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He really is a generational candidate because he can be nominated as a presidential candidate with a stadium of people holding "MASS DEPORTATIONS NOW" signs, constantly talk about how he wants to deport people, and this is interpreted as just posturing so you can ignore it

submitted 7 hours ago • 9 comments

Oh youre jacking off to the sabrina carpenter sexy dog pic? Boring. Ill instead be jacking off to the album covers of Schubert , and Strauss

submitted 13 hours ago • 119 comments

It's an illegal use of active-duty troops to enforce domestic policy, it's been a key foundation of our system of laws for 150 years, indeed a blatant disregard for the law, & that's how every headline should describe it.

submitted 14 hours ago • 6 comments

<thread> On the left: June 12, Judge Breyer writing that THE test for whether the US Marines/Guard violate Posse Comitatus will be whether they've engaged in "detaining" civilians. On the right: June 13: See for yourself. Note: The DoD has confirmed the detention of civilian to Reuters.

submitted 15 hours ago • 389 comments

The West mobilizing to actively shoot down Shaheds fired by Iran is wildly different than not mobilizing to shoot down Russian launches Shaheds. Nuclear power, lack of Western basing in the relevant areas between launcher and target, and the whole possible wider war with, again, a nuclear power.

submitted 18 hours ago • 1 comment

there's a small but substantial and really well informed natsec niche of this site but 80% of them dont use their real name so it's like "Dr Jennifer Butthole" with a Heathers-era Winona Ryder avatar doling out the most erudite insights about Iranian military leadership and foreign entanglements

submitted 19 hours ago • 50 comments

Fun fact: in the 1960s, Civil Rights protestors were given literal classes on nonviolent protest; they didn't all just spontaneously know what to do. So, if you're planning on showing up, this weekend: read this comic. And if you're staying home, signal-boost it/link it around.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Unless Israel changes what it's targeting in days ahead, this is a regime-change strike with just enough targeting of nuclear infrastructure so Netanyahu can depict it as an act of preemptive self-defense. For the operation to succeed, I think the regime has to fall.

submitted 1 day ago • 26 comments

I prefer salty Newsom to podcast Newsom

submitted 4 days ago • 197 comments

Even after the Quinnipiac poll this week, people like Yglesias are simply ignoring the immigration polling numbers. The only conclusion you can draw is that it is their preference to have these immigration crackdowns. (Seriously, Matt Y posted all about that poll's bit on the BBB but nada else)

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Raise your hand if you were dumb enough to have believed this.

submitted 1 day ago • 282 comments

For those who do not have access or care to go to Twitter for the video, here is the video of the U.S. Secretary of the Army stating that there is currently a soldier on the moon:

submitted 1 day ago • 369 comments

Me when methods of imperial rule are used in the colonies: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! Me when the methods of imperial rule are brought into the metropole: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

submitted 135 days ago • 2 comments

i’d be curious to know whether any of the journalists who have taken to bluesky had prior experience in an earlier internet age with forums. for me at least, my acculturation into the social internet was by way of forums and so the lack of an algorithm seems natural to me.

submitted 2 days ago • 341 comments

W.E.B. Du Bois on Robert E. Lee: “Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”

submitted 3 days ago • 311 comments

🧵 My small country, Estonia, population 1.3 million sent 2003-2014 over 2500 soldiers. 9 were killed in the line of duty. 109 wounded, half of them so seriously they could no longer lead a normal life. In Iraq 2003-2009 we had more than 440 soldiers. 2 were killed. 18 seriously wounded. 1/n

submitted 2 days ago • 137 comments

This kind of argument is so shallow. What, the East India Company was some benign thing? All governance systems have sadly awful body counts.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

an incomplete list of things I have had to force onto a crying toddler: - antibiotics - bedtime - shoes - toast that had been cut into triangles rather than squares - a banana that had snapped in half and she didn't want a new banana, she wanted me to fix this banana

submitted 2 days ago • 71 comments

Holmgren is getting WORKED out there. Shocking to see him be the worst OKCer in the floor for most of the game

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submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

I don’t know whether I’m more offended by this dumb meme as an historian or as a Simpsons fan.

submitted 2 days ago • 125 comments

Canada’s military took on southern Kandahar province, which every single American I met in Afghanistan admitted was the toughest patch there was. One hundred and sixty-six Canadians died fighting a war provoked by an attack on U.S. soil, including my colleague Michelle Lang

submitted 2 days ago • 36 comments

The old robber barons sucked shit too but at least we got some opera houses and colleges out of the bargain

submitted 2 days ago • 32 comments

the "where are all the protests against trump" people became the "these protests against trump are bad optics" people so quickly you may have missed it

submitted 3 days ago • 61 comments

why is the president the only person testing the limits of his power? everyone should see what they can get away with. what if zookeepers gave helicopters to gorillas? nobody has tried this

submitted 4 days ago • 391 comments

Third Amendment scholars, buckle up! 😂

submitted 4 days ago • 67 comments

the overall crime rate in Los Angeles last year was 3,115. in South Dakota it was 3,083.

submitted 4 days ago • 32 comments

Welcome to Pride Night at Fenway!

submitted 4 days ago • 20 comments

It is not possible or practical to assert total control over thousands of people, many of whom are protesting spontaneously. The right is very intentionally seeking out negative images and inevitably will find some. What you are doing by obsessing over this is giving the right exactly what it wants

submitted 4 days ago • 24 comments

Who talks about their fellow Americans like this? More than 1 in 40 of us live in Los Angeles County

submitted 4 days ago • 102 comments

An Afghan CTPT officer who was with NDS-03 during the collapse, defense of HKIA, and evacuation confirms to me: “Yes, we have one guy in Texas who has been taken.” “Been taken” is a chilling way of phrasing it from a guy who lived through the disappearances of many of his men in Afg.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

I’d add this: Decades of studies have shown that large groups want to be seen as legitimate, and largely self-police yahoos prone to violence — until law enforcement starts using violence, at which point they unite against a common enemy. It’s a lesson too few PDs ever seem to learn.

submitted 4 days ago • 19 comments

Lol

submitted 4 days ago • 21 comments

Oops.

submitted 4 days ago • 117 comments

How on earth can this country still hold the World Cup and Olympics next year??

submitted 5 days ago • 1110 comments

Four LAPD officers on horseback surround a man laying on the ground, trample him, and beat him with their polycarbonate "saber" batons.

submitted 5 days ago • 287 comments

Watch the slow motion: it appears to me that the officers discuss the photographer and reporter before the one on the end fires on them (it looks to me like he's aiming at the camera, not the reporter, but you decide)

submitted 5 days ago • 1157 comments