Perhaps "The Wild Duck":

Larry Summers manages to be a sadly pathetic character and also a gigantic piece of shit all at once:

Soldatov and Borogan's "Our Dear Friends in Moscow" is well worth reading as a memoir of dictatorial consolidation...and the crucial importance of history and political culture in allowing it to happen. www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/puti...

Ukraine now has a domestic cruise missile production capacity: militarnyi.com/en/news/ukra...

NEW: Gregory Bovino is exactly who E.B. White — author of 'Charlotte's Web' — warned us about. DHS named its North Carolina anti-immigrant effort "Operation Charlotte's Web." In 1940, White wrote of the "smell" that "rises" from those who "adjust to fascism" over freedom. Tonight, at Law Dork:

Trump lost his trade war in every possible sense. It hurt the economy; it made us look ludicrous and lawless; and it gave Beijing a chance to reach for world power. And there is nothing Trump can do about any of this except back down and blame others. (1/2)

Folks who think that this potential war has no objective are limiting themselves to accepted geopolitical verities when it is more likely that the Trump White House is looking at the traditional autocratic method of shoring up public support. Think Russia vs Georgia 2008 instead and you've got it.

The pressure to have the vote would become absolutely immense and Senators know that Trump is a waning political asset:

She’s lying, of course, but it is noteworthy that the feels like she has to lie and say these things. She’s a weathervane and this is a sign of the way the wind is blowing.

You can really see how Lost Cause mythology gained traction:

Trump is a third world dictator...discuss:

The usual suspects are telling Dems that Epstein won’t win elections, get back to “affordability” and I think my head might explode. www.offmessage.net/p/force-a-re...

Remember…culture *always* wins:

For real, check this out. Evil.

Trump vs. MTG? Honestly, money’s on MTG.

My three-year-old was reading the Epstein emails when she turned to me gravely and asked "Daddy, why is the nice orange man joking with the sex offender on his computer?" And when I told her "Because women made it impossible to joke in the workplace," she started crying.

Trump's love of teenagers raises new questions about Biden's advanced age.

You can't unsee it:

Couldn't help but be reminded of this:

Early tsunami alert:

Matt Gaetz Did It For Love

The obvious flaw in the "groyper anti-Semite kids are infiltrating the GOP" meltdown is that the fish stinks from the head:

If you have already digested the revolutionary effect of drones on modern warfare (you have not, but I digress), here's the next hearty meal to sink your teeth into: www.armyupress.army.mil/Journals/Mil...

Fucking Children: It’s Unpopular. But Just How Unpopular, And What Does That Mean For The Midterms? We Made An Ugly-Ass Infographic To Explain. We’re CNN.

In less than 12 months we are going to have a mid term election:

the best case scenario here is that trump initiated a shambolic scandalous cover up across the federal government this year for his own political version of Frank on Always Sunny telling people correctly that he doesn’t diddle children but understandably causing everyone to suspect something

The “elites” were obviously out to get her:

The fact that Trump is calling Mace and Boebert today pleading with them to remove their names from the Epstein petition at the last minute tells you everything you need to know about how incriminating the info in the files is to him and his cronies.

We’re going to have to watch a bunch of soulless toadies with either shit-eating grins or feigned indignation lecturing us about how there are countless TOTALLY INNOCENT reasons a grown man would spend hours alone with a teenage trafficking victim. Perhaps they were doing Bible study?

The email that’s most newsworthy in my mind is the one that Epstein sent to Ghislaine Maxwell in 2011. 1. This was years before Trump ran for office. 2. It appears that Ghislaine Maxwell lied to DOJ officials during her meeting with them a couple months ago.

Obvious thing is obvious:

“I want you to realize that that dog that hasn’t barked is Trump.”

He's just smarter at this (so far) than a lot of folks on the left:

It is very weirdly and completely on brand that the "it's all a conspiracy" folks are suddenly looking for concrete reasons why something happened.

Schumer's position in the whole thing is structurally set and good on Bernie for being honest about it:

Just as you’d suspect, Silicon Valley has invented religion without morality:

Hate Schumer, or just normally dislike Schumer, it's still mind bogglingly weird at this point to take Fetterman's word for anything:

Tracks. This is after all the nation that invaded Ukraine with APC's full of parade uniforms.

This:

"To ravage, to slaughter, to steal, this they give the false name of empire; and where they create a desert, they call it...a really great ground floor investment!"

A bit of a contrarian view. Democrats likely won't pay a price for this in the midterms. The American memory is quite short on political machinations. But Republicans are about to learn a central tenet of American politics: You cannot give people a benefit and then take it away.

This is the sort of thinking that worked out just great for Ernst Thälmann, the KPD, Germany, Europe, the world:

instead of saying this was good strategy, maybe senate dems should say: "the republicans were going to kill people by starving them to death, and because we aren't monsters, we decided to let this fight go. We'll keep fighting. Stop electing monsters."

Retail traffic dropped by double digits in DC after Trump forced the National Guard upon us:

I have no idea why Sarah Kendzior was suspended...nor does it matter much in the scheme of things...but "It seems there's a crackdown." is precisely why I do not trust her take on things. Eschew the drama and don't trust folks selling it to you.

'Elon kan reed buks' and 'Noah can't read signs' are the two things giving me life this week onemileatatime.com/news/economi...

Still true today...and will continue to be:

A strange analysis that just barely mentions how crucial which party is in the White House to the midterms or how unprecedented it is for the party controlling the White House to be the proponent of cutting benefits to the voting public. Folks, stop trying so hard to make this a Dem loss.

Alvin and Chipmunks read the classics. So alpha.