Trump also wore his dignified-transfer hat while playing golf yesterday. (Via Hugo Lowell on X.)

It’s so cool how the political press can ascribe solemnity to him, but insist it’s impossible to call him a liar because they can’t directly know his exact interior mental experience.

Kari Lake’s brief, turbulent tenure atop the USAGM hits a legal wall as a federal judge strikes down her authority. By labeling her acting status an end-run around the Senate, the ruling treats her policy moves and staffing purges as if they never happened.

Easy to lose sight of it with everything else going on, but the Education Department in this administration has been an absolute disgrace. www.propublica.org/article/educ...

At least the people who died in the withdrawal didn't die knowing the president didn't give two shits about them dying, like those who just died in Iran did. Even if it was stupid or botched or whatever, I don't think anyone can say Biden just didn't care about the lives lost. But trump sure doesn't

Many of your faves are completely besotted with this myth, and maybe you are yourself. It's one of the more appalling outgrowths of overeducated liberal elitism, an expression of disgust for regular people that has been disguised an observation about political strategy. It's why liberals lose.

The idea that Americans will not care about a political issue unless it's described in terms of impacts on their stomachs, or even worse, their gas prices, is not supported by real-world evidence. It is a contemptuous myth propagated by the smug political class.

The opposition is WRONG ABOUT THIS, by the way. The most devastating moment of Biden's entire presidency was the Afghanistan withdrawal - a largely popular policy that he effected successfully with zero material impacts on Americans, but was covered as a disaster.

So according to the WSJ a US Senator conspired with another country to manipulate the US into starting a war, am I getting this right

The obvious wisdom and effectiveness of Housing First is obscured by the fact we've made "a tiny, no-frills apartment" an expensive status symbol in huge swathes of the country by creating an artificial housing shortage

It doesn't get cultier than this: 'Reyes told CBS News she voted for President Donald Trump in 2024, and she doesn’t blame him for Martinez’s killing..."I don't blame President Trump for the death of my son, 'cause he wasn't the one who pulled the trigger." www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

There is zero reason in a functioning democracy that we should express any news in terms of odds on a betting market. “Iran invasion odds 5:2 per xxxxx” is dystopian nonsense

"The appeal to the mystical image of the “warfighter” is that it avoids having to discuss war in concrete terms. It sells the attractive myth that by doing more of the parts of war that look cool and really make you feel like a man, you can actually win wars." www.deadcarl.com/p/clausewitz...

So, obviously this isn’t true. But if the CEO actually believes this nonsense, it implies he thinks maybe he’s enslaving a sentient being that has the capacity to feel emotional distress. And he hasn’t immediately halted operations to suss out how to resolve that?

"Millenial Nazi whose only way to understand the world comes from a pastiche of blockbuster films and video games," is really becoming a defining aesthetic of our era.

DOJ has posted some pages of the missing Epstein files related to the FBI’s belated investigation of Trump’s participation in Epstein crimes after Epstein’s arrest and death in custody in 2019, and they are as bleak as you might expect. www.documentcloud.org/documents/27...

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed...This is not a way of life...it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.” -Dwight Eisenhower 1953

What kind of stolen valor is this?

Here's the same information but completely redacted. Why? www.justice.gov/epstein/file... #doj #epstein #files#redacted ⬛⬛⬛

people didn't openly acknowledge musk was basically a nazi until like two months ago. he posted "you are saying the actual truth" to a nazi saying jews were behind the great replacement in 2022

Fun fact, fox news once tried to sic a mob on me because I wrote that being hispanic didn’t mean you couldn’t be a white supremacist, because race is subjective and many hispanics identify as white. Completely unrelated here’s how some Miami Republicans talk in private

Been seeing this logic for 60 years now.

PEPFAR, the program to stop hundreds of thousands of children and adults from dying of HIV/AIDS, was $6.5 billion a year.

I'm not even being sarcastic when I say this could be LESS dumb than most originalism out there. Arguably the model is trained on GW's actual speeches, writings, etc., and sorta contained to what he's said in those? That ... that might--100% sincere--be more accurate than what Thomas does daily.

[WARNING: This is a bit graphic.] A Marine Corps veteran protesting Trump’s War on Iran had his arm broken by Capitol Police and GOP Senator Tim Sheehy. It appears to be a compound fracture.

Ah, yes, the invaluable wisdom of the markets.

after absolutely eviscerating Kristi Noem and calling for her resignation, Tillis is applauded. He thens threatens to hold up nominees if she doesn't stop stonewalling him. My God.

This is like the ONE thing trump has done that it's actually not hard to imagine Harris doing.

NATO air and missile defense assets in the Eastern Mediterranean intercepted an Iranian ballistic missile that was detected heading toward Turkish airspace after being fired from Iran and crossing Iraqi and Syrian airspace. - Turkey MND www.turkiyetoday.com/region/t...

My "in this essay I will..." thought is that the devaluing of the humanities has led to the loss of expertise in military history and geopolitics among decision makers. These people are tech bros and think they can use an AI to do threat assessment with no concern for reality.

It doesn't matter if Iran poses a legitimate threat or not. Because if they do, Trump should've gotten congressional approval before acting. There is no information that can be divulged now that can cure that constitutional subversion.

Tell him to stop you idiot.

EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war. The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been “inundated” with more than 110 complaints. One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus…

You can’t honor the First Amendment alongside Donald Trump, he has spent his presidency making clear that he does not believe in it. www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump...

for those of you who werent adults during iraq, its hard to overstate how much the media loves war porn. they salivate over pentagon spin briefings. they love stories about all the bombs and how supposedly infallible they are. they love the notion of the commander in chief, in the situation room etc

Iraq war was started on a presidential lie but it feel like somehow the Iran war was started on something worse: a total presidential failure to comprehend even the most basic facts of the situation

There have been plenty of muddled and at times outright false justifications offered by presidents for past American wars, but it's something different to have no coherent rationale at all, no comprehensible stated goal, and no meaningful attempt to rally public opinion.

These guys were selling t-shirts until they needed a war to cover up the intentional damage they did to the economy and the president's involvement in a pedophilia scandal.

im starting to think the woke mind virus wasnt actually the biggest threat to civilization

The judges in WV have seen enough. They say that if the ICE continues detaining people in ways they have unanimously deemed illegal they will start issuing civil fines and contempt findings — including against state officials who help them carry it out. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The last few days have been a reminder that Republican party government is mostly aimed toward a return to unstable, arbitrary, personalist rule

openAI saying that the USG consented unconditionally to the conditions which Hegseth alleges make Claude a national security risk is a, uh, bad fact for the defense against claims that the national security justification was pretextual

Can someone explain how what trump is asking for isn't communism? He's saying he should get to control private companies because he's president.

Citation needed

This is self refuting because if it weren't true then Hegseth wouldn't be so pissy about it. Obviously they can't just use openai instead or they would.

Somebody tell @nicklutsko.bsky.social

this is what they said it would be like under socialism

I have a hard time watching old movies and tv shows but the Twilight Zone absolutely zips by and is fun as hell because they essentially do what a show on Apple TV takes two seasons to accomplish in a half hour