saw this photo just now on CNN’s year in pictures such a perfect snapshot of America…two old white men who can’t even walk celebrating as they wreak havoc on the republic, knowing they won’t be around to suffer the consequences of their actions

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Realists: The Melian Dialogue demonstrates the logic of realism.

actual misconduct should be taken seriously but "I don't agree with what they're teaching" should be treated very very skeptically

Democrats are utter fools if they spend even a dime extra on these people in the future.

You're an activist judge, your honor.

Thing is, we DID hear about it at his confirmation hearing. Every single senator who voted to confirm Hegseth knew he held these views about the laws of war. They voted to confirm him anyway.

Judgment at Nurember is excellent!

i am very bullish on whoever buys anthropic when it runs out of runway, somewhat bullish on microsoft, perfectly neutral on goog, bearish on nvda, hyperbearish on meta, and do not have a word for how bearish i am on openai.

who knows - maybe the most prominent ICC basher on here will change his tune about it in a few years just like he did about the great replacement theory he subscribed to in the past.

We have learned that if the Amerikkkan people cannot have their burgers delivered piping hot for less than it costs in person they will collectively elect a guy who kills a million people in developing nations, so the creation of cheap burrito bots is one of the stronger moral obligations out there

It is not remotely true that post-2008 crash safeguards have been torn to shreds, the banking and financial system is extremely robust right now (it absorbed a trillion of MTM losses and only nerds noticed), and outside private credit being sold to rich dentists there isn’t much repackaging going on

some nations and peoples value their freedom, others do not.

a culture full of bullies and cowards willingly subjecting themselves to bullies. a country of subjugated servants. not a free society.

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Wrote this up on a comment thread at FB and decided to bring it over here too. Happy US Thanksgiving— or, as some of my Canadian friends call it, Yanksgiving, which is even more appropriate than they intend because it really is a Yankee holiday. Weirdest day to be an American emigrant or expat.

Lots of people think this is fine: manly, bold, “genuine,” “telling it like it is.“. Lots of people will approve. Shitty people, shitty values, shitty culture.

one fascinating thing that I can’t get out of my head about the last X years is how much of our politics revolves around inter-republican fights (former, present, RINO, MAGA whatever). eg: when a GOP president gets elected they appoint republicans (sec defense, FBI director, Fed chair).

“1 liberal millennial” 😳😵

Just gave to @liberalcurrents.com you should too. gofund.me/d56bb0c22

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

I hate this affected reactionary BS so so much. How bored you have to be to be recycling a mix of The Complacent Class and some kind of weird alt-right trad culture Twitter account circa 2017 in the Year of our Lord 2025. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

A Manch-Murk-Collins-Romney clique could've dominated federal policy in the 117th

we need to do a wellness check on the rabbit

Literally the reason Twitter sucks now is all these foreigners logged on willing to do racism for pennies on the dollar and undercut our home-grown American racists. We need to erect serious trade barriers to protect the integrity of our domestic racism industry and preserve racist jobs.

I sometimes wonder - what is the point of these types of questions?? why are journalists egging T on for NOT doing something awful and illegal?

Every single word of this. Read it, repeat it, scream it, live it, insist on it.

like the Supreme Court can just keep the new TX map, overturn the CA map, and kill VRA, right? like that’s not even the LEAST likely outcome before 2026?!

Fun fact: Brooks made his wife convert to orthodox judaism and change her first name to marry him, and then in 2013 or 14 converted to Christianity and divorced her. He then hired an aide to help him write this book, a woman 25 years his junior, and married her after it was done lol.

wow who is JD Vance going to text now bsky.app/profile/rede...

most of the WH press corps implicitly agrees with this statement by Leavitt, especially when you think about how they covered the two presidents.

when people talk about accountability for “when this is all over” it’s a good exercise to remember how many folks can you name that were held accountable for some of the morally atrocious action that happened during T’s first term. eg spokesperson for child separations is opining in NYT

also not sure I care all that much about someone’s thoughts on the future of “small government” conservatism if their most notable contribution to public life was defending child separation.

from one billion americans to deportation abundance in one lost election.

my mother-in-law's explanation at the time for why she voted trump was clinton was in bed with the saudis who were throwing gays off rooftops

It's hard to even remember anymore but if you look back at 2015/2026 and Trump's rhetoric and online support, it was VERY anti-gulf state/Arab. Of course all that was a scam but just so funny / depressing how all of the Trump stuff has been a grift.

whenever Saudis are in the news I like to repost this table that Taleb shared prior to 2016 about the differences between T and HRC (and why he favored T)

lol

They wanted a president who calls women “piggy” to their faces and I’m embracing my authentic self in the same way.

rfk jr moaning in olivia nuzzi's ear

>we want them disenfranchised, unable to return home or seek a different job, and always looking over their shoulders for the mancatchers so they stay in line, but we still need them to work our fields and livestock for little to no pay HEY I’VE SEEN THIS ONE BEFORE IT’S A CLASSIC

truly feel like I’m at the “let it rip”/heard immunity stage of allowing voters to fully experience all the folly of bad public policy. think you know better than the experts? great! enjoy!

if this happens Ds can run on single payer and sweep like 40 states lol

Today was a very important day: the 36th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution. Also a day when over 50,000 people went into the streets in Bratislava, despite a terrible rain storm, in protest of Fico’s government in Slovakia. Here’s why it really mattered. /1

white republicans are able to rule alabama because virtually every white person in alabama is more racist than anyone you have ever met

I’m gonna end up on the louvre of bluesky but frankly kind of wish people would chill about the whole alleged bj situation. making fun of T, or Nancy R. or whomevers (consensual) activity is like when people were posting T and Putin kissing and were like oh this is so funny and clever.

Senate Republicans: look he raped children but something something three branches of government something something tax cut House Republicans: I heads Wotan’s clarion call thunder from Hyperborea and it told me that the mantle of the Great Aryan Dragon has passed from Donald Trump

“Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.“