people see this issue solely in terms of ‘number go up’ or ‘number go down’ but not in terms of “can we survive future where america’s priorities are entirely dictated by people nostalgic for the past”

Republicans don’t want to admit it for obvious reasons and Dems don’t want to be seen as smug elitists but social desirability polarization is so real lmao

I'm sorry, but the dead duck is morbidly hilarious. "He lied. He cheated on his wife. He raped and he covered for rapists. He attempted a coup. He launched a pointless war and blew up a school. He incites racial hatred almost daily and makes a mockery of our laws. And he killed a duck."

everywhere i look, i see his (yoon) face

This can be us if we have the courage

this is what being a historian is actually about.

he has never had to deal with a counter-party who is just as capable at stiffing him back

“I spent 4.5 hours with the President” from Lindsey Graham is a terrible sign for any hope of resolution without a lot more bloodshed

American diplomacy in MENA in the last nine years has been diminished to just straight up asking Arab states to do things for Israel in exchange for nothing, very funny

mancunismo is this anything

i remain fascinated that the Russians think the British are the global boogeyman

The reflecting pool is being sabotaged by paid protistas

Really makes it sound like the United States is negotiating in good faith when we tell the counterparty that they need to do what we want or we’re going to fucking kill them

Art. Of. The. Deal.

"Israeli attack kills"—that's new

The Iranians have closed the Epistemic Hormuz

In addition, one for the “banning anonymity would make social media less toxic” crowd to ponder. These are all adults posting under their own names!

It really does say something that Gallego is still an upgrade over his predecessor.

you are legally required to like and repost this

it's bleak, folks. bsky.app/profile/fayt...

The likeliest scenario by far is Amerimaidan, because Trump is going to be taking advice from ppl like Miller, Mullin, Vance, and Hegseth who are all inclined toward the maximally thuggish response on offer. I still wonder whether Vance will cooperate or not when it’s clear his side is losing.

part of the reason i'm more certain that 2026 is going to lead to some level of constitutional hardball or crisis is that when you notice how the ecosystem of the right works, there's basically no perception of the fact that Dems are likely to going to retake one (or two) chambers of the legislature

Battle of the Bilge

this skeet will be in your grandchildren's history books

How it started / how it's going

Powerful Jeb! energy tbh.

it’s 8:45am, i am walking to get a haircut, i have gone two blocks and already encountered 8 armed soldiers

every single study done on this shows that the actual best behavior is done under consistent pseudonyms and people behave worse under real names it’s counterintuitive but at this point the real names thing is willful denial of evidence

I'll always remember Paul Ryan for his weird gym photoshoot. And also for that time he accidentally submitted a bill that would have resulted in Full Communism

Look I'm sure he just thinks that apartheid is a more accurate term but that it's cultural appropriation from the Dutch

Happy Father's Day 🖤

Ahhhhhh

The IDF is welcome to drive 20 mins south to leave Lebanon, but they won't, so the war will continue

Who started the Six Day War is a question most Americans seemingly cannot answer

this is essentially the center-left part of my 'it's all cargo cults' thesis of modern American politics

Now this is a story all about how My trip got flipped — turned upside down, And I’d like to take a minute, just sit right there, To tell you how I found a plinth of the king, ye mighty: despair!

what did you think D+35 meant? vibes? papers? essays?

specifically, urban socialism is the ideology of a Democratic party that is willing to fight as hard for the (good, positive) wishes of their voters as the Republican party is for theirs (bad, regressive)

DC Statehood was a moral and political necessity before Trump II but Trump II has aptly demonstrated that not immediately remedying this over the objections of Republicans is a moral and political failing.

I’m at the reflecting pool. I’m at the putrescent swamp. I’m at the combination reflecting pool putrescent swamp.

Turkey does to, and it's going to bring them into direct confrontation with Israel.

a museum of puzzles which employed two actual guards that did this would be delightful tho

the legendary tom homan

it is incredible that some people have generated a communism composed out of things which actually existing communists denied existed

Nothing quite so divine as the breeze whipped up by a train pulling into an underground metro station on a warm day