“Oh boo hoo where is the Royal Navy? Where is the Grande Armée? Where is the Wehrmacht? Why don’t Warsaw and Istanbul have independent nuclear deterrents?” Because we spent the American Century very carefully putting all that toothpaste back its respective tubes on purpose, dummy.

The plan was with a big American military and reliable defensive alliances, you could substantially and peacefully demilitarize most of the rich countries that would otherwise be able to challenge US hegemony or collapse global peace and it kinda fucking worked.

This is related to the "their propaganda channels are also their internal communication channels" point. The viziers kept him from wanting to fire people by always and only acting like they are winning on TV. Now even Trump, as susceptible to flattery as he is, isn't buying it.

there is definitely a point past which wealth reasserts itself over education and makes the average person right-wing again, but that level of wealth is still pretty rare in the US. the kind of wealth you can get from a salaried professional job is not.

This is a great example of what democrats in congress can actually do right now. Similar to Wyden telling Bondi that he’ll see her at Nuremberg 2. Publicly stating that once they take back power there will be consequences for these crimes is genuinely helpful.

Their fear is that when the government makes programs truly universal, then those programs become universally popular and almost impossible to eliminate. Giving the rich free daycare is the best way to ensure that you will be able to keep providing it to the poor.

This might be the largest party lead I've ever seen among the double haters www.cnn.com/2026/04/03/p...

Every time you don't vote, a political consultant somewhere updates a spreadsheet for the next election saying people like you don't matter as much as white pensioners or some other group that consistently votes

yes you fucking morons free preschool for everyone or it becomes just "free preschool for the poors" and then you call them leeches and ask for tax breaks when really we want free preschool for everyone because we want smart well adjusted kids why is this so hard? www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/n...

Pete Hegseth publicly promised to execute Iranian prisoners of war. If that’s what happens to these American pilots, he will share the blame

We did not go to Iran planning to fight big boy war, & that was as unforgivable as the rest of it. Americans are dead not out of military necessity, not even for the sake of glory, but because the Trump Administration thought they could pull a fast one. They deserve to be in handcuffs.

The US military officer corps are moral cowards as an institution, but they're also fundamentally on the side of good; there's too many Dorts but they are in a minority The majority just needs to be prodded to realize there's just as severe of career consequences if you violate your oath

The news needs to stop mincing words about what Hegseth is doing: restoring racial segregation to the US military by preventing anyone but white men from advancing

This can’t be presented as just a controversial policy choice. It’s unambiguous bigotry as policy. Hegseth believes black and brown Americans, and women, do not belong in positions of military leadership, and has overruled his own staff to remove them. Assault on fundamental principles of fairness.

All but three (!) of the 1,651 refugees admitted into the United States in the three most recent months we have data are white South Africans. For comparison, in 2024, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees. It's an explicit white supremacist project. www.rpc.state.gov/documents/Re...

the Italian dub of the Simpsons gave secondary characters different Italian regional accents, so Wiggum is Neapolitan, Willie is Sardinian, Eddie is Sicilian, Lou is Apulian and Carl is Venetian

OH MY GOD

The press didn’t become the enemy because they just had a blind spot, they correctly understand themselves to be at war and have consciously picked a side

The press is not a conduit through which information about other actors and events reaches you, they are an actor themselves, with their interests and causes they root for.

This is why I believe that people like Gavin Newsom and Rahm Emmanuel take contrarian stances that don't appear immediately helpful to them, they know the power of being the media's rooting interest in a race, Trump made it very clear, and they're campaigning to them, not us.

This made something click in my head about why Newsom is doing some (not all! but some) things.

ICE is a rogue agency with no regards for the rule of law or public safety. They enter our homes, schools, and hospitals to separate families and detain innocent people. Colluding with ICE means colluding with Trump’s authoritarianism. We must pass New York For All.

Turns out covering up for pedophiles isn't a winning strategy. See you at Nuremberg 2.0

Exactly like Hitler telling everyone to leave the room except for his top generals in the too-often-memed “Downfall” clip

also it is particularly fitting that trump has finally succeeded in proving that tariffs can fund a country, only for that country to be iran

i’m a former libertarian conservative who became very left-wing in the last decade, why don’t you interview me about how the right-wing pushed me away

The basic reality is that over the last 4 decades the Republican Party has become increasingly nativist and is now in thrall to a band of lunatics who are actively working toward a white ethnostate. That is due to dynamics on the American right, not because the AP started saying "undocumented."

