I read the name and I literally thought it was a joke... THE GUY CHANGING THE RULES HIS NAME IS CALVIN BALL. 100% perfect no notes we live in a simulation keep resisting fascism anyway

"But he has broad license to transgress all moral boundaries as he does that work. When he does so, it doesn’t cause MAGA Christians to reevaluate whether he’s actually on the side of the angels. Instead, it makes them perversely grateful that he’s doing it so their hands can be clean."

"And I'm aiming to sleep with Angie Dickinson. See who gets lucky first."

He's working himself up for round 2.

Was it the same staffer who shit DJT's pants?

This is really why the only eventual choice is to void the second Trump term under the 14th amendment. Every single nominee is corrupted by virtue of being nominated by this putative president. They cannot be allowed to remain in the federal judiciary.

NATO countries making absolutely clear to Ukraine that any security guarantees they get won't be the real kind. Don't think they'll fall for that...again.

Also consistent with the 23% 2 day drop in Palantir.

I feel for my colleague. But unlike the West, Ukrainian papers can't just close up shop. Read @english.nv.ua for the latest on Ukraine and the Russian invasion, in English.

Mike Johnson for the Captain S.J. Miller Award for heroic self-sacrifice.

Interesting question: does there come a point where squeezing Russian oil & gas revenues further doesn't make much difference, & the focus of Western sanctions needs to shift to other parts of the economy? Or can sanctions reduce fossil fuel income even further?

The good Donald is on it.

Art asks tough questions, such as: are those nipples load-bearing?

quinceañera for the great Chicago thundersnow

The Right declares every wrong they commit false until they can declare it right.

OTD Peace of Tartu was made between 🇪🇪 and 🇷🇺. russia broke it less than 20 years later. Imagine russia breaking deals in today world

"If I were a pedo, I'd be the coolest pedo. Other pedos would come to my private island. I can't even drive by schools without being mobbed by horny children."

When federal agents personally tripled the Minneapolis homicide rate.

Out: The Great Anglo-American Suicide Pact of 2016 In: The Great Anglo-American Suicide Plot of 2016

It's going to be amazing when the next Dem president has to fire Warsh for keeping interest rates too high. But seriously.

Warsh nom is strange and mysterious.

I’ve thought for a while the best way to define “woke” when derogatorily applied to white people is ”race traitor”

Soundtrack of the late 2020's

Bari Weis uses the Russian transliteration of Kyiv. Of course.

Glenn's instinctive contrarianism must be dragging him back left now that he lives in Elon's Brown House

"One cannot romanticize the Soviet Union without romanticizing the power structure that suppressed nations from the Baltic to Central Asia. And it’s precisely the structure Putin seeks to resurrect."

"Squadristi"

Wise old millennials tried to warn Zoomers about Republicans. They didn't get it. Now they get it. Welcome to your War on Terror, bitchez! (Thread in quote)

Had missed this. I believe @eliothiggins.bsky.social has diagnosed the reasons behind the crisis of constitutional democracy better than most, if not all, academics writing on the topic. Highly recommended thread

The nationalist international is having conflicts of chauvinism. Seemed inevitable.

If the attempted putsch, pogrom as campaign event, secret police disappearing disfavored minorities, and fanatical cult aren't enough for the Hitler comparison, he may yet invade Denmark.

Illinois going after landlord who tipped off ICE for housing discrimination. Classic! The fash will have a cow.

As much fun as we're all having re-enacting the War of 1812, neo-fascism is a global tide. Many nations have fallen to it. Many more have had close calls. It could happen to any of us.

As ever, I can understand if you end up supporting the guy for tactical reasons and lack of options etc but I deeply resent any effort to pretend he isn’t very obviously a vacuous moron; you’re only fooling yourself

The U.S. imports more from Russia than it does from Ukraine (and obviously has a massive trade surplus with Ukraine) but we’ll never tariff Russia

Polanski and Trump - attacking NATO together for Putin.

Show trials are an opportunity. Use them.

If MBJ ended Chicago’s Century of Humiliation early he would be written down as as a successful mayor despite his many steppings on rakes.

Lots of people dooming on this, but it's going to backfire harder the further they go. The Trump DOJ can't even get indictments against regular folks on ICE resistance, but they're prosecuting the governor? Almost a pity it will likely never get close to trial.

The Mace staffer fucker is at it again.

This could be a bigger theme drawing the through line from Bush II to Trump. Moving on requires us to rip all of the rot out. -Ties in to Court reform. -Goes towards reassuring our erstwhile allies we're addressing the root causes of our worst foreign policy mistakes of the last 25 years.

New protest sign:

Zach Polanski is reskeeting hammer and sickles. Wonderful.

Europe coming together like this on defense is a good sign.

I know this is hijacking a fun post with a serious point, but: the Feast of the Flight into Egypt is a commemoration of the fact that Jesus and his parents fled to Egypt as refugees, which should be more often remembered, particularly by those who say they want to defend the West’s Christian values.

"47th President Donald Trump publicly flipped me off" would go on my tombstone and possibly my resume.