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Liberalism, institutionalism, the vital center, & the Democracy. Sweetness & light. Occasional Victorianism. Of Wisconsin extraction.
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how did I not know that George B. McClellan’s son became mayor of New York City?

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we gotta smother this trend in the crib.

submitted 1 hour ago • 0 comments

UW-Madison alumna, so good.

submitted 2 hours ago • 0 comments

I‘d have to say You Do Not Like to See It.

submitted 2 hours ago • 0 comments

well, not to draw a comparison, but the Wehrmacht were “our soldiers” to a lot of people, too.

submitted 2 hours ago • 1 comment

Just found out Mamdani is going on The Bulwark podcast lmao. Absolute beastmode move from both of them.

submitted 3 hours ago • 7 comments

“you promised to put America First”—what did you all think that meant? vibes? papers? essays? losers.

submitted 2 hours ago • 0 comments

The unifying ethos of X is not Nazism or White Nationalism or Neo-Confederacy (they all fit, of course), the guiding principle of X is *relentless anti-liberalism*; so the tent is somewhat large.

submitted 2 hours ago • 2 comments

mhm, I don’t know. an attempt to bomb Iran into defeat seems like it would fail. I think the US & Israel would “win” in the short term of a more intensive war & completely fail at what follows.

submitted 2 hours ago • 0 comments

hard to express how much I do not believe that is what happened.

submitted 2 hours ago • 1 comment

White House Reverses Decision to Take Hand off Stove

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in which Robert Peel articulates the traditional stereotype about the French: “the military genius and recklessness and want of principle of the people of that Country” should make Britons none too confident in a lasting Entente Cordiale.

submitted 7 hours ago • 1 comment

Octogenarian Reagan appointee turns out to be woke.

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

These are the times that try the souls of “nothing ever happens” bros.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

can’t be stressed enough how much this situation is of Trump & the Republicans’ own making.

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

hilarious what cheap dates these dipshits are. not even cheap, they do this gratis, forever imagining reasons why Trump actually isn’t responsible for anything his admin. does.

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

In his first term, nearly half of Trump’s vetoes were if resolutions that would have limited the use of the military or sale of weapons in the Red Sea or Persian Gulf. This is long standing Trump policy

submitted 19 hours ago • 2 comments

“Donald trump cannot fail, only be failed”

submitted 19 hours ago • 7 comments

“it’s a distraction!” is always annoying & often sucks, but I think the pendulum is swinging too far in the opposite direction. it’s obviously important to focus on certain issues, & I don’t think anyone has figured out a good way to do that in a deluge of new outrages every day.

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

There is a direct link between this thought and Hegseth’s cult of lethality, which is characterized by the inability to link mil objectives to desired pol outcomes.

submitted 21 hours ago • 9 comments

John Kerry mentioned, I repeat, ***John Kerry mentioned***

submitted 21 hours ago • 4 comments

this seems exactly correct. I wrote a couple of years ago what was likely to disappear wasn't the US's interventionist role in the world, but the already-slender protections for individuals that are written into international arrangements, and a lot of men of a very particular kind yelled at me

submitted 22 hours ago • 3 comments

there can be a rather menacing quality about a surfeit of niceness & domesticity.

submitted 22 hours ago • 1 comment

that's right.

submitted 22 hours ago • 1 comment

worth emphasizing that these people were *already* conspiratorial anti-semites before Oct 7 for the most part

submitted 22 hours ago • 7 comments

First, Obama wasn’t “evil”; that’s moral idiocy, not a serious assessment. Second, though tangentially, aesthetics are actually important.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

who taught you this was an acceptable way to speak to anyone, let alone someone who said their child has serious allergies?

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

I still legitimately find it hard to imagine how someone can post the things Mike Lee did. It’s somewhat unnerving, encountering just complete moral decay.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments