every once in a while you can see someone look down and realize the cliff is gone from under their feet

i just watched this video and the fact that they believe this to be exculpatory is genuinely insane

lol Thomas Jefferson took it upon himself to *edit the Bible*

Held his weapon in one hand and his phone in the other, and, as far as the video shows, completely violated the basic rule of knowing what’s behind your target before firing (fellow officers and bystanders). Incredible.

As we approach its 250th anniversary, a random quote from the Declaration of Independence: “He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance”

Every anchor that hears this line should immediately pivot to protests in Iran.

Yep and then remember the reporting that the Content Farming Administration wanted to treat the American people to the “gift” of the Maduro raid on Christmas Day. Quite Caesarian.

There was, for a time, a debate w/i the intel & policy world whether Qassem Soleimani was sui generis or whether another IRGC commander could just as easily advance Iran’s regional strategy, & maintain IRGC’s internal power inside the regime. I think this question has been definitively settled.

Hey, anyone remember Wolfowitz’s “Office of Special Plans”? Nixon’s plumbers? Gotta love Precedented Times.

There is a genuinely held belief on the right that America’s minorities and immigrants suck the Treasury’s coffers dry at the expense of native-born white Americans. The MAGA propagandists will support this Greenland scheme, of course, but Trump’s GOP support continues to dip & this won’t help.

my immediate thought is they are sending vance out to eat shit for the administration

good for you @pbump.com. i know it wasn’t your intention but this was an act of bravery and profound decency. cable news is relentlessly dehumanizing and soul-corroding; we need as many examples as we can to remind ourselves that we are still human beings.

The office she leads was created to provide a single source of truth for Intel products and ODNI is cut out of the loop because the admin *had* to put a Assadist in the chair. ODNI is another misstep in the post-9/11 reorgs IMO but that’s a whole different story.

Oh my God???

I hadn't noticed this but the victim is clearly trying to wave ICE through, and then they jumped her.

The administration has been quite clear in their desire to re-do 2020 with the full weight of the armed government. They will antagonize until they get their pretense.

everything else aside BORTAC absolutely is trained and absolutely knows better; it won't happen but that guy should be charged with attempted murder because he knew exactly what he was doing and risking discharging that weapon at that range

Really going for those hearts and minds, huh

The New York Times states it plainly in display type: Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting in Minneapolis

Federal agents blocked a man identifying himself as a doctor from reaching the woman killed by ICE in Minneapolis, video shared with HuffPost shows www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...

This is the ICE agent President Trump says was "violently, willfully, and viciously ran over ... hard to believe he is alive."

Ahhh damn it. I knew he left T&P, ostensibly for more freedom to “speak his mind.” Honestly didn’t think this type of shit that was on it 🤦‍♂️

Walz directly challenging DHS is good.

Once again, you cannot do a colonialism via Zoom, but I see we’ll be learning this all together.

I promise, elected Dems, that Americans of all political stripes know things are expensive and prices continue to rise. They know. Other things happen too. I believe the horrific incident that just occurred in the senator’s state highlights why it’s so important NOT muddy your primary message.

The officer was in no danger as the two angles of the video make abundantly clear. He resorted to lethal force so rapidly, he’s lucky he didn’t strike another officer or bystander. ICE’s training, tactics, and leadership have turned the organization into a lethal and shambolic threat to the public

It's really impossible to overstate how much *everyone* is watching the US threats towards Greenland, not just Europe. If you want to break not just NATO but Five Eyes and maybe our Asian defense alliances too, taking Greenland is how you do it.

We can’t TACO matters of war and peace. We really can’t.

People who fancy quoting the Melian Dialogue ("the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must") ignore the fact that Thucydides was clearly portraying this as the kind of hubris that squandered Athens' primacy and paved the way for a devastating peer war that it ultimately lost.

Nothing like watching a dirtbag officer doing "what's wrong with war crimes?" poasting successfully attract the attention of a retired flag officer congressional rep.

Remember: Rahm Emanuel, President Obama’s Chief of Staff at the time, was the chief opponent of Obama’s decision to prioritize health care reform.

“Everyone is 12” might have to be relegated to randos whining about the design of Taco Bells. We need something with more punch to sum up the antisocial behavior at the top. Elite signaling points one way: be terrible. That tears at the fabric of society in very real material ways.

From “e pluribus unum“ to “dominant predator force” — a story of decadence delusion and demise

rough math here is that the whole operation cost between 500m-1b over the last few months to build up, train, and execute. If oil was sold today (closed at about 56.20) you’re making somewhere between 500m and 1.5 billion dollars for the low price of setting the global order and US laws on fire.

As a politically liberal national security & mil-tech wonk... Yes, a LOT of truth to this, in many academic IR departments too.

“It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can restrain him from lynching me” is one of MLK’s more underrated quotes because it’s a very good observation about the limits of politics.

Trading the Nobel Peace Prize to the president of the United States so he’ll militarily install you as president of your country seems a bit contrary to its intended purpose

New regime, same as the old one (literally).

Sicknick voted for Trump and it's a real morbid lesson that none of Trump's supporters mean a goddamn thing to him if they're inconvenient to his personal delusions about the world.

I don't know how to describe it, but there's this profound brokenness in the American body politic where nobody can take the implications of anything seriously. People keep saying things that should be existential threats to the political system, and then everyone just keeps going on as normal.

Reporter with background reporting on Latin America, so likely well sourced.

Funny isn’t the right word, but it will be “interesting” to see how they manufacture the Obama carveout in this go-nowhere “3rd terms are good now” amendment.

I think there are layers here but I suspect he sees: - postwar Western decolonization as abdication of the “proper” global hierarchy - domestic CRM + shifting immigration patterns as fundamentally altering the “proper” hierarchy of the US Wind the clock back a century and we’re where he wants us.

These people were born during the most fortunate era in human history (on the whole) and they’re hellbent on coaxing their leaders into remaking the world that unleashed the greatest mass suffering in human history and they don’t even realize it.

I had a medium Twitter account. In Obama’s 1st term I debated a similarly sized “tcot” account daily. Mutual respect grew into a sort of friendship. Bridge-building that cut thru the noise. Those interactions are exceedingly rare (often punished) today but it can work in the environment OP describes

It’s genuinely wild that the United States spent decades building an elaborate rules-based international order which de facto cemented its permanent status as the dominant global hegemon, sustained by ideology rather than might, and now is just blowing it all up for literally no reason

Will the last person to leave Brussels please remember to turn off the lights please.

MacCALLUM: He was indicted by the US Justice Department. So, we should just, not follow through on actions and indictments of our own Justice Department? ME: Sure, let's go there. Putin has been indicted. Fire up the Chinooks, right?

I think Hortman's murder absolutely crushed the man