It’s arguably less a war than it is just a string of war crimes

you don't hate the press enough

the trump administration is selling this country wholesale to rapacious, extractive industries that will destroy our collective resources for private profit morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/breaking-t...

A House Democrat is moving to block Trump’s signature from appearing on U.S. paper money and securities and we’re here for it. Rep. Jimmy Gomez introduces the bill tomorrow morning. No sitting president should be allowed to use the nation’s currency as a personal billboard.

on a more fundamental level, there is an aspect of psychic terror that comes from acknowledging that something too big to fail (the US presidency) is failing, waking up every morning knowing it is failing

in a few years, all the same political reporters who are sanewashing and steelmanning every trump statement will laugh and tell you "everyone knew" how senile trump was. "an open secret" they'll say. Not open enough to tell their audience but all the "right people" already know now and are hiding it

imagine Dune 3 into The One Big Beautiful Notification into GTA 6

So yeah basically if you ever entertained for even a moment in the last eleven years the idea that Trump would be more dovish on GWOT than any of his opponents you should immediately surrender your car keys, finances, and power of attorney to a loved one

I cannot believe the Times is still busy trying to discipline democrats’ left flank. Democrats should tell people to unsubscribe and nuke that paper from orbit. If Dems came out against that paper in a united front it would be dead in a couple years.

There are now 10 toilets in Space International Space Station: 4 Crew Dragon Docked at ISS: 1 Soyuz Docked at ISS: 1 Tiangong Space Station: 2 Shenzhou Docked at TSS: 1 Artemis II on way around Moon: 1 This will be the first time a toilet has left low earth orbit!

The extent to which it is just taken completely for granted even in a lot of liberal circles that the US is supposed to underwrite Israeli defensive capabilities indefinitely, completely regardless of the policies, action, or commitments of the Israeli government is really just wild to me.

They also conveniently gloss over the fact (which anyone actually doing work in the space is painfully aware of) that Israel is actively spying on the USG 24/7 and routinely sells our secrets to our geopolitical adversaries

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That process of low-productivity, high-labor-intensity services being destroyed because there's too much demand for labor in more productive sectors is more than fine, it's good. Great even. That's the very thing that makes our entire society wealthier, starting with the workers at the bottom.

And in fact the media actively sought to punish Biden (and later Harris) any time they made any kind of positive case about the economy. "Hey its good that unemployment is 3%" was met with "OUT OF TOUCH HARRIS OUT OF TOUCHLY CLAIMS BORGOR NOT EXPENSIVE" headlines

There was a failure both by Biden/Harris and the left more generally to make the case that "borgor expensive" was an unfortunate but inevitable tradeoff of having an otherwise-desirable booming low-end labor market, but our media elites actively preferred crushing the labor market for its own sake

And the media, who intermediate these economic claims, validated these complaints over and over — most obvious example writing up record-low unemployment rates as *bad news* because of the price-of-burger complaints and presenting Biden/Harris as out of touch for not prioritizing these concerns

Just to expand on this: The dynamic was basically: Voters: Fast food hamburgers went from $3 to $9. I don't like this. Biden/Harris: Look, I'm sorry about your burger or whatever, but there are real people out there with real problems. Trump: I will fix this on day 1. It will be so easy.

Elon Musk: I have patented a new technology for relaxation in the modern age. Simply enter the device, and no matter where you look you will see soothing images of fir trees. I call it the Pineopticon. Community note: This already exists and it is called a forest.

how do you prepare for this case not expecting Gorsuch to ask an Indian law question

Trans rights, ending ICE, and freeing Palestine all got huge cheers at my local No Kings protest. These are mainstream positions for the Democratic electorate. The party needs to fucking catch up.

This whole "Crime as a Service" trend is really under-covered – it's widespread across Europe. Enemy intelligence agencies don't need secret agents or embedded saboteurs any more, they just need to find some idiot 16 year olds on a Discord who'll firebomb an ambulance station for pocket money