Yeah I’m a big fan of “Bad Bunny” actually

the og Bad Bunny rabbit.html

there's a reason you mostly hear this bs about AI "democratizing art" from fascists and reactionaries who hate artists and resent that they cannot exert social, financial, and cultural control over art as a cultural product besides which "starving artist" is one of the worlds oldest stereotypes

...when confronted by issues that limit Republican POTUS or corporate power. Every other case is ruled on the real world basis of helping Republicans and the super-wealthy achieve and maintain power and avoid legal accountability.

Originalism is the ultimate hypothetical because it never happened in the first place

The really galling part is when they flip the switch. In the disqualification case, they were so concerned with the practical, real-world consequences for elections (which were overblown) that they forgot how the Fourteenth Amendment’s structure works.

Every time I re-read Trump v. United States, it feels like getting hit in the head with a mallet.

this case is maybe the single best example of one of the most destructive tendencies of this court: the tendency to treat their job as a collegiate legal seminar where they operate in hypotheticals rather than deal with the real world as it exists

"The world isn’t ending. A world is ending. Our job is to midwife the next one."

T2 has some....."issues" is a strong word, but suffice to say there's been good reason to reasonably disagree with some of his stuff That said this is not at all surprising lol, disagreements on policy is one thing but he was always inevitably gonna lib out at some point in trump II

THE FEDS ARE FEDPOSTING

wow a guy who was evidently the former head of SOCOM under trump 1 has been (sorta) fed posting at admin officials the last day as well

One thing I learned from my brief time in the military is that plenty of people have physical courage but no moral courage. They can jump out of an airplane, or even deploy to a combat zone, but are absolutely INCAPABLE of admitting they were wrong about something. They'd rather double down.

This is like the basic protocol for an HR pros and warehouse managers at a mid sized business being described by someone who only watches videos about special forces.

Man, someone sounds really mad that a bunch of Minneapolis soccer moms can manage op-sec while the Secretary of Defense texts his battle plans to the editor in chief of the Atlantic.

most divorced political movement in American history

The rest of it is even funnier

[stares directly into the camera]

Hilarious Noem ends up being the bad vizier

lmao even the Free Press is slightly critical of the Trump admin now www.thefp.com/p/kristi-noe...

the anti-second amendment shit is really, really bothering the right

i don't buy into "democrats want to lose" but not because i think they're actually good. 100 percent, hillary wanted to win, her ego is at insane levels. it's just that her ego also insisted on "my staff should be sycophantic asskissers" and "fuck the rust belt, i have this in the bag"

it'd be cool if just once, at least in the interest of Political Viewpoint Diversity if nothing else, this shit would lead to hiring a communist, an anarchist, fuck, a bog standard soc-dem why not, but it never does, now does it. just the same morons getting paid to learn years too late forever.

"i was wrong, it's fascism" interesting, will you be valuing political insights of the people who were right more "no" will the atlantic be giving jobs of political commentary and analysis to anybody who was right from the start? "no" fascinating! wonder why that is.

tons of people who were right about iraq from the jump got purged from their careers and sure as shit didn't get to come back, much less have prominent positions. especially notable within journalism and political commentary. only the people who were wrong keep getting work.

feels as pretty simple that we know this playbook. the people with important jobs who were wrong on iraq get to go "mea culpa, but tbf, you were annoying, and i won't be listening to you on other issues" and the people who were right never had the jobs or got fired from them

ya it's pretty clear many pundits doing the mind change just move with the tides like some putrid kelp tangle in the ocean

it is if course not incidental that people in media are wrong, people who are neoliberal centrists have an institutional advantage to getting into these positions, because the people in power of these institutions are also neoliberal. conservative hegemony.

it’s also just quite a bit difference between being wrong in private and being wrong in the opinion section of national media in a way that influences other people’s opinions, your whole life, without consequences.

it is probably because they are responding to their earlier errors by taking positive action now, which helps defend their neighbors, rather than by retroactive reputation management in the Atlantic, which does not

statistically speaking (and based off the articles) it is a near certainty that thousands of people currently patrolling the streets in Minnesota are people who did not immediately believe the warnings of the left 10 years ago. I see very little criticism of *them* on here

Trump lying baldfaced about his health is the most deranged tyrant shit he does, and his physician should be arrested for fabricating official reports to the public about his health

(this isn't an exaggeration)

Like I assume mark milley telling Stephen miller to “shut the fuck up” was quite the experience

For example

During the 2020 protests, the uniformed military, national guard, did a far better job not escalating than regular police forces and that’s very much what they don’t want

Maybe they don’t trust the guys with the guns lol

Maybe Mr. Lollypop Guild is starting to realize that he's the most likely fall guy for all this.

The Bush era anti-war movement had many flaws, including deep parochialism, but unlike liberal hawks, it never deluded itself about the nature of the institutions that would be trying to impose democracy on Iraq and Afghanistan. Total vindication by history imo...

Ed Miliband tells the Fabian Society conference: “I very much hope the local party will have the option of selecting Andy Burnham as the candidate”.

Trump admitting he wants Greenland for “psychological reasons” and his mixing up Greenland with Iceland makes me half-seriously wonder if there’s some weird underlying thing he’s having in his senile sunset years regarding his Isle of Lewis-born mother and Vikings.

"By threatening to set off a bomb in his local McDonald's, Trump was able to persuade them to sell him a Big Mac. This is The Art Of The Deal at its most sophisticated!"

some kid on my flight is reading shelby foote's civil war book and i want to tell him to throw that shit in the trash

to be fair it wasn’t difficult at all to see where this would go, you just had to take people at their word and think seriously about what they were proposing

Yes. I think replies like this show the effectiveness of Blair and Corbyn both in defining “Old Labour” as something it wasn’t. But the actual reality and failure mode of “the governments run by the Labour right before 1994” were, well, like what we have now.

one thing I am stridently anti-populist on is brutalism. fuck you and your gaudy ass fake columns, your QVC hog architecture. there is one correct aesthetic for government buildings, and it is brutalism.

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Right-wing populist parties in Europe publicly condemning Trump feels significant. They wouldn’t have done this last year.