It's time to let go of the extremely pernicious and extremely delusional view that Ru is a security maximizer driven by worries about its own security. It's driven entirely by imperialist expansionism. They say it every day, their actions demonstrate it every day.

Can't stress enough how important this is. bsky.app/profile/taul...

My worry is that people who want to hurt lots of Americans are gaining the access and ability to do so but will not deploy their weapons until Donald Trump is out of office because he is a more effective weapon for destabilizing American FP / power / government than any other weapon could be.

"Nothing is more enervating, demoralizing or hopeless than being the upholders of the proprieties of a vanquished order. Simple rule-following or, even worse, norms-following is simply too thin a reed for any political movement or political party." I loved the account of the historical parallels.

Friendly reminder: Hush! Nobody cares what I think!

One of the worst parts of the modern condition is having to listen to billionaires airing out the stupidest policy ideas, random musings, and other mental detritus. It’s unbearable.

Just as with the Civil War and Jan 6th what should guide our actions when working on reforms should be "they almost succeeded"

Today three different middle-aged men who I have no idea who they are started following me. The last time I followed one back, he DMd me immediately. Learned my lesson!

I think it’s a bummer that the GOP has decided it would rather eat the shit sandwich on health care than negotiate a bipartisan bill, but now it’s down to us to make them eat that sandwich.

I mean I thought this was going down but I also thought it would be closer this is a total rejection, this isn't coming back for a second try he's got nothing

Like many bullies, they are stupid as well as mean.

Didn't I just file our tax return a couple of weeks ago? And now in a month I'll need to do it again?

Every time a reporter like Rachel Scott stands her ground, doesn’t flinch, and keeps asking what he wants to avoid, it exposes how weak the performance really is. He gets uglier because he’s threatened not because he’s strong.

Donald Trump has unilaterally decided that one of America's largest media companies must be sold to one of his cronies. Here's why America has a liberal media bias problem.

Bringing an actual pull-up bar to the airport press conference to demonstrate your pull-up form on TV without being 1000% sure you can do a bunch of really cool pull-ups first is the perfect demonstration of the Trump administration's approach to literally everything

What if some plaintiffs persuaded the Supreme Court to rule on whether the 13th Amendment truly abolished slavery? And the court, using some tortured reasoning, decided that it didn't--issued a ruling that slavery is still legal? 1/3

If you were one of the authors of the 14th Amendment who wanted to write the citizenship clause to ensure it would never be misinterpreted to deny birthright citizenship, you'd use the exact words they used. It's among the most straightforward and easily understood provisions in the whole document.

Today in college basketball, Calvin Porter, PhD '92 is playing Sean Porter BA '08/JD '12 and Mark Porter BMEd '21. Calvin is winning decisively.

If the Sep. 2 boat really had "narco-terrorists" on board, questioning the survivors would have been a way to learn about how the organization worked, where more drugs were stashed, etc. But this isn't a counter-terrorism campaign. It's a shooting gallery with helpless targets.

Hundreds of people are at the Burlington parking lot in Kenner protesting against Operation Catahoula Crunch and recent patrols from Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino. Border Patrol has not released a complete list of people that have been arrested during the operation.

If you call it a “male immaturity epidemic,” a very different set of phenomena come into focus, as this thread shows

Lucy went to the vet for a shot, a pedicure, and a belly rub. This is what one of the vet techs looked like at the end of the appointment.

This is insane to me. No one should be afraid to go to their place of worship.

We’ve heard the pitch forever: lower taxes, fewer regulations, and the jobs will come. If it were ever going to work, Louisiana would be booming by now. ✍🏻 Rich New Yorkers are Not Coming to Save Us - https://grangerforla.substack.com/

If they pretend they haven’t heard about the story of the day, end the interview right there. “I’m sorry, Senator, we wanted to get your perspective on this story, but it seems you’re not fully aware of what’s going on.”

these stupid assholes think they’re going to be able to have a firefight in the morning, walk away from a cool explosion at lunch and take the family out to chili’s for dinner and I cannot stress enough that is not what civil war looks like

100% this

The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

"...you understand how all the worst events in human history took place. When I visited Auschwitz many years ago, someone in our group said that this is what happens when extremism flourishes. Our tour guide replied: “This place is not explained by extremism. It is explained by conformity.”

The time to demand Medicare for all is NOW. www.levernews.com/weve-reached...

if higher ed was really workforce training, “running meetings that don’t suck 101” would be a required class for everyone send tweet

I did not win the fortified roof grant lottery again.

a thing to ask yourself re: the GOP's electoral position is what could happen over the next year that could *improve* its position? and what could trump do, plausibly, that might *boost* his numbers with the public?

Mike Johnson has never met a situation he can't make worse for himself

Today in life under competitive authoritarianism

I understand that there are a lot of people out there who think they have good intentions and love to take their ideological opponents in good faith because it makes them seem fair and reasonable and I truly cannot overstate how dangerous this is to trans people and how much they should stop

what do you MEAN I'm supposed to do work now, isn't everyone off until the new year

When you have an old dog, you really get to know the people at the vet office.

I get accused of cockeyed optimism from time to time and it’s not totally unfair. but I am very pessimistic about the ability of red state publics to maintain either academic integrity or academic quality while the primary concern of their boards and legislatures is culture war.

I butt-dialed my MIL, who at age 97 is a world-class worrier. I just returned her voice mail: "I hope you're all right?!" with a real-time call: "I'm so sorry, everything is fine."

The guys doing straight up murder at sea can be put on capital trial. The guys lawlessly brutalizing immigrants can be imprisoned (if they kill them, see previous sentence). The guys stealing everything not nailed down can be jailed, too. Way too much of this shit is legal, but a LOT of it isn't.

Trump’s only principles are hypocrisy and corruption.  Bombing unmarked boats in the Caribbean one day, pardoning notorious drug traffickers the next.  It’s all the more reason for the Senate to conduct vigorous oversight of this Administration’s actions. And we will.

‪Get the military off American streets ‬

I’m driving through rural Texas, prime insane right wing billboard territory and I just saw a billboard that said “no healthcare for the peasants but a ballroom for the king” pretty big sentiment shift for the area

With Netflix you at least got to watch the movie. Uber at least did give you the ride to where you were going. With this you get... what? A throwaway email draft? A legal filing full of errors and fabrications? An "epic roast of someone's appearance"? This is pet rocks

Look, if Lane is spending this long a time to decide where to coach next, are you going to be happy if he picks your school? Enthusiasm is a must in any relationship.

it didn't take this long to pick the last pope

To achieve Elon Musk's wealth, a person on an average salary would have to work for 8 MILLION YEARS! They just don't want to. Lazy bastards!

I think that what I will remember most about the last year is the way the Chairmen and Presidents and Chancellors of so many entities - business, media, and universities - simply rolled over for the authoritarianism. These are supposed to be leaders. Visionaries. Craven cowards, the lot of them.