Who could have seen this com— Wait, I’m being told we all saw this coming 😑 www.nbcnews.com/business/cor...

I have been doing a lot of critical reevaluation of Roman and medieval historians recently because I am living through the kind of end to an autocratic regime that very sober, serious modern historians have footnoted with phrases like "an unreliable account from a hostile chronicler."

One of the only things Trump has ever been actually good at is knowing when something has the stink of loser and, in this case, he has absolutely figured that out, but cannot get out of it

“I carry with me a photo of a Muslim child who, during my visit to Lebanon, was standing there holding a sign that said ‘Welcome, Pope Leo,’ and in this latest phase of the war, he was killed. “As a Church, I say again: as a pastor, I cannot be in favor of war.” — Pope Leo XIV

(sigh) someone reset the “days since last coup in Latin America” counter back to zero please

the other night Raphael Warnock, who still flies home to preach at Ebenezer Baptist in Atlanta most weekends, referred to Vance as "the other guy on a book tour about religion" and then laid into him about all the ways he doesn't practice what he preaches

there's a Allan Bloom book on the "American religion" and one thing i think Bloom was basically right on is that 95% of the time, whatever American evangelicals *think* they're doing is in practice basically a form of Gnosticism

...... i'm sorry, they wanted to invade greenland because red lobster nixed the unlimited shrimp promotion? www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Ditat Deus

Looking forward to the Ken Paxton ad about how *real* men don't snitch on their pedophile pals, and only soy boy cucks want to see sex offenders in prison.

I call Elon Musk a Nazi because he's an avowed white supremacist who undermines democracies, incites pogroms, targets minorities, intentionally caused the death of >750,000 people (so far) while laughing about it ("feeding USAID into the wood chipper"), and did a Sieg Heil at Trump's inauguration.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Freedom of navigation has largely prevailed since World War II because the United States has guaranteed it,” Edward Fishman writes. “Iran’s seizure of the Strait of Hormuz has cracked the edifice.”

i’m reading the new @quinnslobodian.com on Musk and the book makes a very persuasive case that Musk’s upbringing in apartheid south africa are at the core of his ideology

pete hegseth is engaged in open racial discrimination against black officers. the clear message is that there is no place for black or women leadership in his military

Of all the things this veteran survived, the stench of these two minutes must have been the absolute worst.

You really can understand this administration by assuming they're all rapists and domestic abusers acting out those tendencies in policy. Pete had a hard day at work, he got shut down by Iran for the 'big contract' so now he's going to go home and (try to) beat his European wife.

In fact the Trump cuts that were the most destructive & foolish - foreign aid, research, etc - are basically the only cuts that are popular in polling

as i have been saying, no one likes or trusts vance and they are happy to make him the fall guy. it is, relatedly, why i think his odds of winning the nomination are decent. the country will be in tatters in 2028 and the GOP will be looking for a fall guy.

One of the odd directions that politics seem to be going in is that geopolitical views are driven by the internationalization of domestic political culture war positions: chud vs. woke in two dozen countries, with all of the chuds and wokes aligned in a chud international and a woke international.

The answer to "what are you going to do about it" is really easy, "we're going to win elections in order to impose some discipline and/or impeach this maniac idiot president, who is also a cowardly surrender-monkey." Easy.

New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

CHOTINER oh my god

Libs supposedly have been waging a war on fossil fuels for decades but we’ve never managed anything this spectacular

Moscow 4 years into the smo

undeniably good optics: signing a war treaty in Versailles

Man Iran really kicked our asses on this one huh

This is a strategic defeat if and only if it doesn't wreck the GOP. Nothing we lost in this entirely Trump-inflicted shitshow is anywhere near as valuable as the potential political annihilation of MAGA as a nationally electorally viable movement.

This regime isn't going to remain. Inflationary recessions are one of the things that frequently collapse *consolidated* authoritarian regimes. An unconsolidated one like this? Pfft. And municipalities and states can panic build renewable power with or without federal help.

liberal democracies will never be safe with musk this powerful—they must unite to break him my latest with @newrepublic.com c/a @gregsargent.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2119...

here is an excellent article laying out the same argument in more detail there simply isn’t another option

come on. come the fuck on

Iran was the one dictating terms because Iran won.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com Iran’s defiance in the face of Western coercion has become a rallying cry, Azadeh Moaveni writes. “Even countries that do not at all admire the Iranian regime’s treatment of its own people, or its conduct in the region, are experiencing a ‘Je suis Iran’ moment.”

We joke about how everything is gender, but also: you can't raise boys to be the masters of their sisters and their wives, and then expect them to go act like good citizens of a republic of free and equal citizens.

turned this observation into a video youtu.be/ohw33xuL0VE

From @theathleticfc.bsky.social: Cape Verde’s Vozinha says U.S. visa issues stopped his mother from witnessing his World Cup heroics in person. The 40-year-old goalkeeper was visibly emotional on the pitch after the game. nyti.ms/4vW6UsB

say what you like about JP Morgan, Rockefeller, Carnegie, et al, but I think it's fair to say that it wouldn't have even occurred to them to do what Elon Musk did to USAID. only an utterly degenerate monster would murder a million+ children basically for the hell of it

“On balance, Iran emerges the strategic winner of the four-month war,” writes the Times editorial board.

Gotta say that I'm really not feeling sorry for any of the people in this story. “'We believe in Adam and Eve,' he said. 'We don’t believe in this, multiple gender. We don’t drink. We don’t gamble. We are against pornography.'”

New York City teams that have won a championship during the Saturday Night Live era (1975-present): Yes: Knicks, Liberty, New York FC, Giants, Yankees, Rangers, Mets, Islanders, Nets No: Jets

I live in a town of <4,000 people and we have restaurants that serve respectively: Himalayan, Thai, Hawaiian, three different types of Mexican, Jamaican, 2 types of Barbecue, Italian, traditional Americana, and 2 elevated modern “brewpub” restaurants with diverse menus.

unfortunately if new york elects a good mayor the knicks will be allowed to win the title

We are a mongrel nation, and it's the one thing I'm an unironic nationalist about

Must feel so amazing right now to be a Vietnamese man in NYC named Nicks Nguyen and hearing the whole city chant your name

HISTORY.

Listened to an NPR story this morning about mass child starvation in Senegal without a single mention of Elon Musk, the guy who gleefully created the conditions for the mass starvation

"So this very much looks like a deliberate war crime. It's an attack I fear the USA will regret for a long time. It is no different than Al-Qaeda deliberately targeting civilians. If the US gets attacked in return, it will only be served what seems to be official American policy on a cold plate."

if his birthday ends with everyone running from a horde of gnats we are truly on a path to healing the timeline

this is disgusting and outrageous and i hope everyone involved gets heatstroke and worse