U.S. foreign policy has been captured by dorks obsessed with the movie 300 and the only way to fix it is to put in power dorks obsessed with the movie Master and Commander.

The principled anti-war voice, a moderating influence on the otherwise principled anti-war cabinet of the principled anti-war president

sam moyn seems to have this weird schmittian view that whoever wins a political struggle by any means other than the procedurally correct manner is actually exercising the constituent power of the people and thus representing true democracy, whereas winning under the rules is antidemocratic

We really did take freedom of navigation and shoot it behind the shed so we could do Vietnam kill counts again and ???

ELECTION RIGGING SCHEME BLENDERED

ending car dealerships would cut the heart out of Republican suburbia a million little fiefdoms for the biggest asshole in town, spreading poison all across the country

AOC: Companies like Palantir are mining endlessly the data and privacy of the American people—keeping track of everything that they say and do. And sending it to a militarized government. 

i think trump is probably genuinely distressed by this because he is, for the first time since covid, running into an issue he cant just bluster his way out of.

"We have to maintain our leverage over this country, which does whatever it wants anyway because we won't use any of the leverage in question" is the position of a liar.

It’s not a hypocritical participation trophy if you’re in a Schmittian cult, I guess

Hi. This merits impeachment. Almost everything he does merits impeachment.

the death drive of the Virginia GOP last year was a preview

the Republican electoral strategy at this point really is just going full "would it not be wondrous for this whole party to be destroyed like a beautiful flower" huh

I have a feeling I'm going to keep tapping this sign for the next seven months

the thing about newsom is that he chronically sells out low salience liberal causes to the chagrin of the base for almost no political benefit. starmerism, basically. a guy who would have no friends or allies left 15 minutes into his presidency.

Russia and Iran just shipping the same Shahed back and forth in a loop, forever.

it's genuinely a feudal way of looking at states which completely lines up with Trump thinking he's an absolute monarch

dawg they actually think regime change is just changing the guy in charge and has nothing to do with institutions

the graft makes me see red

>Explosions in Port Arthur >Fighting Persia >Unpopular dictator >Anti-semitism We are all living in Tsarist Russia

Total @boxelderdust.bsky.social vindication

It’s almost funny the extent that she’s running this back for essentially no reason beyond desperately needing to unperson three of Britain’s most popular millennial actors for being libs

This is just the mirror image of right wingers posting ‘I wore my THERE ARE ONLY 2 GENDERS! t shirt to the airport to see if anyone reacted!’ Guys, everyone is on their phone.

ARE THEY WEARING FUCKING SLIPPERS MIKE

For them to know they would first have to care about minorities and the relentless message from every last “white working class” populists of the last decade is that they steadfastly do not

Like, I've avoided commenting on this because I usually hate this kind of consumerism-masquerading-as-politics and I think it's rarely a productive endeavor, but let's be serious, enough is enough--especially when we're talking about something as pointless and empty as this HBO remake.

I don't really think your opinion on Harry Potter has any intrinsic moral valence, but c'mon, you should really not be giving Rowling money or attention if you care at all about trans rights, y'know? She's not an author with bad opinions, she's a full-time political activist who used to write books.

Why it irks me when people in these conversations focus on all the iffy content of the books, which like—sure, whatever, but it *literally does not matter*. It could be the best-written most unproblematic series in the world and it literally would not matter. The media is not the point.

“Well surely *I* won’t end up regretting my deal with the Devil because the circumstances call for it now and I can just back out once I’ve gotten what I need from it” —Everyone who ever made a deal with the Devil

Like saying OBBA killed funding for rural hospitals is both true and directs anger at actual people with power

How many “good people…afraid or unwilling to have these conversations in public” did we send up in smoke at Hamburg or Dresden What might they have feared most at the precise time we did so How much did it matter

Holder of the most powerful health-related position in the country because two generations worth of people with voting rights saw his last name and their minds went blank

we need to close the object permanence gap with Iran

why would they think that www.axios.com/2026/03/25/i...

I agree completely, insofar as the people in the White House can be said to believe things in any useful sense. When you are swimming in irony & cynicism, free of real consequence, who is to say they are quite wrong? The posting is satisfying. The thing itself is trivial. Everything is porn.

would appreciate it if actual area experts have thoughts but this is the broad way I'm thinking about this news the war is causing a kind of "regime simplification" process where the peculiar and separated structures of the Islamic Republic get increasingly ground down into a military dictatorship

good post on a pattern of recent appointments within the Iranian regime hardliners coming directly out of the IRGC are taking more and more serious decision-making positions x.com/i/status/203...

Masterful gambit sir

Trump: “okay can you guys just say I won and we go back to status quo, no harm no foul” IRGC: “lol, and furthermore lmao”

Trump has a genuine gift for stressing complex systems just enough to degrade and damage them in the long-term while avoiding the immediate worst-case scenario, which he then garners praise for averting. Truly impressive! He's like an embodiment of every negative trend in US culture and society.

[staring, silently, dead-eyed, directly into the camera]

Like, part of me is expecting the Wall Street guys to drive around their empty Porsches through making VROOM noises and vibes and for this to somehow work.

Ork finance bros: "RED ONES GROW FASTA, MAKE VROOM JUICE FLOW FASTA, MAKE TRUCK GO FASTA"

The finance bro theory of TACO always saving them and Republicans always being good for the economy is hereby renamed to "RED ONES GROW FASTA"

Man I sure do wonder why the Times thought this was one that needed to go out as a push notification

“.. He fought back tears as he explained what was there before: two wooden shelters, an outpost to make cheese, sheds for his equipment. The horse paddock was spared, but the chicken coop was gone.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/w...

I’m at ICE HQ

all politics is slowly devolving into bedtime & anti-bedtime factions