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This is what competitive authoritarianism looks like www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/u...

submitted 3 hours ago • 87 comments

DE law is corporate friendly, but it is specifically shareholder friendly. You house a company here so investors and shareholders know you’re accountable to them. www.semafor.com/article/03/0...

submitted 3 hours ago • 0 comments

With vanishingly few exceptions, federal Democrats have broken their oaths to defend the constitution. It is a dead letter so long as these cowards refuse to fight for it.

submitted 19 hours ago • 8 comments

to be fair, this is completely compatible, imo - dems just want a lean, mean, anti-GOP machine and want a machine that will destroy the Republicans if it means triangulating

submitted 7 hours ago • 8 comments

A small drop in an ocean of suck, but for the past few weeks friends have let me know that my book (Divided Armies), along w/ related articles + briefings, was removed from DoD reading lists & curricula for being "too woke" Now JFQ has literally "unpublished" its review & any mention of the book ⬇️

submitted 1 day ago • 22 comments

So, if I’m reading this correctly, Congress appropriated a bunch of funds for specific purposes. Musk will be throwing that out the window and disregarding the law they enacted. But individual legislators can call a hotline and beg for their pet projects to be spared. That’s how we’re doing it now.

submitted 20 hours ago • 148 comments

The weakest, most pathetic thing. Imagine becoming one of the only 535 people out of over 260,000,000 US adults with the Constitutional authority to craft the federal budget—which many aspire to their whole lives—then begging an unelected official to "let" you have a say in the federal budget.

submitted 10 hours ago • 50 comments

I do worry that other middle- to high-income democracies tell themselves America is an aberration and they've merely got to develop independence from us to stabilize global geopolitics when many democracies' leading right-wing parties are 90-100% as crazy as the American version

submitted 21 hours ago • 21 comments

"The radical right in the US is not engaged in a grand geopolitical strategy. It is pursuing an ideological campaign against its true enemy, which is not China or Russia but liberalism. The Trump administration hates liberals at home and liberal democracies abroad." open.substack.com/pub/nickcohe...

submitted 18 days ago • 51 comments

This feels like a sort of carnival-week funeral for the US republic. Beneath deep anger at Trump's orgy of vandalism and self-worship, I feel deep sadness. What a train wreck of a superpower.

submitted 1 day ago • 114 comments

If there's a plan, it's this: The rich believe we're doomed, and they honestly see no point in providing vaccines and medicines anymore because we're all going to die anyway, so they're just going to plunder the government for their own last hurrah. www.the-sentinel-intelligence.com/p/the-super-...

submitted 7 days ago • 51 comments

As another Trump-induced market crisis unfolds from tariffs, it's time we ask "What's the Matter with Billionaires?" I've run the numbers. Billionaires do better under Dems. So why do billionaires keep supporting GOP policies against their economic interests? See my latest piece on why. (TLDR 🧵⬇️)

submitted 2 days ago • 95 comments

My God: they are selling off federal buildings and no longer planning on collecting revenues. Again, none of this is about efficiency. I know the IRS is not popular, but for every dollar invested it generates about $7 in returns. The goal is not to save money but to stop collecting it.

submitted 1 day ago • 134 comments

Thanks to the United States Supreme Court for convincing Donald Trump that he could pursue every dangerous, terrible idea and never face consequences.

submitted 1 day ago • 80 comments

Absolutely. This was the most powerful part of US "soft power" in China through past 15 years. Cancelling this is one more act of sabotage against US interests, values, and influence. (I don't think Trump/Mask are active foreign agents. But if they were, what would they be doing differently?)

submitted 1 day ago • 29 comments

This is the literal dismantling of your national government

submitted 2 days ago • 21 comments

The US will no longer worry about civilians getting in the way of their bombs: www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...

submitted 2 days ago • 304 comments

Trump’s Sec of Agriculture Brooke Rollins says the solution to high egg prices for Americans is to get some chickens and raise them in your backyard.

submitted 2 days ago • 3015 comments

At the same time that the entire Republican Party is complaining that Zelenskyy lacked sufficient respect, Trump is calling the leader of our neighbor and longest ally "Governor" and his Cabinet are doing shit like this.

submitted 2 days ago • 89 comments

Has to be absolutely insane working at Reason because half the staff are like "imagine a boot stamping on a human face — forever ☹️" and the other half are like "imagine a boot stamping on a human face — forever 😍"

submitted 2 days ago • 13 comments

For decades we have always said: “they talk about cutting Education but Congress will never vote for it” but the Trump administration hack is to pretend Congress doesn’t exist.

