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it's really bad for the world that half of the American political system has convinced itself that the concept of diplomacy is fake and gay

Their guy said he'd pardon the J6 insurrectionists--and then shockingly did it.

I haven't heard any potential Democratic candidate promise to pardon everybody arrested for protesting ICE.

That'd go a long way toward showing me they're opposition and not just controlled.

as a constant-yet-fluctuating disaster, which for most people mostly happens in the news, but if you work in a related field it's changed everything, and at any time the effects can randomly devastate someone you know or somewhere you live,

this presidential administration is weirdly like COVID

Pay professors, free fares, tax billionaires.

Simple as.

just curious but anybody happen to know where that half-ton of enriched uranium Iran had wound up

remember when trump proposed gutting the FDIC

Steve-O was on Joe Rogan's show trying to defend trans people and Rogan went off, he called trans people "fucking perverts" and "mass shooters" who have done the majority of school shootings.

Completely unhinged bigotry paid for by your Spotify subscriptions.

Looking directly at the camera and speaking clearly and with conviction about issues with local import but that also have national resonance?

Then doing it 5 times a day, every day?

Hot damn. Code cracked.

The last time the world broke up enough to let people change their lives en masse. In Europe and Asia that meant "start from zero" but in the US that was a rocketship.

A doctor and an accountant. More importantly (because their wives stayed around longer) they were married to a diplomat and a nurse.

My fellow progressive Christians, might I direct you to consider the actions and labor of the religious left in the Twin Cities-- protestant, catholic, and jewish. The general strike that so many online dream about happened because of work between houses of worship and organized labor!

And he’s building all that illegal, unpermitted, and polluting fossil fuel generator capacity in Memphis for … this

Said it there, will say it here. The Grand Old Cause is back and Churchill just declared against the Stuarts.

Said it there, will say it here. The Grand Old Cause is back and Churchill just declared against the Stuarts.

Vichy Dems go over the side.

Axel Oxenstierna sent his son to negotiate the Peace of Westphalia saying "do you not know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed?"

It really is genuinely annoying how much power America has to shape the destiny of other countries and yet its voters who shape the US government is completely oblivious to this responsibility.

I just wrote a book about a bunch of people whose unfulfilled dreams shaped history. Among the many reasons that we need to study dreams, especially ones that don't come true, is that we need to empower ourselves to dream regardless of the outcome. @adapalmer.bsky.social

"Hard times are coming, when we’ll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now...to other ways of being, and even imagine real grounds for hope. We’ll need writers who can remember freedom — poets, visionaries — realists of a larger reality."

Ursula K. LeGuin

Why are so many bases being successfully hit? There should be no world in which we planned an attack in Iran, expecting counter strikes, and have had our defensive systems exhausted so rapidly? We should have been stockpiled with enough patriot missiles to defend these things for weeks…

I mean part of the answer is they sincerely didn't think Iran would follow through, since the US leadership has demonstrated they do not comprehend their enemies as human with capacity for thought, but also things never work the way you *imagine* them to. Even unlimited stockpile wouldn't be 100%.

this is the ballgame

its not 'what applicable law allows' its 'WE WILL NOT ALLOW YOU TO KILL HUMAN BEINGS WITHOUT A HUMAN DECISION'

If this is true, it’s very clear that we want to destroy the possibility of a genuinely democratic opposition taking power, because we want to install that dog Reza Pahlavi as Shah

Fukuyama (1992).

The King is mad

Every single Indivisible Mom (laudatory) in the US is getting together with PSL for protestsbecause both of these groups of people are united around Fuck This Shit Specifically.

Well, as military strategists Clausewitz and Jomini would both say, “damn, whatever’s in those Epstein files must be REALLY bad”

The elder millennial existence consists entirely of alternating geopolitical and financial crises

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