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From an expert: "Last night was the worst night in US civil-military relations since the Civil War." Loyalty purges of the military are very, very bad.

submitted 9 hours ago • 6 comments

In modern history, what is the least popular that party leaders have ever been to their OWN voters? Second place was the GOP in 2009, where their net approval with Republican voters was only +6. Currently Dems are -8, shattering all previous records.

submitted 9 hours ago • 70 comments

That's Vanderbilt with no phd admissions, Pitt announced yesterday, and now Penn is reducing their grad admissions (and notified faculty after they already began notifying students which ouch). www.thedp.com/article/2025...

submitted 9 hours ago • 7 comments

New, from me: Unpacking the Friday night news: The military purges have begun - why do they also include lawyers? A Judge is allowing the dismantling of USAID to proceed. This reflects a pattern where Judges are ignoring the broader democratic risks. open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

submitted 10 hours ago • 12 comments

yeah it's not great. for me, it's the santa muerta fandom that's sprung up; unconsolidated violent milieus are not only horrifying but ineffective political instruments

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

“That is why Trumpists are so focused on “ending DEI” in the federal workforce. They see anti-discrimination and inclusion as a ladder of upward mobility for people they do not believe should have one.”

submitted 11 hours ago • 226 comments

I write about trump take egg.

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

Sure, laugh at the French Third Republic, but it lasted 69 years, which is longer than the US lasted as a universal suffrage liberal democracy.

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

a lot of the Biden Green Lantern-ism stuff is overstated, but one place they absolutely screwed us on is continuing government contracts with Musk businesses like SpaceX

submitted 12 hours ago • 0 comments

blue tea party watch:

submitted 12 hours ago • 3 comments

This is such a great article explaining why the destruction of research funding will harm the US in the long run. www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/21/1...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

"farmers are apoplectic. In Ohio, they’re stressed about USAID contracts and USDA cost-sharing investments. They held up their end. The government made promises. Now their family farms and livelihoods are on the line. Billions of dollars are at stake. It’s all being held hostage by Musk and Trump."

submitted 1 day ago • 104 comments

Most Western governments and politicians right now have no idea what they are up against. Our infrastructure and our alliances are completely outdated.

submitted 16 hours ago • 35 comments

Oprah is lowkey one of the great information polluters of the last half century, i'm glad we can say it out loud

submitted 15 hours ago • 1 comment

anyway, some Amazon PM just tried to convince me that Amazon Gaming should've beat out Steam because of their obsessive customer focus

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

meeting a true believer from a company like Amazon is such a through-the-looking-glass experience. listening to a real live human being talk about being "customer obsessed" is like experiencing head trauma

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

With Twitter/X becoming de facto US state media, Europe (and Canada/Australia) needs to properly fund social media alternatives. Not just things like Mastodon, but alternatives to Facebook Groups like Discourse. A few billion a year should help detach us from US tech giants.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

This is quite significant in many ways: the overt thuggery, Trump’s barely suppressed fury at being contradicted by a woman, the governor’s standing up, the total abandonment of the pretense of federalism, the continuing use of trans Americans the way Hitler used Jews.

submitted 1 day ago • 249 comments

This is much worse than the quoted exchange conveys. Particularly Trump's response to Mills, "we are the federal law." Just absolute tyranny shit.

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

Oh fuck, what a grift. J6 terrorists sue a DOJ controlled by Trump; Trump orders DOJ lawyers to settle for an undisclosed amount, both sides agree to an NDA. This can happen dozens, hundreds of times. Just an ingenious way to funnel tax dollars to far-right terrorist groups.

submitted 1 day ago • 74 comments

NEW: The Energy Department tried to spin its DOGE-directed firing of nuclear-safety officials as affecting just non-critical staff. But this wasn’t close to true. In fact, one of the officials locked out of his work accounts was the top authority for all nuclear-safety matters in the agency.

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

Federal workers launch a new site to share inside information about DOGE

submitted 1 day ago • 67 comments

I could really use a painting sale! Lots of original #sciart under $100 artologica.etsy.com

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

the way online audience interaction has driven some pundits mad is fascinating -- vocal audiences can either capture/ radicalize authors or negatively polarize them against whole communities; the micro-dynamics that produce these outcomes are poorly understood but have significant consequences

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

True that the silence of establishment (much less progressive) opposition leaders in a moment like this is truly exceptional in comparative context. Perhaps a function of the still-powerful yet misplaced sense of American exceptionalism that still dominates elite circles.

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

what happens in an international system where the hegemon can't make credible commitments?

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

If global policy makers can learn anything from the last eight years, it's that making concessions to Trump nets you zero security -- even if your concessions are total, abject, humiliating capitulation

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I have identified at least two dozen pardoned Capitol Rioters that are currently attending CPAC in Washington, D.C. —including members of far right extremists groups such as the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers. Updates on Pardon Tracker's interactive visualization: embed.kumu.io/39b5108ec4a0...

submitted 1 day ago • 185 comments

“Unlike the Tea Party of 2010, this is not an issue that breaks down cleanly along ideological lines. An insurgency isn’t necessarily going to pull Dems to the left, especially because Dem voters can’t really agree on which ideological direction to take their party.” split-ticket.org/2025/02/21/t...

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

Full-Time, $86,300.00 - $129,500.00 ⤵️

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Discontent with the Trump-Musk coup is rising, and that should be expected to continue as it further disrupts & destroys lives. As mass protests become inevitable, it's essential to channel that discontent toward a demand that's responsive to the scale & nature of the crisis. What should it be?

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

“While the Southern strategy was certainly racist, it was also deeply gendered, and deeply religious.” www.liberalcurrents.com/trump-the-re...

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

The public choice economics 'toolset' could be put to use in a withering, thoroughgoing takedown of Trumpism. And it would be easy, trivial, like shooting fish in a barrel, and likely fun. The libertarian economists trained in the use of those tools have almost unanimously passed on the opportunity.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

It’s “interesting” to see the corporate trend of reversing DEI policies after a visit from one random right wing activist whispering at the CEO peak after the election, and now that Trump/Musk’s re-segregation has become deeply unpopular they are suddenly remembering that DEI is good and popular.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

This is how the Tea Party started, after all. They just showed up and talked angry shit for a summer & then they got a lot of money from conservative donors, ran candidates for the next Congress and voila, the groundwork laid for takeover of their party. It is far from impossible to do. Hint. Hint.

submitted 1 day ago • 23 comments

blue tea party watch:

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Pro-Trans Anti-Golf Association can seize this moment.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

whither our jai alai potus

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

i hope that the backlash to all this democratic collapse results in the first non-golfer president and ends the long national nightmare of caring about golf course politics

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

“Over the past decade, U.S. institutions worked to form a comprehensive shield against foreign interference in American politics. Over the past few weeks, the second Trump administration has turned itself to the task of undoing this project.” New from me&Quinta www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

submitted 2 days ago • 17 comments

The relationship will change, but the US isn't abandoning NATO. My latest for @wpr.bsky.social.

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

REVISED UP WOW 3.5% level means highest since 1995!!!! This is going to catch a bunch of Fed attention.

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments