I know what this guy needs, an oil shock

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Optics. @thedailybeast.bsky.social www.thedailybeast.com/trump-hosts-...

The point is to destroy the administrative state, centers of knowledge and all civic institutions that stand in the way of Russell Vought’s vision of an authoritarian theocracy. It sounds insane and something out of Atwood. But this is where we are. Under his eye.

This is right. And people hate to hear it, but Joe Biden’s single most important task was to Trump-proof the US. His task was to destroy the Republican Party to punish them for Trump, salt the earth over them, and implement big structural reforms to stop future R minority extremism. And he failed.

really one of the strangest media cycles in history, where mainstream media actively hid the fact that the columbine killers were popular upper class preppy kids with full on neo-nazi ideologies and instead pretended they were victims of bullying

Blowing things up, kidnapping and killing foreign leaders, is good because it's Doing. Considering the consequences of Doing would be Thinking, which is weak and woke

Only 42 months until Space Hotel

You killed a major Shiite ayatollah and you don't think Shiites would mind?

Here for the Hume.

Catherine Beecher is the perfect choice to juxtapose with Charlie Kirk. In the era when American women began advocating for suffrage, Beecher was a prominent anti-suffragist.

Got a cab near the Department of Education. Hadn’t seen the Charlie Kirk banner before.

Three US troops have been killed and five others "seriously wounded" since start of US-Israel strikes on Iran, US military says. Follow live updates. https://cnn.it/4cmkPlg

We are really going to regret the technology we have built.

They don't *need* AI to make these decisions. But they *want* AI to make these decisions. Because the tech gives them plausible deniability--something to blame (other than themselves) when things go wrong.

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Trump does unpopular thing in direct violation of a campaign promise, part #976348 It’s not a mystery why his approval rating is 37% and Dems are leading by 10 on the generic ballot in our latest poll. Break enough promises and people start to notice

on the upcoming episode of neon liberalism, @jamellebouie.net argues that the basic strategy of Trump II was speed: move fast, consolidate power, and give america a fait accompli. instead we've seen friction, backlash, and now--big players starting to realize that trump won't be president forever

someone transported here from 1995 with a layman's understanding of the Republican Party - "they like low taxes for the rich and aggressive use of the military" - would be more correct in their assessment of the party than many ostensibly savvy pundits working right now

uhhh oh my god

me every single day

I remember when trying to forgive student loans was massive overreach of Presidential power.

i’m so excited for peace in the Middle East. we’re only one war away.

filming a hasty video in the dark at a golf resort while wearing a ball cap and releasing it on social media at 2AM then disappearing from view is one of those things that would make this seem like farce if there weren't a very real and mounting death toll attached to it, it's very surreal

Everyone needs to understand that politicians in both parties support this war on substance. The only thing Schumer opposes about it is the procedure. What he’s saying here is, “You’re not bombing the children the *right* way!”

The risk that this new Iran war destabilizes global energy prices is much higher than last time, analysts tell @zeitlin.bsky.social and @heatmap.news heatmap.news/energy/trump...

once again reminding everyone to funnel your emotions into organizing and building solidarity in your community and not pointless doomscrolling

Today’s military strikes on Iran — carried out by the United States and Israel — mark a catastrophic escalation in an illegal war of aggression. Bombing cities. Killing civilians. Opening a new theater of war.

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What’s always been so absurd about discourses surrounding political violence in America is that it’s accepted, understood, agreed upon, bipartisan, mainstream that our military gets to vaporize little kids half a world away without consequence

The cries of anguish. Jesus Christ.

"Barack Obama did not launch any major ground wars. Nevertheless, he did nothing to reduce the freedom of action enjoyed by America—in particular, an arbitrary freedom of action, largely unbound by either Congress at home or international law abroad." www.liberalcurrents.com/the-delusion...

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What the genocide in Gaza reinforced is that there are no "civilians" when it comes to Israel and the United States. The rest of the world learned the same lesson and the consequences are going to be felt across the world.

literally just Lord Farquaad‘s “Some of you may die, but it is a sacrifice I am willing to make”

Two deeply unpopular political leaders are bombing a deeply unpopular regime… none of them care about their citizens.

It’s worth emphasizing that the Supreme Court has propped up this presidential lawlessness. When Congress enacted limits on presidential power in 1973, it included an enforcement provision. If the president said there’s an “emergency from attack” and Congress disagreed, it could order troops home.

Just want to note that 3am in Washington is like 11:30am in Tehran. The American people are the ones he snuck up on in the dead of night to conduct this illegal attack, not the purported enemy.

Inhumanity and insanity. The sort of thing a dying empire does.

As a professional military strategist, I just wanted to make sure everyone has a full understanding of the American strategy in Iran, thank you for your attention to this matter

probably too much to ask but I would simply like to live in a world not run by psychopaths perverts and idiots intent on justifying their opportunism and evil by appeals to reenacting primordial cosmological Battle Myths of which the ultimate and most archetypal is the end of the world itself

Some excellent headlines from the April 1963 National Eagle, the Portland, OR newspaper edited by the future chair of the Oregon Republican Party.

this is what they said it would be like under socialism

I have been thinking a lot about "elite impunity" and what exactly that means. I think for it to make sense, it must be laid alongside state violence. See the care and concern for Larry Summers alongside the brutal violence against Nurul Amin Shah Alam.

Coming from a culture of people that include organ meats as part of their traditional food because we lived in conditions where society enforced poverty on us and it’s all we could afford: this is what you say to people you’re enforcing poverty on.

Congress rejected massive cuts to US science budgets for 2026, but much of the money still isn’t flowing to researchers. The culprit? The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is quietly slow-walking the release of funds. 🧵👇

When academia's stars mistreat people, they're "punished" with relief from teaching, mentoring, and service responsibilities. This frees them to spend more time on the more valued work of research. And dumps less valued responsibilities onto colleagues, making it harder for them to become stars.