Trump just released a video on truth social wrt Hamas' response

despite my foreign policy byline, please do not consider me an "expert" of any kind but yes, I think a deal is probably on the table if Trump can get Bibi on board but that's the million dollar question

“An FBI agent was relieved of duty for declining to arrange a ‘perp walk’ of the bureau's former director, James Comey, in front of news media cameras.” Via Reuters

“'The fact that we don't have money to pay journalists, but we have money to pay Bari Weiss between $100 and 200 million is indicative of what the Ellisons' true goal here is,' a network correspondent said. 'And it's not journalism.'"

the truth is that Pritzker has power because the cops technically answer to him and he's understandably anxious about what happens if that's suddenly not the case. the civ-mil crisis of municipal policing in the 21st century United States will come to a head at some point. nobody wants to rush it

they’re intenionally advertising to and recruiting far right loyalists. they post and reply to explicit groyper memes. they’re not super subtle about what this government is

i assure you, the joker takes no pleasure in flooding gotham with joker gas, he has to ensure the gang places all of these tanks in the right places to poison all of gotham

Yknow, the only thing I'm surprised Trump didn't mention at his speech in front of the generals was his unique retelling of the battle of Gettysburg. In the president's version of the story, the "late great Robert E Lee" supposedly told his troops, "Never fight uphill me boys. Never fight uphill"

all presidential administrations are partisan, but trump and the people in his white house are partisans bordering on sectarians, and one result is that they see nothing of actions that strain and weaken the union itself

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“Bro sorry we ratfucked you like that but it’s really your fault for taking advantage of us like this by investing in our economy. But hey you can make it right by investing about 21% of your gdp into our economy lol.”

I've mocked Starmer a lot for his 'the only way to beat Reform is to become it' mentality, but it's infinitely worse in the sad rump that is Badenoch's Tory party. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

all my jokes aside it is really funny and also really sad how much this fake woke public relations language shit has become the norm for autocratic states. erm actually it is bigotry to question the state. erm erm erm only jewish state. erm only Khaleeji state with comfort slave economy! ermm

Honestly, I’m less scared of the generals than the 19 year-old privates who saw that speech and realized they now have immunity and veto power over everything as long as they have more than 20 followers on Truth Social.

... yeah

it’s about what i expected unfortunately

Banning federal LE from wearing army camo should be a top priority for dems…

Court-watchers confirm this cruel ICE agent has been reinstated. Last week, in the briefest moment of decency, violently throwing a woman to the floor was “beneath the men and women of ICE.” This week, it’s back to business as usual. The cruelty, after all, is the point.

General Zachary Taylor reacts to a false report of President Polk’s death

A century removed from Western colonial powers casually drawing Middle Eastern borders with a ruler while disregarding the will of local populations, the region gets Tony Blair to dream up schemes of governing Gaza with little say by its people. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

I guess it makes sense that the Homeland Security Advisor, a position nobody has cared about for at least 20 years, would suddenly gain prominence with an administration obsessed with “the homeland”

According to Ravid (so take it with a grain of salt), Netanyahu was forced to call the Qatari PM and personally apologize for the Israeli violation of Qatari sovereignty and the murder of a Qatari citizen. Trump was present for the call.

Short-form social media:

I gave money to Colin Allred’s campaigns last year in a fit of rage after Ted Cruz’s posts about Haitians eating cats, and as if I needed more reason to regret that, he’s automatically added me to his Substack for his pathetic attempt at a second act.

Its insane that American politics now more or less revolves around infrequently passing a single comically large overstuffed money bill instead of like... normal legislation

“Am I watching things on television that are different from what’s happening?” What a remarkable statement from the single most powerful individual in the world. Fascinating look into a person’s mind.

Trump today has told Fox and then Axios and then Reuters that he expects to announce a peace deal being reached on Gaza tomorrow or on Tuesday, so I expect it will fall apart tomorrow

Not the most important thing, I suppose, but Hegseth's last sentence is interesting: "Their place in history is settled." This epitomizes the yearning of all authoritarians: To control not just the present and the future, but the past. Nothing can be re-examined or re-thought. No questions allowed.

on days like these I am thinking about the years of leonid brezhnev

Trump can't be held accountable for his lies because he's a liar and can't be held accountable for things he says he'll do because everyone knows he's a liar which means you lie if you tell the truth about what he says he'll do, even if it's true. Checkmate, liberals.

Highly recommend that people read the whole thread which illuminates on two competing letters, the latter of which (pro-recognition) has nearly 20 more signatures than the former.

The DOJ will be investigating Governor “Sad Pappy” O’Daniel for his pardon of the dangerous SOGGY BOTTOM BOYS, criminals who broke out from prison and spread lies about Republican Homer Stokes. Also, their music isn’t that good. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER! DJT

30 House Democrats sign a letter led by Jake Auchincloss criticizing countries for recognizing Palestine The letter also praised the Arab League’s recent statement which calls on Hamas to disarm, while not realizing the statement was part of French-Saudi push for recognizing Palestinian statehood.

There are credible reports that federal agents may be replaying the 2020 playbook and surging into Portland with the goal of provoking conflict and violence in my hometown. I am in close contact with state and local officials to monitor this activity.

The sequels are an anti-trilogy, TFA is about course correcting from the prequels, TLJ is about course correcting from TFA, and TROS is about course correcting from TLJ! Genuinely a baffling series of decisions

OUTRAGEOUS behavior from the Department of Justice; a seasoned prosecutor was fired for reminding a Stephen Miller ally that he was required to obey the Constitution and the valid orders of a federal court.

There’s no need to compare Trump to Hitler when there’s another reviled German leader who “considered every day his birthday” and “wanted to be the bride at every wedding and the corpse at every funeral”

Genuinely don't know how else to react at this point. I've been conditioned to just glaze my eyes over and say "fuck that bullshit." Congratulations, Amy Coney Barrett, everyone is very convinced that you guys are simply calling balls and strikes

the thing is that every law professor is a throne sniffer and not a scholar. there is no scholarship to be done there. they are pretend scholars doing utterly imaginary work to be evaluated in front of an audience of recent undergraduates who are primarily checking their spelling.

Either Dr. Ian Roberts is a master con artist or ICE is lying. He cannot have arrived in the US in 1999 and graduated from Coppin State in 1998. This is not an Orwell novel. Both of these things cannot be true.

a relevant passage from the iran-contra congressional investigation report

sometimes the congress *wants to prevent the president from pursuing foreign affairs priorities*. This was the whole cause of the iran contra scandal; the reagan admin wanted to do horrible bullshit in central america, and congress said no.

the question to ask the republican majority on the court is “what CAN’T trump do?”

seriously if the court rules the Impoundment Control Act unconstitutional, *it’s over*

This totally upends the appropriations process. It's the very definition of hiding elephants in mouseholes.