often see curtis yarvin's name online. only thing i know about him is that he looks like this dog

it’s so important to approach an unpredictable situation with a chill attitude

my hot take is that I don't think it's this website specifically that's toxic. the Circumstances are toxic and nobody really knows what to do about it so they come online and scream. and if I may offer an alternative: actually going outside and screaming feels better.

the default, cringe pose of "I must support Tough Military Action because I am Tough" is both morally wrong and bad politics

What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids? Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.

Trump in a single gaggle on Air Force One just threatened: -- a second strike against Venezuela -- Cuba -- Mexico -- Colombia -- Iran -- Greenland (which in turn would be an attack on the EU and Denmark)

Colin and Sophie Hortman, the children of Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, are asking Trump to remove the false posts about their parents' killing:

Love this from Guillermo del Toro

STEPHANOPOULOS: Trump said the US is going to 'run Venezuela.' Under what legal authority? RUBIO: We want a better future for the people of Venezuela STEPHANOPOULOS: I'll ask again -- what is the legal authority? RUBIO: We have court orders

FYI: According to the federal DEA, China is the primary source of fentanyl in the United States. We haven’t bombed China nor arrested its leader. www.dea.gov/sites/defaul...

So many in media are ill-equipped to interview officials about what’s happening because they begin with the presumption of legitimacy and don’t know enough about history or U.S. foreign policy to foment intelligent pushback and hold officials accountable.

I think that the Washington Post editorial page is extremely destructive and overrides the news side's value. Unsubscribe.

We cannot become numb to the outrage of this. The wife of the President’s Senior Advisor threatens a sovereign nation.

Right. If you want a good explanation of why the American system of government worked well enough for 200 years and then suddenly stopped, it's because Republicans in Congress suddenly started letting their partisan interests COMPLETELY override their institutional interests

yep. i can identify any number of structural issues but at the end of the day the basic problem is the republican party. this has been apparent for at least 20 years. it is also an incredibly unpopular observation to make among “serious” people.

Rough vibes on this website today, likely because people feel Hopeless and Helpless Because Can't Stop It and No One Who Is Supposed To Is Trying To So Now We're Fighting Each Other™. I recommend activities such as book, or potentially instrument if you like instrument, or even do talk on phone.

There's significant evidence from state legislative term limits that they do, in fact, empower both lobbyists and state executive branches. "Disagreeing" without offering any counter-evidence is just vibes.

As this alludes to, it’s not just lobbyists. It’s staff (executive and legislative), who are largely unaccountable, whose actions are often not public, and who can’t be voted out. I’m not saying this to be pro or anti term limits, but you have to know what you’re dealing with.

BREAKING: Just weeks before the military operation in Venezuela to capture Maduro, energy giant Halliburton filed an unusual lawsuit in international court claiming the Venezuelan government owed them damages for U.S. sanctions against the country. There’s more… www.levernews.com/corporations...

MSNBC has a new name but don’t worry, it has the same great taste of 20 years ago

Okay here’s an actual take: the fascist international is at war with the very concept of legitimacy.

Timothy Snyder has mentioned how Russia and other autocratic states blatantly stealing elections or holding sham referendums are meant to make a mockery of the democratic process and any country or leader who endorses them or their results contributes to delegitimizing it as an institution

Fascinating 1. Admin may not have informed Congress but has been talking regime change w US oil industry 2. Oil at $60, US firms not excited about major capex to get VZ heavy sour crude 3. Sounds like WH wants to prod oil firms to make their vision happen, more than WH doing US oil's bidding

I am so fucking tired of being governed by these sadistic freaks

to anyone wondering whether the decision to come out in favor of this or condemn it will look worse, historically speaking, may I refer you to *gestures to the entire history of american foreign policy and also the track record of the goons in office*

we are very lucky Trump is a dying unpopular pedophile because the military ain't saving us from shit

Trump is trying to force US oil companies to rebuild Venezuelan oil fields that are too expensive to invest in at current crude prices while a full blown energy revolution is happening with cheap solar and electrification growing exponentially. This is a dying empire shit.

A CBS News staffer told me this after Tony Dokoupil kicked off his CBS Evening News tenure tonight with a lengthy Pete Hegseth interview: "If this is what Bari and Tony’s CBS Evening News is going to look like, then the we may as well just call ourselves Trump Administration State TV. Pathetic."

I know Michael Knowles is dumber than a kumquat but it's hard to imagine any military aggression against Canada ending anyway other than the US itself ripping apart.

My whole life, advocating war has been fed to me as “the adult position,” akin to drinking your coffee black or reading the business section of the newspaper. Let’s be very clear — war is the childish nonsense of impulsive destructive idiots playing baby-brained video games with real human lives.

and then for hours used passive voice to pretend they had no idea who was behind the apparently spontaneous explosions

Of all the competitive authoritarian developments of the past year I think the fall of CBS News is among the most chilling. That this can happen to easily and so quickly freaks me the fuck out.

Tony Dokoupil just last week said that CBS was going to represent the views of average Americans and not the elites. He then cancelled his vacation to come on the air and say that regime change in Venezuela is awesome, a position that maybe 20% of Americans hold.

Instead of whatever this is, we should have a government getting lots of new homes and apartments built, lots of clean energy built, lots of high speed rail and transit and bike lanes built, human rights for everyone, economic & healthcare opportunities for all, & innovation that leads the world.

Don't forget folks: allowing yourself a vision of the future you'd want for our country and planet - not the one you'd settle for, not the one you fear, but the future of your dreams - isn't naive, it's a vital cognitive skill. That's how we articulate what we most value. What's worth fighting for.

I want to help make a government that isn’t evil and works so well that you don’t really think about it

If Maduro is in custody my expectation is the admin will try to hold Dumb Nuremberg. They'll make it a judicial referendum on fentanyl and try to blame Maduro for the deaths from the opiate crisis.

In an 1829 letter, Simon Bolívar (VZ’ George Washington) wrote: “The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty.”

Among the many reasons you don’t kidnap a foreign head of state at gunpoint even if you have the capability, is that it sparks consequences you can neither control nor anticipate.

While the Senate is asking Trump why they started a war to kidnap a foreign leader perhaps they might also ask why Trump freed a former foreign leader convicted of the same kind of crimes.

I think if you’re saying the first part in America in 2026 you’re a fucking mark. Maduro’s government has not called for mass ethnic cleansing which DHS did literally yesterday.

fwiw it’s been about six weeks since Trump pardoned the former president of Honduras who had been convicted of trafficking drugs into the US

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

Going to bed now. But I'm going to wake up to news that the US struck an oil deal with other Venezuelan politicians. they gift-wrapped Maduro and his wife for the SEALS to pick up, and now Trump's sons, the CIA and CBP have full control over the cocaine trafficking routes all the way into US cities.

at some point you have to admit which one is worse: "running suspect elections" or "unilaterally bombing another country and kidnapping the head of state"