Bigot in baby oil.

What on Earth does legitimacy have to do with gerrymandering? If this were a thing voters gave a shit about it would have been dead two centuries ago. They don’t. It’s abhorrent, but there’s no POLITICAL downside.

"They cling to the illusion that they can preserve their independence and integrity while making deals with a strongman..." I would go further: If you believe this strategy will work, you know nothing about authoritarian rule. Resistance is the *only* strategy. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/o...

This totally makes sense for Zelenskyy. It’s clear that whatever Trump is going to do or not do for Ukraine is not going to depend on Zelenskyy maintaining credibility as a democrat.

Ex-ambassador to Hungary: "[T]he real danger of a strongman isn’t his tactics; it’s how others, especially those with power, justify their acquiescence.... Here, too, powerful people are responding to authoritarian advances...not with defiance, but with capitulation" www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/o...

💥Viktor Orbán’s demographic strategy is a disaster. Over the past decade, 37.8% of Hungary’s population decline was due to emigration to other EU countries. Hungary is losing the competition to retain its own citizens while birth rates tank. Read Direkt36's in-depth article on @vsquare.bsky.social👇

Trump: “I love children.” Also Trump: Burns food that could feed 1.5 million children for a week.

This is shameful - and utterly stupid. It's not only dead wrong to treat this way those who give their lives to serve our country, but it's taking us out of the fight for our interests around the world. China & Russia are laughing, and taking our place. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Why? Spreading the news about tRump & Epstein relationship being a “thing”? All know they were best buddies!

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I wonder if they ever kissed. And by kiss, I mean....

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You earned a follow because I snort-laughed.

I went to the Coldplay concert last night and these guys were on the Jumbotron.

Kiss! Kisss! Kiss!

I went to the Coldplay concert last night and these guys were on the Jumbotron.

Authoritarian regimes NEVER give up power willingly.

Who keeps a broken agency’s endowment? Trump’s DOGE stole $13M in private peacebuilding funds—then rerouted it to ICE. No court order. No consent. No law. Just theft. USIP was built to prevent war. Now its legacy bankrolls it. #USIP #TrumpCrimes #EndowmentTheft www.politico.com/newsletters/...

This asshole Moyn and his fellow dwarves are so stunningly wrong about Russia’s post-cold war history that he really should just crawl into a ditch with the Russian army outside of Kharkhiv and make his arguments from there.

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It's only a recess appointment. No jabroni is going to get confirmed; not even in this Senate.

damn you beat me to it lol

Well, that’s not entirely true. A much older set of proclamations, those of the king Urukagina, shows that there was another model of government on offer, one that protected the vulnerable and held the government accountable. worldhistory.substack.com/p/what-were-...

This is why Epstein doesn’t matter as much as we think it does.

More on the vermin here: talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/corey...

This is fucking wild. Congressman and defense contractor Corey Mills (R-Florida of course) has an IRAQI wife and an IRANIAN mistress. And doesn’t pay his rent. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/corey... Corey Mills Harmonic Scandal Convergence? - TPM – Talking Points Memo

Ranking Member @meeks.house.gov today sent a letter to Secretary Rubio demanding answers on the admin’s illegal dismantling of USAID and its transfer of USAID’s staffing and responsibilities to the State Department. Read the letter: democrats-foreignaffairs.house.gov/2025/7/meeks...

The first month of our record breaking campaign: #1 Q2 fundraising in the country for a first-time candidate in a red to blue race. We raised OVER $500,000 in less than 2 weeks, with an average donation less than $100. Thank you for your support, we're in this fight together.

Update from 4 hours ago: wapo.st/3IvgS0s

Ovechkin is bad. Maybe this Russkie bitch wants to match him.

“It’s so irresponsible and so demeaning for them to think that they could get away with a strategy that includes open, overt, aggressive, accelerated lying,” Goosby said. “Their cavalier departure from the truth is just as egregious as the unfounded claims they make about PEPFAR,” Ratevosian said.

You are so right. Thank you.

Um… because that’s what judges aligned with authoritarian regimes do?

He and many others rallied outside the State Department, last Friday, to support the 1,300 laid off there. Link to the full interview 🔗: youtu.be/mvRldKbldz8?...

I asked Enrique Roig, director of policy and strategic initiatives at the Seattle International Foundation, for an idea of what's next for fired State Department & USAID employees. Roig worked for both in past years.

If Democrats have the ability to gerrymander states in their favor, they should just do it. Why is Newsom saying only if Republicans do it to Texas will they respond in kind?? JUST DO IT! USE EVERYTHING YOU HAVE! PLAY HARDBALL! LET'S FUCKING GO!!!

The Big Ugly Bill adds over $3 TRILLION to our nation's debt. This endangers our future as more & more tax dollars go to pay off interest - racking up the equivalent of massive credit card debt. It's wrong to give tax cuts to billionaires & make future generations foot the bill.

There are at least three separate lies in this one headline. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/h...

There was a list of questions submitted to the DoS bureau of consular affairs employee town hall meeting yesterday floating around and was giving me life this afternoon. But life is nasty brutish and short and it got taken down. We can't have nice things. ☹️

A few thoughts on Elbridge Colby’s role in the Trump administration. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/elbridge-c...

Authoritarian regimes use regional organizations to suppress dissent and bolster their power as @debremaria.bsky.social shows in her new book "The Dictators' Club". As autocrats coordinate across borders, democratic actors must do the same, she writes. www.democracywithoutborders.org/37302/

This is the result of a political party fueled by hate and moral indifference. People starve and die. See Gift Article by @hana-kiros.bsky.social for @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

In today’s Vatnik Soup, I’ll introduce an American lawyer and politician, Mike Lee. He’s best-known for opposing the aid to Ukraine, undermining NATO by calling the US to withdraw from the alliance, and for fighting with a bunch of braindead dogs online. 1/21

This is literally one million pounds of food. "Within weeks, two of those sources told me, the food, meant for children in Afghanistan and Pakistan, will be ash." www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

Rural America isn’t failing—it's being crushed by the chaos created by the administration and House Republicans abdicating their responsibilities. Trade wars, reckless funding cuts, and the dismantling of #USDA and #USAID have pushed our communities to the brink. substack.com/home/post/p-...