Biden's presidency and the aftermath we're living through should be enough to destroy the "let's the turn page, let's look forward, let's move on" mantra that has animated centrist Democrats for decades now. Accountability matters. There has to be a reckoning.

I once again point out that Ukrainian strikes hit extremely legitimate military-industrial-economic targets with high precision and very little collateral damage (we'd CERTAINLY see it if happened), whereas the Kremlins conduct a campaign of terror deliberately aimed at civilians.

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Remember when y'all made this thread on Paulina Borsook go viral? Well, that resulted in her getting a deal to re-publish her book in the USA, the UK & Commonwealth, Belgium, France, and Switzerland! Coming Sept. 15—with a foreword by some guy named Gil Duran. Pre-order! www.cyberselfish.com

lmfaoooooooo 1143 acres with frack & cell tower leases imagine if any journalist did this level of fact-checking on stories about agriculture

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Rudy Giuliani is in stable condition and resting comfortably

what makes the SCOTUS Gang of Six acting as an unaccountable super-legislature especially intolerable is that they are not just setting up unfavorable rules, they are playing Calvinball where they selectively apply the rules case-by-case exclusively to help Republicans. A judicial dictatorship

An hour before trading in the oil futures market begins, Trump publishes a post about efforts to open the Strait of Hormuz.

Told @AJE that the US's strategic defeat against Iran also raises questions about the sustainability of American primacy, not just in the Middle East, but globally. Iran has done to the US what Ukraine did to Russia.

The US's rise to superpower status after 1945 came through its dominance of scientific research and technological application. Donald Trump and the Republicans are literally unilaterally disarming in the face of our adversaries. It's astonishing, disastrous, and the work of traitors.

Huge news at Rosen HQ, your leading source for Caitlin Flanagan news & vibe-checks, as some of you know. Another landmark moment for the Harper's Letter/University of Austin/Free Press pipeline. Harper's Letter signatories, a veritable Vichy membership roll call!

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Whoever came up with the name “Ewok Powell” to describe Tommy Robinson should take the rest of the year off.

If you were to design a program to destroy the Black middle class in America, it would look exactly like what they're doing.

US troops are not in Germany to protect Germany. They’re there because the US needs bases to conduct operations beyond the North American continent. If Trump withdraws them, he will harm the United States, not Germany. It’s absurd how many Americans fail to grasp this.

"Wait a minute... There's a WNBA for men??"

I mean we’re going in the direction that a country that acts like this goes. It’s like natural consequences. It’s character is destiny. abcnews.com/Politics/thi...

Trump’s a demented, bigoted, narcissistic, vulgar, cowardly, fairly insightful about Bill Maher, vindictive, evil man.

Off the top of my head (and in no particular order): The Americans The Sopranos Deadwood The Wire The Leftovers It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia Better Call Saul Atlanta Rome Shoresy Deutschland 83 Boardwalk Empire What We Do in the Shadows Hannibal Narcos

This is the exact plot of Philip Roth's The Plot Against America except with Jewish children instead of Black kids

Weird to see some of the same people who a month ago were saying Platner didn’t know it was a Nazi tat to then saying it was never a Nazi tat to “well, hey, who hasn’t gotten a Nazi tat or two?” That’s the left-to-right slide: it happens when you make excuses.

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I’ve been called worse.

Orban was pretty load-bearing for the global right wing media ecosystem huh

the toronto raptors are clearly in league with a powerful etsy witch and i am imploring commissioner silver to investigate

Really an incredible frame from the WHCD shooting.

I could comprehend these things even when I wasn’t one but: I’m a father I cannot, simply cannot, imagine the hell this guy put those families thru, for years, maliciously, for his own massive profit, starting before their small children’s slaughtered corpses were barely cold yet

cc: @greatdismal.bsky.social The past is unevenly distributed.

In honor of #bandcampfriday, here are a few things I've bought recently... In addition to supporting your favorite artists more directly than with a $0.03 streaming fee, some great but more obscure stuff is only available here. 1/x

If you like to imagine the right kind of people getting absolutely fucked up, there's a subtly* coded message at the end of this book you might enjoy. *not subtle at fucking all

Remember when it came out that MacKenzie Scott, who has given away more of her fortune than anyone ever, is richer than before she started giving? That’s the metric by which you have to judge the levels of greed, wealth hoarding & wage suppression the wealthy engage in.

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Historians will note this is exactly what millions of Americans wanted, no matter the consequences: to retaliate against the country for electing a Black President by putting a huge racist in the White House who would constantly refer to every Black person he doesn't like as "low IQ."

The government should be protecting our public airports, not selling them off for parts. History is littered with examples of the failures of privatization. It drives up costs for the public, quality suffers, and workers always end up paying the price.

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This guy continues to be normal

I made this comic like ten years ago but hey guess what it's relevant again. #scotus

It’s the “ill will.”

To be clear as day, this is, of course, absolutely intentional. It has happened with every Republican president of my lifetime (with the notable exception of HW Bush). It's what the GOP does. www.wsj.com/economy/u-s-...

It’s been some time since a music video (remember those?) grabbed my attention. This one is a visual treat. It’s like Busby Berkeley choreographed a mirror world version of Wes Anderson’s Rushmore, except in this one, the hero of the film is the thuggish Buchan instead of Max. youtu.be/x6_mbnsh6VU

Are Bessent's proposed swap lines with Gulf and Asian states an indication that the dollar has become what Susan Strange--the OG theorist of the geoeconomics of international currencies--called a "Negotiated Currency"? A short 🧵(1/10)

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Your regular reminder that under the US Constitution it is Congress that has the authority to decide when the United States goes to war. This administration has usurped this authority to wage an anti-strategic debacle.

Report: Serbia granted citizenship to hundreds of Russians—including oligarchs, Gazprom staff and spies—in just three months.

Consider that we now live in a literal dark age. With billionaires relentlessly rotting the internet, there will soon be fewer historical records of this era than there are from basically any other time. All of this will be forgotten, a corrupted few bits in an ocean of spam in a landfill.

Note well, here: these awful people* have crashed the plane into the mountain, deliberately inflicting an even more bleak future on us all than we already had, out of pure ego and spite; they have no regrets and they will *absolutely* do it again, if they are ever given the opportunity.