“America doesn’t have to constantly police every region of the world. Our interest... is in not going to war with Iran. It would be a huge distraction of resources. It would be massively expensive to our country.” -- JD Vance, 2024 www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPlq...

every single guardrail on earth is lining up to tell this wet old demented bitch to dial it down on greenland except for his own party, which is so fucking scared of being murdered by his supporters they will gladly plunge this world into chaos. profiles in courage

This is 48 minutes long, and well worth that investment of time: a clear, detailed, easy to follow review that matches my understanding of the case (backed up with a lot of additional facts and expertise I don’t have).

Texas found $11 billion for troops and razor wire at the border and migrant buses, even with oil-billionaire tax cuts. But its coffers went dry for warning sirens to confront a climate crisis it claims is made up How Texas flood exposed warped priorities. My column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

There's always a tweet. Here's an archive where you can look them up. Even the deleted ones. www.thetrumparchive.com?searchbox=%2...

Conservatism consists of one proposition: There must be in-groups whom the law protectes but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect. Frank Wilhoit (the classical music composer, not the political scientist) slate.com/business/202...

MAGA = 24/7 victimhood & centering everything on yourself www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

Pin this, save it, we’ll need it. “When a prison camp opens in your town…when a DREAMer is disappeared from your classroom…when the President destroys what’s left of the Constitution…They will all say they didn’t know this was coming. And I want the American people to know that they did.” AOC 🔥🎯

Annual morbidity in the 20th century, before and after vaccines: Measles: Before: 530,000, After: 47 Mumps: Before: 160,000, After: 429 Rubella: Before: 50,000, After: 3 Diphtheria: Before: 20,000, After: 2 Smallpox: Before: 30,000, After: 0 Polio: Before: 16,000, After: 0

What was "mocking and attacking" in the TPM essay? I've seem some critics of 'identity politics' mock/attack trans activists as naive, etc... but Josh did none of that in the above.

InfoWars is being sold off to repay Sandy Hook families. Great! But Alex has been steering InfoWars listeners away from his own store to a front company set up by his daddy for supplements. For months. fight.fudgie.org/search/show/... 1/2

Here's the video of Trump calling for the police to have "one violent day" because right now "police aren’t allowed to do their job." He's also repeating the lie that you can steal anything up to $950 in California.

Vance and his campaign are trying to move on from pet eating, instead now demanding the media cover “skyrocketing” communicable diseases in Springfield. Except that’s also a xenophobic lie. www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...

Tim Walz has travelled to China 30 times. His knowledge would seem invaluable in light of the universal agreement in DC that China & east Asia must be the focus of US foreign policy. The Idiocracy Party is attacking him for it.

My favorite part of the West Wing fantasies about replacing Biden is the idea that there wouldn’t immediately be a new fatal flaw with whoever replaced him.