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A good opportunity for Democrats to drop their current message -- "We apologize for being Democrats" -- and pick up a new one: "We can have nice things."

submitted 16 hours ago • 40 comments

An outright lie from OMB Director Russell Vought.

submitted 16 hours ago • 126 comments

Commerce Sec Lutnick: "rest assured, tariffs are not going away. He has so many other authorities that even in the weird and unusual circumstance where this was taken away, we just bring on another or another or another." Great news for the small businesses this administration claims to love

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David Pogue: “I’m wondering what your thought is on the ban on foreign students, the proposal. I mean, you were one of those kids, right?” Elon Musk: “Yeah. I mean, I think we wanna stick to, you know, the subject of the day, which is, like, spaceships, as opposed to, you know, presidential policy"

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This kind of attack by Ukraine required massive planning, logistics, and luck, as well as an adversary (Russia) that is falling apart at the seams. This does not strike me as massively or easily globally replicable, though I’m sure people will be studying it for a very long time.

submitted 15 hours ago • 16 comments

Both elections and day-to-day government would be covered a lot differently if elite reporters and editors thought that they were at major risk of losing their healthcare coverage

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the sufferings of mr elon

submitted 15 hours ago • 146 comments

exactly. a key aspect of FPV suicide drone popularity in the Ukraine War, which a lot of people miss, is that they’re stupid cheap and don’t require a ton of skill or materials to churn out in bulk (but they do require major skill to fly them well) the cheapness is crucial

submitted 15 hours ago • 4 comments

Your key takeaway from the brilliant Ukraine attack with small drones into Russia shouldn’t be “wow, small drones make it so easy to score huge hits,” it should be “wow, Ukrainians are insanely good at covertly planning and executing extraordinarily difficult missions of which drones are one part”.

submitted 15 hours ago • 135 comments

Russian leadership, known for keeping its paranoia in check

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"Unitary executive theory" is phony law-office "history" even by constitutional law standards www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/06/orgi...

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This whole situation is so aggravating. I supported several books through Unbound; seemed like a good other-way model. Very frustrating

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A thread containing a few more thoughts on the Unbound disaster: When - after a long time of making late payments - Unbound first began to not pay their authors at all, it soon became abundantly clear they were very keen for me not to talk about it publicly. It was tricky...

submitted 21 hours ago • 5 comments

1. The FPV drone tech Ukraine used here has been around for a while, though it was used very ingeniously. 2. The Ukrainian attack using these drones relied upon what sounds like over a year of extraordinarily precise logistics, planning, and training. This is not something just anyone could do.

submitted 15 hours ago • 43 comments

I don’t want to start a podcast but economic realities mixed with spite may force me to, which I’m also mad about

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Scalia's nakedly racist performance at the Shelby County oral arguments got about .1% of the coverage that it merited www.newyorker.com/news/amy-dav...

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I was in the chamber when he said this and everyone gasped audibly. Then they rationalized it because he was a powerful person bsky.app/profile/lemi...

submitted 14 hours ago • 4 comments

One of the most striking features of mainstream political journalism is that it really does not give a single shit about public policy or its impacts on the American people

submitted 17 hours ago • 21 comments

Super brief, super quick thoughts on the Attack www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/06/the-...

submitted 16 hours ago • 9 comments

happy pride month to bluesky, a platform that is successful today because of the trans and queer users who made it a cool place to be. love y’all 🩷❤️🧡💛💚💙

submitted 14 hours ago • 11 comments

the Ukrainian drones used in this attack weren’t autonomous and were in fact flown remotely by individual human pilots (possibly using a cellular data link), as Zelenskyy himself seems to confirm here: t.me/V_Zelenskiy_...

submitted 14 hours ago • 7 comments

To repeat myself, any reckoning about "what happened" to the Republican Party needs to grapple with the fact that the two most consistently and enthusiastically authoritarian justices on the Supreme Court were not nominated by Trump

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Seriously, download and skim the EIR even if you don't care about water resilience. The report pulls together cultural, environmental history of the South Bay Area. Want to know where the oil fields are? Where the Native American villages were (some are under oil refineries)

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End the interview right there

submitted 15 hours ago • 168 comments

He's not walking away from influencing policy or funding Republican politicians, he's trying to create the illusion that he's stepping back because it's (for good reason) killing his most important brand

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My god can you even imagine

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