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signs of a bubble

>Oh man, things are pretty bad right now, I'll go hide out at The Poisoner's house >Gets poisoned

Hate to be right about this stuff so often

this piece has been in the works a while but honestly i could not have asked for a better foil than ezra klein's interview with ta-nehisi coates. klein longs for peacetime--but you don't get to decide when you're in a fight. www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-mu...

every self-proclaimed dem who is not frothing at the mouth to abolish this agency ain't really a dem

the GOP nuking the filibuster to end this shutdown is the best case scenario if we want a chance at fixing any of this shit we're going to have to get rid of it, better to let them do it themselves rather than worry about Fetterman pulling a Joe Manchin

Tim Apple should remember that his company still has $850 billion in civil liability that can be collected by the Democratic president in 2029.

Impossible to read this passage in Seeing Like a State and not picture Canberra from above

Hey, remember when Assad decided not to pay his troops and got an all expenses paid vacation to Moscow? Good times.

i believe Pope Leo can negatively polarize Matt Walsh into Russian Orthodoxy

Once again: Hegseth is the exact type of guy The Art of War was written for, which means he will never read it

we went too far in making fun of dudebros for reading Sun Tzu... turns out a book that focuses on making sure the failson prince feeds and pays his troops was load bearing

100% true Hegseth wants this for us

Every journalist who published a piece about how nothing linked Trump to Project 2025 needs to lose a job.

I cannot emphasize enough how bad a person John Roberts is. Truly the most destructive force of the 21st century in American government.

Kavanaugh Raids

"Rentiers of the world, unite!" might as well be the slogan of the Reactionary International. Liberal Currents has brilliant analyses of this. www.liberalcurrents.com/the-plutocra... www.liberalcurrents.com/liberals-mus... www.liberalcurrents.com/its-not-the-...

New York friends! He's in Queens! #catsky

Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of the terrorist group known as the federalist society?

What's my legal exposure if I print up, say, 100 of these, and send them as a gift to Stephen Miller

slightly ominous mailer from the Red Cross

Sora 2 going to hit boomer epistemology like a hurricane

feels like we're living through some kind of cultural gas leak

I really like the phrase "Kavanaugh stop." It's not a Terry stop, because a Terry stop is short and based on reasonable suspicion of a crime. A Kavanaugh stop, by contrast, is when masked goons kidnap a person for speaking Spanish.

what's funny is the way cons on scotus need to read the existence of the modern independent fed back into the ""deep roots"" of american history in ways that are just transparently bullshit yet another example of how originalism is just calvinball

This is enriched weapons-grade shade

People seem convinced that there is a plan to reinstitute the draft and I think they should take a minute and think of how the entire country went batshit insane over being asked to wear little fabric masks in public for a while

thou shalt let donald john trump fire any government employees he wants, so sayeth the supreme court unless, and this is important, it fucks with our bank accounts

“After Pres. Trump on Tue. suggested cities like Chicago should be used as "training grounds for our military," Gov. JB Pritzker said the 25th Amendment should be invoked to remove the president from office, saying “there is something genuinely wrong with this man." www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

We should not, in fact, voluntarily purge the military for him. This is your brain on Kant.

Energy dominance *DIAMONDBACK CEO: HARD TO SEE US SHALE GROWTH AT $60/BARREL OIL *DIAMONDBACK CEO: SHALE INVENTORY IS 'ALL PRICE DEPENDENT'

he's definitely paying for this coverage, right?

In the debates when they asked NYC Mayoral candidates what living Democrat they admired IIRC Mamdani was the only candidate to pick another mayor and he picked Wu.

Prediction: In 20-30 years time we will see either: 1.) mausoleums that the pharaohs of old would find gaudily excessive 2.) a new heresy claiming an AI copy of you is the same thing as eternal life or most likely 3.) both

I've read a couple of history books and I can tell you for sure that rounding up your generals, having a drunk yell at them and call them fat, and then stopping paying them that same day is absolutely how you institute durable personalist rule

In my view, few people in the legal profession need to shut the fuck up quite as much as Anthony Kennedy

Gonna be insane if we just manifest 2027 as the actual war kickoff because we decided ego was more important than deterrence.

AM radio killed Democracy.

This is why a shutdown is good for Democrats. It's yet another thing that could kick the economy into a recession, and that'll hurt Trump.

John Roberts, the Wrecker of Democracy

The solution is simple. If we cannot bring the beans to the consumers we must bring the consumers to the beans. Mass Chinese migration.

The Norwegian corporal should do the honorable thing and permanently erase the stain on his family name.

Kavanaugh stop

lmfao no notes

A bunch of toxic LA NIMBYs are whining about SB 79, the amazing housing bill the CA legislature passed recently. It's on the governor's desk, and reportedly he's getting cold feet. Hey @gavinnewsom.bsky.social, please have some spine on the most important issue in your state. Just sign it.

Merrick Garland taking a slow afternoon stroll, wondering why everyone in the district seems so agitated. Ah well, nothing to do about it now, he smiles, as a Trumpist Commissar unfurls a giant "Democrats are enemies of the state" banner over the side of the Department of Justice.

there's this assumption by the admin that there is an infinite supply of buff KKK members ready to fill the ranks of the military and ICE and I have bad news for them both about the overall number of KKK members and their general fitness level

this guy has no idea what the american military is (the most sophisticated logistics operation ever assembled in human history)

lets all just keep in mind that they rolled the old man out there with a teleprompter speech about crushing the enemy within but he kept getting distracted by whining about how stairs are scary