It's important to understand the rules, which are that ultra-violence is always evil and forbidden UNLESS you're wearing the right costume. Then go to fucking town.

You come to me, on the day of my son's wedding, which I am not attending

On one hand I feel bad for everyone who convinced themselves that Spanberger was "a fighter," but on the other we need the cope myth of "not left vs right, but fight vs fold" to die if we have any chance of carrying out the necessary primaries to fix things.

She still doesn't get that this is loser talk. You can still get very far in the Democratic Party by always playing by the rules, but you *cannot* win the presidency while making excuses about what you cannot or even could not do due to rules of decorum.

Very funny side by side on AIPAC's donor portal

They spent at least $50 BILLION over 2 months to bomb people in Iran. I don't want to hear a single thing about what can and cannot be funded in this country. Ever. The End.

One thing worth emphasizing is that almost all of the people at that graduation supported his message. You can hear the cheers. You can see the data on American opinion. And so it raises this Q of who the university is for. Admin increasingly don’t think it’s for students or even their families

The two party system is incompatible with multiracial democracy. It will be nearly impossible to end gerrymandering using single member districts. If you want to end gerrymandering, we must use a form of proportional representation that allows for multiple winner—and hence more parties.

Ever since Trump 2 began I've been thinking about how until a new hegemonic ideology is established, everyone here and abroad is going to have to approach the US federal government like Cixin Liu's trisolarans prepare for chaotic eras.

Not sure anyone in policy world anticipated this. Cutting off support for clean energy and YOLOing on fossil fuels sure, but dismantling clean energy projects that are nearly done is nuts. As with foreign policy, how is anyone supposed to plan long term based on the whims of 15k voters in WI?

This is one of the most overlooked elements of the previous administration's policy regimen on MENA: an unwillingness to upend Republican policy which itself upended decades of previously bipartisan policy.

One of the greatest headlines ever made

The contradictions in liberalism getting positively schizophrenic. Woke was bad, but necessary, and the US is acting badly now, but doesn't need a corrective, and also our enemies are irredeemable, and also this hurts our party brand, which is why I keep talking about it.

I'm as jaded as the next guy but you gotta figure at least *some* functionaries are going to serve time for this particular murder spree, right? It's just all so blatantly in violation of US law and exhaustively documented.

I think this may narrowly play out, but only because CPAC is waning in influence, and may turn into a factional thing. These last three presidential election cycles have taught GOP primary voters to believe in magic. Polls and even a very bad midterm result will not reverse that.

Imagine if we invested in childcare and health care like we do in war and weapons.

Another way of saying this is that the regulations would have had a cost of zero. They would not have required the power sector to do anything it wasn't going to do already. Roberts said it would be the most expensive reg ever (because he heard that on Fox). But it cost nothing.

Honestly this is overall a huge gain for progressives. Ten years ago if you said a Democratic candidate in a primary was "going to be another Joe Lieberman" half the Democratic caucus would have thought it was a compliment.

Sorry world it's just too fun for us to help Israel genocide various Arab populations, no more oil and fertilizer!

It's ugly to see a former IDF soldier call for an investigation of an American news outlet. But this is a step up from the standard Israeli response to journalists, which is to kill them.

guy who converted to Catholicism out of love for hierarchy and the ancient traditions of an institution that is famously in the world but not of it: ok Mr “pope” idk who the fuck you think you are but just war theory since Augustine has always allowed white phosphorous munitions

Ten years ago today, in April 2016, the Boston Globe printed a satirical front page imagining a future Trump administration. The page was called "alarmist," "hyperbolic," "dystopian." But we’ve put up with so much since then it now looks like . . . a slow Thursday?

First time I'm seeing this: one of the Harris apologies is to beg that Gaza isn't important to most voters but she couldn't afford to alienate the Zionists. Turns out the median voter does care, and has for some time. (That number's going to go to 80 if they don't resolve this oil crisis soon.)

I’ve been thinking about this guy almost daily for ten fucking years. essentially my entire 30’s. when he finally croaks I imagine I’ll let out a sigh so deep it realigns my fucking spine

Completely understand people's desire to use favored acronym for Trump's predictable threat-withdraw pattern but hard to imagine a situation in which its less apt. Threatening war crimes whether immediate or on time delay is a war crime.

They don’t have a war opposition because they don’t oppose the war.

People complain about bluesky bubbles but there are lots of people I don't like on here too.

Good morning and Happy Easter everyone.

Almost all millennials and the oldest members of Gen Z can say that the US president has been a white guy born in the summer of 1946 for the majority of our life. Bill Clinton: August 19, 1946 George W. Bush: July 6, 1946 Donald Trump: June 4, 1946

i'm an athiest so i don't want to speak for anyone but what an honor it would be as a servant of god to be fired by a drunk sadist under the thumb of a guy best described as "dumb antichrist"

this is weird

We have a very simple solution to universal programs benefiting the wealthy. You claw back the money through taxes on the back end. Everyone has known this for 100 years, but people get to pretend they don’t when it’s convenient for their ideology.

@hillelwayne.com I was definitely waiting for the pivot to category theory or something. Sometimes a pizza is just a pizza I suppose 😁 www.hillelwayne.com/post/pizza/

Progressive internationalism usually doesn't directly address the issues that are most salient to the majority of people but Trump is doing his very best to solve this problem www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Finally got around to this. Depressing stuff. Born in 1941, major establishment player and apparently hasn't learned a damn thing from Vietnam or Iraq. We cannot allow our enemies to grow stronger, so the solution is to try to annihilate each one in sequence. www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

We need a Joe Rogan of the left but one that always respects our party elders and key donors.

Never get between a senstor and his 38 annual weeks of vacation

Beautiful, gutting stuff. I wonder if @patblanchfield.bsky.social has read it; seems a rich expression of our national death cult, where the only real dangers are brown strangers.

tired: blood for oil wired: blood for oil forecasts on polymarket

Gwynne Dyer on March 9: "Indeed, I suspect that there is already a clandestine race going on in which Israel is trying to identify and kill potential collaborators inside the regime before Trump’s people can make deals with them."

He really thinks he's clever, parceling out WWIII in little weekend spurts and acting normal during the business week.

All this discourse about how the dangerous thing about the Iran War is the rise of antisemitism reminds me of early 2020, when the faux-sophisticated take was that the real risk of COVID was overreaction.

The founder view: violate the US Constitution to kill millions of people

You know how small children and psychopaths don't truly think other people are real? More than anyone outside of an absolute hereditary monarchy, could anyone be surer of that than Trump? He can truly do anything and the consequences are only ever felt by others.

Why won't these civilian sailors from other countries martyr themselves to keep American gas prices low before the midterms?? www.mediamatters.org/us-iran-rela...

Things keep on escalating so quickly it feels like (regular army) ground troops are coming and maybe even conscription.