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I never want a single media outlet to ever take seriously a single current Republican politician claiming to be serious about national security or the challenge of a rising China ever again.

submitted 10 hours ago • 24 comments

If decent people ever do get a chance to run things again, part of the reforms will have to be explicitly making the US subject to international institutions, just like any other country. No more exceptionalism; if we could ever be trusted with it, we surely can't now.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

How’s this WSJ take aging

submitted 1 day ago • 199 comments

The stupidest possible crap, produced by the world’s biggest assholes, for gleeful consumption by the nation’s most spiteful dipshits, at the cost of literally everyone else.

submitted 1 day ago • 218 comments

Emphasizing again that anyone who responds to "that's illegal" with some variant of "lol all law is meaningless you're a sucker for thinking that matters" is actively doing PR for Trump and helping him. Nihilism about the law is the best way to make sure that the rule of law dies a quicker death.

submitted 1 day ago • 109 comments

Is it bad if only 78 percent of Trump-loyal Republicans view democracy positively but 55 percent view an unchecked strongman positively? Asking for a fairly large nation. Gift link: wapo.st/4hLudP3

submitted 2 days ago • 67 comments

Pretty stunning for congressional Republicans to say that it is a “red line” for Congress to assert that the executive branch has to follow the laws that it passes.

submitted 2 days ago • 10 comments

Put another way, Democrats are demanding the Trump administration comply with the law, and Republicans are saying they want him to keep lawbreaking.

submitted 2 days ago • 43 comments

Her entire vibe keeps reminding me of this lyric: "She can tell you about the plane crash with a gleam in her eye"

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

You can make whatever campaign promises you want, but budgets don’t lie. This is the middle-finger Trump gave to 99% of Americans tonight.

submitted 2 days ago • 35 comments

i think "an effective altruist is personally denying twenty million people their HIV medications despite a court order telling him to send the money" is a pretty good summary of effective altruism as a real world philosophy

submitted 2 days ago • 73 comments

Random foreign actor: send us all your deets by tonite. Military leaders: Who the fuck is this guy? Don't do it. Obey the chain of command. Random foreign actor: Have you ever witnessed such INCOMPETENCE and CONTEMPT for how YOUR TAXES are being spent?

submitted 3 days ago • 98 comments

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Just in one year, just the clean air act, prevented hundreds of thousands of early deaths. The lowest possible estimate of the benefits found that benefits outweigh the costs by 3 to 1. The most likely estimate is 30 to 1. The high estimate is 90 to 1. Ninety. Nine Zero. www.epa.gov/clean-air-ac...

submitted 3 days ago • 15 comments

Hey look, <yet another> rich democracy has counted all of its votes in 24 hours, all parties (yes also the far right) have accepted the results of the election, there are no lawsuits & is no political violence, & everyone is going about their business on a normal day 🇩🇪 We, too, could have that in 🇺🇸

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

Dear manager: this week 1. I was at a party, and this fella said to me 2. people care for nothing, no respect for human rights 3. evil times are coming, we are in for darker nights 4. I asked "can you tell me what is right and what is wrong" 5. He said "I'm a minister, a big shot in the state"

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Was thinking about this earlier today. De Gaulle is probably doing the opposite of turning in his grave right now, whatever that is. Maybe sitting up in his grave to go "told you so!! You should never fully trust the United States"

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

The Secretary of Defense goes on tv to explain he is preparing to have the military break the law.

submitted 4 days ago • 233 comments

By accepting Trump’s anti-Black premise and regurgitating the narrative that equates anything Black as DEI, the NY Times has become part of the propaganda machine

submitted 5 days ago • 289 comments

In every single interview I’ve done with international media since Trump took power I’ve been asked: Why are there no mass protests? There are many reasons, of course, but the utter refusal of the self-proclaimed “fourth estate” to communicate clearly what is happening has to be high on the list.

submitted 6 days ago • 197 comments

If the United States is willing to extort with Starlink, assume AWS, Google, and Azure clouds are next. Ukraine today, whose turn is it tomorrow? Any US technology is now a liability. We need European solutions as fast as possible.

