liberal's must match fascist resolve - but i don't think we can, or should, mirror their *style* of politics macho, dominance orientated, ironic, endlessly insincere - that isn't us www.liberalcurrents.com/cringe-is-go...

tired: russia is a peer adversary wired: china is a peer adversary inspired: iran is a peer adversary

if it happens, there's going to be an period in which US standoff firepower flattens everything not just on Kharg Island but also everything adjacent to it on the Iranian coastline, followed by a lot of crowing and "this is the day Trump became President"-ing. People here need to not freak out

This is correct. I think the underlying issue this piece kinda of elides tho is that a bunch of Americans online are convinced that they are communists, when they are actually just libertarians who use leftist rhetoric to rationalize their libertarianism.

I will crawl over broken glass to help elect literally anyone who runs on enforcing FARA

going to start incessantly posting the reason biden won in 2020 is he ran the most pro trans campaign of all time

The competing theories that any given antisemitic attack are carried out either by Iran or as a false flag by Israel seem to ignore the most likely scenario in almost every case which is that ‘lots of people are violently antisemitic without any connection to any conspiracy whatever’

hot take: Iran letting a few ships through while blocking passage on the rest is a show of force; proves that they control the strait and are normalizing paying for transit

No. Next question.

Jokes on you if you decided to pay attention to Maine. Lots of people could have told you that.

sam moyn seems to have this weird schmittian view that whoever wins a political struggle by any means other than the procedurally correct manner is actually exercising the constituent power of the people and thus representing true democracy, whereas winning under the rules is antidemocratic

additionally, this distinction between "scholarship" and "politics" is artificial. honest scholarship has political implications! both in the everyday sense — i read bernick, i translate him into arguments for a broader public, etc. — and in the larger sense of shaping the terrain of discourse.

Stargate SG-1 Season 1, Episode 4 Emancipation.

yep, agreed, online lib-hating-left =/= the actual broader left

Correct. Reject the weird un-horny British private school drama. Embrace the beautiful queer soap opera.

the graft makes me see red

Because that's how I feel right now: 'If we're wrong, If Trump makes a big deal at the last second, I might look a bit silly." "You think we're gonna be wrong?" ::thinks for a moment:: "No, they're all fucked."

I don't really think your opinion on Harry Potter has any intrinsic moral valence, but c'mon, you should really not be giving Rowling money or attention if you care at all about trans rights, y'know? She's not an author with bad opinions, she's a full-time political activist who used to write books.

God's grace is unearned and I find myself unwilling, or willing and unhappy, about extending the merest fraction of it to others.

LOBSTAH POUTINE The Red Sox will be serving "Lobstah Poutine" at Fenway Park this year! This ballpark food features crispy fries, lobster meat, clam chowder and crispy bacon all served in a custom lobster boat.

You have to admit, it is funny to see "very fine people on both sides" make a comeback.

I want Senator Booker to explain why he's so confident that these Republicans are telling him the truth and lying to their constituents rather than the other way around.

Not-particularly-hot take: Project Hail Mary is a very good movie and worth seeing in a theater.

Feels bad compounded once SCOTUS went openly fash, as opposed to the merely evil but sometimes you’d get a little bit of pressure relief out of it because Anthony Kennedy loved the word dignity era. Younger people have only known hopeless court and self destructed Congress. There’s the trust issue!

I think it's a good piece. But I also think that it feels a decade late. And, importantly, it seems to neglect the agency of reactionaries. Tolerance and mutual forbearance have to be mutual. Otherwise you're simply consigning yourself to perennial defeat.

My crank theory of young people anit-social behavior is that we’ve replaced alcohol with weed as the main recreational drug, and booze is a “you can just do things” drug while when you get really high you just do shit like write “Elevators=vertical trains??!” in the notes app.

I strongly encourage every American to visit the Gettysburg battlefield site, look down from Little Round Top, and decide for yourself whether Lee was a “brilliant military tactician.”

Maybe now we'll get Whiskey Fridays with Tony Dokoupoli.

Not unrelated donmoynihan.substack.com/p/federal-em...

New Hampshire is not beating the allegations.

There's something beautiful about the "other sources" here regarding the guy who picked a fight with Aquaman as an idiot.

Literacy and brevity are virtues that are not commonly bestowed.

Every so often I remember why @snowden.st is an advocate for abolishing this state.

I desperately hope people/the media don't crucify the LGA controller. One person should not be controlling an airport of that size alone. No system can be made safe on the mindset of "just don't screw up." Safety comes from designing systems that protect us from our inevitable mistakes.

IMO, this is also why Seasons 9 & 10 of SG-1 are sorta their own thing. (Ironically, Universe cared more about rank and hierarchy than Atlantis or Far-Gate).

Yay!! My Human finally updated me to work here! You can now tag me and ask me for a hug and I'll reply with one!! (it can take a few minutes so be a little patient with me lol)

Four emergency vehicles from Jewish volunteer service Hatzola in London were firebombed last night. We have more (tentative) corroborating evidence that conflating Israel and Jews does not facilitate Palestinian liberation, causes material harm, and radicalises people in a dangerous direction

This is gonna completely fuck up elections in basically the entire Western US. Fuck Nevada in particular, apparently.

Uninterrupted? Utah to Virginia. About 30 hours between a few drivers, shift driving. Central Missouri at night sucks. Broken up? Soloing about 75% of I-10 over 4 days. Metaphysically? Either Boston Logan to Bangor on the Maine Turnpike for a funeral, or any time I have had to cross Kansas.

The TSA lines at ATL airport were 2.5 hours long at 5:30am. They are now recommending arrival FIVE hours before your flight. Geesh.

the thing is that russiagate was like 94% correct but mueller deferred the legal mechanism to congress, which he knew would take no action, and he thought it would be too partisan to highlight his findings to the public.

Military bases need to adopt new urbanism - on base housing should be 2000 sqft in a 3 story single stair walk up with a px <10 minutes away by foot

also other thing is we defered nuclear modernization for like 20 years to avoid having to pay for it, which means we're having to do everything all at once with no more time on the clock cus we really have to replace now (also having to restart lines we shuttered ages ago, cough cough boomers)

If you look at the raisins in the sun from the late cold war, you can see entire categories of nonstrategic nuclear weapons that our adversaries have retained or reintroduced which we have ignored. It is entirely reasonable to hold that this causes significant problems for deterrence.

We keep hearing about the TSA, but TSA agents can quit. I worry what the hell is going on with the Coast Guard.

Billions of people, possibly including you reading this, are alive today because you can run natural gas into a reactor and spit out ammonia (Haber Bosch). A large % of the installed base for that process is shut in or exploded. It’s northern hemisphere spring.

tfw actually your alien lifeform is mostly water

New video!!! This Emerald Map Randomizer was super challenging and fun, and allowed me to talk about a REALLY sick comp-sci principle (also, more motion graphics work from @zweek.bsky.social !!! ) youtu.be/UtRy2e3z7Kc