostalgic for the first Death Star? Some folks don’t care about billions of souls crying out in unison as long as the interstellar transports run on time. That doesn’t mean they’re pro–dark side. That’s just pragmatism." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/her...

"There’s simply no way any of us could have predicted a Nazi SS guy with his eyeballs dangling out of his sockets and the Staff of Ra broiled into his flesh like grill marks on a meat slab would be such a terrible candidate for Senate."

This is who Klippenstein has always been. We elevated way too many people precisely because they were massive jerks and we convinced ourselves that proved they were honest.

in this house we believe: - treaty allies are real - we owe sooooo many reparations - NATO must be a real collaborative defense framework - Slava Ukraini - free Palestine - defend Taiwan - abolish ICE

My take designed to offend the maximal number of people is that most politicians left of the GOP are not built to navigate this because they have imperial brainworms

Everything else aside, twitter warps your ability to do basic career saving shit

If you spend enough time on the relationship advice subreddits you'll learn that this is very much a type of guy and that this guy shouldn't be trusted with anything

Writing a post on substack to troll Bluesky so you can share their reaction with your Nazi friends on Twitter, truly this is progressivism to me.

in lighter news I am happy to share an excerpt from my upcoming YA fantasy novel that has been picked up and will be coming out this fall. hardcore fans of the genre may recognize just a few easter eggs

If "no nazi tattoos" is a purity test, I'm OK with purity tests. If "no rapists" is a purity test, I'm OK with purity tests. If "no physical abuse" is a purity test, I'm OK with purity tests. And if you think electing people who fail those tests will lead to good governance, go fix your heart.

Family of Darius Before Alexander, by Francesco Salvator Fontebasso, 1750, 📸 by @aricbeckerphoto

The way the Democrats have utterly failed to push back on the insane Greenland saber rattling and instead are resorting to "he can have a little Greenland as a treat" is really indicative of how not up to the moment these geriatrics are.

Oh Corey Robin is behind this? The guy who staked his reputation on Donald Trump not being a fascist?

THE ACKROOMS

THE ACK! THBBPT ROOMS

"Vance got Yooned by Kirkification" You bolt awake at 20,000 feet above the island of Tarawa. You are not online. It is November 23, 1943. You are flying a Hellcat watching a parade formation of 20 zeroes fly by, and you have changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. They must be shot down.

Not saying that game was stolen from Egypt but it is now on display at museum in London.

it is as if Pharaoh's Army was swallowed up by Lake Lanier.

certainly, but klippenstein's career is built entirely on chasing online fights and people trying to bully him is actually a necessary input that he counts on

Once again, I am just a small-town international relations professor, standing here, begging our media & our Congress to take our most important signed, ratified international treaty seriously & threats by the One Special Boy to violate it as the presidency-ending scandal that it should have been.

Those sons of bitches who got Obama elected are some of the most insufferable alive. They walked into a hurricane, wound up on a mountaintop, and they think it means they can fly.

Aside from the substance, you don't see normal political strategists and campaign operatives running around giving self-promotional interviews about how brilliant they are in the middle of a campaign. You have a candidate, they're the message. You're not the story. Unprofessional grifter behavior.

perhaps we should view nazi tattoos as disqualifying from here on out. i kind of assumed we'd already view them as disqualifying but was unpleasantly surprised so maybe from here we could all agree not to downplay nazi tattoos since they seem pretty indicative of broad disregard for human dignity

Bernie is nearly as culpable as Schumer on the Platner nom. endorsed him 11 days in. letting fucking Warren and Emma Vigeland take the heat, fucking pathetic

everybody who looked the other way on dealbreaker after dealbreaker because they were so stoked on their great white populist hope deserves the humiliation she’s going to be forced to bear instead. yall made her into a sin eater because you wanted a slur-saying left so badly

i have been trying to unpack why the i told you so’s here feel so legitimate despite the horrific seriousness of the allegations. i think bc it’s so enraging that he was allowed to make it this far. that poor woman was forced to traumatize herself in public because pundits are too fucking stupid

Imagine this being your take finding out someone both currently has and has had a Nazi tattoo on his body, that's not a mistake someone makes once, that's a mistake they make one time and continually make, daily, for a decade

I couldn’t sleep last night, so I wrote about all of it. open.substack.com/pub/cohen489...

The core error is treating “white, male, and kind of an asshole” and “working class” as the same thing, or at least thinking it’s the key to working class appeal. Can be seen in over-determining the close 2024 election, fixating on the “manosphere,” romanticizing masculine-coded types of work, etc.

Katz seems like a total scumbag. It's the misplaced allocation of responsibility that really gets me here. The candidate did a bad thing. It's HIS responsibility to address it, not the responsibility of SOMEONE ELSE to cover for it by lying to the press. Enormous red flag for Katz AND Platner.

god I remember people on here being pissed about the mills ad that highlighted his pro rape reddit comments

People are right to be mad about the predictable Platner fiasco, but it's worth remembering that last year a ton of establishment Democrats supported disgraced sexual harasser Andrew Cuomo against clean-as-a-whistle Zohran. Tolerating problem men is an issue across the ideological spectrum.

"Well, Well, Well, Not So Easy To Find A Maine Senator Candidate That Doesn't Suck Shit, Huh"