I think the trend on OSINT Twitter was instructive; guys who had spent years watching the atrocities in Syria, then the war in Ukraine, turned that same eye to Gaza and were shocked by what the Most Moral Army was doing *on camera*

Youngkin wins, the press goes on and on and on about how Biden's presidency is over. One train derailment and the press goes apoplectic over Buttigieg. This whatever the fuck is going on with the plane crashes and the shellacking in the election. NYT: Maybe women are a problem in the workforce 🤪

Next up: Did women ruin sex? By Rod Dreher

Did cooties ruin the workplace?

If you think too much about the shut down and how money keeps going out even though it’s not supposed to and how the court can functionally order money into existence or whatever you’ll come out the other side a raving MMTer

Listen SecDef has a Deus Vult tattoo and a lot of sins to earn indulgences for he will be damned - literally - if he doesn’t kill some more Muslims

Bluesky is famously a place where people were rooting on drone strikes in Afghanistan

Starting a Q Anon theory that Trump is sacrificing jets to a pantheon of air, land, and sea deities to artificially extend his life

So if the court tells Trump to scrap the tariffs but he tells Customs to keep collecting them…then what? Newsom and Spanberger and Hochul and Sherrill instruct their port authorities not to cooperate in collecting the tariffs?

Remember all the ‘just release the hostages & Israel will stop starving people’ comments you used to get if you said something like ‘Israel should stop starving people’ ?

Hegseth and Duffy are engaged in a competition to see who can run up a worse records regarding airplanes under their authority

FIFA and Trump are made for each other - impossible to even say which one is dirtier and more corrupt

American industrial safety for the win

Facebook reactionaries are big mad about the Mayoral election so I think we may have elected the right guy (much as I may personally respect Sid Daoud) dailyinterlake.com/news/2025/no...

Can you imagine how racist the internal White House debate about Nigeria is, caught between people who love bombing Muslims and those who can’t even pretend to care about Africans?

It’ll also blow a huge hole in the budget since we already spent that money on secret police and gulags

Historians of Bsky make your case!

Also remember that the ‘Great Power Peace’ Mearsheimer et al promise is in fact still characterized by constant warfare between great powers and lesser powers (see: 1815-1856; 1870-1914)

This is where an originality with even a shred of integrity is going to struggle to articulate what ‘taxes’ and ‘revenue’ could possibly mean besides tariffs in an 18th c context

Yeah pretty sure a major pillar of the show is that ‘markets aren’t self regulating and classic regulatory progressivism is good’ (Knope is right far more often than Swanson)

The line between reality and a Ben Garrison comic is getting perilously thin

Its fascinating and kind of gross to watch irony curdle into a genuine vice and revulsion for The Good. Its like watching a zombie turn and rot and melt before you.

Voter turnout in King County was 20.25% In a vote by mail state What the fuck results.vote.wa.gov/results/2025...

Another good reason to vote for Zohran: Anna Khachiyan viscerally dislikes him

Famously King David never told a lie to advance the interests of…well himself, as God’s chosen

Trump and I weirdly agree here that Republicans should ditch the filibuster, I because I hate the Republican Party and he because he can’t imagine a world without him

this is like looking at the measles outbreaks in texas and concluding "vaccines don't work" rather than "we should've vaccinated a lot more people"

Also remember that the ‘Great Power Peace’ Mearsheimer et al promise is in fact still characterized by constant warfare between great powers and lesser powers (see: 1815-1856; 1870-1914)

you'll note that the countries Russia has invaded have been the ones that *aren't* in NATO

Like yeah, I know, it's uncool and cringe to be idealistic and believe in a mission and swear an oath. You're supposed to believe that everyone in government is corrupt and broken and inept. Which begs the question, so how do you convince the people to put government in charge of health care?

The fact that a lot of leftists despise Parks and Rec - one of the best and most sympathetic depictions of non-cop government in modern media - is a symptom of the fact that a lot of the left has no idea how to actually implement the policy proposals they want to enact.

The way people tried to hang the very normal number of train derailments in the Buttigieg is how we need to stick plane crashes to Duffy. The U.S. had gotten very good at making sure large, scheduled flights did not crash and now they are crashing

Duffy: “if the government doesn’t open up I’m going to start personally crashing the planes rather than just letting them crash on their own”

The age of corrupt middle aged men is coming to an end; the age of smart, hot 30 something’s is just beginning

Why is this like - every Anglophone global city?

My hometown. Duffy needs to fucking resign.

It’s pretty obvious why

Out: Roman Patrician look In: Achaemenid Prince look I always liked the Achaemenids better any way

Massive couple of years for guys who look kinda like this

Duffy: “if the government doesn’t open up I’m going to start personally crashing the planes rather than just letting them crash on their own”

No way

Trump and I weirdly agree here that Republicans should ditch the filibuster, I because I hate the Republican Party and he because he can’t imagine a world without him

Gonna turn into a property tax curmudgeon over this www.kpax.com/news/local-n...

Visually it’s giving

On foreign policy I’d say the Democrats should aspire to elect Bellingcat Liberals, which is basically the same as a NatSec liberal but capable of seeing obvious facts about Israel

The alternative is…less so.

If the King’s Guard can’t serve their new leader faithfully, exile may be the most humane option

My biggest concern about every alternative to policing is that most of them are democratic and it turns out that even normal liberal people will vote for the child of Dirty Harry and Margaret Thatcher by stupid margins if given the chance

Like Obama, Trump motivates low propensity voters but there’s a cost and that cost is losing their sheen elections that those voters skip