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U.S. East Coast. The least bad international system would see the Global South - I know, a blurry concept - playing great powers off against each other and developing a measure of leverage and autonomy. But U.S. to remain hegemon for at least a generation.
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Among the other assorted creeps and tokens, Melania is bringing the mother of a *forced* detransitioner and a family "wounded" by a trans athlete to the State of the Union tonight. Be ready for some especially deranged bigotry tonight.

submitted 10 hours ago • 9 comments

"Premier" Trump, maybe?

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

Well yes, but one takeaway is that the party in power is not planning on facing voters in a free and fair election in the future.

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

Thrilled to be able to share, "Tragedy in Rock Springs," in this week's issue of @newyorker.com. It's an account of one of the most horrific episodes of racial terror in our nation's history and the effort today to uncover its full story. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

Stand with trans Americans. You don’t have to understand everything about the transgender experience to know that Trump’s acts of humiliation and dehumanization are unjust and dangerous. www.thebulwark.com/p/stand-with...

submitted 11 hours ago • 104 comments

Important Des juristes du monde entier se mobilisent pour que le crime de génocide soit reconnu à Gaza Et merci mille fois blogs.mediapart.fr/les-invites-...

submitted 15 hours ago • 2 comments

Oh, well.

submitted 22 hours ago • 0 comments

Excellent

submitted 22 hours ago • 0 comments

We've been, correctly, beating them up for not doing anything. Today they did something and they deserve credit. Nice job, Dems. More, please.

submitted 23 hours ago • 76 comments

I truly cannot think of a more perfect showcase of how the Democratic Party as a whole has addressed trans issues. Lashing out and disregarding an actual real politically engaged constituent in order to court some fictional voter who likes all of the bigotry of Republicans but will instead vote Dem

submitted 1 day ago • 38 comments

Also, a coastal environmentalist party and an Al Sharpton-type African-American organization.

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red states passing laws making solar (now by far the cheapest form of new power) illegal or impossible to build is a good reminder that conservative governance causes places to be poor, not the other way around.

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

Actually, they should heckle. That's why I've never had a problem with the Republican who shouted at Obama back in 2010 or thereabouts.

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"Africa has been so global for so long that its continued exclusion from 'world history' speaks volumes about misconceptions that have arisen outside the continent over so many centuries." -- Toby Green, A Fistful of Shells Just finished this, and I can't recommend it highly enough.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

Pour qui n'aurait pas eu l'occasion de lire les odes à Staline que publiait la “Pravda“ dans les années 1950, les articles consacrés à Retailleau dans les feuilles du groupe Bolloré font une très convenable session de rattrapage.

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

La France a-t’elle deux premiers ministres ou quoi?

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Every time they *win,* they become more Republican.

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It is indeed the latest in a serious of extraordinary quotes from Germany this week and I don't think many people appreciate what a personally crushing blow recent events must feel like to many in that country's foreign policy community.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Quick Q, @dougsaunders.bsky.social : Is there any way Canada and Mexico could pull out of co-hosting next year's World Cup? Or better yet, that FIFA could designate new hosts?

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

So, y'all outside the States: when do we begin taking about boycotting the Men's World Cup and the Summer Olympics?

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"LES LGBT AU BÛCHER" : Des individus ont tagué des inscriptions appelant à brûler les LGBT+, les Juifs et les communistes à Rochefort (France). www.ladepeche.fr/2025/02/28/i...

submitted 3 days ago • 10 comments

Yes, hedging bets seems like the clever thing.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Alternately, they might just be on board with the whole circus.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Grow a spine to do what? The Republican Party isn't doing anything because they like Trump and support the policy agenda he is implementing. Anyone who hasn't grasped this by now is delusional.

submitted 3 days ago • 12 comments

Bears repeating over and over again.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

don’t show up, hold an alternate SOTU at a different location, invite a bunch of streamers with large audiences to livestream it since mainstream media won’t cover it, and have your presentation mostly consist of Dems reading statements from people already harmed by the Musk agenda.

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

I expect to see that conversation pick up some real steam in coming months and years.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Ideally, we would have phased it out after the end of the Cold War. Problem is, other than decolonization - which is a different animal altogether - there's no real playbook for liquidating an empire.

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That makes any future visit to the WH a risky endeavor. And an aging 47 ain't gonna get better with time.

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Which makes me wonder whether quality work is what these people are really after.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

I hearing this view a lot this afternoon.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

An underreported story. As little as I care for US foreign policy, Putin deserves no slack either.

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Not only that. People don't even join associations anymore. Any signs they're about to begin doing so again?

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I'll be reading it.

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A key point, folks.

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A Nigerian former colleague edited an underground newspaper during the country's 1990s military dictatorship and called the experience "Guerrilla Journalism." I suspect we'll be seeing much of the same in the U.S. in coming years. In fact, there needs to be a whole underground, parallel society.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment