"...there is no time for admiration; get busy right away at the task of imitating him. The ethical truth of the matter is just this—that admiration is suspiciously like an evasion." (Kierkegaard)
An attack on liberal arts education (stop stop it’s already dead) from Biden’s Commerce Secretary
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/o...
Photo of Pete Hegseth at a press conference, with the following quote: “Hegseth: Flying over their capital. Death and destruction from the sky all day long. We're playing for keeps. Our warfighters have maximum authorities granted personally by the president and yours truly. Our rules of engagement are bold, precise, and designed to unleash American power, not shackle it. This was never meant to be a fair fight, and it is not a fair fight. We are punching them while they're down, which is exactly how it should be.”
This quote distills, better than any other, this administration.
Its aesthetic: the most bombastic and brainless action movie, with the most hackneyed script writing.
Its psychology: sadistic gratification in domination, with particular pleasure beating those who are helpless.
Reuters Exclusive
"U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school."
"The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the Middle East."
US leaders regret allowing China to escape poverty and get on a plausible path to prosperity and they intend not to repeat that mistake anywhere else. US national security requires that the global south stay poor and weak forever www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
That's what war is. Once you in it, you in it. If it's a lie then we fight on that lie.
Just devastating. A landslide triggered by heavy rains appears to have killed over 200 people, including 70 children, at a mine in the DR Congo.
This is about a month after a *different* landslide killed over 200 people at the same mine www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...
The girls’ school in Iran, where 165 people were killed by an apparent US-Israeli attack, was hit with two strikes, with the second missile killing sheltering survivors, two first responders and the parent of a slain child have told Middle East Eye.
February 4, 2026: “The Raytheon deals aim to increase annual production of Tomahawk cruise missiles from the current rate of about 60 per year for the U.S. to eventually 1,000 units annually.”
www.reuters.com/business/aer...
You think we should end strategic ambiguity?
Do you think we should end strategic ambiguity?
Let’s review.
1. DC foreign policy world, projecting insecurities outward, invents the “Axis of Chaos [or whatever]” comprised of the official enemies. They must be strangled because they aim to destroy the rules-based international order;
2. Countries in the nonexistent Axis…
if only you lived in another state I would love to hear your Kat take too
Rare! I'm from Vancouver. Aunt and uncle have lived in Victoria my whole life
Where in BC? I don’t think I knew this
Some social media personalities have expressed similar views. Conservative commentators Kevin Hodge and Keith Hodge, who go by the monicker Hodgetwins, said the “war isn’t as popular as the Zionist shills on X say it is”. “President Trump has completely LIED to his voters, backstabbed our country and has disgraced his legacy beyond repair at this point,” they wrote on X.
Conditions keep improving for the more thoroughly antisemitic (Tucker Carlson, Groyper, etc.) tendencies to take over MAGA
a thing historians will marvel about when they study this era is the extent to which the "war is a thing that happens to poorer, browner people" class went about systematically dismantling every aspect of the global political order that confined the costs of war to poorer and browner people
No wait that would just encourage him
Qatar should offer him another plane if he stops
What happens if you think you've got the cheat code for a game but you actually don't
And also kill a bunch of people along the way, but you know more responsibly
Forever wars are good and easy to win
"But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father" which I assume means Trump
The liberal foreign policy establishment is reacting to Trump's naked, post-hegemonic acts of war with a mixture of admiration and envy. If they get back into power in a post-Trump Dem White House they will quickly create the conditions for MAGA 3.0.
Bezos didn’t make a mistake. He gutted the newsroom because he wanted to kill off the news.
Spain refused military support for the US-Israel operation against Iran, prompting the Pentagon to withdraw a dozen KC-135 tanker aircraft from its bases at Morón and Rota, Defense Minister Margarita Robles confirmed. #Iran
It does not escape me that this illustrates the Trump/GOP/neo-Nazi apparatus working precisely as China is assumed to work.
It’s a little more complicated in China, and it’s a little more complicated here—but the distinction used to be obvious and, if this pattern holds, that is no longer true.
