Trump always said we should have taken Iraqs oil during that war so it makes sense (in the trumpian worldview) to go take Iran’s.

Never believe Amy Siskind on anything is a very handy rule of thumb.

Screenshot of video of children burning Lionel Messi jerseys

When I watched a smiling Lionel Messi applauding Trump’s cartoon villain bloodlust, I thought about Muhammad Ali going on international television to deliver his poem condemning the Attica prison massacre, telling the world that fascists would never conquer the human spirit.

It’s cool that this generation gets to find out the answer to “what would you have done when we started interning the Japanese?” and “what would you have done when we invaded Vietnam?” and “what would you have done in Watergate?” all at the same time.

I also find it curious that he never has this type of energy when it comes to all our veterans that fall through the cracks and the myriad other ways they’re failed by the VA.

This same argument can be extended to excluding black characters, to excluding women characters from certain roles, to any form of bigotry you can imagine.

It is explicitly agreeing to reproduce the existing system of oppression and bragging about it in the newspaper

My god

being in the room to watch sober minded French protestants discover what their American counterparts have become is near the top of my list of historical moments i wish i was present for

“Americans are seeing the real “America First” agenda up close—militarism, imperialism, malign nationalism, unabashed authoritarianism—and they’re recoiling.“

@NYCSamKay Steve Daines: "The flood of Mexican meth...20 years ago in Montana, meth was homemade. It was homegrown." (Video still cc: “meth was homemade, it was homegrown,”)

There is nothing more unserious than US drug policy

The first of many such AI related bombings of civilians if we allow this to go on.

That is bleak. Unsurprising, but bleak.

Having faced no consequences for anything, Trump has noticed that he has the world’s largest military at his command, and believes he has found a brilliant solution for solving problems that no one before him was smart enough to discover: just kill everyone in your way, until they obey you.

Awesome. I was trying to explain this concept to someone but Mina said it better, and with more tact.

As a data person, the search for the answer sometimes sparks new ideas and new pitches! Being lazy or incurious makes you worse at your job. AI atrophies creativity in all forms, not just art.

He’s wearing the chefs coat because he’s a narcissistic asshole. No reason deeper than that.

Forthcoming essay on this. What Clausewitz and the reformers identified as Napoleon’s secret sauce is that the lower and middle classes had developed real power that could be exploited by granting them privileges. They needed to be brought into the compact with the state.

If she's never punished for any of this, who cares what "history" thinks?

History will forget her like it's forgotten so many shitty racist, murderous U.S. officials in the past.

"History" is the secular version of Hell, and just as imaginary.

You gotta figure that "walk-on at UConn", "middle-school math teacher", and "gives speeches about how he drunk-drove himself into a wheelchair" is the trifecta of "does not give a shit about looking like a doofus".

Any moderately popular pundit who gets criticized by people on Bluesky

"Hey Kurds, it's the United States. Remember us, from all the betrayals? Anyhoo, would love it if you all could march into this thresher for us. Let us know."

This is the point. If your vaunted trillion-dollar military can't get through a few days of airstrikes because you've consolidated the industrial base so badly, then you don't have a trillion-dollar military, you just have contractors in No. Virginia getting rich

This is the exact same Guy you could find 2,000 years ago as a Roman senator gleefully listing the number of Germani slain and sold into slavery, 900 years ago exulting in the sack of Jerusalem, or 100 years ago celebrating 500 yards taken on the Western Front. Timeless chickenhawk scum.

“The U.S. Government invents a cult centred on the worship of a misspelled Chiang Kai-Shek as an unstoppable warrior with the Mandate of Heaven” wasn’t on my 2026 bingo card

A local gas station by me jumped .40 cents in a day

Just imagine if Schumer and Jeffries could talk like this.

this is not an amount of money any individual or household should be able to have and we have to abolish both billionaires as a group and the economic system that makes them possible

Polis’s bank account would be my main guess.

Americans: "We want health care!"

American government:

There’s probably a decent chance a nuke gets used by you know who in the next year.