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

What is happening at the Pentagon right now is the purge of people loyal to the Constitution to replace them with people loyal to MAGA. Trump is taking over democratic institutions so they cannot oppose him anymore like last time. That's autocratic legalism 101, another attempt to end democracy.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

The writers have really outdone themselves this season

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Stop mass deportations with this one simple trick: wapo.st/41apYFB (gift link)

submitted 6 days ago • 102 comments

This is why I keep talking about the last ten years as a metastasizing misinformation crisis. Why on EARTH would you think Trump would do anything thoughtfully or strategically? If the media is giving people this impression, it is lying to them

submitted 6 days ago • 87 comments

These are all excuses. We have had almost a decade of Republicans have their cake and eat it.... supporting Trump in public and whining in private. It is really pretty simple: if you are too afraid to do your job, find another job.

submitted 7 days ago • 6 comments

“Zelensky survived a dozen Russian assassination attempts including a special forces assault on his presidential complex.He stood up to Trump. I’m sure he’ll be deeply impressed to learn our Congressional Republicans live as terrified hostages of their own party leader.” ~ @michaeldweiss.bsky.social

submitted 8 days ago • 802 comments

"Republican senators find themselves in an unusual position these days: begging Trump officials to release funds they themselves appropriated." Honestly, is there a more pathetic, contemptible collection of cowards & simps in the entire world?

submitted 8 days ago • 60 comments

Important analysis of pattern in federal layoffs so far.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Members of Congress swear an oath to defend the Constitution. If they are too scared to follow through on that—not unreasonable, many really are getting harassment and death threats—then they should step down so someone who is up for the job can do it. Of 220m US adults, only 535 are in Congress.

submitted 8 days ago • 27 comments

What a surreal encapsulation of anti-Palestinian racism. A Jewish and pro-Israel man shoots and injures 2 people because he thinks they're Palestinian. They're actually Israeli. The two victims respond by assuming the shooter was Palestinian and an antisemite, with one posting "death to Arabs."

submitted 10 days ago • 9 comments

March 2022 Marco Rubio might have been surprised to learn that a leading figure helping Russia try to achieve its war aims is February 2025 Marco Rubio.

submitted 10 days ago • 92 comments

If you're a political scientist and want to sign, the link is here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

They do not view them as human beings.

submitted 9 days ago • 7 comments

Trump is ever so close to signing an executive order declaring that although only he can see his new clothes, everyone must agree they are the most amazing new clothes.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Another expert who is beyond alarmed. Not a drill; happening right now.

submitted 11 days ago • 5 comments

What a #German #hospital team in #Darmstadt would look like without their #migrant colleagues #FCKAFD #MigrantsWelcome

submitted 12 days ago • 7 comments

He “whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.” — The Declaration of Independence

submitted 12 days ago • 106 comments

The university that declares “We are not throwing trans kids under the bus, we are not ending diversity and inclusiveness efforts, and we are not opening our doors to ICE agents” would not only be uniquely heroic but would be doing some strong branding work on the cheap.

submitted 12 days ago • 43 comments

Exactly! And if you want to take the "in part" seriously, no president prior to the Civil Rights act (and perhaps later) can be celebrated, because if they had not had a particular immutable characteristic they could not have been elected.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

I’m in Munich and people keep asking me to decode Vance’s speech. OK: In Vance English “free speech” means “Let Musk run your elections” and “democracy” means “let Russia run your elections.” Now move on. 2025 is about what Europeans do, not what Americans say.

submitted 12 days ago • 315 comments

Right now, the US is represented overseas by amateurs, while they are going to have rings run around them by diplomatic professionals. President Deals starts by giving up any negotiating leverage.

submitted 12 days ago • 25 comments

the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president

submitted 12 days ago • 5657 comments

If you want to know why Trump is able to rule like an autocrat, compare the Washington Post' coverage of the Saturday Night Massacre with Trump doing exactly the same thing

submitted 14 days ago • 60 comments