Did Roy Cohn die alone and abandoned after he got AIDS for nothing?

pete hegseth is engaged in open racial discrimination against black officers. the clear message is that there is no place for black or women leadership in his military

It’s really fascinating how people keep getting shocked that Trump habitually betrays everybody who ever trusted him.

Suggesting Trump could be accepted as ‘antiwar’ again after launching the biggest and most catastrophic US intervention since the Iraq War for absolutely no reason is saying you think the ‘antiwar’ movement is full of absolute fucking credulous morons. So I can understand why Duss is concerned

Donald Trump cutting off aid to Israel is not something I had on my bingo card, but does seem kinda plausible now.

Called it.

I do feel like democrats need to be serious that we are going to have to rebuild a huge part of the federal government from the ground up (and that DHS needs to be burned to the ground) in 2029.

Our rollout of a funded youth club in every borough is underway, and now we’re upgrading what’s on offer. We are equipping our Youth Lates hubs with free gaming and high-speed Wi-Fi to ensure young Londoners have modern, safe spaces to hang out in.

Trump administration to phase out HIV funding for South Africa www.politico.com/news/2026/06...

I like that we can fix social security by uncapping a tax and allowing immigration and neither are ever on the table

This is 27 times the National Park Service budget, just for comparison's sake.

This is actually starting to drive me bonkers, “err, actually you cannot criticize orange man because that is actually hawkish blob talk in favor of forever war” is just childish

It is not hawkish to point out that Trump lost the war of choice that he started & it is not the duty of doves to defend a peace treaty that recognizes those losses

Also don’t let them use the ‘we won the war but lost the peace’ excuse. You lost the war. You could not militarily change Iran’s regime or open the strait or take the uranium from Isfahan and you set those three military goals

'32 FDR was Hoover backlash+booze. He could've slept for half that campaign and still won. And if he had done incremental mewling bullshit, the GOP status quo would've had a real shot in '36. Instead, he went apeshit with his majorities and became the closest thing to an elected god we've ever had.

I believe in basically no immigration restrictions and that polls at like 15%.

liberal european leaders in particular need to understand that he is coming for them and they need to respond accordingly

I think it is very notable that e.g. people who actually do union organizing—of whom I know a few!—don’t share Riley’s belief here If you are a person with strong political beliefs I encourage you to volunteer for a local campaign and do canvassing for a candidate, it is an educational experience!

the idea that there is a latent far-left socialist majority that refuses to vote is legitimately just the political equivalent of a cargo cult

To put it another way, I think Musk’s purchase of Twitter has helped reify the vague pundit instinct that Trump in some way channels the will of an inchoate true Volk, because now the voice of the Volk speaks through X, the everything app

For all its faults, the American 2 party system forces people who would otherwise be eurolibs into the get along shirt with immigrant communities and the woke mob, and I think that's beautiful

“Ezra Klein is in Peter Thiel’s secret society with Joseph Gordon-Levitt” is a sentence I have been cursed by history to understand and not even find surprising.

The "hydration break" really is a perfect American capitalist innovation: a nakedly commercial play to insert more ad revenue into a game that doesn't have ads anywhere else in the world, all under the guise of some humanitarian interest in the players' wellbeing.

there just isn't a good, grounded-in-reality argument for centrism right now. you can't work with the GOP bc they're insane and consequently even modest policy requires procedural/structural radicalism like considering court packing. they lost their chance lol

the thing is that establishment democrats do not need to be left wing to be successful in this moment, they just have to hate donald trump as much as the base does but they have like oppositional defiant disorder w/re to their voters

1. It's totally unambiguous that the facts as alleged here establish a violation of Title VII as interpreted in Bostock 2. I don't think anything here turns on the complainant's intersex status--if he had XX chromosomes, he'd have the same claim on the same grounds

Watching them try to poast through a surrender is kinda wild.

The cause of woman, in other words, is the cause of democracy. There is simply no distance between them.

Nationstates dot net. (I’m genuinely not sure how serious I’m being)

I really do think that basically every argument about strategy/rhetoric/tactics/policy/willpower/intention/belief/etc is downstream of the entirely unknowable question of "Will people who have no interest or knowledge in these debates change their votes?", which is what's driving us all crazy.

God these people are evil.

Other similarities are the use of new military technologies and systems that have been in development for decades but not tested, and the fact that the the middle power's battlefield victory covers up how much damage was actually done, and ushers in a new hardline government.

honestly I think the best metaphor for this debacle is the Russo-Japanese war: -idiot ruler with delusions of grandeur -empire wants to show a middle power whos in charge -negotiators are idiots -imperial logistics are all fucked up -empire surrenders to middle power after defeat

I do think probably the clearest and most annoying example of the Trump admin trying to portray their election as a cultural project rather than any attempt to improve public policy

UFC is very big among the toxically masculine (and adjacent). This group is, as I have been dragged for pointing out, actually quite large and politically relevant.

I do think that it will be the work of a generation, but that Trump truly has torched things in a way that will noticeably weaken America basically forever, and possibly irretrievably (and this is bad).

i have been obsessed with this for years. allowing manufacturers to sell direct to consumers would be good for consumers and also destroying the car dealership would be an existential crisis for republicans

It’s remarkable how corrupt this regime is.

SO RELEASE THE FUCKING TEXT OF THE MEMORANDUM SO WE CAN KNOW WHAT IT ACTUALLY SAYS AJSHSSDTRGUDERFDFFHERUE JESUS CHRIST

The term I keep returning to is "civic arson"; the gleeful, casual destruction of the underlying norms and structures of our society for momentary political advantage or a good soundbite, done by people who should know better.

This is good. Dems need to deliver on court reform and electoral reform in response.

Yale Law School.

Ten years from now you'll turn on CNN. There'll be a crisis in the Middle East. The man on the TV says "Remember when Trump killed Khamenei? That was the kind of leadership we need now. They didn't mess around after that!" Everybody nods. That's when you realize: We're all in Hell.

We are a mongrel nation, and it's the one thing I'm an unironic nationalist about

going to laugh forever about the Knicks only losing the Trump Game immaculate scriptwriting, no notes

Genuinely, this is a great idea.

one of my favorite things about tiny children is that it does not matter what their race, gender or culture is they all love Garbage Truck equally

Trump: "Guys like me built the country. I watch all these ingrates, they're always complaining, complaining. They didn't build anything, they couldn't build anything. Look at what's happened in Minnesota. Somalia."

Findings like these are produced regularly but readers will never see them in the nyt.🧵