submitted 2 days ago • 19 comments

French protestors always playing the classics

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

BASH: You voted to approve Marco Rubio's nomination to be secretary of state. Did you make the right choice? CHRIS MURPHY: Nope. It was a mistake. It was a mistake. I think a lot of us thought Marco Rubio was going to stand up to Trump on an issue like this.

submitted 4 days ago • 2396 comments

Yes, millions of people will suffer but at least it's for a good cause: because one old asshole wanted to avoid going to jail for crimes he committed

submitted 3 days ago • 99 comments

HUD embarrassed the White House, so the Trump administration retaliated in the pettiest way possible

submitted 3 days ago • 11 comments

Elon Musk appears to be wearing a SafeLife-style level 3+ concealable kevlar vest under his shirt. That's why his looks this way. He is terrified and in fear for his life.

submitted 3 days ago • 1233 comments

So which Hood has gotten an Good Conduct Medal or something Anyone know a Lee with a campaign ribbon or two

submitted 3 days ago • 9 comments

once again struck by how unnecessary this all is whatever people's issues with the economy, it was demonstrably in a good enough place that Trump could have left it alone and ridden increased consumer sentiment from Republican partisans to a durable President Business popularity boost and yet...

submitted 3 days ago • 40 comments

BREAKING — The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has just announced the closure of major regional offices in Philly, LA and Chicago, per email shared with me. “5 alarm fire,” SEC employee tells me. Full email text:

submitted 3 days ago • 270 comments

feel like we're hitting 2/4 of these quadrants right now, we can hit all 4

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

for a second i thought this was a reference to flechettes. looney tunes warfare

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

Navigating the crank vs not-crank realignment in a way that doesn't make any fundamental compromises but keeps this crowd on-side for as much/as long as possible is a task that should be talked about more imo (think of it as a not idiotic version of that discourse Moulton tried to kick off)

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Everyone can see that the center-right was a hollow shell, yes? It collapsed immediately & totally, which suggests there wasn't much to it. And everyone can see that conservatives' stated principles were always bullshit, right? Small gov't. Judicial restraint. Rule of law. Out the window.

submitted 3 days ago • 36 comments

This might be glib, but I think Donald Trump has proven that Biden could have ordered the military to ship those tanks and there's not much Congress could do about it. That is to say, Biden constrained himself. He was not externally constrained. He chose to follow the rules and slow-walk aid.

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

This is a good starting thesis - focus on public administration - and has some good ideas but misses a lot of key points, and mixes up some stuff. Its a good provocation to get the conversation going. Some thoughts 🧵

submitted 3 days ago • 11 comments

A pathetic and humiliating walkback from the would-be destroyers of CFPB, who know they've lost in court and can't kill the agency. This email from Mark Paoletta went to employees today. It neglects Vought's Feb 10 "stop-work" email that superseded it, ending all activity with no exceptions.

submitted 3 days ago • 31 comments

The things for Dems to ask for before any votes for appropriations: 1) compliance with past federal laws before any new appropriations law 2) Elon Musk out of government 3) only a 1-2 month funding bill to ensure Trump has to come back to Congress regularly and thus Congress can ensure compliance.

submitted 4 days ago • 18 comments

This is what must scare @aipac1.bsky.social and its allies. They are winning politically but losing culturally. Their attack ads can't stop Blue America's shift in collective consciousness on the question of Palestinian freedom. If politics really is downstream from culture, they're in trouble.

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

How it started. How it’s going.

submitted 3 days ago • 213 comments

Thrilled to see such an honest film about Palestine winning Best Documentary! OTOH, as someone who followed him for years across many platforms, very sad to see that Abu Muqawama (@exum.bsky.social) recently chose to scrub most of his posts here; he was how I first learned this place existed.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Periodic reminder that Hegseth himself lacks a Ranger tab (and that this absence is unusual for an Army infantry officer)

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

it should be the policy of the United States to reduce the Gulf states to the world's most abject, grinding poverty

submitted 4 days ago • 13 comments

If democracy survives, we’ll look at what Elon is doing now the same way we now view the aftermath of 9/11 or January 6th itself—unforgivable attacks on our democracy that, in retrospect, everyone should have seen coming.

submitted 4 days ago • 24 comments

For those who don't know this history, Cuomo personally empowered a breakaway Democratic caucus in the State Senate that called themselves IDC and voted for a Republican to lead the Senate even when Democrats held more seats. This blocked Democratic policy priorities for YEARS.

submitted 4 days ago • 10 comments

american masculinity is so amazing. caring about clothes as a man apparently makes you "gay" but our position on geopolitics totally depends on whether you wear a suit

submitted 5 days ago • 847 comments