It’s not the soldiers but the civilian employees. Still disturbing though bsky.app/profile/wieg...

Does man who spends 14 hours a day posting deserve one trillion dollars? Many posters say the matter is complicated.

Fascinating to watch Ross Douthat sidle towards MAGA just in time for it to collapse when he gets there

I guess he’s worried that an Argentine Liberation Day from a nominal anchor would turn into a Sinko de Peso. on.ft.com/4qLuOoO Milei defies calls to float Argentine peso freely

Mother speaks out after ICE raids #Chicago day care center. “They are coming for all our children!” #immigration

Healthcare and the life sciences were supposed to be their meat and potatoes but orgs are building small inhouse computing clusters, bespoke to their needs and better privacy and security controls.

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

Guys, a Trump run military attack on Venezuela will not be Iraq War pt 2. It will be deeply fucked up in its own unique way.

I'm sure AI will fix this

This reminds me of something I kept asking conservatives in 2016 and early 2017... before everything really went crazy. "Do you think POTUS is a difficult, important job and it matters if the president understands what's going on, or not?" A question from a more innocent time.

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A political party tries to court your vote. A fascist regime tries to keep you from voting.

A breakdown of US air traffic triggers a seismic effect on global transport infrastructure that would make the escalating effects of the America Crisis on the global system impossible to play down.

So much American great power status going on here

Liberal is a matter of perspective in a United States where the MAGA GOP has drifted so far to the Right that it views anyone to the Left of Ben Shapiro as an enemy of Western civilisation

I think even US politics pundits and leaders aren't quite aware of or respecting this. Not looking forward to the future where they frame punishing people in the regime as some sort of extreme young leftist thing. There wasn't a Dem constituency for Trump capitulation before and definitely not now

No, but if you are in the Midwest, just keep an eye out for the "Garden Club Plant Sale" sometime in March. Its usually run by the Plant Ladies out of the Unitarian, the Methodist or the Lutheran church basement. They are your contacts for joining the NRP.

people will make a deal with the devil if the man holds up his end of the bargain they are totally incapable of doing so

and I don't mean the kind of devil-demon "well, we made a deal but I misled you into what the deal actually was" sort of thing. its "i cannot ever be trusted to make a good faith effort to uphold an agreement"

a big part of why the coalition against Trump holds firm is that the GOP cannot be trusted to honor any deal

Gorsuch finally speaks, and oh yeah, he's against Trump. Alito also sounded skeptical, which is surprising to me. Regardless, there will plainly be a lopsided majority to strike down the tariffs. The government better start working on its Plan B...

There are a lot of factors pushing Republican-appointed justices against Trump, but here's a one: They hate taxes, and know that tariffs are taxes. Just last year, four of them suggested that large portions of our federal income tax code are unconstitutional! www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23p...

Chief Justice Roberts is out. Says the major questions doctrine pretty clearly applies here; the tariffs simply can't survive that. Looks like five pretty clear votes against Trump. And we STILL haven't gotten to Gorsuch...

supreme court poised to side with "No We Shouldn't" in landmark case "We Should Shoot The Economy In The Head For No Reason v. No We Shouldn't"

In style Spanberger and Mamdani are most reminiscent of Ronald Reagan

ICE won't allow communion to be given in detention centers because demons quail and shiver at the divine presence in the Host.

Becoming a right wing President who is too ineptly authoritarian even for John Roberts is a truly unprecedented achievement

While I myself am not and have never been Christian, the Catholicism I grew up around and the Catholics I still know and treasure the friendship of today are the complete opposite of these Opus Dei freaks and I hope Pope Leo continues to spank them for their heresies on the regular.

I grew up in Pittsburgh in the 80s: heavily Catholic, heavily working class, heavily immigrant-origin and the Catholicism I encountered going to Catholic school and having Catholic friends and neighbors resembles this tradcath convert MAGA nonsense 0%.

The oldest Catholic Churches in the USA are those that were part of Mexico, and they think that a Church led by someone with joint Peruvian citizenship, successor to an Argentinian, was going to ignore the targeting of overwhelmingly-Catholic groups? They simply do not get the offline realities.

Imagine having a kid in this daycare who watches as their teacher is bodily dragged away by masked goons.

Also all the hype about a fringe tradcath milieu that gained prominent recruits like JD Vance misses how much of the American Catholic hierarch from Pope Leo on down are more in the type of angry lib warrior priests www.ncronline.org/migration/dc...

Curtis Sliwa is a crazy reactionary but at least he believes in multi-ethnic, multi-racial democracy, and I wouldn't want on my record that I didn't congratulate the first Muslim mayor of NYC but fucking Curtis Sliwa did

Zohran Mamdani says on NY1 he didn't get a congratulatory call from either Andrew Cuomo or Eric Adams last night. He says he got a congratulatory call from Curtis Sliwa, though.

But it's also amusing to watch European commentators go "lol they're going crazy over public service commissioners?" without realising that these kinds of obscure elections decide how much people pay and corporations profit from utility bills

No survivor owes the world an account of their torture and survival . Elizabeth shares her hostage story because she knows too many Iraqis cannot. Thank G-d she is now safe at home. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/w...

A key figure in US politics that I think a lot of European observers obsessed with MAGA voters haven't really got their heads around is your average boring middle class suburban voter who in the face of incomprehensible reactionary chaos hankers after a Normie Revolution.

Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."

The gargantuan data centres that tech giants are investing trillions of dollars in now remind me of all the ads from the early 1960s with pictures of people punching code into building sized mainframe computers that claimed that Siemens and IBM would dominate the future

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And Mamdani and Sadiq Khan have both done this *by being relaxed and calm and centred without losing their focus and intensity when their opponents were throwing the bilious kitchen sink at them*. It's easier to do that if you're at ease with yourself rather than second-guessing and triangulating

This comes from basic misreading of risks Trump presents to US and global systems in how so many believed he could become a Putin style autocrat Instead, Trump embodies radicalised overreach by a structural minority whose inability to cope with inevitable backlashes leads to paralysis and violence

This same question confronts foreign govts as well. Many have been cowed into appeasing Trump due to the very real pain he can inflict in the short term. But with his domestic weakness increasingly clear, a stiffer approach could add more pressure that weakens him even further in the long term.

This is *it*. Courage. Building the narrative. No bloody Ming vases. No “legitimate concerns.” We elect leaders to BE leaders. You don’t have to be a ‘radical’ to make this work.

Now, on the need to be willing to fight, that’s a sine qua non. What I object to is the attempt to draw universals on how you fight that fight from two instances, or even one. City elections are often different because cities are often different. bsky.app/profile/timo...

The lesson that politicians can lead public opinion seemingly needs to be re-learned by the Labour Party. It does also mean they need to develop an idea of *where* they want to lead public opinion, which is probably a bigger challenge

Nice to see that media literacy and critical thinking is going to be added to the national curriculum – that was one of the recommendations at the end of Post-Truth, published eight years ago… news.sky.com/story/bigges...