I believe the point of these strikes is twofold. First it is a propaganda tool. Second it is an attempt to get the military entirely complicit in the use of overwhelming force against Americans, citizens of the United States or otherwise. Repeating these massacres establishes a norm of behavior.

The key factor that everyone seems to always forget is that Trump was the host of what was once the highest rated show on network TV - a purportedly non-fiction show that portrayed him as a hyper-savvy and hyper-successful businessman.

A question I'm grappling with is at what point can a concern supercede the sanctity of a liberal democratic state? If people simply have different ideas about what sovereignty is, can they legitimately rebel against a just government? I wish opinion columnists would write about this kind of thing.

Newsom challenging Pritzker to a gerrymander contest after we already gerrymandered in 2021 is rich. We INVENTED the earmuff district. Our districts are FAMOUS. We won't take this from an amateur.

What is wrong with these shareholders? Why do they hate having money?

I encourage people to identify and categorize every lie they hear from and about Donald Trump. If they are unable to do that then I encourage them to simply stop listening entirely. That is more or less what I did – I have refused to listen to his voice for almost ten years.

The Gospel has some things to say about this.

This is perhaps pedantic, but in a sign of how vapid and superficial these folks' engagement with antiquity is, they're giving a 'Bellator' award with a Latin name - a word the Romans rarely ever apply to their own (or Greek) soldiers - featuring the image of a Greek helmet the Romans didn't use.

Other types of feminism for the NYT to explore: Third Wave Classical Diet Proto-communist Communist Communicable Masonic Space Inter Dimensional QAnon Darwinist Arboreal Riparian Top 40

thanks to technology Car Park Capital has the most realistic eyes of all games

it's ya girl make long ass podcast about the fashy politics of hearts of iron forget to talk about the fire rises total disastrophe 😭

thomas jefferson wrote some vehement denunciations of people like thomas jefferson

And because staffers can't make more than the boss, it turns the grunt-work of politics into either an elite hobby or a stepladder operation where you're always on the lookout for your exit ramp. I think at last check 90+% of people who work Dem campaigns don't stay in politics after 6 years.

there is no political proposal that more divides the tiny percentage of us who live and breathe politics and literally *everyone else* than politician salaries

Text from a friend:

No way!

Oh my god is that a Chiang-faced aircraft carrier?

Could the sandwich have had a malfunctioning initiator plate?

I think this edit makes the headline worse, not least because it gives away the whole game.

amusingly they are in this pickle because the establishment, aipac, etc backed the absurdly corrupt italian instead of the extremely good jewish comptroller

October not-surprise.

My aunt visited a secret Nazi basement once. They had a bunch of Nazi, uh, memorabilia on display. She divorced the man that took her there and I think that was the right call. Consider whether you should also divorce the people inviting you to Nazi basements!

this is genuinely too funny www.pbs.org/newshour/wor...

Ok, just wow. If the content of this article is right, this is depressing. We're slowly reaching the point where ~100% of what I was taught in Social Psych was either innocently wrong or plainly frauded onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Finally a big city mayor raised on “YOU CAN’T CUT BACK ON FUNDING! YOU WILL REGRET THIS!”

your basic idea is that an Indian Muslim whose father was expelled from Uganda for being Indian and whose maternal grandparents lived through the violence of the Partition, on the wrong side of the border, is predisposed to believe that countries have a right to maintain an ethnoreligious majority

Heritage had an ancient Korean historiography moment there

There's been a fair critique made that Parks & Rec often had a jaundiced, overly-cynical eye toward the public. But I want to tell a story that underpins why... well, for those of us in government, that workplace humor hit home. Another time, another place, a different federal agency... 🧵

Please remove Lenore from your mailing list? Quoth the Raven: Nevermore

Absolutely hilarious spot the court put itself in Rule in favor: reinforce that you're Republicans only Rule against: get exposed as powerless when the ruling is ignored. The brilliance of john roberts

Whenever they call Mamdani a Communist remind them of this: finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-a...

I don't expect this margin to hold (I imagine rural counties report slower), but the prop 50 margin is currently larger than the 2024 margin. That is a powerful message if it were to hold.

What we want to see is Congress attacking the executive and the executive attacking Congress, instead of the executive attacking the people and everyone cheering them on. I think the shutdown has achieved that goal, at a significant but appropriate cost.

State Sovereignty, National Union. We are no longer asking.

What an insult to Pigpen. He's endearing and canonically never hurt anyone.

Why are we naming so many of our cities Aurora?

Unpaid government workers are being fed by World Central Kitchen…let that sink in just how dire things are.

Also a surprise upset in St Paul, Minnesota as Kaohly Her, who came to the United States at age 4, becomes the city’s first Hmong (and first Asian) mayor. www.startribune.com/st-paul-mayo...

BOOOOOOOOO

Can we talk about how disgusting it is how much these candidates were red-baiting in the NYC mayoral race? I'm specifically referring to Silwa's beret.

Zohran is cool and awesome and I’m thrilled for him and all of us but at my core this is who I am: the Jewish guy who shows up to be a world class hater in support of his friend

Looks like Mamdani won because he got the coveted Erich endorsement six months ago. I'm collecting my laurels now.

Nightmare blunt rotation

their account has been hacked right?

I actually don’t even know what a lot of my policy positions are anymore

AOC on CNN asked if Schumer is afraid of her: “I think REPUBLICANS are afraid of me, and they project that fear on to him” Get that woman a shield.