Your leaders call what we do to you "hybrid war". Because if they called it "war" you might expect them to do something about it.

abundance as a tailored ideological project about putting together a coalition to de-enshitifying blue states at a municipal level makes some sense, abundance as a national electoral strategy does not

He knows why destroying USAID is devastating for American soft power. He knows. He will also get his wish: China sees the opportunity to score an empty net goal.

Unclear why anyone would take his assertions about lethal U.S. strikes in the Caribbean and drugs any more seriously than these claims.

Remarkable. Something no one could’ve predicted just a few years ago:

The idea of forcefully retaking Bagram is so crazy because if would basically be a recreation of the Battle of Điện Biên Phủ except with the added modifier that your enemies also have all the thermal optics you left behind

Could you imagine running ABSCAM on these guys? We used to be a proper country.

There’s no hiding the political retaliation and weaponization. It’s all out in the open.

so the president just tweeted out an offense worse than watergate, we all realize that right?

Elite signaling is growing. Wild that this was the bridge, but it is what it is. Good for Eisner.

lol sure, why not

True, but Trump wants to punish Brazil for holding Bolsonaro accountable, and all signs suggest his grievances will outweigh any impulse to act in the public interest.

good to see, but also kinda wild how the rubicon was Jimmy fucking Kimmel

Also, notice Trump's complaint here - about the news, about Kimmel - IS NOT anything to do with Charlie Kirk. It's that he was personally criticized. He's not even hiding it! That's what this is all about. "Are you allowed to criticize the president?"

NATO has declassified some fascinating documents: below, from the Provisional Political Guidelines for the Tactical Use of Nuclear Weapons by NATO (Nov. 1969). archives.nato.int/uploads/r/na...

you see with the power of warrior ethos and PMCs, all things are possible (this is a joke)

The Taliban had four years to consolidate, organize, and train with the assets we left behind. If this administration and the Pentagon think this would be bloodless, they’ve learned nothing from the past quarter-century. Hardly surprising, I suppose.

Still incredible this man wrote an entire ass book about how American generals have a personal and professional obligation to speak publicly and forcefully if the president and civilians were doing things against the public interest and he’s doing *handwaves* whatever this is

Yep. He’s largely reserved his post-presidential public commentary to campaign season. He sees the system blinking red and clearly sees no other option than to jump directly into the fray.

This is the top headline on CNN. A good warning sign that your country may be becoming a dictatorship is when your plain-jane straight news networks start saying “Our country is becoming a dictatorship”

We could have been providing military aid to Ukraine. We could have been building our partnerships in the Pacific. We could have strengthened Europe’s defense industrial base. We could have helped build state capacity in South America. What a fucking disaster this has all been.

There have always been problems with legacy media but some of the most confounding PRE-election editorial and staffing decisions (ranging from the eyebrow raising to the hair raising) make a lot more sense in hindsight. Pretty bleak implications.

There’s competition, I know. But threatening to pull the broadcast licenses of the affiliates of an entire “big-3” television network unless they stop their evening talk show host from criticizing the president has to be one of the biggest First Amendment violations in U.S. history.

What America is going through is not unusual in historical terms. Plenty of examples like it today elsewhere in the world. What makes it unusual is the rapid collapse from a set of widely espoused norms and values that centered on liberty. It is the sacking of the shining city on hill that shocks.

Aside from everything else about this, she just read a summary to you. So the context is pretty clear. Pete Hegseth is currently watching this, laughing, and saying ‘This guy is out of his depth’.

I for one love to have my nation’s content moderated by like the same five guys with close links to the belligerent ruling faction

materialist "deliverables" theory of politics loses again to the information flows theory of politics if most people vote based on material factors, and give politicians credit when their material circumstances improve—or blame politicians when they get worse—it matters who they believe responsible

Our coming plutocracy: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wet...

Blumenthal to Patel: "I'm not going to mince words -- you lied to us."

Waiting for quite a few of our domestic institutions to get this message as well:

This should be like a 19 alarm fire for American civil society and media

Any serious person knows this quite literally, isn’t doing shit, not coming any closer to solving the problem, so it just devolves into a snuff film for boomers on Facebook

The GOP nominee in a Virginia state House race this fall has dropped out. He says he lost his government contracting job and has no income, so he's had to take a job out of state & move away. That's... literally what Dems are campaigning on to win VA. www.princewilliamtimes.com/news/gop-nom...

Not a headline that can appear in an actual democracy. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

I appreciate the honesty: The point is to underline that all institutions belong to the President. No intention of even appearing independent.

As I have said to friends many times, the crises of the 21st century (GWOT, financial crises, etc) simply don’t add up in a material sense to the level of crazy and authoritarianism we are seeing today. Internet and social media are a much better root cause explanation.

It's fun how the practical effect of censoring anybody who accurately quotes Charlie Kirk's own words and beliefs is to suppress and censor Charlie Kirk. They're silencing him! Real new evolution on the 'oh, you know the ones' bit.

Grok is being sent to the reeducation camp

The flip side of "it's unreasonable to expect other countries to understand the intricacies of our inter-party politics" is that it's reasonable to expect them to view us as anything but a country as a whole

PM Donald Tusk: “Due to the threat posed by Russian drones operating over Ukraine near the border with Poland, preventive operations of aviation - Polish and allied - have begun in our airspace. Ground-based air defense systems have reached the highest state of readiness.”

The suspected shooter did a single semester at Utah State but was in his third year of an electrical apprenticeship at a technical college. Perhaps he was electrocuted wokely. Or maybe his high school dual-credit courses radicalized him.

Oh I clocked the GOP leaking on Pulte this week. This would certainly track. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

andrew is right, but mainstream U.S. media is fundamentally incapable of any introspection that isn't 'we didn't pay enough attention to the right-wing's needs'

The Russians are laughing at Trump. Alexei Zhuravlev, first deputy chairman of the Duma’s defence committee: “Trump remains in his normal state. He is either waiting to have a conversation with Putin, talking to Putin, or is explaining how well he spoke to Putin.”

every single fuentes follower thinks this is a wink wink nod nod message, even if fuentes doesn’t

yeah, i sorta think having a rw party who is philosophically conservative is load bearing for liberal democracies because uh, the alternative…