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Progressives are going to have to reckon, at some point, with the fact that America--even most of America's left wing--is decidedly not progressive and is unlikely to become so. You're never going to build a governing majority through democratic socialism.

submitted 5 hours ago • 2 comments

I love the UK. I love the people here. I think that at some point along the line, they took "Safety rules are written in blood" and turned it into a religion. They mean well, but they take things too far. And layers of bureaucratic meddling make the whole system gummed up and over-regulated.

submitted 5 hours ago • 0 comments

His body will lie in state at the Memphis airport for three days, then be delivered to its final resting place via Columbia, MO; Trenton, NJ; Springfield, MA; Charleston, SC; Bakersfield, CA; Trenton again for some reason; and will then register as "out for delivery" indefinitely.

submitted 17 hours ago • 57 comments

I love London, but I hate it for this.

submitted 14 hours ago • 0 comments

Chat is it good when the armed forces completely stop trusting the civilian chain of command

submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

Yeah, I think the key here is that regardless of whether it's possible to completely recreate the positive community-building and meaningful institutional affiliation of religion, nobody has really tried, and few seem to realize how detrimental that absence is.

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

Yeah, the damage is pretty well done at this point. MAGA itself as a coherent movement will collapse after Trump, but that won't change the fact that the ideological standard for the GOP is now "1950s Dixiecrat", and anyone left of that standard risks excommunication.

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

The irony is that Trump could probably get the votes in Congress for a resolution. He's choosing not to because he does not believe that he is constrained by the law (and, in a practical sense, he basically isn't in most areas).

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

And so far, this seems to be happening. We've seen very little, if any, pushback from the legacy media calling this illegal or criticizing it at all.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

How am I just now seeing this for the first time lol

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A Dem lawmaker and her husband were killed by a guy for their political views and it’s already out of the news.

submitted 2 days ago • 657 comments

I was briefed on the intelligence last week. Iran posed no imminent threat of attack to the United States. Iran was not close to building a deliverable nuclear weapon. The negotiations Israel scuttled with their strikes held the potential for success.

submitted 1 day ago • 486 comments

Yeah, don't underestimate the extent to which congressional Democrats writ large have contributed to the current environment where they have effectively no oversight of military actions. This is a both-sides problem; Republicans are obviously worse, but a lot of Democrats won't be much help.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

And, like, no, it would not be good if Iran got nukes. It would be unequivocally bad. But this is not the way to handle the situation. Nothing about this is legal or even a good IR strategy.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Among many other things this is a proliferation nightmare. The lesson learned will be never negotiate with the United States.

submitted 2 days ago • 51 comments

They have made the world living hell for no reason whatsoever. People will ask why this happened in a decade and there will be tremendous effort to make it more complicated than “they were evil, stupid, and bored”

submitted 2 days ago • 125 comments

Kristi Noem trying desperately to get the rest of the NSC to refer to her as the "Proud Girl" like some Lost Boys ripoff

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

And that so far, Patel really doesn't seem to have succeeded in making the FBI a gestapo. Sure, he's going to try, but there's a lot of institutional weight there against outright gestapo-ness, and he can't fire everyone, at least not in the time frame he's working with. ICE was...already there.

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

IMO the really scary thing here isn't even the politicization of the bureau--it's bad enough, but I don't think it will seriously help this sinking ship of an administration to consolidate power. The scarier thing is the dismantling of public corruption investigations.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

I missed the detail that the professor who gave the award is, in fact, a federal judge. Good mercy.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

What precisely are the "things that make men who they are" that these hypothetical Democrats don't like?

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

You can also fail the paper because it argues that the 14th amendment is unconstitutional, which is...not how that works.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

That one quote from a bank executive celebrating being able to use slurs at work again lives rent free in my head. So many elites are willing to burn the world in order to avoid being held accountable for doing stuff that won't make them happy anyway.

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The fascinating draft case of Egor Demin ... here's @jakelfischer.bsky.social with a long look at the Real Madrid guard-turned-BYU star looking to crash the lottery in next week's NBA Draft: tinyurl.com/mu27nxac

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Mildly hot take: I really don't even think Democrats need to affirmatively do all that much because of this. They need to just make sure that they're taking the side of the issue that isn't 15 points underwater, and avoid bailing Trump out by tacking rightward on immigration.

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

If you want to sum up the ineptitude of the Dems, it’s captured in how they exhibit zero curiosity about the forces that produced some of the largest street protests in history, only the (they assume) totally separate set of forces that affect the 2% of ultra-marginal voters they think are swingable

submitted 3 days ago • 14 comments

It's becoming clear that a lot of senior Democrats are not concerned about character, even with regard to grievous offenders like Cuomo. And that is not good, because the only way forward that this nation has is for the Democratic Party to become the inflexible guardian of America's values.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Part of this is a reflection of the media environment that we live in, which is almost entirely focused on criticizing Democrats, holding them to impossible standards, and presenting them as the other side of the same coin as Republicans.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

My major takeaway from this is that a lot of big coal companies are just plain evil. So of course Trump is deregulating them.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

All else aside, what exactly does Levin think the word "prerogative" means?

submitted 4 days ago • 10 comments